The Gospel of the Kingdom

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 12.

The Gospel of the Kingdom

"This Gospel of the kingdom," that the Lord says "shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come" (Matt. 24 : 14), is the pure Gospel. It is not a man-made gospel, nor man-devised theories about the Gospel. But it is "this" Gospel, that is, it is the Gospel that Christ Himself preached. Indeed, there is no other gospel aside from the one that He taught and that He still teaches to-day through His Word. The Lord's Gospel is a Gospel of power, and it can be carried only by the mighty power of God. It does not need to follow in the wake of armies. It needs no political machinery to bolster it up, or to lend it power, or to open the way for it. "The Gospel of Christ" is of itself "the power of God unto salvation." Rom. 1 : 16. Then, since the Gospel of Christ is power, if there is not enough power in the gospel you have, it is because it is not the Gospel of Christ.