The True Gospel

golfjack · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:18 am Post subject: The True Gospel

In Matt. 28:18, notice that after Jesus arose from the dead, He said, All power (or authority) is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Jesus immediately took the authority given to Him in the earth and delegated it to His Body. (actually, the only way He could have authority on the earth, He's not here, is through His Body). In Mark 16:15, Jesus said Go Ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel (good news) to every creature. What is the good news He wanted to us to go tell? I don't believe the Church the Gospel yet. We've preached a gospel, but not the Gospel. 2 Cor. 5:17, 18 tells us much. Not only did God through Jesus defeat Satan, but God has made us New creatures who have authority over Satan. We are new creatures. Old things are passed passed away. All things are become new. And all of these things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ. And He has given us the ministry of reconcilation. What is the ministry of reconcilation? 2 Cor. 5:19 gives us the answer. He has committed this message of reconcilation and of restoring to favor to us. He doesn't want us to go tell sinners that if they will be good and cry half the night, or if they will do a penance half a year, He might evently have mercy on them and do something for them. NO. He wants us to tell them that God Almighty has already cancelled out their debt. He is not holding one thing against them. Some wil say, well if He isn't, then they will go to heaven. No, they are still children of the devil. They must become children of God in order to enter heaven.

Therefore, God has cancelled out their trespasses; He is not going to. Can't one see we have never told them that good news? Instead believers have gone out and have beaten poor old sinners over the head and then wondered why they quit coming to Church. And MayGod have mercy on some preachers who have preached to saints as if they were sinners. I challenge anyone to tell me where the New Testament says that a believer is a sinner. To unbelievers, of course I preach sin so that they be able to repent by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

May God bless, golfjack

lone-traveler · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:37 am Post subject:

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thunder · Lion King Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 1222

Local Pastors ... should be able to isolate saints into a forum where he or she can make it known to them that, his or her regularly scheduled meetings will be addressed to sinners so that new arrivals and visitors get a good dose of positive gospel preaching while the saints should know that the message is preached that way for the spiritual well being of the new arrivals and visitors and that they should not be offended by strait and direct preaching.

I have learned that christians should not be offendable by sinners or saints but, human instinct suggests that everyone has weak moments where a verbal assault or accusation from a sinner or saint has a deeper impact in a weaker moment than it would in a stronger moment.

So, when saints sit on a pew or attend ministry activities and get offended by preaching or by direct or indirect instructions from a spiritual leader, they ( we ) need to keep our stable mobility and focus on Christ who, after all, is our Savior, ultimate spiritual leader and not local clergy.

I have had several events where a senior pastor said or did things that I totally disagreed with and, since the senior pastor is a superior authority within the church, I had to be willing to take the episode to God in prayer, invite Him to make up the difference and forgive the offender for being human concerning spiritual matters, plus forgive myself for the same since, I allowed someone to offend me.

thunder

lone-traveler · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

Ps:26:1: Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
Ps:26:2: Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Ps:26:3: For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
Ps:26:4: I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Ps:26:5: I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Ps:26:6: I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
Ps:26:7: That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
Ps:26:8: Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Ps:26:9: Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Ps:26:10: In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Ps:26:11: But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
Ps:26:12: My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the Lord.

golfjack · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:01 am Post subject: reply

All I am trying to say is that I believe that Christians should have a God conscience and not sin conscience. If you believe in Christian statistics, you would be surprised about the denomination that does the most sinning. Some would say that a believer has a license to sin. I would say that I don't need a license to sin, I probably sin enough. We should keep our focus on God in His written Word. I know of a Pastor who kicked a person out of church for obtaining a divorce. Yes God abhors divorce, but if one studies 1 Cor. 7, one must say that there is only law for the Church, and that is THE LAW OF LOVE.

May God bless, golfjack

lone-traveler · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:16 am Post subject:

divorce:

Because of the hardness of the heart to not keep itself clean and free from mingling with evil.

Divorce was made to lets say legally put the evil thing away from you.

You have judged yourself and found yourself unclean and are now able to give the evil within you a bill of divorcement.

whoever marries the evil that is put away has taken that evil upon themselves.

Lone

thunder · Lion King Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 1222

Very often ... the evil in a person remains well wrapped only to be revealed shortly after the wedding.

I remained married to my first wife for three years, 2.5 years after she began dating other men while we were married.

I always suspected that there was something going on but she would play it off like the affairs were a ploy to make me think she was cheating, in an effort to make me jealous, so she said late in the marriage.

A unique definition of " jealousy," is," fear of being displaced ( replaced )."
To purposely use such behavior and tactic is cruel, mischievous and evil.

Her barrage of affairs were so obvious to the judge, he granted an anullment rather than divorce, citing that she never really entered a marriage and that I was blind to the affairs, or chose to believe the lies.

" Whoever marries the evil that is put away, has taken that evil upon themselves," and removes the evil by getting an anullment.

A lot like being born again, you get to start over, unless of course, you are the evil one.

Separation or divorce is mandate when the circumstances become non-viable, dangerous or one spouse is unwilling to submit to the other.

thunder