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THE GOOD TIDINGS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 11.

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THE GOOD TIDINGS.

OUR word "Gospel" comes from two Greek words meaning to announce or tell good news. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a good message of good things. It does not come to men to deprive them of one good thing, but to tell them of good things which they do not have, but which they may have through its acceptance.
THE Gospel does not come to sinful men to tell them they need no salvation. It does not tell them that they have eternal life already, tho they do not know it. It does not declare to the sinner that you have salvation and immortality within yourself; and all that you need to do is to recognize the fact. It is a perverted gospel, not the truth of God, which teaches such things.
THE Gospel of Jesus Christ comes to men just where they are—lost, condemned sinners, sold under sin, a slave in sin's bondage, doomed to certain death. Man feels it all instinctively at times, argue tho he will against it. The Gospel of God does not hide this fact. Nay, more, it distinctly and emphatically affirms it. It tells man that he is hopelessly sick with sin; that he has no power within himself to cure his soul or to break sin's fetters. It holds the mirror of God's law before the sinner, that he may know his true condition, and see how utterly wretched and hopelessly lost he is.
BUT, praise God, the good, true message does not leave him there. The mighty Physician, who has so truly diagnosed his case, is potent to heal. He who has revealed the sin, the condition, can heal it by a word. He who has told us that only death awaits our condition, offers us life. He who has made known to us what we have been so slow to learn, namely, that we are "without strength," freely offers to us the creative energy of God, "the power of an endless life."
O SOUL, in the prison-house of sin, this salvation in Christ Jesus is for you! Give up all the sin, the rebellion against God, and accept the Lord Jesus. Cleansing from iniquity, healing of soul, liberty in Him, power over sin, everlasting life, all are yours—all brought to you in the everlasting Good Tidings, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then, why not believe the message, and make the Good Tidings of God glad tidings to you?