# Why the Gospel is “good” news by Jonathan Edwards

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- Published: 2006-03-28T19:32:08-06:00
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"The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good
which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption. He is the
highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ purchased. God is the inheritance
of the saints; he is the portion of their souls. God is their wealth and treasure,
their food, their life, their dwelling place, their ornament and diadem, and their
everlasting honor and glory. They have none in heaven but God; he is the great good
which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they are to rise to at the
end of the world. The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is
the ‘river of the water of life’ that runs, and the tree of life that grows, ‘in
the midst of the paradise of God’. The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will
be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will
be their everlasting feast. The redeemed will indeed enjoy other things; they will
enjoy the angels, and will enjoy one another: but that which they shall enjoy in
the angels, or each other, or in anything else whatsoever, that will yield then 
delight and happiness, will be what will be seen of God in them."

–Jonathan Edwards, _The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader_. (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1999), pp. 74-75.

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