Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.
Greetings All,
My post today is about the importance of acquiring revelation from God.
I will to start with a fundamental definition of the word revelation.
Strong's greek word apokalupsis 602, Revelation "an uncovering"; the unveiling of the "mystery" the purpose of God in this age. The communication of the knowledge of God to our soul.
It is my belief that before we as believers can execute God's purpose on this plain called Earth we need to be able to see God from His perspective and not our own. Jesus said in (Matthew 5:8) that the pure in heart will see God. Look at (John 5:20) For the Father loveth the Son, and SHEWETH him ALL THINGS that himself doeth: and he WILL SHEW him GREATER WORKS than these, that ye may marvel. The Father here is the one to show his sons all things that the Father himself does and on top of this the Father will show his sons greater works. God's love for his children motivates him to do this. We are blessed to be in this position in this present age.
In the old testament the only one's that had a constant access to the things of God were prophets, kings and priests. In Christ Jesus he has included us all into seeing His heart. So now that he has made us kings and priests of Jesus Christ we are in position to receive His plans for us, the Church.
If Jesus always looked toward the Father to execute His plan on this Earth, we should not think it can be done by another method and fulfill His righteousness.
It is vital that we seek God to reveal to us the mystery of His will. We have to be able to SEE and believe what He shows us.
We in this Church age are living in the age of revelation. Before Jesus was crucified, buried, resurrected and ascended humanity was veiled from the glory of God, God's ways were a mystery, there was only law. In Isaiah 25:7 God made one of His many promises And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the COVERING CAST OVER ALL PEOPLE, and the VEIL that is SPREAD OVER ALL NATIONS.
(Matthew 27:50 - 51) Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
And, behold, the VEIL of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
This veil which covered the people from God was ripped away forever and destroyed by the crucifiction. God took this wall down so that all people would be able to see Him through Jesus. Praise the Lord! So God no longer has a veil that would prevent any one from approaching Him and seeing Him in His fullness. Humanity no longer has any excuses to hide behind, it's plain old unbelief. The old physical temple had a curtain between us and God, today we are the temple of God (as He always wanted it) and the curtain in the heart of many people today is sin and unbelief. This is the reason people can't see and believe God because of unbelieving hearts. Look at 2 Cor. 4:3 - 4 For if our gospel be hid, IT IS HID TO THEM THAT ARE LOST: In whom the GOD OF THIS WORLD HATH BLINDED THE MINDS of them which BELIEVE NOT, lest the LIGHT of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
I inserted this to show that we can see God today and He is more than willing to reveal to us who He is. Let's look at what Apostle Paul desired for the Ephesian saints.
He said to them that he was making mention of them in prayer to God (Ephesians 1:17 - 18) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the SPIRIT OF WISDOM and REVELATION in the knowledge of HIM; The EYES of your understanding being enlightened; that THEY MAY KNOW what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
This verse confirms what I mentioned earlier about where revelation comes from, Paul saids here that it comes from the Father of Glory. Let's look at an example of the Father at work in (Matthew 16:15 - 17) Jesus asked Peter But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said THOU ART THE CHRIST, SON OF THE LIVING GOD. And Jesus answered and said unto him, BLESSED art THOU, Simon Barjona: for FLESH and BLOOD HATH NOT REVEALED IT unto thee, but MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
As we look at this the first thing Jesus does is declares Peter blessed, truly it is a blessing when God reveals himself to us in our lives, for revelation always leads to God's will for our lives individually and corporately, it also leads to a deeper walk with Him. Secondly Jesus taught Peter that what he saw did not come from the nature of man it was not earthy, but divine. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, so it definitely cannot reveal God to us.
As we look closer Paul desired for the Father to give them this Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that they would know God better then they have before. Getting to know God is surely progressive but there is no limit to Him. I need to mention that they already had the Holy Spirit within, but now they were in need of God's wisdom and revelation so they would know how to walk in the spirit which dwell within them. Paul said that not only would they get to know him better but the EYES of their understanding would receive enlightenment. Symbolically eyes represent divine intelligence or spiritual understanding in scripture. There is more to this then just being born again, we must learn how to walk with God and without revelation we will stumble big time.
