Has Christ’s Unchanging Gospel Victory Changed You?

© 2017 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

 What is God’s Gospel?  Many answer by quoting the following familiar passage.

 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

Others quote the following statement by Paul.

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Still others quote a different statement by Paul.

 “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.  For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:20-22).

The focus of each passage is God the Son, Jesus Christ.  He is the sacrificial redeemer, born of a virgin, who died and rose again to save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).

But when was this Gospel first presented to mankind?  To answer this question, we turn to the third chapter of Genesis.  There we see an account of man’s dreadful fall.  This caused Adam and Eve to hide, in fear, from God’s presence.  As God dealt with Adam and Eve, He made the following proclamation to that old serpent, the Devil.

“…I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Genesis 3:15).

Eve’s seed, Christ, would be crucified as a substitutionary sacrifice.  God described Christ’s “bruise” (His death) as only a bruise to His heel because He would rise victoriously from it.  Satan’s bruising, however, is to his head.  Christ’s victory guaranteed Satan’s total defeat and eternal condemnation in the lake of fire.  God then illustrated Christ’s sacrifice, by sacrificing animals and using their skins to cover Adam’s and Eve’s dead nakedness.

Down through the ages, God reiterated His unchanged Gospel of Eve’s seed.  Millennia later, Paul wrote,

 “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ” (Galatians 3:16).

Are you trusting Christ, the eternal “seed,” and focus of God’s Gospel?

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