[color=6600CC]Pro 25:25 [As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so [is] good news from a far country. [/color]
In the strongs good news means:
1) to be good, be pleasing, be joyful, be beneficial, be pleasant, be favourable, be happy, be right
a) (Qal)
1) to be pleasant, be delightful
2) to be glad, be joyful
3) to be better
4) to be well with, be good for
5) to be pleasing
b) (Hiphil) to do well, do good, act right, act rightly
1) to hear, listen to, obey
a) (Qal)
1) to hear (perceive by ear)
2) to hear of or concerning
3) to hear (have power to hear)
4) to hear with attention or interest, listen to
5) to understand (language)
6) to hear (of judicial cases)
7) to listen, give heed
a) to consent, agree
b) to grant request
8) to listen to, yield to
9) to obey, be obedient
b) (Niphal)
1) to be heard (of voice or sound)
2) to be heard of
3) to be regarded, be obeyed
c) (Piel) to cause to hear, call to hear, summon
d) (Hiphil)
1) to cause to hear, tell, proclaim, utter a sound
2) to sound aloud (musical term)
3) to make proclamation, summon
4) to cause to be heard
[color=6600CC]Mat 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.[/color]
Gospel of the Kingdom means:
1) a reward for good tidings
2) good tidings
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. After the death of Christ, the term comprises also the preaching of (concerning) Jesus Christ as having suffered death on the cross to procure eternal salvation for the men in the kingdom of God, but as restored to life and exalted to the right hand of God in heaven, thence to return in majesty to consummate the kingdom of God
b) the glad tidings of salvation through Christ
c) the proclamation of the grace of God manifest and pledged in Christ
d) the gospel
e) as the messianic rank of Jesus was proved by his words, his deeds, and his death, the narrative of the sayings, deeds, and death of Jesus Christ came to be called the gospel or glad tidings
1) to bring good news, to announce glad tidings
a) used in the OT of any kind of good news
1) of the joyful tidings of God's kindness, in particular,
of the Messianic blessings
b) in the NT used especially of the glad tidings of the coming kingdom of God, and of the salvation to be obtained in it through Christ, and of what relates to this salvation
c) glad tidings are brought to one, one has glad tidings proclaimed to him
d) to proclaim glad tidings
1) instruct (men) concerning the things that pertain to Christian salvation
the kingdom means:
1) royal power, kingship, dominion, rule
a) not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom
b) of the royal power of Jesus as the triumphant Messiah
c) of the royal power and dignity conferred on Christians in the Messiah's kingdom
2) a kingdom, the territory subject to the rule of a king
3) used in the N.T. to refer to the reign of the Messiah
[color=6600CC]Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son: [/color]
[color=6600CC]Isa 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.[/color]
[color=6600CC]Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: [/color]
The good news of the gospel it that those who walk in darkness and despair can now walk in light and joy. Good news indeed. The real power of God is manifest to the lost through the word of our testimony, just like on the thread with the video of the young man getting baptised. He was saturated with darkness and the light of God's word set him free.
[color=6600CC]Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.[/color]
[color=6600CC]Jhn 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
[/color][color=6600CC]Hbr 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.[/color]
[color=6600CC]1Cr 15:55 O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? [/color]
[color=6600CC]1Cr 15:56 The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law. [/color]
[color=6600CC]1Cr 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. [/color]
[color=6600CC]Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.[/color]
The good news is that you can be tranlated out of darkness and despair into a totally different world of peace and joy here on earth and spend eternity in the Kingdom being a Kings kid.
