Tag: gospel

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 21

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 3)

The gospel of Christ is a system of practical truths. The “gospel” the Antichrist is a counterfeit of this practical truths. First, a quick, short yet crystal clear summation of what the true gospel is and what it was designed by God to accomplish for sinful man born on sin-cursed, fallen Earth, a captive of Satan and slave fo sin in his carnal, spiritually unborn state.

From the inspired pen of God’s last-day messenger, we read [all words in brackets mine]:

“The gospel is a system of practical truths destined to work great changes in human character. If it does not work the transformation in life, in habits, and practice, it is no truth to those who claim to believe it. Man must be sanctified by through the truth. And said Jesus, ‘Thy word is truth’ (John 7:17).

Unless the truth of God [in the true gospel] shall lift up man out of his depravity, his intemperance and profligate habits, and make him reflect the image of God, he is lost [not ‘found’ and unconditionally “saved by grace’].” E. G. White, Letter 14, March 13, 1885/TDG 81.

All diligent students of the Bible can quickly see that these succinct statements are totally Bible-based and are “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” and thus exposes any and all “peace-and-safety” messages of the purveyors of the widely-popular deceptive and soul-destroying “prosperity gospels” and the “gospel” of the Antichrist, which we will cover in the next few days.

Bless all the wide-eyed, childlike truth-seekers! NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 20

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS ThE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 2)

In his epistle to the early church in ROME, the capital city of the pagan Roman Empire at that time, apostle Paul boldly declares to all the churches and mankind itself, whether “Jew, Greek, or Gentile,” for “God is no respecter of persons,” and the universal sinfulness of man “for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”—-that God’s antidote to the whole problem of SIN (the transgression of God’s law, 1 John 3:4) and His plan to meet the emergency sin had created, as well as the curse of death, which is “the wages of sin” is the GOSPEL OF CHRIST, the power of God to save the sinner from the power of Satan and yielding to his temptations to commit sin, and from suffering eternal death while “magnifying the law and making it honorable,” the exact opposite of “doing away,” “nailing to the cross,” or abrogating it by replacement with “grace.”

Notice:
“v 16 For I am not ashamed of THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: for it is THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

“v 17 For therein [in the gospel of Christ] is the righteousness of God is REVEALED from faith to faith, as IT IS WRITTEN, the just [not the unjust] shall live by faith.

“v 18 For the wrath of God is revealed AGAINST all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men [the unjust] who hold the truth [of the gospel of Christ] in unrighteousness;

“v 19 Because that which may be known of God [as revealed in the gospel of Christ] is manifest IN them; for God has SHOWED it unto them [not veiled, obscured, hidden, or withheld].” Rom. 1: 16-19, KJV.

Read the whole chapter for broader context and know for yourselves the following:
1) the “gospel of Christ” is revealed so that man has no excuse to accept the counterfeit gospel of Antichrist

2) the “wrath of God” is also revealed: know against what and against whom

3) the “righteous judgment of God” is also revealed so that all may know how to avoid it—-by receiving and being saved by the “gospel of Christ,” not the counterfeit “gospel” of Antichrist, which results in perdition, not salvation!

(To be continued) Bless all truth-seekers, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 19

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – Part 1

There is the gospel of Jesus Christ and there is the “perverted” version of it, which is “another gospel,” or “other gospels,” even as there are “other god” pretenders to the one and only true God. (Exo. 20:1-3).

We are blessed to believe and accept (in the fullest sense of these words) the former, and certainly “accursed” if we choose the latter for the former.

Here is what apostle Paul sternly warned the early Christian converts in churches in Galatia, many from Judaism, the national religion of the Jewish nation at Christ’s time (also called the religion of the Pharisees by Christ) who were still zealously trying to enforce literal circumcision prescribed in the ceremonial “law of Moses” under the Old Testament Jewish dispensation, which were done away with when shadow met the substance, type met antitype when Christ the Lamb of God was offered at Calvary, :
31 A.D.

Before Saul’s dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus and his name changed to Paul the apostle to the Gentiles, he was like them and worse for he zealous persecuted the first followers of Christ!, wrongly believing that he “was serving God.”

He warned them and all professed Christians today:
“I marvel [am astounded] that you are so soon removed from Him [Lord Jesus Christ, verses 1-5] that called you unto the grace of Christ unto ANOTHER GOSPEL: which is NOT ANOTHER; but there be some that TROUBLE YOU, and would PERVERT the gospel of Christ. But though WE [Paul and all the apostles], or an ANGEL from heaven, PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be ACCURSED [whoever preaches ‘another gospel’].

As we said before, so say I now AGAIN, If any man [particularly “the man of sin” and “son of perdition.” 2 Thess. 2: 1-17] preach any other gospel unto you than ye have received, let him be ACCURSED.” [Note: Both the preachers and the receivers of the “other gospels” are cursed, not blessed by God!].” Gal. 1: 6-9, KJV.

Paul continues: “For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to PLEASE men? For if I get pleased men, I should NOT be the servant of Christ. [Note: If the hidden motive of anyone preaching the gospel is to please men, including himself, he is not God’s servant but the servant of the author of the counterfeit gospel, and therefore “accursed”].

But I certify you, brethren, that the GOSPEL which was preached of me is NOT after MAN. For I neither RECEIVED it of man, neither was I TAUGHT it, but by the REVELATION of Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the JEWS’ RELIGION [the course of my past life and career as a overzealous Pharisee], how that beyond measure, I PERSECUTED the church of God [not the ‘synagogue’ of the Jews], and WASTED it: and profited in the JEWS’ RELIGION above many my equals in mind own nation [the Jewish nation], being MORE EXCEEDINGLY ZEALOUS of the TRADITIONS of my fathers.” Verses 10-14.

Now follows part of the genuine conversion process, change of mind, and realignment of his previously misdirected “righteous zeal” which was as dramatically manifested as his experience on the road to Damascus when literal layers of scales came of his eyes—scales of tradition and false teachings by the “fathers” that blinded him! He said:

“But when it pleases God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace [called by grace and response by grace, is saving grace], to reveal His Son to me, that I might preach Him AMONG THE HEATHEN [whom the proud Jewish nation looked down upon, cynically addressing them as low-life “Gentiles”], immediately I conferred NOT with flesh and blood [fellow mortals]: neither went I to JERUSALEM to them who were APOSTLES BEFORE ME [older and more senior in rank and knowledge]: but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus [in Syria].” Verses 15-17.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF