Sharing Paul's Gospel With Family

Welcome to Truth Time, where you'll get a shot of the truth with no chaser.
And now your Truth Time host, Trey Searcy.
Welcome to another Truth Time transmission, a shot of truth with no chaser.
You know, there are many people today, sitting in church, sincere people, there to learn but not getting fed a healthy spiritual diet.
They're hearing dual messages that are, well, they're leaving them confused, not being taught sound doctrine and have no clue how to convince the gainsayers, Titus 1:9.
The preacher says the New Testament tells us to work for righteousness, Acts 10:35.
And next Sunday, he says, You know, we can't earn our own righteousness, Romans 4:5.
He says to bring all your tithes into the church storehouse or God's going to get you, Malachi chapter 3.
But in Sunday school, they told you just to give as you purpose in your heart, 2 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 7.
They say the church is the Lord's bride, Revelation 21:2, but also his husband, 1 Corinthians 3:9.
They tell you to, Hebrews 13:17, Obey them, because they have the rule over you.
You need to submit yourselves to them, for they must give an account of your souls.
But in the evening service, they said, Every one of us shall give an account of himself to God, Romans 14:12.
And when it comes to baptism, they say you need to be Acts 2:38, water baptized.
And then say you need to be 1 Corinthians 12:13, baptized with the Spirit.
Meanwhile, Paul, Ephesians 4:5, says there's only one baptism.
This is quite the conundrum.
And they call themselves reverends, even though the Bible, with its one singular usage of the word,
says reverend is God's name, Psalms chapter 111, verse 9.
And you ought to hear some of the answers you get when you ask these so-called reverends to explain these things.
They'll leave you more confused than a two-headed woodpecker on a rock.
They twist and tweak God's word in order to bring it into their own personal spin zone.
And by the way, you can find many of these guys in the Christian bookstore on Saturday nights
getting what is referred to as Saturday night specials, a book of pre-written sermons.
And they'll take them and make them their own and preach it to you Sunday morning.
Some don't know enough Bible to fill up a soup can, and the little they do know, it's all thrown together and mixed up and blenderized because their lack of knowledge on how to rightly divide the word of truth.
Listen, check out TruthTimeRadio.com.
There you can read my e-book titled, Compare the Verses.
You can read it right there online for free.
This isn't stained glass religion.
It's not about getting your money.
Compare the Verses presents a long list of various subjects that show where in the Bible God said different things about the same thing.
And that's OK, because he was speaking to different people at different times under different circumstances.
Learning how to separate and make the correct divisions will free your mind and open your understanding, finally answering those questions you've been struggling with.
And instead of you continuing to fake it while you keep walking in a state of confusion, this book's going to help you get a clear understanding of why God said different things at different times, and where it is you fit.
OK, so we have a caller ready to go up on the air, so stay tuned, and I'll be right back because there's no better time for truth than right now.
This is Truth Time Radio.
From time to time, we, well, we take a telephone call from one of our listeners here and there, so right now we're going to do just that.
On the phone is Keith, and Keith, where are you calling from?
I'm calling from Olney, Maryland.
Olney, Maryland?
Is that how you say that?
Oh, that's correct.
Yes, sir.
And you've called me before.
And first, how did you find Truth Time?
I can't remember that.
Well, I actually stumbled across your website.
Actually, it was on YouTube.
I saw a YouTube clip and that directed me to your website.
And then I came across some of your messages and they have been hooked ever since.
That's right.
I remember.
I remember that.
Keith, how's the weather there in Olney, Maryland?
Right now it's about 68.
Pretty uncharacteristic of the, this time normally.
So I'm not planning on enjoying the warm weather.
It's sunny and a nice autumn day.
First, I want to say I think you've grown a lot in the Lord since our first conversation.
I know we've had several email exchanges and I was just looking at the letter that you wrote me.
And I could tell that you have certainly been in the book, you've been in the Word of Truth and rightly dividing it.
Am I correct?
Absolutely.
I've been definitely trying to show myself approved and trying to rightly divide the Word of Truth.
But as always, when I'm confronted with someone who has some opposing views, I always like to bring that to your attention because there's some things that I need clarification on to refute some of the views against some of the things we talked about, like as far as Paul preaching the separate Gospel and losing your salvation, thanks to that nature.
So I always appreciate your input and your responses.
