Mark Thomas Testimony

Amen.

How would you articulate the core message of the gospel to someone?

Hey, that's a great question, man.

So the gospel message is this.

Number one, God loves you.

All right.

The picture that you have in your mind about our Heavenly Father, it may not be right.

A lot of people think that our Heavenly Father is an angry God looking down on people ready to punish them.

That's not biblical.

Let me give you a scriptural picture of our Heavenly Father.

He loves you.

He wants to be in relationship with you on this earth.

He wants you to go after the life that he created you to live on this earth.

And the message of salvation is this.

The gospel message is this.

It's simple.

We just need to believe that we're all sinners and we are all sinners.

Right.

We do things that we know we shouldn't do.

We do them anyway.

That's called sin.

You know, if you believe that God is real.

The next thing, hey, the gospel message says that we're going to die one day from this life on earth and that we can spend eternity either in heaven or hell, right? We're made in God's image, so we're going to live forever, all right? He created us.

We're eternal beings.

The question is, when we leave this earth, are we going to be in heaven for an eternity with Jesus, or are we going to be in hell forever? Jesus says, if you want to spend eternity in heaven with me and be in a relationship with our Heavenly Father on this earth, he said, do you believe that I died on the cross? I gave my life on the cross to forgive you of all your sins.