Friday, November 14, 2008

The undefiled Gospel

The undefiled Gospel. Preaching Christ plainly:

Also be aware that this truth is what Paul was talking about when he said, "I did not come to you with lofty words but out of humility." What he was saying and pointing out was that he just pached Christ. He didn't try to water the Gospel down to impresd the intellegent or well learned. He didn't try to impress with eleoquent words like ninety percent of main line Church pastors do all the time with their glorified self help garbage. Paul did not preach with man's doctrines about God or man's desperate attempts at understanding God through their own impulse driven vain hearts. Paul was under the authority of the Spirit. He couldn't help preaching un-eloquently. Jesus was a meek humble servant, thus Paul pached out of Christ's character, who and what Christ was.

You see what I mean, Paul is a manifestation of the undefiled Gospel of Christ. Paul preached that very Gospel of Christ. If only our sheltered man appointed dead main line Churches could heed this Gospel. But we would rather make ourselves feel good about doing nothing.

When one is shown an undefiled Gospel of Christ, all fear, frailty, and weakness are gone. They are set for life, forever blood stained, forever ruined. This is why so many eleged Christians find it so hard to serve God. They have been shown a defiled gospel that is circumstancial, feeling, and emotionally based, robbing from and qwelling an even slight possible true move of the Holy Spirit in ones life to break the ones heart and make that one man into a holy temple capable of housing the Living God.

One of the biggest parts that will affect ones witness is whether or not ones life is lived out in the flesh, or the Spirit. Too many times does one preach based off of and upon emotions, feelings, and circumstance. A true life preached out of Christ and His resurrection, a life that is lived out to God is one that is like John the Baptists ministry whose sole message was "Behold the Lamb of God."

Always is our life to point back to Jesus, His power, His resurrection, His grace extended to us, always back to Jesus. How He CAN deliver us once and for all time from sin, and free us of it for all time. That through Him He has granted and given authority to cleanse the sick, (not just make them feel better while they still suffer) cast out devils and all unclean spirits and forms of uncleaniness. This is a very and completely Biblical thing of which I write.

It is not preached nor lived out of human frailty, fear, or weakness. Christ had neither, thus they are not in the Gospel of Christ. The gospel of man is not the Gospel of God. We must put away old things. We are not to take old things with us, things made from the flesh, unholy manifestations into the Holy presence of God, they cannot exist in His holy presence. Bob Gladstone said it best using King Uziah as an example stating that you cannot mix politics with the things of God and if you do you become unclean.

We must understand this, that His Gospel is not of weakness and false humility, it is of salvation, saved from our sins and a new man in us made, the New Man Christ Jesus in us. He did not bring back old things, He came and made new things. Salvation is not a drug that only deals with the symptoms and not the problem. Christ is the remedy. He doesn't make us feel better while we remain sinful, we are made a new creation. Our sin problem is remedied. The old man is killed. We are no longer of the earthly fallen kingdom but of the Heavenly kingdom where God dwells. We dwell with God and God with us, in God and God in us. And God cannot dwell where there is sin and uncleaniness, UNDERSTAND THAT. And we dwell with and in God right now, not some time in the future, NOW. We are His ambassadors who manifest His Kingdom here on earth, right now.

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