When we truly walk in revelation and wisdom God will use us to bring Him glory. God will give us insight so we or others won't be in the dark. Look at what king Nebuchadnezzar proclaimed after one of his dreams were properly interpreted (Daniel 2:47) The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and A REVEALER OF SECRETS, SEEING thou COULDEST REVEAL THIS SECRET.
This man was able to accept and recognize the God of Daniel and declared by his own mouth that He is the God of gods, the real God just by the revelation God gave Daniel.
If people are going to accept Jesus as the Lord of Lord and King of kings we need to know who He really is by walking in this spirit of wisdom and revelation. When we know Him we won't be just talking about God in general terms but in power, experience and reality. We have so much in Christ and most of us are just up to our ankles.
Now let's look at (Romans 16:25 - 26) 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, But NOW IS MADE MANIFEST, and BY THE SCRIPTURES of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, MADE KNOWN TO ALL NATIONS for the obedience of faith.
In this verse we see the terms "mystery" and "secret" implying that it was unknown or covered up from our understanding. Today it is manifested or completely made known through the SCRIPTURES of the prophets. Let's shed some more light on this from (Luke 24: 44 - 45) And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the LAW OF MOSES, and in the PROPHETS, and in the PSALMS, concerning ME.
Then OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING, that THEY MIGHT UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES.
Here we see that through the scriptures or Bible we can know fully the mystery or secret of God's plan through the scriptures of the prophets. Jesus said the same thing to his disciples when he mentioned that everything that was written about him in the law of Moses, prophets, and the psalms
is fulfilled in him. The interesting thing was what he did next. He opened the disciples understanding or we can say their spiritual eyes so they could understand the word of God. I find this awesome and we can see that if we are going to understand the word it will have to be Jesus opening our understanding. He can do this as well because He and the Father are one. (Luke 10:22) All things are delivered to me of my Father: and NO MAN KNOWETH who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he TO WHOM THE SON WILL REVEAL HIM.
As you can see here the Son has the power to reveal as well as the Father.
So if there is any thing of God that is HID it is hid to a particular group. Look at (Luke 10:21, 23)
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast HID THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT, and hast REVEALED THEM unto BABES: even so Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, BLESSED ARE THE EYES WHICH SEE THE THINGS THAT YE SEE:
The Father would not reveal himself to people who were wise and prudent in their own eyes but to those who received him as little children. Jesus did say unless we receive the kingdom of God as little children we could not enter. For us to learn from God we have to abandon our knowledge and pride and come as a child and He will reveal himself and teach us. It's a matter of humility and sincerity on our part. It can also be said that revelation is God APPEARING to us. As we yield to the Spirit within He will remove the dross, and replace it with His divine attributes. God and sin cannot co-exist.
Revelation is for all of the people which love him, He will give it if we would just humble ourselves before him and seek him for it.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God HATH REVEALED THEM UNTO US BY HIS SPIRIT: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the DEEP THINGS OF GOD.(1 Cor. 2:9 -10)
So if we want to know God deeper than go to God directly because there is no longer a veil, only unbelief. Through Jesus blood we can come boldly to the throne. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the HOLIEST by THE BLOOD of JESUS. By a NEW and LIVING way, which he hath consecrated for us, THROUGH THE VEIL, that is to say, his flesh. (Hebrews 10: 19 - 20)
So let us receive that wonderful spirit of wisdom and revelation in order to know Him more intimately. God bless!
by Bro. Pete Mojica
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory foreever and ever. Amen.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED ?
Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
This question was posed to certain disciples back in the days of Apostle Paul. I believe it's a question that should also be posed today in 2008. It is a good question and one that can lead to discovering where one is concerning the faith of Jesus Christ, after all the Bible exhorts us to examine ourselves whether we be in the faith. So today's question if we believe in Jesus as many claim , "have you received the Holy Ghost?"
