Jesus Christ came into the world to redeem men from sin. His teaching, his methods, his death, and his resurrection comprise a message of God’s love and redeeming power against the backdrop of his certain judgment on sin and the unrepentant sinner. Quote for L. Nelson Bell

Mr. Bell did not stop there thankfully. These words do accurately spell out the truth of our salvation but it is a summary conclusion of other truths.

Exodus 3:15 English Standard Version (ESV) God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord,^[a] the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

Footnotes ^[a]  The word Lord, when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, “to be”

This God is THE GOD and there is no other. A proper understanding of the simple gospel has to begin with who is sending this message of salvation. He is the only God who has proven Himself over and over again throughout all the generations with covenant promises. This God is the only God that has make covenants and kept them. A god is not God if he cannot keep his word. Who is the God of promise? This God who has made and kept covenant.

This is the first gospel truth to be accepted. It is important to know the author of the gospel message. If we cannot trust the author of a promise, then the promise has no value.

If we want to begin here than one more truth has to be explored and believed. Is this bible we use the inspired Word of God? For most of us, that issue was resolved before we discovered the gospel message. That might not be the case for everyone who needs to hear the gospel.