Reason # 6 Sufficiciency in the Gospel

Let's call it "The One Step Program...To Life and Godliness". It seems that today you can find a multi-step program for any problem you have, or pursuit you engage in. It's comforting to know that for the one who has believed in the gospel of Christ:  "...His divine power has granted everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence." (2 Peter 1:3)

"The gospel serves as the means by which God daily constricts me into what He wants me to be and also serves as the channel through which He gives me my inheritance every day of my Christian life. (Acts 20:32) Hence it could be said that the gospel contains all that I need 'for life and godliness. (2 Peter 1:3) It is for this reason that God tells me to to be steadfastly entrenched in the gospel at all time and never allow myself to be moved from there. (Colossians 1:23) The mere fact that God tells me to stay inside the gospel at all time must mean that He intends to supply all of my needs as long as I am abiding in that place of luxury (Colossians 2:8-10; 2 Peter 1:3)."  -Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians, p.18

Paul wrote to the Believers in Philippi and expressed a confidence he had for them that was rooted in the gospel:

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all, in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now. For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.  For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me. For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:3-11)

We too can be confident that God will complete in us what He began when He opened our eyes to the gospel. It is in the gospel we find our sufficiency to "be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ" because we have "been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ."