God Is the Gospel

Meditations on God's Love As the Gift of Himself

By: John Piper

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

This audiobook is a cry from the heart of John Piper. He is pleading that God himself, as revealed in Christ’s death and resurrection, is the ultimate and greatest gift of the gospel.

None of Christ’s gospel deeds and none of our gospel blessings are good news except as means of seeing and savoring the glory of Christ. Forgiveness is good news because it opens the way to the enjoyment of God himself. Justification is good news because it wins access to the presence and pleasures of God himself. Eternal life is good news because it becomes the everlasting enjoyment of Christ.

All God’s gifts are loving only to the degree that they lead us to God himself. That is what God’s love is: his commitment to do everything necessary (most painfully the death of his only Son) to enthrall us with what is most deeply and durably satisfying – namely, himself.

©2007 John Piper (P)2006 Christian Audio

Holy Moly!

This book was great. As someone who has never read the Bible in its entirety, I have so many answers now! Thank you for sharing with me the "Good News". Jesus Christ is my glory. Hallelujah!

excellent meditation

This is an excellent meditation on the centrality of God in the gospel. A little slow start but it became much better afterwards. This is the type of book that needs to be listened to multiple times to get it all in your mind and heart.

I love John Piper

What a great book! I love how John Piper focused me on loving God for 5 hours. I love the focus he put on glorifying God in all my life, that the exaltation of God in itself is the best and highest purpose. Piper did such a good job of proving that by the Bible. Glorifying God for the sake of glorifying Him is now part of my life's purpose. I love God! Having a little love/glory fest. :)

Great book!

My favorite part about this work was the concept of how Piper elaborates on the meaning of the term gospel. Specifically, how it is only good news because it’s about the perfect God seeking a relationship with imperfect man.

now even more in love with Christ Jesus, my Lord.

again Piper paints beautifully the relationship between Christ Jesus and who we are in Him. it causes me to think what Christ Jesus did on the cross and why. image the suffering not in terms of physical but the spiritual. this book caused me to realize it not about religion as much as it is about relationship with Christ Jesus, when the Pharisees trapped/set up the woman in adultery and then drug her out in the street and threw her at Jesus feet, most likely she was naked for all to see, they used her to trick Christ demanding she be stoned, they weren't expecting what ever it was Christ wrote on the ground..one by one they walked away, I wonder what Christ wrote. maybe their names? or their sins of adultery, ,then Jesus stood and asked the shamed and terrified woman "where are your accuser's?" She said they are gone sir and Jesus said" I don't accuse you either, go and sin no more" that is God's grace. God, pure love holiness light came humbly down wrapped in flesh to where we are, so we can better relate with Him, love Him in a way we can understand. image the love He has for us to know the suffering He would endure. On the cross He became our sin fully experiencing the fallout and darkness for every soul paid in full. His gift to us was on the cross paid in full to rise 3 days later, leaving with us the Holy Spirit, our comforter. He gave us the gift of eternal life with the One who loves us more than we can comprehend.