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God is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself is unavailable, but you can change that!

God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. —2 Corinthians 4:6. This book is a cry from the heart of John Piper. He is pleading that God himself, as revealed in Christ’s death and resurrection, is the ultimate and greatest gift of the gospel. None of Christ’s gospel deeds and none...

of God and the arrival of Jesus were the same. You can see how the gospel was summed up this way in Acts 8:12: “Philip … preached good news [εὐαγγελιζομένω] about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, [and] they were baptized, both men and women.” The reason that the coming of the kingdom of God and the coming of Jesus were the same is that Jesus was the long-awaited “son of David.” He was the promised King. The gospel is the good news that the promised King of Israel had come. So Paul
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