THE GOSPEL IS A MASSAGE.

Today in christian community, the gospel has been made to mean what it is not. Many have preached ignorantly what they think is the gospel, but the truth is, in reality that is not the gospel. For instance, many have preached hell fire as the gospel; that is how hot hell is ; how the fire in hell burns the person in there to ashes. They think that is the gospel. They think that scaring people from going to hell or with the message of how hot hell is, is what will stop a man from going to hell.

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Some even die and go to hell and heaven and later come back with stories of how hot hell is; how they carry cement and building materials into heaven to build houses of believers who are working out their salvation with fear and trembling; so as a believer prays more, fast more, doesn't make mistakes in his christian walk. Then his house is close to completion and thus believers who are not working out thier salvation well will have uncompleted buildings in heaven. Some in thier stories of how they went to heaven and hell And later come back and report how in a day milliions troop to hell while only one or two persons get to heaven and paint a picture of how sorrowful Jesus was and so on and so forth.

Now, it is only a person who is not educated within the scriptures that will believe in such stories or submit to such fantasies and see such submissions as the truth or the gospel. Are all these stories the preaching of the gospel? the obvious answer is No! Scaring people about hell is not the gospel. The gospel is a massage and this message is a specific message ; it is the message of Christ, specifically what Christ has done in his redemptive work for man. This is the message that saves, not hell or frightening people to come to Jesus.

This is the only message that supplies faith to the hearer the message of Christ ; the message of what Christ has done not the message of what hell has done. The sinner does not need hell to be saved; he needs Christ to be saved. The message of Christ is the message of the Saviour and this is what is effected in the life of the hearer. So, we are to preach Jesus. We have a specific message which is the message of Christ.

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come" ---Matthew 24:14

SUMMARY
The sinner does not need to learn about hell to be saved; he needs Christ to be saved.