Romans 16:25
Now to him that is
of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of
Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept
secret since the world began,
The gospel of the
grace of God is how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose
again.
1 Corinthians 15
Moreover, brethren,
I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye
have received, and wherein ye stand; By
which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless
ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that
which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the scriptures:
If you are saved
today or have any hope of being saved, you need to believe that the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, shed his perfect blood on the cross and that he was
buried and rose again on the third day.
That is the only gospel that saves.
There is more than one gospel in the scriptures. Peter and the other 11, and the Lord in his
earthly ministry preached the gospel of the kingdom where they were looking for
the Messiah and his kingdom. How could
they preach that Christ died for sins before he died? Our message is that he died on that cross,
it’s the preaching of the cross.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching
of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it
is the power of God.
Their message was
that he was going to go and be Messiah and later he would shed his blood for
them. I showed you last time that what
Israel’s religious leaders should have done when Messiah was presented was to
first believe on him. But, secondarily,
Christ always opened their understanding; and what he would have taught them
is, as the same way Isaac was about to be sacrificed by his own father Abraham,
the same picture of all those blood sacrifices was also in the Law of
Moses. Those religious leaders should
have believed on Christ as their Messiah and then—instead of putting him on a
cruel and criminal cross, they were supposed to—bind the sacrifice to the horns
of the altar in the temple, shed his blood and wait for God to raise up their
Messiah.
Psalm 118:27
God is the Lord,
which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the
horns of the altar.
Instead of doing it
with holy hands as they should have done, they did it with wicked hands and put
him on the cross in rejection.
Acts 2: 22-23
Ye men of Israel,
hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by
miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye
yourselves also know: Him, being
delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have
taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Philippians 2:8
And being found in
fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross.
But, through that
cross, through that rejection, God showed Paul a revelation of the
mystery.
Romans 16:25
Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
Look what he said
in Romans 16:25, Now to him that is of
power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, [but, not according to
prophecy (i.e., being what had been foretold
since the world began, but] according to
the revelation of the mystery, which was kept
secret since the world began.
It’s preaching
according to that sacred secret that God didn’t let anyone know…
Ephesians 3:9
…the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath
been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
It was the fact
that Jesus Christ would accomplish at Calvary some things [not just] in the
earth [but also] and the heaven.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth.
From Genesis 1:2,
God has only been dealing with the earth, and the people in the earth, and
[then] the kingdom in the earth (the people of Israel), and all gentiles were
cast off.
Romans 1:21-24
Because that, when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became
vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools…Wherefore God also gave them up
to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves: Who changed
the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did
change the natural use into that which
To be right with
God, you had to become a Jew. But, that
is not what God is doing today in the dispensation of grace.
Colossians 1:21
And you, that were
sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:18
And all things are
of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath
given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
When we rightly
divided the word, every man, both Jew and Gentile can be right with God through
what Christ accomplished.
Ephesians 2:15
Having abolished in
his
[Christ’s] flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain [both Jew and
Gentile] one new man, so making peace;
Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened
his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter
of persons:
That is the mystery
of Christ.
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