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You may have heard many versions of the Gospel, but is it the true Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Some "Gospels" are flawed, or they are incomplete. You might get a partial Gospel about the benefits you can get from God. God gives you stuff and makes you feel good. In its extreme it's called the prosperity gospel. But God ain't a Santa Claus, and the Gospel isn't a retirement plan.
Oh, it SHOULD be a retirement plan, as when we enter into His rest, "For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." (Hebrews 4:10), but it's an ACTIVE retirement plan, and an interactive one as well.- God and us in fellowship, continually.
Sin must be taken seriously, or we cheapen grace. Better count the cost, because the LORD paid your sin debt in full, and that was at great cost: the suffering, the crucifixion, and the death of Jesus Christs, God's own Son.
2 Corinthians 55:21, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."
His righteousness becomes ours, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Let that get down in your soul. That we can be made righteous in Him! HalleluYAH!
You cannot love God and love sin. You are purified and at liberty to follow God, not to sin: that is, it's not a license to sin, but a liberty to be free from it. So if you're still lovin' sin you ain't lovin' God. Get mad if you want, but don't shoot the messenger - I'm only sayin' what the Holy Scriptures say.
You cannot serve God and Mammon (Matt. 6:24); you cannot serve Christ and Belial (2 Cor. 6:15). Light don't fellowship with darkness. Either the light drives darkness away, or darkness remains only when there is an absence of light. Ponder that a moment. Light and darkness cannot dwell in the same place. Something in the way of a light in the room can cause a shadow, a partial darkness, and even there you should see, don't let anything block the light of Christ.
1 John 1 :5-7,
"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
And beware of worldly sorrow. Worldly sorrow is hopeless, selfish, temporary, and the Bible says it's deadly. 2 Corinthians 7:10, "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." Big difference. Godly sorrow is hopeful, rejoices, is joyful, and truly despises the sin that caused the sorrow in the first place.
Godly sorrow hates and despises the sin that ruled you; it does not long for it, or think how good it was, or have a fond memory of it. Truth is that sin wasn't good for you at all, and if your soul don't hate that sin your soul ain't right with God, and in such a place I'd be wrestling and pressing in with the LORD in Spirit and in Truth, and seeking His deliverance, that He put an heart of flesh in you to replace that stony heart.
Ezekiel 32:26,
" A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."
We need to get the true Gospel, the genuine Gospel: the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ in us by the Holy Spirit, that He live through us as His vessel for His use. "Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer." (Proverbs 25:4)
Romans 6:12-13,
"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."
Yield yourselves unto God: let His life make you alive, as it is written, as those that are alive from the dead, and yield your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. There is so much packed right in that little passage. the Bible is full of jewels and gems, and precious gold nuggets, if we would only take the time to seek God in His Word.
Romans 8:5-6,
"For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
The true Gospel is that Christ came to save sinners, and we all have sinned, and the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Repent and believe this Gospel, turn from your sin and be born again by His Spirit. Cast off the useless works of the flesh. Deny yourself the pleasures of sin for a season, which is not convenient, but rather seek the face of the LORD God in Christ Jesus who is more than capable of setting you free from the bondage of sin.
He is alive: Jesus is risen and seated at the right hand of the Father, and there He makes intercession for you if you will confess your sins, and surrender unto Him. His love will fill your heart that you may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, yea, and also the fellowship of His sufferings. It's not all cake walk. But we can have joy in this life, and in the end, eternal life.
Some "Gospels" are flawed, or they are incomplete. You might get a partial Gospel about the benefits you can get from God. God gives you stuff and makes you feel good. In its extreme it's called the prosperity gospel. But God ain't a Santa Claus, and the Gospel isn't a retirement plan.
Oh, it SHOULD be a retirement plan, as when we enter into His rest, "For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." (Hebrews 4:10), but it's an ACTIVE retirement plan, and an interactive one as well.- God and us in fellowship, continually.
Sin must be taken seriously, or we cheapen grace. Better count the cost, because the LORD paid your sin debt in full, and that was at great cost: the suffering, the crucifixion, and the death of Jesus Christs, God's own Son.
2 Corinthians 55:21, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."
His righteousness becomes ours, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Let that get down in your soul. That we can be made righteous in Him! HalleluYAH!
You cannot love God and love sin. You are purified and at liberty to follow God, not to sin: that is, it's not a license to sin, but a liberty to be free from it. So if you're still lovin' sin you ain't lovin' God. Get mad if you want, but don't shoot the messenger - I'm only sayin' what the Holy Scriptures say.
You cannot serve God and Mammon (Matt. 6:24); you cannot serve Christ and Belial (2 Cor. 6:15). Light don't fellowship with darkness. Either the light drives darkness away, or darkness remains only when there is an absence of light. Ponder that a moment. Light and darkness cannot dwell in the same place. Something in the way of a light in the room can cause a shadow, a partial darkness, and even there you should see, don't let anything block the light of Christ.
1 John 1 :5-7,
"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
And beware of worldly sorrow. Worldly sorrow is hopeless, selfish, temporary, and the Bible says it's deadly. 2 Corinthians 7:10, "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." Big difference. Godly sorrow is hopeful, rejoices, is joyful, and truly despises the sin that caused the sorrow in the first place.
Godly sorrow hates and despises the sin that ruled you; it does not long for it, or think how good it was, or have a fond memory of it. Truth is that sin wasn't good for you at all, and if your soul don't hate that sin your soul ain't right with God, and in such a place I'd be wrestling and pressing in with the LORD in Spirit and in Truth, and seeking His deliverance, that He put an heart of flesh in you to replace that stony heart.
Ezekiel 32:26,
" A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."
We need to get the true Gospel, the genuine Gospel: the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ in us by the Holy Spirit, that He live through us as His vessel for His use. "Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer." (Proverbs 25:4)
Romans 6:12-13,
"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."
Yield yourselves unto God: let His life make you alive, as it is written, as those that are alive from the dead, and yield your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. There is so much packed right in that little passage. the Bible is full of jewels and gems, and precious gold nuggets, if we would only take the time to seek God in His Word.
Romans 8:5-6,
"For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
The true Gospel is that Christ came to save sinners, and we all have sinned, and the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Repent and believe this Gospel, turn from your sin and be born again by His Spirit. Cast off the useless works of the flesh. Deny yourself the pleasures of sin for a season, which is not convenient, but rather seek the face of the LORD God in Christ Jesus who is more than capable of setting you free from the bondage of sin.
He is alive: Jesus is risen and seated at the right hand of the Father, and there He makes intercession for you if you will confess your sins, and surrender unto Him. His love will fill your heart that you may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, yea, and also the fellowship of His sufferings. It's not all cake walk. But we can have joy in this life, and in the end, eternal life.
