Hussain Ahmed, or Mishu143, as we know him here at chess.com, recently asked me what "Gospel Minister" means. 

Well, that is a very big question, indeed, I will do my best to begin to answer it here.

A minister is simply a servant. The Gospel is the Good News about the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ lived on earth some 2000 years ago, but he was no ordinary man. In fact the Lord Jesus Christ is God incarnate. In other words God became a man and lived among men. 

Why would God do such a thing as that? to save mankind from their sins. What are sins? And how does God becoming a man save men from their sins?

Sin is when we break the laws of God. 

God created the entire Universe, and everything that is in it. He did so in 6 days. On the 6th day he created man. The first man was named Adam. God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground. God also created a wife for Adam. Her name was Eve. God took a rib from Adam and created Eve.

God planted a Garden on Earth called Eden. It was Adam's job to take care of the garden. In the middle of a garden there was a particular tree from which Adam was forbidden to eat. It was called "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from any of the trees of the garden EXCEPT that one tree. 

Satan is the enemy of God. Satan was also created by God, as an angel. Satan tried to overthrow God, but God defeated him and cast him out of heaven. Ever since then, Satan has tried to influence people on earth to rebel against God. He started with Adam and Eve. 

Satan came to Eve in the form of a talking serpent. The serpent told Eve that she should eat of the forbidden tree to gain knowledge and wisdom and a likeness to God. 

Eve was foolish, for she was already created in the likeness of God, but she took the forbidden fruit and ate it and gave it to her husband who also ate it.

This act of disobedience brought death into the world in two forms: 1) Man died spiritually. In other words, man was by this sin spiritually separated from God. 2) Man would die physically as well. 

It had never been part of God's plan for mankind to die, but this sin of Adam and Even brought death into the world. And death passed to all mankind through Adam to his descendants.

So we were all born into death and sin. It is our nature that we received from our parents. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, and all have sinned. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no, not one. For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.

The consequences of sin is not only death of the body, but there is a second death that the soul experiences: the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

It was never part of God's plan for man to go to the lake of fire. everlasting fire was prepared for the devil and his angels not for man. However, now that man has followed Satan's lie and is a sinner, everlasting fire is exactly what awaits every man when he dies: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The good news, the Gospel, is that God does offer the gift of eternal life to anyone who will receive it by faith: the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God became a man, to live among men, as a man, to fulfill all the laws of God. He then died for all mankind, paying the penalty for man's sin. God exhibits his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 

Though we are all sinners, God is willing to save us all if we will trust Him by faith. Adding nothing ourselves, we trust him alone to save us.

Neither religion, nor charity, nor good works can erase the sins we have committed, but the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

God loves you and wants to save you from your sins. Those who trust him alone are granted salvation and eternal life with him in heaven.

One of the verses of the Bible says, "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life" (First John 5:13)

How may we know? Well, let's read the things that he has written unto us in the previous two verses:

"this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life."

The way to have eternal life is to have God's Son. So how can we have God's Son? The same writer, John, in another Scripture said, "He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." (John 1:11-12)

The way to have the Son of God is to receive Him, and the way to receive Him is to believe on His name. What does it mean to believe on His name? Another inspired writer said, "The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shalt be saved." (Romans 10:8-9)

In other words, salvation is a matter of faith and believing in your heart. For by grace are you saved through faith; and that nor of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, least any man should boast. 

Believing in your heart is not merely acknowledging the facts about Jesus Christ; it is trusting Christ as a Person, and trusting in what He did rather than what you can do. 

I urge anyone who reads this to call on Christ in faith, place your trust in Him alone. Repent of your sins, confessing to Him. Receive Him as your own personal Saviour.