The gospel is never an exhortation for us to do something, but an announcement of something that God has done for us. Grace is available because Jesus went through the valley of the shadow of death and rose from the dead. The gospel engages all of our life with all of its pain, shame, rejection, guilt, loss, sin, and death. There's an order to Law and Gospel that must be maintained for us to understand God's good work for us.
Is the gospel something that we do? Is it something—like a law—that we can execute or abide by? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland unpack the covenant of grace throughout Scripture, considering the counterintuitive nature of God’s unilateral kindness to us in the gospel.