The Gospel declares all that God has done to deliver His chosen people from imputed damnation and their native darkness. The Gospel concerns the elect looking to their Substitute on the cross where God delivered them from the law’s penalties and where God discharged sin and imputed righteousness.
The Gospel reveals how God delivered His elect from the darkness of disbelieving and misbelieving. By sovereign Spiritual awakening, the Spirit of God enters the soul and enlightens the elect regarding what He has done for them in the LORD Jesus. With the mind illuminated and the affections fired, the will obeys and follows God’s sovereign call of Grace. They turn from false notions of God to the Way of Light. The Gospel affirms God’s unconditional election of sinners before the foundation of the world, justification by Christ at the cross and the Holy Spirit awakening them in time. This is not alternate doctrine or higher doctrine; it is the only Doctrine. And this Gospel must be heard: Eph. 1:13; understood: Rom. 15:20-21 and believed: Rom. 10:14-16.