The good news of salvation through Jesus Christ is first for the glory of God, and then for the good of man. The gospel shines light upon the mercy, love, and grace of God in ways that creation could never do. This is partly what the apostle Paul means when he writes in Ephesians 2:4-8
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith.
Earlier in that same letter, the apostle makes it clear that the work of God in salvation displays the glory of His grace. Three times, he uses the phrase “to the praise of his glorious grace.”
The pure gospel glorifies God’s grace because it makes much of Jesus, and little of us. It reminds us that we are hopeless, helpless sinners who
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