Second Timothy chapter 2 guys, second Timothy chapter 2, hope everyone is well.
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In 2 Timothy 2:15, Paul commands us to rightly divide the word of truth, and in Ephesians 1:13, he defines what the word of truth is.
Sadly, most have missed the definition.
Here, Paul wrote The word of truth, comma, then he defines it, the gospel of your salvation.
So, if the Bible, if it contains the gospel of your salvation and Paul tells us to rightly divide it, what do we rightly divided it from?
We rightly divide the gospel of our salvation from the gospel not of our salvation.
That's how it works.
Not everyone can digest this because let's be honest, not everyone who identifies as Christians actually believe their Bible.
They just don't.
But when an actual Bible believer is shown this comparison here, their eyes of understanding are open to the fact that there is more than one gospel in this Bible.
There has to be.
If there wasn't, there's nothing to divide, and Paul just wasted ink.
So, if we're supposed to rightly divide the gospel of our salvation from the gospel not of our salvation, then it would greatly benefit us to know where both of these gospels are, right?
The one of and the one not of our salvation.
In today's study, let's start with the one not of, okay?
The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, contrary to popular belief, those books are not where we go to find the gospel of our salvation.
Those books primarily deal with prophecy, prophecy concerning the first coming of Christ.
When he was sent to the Matthew 15:24, lost sheep of the house of Israel.
At that time, Jesus was the Romans 15:8, minister of the circumcision.
And since the lost sheep of the house of Israel is not us, we can be assured that this is where we go to find the gospel not of our salvation.
During the earthly ministry of Jesus, he preached what is called the gospel of the kingdom.
Matthew 4:23, And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.
That's pretty simple.
That's pretty plain, is it not?
And when it says, Their synagogues, who might that be?
That's a reasonable question.
Something's seriously off folks, when entire denominations, they, they choose to go to the section of their Bible that tells them about a ministry to a group of people called the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
They go there, I mean, that's extremely odd, that they go there looking for instructions on how they should be saved.
When they're not the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
So, should it be any wonder that things written in that section of Scripture just don't line up with current day events?
It wasn't written to or about us.
And that is why the rest of the verse says, And healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
That's not happening today for good reason.
We're not under that administration where the supernatural healings were actively taking place.
Today, you get hurt, you wind up in the ER, you get sick, you make a doctor's appointment, you get your prescription filled, you go for checkups.
It's interesting to me how religion makes some people suddenly lose all sense of rational thinking.
Logic goes out the door.
When Jesus walked the earth, there were no long waits in the doctor's office, no once-a-week dialysis appointments, because he went about healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Just like we read here, so just take it at face value.
Regardless of popular preaching, you won't find your healing program back there in those books Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Not going to happen.
The gospel of the earthly kingdom is not our hope.
We're heavenly minded, not earthly minded.
Back there, you'll find Jesus telling his audience that the meek is going to inherit
the earth.
Paul tells us, Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.
And the same gospel of the kingdom that Jesus preached, hey, he committed to the twelve.
Those disciples, he commanded them, saying, go not into the way of people like you and I today.
We're Gentiles.
They were restricted to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel only, Matthew chapter 10 verse 5.
Go read it and just believe it, just connect those dots.
Hey, he sent them to the same people he went to and he told them the same thing.
Watch, verse 7, As you go, preach, saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
And in verse 8, he told them to do the same thing he did.
Verse 8, Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead.
Man, this thing lines up perfectly with the gospel of the kingdom, but it don't jive with what's going on today.
It don't jive with what Jesus later told Paul to tell you and I.
Today we may attend a service somewhere and see someone stand up and claim their back
was healed.
Arthritis went away.
Shoulder stopped hurting when the preacher laid his hands on me, but where's the raising of the dead?
The cleansing of the lepers?
And there's no laying hands on the blind and blind eyes being opened.
See, when you read through the scriptures and decide not to cherry pick, things start
to open up to you.
If that healing program was in operation today, these things would be occurring left and right.
But they're not.
They took place at a time when salvation was of the Jews, John 4:22.
Our good news program hadn't been revealed yet.
