Proof That Paul Was Given a Different Gospel

John, he writes, How do you believe people were saved during Jesus' earthly ministry, which is before his death burial and resurrection?
Okay, John, thanks for the question.
They were saved by the gospel of the kingdom.
The only requirement was to hear and believe that Jesus was who he declared himself to be, the Christ, the Son of the living God, 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.
"Through his name."
It's quite obvious that John didn't teach life through the cross.
He taught life through his name.
That's how they were saved, and other than the thief on the cross, after they believed, they had to be water baptized.
It wasn't an option, it was a must.
They had to do so to prove their belief.
The thief on the cross was saved without water.
But if he had come down off the cross and refused baptism, he would have suffered loss of his salvation.
Because even though their belief in the name placed them in right standing with God, they had to maintain that standing while alive.
That's why Jesus said, But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Matthew 24:13.
Some, you know, them that those that like to make salvation the same all throughout the Bible, not recognizing the uniqueness of Paul's gospel, they don't believe what we just read.
They don't believe that Matthew 24:13 means what it says.
They have to juggle the verse to make it line up with their theology.
Salvation by enduring unto the end isn't grace.
Don't let anyone fool you.
It's interesting how most miss this.
Salvation by enduring is salvation by merit.
Deuteronomy 6:25, And it shall be our righteousness,...
Hey, let me repeat that.
It shall be our righteousness, our righteousness.
If we,... and here comes to the condition, ...if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us...
See that?
Just like Matthew 24:13, here is another one, here's another one they don't believe.
Deuteronomy 6:25.
When rightly dividing is overlooked, now please listen, listen closely and mark my words here.
When rightly dividing is avoided, there will be a slew of verses that your preacher will either have to change or ignore.
Now, in Matthew 19, we see an excellent example of what it meant to endure unto the end starting with verse 16.
Come with me, if you have your King James Bible.
Here it says, And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God:...
And then he answers the man.
He answers his question.
He said, ...but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Now, is this the dispensation of grace?
No, it is not.
The law was still in effect, and it shall be our righteousness.
Remember?
If we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us, what shall I do?
Keep the commandments.
He didn't say, Believe the gospel.
How that I died for your sins was buried and rose the third day.
How could he?
He's very much alive here, and talking to the man.
You see, what some do is they, they, they read Paul's gospel back into Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
They read Paul's gospel into Acts chapter 1, chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
That's intellectually dishonest.
Paul didn't come on the scene, he didn't come along until Acts 9, and you're not going to find his gospel back there unless you take a plunger and shove it back in.
The man asked a simple question and got a simple answer.
You want eternal life?
Keep the commandments.
Because righteousness was found in the law like we just read.
And watch what Paul says about it.
Watch this.
Let's see here.
Philippians chapter 3, come with me.
Philippians chapter 3 starting with...
Hmm...
Verse 4, Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
Are you hearing this?
Oh, you've read it, but, but did you grasp what you read?
Paul said, now listen, he said, If any other man... if any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I (that's Paul), I more:
What's Paul talking about here?
That doesn't sound like grace.
No, it's not, because Paul is speaking of time past.
He says he was circumcised on the eighth day.
He was of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin.
He was a Hebrew of the Hebrews as touching the law.
He was a Pharisee.
Concerning zeal, he persecuted the church.
And he goes on to say, Touching the righteousness, which is found in Christ
by grace through faith.
Is that what it...?
No, that's not what it says.
Touching the righteousness which is in the law...
Righteousness in the law?
That's right.
Touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Blameless, Paul said.
Oh, you mean Paul never sinned?
No, he was blameless because he understood what was required of a man, what the law required of him when he did sin.
He had an out, a way to get back into right standing.
What did Paul say?
Where was righteousness in time past?
Touching the righteousness which is in the law.
Not in Jesus, not in the gospel of trusting Christ by grace through faith.
Nope.
You got to read that back in to all those, to those books outside of Romans through Philemon.
It's not there.
The gospel of trusting Christ by grace through faith alone, that's Paul's present day gospel.
That's the one for us.
But it's nowhere to be found outside of his epistles.
His epistles are for the body of Christ, the body of Christ, an entity that's not found outside of his epistles either.
Not many stop to think about these things.
The body of Christ is an exclusive term to the Apostle Paul.
Putting your trust in Jesus, his finished crosswork and resurrection,
dying and going to heaven, that's not the gospel of the kingdom.
That's Paul's gospel.
That's what Jesus gave to Paul, Galatians chapter 1 verse 11.
Paul was taught by no man.
None of the twelve had to teach Paul the gospel of the kingdom for him to go preach, because that wasn't his gospel.
He was given an exclusive and a distinct, unique gospel straight from the mouth of the risen Lord Jesus Christ from heaven.
So, watch out for the pulpit magicians out here who, who read Paul's gospel
back into a place where it does not fit.
Putting Paul's gospel in the gospel of the kingdom will pervert the gospel
of the kingdom.
Putting the gospel of the kingdom into Paul's gospel will pervert Paul's gospel.
That's why in Galatians 1, he said, There is not another, presently not another gospel than the one I preach.
Watch out for the blenders, they're conflating what God said is to be kept separate.