Acts 19:1-6 And it came to pass, that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, we have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
These particular disciples were disciples of John the Baptist. (Matt. 3:11) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: HE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST, and with FIRE. There was no question that they did repent and were baptized under John (Mark 1:4) John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.They did need the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but the Holy Spirit was not yet given until Jesus work on the cross was completed. These disciples did what they had to do at that time, but they still had a missing element that was needed to complete there full conversion. God knew all of this and made provision for these disciples to meet Apostle Paul and receive further instruction vital to their conversion. The baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Let's look at the next verse And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. We see here that Paul asked them a follow up question, but it was concerning their water baptism. What does water baptism have to do with the Holy Ghost ? Let's look further.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.
Are we seeing this, these disciples were baptized again, but this time in the name of Jesus. These disciples were quick to hear and understand that they needed to BELIEVE on Christ Jesus thus they followed their confession of faith by being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and they also understood that Jesus would baptize them with the Holy Ghost and fire for their obedience.
Verse 6 saids And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the HOLY GHOST CAME ON THEM; and THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES, AND PROPHESIED. There is a lot we can learn from this today there are those who are in need of correction through God's word just like back then. Many are afraid and too prideful to admit that their conversion falls short of the biblical apostolic standard. After all in 2 Tim. 3:16 saids All scripture is given by INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
So Paul laid his hands upon them and they received the blessed gift of the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Spirit is an essential part of the spiritual birth (being born again). Without the Spirit we are not considered sons of God. Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. Now IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS.
We are all the creation of God, there is no doubt about this, but we are not all the children of God unless we have His Spirit residing inside of us through the spiritual birth. Further more Romans 8:14 states For as many as are LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD. As we can see from this it is the Spirit that declares us sons, not just saying we believe. In the next verse it saids For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. We can't call someone father unless we are a son or daughter. God has adopted us into His family by this miraculous spiritual birth. Praise God!
I want to make a point about the disciples of John because in my personal experience I also was baptized twice. The first time I was baptized it wasn't according to the apostolic biblical standard. In the book of Acts the apostles always used the name of Jesus because they understood the revelation of Matthew 28:19 which saids Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in THE NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: They did not repeat the command they executed or obeyed what Jesus commanded, and that was to baptize in the NAME of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Peter understood that name to be Jesus and so did Paul and the rest of the first century Church disciples. God has never changed this method, His word is crystal clear on this matter.
I urge you to look into this and see for yourself. The second time I was baptize it was in the name of Jesus Christ and there was a huge difference the power that I experienced after coming out of the water was awesome. Specifically, I experienced a great flood of peace and all the weight of the sin conscience just disappeared in a moment of time. I remember this like it was yesterday.
Proper biblical water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Ghost are essential for being Born Again (John 3:5) we cannot enter the Kingdom of God without it. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of the WATER and of the SPIRIT, he CANNOT ENTER INTO the KINGDOM OF GOD. Paul understood this and that is why he asked the disciples of John Had they received the Holy Ghost since they believed? You see once we know the truth and we walk in the Spirit with God He gives us discernment so that we could teach and share with others who may find themselves lacking in the faith. Let's look at another example in Acts 18: 24 - 26 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. Sounds familiar.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and EXPOUNDED UNTO HIM THE WAY OF GOD MORE PERFECTLY.
Here is another occasion where someone who was eloquent, mighty in the scriptures, who was taught in the way of the Lord, who was fervent, and spoke boldly and taught the things of the Lord in a synagogue, but only knew the baptism of John. He had a lot going but he only knew John's baptism and he had a need for someone to expound the ways of God more perfectly or adequately. Aquila and Priscilla heard him and then took him under their wings and explained God's way
more clearly. Now if he was a proud man he would not have submitted himself to them to be taught. We have to be open to the Spirit of God and be teachable because we never know when God will send someone our way to bless us with a word of knowledge, or wisdom and even correction all for our benefit. Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. It shows prudence and humility on our part when we accept instruction. The scripture also teach us in (1 Cor.8:2) And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Ephesians 1:13 saids In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the WORD OF TRUTH, THE GOSPEL of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, YE WERE SEALED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE,
So if you have not received the gift of the Holy Ghost then ask God for it (Luke 11:13) . . . . how much more shall your heavenly Father give the HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK HIM?