It usually clarifies things quite a bit for me.
So as always, I thank you for that.
Well, I appreciate you and all the listeners that we hear from time to time.
And I grow by listening to you guys, too, as well.
So, it's just great that we can grow in God's grace and in his knowledge together.
I had just pulled up here the last email that you sent me here, Keith.
And I'm here at the portion of the email where you're telling me about dealing with...
Now, is this your brother?
Yes, this is my brother, and basically we have opposing views as it relates to Paul preaching a separate Gospel.
He'll go to Scripture where Peter is mentioning grace, as well, and he'll bring up multiple verses.
And so when he does that, it can be difficult to come up with a rebuttal, because he'll show that, you know, how can you say that he's preaching a different Gospel when Peter is talking about grace as well.
So he makes it difficult, although I still think there's more evidence to support why it is a separate Gospel.
I think Mary in the alabaster box pretty much put the nail in the coffin, but he doesn't see it that way.
And although I mentioned to him that Paul says My Gospel three times, he'll say, well, he mentioned the Gospel of Christ three times that amount.
So, you know, he definitely knows his Word as well.
So I'm, you know, trying to get to the bottom of this and, you know, kind of repeat some of these things.
I'd like your assistance on that.
Right.
Well, speaking of grace, yes, it is mentioned, Peter mentions grace.
Grace is in the entire Bible.
So that's nothing new with the Apostle Paul.
The thing that's new with the Apostle Paul is the dispensation of the grace of God.
Not just the word, grace.
And it's the instructions for which we are to operate today in this, the dispensation of the grace of God.
And see, 1 Peter chapter 1 is where Peter says, Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end.
You should show your brother, if you think that'll help, Hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
So, there's grace all through the Bible.
Peter is well aware of grace, but there is a grace for that little flock that is going to take care of their sins.
That's why he said in Acts chapter 3, I think it's verse 21, Peter there says that Their sins will be blotted out.
And again, he's talking about, just like the verse in 1 Peter, he's talking about at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
When he comes back to restore their kingdom here on earth, that is when that grace will blot out their sins.
God's grace will take care of their sins and blot them out at that time, not before.
Right now they're in remission.
Peter's preaching about grace, so is Paul.
Peter preaches the cross, so does Paul.
But their knowledge and what they teach their listener, their audience, is quite different.
And that's where rightly dividing the word of truth comes in, Keith.
Right, right.
And I try to explain that to him.
It doesn't really seem to register.
Let me ask you this.
Do you think that the verse, I believe, in Galatians, where it clearly shows that Peter was preaching the circumcision and Paul preaches the uncircumcision, would you say that that's also evidence that they're preaching a separate gospel?
Oh, absolutely.
He had to come back to that as well.
He did what?
I didn't hear the last part.
Yeah, I was just saying he had an actual comeback on that as well.
Okay.
And what does he say about that?
Well, it kind of escapes me at the moment, but...
Well, what the Bible says...
That's what he was saying.
He was saying that it was more of the audience of who the message is going to, but that doesn't mean it's a separate gospel.
It's a different audience.
Yeah, but that's not what the Bible says.
Because, see, Peter even preached to a Gentile.
So even Peter, who was a Jew, was shown that all things are clean and approached Cornelius in the 10th chapter of the book of Acts.
Long about 34 or 35 down there, you'll see where he told him that those who fear God and work righteousness is accepted with God.
And that was Peter to a Gentile.
But the gospel that he preached was exactly the opposite to that which Paul preached.
Paul, in Romans 4:5, says something to the contrary.
He says something that's absolutely opposite to work righteousness to be accepted with him.
Right.
But your brother is partially right, because in Galatians chapter 2, we do see an audience change.
But he's not right in saying there is only one gospel.
In Galatians 2 verse 7, Paul clearly says that Christ gave him the gospel of the uncircumcision, just as he gave Peter the gospel of the circumcision.
This is not the same gospel.
One plus one equals two, not one.
It's simple math.
And here's something that cleared up a lot of confusion.
I know it did for me when I saw it.
Something that further proves Paul was given a different gospel.
Here in Galatians 2 is where the quote, Great commission, was shut down.
Most churches don't teach this.
Not sure why not.
Maybe they haven't seen it.
But those interested in Bible evidence will compare Matthew 28:19, Go ye therefore and teach all nations.
