The good news of the kingdom of God is the message that Christ brought to this planet. Much of it is spelled out in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And the message is proclaimed by the apostles in the book called the Acts of the Apostles.

What most people fail to realize is that Christ brought a message that was not a spiritual puff peace designed to jerk people up by their bootstraps. It is a message about a literal kingdom, with Christ ruling over us as King of kings and Lord of lords. The gospel is the good news that this corrupt world, this corrupt society, is coming to an end, and man’s rule of this planet is coming to an end. The good news is that Christ will not return to be crucified over again. He will rule. And this planet will become a paradise like nothing that the imagination can conceive of. The good news Jesus brought from the Father is how a human being, of the human kingdom, can be born into the God kingdom, the Kingdom of God.

He who overcomes and maintains Christ’s works unto the end will be given power over the nations (Revelation 2:26).

The gospel of the kingdom of God is a practical pragmatic solution to all the problems of this earth.

But what happened to that gospel? It is almost unheard of in today’s world. Is it possible for most of the population of the planet to be blind as to what the real gospel is?

It’s not only possible. In this twenty-first century it is an incontrovertible fact! The majority of the population of this planet is in absolute ignorance of the real gospel, the message brought to this planet by Jesus Christ! You may not believe that. And that factor alone accounts for the fact that most people do not even take time to seek out the truth of the matter.

In today’s world you will see a plethora of gospels: the gospel of prosperity, the gospel of grace, the gospel of salvation, the gospel of politics, and the gospel of the kingdom.

In today’s world of relativism and secularism, one might ask “Does it really matter?”

Most have no idea how much it matters!

“…if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed” (Gal 1:9).

Bingo, it matters!

What gospel did Jesus teach?

“Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God” (Mark 1:14).

The message Christ brought was the good news of the kingdom of God.

The good news of the kingdom of God, the message that Christ brought to this planet, is the only gospel Christ brought. And the apostle Paul said a person should be cursed if he preaches a different gospel (Galatians 1:9). Why would Paul say that? It’s because the other gospels distract a person from realizing the plan of God. And that distraction has contributed to the spiritual blinding of the majority of the world’s population. Most of the world is blissfully unaware of what the real gospel is.

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people” (Matthew 4:23).

Jesus taught the gospel of the kingdom. It is called the kingdom of God. It is also called the kingdom of heaven because it refers to a kingdom coming from heaven to this planet earth. For example, the New Jerusalem is in heaven now. But it will be on earth after the establishment of the kingdom of God on this earth.

“…New Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from my God…” (Revelation 3:12). Christ will make all things new. The New Jerusalem will bear no resemblance to the Old Jerusalem.

That’s the reason the kingdom of God is, at times, referred to as the kingdom of heaven.

The beginning part of accepting the gift of salvation is to repent and believe the gospel.

Christ said, “…the kingdom of God is at hand: repent (you), and believe the gospel.” (Mark 1:15).

You cannot believe the gospel unless you find out what the gospel is.

The gospel is sometimes called the gospel of Christ because it is the gospel Christ brought to this planet. This gospel that Christ brought, the gospel of the kingdom of God, is the gospel that has been hidden from most of the population of this world.

“But if our good news be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious good news of Christ, which is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4:3).

-wilyelder

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