1. Soteriology: The Gospel Luke 4:16-21, Revelation 21:1-5

2. DUCK

3. GUITAR

4. SCULL

5. TEA POT
SCULL

6. What is the Gospel?

7. The Gospel is a Rescue

8. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue

9. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Matthew 1:1 (ESV) The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

10. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Luke 3:38 (ESV) the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

11. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Genesis 3:15 (ESV) 15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

12. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Galatians 3:8 (ESV) 8And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”

13. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Galatians 3:16 (ESV) 16Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.

14. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Isaiah 9:6–7 (ESV) 6For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

15. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Isaiah 9:6–7 (ESV) 7Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore…

16. The Gospel is a Rescue
Message of Rescue
Mission of Rescue

17. “To me [the religious parallels have] always been obvious,” she said
“To me [the religious parallels have] always been obvious,” she said. “But I never wanted to talk too openly about it because I thought it might show people who just wanted the story where we were going.”

18. “…in Chapter 16 of “Deathly Hallows,” titled “Godric’s Hollow
“…in Chapter 16 of “Deathly Hallows,” titled “Godric’s Hollow.” On his parents’ tombstone he reads the quote “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death,” while on another tombstone (that of Dumbledore’s mother and sister) he reads, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

19. “They’re very British books, so on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones,” Rowling explained. “[But] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric’s Hollow, they sum up — they almost epitomize the whole series.”

20. The Gospel is a Restoration

21. The Gospel is a Restoration
Revelation 21:1–5 (ESV)
1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

22. The Gospel is a Restoration
Revelation 21:1–5 (ESV)
3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

23. The Gospel is a Restoration
Restoration of a broken world
Restoration of broken hopes

24. The Gospel is a Restoration
“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken.

25. The Gospel is a Restoration
“His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus’s miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.”
Tim Keller
The Reason for God

26. The Gospel is a Restoration
Restoration of a broken world
Restoration of broken hopes

27. The Gospel is a Restoration
“There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.”
C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain

28. The Gospel is a Restoration
Restoration of a broken world
Restoration of broken hopes

29. The Gospel is a Reality

30. The Gospel is a Reality Personal Life Relational Life
Circumstances of Life

31. The Gospel is a Reality
Personal Life
Ephesians 2:8–10 (ESV) 8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

32. The Gospel is a Reality
Relational Life
1 John 4:10–11 (ESV) 10In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

33. The Gospel is a Reality Romans 8:31–35 (ESV)
Circumstances of Life
Romans 8:31–35 (ESV)
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

34. The Gospel is a Reality Romans 8:31–35 (ESV)
Circumstances of Life
Romans 8:31–35 (ESV)
33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

35. The Gospel is a Reality Romans 8:38–39 (ESV)
Circumstances of Life
Romans 8:38–39 (ESV)
38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.