They'll compare that with Galatians 2:9, where James, Peter, and John says, Not anymore.
The Holy Ghost had opened their eyes to Paul's gospel.
And as the verse says, they were able to, Perceive the grace that was given to Paul.
Many today are not able to perceive this grace.
And after understanding that Jesus had given Paul further revelation than what they had been given, they shook Paul's hand and said, Okay, now we'll only go to the circumcision.
No more great commission for us.
The gospel of the kingdom that Christ had given the twelve to teach all nations just got shut down.
Right here in Galatians 2, this isn't hard.
And the only thing required for your brother to get this, is for him to believe his Bible.
This book will mess you up if you don't rightly divide the word of truth.
The law of non-contradiction does not mean verses in the Bible cannot contradict, nor does it mean they're not both correct.
It just means they're not both correct at the same time.
Right, and I also added the fact that, and that's coming from the King James, but I also added the fact that the corrupt Bibles, like the NIV, will actually say two and make you think that it's all one gospel.
And that just almost, you know, I mean, that's almost, if I'm going to want to look at a Bible that's going to solidify what I'm saying, I'm going to look to the King James, but the NIVs will be the ones that will kind of support his side.
And those are corrupt Bibles that I firmly believe are from the enemy.
Yeah, it sounds like the problem is your brother doesn't believe the Bible.
And I run into this a lot, and people take offense to that, that you would say, you know, you don't believe the Bible, but they actually prove it during the conversation, during the exchange.
You know, you said in the email, I'm looking at it here, you said, I even let him hear your message on Mary and her alabaster box, and he is still not convinced.
And to that I would say, if he's not convinced after that, then again, he simply does not believe the Bible.
And you may feel comfortable enough, according to your relationship with him, on pointing that out, that he simply does not seem to be a Bible believer, because, to mention the account of Mary, Keith, and you're well aware of this, it was a command, it was not a suggestion, and they were to mention it.
The Bible is clear.
It says, and I quote, Wheresoever, so that word's important, it says, where so ever this gospel of the kingdom, that's the gospel he's talking about there, was preached.
They were to mention Mary's alabaster box, however, we have Paul preaching to the Romans, sends them a letter, we've got Corinthians, two letters to them, the folks over in Ephesus, Colossae with Colossians, the Galatians were written, and we can't find any hint of Mary, and you know, that's mentioned in Matthew, that's mentioned again in Mark, it's mentioned again in Luke, and John even mentions it twice, but Paul fails to mention it even once, and that's a simple answer to that, that is because he did not preach the gospel they're talking about there.
And that's what I tried to convey, but he'll say that in addition to that, the account of Mary and her alabaster box, he'll say, well there's several things that Paul leaves out that the other apostles talk about, and baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one of them.
Well sure, because he's making your argument for you, he preaches a different gospel, that they're left out on purpose, they're not for us.
You see, water baptism is huge when considering how one was saved.
So this sounds nonsensical, because I mean, water baptism in the Bible is Church of Christ.
Church of Christ got it right prior to Paul.
There was no option here, you can be water baptized if you would like, just to show others that you're saved, you know, that's what we hear today, and there's denominations that build around this theme.
That's not in the Bible.
What is in the Bible is water baptism as a part of your faith for salvation, and then water baptizing is missing from someone's gospel.
And that's Paul again.
So it's missing on purpose.
Mary's alabaster box, if it's missing, then we only can conclude that he is not preaching the gospel
that Christ candidly told his men that you have to mention this, wheresoever, that would mean, Paul, hey are you listening to Paul, hey are you listening to this, when you go to Corinth, mention it.
We can examine his books, 13 epistles, and at the end of our examination, we come up with zero zilch, no evidence of Mary's alabaster box.
And that had to be preached where so ever they preached that kingdom gospel.
Right. I think the underlying issue is the fact that he believes that you can lose your salvation, and so if you have that belief, I don't think you can believe that you can lose your salvation, and at the same time believe that there's two separate gospels, and so by default he's always going to be stuck in his ways because of those views on salvation.
Maybe I'm wrong, but have you come across anyone that, it's almost like they're both opposites,
you can't believe Paul preached a separate gospel and can't believe that one can lose their salvation.
I think that's what's embedded in his mind, that he can't get past, and so he discounts Mary in her alabaster box and various other things as well.
