FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 22
THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 4)
C. Edwardson provides a proper background and sound Biblical foundation for this vital and sensitive subject, which unfolds with the deep topic of the incarnation, a subject I personally am convinced by years of study since the early 1990s, is what really draws the line between the true gospel and all its counterfeits but specifically the ‘gospel’ of the Antichrist [all emphasis and words in bracket mine):
“Through sin man has separated himself from God, and his fallen nature is opposed to the divine will; therefore he cannot by his own effort live a godly life, nor can he change his own heart.(Isa.59:1: Rom. 8:7; Jer. 13:23; John 15:5).
Only through Christ, our Mediator, can man be rescued [delivered] from sin, and again be brought into connection with the Source of purity and power.
“But in order to become such a CONNECTING LINK Christ had to partake both of the DIVINITY of God [which He already possessed as the Son of God] and of HUMANITY of man [which He partook of only in the mystery of the incarnation, a singular event in the universe and throughout eternity] so that He with His divine arm could encircle God, and with His human arm, embrace man, thus connecting BOTH [divinity and fallen humanity] in His own person.
In this UNION of the human with the divine lies the ‘MYSTERY’ OF THE GOSPEL, the secret of power to lift man [out] from his degradation. ‘Great is the mystery of godliness: GOD was manifest in THE flesh.’ 1 Tim. 3:16, KJV.
The ‘mystery’ or SECRET of power to live a GODLY life in the HUMAN flesh, was manifested in the life of Jesus Christ while on earth [‘seen of angels and man’]. (And ‘Christ in you,’ is the secret of POWER TO CONQUER SIN. Col. 1:27).”- Christian Edwardson, “Facts of Faith,” pp. 204, 205.
(To be continued). Bless all the “hungry-detergent” truth-seekers for they shall find, NMF