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We will continue to deliver sound biblical teaching to help you grow in grace, rightly dividing the word of truth and keeping it real.
Glad you have chosen to be with us today here to preach Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery.
We're mic side and grace ready to make known Paul's, "my gospel."
He called it, "my gospel," multiple times for a good reason.
And it's a truth that twistianity continues to ignore, but we'll stay right here unmovable, preaching Jesus Christ according to the mystery.
Mystery not prophecy.
What was being taught before Paul, the gospel of the earthly kingdom, primarily concerning circumcised Jews.
Romans 15:8, Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
Whose fathers?
Around 50,000 Christian denominations and no one's asking this question.
They just mosey along, continuing to traffic in the red letters of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as if that's instructions to us today, the body of Christ.
Is this the fathers of the Gentiles?
No, even though the denominational crowd continues to deny this.
John 4:22, Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
So, at this juncture, Jesus didn't have you and I in mind.
We weren't in the picture.
John 1:11, He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
To put it plain and simple, John never said a word to you.
Don't you just love it when God's word begins to make sense?
It'll do that once we drop our prejudices.
John's gospel was to prove that Jesus was the Christ, the son of the living God, and not that he came to die so that the father could once and for all stop imputing the world's sins.
Some teach John 3:16 as a salvation verse.
Why would they do such a thing?
They didn't keep reading.
Watch what happens when we do, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Believe what?
Hang on and we'll see, we'll find out starting with verse 17, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
How John?
How could the world be saved according to your gospel?
Next verse, He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because... and here's our answer, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
That's the crosswork, right?
That's the bloodshed, right?
Everyone's sins being paid for, right?
Wrong.
According to John's gospel, they could have everlasting life, how?
By believing in the name of Jesus.
"In the name."
Three, one syllable words.
If you're smarter than a fifth grader, you can get this.
But, if you'll go find a Baptist church to go to this weekend, they'll preach the socks off John 3:16 calling it a salvation verse.
And to do so, you know what they got to do?
They got to add the cross.
It's not there.
Acts 4:12, now watch, we're over here in the book of Acts 4 chapters in and this is what we read, Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
So, this business of salvation in his name in John was still going on over here in early Acts.
What's missing?
Paul's gospel.
Paul's gospel of the grace of God was nowhere in sight at this time.
Galatians 6:14, But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,...
Paul only gloried in the cross of Christ, yet John did not.
We literally have the gospel of the name versus the gospel of his cross.
These are far from being the same.
Let's continue shall we?
Flip the pages, flip a few pages here till you come to chapter 8, chapter 8 verse 37, And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Did the eunuch believe that God stopped imputing his sins?
That he was buried and he is risen to justify him unto eternal life?
Certainly not.
This wasn't their gospel.
That was never required of him.
The requirement for salvation was believing with all thine heart that Jesus is the Son of God.
In the very first chapter of John, he tried to warn us that the book wasn't about the death, burial, and resurrection for salvation.
Chapter 1 verse 12, But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Nothing hard about it.
The book of John doesn't contain the gospel of our salvation.
Our salvation is not found back there on the other side of the cross.
John's presentation is meant to reveal Christ as Israel's Messiah.
People that are saying, Believe John 3:16 to be saved, are only giving Satan a reason to throw a big party.
One like you've never seen, because there is no salvation in John 3:16.
If you had been back there in the previous dispensation and you had stood up and said, To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses into them, they would have thought you to be nothing short of a heretic.
And some will call you that today for saying that.
Calvary's cross wasn't in focus just like it, for many it's not in focus today.
It wasn't in focus, and even when they did eventually receive it, it was only remission for their sins that were past.
So, regardless of popular preaching, John's gospel can't save us.
He never preached Christ crucified for our sins in the resurrection unto justification.
He just didn't do it.
Chapter 12 verse 13, turn there real quick if you can.
This is how he presented Jesus.
Watch, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel...
Now that's pretty simple is it not?
John presented Jesus as king of Israel, verse 15, Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh,...
Who's the daughter of Zion?
Is that the Galatians 2:9 heathen that Paul went to?
I don't think so.
See, don't be like the sloppy preachers who, who are guilty of reading mystery data that was kept secret since the world began, Roman 16:25, back into prophecy data that had been hid since the world began, Acts 3:21.