Well, anyone that is concerned with evidence, not tradition, and not just what they've always heard,
but when they're concerned with actual evidence, you know, me telling you Paul had a separate gospel,
you telling your brother Paul had a separate gospel, that's not the solution.
A good start, but not the solution.
The solution is for your brother to get in this word himself and examine what God says, and when you line up, if he were to make a chart, go to the dollar store, go to wherever, Walgreens, pick up a poster board and put a magic marker line down the middle, and as the heading, on one side write "prophecy," on the other side "mystery."
Under "prophecy" write, salvation is of the circumcised Jew of the house of Israel, John 4:22, Matthew 15:44, Matthew 10:5, Romans 15:8, and Acts 11:19.
And Keith, over to the right, under the word "mystery," put this, salvation is now to all nations,
Acts 13:47, Romans 1:5, 11:13, 15:16, 1 Timothy 2:7, and 2 Timothy 1:11.
Under "prophecy" write, salvation was, not anymore, but was found by going through national Israel
during their rise, Deuteronomy 28:1 and Isaiah 60 verse 3, but not anymore.
Over to the right, under the word "mystery," put this, why not, because Israel has fallen, Romans 11 verse 11, and at this present time in God's eyes, Galatians 3:28, there is no such thing as Jew or Gentile in Christ.
We live according to the Ephesians 3:2 dispensation of the grace of God, blessings used to be physical, Deuteronomy 28 verses 1 to 13, but now they're spiritual, Ephesians 1:3.
If we honor the context, Israel is the Matthew 5 meek that will one day inherit the earth, while we, the saved members of the body of Christ church, will inherit heavenly places, Ephesians 2:6 and 2 Timothy 4:18.
It is pretty clear when you do something like that.
Now, if you sit in church, and you know, most people pull up in their vehicle and they unzip their forehead, take their brain out, put it in their glove box, and then they walk in.
But if you will sit with him and do something like that, just take subject by subject.
And if you want help with that, you can go to TruthTimeRadio.com and see the Compare the Verses book there.
I don't know if you've...
Well, I've actually tried to do better than that.
I mean, I've tried numerous times, seriously, to have him call you directly, cut out the middle man, which would be me, so that we can kind of nip this in the bud, because, I mean...
I would love for him to do that.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to happen soon.
I'm working on it, you know.
Yeah, give him my toll-free number.
We need to move along. I'm looking here, Keith, at your email, and another thing you said is, in speaking, you were speaking of your brother, you said, He will add that Jesus gave us the two greatest commandments that we are to love God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and your whole mind, whole mind, you shall love thy neighbor as yourself.
Just because Paul does not mention this, are we to write it off as just something that is merely profitable for our learning?
Well, he might need to brush up just a tad on his reading there, because he's making a claim that Paul does not say that.
Galatians chapter 5, verse 14, For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
So right there, Paul is saying the same thing.
Okay, good deal.
You might want to mention that.
If I have to do something in my flesh, and I depended on what I did as playing any part of my salvation, then I have mixed works with grace, and Romans 11 verse 6, absolutely forbids that.
It tells me that works and grace are mutually exclusive in this, the dispensation of the grace of God.
They have not always been.
It does not say that, but they are now.
Our flesh plays no part in the salvation equation.
If I have to do something to be saved, then that is salvation by faith plus works.
And salvation is no longer, and as Romans 11 verse 6 says, no more of works.
That's how I know that works did once play a part in salvation.
I'm not there in the scripture right now, but if you look at Romans 11:6, it says no more of works.
Well, that no more is important because that tells me that it once was.
And this is the problem, Keith.
It's the problem in churchianity, in modern-day Christendom.
The problem people run into is they ignore Paul by sweeping his letters under the rug.
This is what happens, and when you do that, then you have problems.
Amen to that.
What you were saying in your email, what you said, was great, man.
I shared that with my wife, and again, I can tell how you're growing by your comments there.
And did you mention, is that what you sent him?
Those were things that we discussed, because I went over to his house, and we were in there, almost like we were going to war.
But no, it was just a friendly debate, but we were just bumping heads, and I sure wish you was there.
Because he has a way, almost like sometimes Jehovah's Witnesses, they come prepared.
If there was somebody that was neutral, he will convert you, Jack.
Well, you know, this talk about grace, this gospel of the grace of God that was given to Paul.
