The Good News

The message of the New Testament is first and foremost a declaration.  It is good news about God.  It is the story of what God has done in and through his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.  He has established his kingdom.  True, the full manifestation of the kingdom is yet to come.  We await the final consummation.  But the kingdom of God has been inaugurated.  The time has been fulfilled.  The dreams of ancient visionaries have come true.  God has kept his promise to Abraham.  Long centuries of Old Testament expectation have at last materialized.  The new age has dawned.  The new covenant has been ratified through the bloodshedding of Jesus.  Those who repent of their sins, renounce themselves and believe in Christ hear the covenant promise '... I will be their God, and they shall be my people ... for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more' (Jeremiah 31:33-4).

John Stott