It came later, later through our Apostle, the Apostle Paul, he revealed this information to us in 13 epistles, Romans through Philemon.
There's where we find the gospel of the grace of God.
That's the gospel given to the church, the body of Christ for this dispensation of grace.
And after, after Paul's epistles, just flip over there toward the back of your Bible, you'll find Hebrews through Revelation.
Instructions for Hebrews.
Hebrews in time future.
Nine books containing doctrine that is, it's a continuation of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, basically, instructions primarily for the 70th week of Daniel, the 1,000 year reign of Christ, and things that will pertain to the New Heaven and the New Earth.
See, most aren't aware that what's written in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and over there in the back of the book, Hebrews through Revelation, is a fulfillment of old testament prophecy.
It's not the one new man body of Christ information.
No, that's what you find in Paul's epistles.
There we find the opposite to prophecy.
We find mystery.
Prophecy is that which was spoken since the world began, Luke 1:70 and Acts 3:21, but mystery is Roman 16:25, that which was kept secret since the world began.
Quite the dichotomy.
So, the Bible contains the gospel of your salvation, Romans through Philemon, and the gospel not of your salvation.
The Old Testament scriptures through mid-acts and in the books, Hebrews through Revelation.
One was a mystery not spoken until Paul, the other was prophecy spoken since the world began.
Now, in Galatians chapter 2, that's interesting over there because Paul confirmed that the Lord revealed the gospel of the uncircumcision, he revealed that to him, but he revealed the gospel of the circumcision to Peter, James, and John.
I go there all the time showing people trying to demonstrate that there's two distinct gospels.
That's a good place to go because it's made clear there.
In Galatians 1:11, Paul confirms that, he says, I certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
See Peter, James, and John knew nothing of Paul's gospel.
He said, For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
So what's the gospel of the uncircumcision?
Our gospel.
It's found in 1 Corinthians 15 and it's easy to understand.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel by which ye are saved, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried and that he rose the third day according to the Scriptures.
That's a simple message until religion gets ahold of it.
Then they distort it.
So watch, watch, Paul knew this.
In 2 Corinthians chapter 11, he wrote, verse 3, But I fear, lest by any means as the
serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.
Ah, it's interesting who Paul used here for an example.
Eve.
Paul's gospel for us, it's simple, and so was the command from God to Adam.
He said of every tree of the garden, you can freely eat, but hey, I've got this one
tree right over there.
It's off limits.
Don't eat from it.
Because if you do, you'll die.
About as simple of an instruction as you can get, right?
But when the serpent came along, just like religion, he came along and bewitched Eve.
He appealed to her lust.
By offering a little something extra.
With just a few words, he corrupted God's simple instruction.
Corrupting that which is simple, that's what religion does best.
That's their expertise.
In 2 Corinthians 11:4, Paul explains how this corruption takes place.
For if he that cometh, preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if he receive another spirit which you have not received, or another gospel which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.
This goes along with Galatians 1:7.
When Paul wrote to them and warned them of those that would trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ, Judaizers, that's what they were.
Coming in behind him then, and if you're preaching the grace gospel today, guess what?
They're coming in behind you also.
The focus then was a work of the flesh called, circumcision.
Today it may be a work of the flesh called baptism.
A work of the flesh called repeat this prayer after me.
Maybe it's getting up out of your seat and walking the aisle so the preacher can make
a big fair show of your flesh right in front of everyone.
Or, if you're Catholic, go find a priest and a booth.
Make a fair show of your flesh in front of him.
Confess your sins and ask for forgiveness.
Man's got to have his fingerprints on this somehow.
Almost 2000 years and not much has changed.
The pure grace message is still being perverted with fleshly activities.
Why?
Because activities satisfies the ego.
It's something you can boast in.
You can glory in.
But in Galatians chapter 6, what did Paul tell us?
He said, God forbid that I should glory in anything other than the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Look at the gospel.
Go do it.
Go look at the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15 verses 1-4.
Do that sometime and see if you can spot repeating a prayer, walking the aisle, water baptism, turning from sins, and asking for forgiveness.
You won't.
You can't find it there.
You can't find anything that even resembles it.
Why?
Because Paul had a different message.