And as you mentioned earlier, Paul says it over and over, my gospel, my gospel.
He says those actual words three times, but he alludes to it multiple times.
Well, one might think that if you shared with someone about the wonderful gospel of grace, the grace message that says your sins are completely paid for, and God requires nothing from you, nothing other than belief, you're believing that his gospel is true, that Christ did what he said, that it satisfied God, his cross-work took care of your eternal life, and the resurrection will justify you if you'll only believe.
Well, you would think they had put on their best pair of Nikes and run to that as fast as they can, wouldn't you?
But that's not so, and you know that, and as you continue in your ambassadorship for Christ, being a minister of reconciliation there in Oni, Maryland, Keith, you're going to find that's to the contrary.
The average man and the average woman will run to something they can do, something they can do in their flesh, something they can do in the physical.
You know, as Olivia Newton-John says, Let's get physical.
That's what they want to do.
Hey, Trey, I can't stand this grace message.
You're not giving me anything to do for my salvation.
You see, that's the pride of life, the pride of life, the lust of the flesh, and most have been seduced by religion and want to do something in their flesh, something that will include them.
That's why your religious arenas are packed full.
People are prideful and desire to hear some preaching that will encourage them to do something to make them feel good about themselves.
It's about their feelings, something that promotes and lifts up their flesh.
It makes them feel special.
Right, I think it takes away from the finished cross-work of Christ when you sit there.
Yes, sir, and here's the rub, okay?
The grace gospel doesn't give you anything to do.
It doesn't give you anything to do so that you can feel special about yourself.
As you said, it takes away from the finished cross-work of Christ if I give you something to do.
The grace gospel doesn't.
It keeps the spotlight.
It keeps the pure, unadulterated, unperverted focus on Christ Jesus where it belongs.
The focus of Paul's gospel, this gospel I'm preaching here on TTR, it has always at its focus the specialness of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
It is not about making you feel special in your flesh, and this is the big turn-off.
This is the big turn-off to the pride and the ego of a man.
Absolutely.
And before we wrap things up, I noticed here you said about the word, repent.
You said here that your brother has a different definition of the word repent, one that he found in a dictionary from the 1700s.
And I've ran into this before.
There's other people who claim that the word repent means to turn from sin.
Well, the 1700s wasn't that long ago, Keith.
That's A.D.
I prefer to go back, way back, before men got hold of God's word and perverted it.
Let's go back to B.C.
Do you have your Bible with you?
I don't have it handy right now.
Okay, no problem. Let's go back to B.C., Exodus chapter 32.
And we're going to start at verse 11.
Follow closely.
And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath.
Now this is Moses speaking to God. Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Now this is Moses telling the Lord God to repent of his evil against thy people.
Now listen closely, Keith. Verse 14.
We're in Exodus chapter 32, And the Lord, now listen, and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Now Keith, if the word repent means to turn from sin, then Moses is telling God, Turn from sin.
But the word does not mean that.
It means change your mind.
So ,when we read it this way, and the Lord changed his mind of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
He repented.
He didn't do it.
But this is real clear.
You see, the 1700s dictionary, I mean there has to come a time in one's life when you start depending on absolute truth.
Well you probably, this 1700s dictionary your brother has, probably, just like Merriam Webster, probably has some good truth.
But it's going to have some truths and it's going to also have some untruths.
And when we compare scripture with scripture and just read it in its context, we don't need a dictionary to tell us that repent means to change your mind.
Well alright, I'm definitely going to share those scriptures there. I appreciate you bringing that to light.
And I greatly appreciate everything you do and all the truth nuggets you're able to provide.
And so I feel like I have some more arsenal at my disposal to finally put this issue to bed once and for all.
Yes sir, well you know Paul says, if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.
And what we're faced with Keith, a world wide religious system headed up by who?
The God of this world, Satan, and he has blinded the minds and that's what we're dealing with.
See Satan likes to get his hand on it and turn it into some kind of, you know, hard to understand and give you a lot of do-dos, a lot of religious do-do.
But no, we don't need that.
We need the unperverted, the pure, the pure grace.
As one guy once told me, if you took a glass of water and just put one drop of poison in it, then you could no longer truthfully call that a glass of water.
And see that's what's happened.
They've put poison in the gospel, and then they call it the gospel, but it's not the gospel.
