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Tony writes, I never knew that the salvation gospel is not in the book of Matthew until I found this website.
After all these years I finally read it for myself and was amazed to find our gospel is not there.
What the Lord did for us at Calvary is missing.
Well Tony, I'm glad you found us and the reason the finished cross work of Christ is not found in Matthew is because it hadn't took place yet.
You gotta go to the end of the book before we even find out he died.
The book of Matthew has 28 chapters and you gotta travel through 27 of those before you can even find the soldiers of the governor taking him into the common hall to prepare him for death.
So you're right Tony, and if more people would just stop and think, wow, what a concept, thinking for ourselves, hmm, that just might work.
Ask yourself, how in the world can I believe that I got saved by listening to what Christ said before the cross?
How can that be possible when it's what he did on the cross that saves?
Listen, salvation comes by Jesus and his finished cross work.
So come on, just use a little logic here.
How can we be saved by what Christ said prior to finishing the work?
You can't.
Before finishing the work of the cross, he said this, if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, guess what?
Your Father won't forgive you.
Now just how much clearer could he have been?
That's as plain as the nose on your face.
Before Christ went to the cross to complete the work on your behalf, it wasn't possible for you to be saved.
Why?
Because he hadn't done anything on your behalf.
He was telling Israel that he was their Messiah, he was their king, and they could live throughout
eternity in this kingdom if they, and that's all Israel, would have believed.
And as a part of the kingdom doctrine, you had to forgive others before God would forgive you.
Not so for today.
Can you not believe the plain black letters on the white page without a pulpit puppeteer passing down slanted information from headquarters?
Information to tell you how and what you're supposed to believe?
Is that not possible?
On this side of the cross, Paul tells us that we've been made alive with him and he's already forgiven us all sin, Colossians 2:13.
And that we're to be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.
Listen now, listen, forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath already forgiven us, Ephesians 4:32.
Now, I don't care how many times you look at that verse, I don't care how many times you say it, it doesn't change.
And if you think about what Christ said before his death, these two verses oppose each other.
It can't be forgive and you'll be forgiven while at the same time be forgive because you're already forgiven.
And you know this, if you've read the Bible you've had to have seen this.
Maybe you're not reading the Bible but letting someone do it for you.
Huh, could that be it?
Can you see the difference?
I know that Satan is the prince of the air and has a crafty subtle little way of confusing what I just said, but take the time to read this for yourself.
If you don't get it the first time, read it again, compare those two verses.
I'm confident that if you have a zeal for truth, you can't help but get this.
If you miss it, you'll have to do it on purpose.
Christ said one thing about how sins were forgiven prior to the cross, and then said another thing about how sins are forgiven after the cross.
Things progressed and the doctrine changed.
Christ did not change, he's the same always, but the means by which your sins were forgiven changed drastically.
Why?
Because he did something drastic on your behalf, died on the cross for all your sins, rose from the grave that didn't have the power it took to hold him, that's why.
And that resurrection gave you new life and that new life is yours if you'll believe Paul's gospel and trust Christ.
No new life in believing you have to forgive or you're not forgiven.
That was a salvation doctrine but there's no salvation in that doctrine for today.
Now, living this new life is quite the walk.
It comes with its ups and downs, bumps in the road, pitfalls, mountains and valleys, but not so for salvation.
Listen to me, you should be resting in your salvation.
With all the junk that comes with your daily life, if you ain't resting in salvation, what are you resting in?
Salvation happens instantaneously.
It occurs at the moment you truly give up and let go.
At the moment you completely decide to believe the gospel and trust Christ for your salvation.
However, your Christian walk, hey, it develops over time.
Your standing, which is how God sees you, is complete, Colossians 2:10.
Your state, which is how you see yourself and others see you from day to day, now it's still growing and it has plenty of room left for improvement.
Your day to day state, your daily walk with God, can be improved on.
Your salvation cannot.
Legalists like to mix the two, but there's no way.
They're not to be mixed.
But for some, if it's any other information, other than what they've already heard, good luck getting them to believe it, because you do know, don't you, that it can't be true if they haven't already heard it, right?
I come across a piece of paper the other day where I was doodling.
It was dated February 2010.
This is what I wrote.
Some say Jesus forgives.
No, he already forgave.
He did the work on the cross.
The price has already been paid.
Some say to ask and receive.
No, it's already been given.
And it's Paul's epistles of grace that teach you how to be living.
Galatians 4:16 – Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
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