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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 18
OUR GOSPEL
Turn with me to I Corinthians Chapter 15. When I stress that Peter did not preach Paul's Gospel of Grace, I'm sure that there are some out there would ask, "Well what is the Gospel that I have to believe for my Salvation." I Corinthians 15:1-4
"MOREOVER, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel (not just a gospel, but The Gospel) which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;"
"By which also ye are saved (it's believing the Gospel that saves us), if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain." Now here is Paul's Gospel:
To see how Paul puts his emphasis on that, go to Romans Chapter 1. "For I am not shamed of the gospel of Christ: for it (The Gospel) is the power of God unto Salvation (that leaves our works out of it. Come back to I Corinthians Chapter 1 for another example.
I Corinthians 1:18
"For the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."
Does God say to hurry up and do something? It's unbelievable what God tells Moses to do - stand still. Peter isn't preaching Crucifixion as a means of Salvation, but rather Peter is teaching Crucifixion to prove that God had overcome what they had accomplished, and that He could still fulfill His Covenant promises. Paul looks at the whole thing from a different perspective, and that is He did it for us that we might have life eternal), unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."
What opened the Red Sea? Well not Moses, but rather God's supernatural power. And when we believe the Gospel God works supernaturally and gives us a whole new nature. We can't put it in there, but God does. Ephesians 2:1
Remember the first Law that God laid on Adam? Paul comes back and says you are dead in trespasses and sins, but God makes you alive. Ephesians 2:8-10
"For by grace are ye saved through faith (and what's faith? Believing! Now verse 9:
Now let's go on a little further in Chapter 2. verse 11,12, and 13. "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision (Gentiles) by that which is called the Circumcision (Jews) in the flesh made by hands;" In other words that was the way a Jew would refer to a Gentile. Now verse 12:
What time? When the Jew was still uppermost in God's program, and the Jew was looking down on the Gentile as the uncircumcised dogs of humanity. Remember, all the way from Abraham to the Apostle Paul, who is uppermost in Scripture? The Jew. The Nation of Israel. Ephesians 2:12
covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:"
That while God was dealing with Israel the Gentile was out there without hope, and without God in this world, because he was not a part of the Nation of Israel. Ephesians 2:13
by the blood of Christ."
I've been showing why, with the language throughout those Chapters. I Timothy 1:15.
"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Now let's break this verse down.
Paul says He came into the world to save sinners. Paul and Barnabas were in a pagan city and they called Paul "Mercurius" because he was the "Chief Speaker." So read it like this: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am at the head of the line." I Timothy 1:16
"Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." What cause? A pattern. What's a pattern? The original pattern. Now it's the same way here, there could only be one original pattern of a sinner saved by Grace. The Apostle Paul. This goes forward from Paul. Reading the verse again.
"Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting."
The Bible doesn't call people Christians until the Gentiles at Antioch. But here I think the Apostle Paul, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is laying out so clearly that at that Salvation experience on the road to Damascus that God saved the chief of sinners. Because in Chapter 9 the chief of sinners is saved, he's the pattern, he's at the head of the line, now what's in Chapter 10? The Salvation of a house full of Gentiles. Now if Cornelius would have been saved in Chapter 8, then all of this would fall apart. Why did God hold some of these things from Peter and the eleven? Because God is Sovereign.
Deuteronomy 29:29
"The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us..."

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