Table of Contents (abbreviated)
The Importance of the Scriptures
The Final Gospel and the Plan
Grace and the Final Gospel
The Story of the New Gospel
The Gospel of Christ is Revealed
The Final Gospel is Grace
The In-Christ Revolution Gospel
The In-Christ Truth inthe Foundation
What Was Finished at the Cross?
Humans are Created to be Christians
Three-fold Deliverance
Our Body Containers
Separating Soul and Spirit
The Proper Place of the Holy Spirit
Grace and Truth Comes By Jesus Christ
Confusion in Teaching One Gospel
Transformed by Christ's Message
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#1 The Importance of the Scriptures
Someone wrote me recently concerning the term I often use: “final gospel.” This person wondered what I meant by “final gospel.” He was taken up with the idea that there was only one gospel in the Bible. This, of course, is the teaching of many believers who think there is only one message that God has ever given to humans. To believe this, however, is to be denied the fullness of what the Father is doing today. What the Father is doing today could be the answer to the world’s problems and needs.
What the Father is doing today is not just a fulfillment of everything that is mentioned in the Scriptures, but presents the joy of a totally new way of living. This is only mentioned in less than one-fifth of the Scriptures.
To condense the Scriptures to one-fifth seems heretical to some. But it is a fact that the final gospel is mentioned and taught in this small amount of text. How did the final gospel come about? Who gave it? Who wrote it?
These are the questions that only have answers in our most important relationship with our Heavenly Father. Over time, I have learned that the born-again believer’s spiritual growth is anchored to the Father Who birthed him. If he does not know about this birthing and all it means, a believer never becomes who he is taught to be by the Scriptures. How did the final gospel come about?
It started in the Father’s house before anything concerning the Earth was created. Ephesians 1:4 is clearly the first mention of the final gospel. The heart of this verse is that humanity was chosen by our Heavenly Father to be “in Christ.” Before the world was created until the death of Christ, there was nothing said about humans being “in Christ.” This part of the plan of God, that He would need to put Christ in humans in order for Him to have His own birthed family, could not have come about until He had tried everything possible to change humans from their erring ways.
It took over 4,000 years of time, where God dealt with humanity in every conceivable way, through time periods called dispensations. Each dispensation had a different gospel. There was only one overall plan but with many different gospels to achieve that plan. Four-fifths of the Scriptures deal with a single fact; God was seeking a people who would love Him. Now, in |