Yeah, a lot of it stems from Roman Catholicism, but the Bible says there's only one mediator between God and man and that's Jesus.
God is not holding their sins against them.
To say that is to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to what happened at Calvary.
Christ died for all our sins.
In 2 Corinthians 5:21, God put all sins on the person of Christ.
He took the punishment.
And you don't go to hell for your sins.
You go there because you haven't believed the gospel, trusting in Christ.
Amen to that.
I'll tell my brother something to that effect as well.
And I'll even add, when he talks about salvation, I'll tell him that if you only get saved based on not sinning, you can lose your salvation.
And that's saying that there are sins that we can commit that are not under the blood of Christ.
But I told him that it's almost like auto insurance.
When you have liability coverage, you get an accident, you have to pay for it, but you've got full coverage, buddy.
That's great, Keith.
You're absolutely right.
In this day and time that we're living in, you've got people that are getting all kinds of government checks, and they're getting welfare, and some need that.
I'm not knocking everyone. But a lot of people are undeserving of all this.
They're getting all these things and doing no work for it.
Yet you present grace and tell them that you don't have to do any work for it.
You know what they do?
I want to do some work for it.
Right, right.
Well, you're talking about the delusion of religion, the subtlety of Satan.
You see, all world religions, they're eat up with pride and ego, and a man and a low man has to have something to do.
The pride of life and the lust of their flesh.
And man, it's a daily battle. I mean, we all have these tendencies.
I'm not separating myself in any way.
It's only in Christ Jesus that I can turn from some of this foolishness myself.
And it is like Paul said, it requires a renewing of the mind on a daily basis.
Absolutely, absolutely.
You know, there's a lot of people that feel that you have to do the works first.
You believe, then you get saved, and then comes the performance.
There you go.
That's Ephesians chapter 2, verses 8 and 9.
You're saved without any works, and then just keep reading.
Look at 10.
We're saved because God wants us to be his workmanship.
Now all of a sudden, hey, get to work.
Yeah, exactly.
But people confuse the two.
They put the cart before the horse, and most are putting verse 10 before verse 8.
And they're telling you to work to get saved.
And that's not correct.
And then there's another popular doctrine going around.
You'll probably hear this if you haven't already.
But they say to turn from sin and then trust Christ.
Hey, that's cart before the horse.
That's as backwards as can be.
You trust Christ, and then what happens?
Well, Ephesians 1:13 tells you, We get sealed with his Holy Spirit of promise.
And then we allow Christ to help us turn from sin.
They've got that backwards, and it's almost like people saying, they'll say, I don't want to go to church until I clean up my life.
Well, that's backwards.
Right, yeah.
That's the same way they do salvation.
They feel they have to get to a certain point, and then now I'm ready to be saved.
No, you're not even assured tomorrow.
What you need to do is trust Christ today, admit that you're not good enough, and then let him save you, and his Holy Spirit comes and dwells within you.
And now, if you'll get in that word and maybe surround yourself with some other believers, you'll start to change.
But salvation doesn't come by behavioral modification.
And that's a sad, sad thing out there, Keith, because this is real popular doctrine.
What you and I are talking about is not popular.
Right, right.
Absolutely.
Maybe in the future, maybe for future broadcasts later on down the road, you can address the Calvinism doctrine, with unconditional election and predestination and some of those.
They have a lot of corrupt fallacies and false doctrines, too, that maybe you might be able to bring to light.
And that's what happens when you mix Paul with the previous gospel being taught.
That's what happens.
In Paul's epistles, the predestined are those that are in Christ.
So it's the whosoever shall believe, and now, can I, can you, Keith, say that you're predestined?
Absolutely.
Can you say, can I say we believe in predestination?
You better believe it, but it's not predestined prior to me hearing Ephesians 1:13, hearing the gospel, believing the gospel, and now being sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
Right.
The individual is not predestined.
Christ and His body is.
Amen to that.
You know what that's like, Trey?
That's like, I don't know if you ever watched Soul Train back in the day.
Yes, I did.
They used to have the scramble board, and they'll have that word that they scrambled up.
This is exactly what that is. It's mixing up the word so that everybody else will be confused.
Oh, that's another good one, man.
Yeah.
That's exactly what they do.
They're mixing up the word.
You're talking about me giving you things to put in your arsenal.
