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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