When you ask God He will give it to you when you obey him. (Acts 5:32) And we are witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, WHOM GOD HATH GIVEN TO THEM THAT OBEY HIM. Obey what ? the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
by
Bro. Pete
This question was posed to certain disciples back in the days of Apostle Paul. I believe it's a question that should also be posed today in 2008. It is a good question and one that can lead to discovering where one is concerning the faith of Jesus Christ, after all the Bible exhorts us to examine ourselves whether we be in the faith. So today's question if we believe in Jesus as many claim , "have you received the Holy Ghost?"
Acts 19:1-6 And it came to pass, that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, we have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
These particular disciples were disciples of John the Baptist. (Matt. 3:11) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: HE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST, and with FIRE. There was no question that they did repent and were baptized under John (Mark 1:4) John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.They did need the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but the Holy Spirit was not yet given until Jesus work on the cross was completed. These disciples did what they had to do at that time, but they still had a missing element that was needed to complete there full conversion. God knew all of this and made provision for these disciples to meet Apostle Paul and receive further instruction vital to their conversion. The baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Let's look at the next verse And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. We see here that Paul asked them a follow up question, but it was concerning their water baptism. What does water baptism have to do with the Holy Ghost ? Let's look further.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.
Are we seeing this, these disciples were baptized again, but this time in the name of Jesus. These disciples were quick to hear and understand that they needed to BELIEVE on Christ Jesus thus they followed their confession of faith by being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and they also understood that Jesus would baptize them with the Holy Ghost and fire for their obedience.
Verse 6 saids And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the HOLY GHOST CAME ON THEM; and THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES, AND PROPHESIED. There is a lot we can learn from this today there are those who are in need of correction through God's word just like back then. Many are afraid and too prideful to admit that their conversion falls short of the biblical apostolic standard. After all in 2 Tim. 3:16 saids All scripture is given by INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
So Paul laid his hands upon them and they received the blessed gift of the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Spirit is an essential part of the spiritual birth (being born again). Without the Spirit we are not considered sons of God. Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. Now IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS.
We are all the creation of God, there is no doubt about this, but we are not all the children of God unless we have His Spirit residing inside of us through the spiritual birth. Further more Romans 8:14 states For as many as are LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD. As we can see from this it is the Spirit that declares us sons, not just saying we believe. In the next verse it saids For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. We can't call someone father unless we are a son or daughter. God has adopted us into His family by this miraculous spiritual birth. Praise God!
I want to make a point about the disciples of John because in my personal experience I also was baptized twice. The first time I was baptized it wasn't according to the apostolic biblical standard. In the book of Acts the apostles always used the name of Jesus because they understood the revelation of Matthew 28:19 which saids Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in THE NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: They did not repeat the command they executed or obeyed what Jesus commanded, and that was to baptize in the NAME of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Peter understood that name to be Jesus and so did Paul and the rest of the first century Church disciples. God has never changed this method, His word is crystal clear on this matter.
I urge you to look into this and see for yourself. The second time I was baptize it was in the name of Jesus Christ and there was a huge difference the power that I experienced after coming out of the water was awesome. Specifically, I experienced a great flood of peace and all the weight of the sin conscience just disappeared in a moment of time. I remember this like it was yesterday.
Proper biblical water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Ghost are essential for being Born Again (John 3:5) we cannot enter the Kingdom of God without it. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of the WATER and of the SPIRIT, he CANNOT ENTER INTO the KINGDOM OF GOD. Paul understood this and that is why he asked the disciples of John Had they received the Holy Ghost since they believed? You see once we know the truth and we walk in the Spirit with God He gives us discernment so that we could teach and share with others who may find themselves lacking in the faith. Let's look at another example in Acts 18: 24 - 26 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. Sounds familiar.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and EXPOUNDED UNTO HIM THE WAY OF GOD MORE PERFECTLY.
