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If a person hasn’t pledged faith to Jesus as King or Lord, then they have not yet responded to the gospel in its fullness so as to receive forgiveness and liberation.
I am a horrible king of my own life.
we must begin with the one essential: the good news is that God has provided a king.
Six Malformed Gospels and Purposes
The Believe-for-Heaven Malformed Gospel
This malformed gospel’s purpose is to get you to believe so you can go to heaven.
The Freedom-from-Rules Malformed Gospel
This distorted gospel’s purpose is to create a tolerant society by ending the tyranny of rules and judgmentalism, so we all can enjoy uninhibited personal freedom.
The Stop-Striving-and-Rest Malformed Gospel
This malformed gospel’s purpose is to get you to realize that if you truly trust in Jesus, you are accepted for his sake rather than for your achievements, so you can finally relax.
The Improve-Society Malformed Gospel
This deformed gospel’s purpose is to get everyone to embrace Jesus’s nonjudgmental, love-the-sinner, accept-the-outsider, turn-the-other-cheek ideals so together we can create a more just, diverse, and tolerant society.
The Reunion-with-God Malformed Gospel
This deformed gospel’s purpose is to get you to trust in Jesus’s righteousness rather than your own so you can enjoy God’s presence forever.
The Participate-in-the-Sacraments Malformed Gospel
This distorted gospel’s purpose is to get you to participate in the saving sacraments under the authority of approved personnel, for through these God promises to guide you to heaven.
health-and-wealth gospel
Jesus-affirms-but-never-corrects-me gospel.
The Missing King
To miss Jesus as King is to miss the gospel entirely.
The Missing Storyline
None of the six holistically draws on all the essential facets of the biblical gospel’s content—incarnation, death for sins, resurrection, enthronement as everlasting King, Spirit-sending, and royal return—
Missing Allegiance
none stress that the gospel’s basic purpose is loyalty to King Jesus.
the phrase “for the obedience of faith” (eis hypakoēn pisteōs) is best further translated allegiant obedience or loyal obedience.
The gospel’s clearest purpose in Scripture is bodily allegiance to King Jesus in every nation.
Missing Fame
doxa pertains to greatness, fame, recognition, renown, honor, and prestige.4
In the New Testament, glory means not so much heavenly brightness but fame.
kabod ordinarily means fame in the Old Testament too.
Why the gospel? A consistent reason Scripture gives is glory or fame. Through the gospel God wants to make you famous—to enhance your ultimate reputation.
One of the reasons God gave the gospel was so that our reputation will be enhanced in an everlasting fashion.
God will satisfy our hunger for a great reputation. We will attain everlasting honor.
that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ”
The gospel will indeed bring us fame, but it is King Jesus first. Moreover, it is about his church. It is a shared fame.
Through the gospel, the glory that attends him devolves onto us, so that we are dignified. We share his fame.
wherever the gospel is proclaimed throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her”
The woman with the alabaster jar is nameless but gospel famous.
Who can guess the “eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17, AT), the gospel fame, that will attend Doyle’s future in the resurrection age? Because he allowed Jesus to change him, Doyle is famous in and through our Lord Jesus.
They became famous not by pursuing a me-style fame—but indirectly when they honored the Christ and then found his glory redounding to them.
I hope that you’ll become famous by acting locally as the King’s agent.
The gospel is truly aimed toward God’s fame.
the gospel is purposed toward God’s glory.
What if God’s glory is wrapped up with our own, so that we can’t entirely have one without the other? Perhaps they are both purposes of the gospel, because redeemed human honor is essential to God’s fullest glory.
This world’s fame is a scarce commodity that individuals jealously hoard.
Meanwhile God-style fame is abundant and overflowing.
It only enhances others’ glory—as fame ripples ever outward:
God is not stingy with his glory. He wants to share it with humans.
When God begins to restore human glory through the gospel, a cycle of glory recovery ensues for all creation—and this simultaneously restores God’s own glory.
Intrinsic glory is the value that a person or thing has by its nature or essence entirely independent from public opinion or perception.
