{"id":820,"date":"2011-04-04T06:24:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=820"},"modified":"2011-04-04T06:24:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:24:39","slug":"the-hope-of-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"The Hope of the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cTo them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is <em><strong>Christ in you<\/strong><\/em>, the hope of glory.\u00a0 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature <em><strong>in Christ<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d<\/span> (Colossians 1:27-28)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hope-of-the-gospel1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-823\" title=\"hope of the gospel\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hope-of-the-gospel1-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hope-of-the-gospel1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hope-of-the-gospel1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hope-of-the-gospel1.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hope of the Gospel might be summarized in these three statements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jesus lived to provide the righteousness you lack.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jesus died to pay the penalty you incurred.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jesus lives again to produce in and through you the life required of you.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first two describe the truth of your being &#8220;in Christ.&#8221; The last sets forth the hope of &#8220;Christ in you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo be<em> in Christ<\/em>\u2014that is redemption; but for Christ to be <em>in you<\/em>\u2014that is sanctification! To be <em>in Christ<\/em>\u2014that makes you fit for heaven; but for Christ to be<em> in you<\/em>\u2014that makes you fit for earth! To be <em>in Christ<\/em>\u2014that changes your destination; but for Christ to be <em>in you<\/em>\u2014that changes your destiny! The one makes heaven your home\u2014the other makes this world His workshop.\u201d\u00a0 (Major W. Ian Thomas, <em>The Saving Life of Christ<\/em>, p.20)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a more visually helpful picture in a pdf file: <a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hope-of-the-gospel.pdf\">hope of the gospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.\u00a0 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.\u201d (Colossians 1:27-28) The hope of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-de","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}