Here is another occasion where someone who was eloquent, mighty in the scriptures, who was taught in the way of the Lord, who was fervent, and spoke boldly and taught the things of the Lord in a synagogue, but only knew the baptism of John. He had a lot going but he only knew John's baptism and he had a need for someone to expound the ways of God more perfectly or adequately. Aquila and Priscilla heard him and then took him under their wings and explained God's way
more clearly. Now if he was a proud man he would not have submitted himself to them to be taught. We have to be open to the Spirit of God and be teachable because we never know when God will send someone our way to bless us with a word of knowledge, or wisdom and even correction all for our benefit. Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. It shows prudence and humility on our part when we accept instruction. The scripture also teach us in (1 Cor.8:2) And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Ephesians 1:13 saids In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the WORD OF TRUTH, THE GOSPEL of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, YE WERE SEALED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE,
So if you have not received the gift of the Holy Ghost then ask God for it (Luke 11:13) . . . . how much more shall your heavenly Father give the HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK HIM?
When you ask God He will give it to you when you obey him. (Acts 5:32) And we are witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, WHOM GOD HATH GIVEN TO THEM THAT OBEY HIM. Obey what ? the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
by
Bro. Pete
Sunday, July 6, 2008
"THE TRUE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST" part 2
Greetings to all of you blessed of the Lord!
Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
I just want to start off by saying to all who have visited my blog that I feel blessed and fortunate to be able to share with you what the Holy Spirit puts in my heart. My desire is first and foremost that Jesus Christ would be glorified and exalted and that the truth of His word would find the good soil of your heart's. My prayer for you is that his word would persuade you and change your life completely from the inward man and that you would be conformed to Jesus Christ and not Adam. Thanks for stopping by.
On my last blog post I started to share with you concerning the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Today I want to continue the same subject matter. Paul warned the Galatians of ANOTHER GOSPEL (Gal. 1:6 - 12) which is not another. In other words there is no other gospel but the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There is only one true gospel and Jesus Christ preached it, Apostle Paul and the apostles preached it , and of course His Church should preach it as well.
Now Paul was astonished that these Galatians, new converts to the faith of Jesus Christ, were "removed" so soon from him that called them into the grace of Christ , unto another gospel. Paul said that there were some that troubled them and would pervert the gospel of Christ. Specifically, we will look at what the Galatian believers encountered as pertaining another gospel. Let's continue though in what Paul proclaimed to them on this matter.
Paul said in Gal. 1:8-9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU than that ye have received, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.
Now it is very important that we discern with God's understanding what Paul is saying here because I believe it is applicable to modern Christendom today. We need to understand that Paul was a true man of God and proclaimed the truth by the Holy Spirit, we can depend on what he proclaimed ("Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I LIE NOT" Gal. 1:20). He said if any of the apostles, or any angel (messenger from God) from heaven preach any other gospel other than the one they (Apostles) preached LET HIM BE ACCURSED. In the NIV translation "eternally condemned" is used. This is a very strong indictment of anyone past or present who attempts to pervert and deceive the masses with any other "gospel" other than the one that declares the DEATH, BURIAL, RESURRECTION and ASCENSION of JESUS CHRIST. People of God , it is a crime under God to preach things that God does not ordain and cannot be confirmed or verified by the word of God. If the present false preachers of our day do not repent of preaching half truths and lies they will be condemned eternally it's that serious to the Lord.
In the case of the Galatians the problem was circumcision. There were FALSE BRETHREN in their midst. Look at Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out OUR LIBERTY which WE HAVE IN CHRIST JESUS, that THEY MIGHT BRING US INTO BONDAGE. The problem was an attempt by these false brothers to bring in again circumcision as a requirement for salvation. Notice that Paul called this bondage as oppose to what they were experiencing and enjoying freedom in Christ and true spiritual liberty.
In Gal. 5:1 - 13 Paul said Stand fast therefore IN THE LIBERTY wherewith CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, and BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN with THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.
You see the true gospel of Jesus makes people free and does not enslave them with endless rituals, rules and religious practices that do not have a bearing on our salvation or delivers us from the real issue which is sin and death in our Adamic nature. God made it simple for us. He requires faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus fulfilled and obeyed fully the whole law perfectly for us.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. In verse 6 For in Jesus Christ NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANYTHING, nor UNCIRCUMCISION; but FAITH which worketh BY LOVE.
God has no interest in fleshly foreskin but he does care greatly that the foreskin comes off our hearts. God is an inward heart God, not an outward superficial God. We can spend our entire lives attempting to get God's approval and try hard to please him with all our outward religion and then justify our self righteousness and still end up short of His glory and eternally lost. God requires that we believe the Gospel and then OBEY the Gospel. 1 Pet. 4:17 . . . what shall the end be of THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD? 2 Thess. 1:8 tells us what will happen if we don't obey the true gospel of Jesus Christ "In flaming fire taking vengeance ON THEM that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
As you see here the gospel has to be obeyed and when we look in the book of Acts people were instructed by the apostles to repent (crucification), be baptized in water in the name of Jesus (burial), and be filled with the Holy Spirit (resurrection) Acts 2:38, Acts 8:35-38, Acts 9:17-18, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:1-6. They never preached to people to repeat a "sinners prayer" or "repeat after me and they'll be saved". Modern Christendom is filled with false preachers misleading people with these false methods of giving there life to Christ. Another false method is where they tell you "accept Christ as your personal saviour" or "accept Jesus into your heart". They claim the gospel but unless you have spiritual discernment and understand the word of God many will be duped by these methods. We have to keep in mind that Satan has a counterfeit for whatever God does and he transforms himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14-15) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore IT IS NO GREAT THING IF HIS MINISTERS also be TRANSFORMED AS THE MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; whose end shall be according to their works.). He does this to DECEIVE people and keep them from receiving the truth and their spiritual inheritance. I challenge anyone out there to try the spirits to see if they are of God. Beloved, believe NOT EVERY SPIRIT, but TRY THE SPIRITS whether they are of God: because MANY FALSE PROPHETS are gone out INTO THE WORLD (1 John 4:1). I have given you the four most widely used methods of many "churches" today, for so called giving your life to Jesus or joining the church as they say. None of these methods are biblical and that makes this the spirit of error or anti Christ.
All of the aforementioned false gospel methods leave people still in the flesh and adamic nature. These poor souls go about to live for God but they never have the power to live it because they have not truly been converted. We have to die people. Let's look at Romans 6: 1- 12 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?
Apostle Paul saids should people that have been converted to the faith of Jesus Christ continue to live in sin so that we can get more grace. He said GOD FORBID. People who say they are Christians should not be living and willfully practicing sin, Jesus did not die for our sins in vain, so that we could turn around and live in it again. He died to give us the power to overcome sin. Verse 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH? Paul is teaching the saints in Rome, don't they know that when they were baptized into Jesus that they were baptized into His death as well. Part of a real believers conversion is that they have to die with Jesus and here is why verse 4 Therefore WE ARE BURIED WITH HIM BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH: that like AS CHRIST WAS RAISED UP FROM THE DEAD by the glory of the Father, EVEN SO WE ALSO SHOULD WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE.
Paul explained that we are buried with Jesus in baptism into DEATH, so that just like the glory of the Father raised him up or resurrected him WE TOO are raised from the dead with Him. This resurrection will manifest itself in the NEWNESS OF LIFE. Jesus was crucified, buried, resurrected and then ascended. We too must go through the same and in this chapter Paul explains wonderfully the revelation of TRUE CONVERSION. No sinners prayer or false Christian conversions here.
Look at verse 5 For if we have been planted TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS of HIS DEATH, WE SHALL BE ALSO IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION.
Knowing this, that OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, that the BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED, that HENCEFORTH WE SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN.
For HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN.
Let's break this down the Bible saids that if we (those coming to Christ) are planted or united with Him like this in death, than in like manner we also will resurrect with Him. KNOWING this that our old man (sinful adamic nature) is crucified with Him. Why? so that this sinful body could be destroyed and for now on we don't have to be a slave of sin. We cannot righteously serve God with a fleshly nature still in tact it must die, those who want to keep it alive are in for an eternal rude awakening. This is why there is so much world wide rebellion and contention against what Paul and the apostles preached and us today who understand this and preach it as well. People every where say they believe in Jesus but they won't repent and they reject water baptism in Jesus name and also many reject the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the manifestation of speaking in tongues.
