Obey the Gospel
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Straight to the Cross
COLUMN: Fidelity
Obey the Gospel
by Mike Benson
QUESTION: "I've heard you say that a person must
'obey the gospel' in order to be saved. Could you
please explain what you mean by this? How does a
person go about obeying the Gospel?"
ANSWER: I appreciate this thoughtful, Bible
question. Please study the following:
1. The gospel is defined as the death, burial and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. "Moreover, brethren,
I declare to you the gospel which I preached to
you, which also you received and in which you
stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold
fast that word which I preached to you - unless
you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first
of all that which I also received: that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and
that He was buried, and that He rose again the
third day according to the Scriptures" (1
Corinthians 15:1-4).
2. Those who fail to obey the gospel will be
eternally lost. "And to give you who are troubled
rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from
heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire
taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and
on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the
Lord and from the glory of His power" (2
Thessalonians 1:7-9; Romans 10:16; 1 Peter 4:17;
cf. Matthew 7:21-23; Hebrews 5:8,9).
3. An individual obeys the gospel when he obeys a
FORM of the death, burial, and resurrection of
Christ. "But God be thanked that though you were
slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that
form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And
having been set free from sin, you became the
slaves of righteousness" (Romans 6:17,18). Baptism
is a form of the death, burial, and resurrection.
"Or do you not know that as many of us as were
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into
death, that just as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:3,4).
If I can be of further assistance, please contact
me here at Forthright.
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