The good news is that there is a circle, we never know everyone who is in it, of those who have more than mere words. They have power. They have love. They have soundness of mind. They have a kind of righteousness many will ignore and not recognise, but to God it is real. God and His Son are but two of this circle. There are many, many people in it stretching back through history and forward beyond today. It is a growing family. The family which God owns as His own. Those to whom He gives of His Spirit. Each one in it will ever have fellowship with God and His Son as long as each one keeps the teachings of the Son, the Lord, Jesus Christ. Here there is love and power and soundness of mind. Here there is the righteousness of God. Here is what the Lord Jesus Christ bought with His own holy blood and body on that cross. Here is what he has given him by God who raised him from the dead to be forever the head of this body, in whom it is all built in love into a living temple as each one does their work. until the day he returns to raise all these to be immortal and live with God and himself forever in fellowship. This is the good news, the holy gospel of God.
