{"id":2630,"date":"2013-01-26T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2013-02-02T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:10:51","slug":"what-is-the-gospel-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"What is the gospel? (1\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thus says the Lord God: \u201cNo foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 44:9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was not enough to be circumcised in the flesh, if the heart was uncircumcised.\u00a0 It is today&#8212;it always has been&#8212;a matter of the heart.\u00a0 The ears may hear the gospel of Jesus Christ presented, but the heart must respond.<\/p>\n<p>What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?\u00a0 The gospel is the message, the good news, that God loves us, and has rescued us from the clutches of sin and death by Himself becoming a man in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 This God-man died for the sins of the world on a Roman cross under Pontius Pilate.\u00a0 On the third day He rose from the grave, declaring victory over sin, death and the devil.\u00a0 It is now incumbent upon us to repent&#8212;to turn away from&#8212;our sinful, self-absorbed lives, and to gratefully receive the gift of eternal life, freely offered to all who believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus says the Lord God: \u201cNo foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 44:9 It was not enough to be circumcised in the flesh, if the heart was uncircumcised.\u00a0 It is today&#8212;it always has been&#8212;a matter of the heart.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the gospel? (1\/3)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}