The Good News: What Is It Really?

Learn What The Good News Is Today!

27^th November 2023

In this article, we are going to study what Good News really is, how we learned about its existence, why it is important for us to study it, and how you personally think about the topic, yourself. Since the world is full of what is known as the world news, is there anything like good news these days? How do we know there is good news? Let’s read the whole article below for the answers to these important questions.

What Do We Mean By The Good News?

In Christianity, Good News refers to the Gospel, the other word for the old version of the same word, god-spell, which means good tidings or good news. Because all humans are sinner by nature, and because that means eternal damnation and punishment in the lake of fire, that was bad news. But because God made a way for humankind to believe in Jesus and then justified, that was good news.

God has made a way for us and that’s good news. He has given us eternal life, or at least an offer of eternal life. Whoever is willing, to believe in His Son, and accept His eternal Gift shall not perish but have everlasting life. That’s good news to the sinner waiting to be cast into the lake of fire. At least there is a way now. There is an option to choose life or death.

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Christians are then called to share that experience, that good report, with the rest of creation, not only to other humans. How we think, speak, and act, is more than enough. That’s how we feed other people and things around us. It takes revelation plus scientific knowledge to be aware that even other creatures understand us.

Birds know if we like them or not. This is because thoughts travel from one brain to the other. How we react to other creatures is also important. It’s no long a theory, it never been, that humans are able to tame all kinds of animals. It has been done before. It is being done now. It will be done in the future. But only those who show love to those animals are able to tame them, not everyone.

When the goodness of God fills the whole earth through us, saved humans, it will reach to other animals, the animal kingdom as well. This is why my brother Isaiah meant when he foresaw the universal peace that even animals that prey on each other shall eat grass and love each other instead. This is very true. Stress makes animals eat each other. That’s not how they were when they were created. Sin entered the world and changed the order of things. Animals, all of them, including humankind, were told to eat greens, not meat. In fact, the old English translated food as meat, but not meat as we know it today. Now, how can we know these things for sure?

We know these things through God the Holy Spirit, and there are clues in nature itself, as well as in the scriptures. The Holy Spirit reveals everything to us, not only everything Jesus said, but everything before that. He tells us the plans of God long before creation. That’s why you need Him in your heart. The only way to get Him is to believe Jesus Christ died and rose again from the dead because that’s a wonder.

But why does God make it difficult to save the world? What about those who died before Jesus came? How about those who will die before they hear about Him? What about those who die too young to hear the Good News? How about those with disabilities and cannot hear the Good News because of that? These are higher things. We just don’t know how to answer those good and heartfelt questions now.

How Do We Know About The Good News?

We hear the Good News from people who preach and talk about it. We read about it in the Bible and in other books. But when we believe in Jesus, when we believe in the fact that He lived and good life, was killed, died and rose again, and that He lives forever in heaven, we know the Good News by experience. That’s the main difference.

We can hear about something and we might believe in what we hear, but when we come into contact with the very thing in person, we know it better. People can tell us stories about an event, person, place, or thing. But if we come into contact with that event, person, place or thing, we are the eyewitnesses. In the same manner, we are the eyewitnesses of the Gospel because we know what it is in person.

I became a Christian, meaning I was born again (R. C. Sproul) in 1997 when I was 14 or 15. This is because I am not sure if I was born in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, or 1984. It’s mostly likely, because of the events around my birthday, that I was born in 83-84. In 1997, I only listened to Christian songs of praise and the Spirit spoke to my heart.

I felt that warm love of the Father, and my spirit giggled like a baby, and indeed, it was. From that time up to date, I have a different relationship with God. That’s the impact of the Good News in a sinner’s life. God the Holy Spirit makes us alive first spiritually before we can even have faith in Jesus. Faith is not the first thing, rebirth is.

This is why I seem to understand Romans 10:17 KJV in a different way than other people I know do. It doesn’t simply admit that people begin to have faith when they hear the Word or God being preached. Rather, it’s saying that for a person to hear and understand that Word is the work of God. God makes you alive before He calls you out from the dead world of sins into His kingdom of light. He first made Lazarus alive before He called him out of the grave or else, how can a dead man hear?

Is It Important To Know The Good News?

If you are still dead in your sins, just as about 95% of humanity is, and then you need to hear this Good News, now, and then repent from that sin and turn to God. I can’t do this. You can’t do this. But if that’s what your heart, your conscience is telling you right now, take that step and cry out to God for mercy in the Name of Jesus His only Son.

If you do that once, you are born anew, forever! You don’t have to do it again and again, no matter who is telling you to do it. As I write this, I just recall how a minister recently shared the Gospel and I almost walked to the pulpit, but my wife rebuked me. Yes, I know I was born again, but I don’t know the exact date. I know it was about July 1997, but what day was it? I don’t know. So I felt like I need a date, a spiritual birthday.

Maybe the fact that I don’t know my natural birthday is a hidden issue to deal with? The most important thing is if you know the event. It’s also important if it was a gradual process. Mine happened in a church where the altar call was never a culture ad that means no body even asked me to come forward or to confess Jesus as Lord and Savior of my life. That’s not important to do all these because even Nicodemus was a silent believer and was likely saved.

Even if you are born again, it’s important for you to keep telling others about how it happened to you, especially if you can recall the event and the time or year or date. Even if you don’t remember how it happened, you can tell the difference between your new life and the old one. For me, the change was palpable. My aunt, Nyakek Mut made a rather radical statement about me.

I still don’t like what she said back in 1999 or so, but here it goes:

“If this demon, this god you call Jesus, didn’t transform his (me) life, this boy would either become a womanizer, or dreaded killer when he grows up and becomes a man.”

This was unregenerate woman saying this. She knew me from birth to that point in my life when she was a change, a supernatural change that she could be able to see, feel, and describe in such words. I can remember the words almost exactly more than 20 years later and I write this. I don’t what I used to do that could give her such a clear thought about who I might become if Jesus Christ didn’t transform my life through His Holy Spirit. However, this is good news for me because it testifies I am born anew, I am not the same and I will never be the same again. This means I can now tell others about the same process, the same Good News I heard through those songs.

What Do You Think About The Good News?

Indeed, what do you think now about this topic? I am asking knowing you have started reading from the beginning to here and now. You have read all I have said earlier about the topic, Good News. You now know that we are talking about the Christian good news, the Gospel of Jesus, the Christ. But you still have your say in this.

Freedom is my first value, and this is freedom for me, as well as for everyone and everything that comes into contact with me. So feel free to share your mind and its thoughts with yourself at the moment because the time will come when I will also ask you to write them down or send them to me.

However, when it comes to series matter such as this topic, we need to focus on facts, not on feelings, opinions, ideas or imaginations. This is because all these are not a good foundation to stand on. This is why we don’t rely on our own thoughts for our salvation and Christian life. We rather rely on God who saves us.

What is your say?

Conclusion

In summary, I assumed you have read from the beginning, and you now know what we mean when we say Good News, how we know about this news, why it is important for us to know this news, and finally, what you think about this topic, personally. Have you ever read something like this before? Did you learn anything new in this article that you didn’t know before reading?

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