Don't do it.
John chapter 14 verses 1 and 2, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And here come all the wrong dividers along to preach you a sermon about you receiving a mansion one day.
And you can hear the songs playing on southern gospel radio.
All sorts of made up romantic stories about walking the streets of gold.
But are you going to be in that new city Jerusalem here on earth, or do you inherit heavenly places where your spiritual blessings are?
Without right division you're left double-minded and unstable.
The book of John doesn't have your applicable day-to-day doctrine in it and is why John 14:13 doesn't work for you.
Oh, you'll hear it preached, but it don't work.
And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Folks, John never said a word to you.
But most miss this and there they are confused and a prime candidate to be tossed to and fro.
John 20 verse 8, Then went in also that other disciple,... now watch, this is interesting, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. Verse 9, For as yet... here's our timeline, For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Now that you've pulled away from the church parking lot, put your brain back in and think.
John chapter 20, 17 chapters after John 3:16, and the disciples had no clue about the resurrection, which without it we have no salvation.
Yet, popular preaching says we're saved by believing John 3:16.
Boy, Satan really is the God of this world.
17 chapters after John 3:16 and 16 chapters after John 4:22, but some still remain standing there in their prideful ignorance refusing to budge.
But I've got good news.
There's a way of escape.
To escape all manner of biblical ignorance, we need resident in our inner man, strong meat that belongeth to them that are of full age.
We can glean a lot, now listen, we can glean a lot from John.
I love reading this book.
All his books.
All scripture's profitable and for our learning.
But the gospel of our salvation is missing.
He doesn't address it because he doesn't address us.
His books are to Israel concerning the prophetic program and the earthly kingdom.
At that time, for a Gentile to have gone into the kingdom, they would have needed Israel acting as a mediator.
John 4:22, salvation is of the Jews, remember?
Is that how it is today?
It is not.
1 Timothy 2:5 as a part of what was revealed to Paul. Listen, For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
What's missing?
Israel?
What's missing?
The red letter words of Jesus in John chapter 4.
Regardless of what Jesus said in the red letters of John 4, salvation is no longer of the Jews.
Their kingdom was postponed and he returned to the Apostle Paul with some different news or some different people going through different times.
Jesus said one thing back there prior to dying so that his father could stop imputing sins, but then he comes and says another, something different here to the Apostle Paul.
The reason you have to rightly divide the word of truth, it's non-negotiable.
How do the ones who claim to follow John miss this?
When read exegetically, the book of John teaches salvation based on belief, but had to be followed by performance as a part of maintaining salvation.
See, those seeking everlasting life in Israel's earthly kingdom had to hold out and endure unto the end.
Mark 13:13, And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:...
Oh, and there's the name thing again, And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
To endure meant they had to remain.
They had to last.
That's not grace.
Grace is unearned, unmerited, but endurance is merited.
When you're following Jesus here in John's red letters, I should say pretending to, you're following Israel's Messiah, who came not but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And for what reason, to judge?
John 9:39, And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
What we read there in John 5 about those who did good and got resurrection of life compared to those that did evil and got damnation, that is judgment.
And has nothing to do with the dispensation of grace we find ourselves in today.
If you think God's judging us today, I might ask, hey, where are all the dead bodies?
We're not in the day of judgment, we're in the day of grace.
Where are all the dead bodies, as in Ananias and Sapphira?
Matthew 16:19 (actually 6:19), Jesus over there said, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But that's exactly what they were doing.
And when Peter approached them to inquire about it, they lied to him.
Does this instruction apply to you today?
No, and you've got the savings account to prove it.
Different instructions for different people in different times.
This is rightly dividing the word of truth.
Prior to the postponement of Israel's prophetic program after the stoning of Stephen, there were people getting sentenced to death for the very thing we do today without any repercussion, without any punishment.
Christ didn't come to judge us, rather, he took our judgment for us.
Our judgment occurred at the cross when he died for our sins and God stopped imputing them.
Christ was judged in our place and God's wrath was satisfied.
But, you know, sadly, at some sporting event this weekend, and in churches across America, someone's going to stand up, stick out their chest and pray, Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Give us this day our daily bread, even though we have plenty in the pantry.
