The Gospel is an event. In history, totally non-subjective totally objective outside of you if you live die exist don't exist and change it at all

It's there in history 2,000 years ago, the son of God died.

As essential to the gospel, any dehistoricizing, any demyphologizing that says history doesn't matter, facts don't matter, just

count it out, that's not biblical.

Christ died. That's the main event.

What does scripture mean when it refers to the gospel? That's the central question John Piper answers in this episode of

Light and Truth. This message was originally given in Phoenix, Arizona at

the Desireing God 2006 Regional Conference.

Let's pray. Father in heaven, thank you so much for Christ and his suffering and his

triumphant resurrection and his inter intersection on our behalf at your right hand and for the promise of his coming.

Hasten the day. We would love to see it wrapped up. Now help me, I pray to be faithful to your

word, especially to the word of the cross in this session. I ask in Jesus name, amen.

So here we are now. We finally arrived, and maybe I shouldn't have put it off this long, but here we are, at the central issue of what is traditionally, biblically described as the gospel, gospel statements.

It's very controversial to say God is the gospel. That sentence is not in the Bible.

And I'm aware of that. And the places where the word gospel is used don't talk like that.

And so it's a judgment call on my part that that sort of risk needs to be taken in order to rescue the sentence that are in the Bible

from terminating on the wrong thing, from meaning the wrong thing.

Sometimes you use non-biblical sentences or words

to preserve biblical sentences,

like the word Trinity.

It's not in the Bible.

And it's a precious word that is intended to safeguard

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