It was different than Peter's, be baptized for the remission of sins.
Paul's gospel is flat out different than Peter's.
Jesus revealed to Paul that he was made to be sin for us and is why God stopped
imputing them to us.
Now after, okay, after someone is saved, naturally they should want to turn from sin.
Paul tells us over there in Romans 6 to not allow sin to rain in our mortal bodies.
To not obey the lust of the flesh.
To not obey the lust thereof.
Don't yield our members as instruments of ungodliness unto sin, but unto God.
Now he's pretty plain.
It's a commandment, not a suggestion.
But we should never do that thinking it earns forgiveness.
That's what the cross did.
Turning from sin as a work and Paul tells us to him that worketh not.
But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Notice the warning from Paul over there in the 2nd Corinthians chapter 11.
Drop in there at verse 13 and you'll read, For such are false apostles, deceitful workers who do, what? Transform themselves into the apostles of Christ.
You ever know one of those?
Any preacher that preaches the gospel of do something in your flesh for salvation is
a deceitful worker.
But as Paul says, no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Any preacher claiming to be a light bearer is a deceitful worker who's transformed
himself into an angel of light.
The term, light bearer, is a term for Lucifer.
You can't give an honest read of any of this here in 2 Corinthians that Paul is talking about and not go away believing that Satan has ministers working for him today.
As we speak, most are working for him and don't even know it.
On one side we have deceitful workers who have slithered into the grace circles and they have large egos claiming to have more knowledge than anybody this side of the Mississippi.
And they're out there making the cross of Christ of none effect with some sort of hybrid universalism that says the world was quickened at the cross.
Wrong.
Quickened means, made alive.
So that's a lie from Satan.
No one is made alive without belief in Paul's gospel.
And then we have deceitful workers on the other side making the cross of Christ of none effect by saying things that appeal to the flesh, adding a work of the flesh to the gospel.
Clowns on the left of me, jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle again.
They know how to recite the gospel of 1 Corinthians 15, but they say you have to do something in your flesh to receive the benefit of that.
Undergo catechism, join the church, answer a set of formal questions, welcome to the gospel buffet, just step up and choose your poison.
A Catholic website I ran across the other day had an article there titled, What does the Catholic Church teach about how a person gets to heaven?
And at the very top, straight out the gate, they wasted no time perverting Paul's gospel.
It read, quote, Faith alone will not save a person, to attain salvation, a person must in response to God's grace, fulfill the following, believe in God, put his faith in Jesus, repent of his sins, be baptized, remain within the fold of the church, hope in God, persevere in charity, and finally die in a state of grace. End quote.
A clear falsification of Paul's gospel of Christ, is it not?
The Catholic Church, like the Protestant denominations, hey, they'll mention the gospel found in 1 Corinthians 15, but turn around and corrupt it by adding to it.
Just like the serpent did in the garden.
This truth isn't hidden, it's right here, but the Bible is the only book that instead
of reading it, people read books about it.
So, it's no wonder why they allow the gospel to be perverted.
The perversions come in many forms, and the pursuit of these religious activities place a veil over the minds of the hearer.
They set up roadblocks that hinder the understanding of God's undiluted grace.
Paul tells us to stop allowing those who frustrate the gospel of the grace of God, stop allowing them to poison our mind.
He said, I don't frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Hey, beware of those who neutralize and basically nullify God's grace.
It's impossible to receive the grace of God when you don't see the need for it.
That's a huge problem.
Man's ego.
Man's ego is what leads him to believe that he's capable of doing this all on his own.
He can merit salvation.
Let's just face it, guys, the majority of mankind doesn't think he needs God's grace
to save him.
They think his grace needs their help because apparently his grace wasn't sufficient
by itself.
And as ludicrous as this sounds, it's the mindset of most.
It's ego-driven.
No reasonable thinker would dare to present to God his vile rottenness if he truly understood the righteousness that God required.
A standard of righteousness that only Christ could meet.
Only the righteousness of God the Son could please God the Father.
And it's the Son's righteousness that has applied to us at the moment we trust that
what he did on our behalf is sufficient to give us eternal life.
Our justification is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, without any works of any kind at any time.
