{"id":343,"date":"2017-01-19T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolncommunity.org\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2024-03-01T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:38:05","slug":"gospel-perfect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/?page_id=343","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Gospel.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">The Gospel is described in the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;Since humanity brought itself under the curse of the law by its fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace. In this covenant He freely offers sinners life and salvation through Jesus Christ. On their part He requires faith in Him, that they may be saved, and promises to give His Holy Spirit to all who are ordained to eternal life, to make them willing and able to believe&#8230;Only through the grace of this covenant have those saved from among the descendants of fallen Adam obtained life and blessed immortality.&#8221;<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">A man will be saved from the Hell and punishment his own sins have earned for him, if he <strong><em>repents,<\/em> <\/strong>turning from his previous sinful life and ways, and <strong><em>believes<\/em> <\/strong>in the power and sacrifice of Jesus Christ to save him. This is the fundamental, eternal truth of the Gospel and of our church.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-04822461 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1BWSOVNm4A?si=H02AIpHAuB00ADVN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Gospel. The Gospel is described in the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith as follows: &#8220;&#8230;Since humanity brought itself under the curse of the law by its fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace. In this covenant He freely offers sinners life and salvation through Jesus Christ. On their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolnbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}