Oh, and don't forget to forgive our sins when we forgive others, even though the sins we're asking you to forgive are not being charged. Amen.
Round and round the cray-cray goes, where it stops nobody knows.
What most miss is that at the time John's writing about there was no such thing as this gospel of reconciliation.
The book of John is prophecy not mystery, with its focus on Israel's earthly kingdom.
Daniel 2:44, And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
That's the focus.
The prophetic events John wrote of doesn't include you.
You and me were Ephesians chapter 2 without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel.
We were strangers from the covenants of promise.
We had no hope, and we were without God in this world.
And there's no salvation by resting in the finished crosswork of Christ in the book of John.
Salvation came by belief in the name, and the name of the only begotten Son,
and had nothing to do with the bloodshed for our sins at Calvary.
Nothing to do with him being buried and raised on day 3.
No, that was the gospel the Lord later gave Paul after he actually did it.
After his death, burial, and resurrection, and his ascension and return to Paul.
Prior to that, Paul's gospel wasn't being taught.
That's why over there in Galatians 2, when Paul went up to Jerusalem to meet with the other apostles, he said, And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel...
That gospel?
What in the world are you talking about, Paul?
What a strange thing to say.
I mean, if Paul was preaching the same gospel as the other apostles,
that's what Satan wants us to believe, then why did he say, I went up by revelation and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach?...
Using the words, "that gospel," certainly sounds like it's different.
The gospel of reconciliation was never preached by the Twelve.
John's in prophecy.
He's speaking in accordance to the gospel of the earthly kingdom program.
Alright, so you're here and you're starting to see some things you haven't seen before.
Hey listen, this edifice of understanding comes as a product of rightly dividing the word of truth.
When you're standing on the right foundation, when you have it under you to build upon, the pieces start to align themselves and fall in place.
That's just how it works.
But, if you're not approaching your Bible dispensationally, most everything I'm saying here today is flying right over your head.
When reading John, this apostle, who according to Galatians 2, went to the circumcision with the gospel of the circumcision, he operated under the law and very plainly and candidly told his audience that, Whatsoever they ask, they would receive because they kept his commandments and did those things that were pleasing in his sight. 1 John 3:22.
And many claim this verse even though it doesn't work for them.
They claim it even though it was written under the law program.
Hence the three words, "keep his commandments."
This whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, was a promise to the law keeping circumcised on the eighth day, pork abstaining, Sabbath keeping, waiting on their earthly not heavenly kingdom little flock of believing Israel.
And never meant for anyone today.
But some, they'll pray this law verse as if it's a grace verse and they get disappointed when it doesn't work.
My, it's so nice to not only read 2 Timothy 2:15 but to actually put it in practice.
When the word of truth is rightly divided all the dots begin to connect.
1 John 2:18, Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby ye know that it is the last time.
It's sort of hard to miss the prophetic framework of John's epistle here.
He's obviously dealing with tribulation issues and not what we're presently experiencing in this current dispensation of grace.
John 20 verse 31, But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Life through the name is not what Paul called, "my gospel."
Life through the name is not 1 Corinthians 15, moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel.
It's not 2 Corinthians 5, God made Christ to be sin for us and therefore he stopped imputing sins to us.
He took your punishment upon himself which means that if you trusted him alone, this, this life you're now living is the closest to hell you'll ever get.
And if you're trusting in anything you have done, this is the closest to heaven you'll ever get.
Proverbs 15:14, The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Knowledge is a game changer, yes it is, so remember you only get two educations, the one you're given, and the one you give yourself.
It's amazing how you find the truth.
It's like I've went down into a rabbit hole of nothing but truth.
It's crazy how I've been lied to by the so-called churches and so-called preachers all these years that all they do is preach, Confess your sins at a alter and give us your money for blessings.
It's crazy.
A few days, well actually a few months I've been praying every night to guide me and lead me in the right path of truth.
Finally I want to know the truth.
Give me the truth.
Only a few days ago a buddy of mine introduced me to Truth Time Radio.
He said it would open your mind and open your eyes and it did.
I can't believe how much lies has been taught to me over the years.
It's amazing what y'all are doing.
It really is.
Stay with us.
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Rightly dividing the word of truth and keeping it real.
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