Explanation of the Text 6. The Good News Proclaimed.

1Th 1:5  The Good News that we brought you did not come to you in words only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, for you know the sort of men we became among you, as examples for your sakes.

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The Good News that we brought to you......
Compare Matthew 4:23 Then Jesus travelled through all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.
Mar 1:14  Then, after John had been thrown into prison, Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming God's Good News. 
Mar 1:15  "The time has fully come," He said, "and the Kingdom of God is close at hand: repent, and believe this Good News. 

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Billy Graham Preaching the Good News

The Good News or the Gospel [ euaggelion ] According to Thayer's Greek Dictionary means Glad Tidings or Good News
1. The reward for Good Tidings.
2. a The Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of God soon to be set up and subsequently also of JESUS the Messiah, the Founder of this Kingdom.
2.b. After the Death and Resurrection of Christ 'the Good News' refers to the Proclamation of Jesus Christ as having suffered Death of the Cross to procure our Eternal Salvation for all men in the Kingdom of God.
2.c. The Good news or the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of God.
2.d. The Proclamation of the Grace of God manifested in Jesus Christ - Proclamation of the Gospel.
2.e. The Messianic rank of Christ was proved by 1. His Words, 2. His deeds and 3. by His death and Resurrection. The Proclamation of this came to be called the Gospel.

1Co 15:1  But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing, 
1Co 15:2  through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first. 
1Co 15:3  For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; 
1Co 15:4  that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 
1Co 15:5  and was seen by Peter, and then by the Twelve. 
1Co 15:6  Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have now fallen asleep. 
1Co 15:7  Afterwards He was seen by James, and then by all the Apostles. 
1Co 15:8  And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared to me also. 

Rom 1:1  Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News, 
Rom 1:2  which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son, 
Rom 1:3  who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David, 
Rom 1:4  but as regards the holiness of His Spirit was decisively proved by His Resurrection to be the Son of God--I mean concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

May God raise up real Proclaimers of the Good News of Jesus Christ in our Day. Men who are unafraid to tell the Good News of Christ's Death and resurrection for us.






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