You're giving me some today.
Some truth nuggets.
I appreciate it, Keith.
Hey, brother, it's been good talking to you. Gotta go, and I thank you for calling Truth Time.
I thank you for all your support, your letters, and your phone calls.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
We're back, and this is Truth Time Radio.
We all know of those who will just kind of stand by on the sidelines, bathing in their vacillation.
Meanwhile, there's a war going on.
Spiritual warfare for the souls of humanity.
Hey, Christ is looking for some soldiers, not ashamed to take a stand.
Those who will press forward, not looking back, and not being blown about by, by every wind of doctrine.
Rightly dividing the word of truth, which is the gospel of your salvation, is not subjective.
It's objective.
It's clear, absolute truth.
For example, from our perspective, the sun appears to rise and set.
That's why we say sunrise, sunset.
However, this is a subjective, man-centered point of view.
The sun doesn't move.
We move around it.
And God's Word is not open for our private interpretation.
Concerning salvation and how someone can be saved today, listen to the book.
Romans chapter 4, Romans chapter 4, beginning here at verse 4, To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Those who claim to believe your Bible, listen.
Those who say you can lose your salvation, hear and receive this objective truth.
It's not subjective, not subjective to your denomination or your upbringing.
It's absolute.
It's absolute truth.
To those who say you can lose your salvation, but also say, salvation is by grace and not of works,
you do know, do you not, that you're straddling the fence as you speak out of both sides of your mouth.
If you believe you can lose your salvation, but also believe salvation is not of works, please explain just how is it that after you lose it, you go about getting it back.
If you can lose your salvation that Jesus did the work for, then you are going to have to do the work to get it back.
Cause somebody's got to do it, and Jesus is not coming back to die on the cross again.
Houston, we have a problem.
Now, the verse says, to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
If you think you've got to work to get saved, if you think you've got to work to stay saved, or if you think you've got to do something to get it back once you lost it, then guess what?
Congratulations, you're now a proud owner of a debt.
A debt you simply cannot pay.
The gospel means glad tidings, good news.
But this isn't good news.
And here in Romans, God is frankly speaking.
He said, If you work for your salvation, your reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
But thank God for taking my sins and putting them on Christ, allowing him to no longer count them against me.
And now, with my sins out of the way, he can deal with me on the basis of faith.
Thank God the truth didn't stop with verse 4.
Verse 5, To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
And you want to hear something beautiful?
After I agreed with God concerning this good news, after having my faith, not works, counted to me for righteousness, 2 Corinthians 1:22, God sealed me, and he gave me something.
What did he give?
Oh, this is glad tidings of good things.
He gave me, as undeserving as I am, he gave me, listen now, he gave me the earnest of the Spirit in my heart.
It's not reckoned to me for debt, because I didn't work for it.
It's a free gift.
Do you hear me?
The earnest, the earnest of the Spirit.
You understand that?
Listen, he made the deposit, the security deposit.
This is eternal security of the believer's soul, whether the gainsayer's ego and pride likes it or not.
All you who want to take God's spotlight and readjust it so it shines upon you, you know, being that you're special and all, you need to get your nose in this Book.
As I recently heard a man say, you want to hear from God?
Read His Word.
You want to hear him out loud?
Read it out loud.
All saved people, all members, all the members of the Church, the body of Christ, have been secured with the earnest of the Spirit unto the day of redemption, the day he comes to redeem his body.
And if you'll look at verse 9 of Romans chapter 4, there we see Paul saying this, For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Verse 10, How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision?
And then listen to this, Paul says, Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
How about that?
In other words, Abraham's faith, not works, but Abraham's faith was reckoned to him for righteousness.
And the timeline was when he was still Abram, an uncircumcised Gentile.
It happened prior to him becoming Abraham, the first Hebrew.
And like us today, he received righteousness by faith alone.
The difference is, he later did a work of the flesh in order to seal the deal.
He got himself circumcised.
Righteousness means right standing.
And he would have lost his right standing with God, if he would have refused to be circumcised.
He could lose it.
Faith didn't seal the deal.
No, circumcision.
A work of the flesh sealed the deal.
Not so for us today.
That's the beauty of this grace given to Paul.
The word grace is found all through the Bible.
But Paul was given the dispensation of the grace of God.
That's found nowhere outside of Paul's letters.