To those who are reading this who do you believe Jesus and his apostles or the traditions of men and this present gentile Babylonian religious system of false priests and their Pharisee Christianity. This is the Biblical Gospel and not the other gospel which is not another because there is only one true Gospel. We have to stand for the true Gospel or we will sink in lies.
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel. (Ephesians 6:19)
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be glory forever and ever. Amen.
by
Bro. Pete
Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
I just want to start off by saying to all who have visited my blog that I feel blessed and fortunate to be able to share with you what the Holy Spirit puts in my heart. My desire is first and foremost that Jesus Christ would be glorified and exalted and that the truth of His word would find the good soil of your heart's. My prayer for you is that his word would persuade you and change your life completely from the inward man and that you would be conformed to Jesus Christ and not Adam. Thanks for stopping by.
On my last blog post I started to share with you concerning the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Today I want to continue the same subject matter. Paul warned the Galatians of ANOTHER GOSPEL (Gal. 1:6 - 12) which is not another. In other words there is no other gospel but the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There is only one true gospel and Jesus Christ preached it, Apostle Paul and the apostles preached it , and of course His Church should preach it as well.
Now Paul was astonished that these Galatians, new converts to the faith of Jesus Christ, were "removed" so soon from him that called them into the grace of Christ , unto another gospel. Paul said that there were some that troubled them and would pervert the gospel of Christ. Specifically, we will look at what the Galatian believers encountered as pertaining another gospel. Let's continue though in what Paul proclaimed to them on this matter.
Paul said in Gal. 1:8-9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU than that ye have received, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.
Now it is very important that we discern with God's understanding what Paul is saying here because I believe it is applicable to modern Christendom today. We need to understand that Paul was a true man of God and proclaimed the truth by the Holy Spirit, we can depend on what he proclaimed ("Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I LIE NOT" Gal. 1:20). He said if any of the apostles, or any angel (messenger from God) from heaven preach any other gospel other than the one they (Apostles) preached LET HIM BE ACCURSED. In the NIV translation "eternally condemned" is used. This is a very strong indictment of anyone past or present who attempts to pervert and deceive the masses with any other "gospel" other than the one that declares the DEATH, BURIAL, RESURRECTION and ASCENSION of JESUS CHRIST. People of God , it is a crime under God to preach things that God does not ordain and cannot be confirmed or verified by the word of God. If the present false preachers of our day do not repent of preaching half truths and lies they will be condemned eternally it's that serious to the Lord.
In the case of the Galatians the problem was circumcision. There were FALSE BRETHREN in their midst. Look at Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out OUR LIBERTY which WE HAVE IN CHRIST JESUS, that THEY MIGHT BRING US INTO BONDAGE. The problem was an attempt by these false brothers to bring in again circumcision as a requirement for salvation. Notice that Paul called this bondage as oppose to what they were experiencing and enjoying freedom in Christ and true spiritual liberty.
In Gal. 5:1 - 13 Paul said Stand fast therefore IN THE LIBERTY wherewith CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, and BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN with THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.
You see the true gospel of Jesus makes people free and does not enslave them with endless rituals, rules and religious practices that do not have a bearing on our salvation or delivers us from the real issue which is sin and death in our Adamic nature. God made it simple for us. He requires faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus fulfilled and obeyed fully the whole law perfectly for us.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. In verse 6 For in Jesus Christ NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANYTHING, nor UNCIRCUMCISION; but FAITH which worketh BY LOVE.