Most are ignorant to the gospel of grace.
But the good thing about ignorance is it's curable.
Like something I once heard, stupid is a condition, ignorance is a choice.
The Bible is not some deep, dark, mysterious book that you can't understand.
If you're saved, there come a day when you concluded that in your flesh there was no
action, nothing in your performance that can merit God's favor.
That's when you're ready to be saved.
You realize that you're no good, a sorry low-down scoundrel in need of a savior.
If you're saved, you came to a place where you understood that your church membership
wasn't going to get you in.
Born of Christian parents, that won't do it either.
You finally realize that you couldn't ask for forgiveness enough.
Hey, a parrot can repeat words and a dog can walk an aisle, but you, hey, you better
trust Christ after hearing and believing the gospel.
You tried all the church gimmicks, we all have.
You jumped through all the hoops, so many that you lost count.
You got so good at spinning your wheels that you're now a gold medalist in spiritual gymnastics.
But after all that twistianity, you still had no peace.
If you're saved, there come a day when you pass from death to life, from darkness to
light, by believing Paul's gospel.
A failure to rightly divide the word of truth has resulted in mass confusion, which is actually produced enemies of the cross.
They're enemies and don't know it, Philippians 3:18, For many walk of whom I've told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are enemies of the cross.
Paul is not an enemy of the cross, and neither should we be.
In his first epistle to the church at Corinth, he wrote, But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks, foolishness.
No wonder we see such a resistance to the cross of Christ today.
It's simply history repeating itself.
The cross was a stumbling block then and continues to be to this day
Most are under the illusion that Israel's prophecy instructions were written to them.
Replacement Israel is what some call it, but we haven't replaced Israel physically or spiritually.
We are not receptors of the old covenant, we're not receptors of the new covenant.
Hey, in Matthew 5:20, Jesus said, Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
See that?
So here's what's going to happen.
Here's how it all plays out.
When the house of Israel and the house of Judah, when they receive their new covenant, the Lord promises to Hebrews 8:10, write his laws in their hearts, and put his spirit within them that will, Ezekiel 36:27, cause them, cause them to do right.
This is why John, over there in 1 John 3:7, can say, Let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
And he also said, Whosoever is born of God, does not commit sin, 1 John 3:9, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
No wonder some today teach sinless perfection.
They didn't make it up out of thin air.
It's right here in Scripture, but for who?
For the born again, little flock of Israel.
Those that the Lord promised to write his laws in their hearts and put his spirit within them, that will cause them to do, to do them all correctly and not sin.
We are not the born again bride, we're the one new man, the church which is his body.
Listen guys, I'm about out of time here, but let me, let me close with this, understanding some of these, these fundamental differences, Scripture will open up like never before.
Hey, Paul's gospel is the only gospel in your Bible to declare that a person's righteousness hinges solely on the finished work and resurrection of Christ.
Did you know that?
Paul's gospel is the only gospel in your Bible to declare that by faith alone in Christ alone, the believer is adopted and made a co-heir with Christ to receive a heavenly inheritance.
Paul's gospel is the only one to declare that the believer is not only saved by grace, but kept by grace as well.
That's amazing.
Our salvation doesn't come with a maintenance plan.
That's good news.
That's how we're freed up to do good works.
We're not always maintaining our salvation.
We've got some free time on our hands.
Religion just don't know what to do with Paul's gospel.
They don't know what to do with his limitless and matchless gospel of the grace of
God.
The average church-goer has never heard of this magnificent love of the Father that was revealed in the Son.
Paul's gospel is the only one to declare that the believer is sealed unto the day of redemption.
Hallelujah.
Only Paul's gospel assures the believer that he or she is blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.
The religious world can continue to deny these distinctions of Paul's gospel if they want to, but you don't have to remain ignorant.
When a preacher fails to see how that God placed more than one gospel in the Bible, his words become as an uncertain sound that only leads to confusion.
Paul's gospel is the only gospel in your Bible to declare that not one sin is being charged to the world.
Second Corinthians 5:19.
Paul's gospel is, Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel by which also you are saved, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
Religion says do stuff for salvation.
Grace says, The stuff's done.
Now, I just need you to believe it.
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