Why?
Because this grace is Ephesians 3:8, unsearchable.
Paul calls it in his letters unsearchable, meaning, outside of his letters, you can't find it.
We find grace, but not this grace.
Abraham would have lost his right standing with God if he would have refused to do a physical work.
Not so for us today.
Galatians 5:6 tells us that, In Jesus Christ, neither circumcision, there's the work, nor uncircumcision means anything.
No, now it's about faith.
It's all about the inward man, the spiritual man, not physical.
We today are to live according to the dispensation of the grace of God given to Paul, Ephesians chapter 3 verse 2.
These instructions and unsearchable riches were given to him to give to us.
In Ephesians 3.9, now we are to joy to celebrate in this good news and to share it with everyone
to make all mankind see what is the fellowship of the mystery.
This age we're living in is the only period in your Bible where a never-dying lost soul is saved by faith alone and Christ alone without any works of any kind at any time.
It's undiluted.
It's unperverted.
It's pure.
It's pure grace.
We're saved to be his workmanship.
We don't work to be saved.
We work because we are saved.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
To receive this truth, you're going to have to leave your ideologies and opinions in the religious and political arena.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
You know, the Bible is the only book that people buy other books to try to understand.
TTR is an evidence-based show.
I'll keep my opinions to myself, and you do the same.
Okay, before we go, I'll answer this question that was handed to me here.
It came in via email.
The question here says, When did Jesus learn that he was God?
When did Jesus learn that he was God?
Number two, When did he learn about Paul's revelation of the mystery?
Okay, good questions.
And by the way, if you have a Bible question, you can email it to us by going to truthtimeradio.com
or like Keith, you may want to call us.
To the first question, When did Jesus learn he was God?
Well, the answer is, Never.
He never learned that he was God.
You cannot learn something that you've always known.
Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh, and no one has ever taught God anything.
There's multiple verses that we could hit on, but I'm almost out of time.
But look up the verse in John.
I think it's in John chapter 17, a verse where Jesus tells the Father to glorify him with the glory which he had with God before the world was.
Jesus was clearly the second member of the Godhead from eternity past.
And in Luke chapter 2, remember when Jesus was only 12 years old?
He and his family went to Jerusalem for a feast, and sometime after Joseph and Mary had already left the feast, they noticed that he was missing.
So they traveled back to Jerusalem to look for him, and a few days later found him in the temple asking the doctors questions.
And the people there in the temple after hearing Christ were amazed at the answers he gave.
They could hardly believe how well he understood the Scriptures.
And Mary asked Jesus why he stayed behind without discussing that with them, and as Jesus often did, he answered with a question.
He said, Why do you come seeking me?
Don't you know I've got to be about my Father's business?
And they didn't understand what he was talking about.
So unless he was talking about the business of carpentry, obviously Jesus knew who he was.
Now to the second question.
When did Jesus learn about Paul's revelation of the mystery?
Again, he didn't.
Same answer.
You can't learn what you've always known.
He knew it before the foundation of the world.
And if you go look in chapter 4 of the book of Luke, you'll find where Christ stood up in the synagogue
and read from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
Let me get this real quick, and be sure and read this.
This is great eye-opening truth.
We'll read from the book of Luke here in chapter 4, but this is a reference to the prophet Isaiah and what he wrote in Isaiah chapter 61.
Okay, Luke 4, the book of Luke, chapter 4, okay, starting with verse 18.
And remember now, Christ arose there in the synagogue, and this is what he read out of the book of the prophet Isaiah.
He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And verse 20 says, Jesus then closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister and sat down.
And if you've studied your Old Testament, as Paul tells us to do, because it's very profitable for our learning, then you know that Jesus did not read all of that prophecy.
If you'll go back and look it up, it's in Isaiah chapter 61.
Real short chapter, real quick read.
Well, you know he didn't read about the wrath.
He didn't read about God's day of vengeance.
He didn't read all that prophecy.
No, he closed the book on the comma.
And he didn't read it because he knew about the revelation of the mystery, the parenthetical time period in which we are currently living.
He knew there would be an interruption in the prophecy program and that God would be holding back his day of vengeance until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
Okay, that'll do it.
If you have more questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
Send them to us from the website or call 1-888-988-9562.
Until next time, remember you only get two educations, the one you're given and the one you give yourself.