a reminder - the Gospel is good news!!!!!

In the beginning God...both Christ and the Holy Spirit are God and also at the beginning in creation. God = Father, Christ, Holy Spirit
God creates the world and man.
Man has all he needs but wants more (because he listened to the serpent Satan and was fooled by his eyes)
Man sins against God - God and all He made was not enough.
Man's relationship with God is broken.
Man, because of sin, is now condemned to death and hell.
God promises He will redeem man even after the choice he made.
God chooses Abraham and with him a group of people for no other reason than for God's glory and plan to be known.
God promises Jesus (the promised seed) will come through Abraham.
God promises to be with Abraham and his descendants and fulfill His promise as long all remain faithful.
God makes a promise that He himself will be torn apart if the promise is broken even if by Israel.
The people of Israel are to live holy and declare who God is to all who come.
Despite Abraham's less that perfect record and eventually, Israel's less than perfect record, God keeps his promise.
After hundreds of years and disobedience, God shares Himself with us by sending his Son Christ, who is both man and God.
Christ lives a life of obedience as a man, humbling himself to our level.
He does good, lives a life of righteousness and calls all to hear Him and follow Him for He is the only way to mend the broken relationship between man and God.
Some follow Christ, others reject Him.
The sin we commit is ours. And the sinful state we are cursed with was through one man, Adam, we inherited; Christ, who is both man and God, perfect and only did good, is crucified on the cross fulfilling God's promise to take on the punishment for the broken promise and reconcile our relationship to God.
Christ is resurrected and saves the faithful who have died before.
He ascends back to be with the Father in glory at the right hand of the throne.
He sends His Holy Spirit to cause faith and change those who believe to be like Christ - to live in obedience.
All who believe that God has done this in Christ are then brought by the Holy Spirit into a group of people known as the Church - it is meant to have no racial, socioeconomic, sexual orientation (as long as life is lived in repentance), or gender segregation along with those from the Jews who believe.
Because of God accomplishing this salvation from sin and bringing us back to Himself by sacrificing Himself, in Christ, we are now to obey Him and live in thanksgiving because we deserved NONE OF IT!!!!
And because all that is promised Christ for His obedience are also ours - eternal life with God and a crown of righteousness - we can live in obedience even in hard times and suffering.