God has no interest in fleshly foreskin but he does care greatly that the foreskin comes off our hearts. God is an inward heart God, not an outward superficial God. We can spend our entire lives attempting to get God's approval and try hard to please him with all our outward religion and then justify our self righteousness and still end up short of His glory and eternally lost. God requires that we believe the Gospel and then OBEY the Gospel. 1 Pet. 4:17 . . . what shall the end be of THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD? 2 Thess. 1:8 tells us what will happen if we don't obey the true gospel of Jesus Christ "In flaming fire taking vengeance ON THEM that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
As you see here the gospel has to be obeyed and when we look in the book of Acts people were instructed by the apostles to repent (crucification), be baptized in water in the name of Jesus (burial), and be filled with the Holy Spirit (resurrection) Acts 2:38, Acts 8:35-38, Acts 9:17-18, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:1-6. They never preached to people to repeat a "sinners prayer" or "repeat after me and they'll be saved". Modern Christendom is filled with false preachers misleading people with these false methods of giving there life to Christ. Another false method is where they tell you "accept Christ as your personal saviour" or "accept Jesus into your heart". They claim the gospel but unless you have spiritual discernment and understand the word of God many will be duped by these methods. We have to keep in mind that Satan has a counterfeit for whatever God does and he transforms himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14-15) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore IT IS NO GREAT THING IF HIS MINISTERS also be TRANSFORMED AS THE MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; whose end shall be according to their works.). He does this to DECEIVE people and keep them from receiving the truth and their spiritual inheritance. I challenge anyone out there to try the spirits to see if they are of God. Beloved, believe NOT EVERY SPIRIT, but TRY THE SPIRITS whether they are of God: because MANY FALSE PROPHETS are gone out INTO THE WORLD (1 John 4:1). I have given you the four most widely used methods of many "churches" today, for so called giving your life to Jesus or joining the church as they say. None of these methods are biblical and that makes this the spirit of error or anti Christ.
All of the aforementioned false gospel methods leave people still in the flesh and adamic nature. These poor souls go about to live for God but they never have the power to live it because they have not truly been converted. We have to die people. Let's look at Romans 6: 1- 12 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?
Apostle Paul saids should people that have been converted to the faith of Jesus Christ continue to live in sin so that we can get more grace. He said GOD FORBID. People who say they are Christians should not be living and willfully practicing sin, Jesus did not die for our sins in vain, so that we could turn around and live in it again. He died to give us the power to overcome sin. Verse 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH? Paul is teaching the saints in Rome, don't they know that when they were baptized into Jesus that they were baptized into His death as well. Part of a real believers conversion is that they have to die with Jesus and here is why verse 4 Therefore WE ARE BURIED WITH HIM BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH: that like AS CHRIST WAS RAISED UP FROM THE DEAD by the glory of the Father, EVEN SO WE ALSO SHOULD WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE.
Paul explained that we are buried with Jesus in baptism into DEATH, so that just like the glory of the Father raised him up or resurrected him WE TOO are raised from the dead with Him. This resurrection will manifest itself in the NEWNESS OF LIFE. Jesus was crucified, buried, resurrected and then ascended. We too must go through the same and in this chapter Paul explains wonderfully the revelation of TRUE CONVERSION. No sinners prayer or false Christian conversions here.
Look at verse 5 For if we have been planted TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS of HIS DEATH, WE SHALL BE ALSO IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION.
Knowing this, that OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, that the BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED, that HENCEFORTH WE SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN.
For HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN.
Let's break this down the Bible saids that if we (those coming to Christ) are planted or united with Him like this in death, than in like manner we also will resurrect with Him. KNOWING this that our old man (sinful adamic nature) is crucified with Him. Why? so that this sinful body could be destroyed and for now on we don't have to be a slave of sin. We cannot righteously serve God with a fleshly nature still in tact it must die, those who want to keep it alive are in for an eternal rude awakening. This is why there is so much world wide rebellion and contention against what Paul and the apostles preached and us today who understand this and preach it as well. People every where say they believe in Jesus but they won't repent and they reject water baptism in Jesus name and also many reject the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the manifestation of speaking in tongues.
To those who are reading this who do you believe Jesus and his apostles or the traditions of men and this present gentile Babylonian religious system of false priests and their Pharisee Christianity. This is the Biblical Gospel and not the other gospel which is not another because there is only one true Gospel. We have to stand for the true Gospel or we will sink in lies.
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel. (Ephesians 6:19)
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be glory forever and ever. Amen.
by
Bro. Pete
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