The gospel of the kingdom is different than Paul's Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God.
As members of the body of Christ we find our salvation, our worthy walk,
our eternal destiny in the gospel of the grace of God, the gospel of Christ,
the gospel of Christ as presented to the apostle Paul.
As members of the body of Christ, we do not find our salvation, our worthy walk, or our eternal destiny in the gospel of the kingdom.
That was about the good news of Israel's coming Messiah to be their king in their kingdom.
And again, not about anyone dying and going to heaven.
That didn't come till later.
That's Paul's gospel.
I can take this Bible and preach Jesus two different ways.
I can preach Jesus according to prophecy, or Roman 16:25 according to the revelation of the mystery.
You need to get that.
Don't take my word, go study this out for yourself.
Be an Acts 17 verse 11, be like those of Berea.
It's Paul's gospel, his gospel of Christ that is by grace through faith
and that not of yourselves which is clearly, I mean, come on, that's clearly not the gospel of the kingdom, where one had to be water-baptized for the remission of sins, keep all the commandments, and forsake everything in order to inherit everlasting life.
Some fools want us to believe that's grace.
That's not grace.
That's nonsense is what it is.
Even Jethro with his six-grade education could get this.
Over the years, over the years while witnessing Paul's gospel, his gospel of Christ to others, after mentioning some of these things I'm speaking with you guys about today, some of these things that had to be done according to the gospel of the kingdom, most, what do they do?
They get a, that look of unbelief on their face.
Until, until, until I have them open the book and read it for themselves,
and they're still a little astonished, but at least they, they actually see that I'm speaking scripture.
Matthew 19:29.
Now watch this.
Matthew 19, if you've got your Bible, Matthew 19 verse 29.
If you don't have your Bible, make a note, a physical one or a mental one,
and go read this for yourself.
If you're a Bible believing student of God's word, you're not going to read this and come away with, "Oh, there's just one gospel all throughout the Bible."
You can't do it.
Not, not if you're intellectually honest.
You just can't.
Matthew 19:29, And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake,...
"My name's sake."
Ah, there's John 20:31 again, Life through his name,... keep reading, ...shall receive an hundredfold,... and what?
What's the next four words?
Shall inherit everlasting life.
So, there's only one gospel, huh?
How did they get saved according to the red letters of Jesus?
Oh, just believe that he died for your sins, he was buried, and he rose again.
I don't think so.
Anyone telling you there's only one gospel in the Bible is unlearned.
Anyone that says that what we just read here in the red letters of Jesus
is the same salvation by grace through faith that he told Paul to preach
is ignorant to the scriptures.
And obviously, they don't know what grace even means, but that's okay.
Ignorance is curable.
You only get two educations, the one you're given, and the one you give yourself, so, get in this book.
Hey, grace is the opposite of having to do these things we're reading about.
Grace is not having to forsake your house, your land, your brother, your sister, father, mother, wife, and children, but that was, yes, that was the gospel of the kingdom.
We just read it.
In clear red letters right here on the page of the Lord Jesus Christ himself, those things had to be done.
Why?
Jesus told them to inherit everlasting life, a very simple message.
To inherit everlasting life, it would have been hard for anyone to comply
with what Jesus said, but especially, especially those with great wealth.
Hence the reason for Mark chapter 10, there where over there where Jesus said, (24b) Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! (25) It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mark chapter 10 verse, verse 24 and 25.
Hey, that this has no application for today's gospel of grace.
And you're teaching a fairy tale gospel if you say it is.
Rich, poor, whatever, doesn't matter today when someone hears and believes the gospel of their salvation, they're saved.
They don't have to abandon anything.
No forsaking, nothing about a camel going through an eye of a needle in our gospel.
Today, it's about the simplicity of Christ.
The gospel Jesus gave to Paul.
To further the point, think about what Paul wrote, a, wrote there in 1 Corinthians chapter 9.
He said, He was given a dispensation of the gospel.
Think about that.
Paul was given a dispensation of the gospel for his very own.
Who else said that?
People who pretend and play church and say, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
that's where I find my instructions.
They have a rough time when they come to verses like this, like this one here in Matthew 19:21.
They come here to where Jesus said to, Inherit everlasting life, you got to forsake your house, your family, and all your land,...
and they'll say something like, Well, what Jesus was really trying to say,...
Hey, he wasn't trying to say anything.
He said it perfectly, very frankly and candidly by the way.
See, the remedy to your problem would be to believe what he said.
Part of the maintenance plan for those under the gospel of the kingdom was to forsake all, and if you don't believe that, your problem isn't with preachers like me.
Your problem is with the word of God.
Sadly, it seems that his word is not your final authority that traditions of men is.
A Bible believing student, a student of God's word, shouldn't have any trouble, seeing very plainly that the gospel of the kingdom is totally detached from Paul's, "my gospel."
He says, "my gospel" three times and for good reason.
It's different.
The gospel of the kingdom does not tell us how we receive life.
The gospel Jesus gave Paul does.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, trust in him that his death, burial and resurrection will see you through.
No mistake about it.
No sins imputed.
He shed his blood for them all.
They buried him and he has risen.
Praise God.