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Welcome to Day 2211 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Wisdom Nuggets \u2013 What Does God Want? \u2013 What is the Gospel? \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 03/05/2023 What Does God Want? -\xa0 What is the Gospel? Last week, we finished our story narrative overview of the Bible, answering the question: What does God want? The answer we discovered over the past six weeks was that God wants you and everyone who will ever live. In other words, God wanted a human family. God wants co-workers to take care of His creation. God wants you to know/ who you are/ and why your life has value to him. /He loves you /and desires that you also love Him. So now we switch our focus on what is required to be part of God\u2019s forever family /and how we show this transformation in our lives./ The answer to these two questions is through believing loyalty. This week, we will explore the believing aspect; in the next two weeks, we will focus on loyalty. We invested a year in a detailed study of the Good News, according to John, but today, we will view an overall snapshot of the Good News. It is simple and yet very profound. What is the Gospel, the Good News? \xa0 It may sound odd to ask that question at this juncture. We\u2019ve just invested six weeks walking through the story of the Bible, the story of how God wants us in his family. We join that family by believing the gospel. \xa0 I\u2019ve discovered that many people who attend church don\u2019t fully understand the gospel. Some can\u2019t articulate it. Others who can express it coherently often struggle with truly surrendering to its simplicity. They suffer inside over genuinely believing /that the gospel is all that is necessary for everlasting life. Some of you may wonder what I\u2019m talking about. There is a good chance that as I explain what I mean, you\u2019ll either see yourself or someone you know in what follows. \xa0 We\u2019ll start by defining the gospel. Then, I\u2019ll ask some questions along the way that are important to consider for clarity. We also need to talk about what the gospel isn\u2019t. When we get to that part of the conversation, you\u2019ll see what I mean by the struggle I mentioned. \xa0 What is The Gospel? It\u2019s relatively easy to define what the term \u201cgospel\u201d means. The biblical word \u201cgospel\u201d refers to the message of salvation. The English word \u201cgospel\u201d is a translation of a Greek word (the original language of the New Testament) that referred to a reward given to someone who brought good news. Hence, you\u2019ll often hear the term \u201cgospel\u201d equated with \u201cgood news\u201d\u2014the good news about the message of salvation. \xa0 Let\u2019s think about that. It might feel like we learned something. I suppose we did, but we didn\u2019t understand what we needed to know. It\u2019s nice that we can now define a term. But we haven\u2019t said anything about the content of the message of salvation. We\u2019ve explained what the word \u201cgospel\u201d means, but not what the gospel is. So, let\u2019s talk about what the gospel means. What is the content of God\u2019s offer of