Post by der on Jul 13, 2010 14:20:13 GMT 10
Les Felthingy says this
I Corinthians 15:1
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, (And these Corinthians came out of their paganism because of Paul's Gospel.) which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;" Now what was Paul's Gospel? Well in a nutshell we find it in these next 3 verses, and then we're going to go back and look at some of the other ramifications of it. But in these next 3 verses he says:
I Corinthians 15:2a
"By which also ye are saved,..."
Now I know that a lot of people don't like that word, but nevertheless it's a Scriptural term that refers to that act of God that takes us out of darkness and eternal doom in our future, and instead He covers us with His righteousness. He puts our feet upon the Rock, He gives us the Lamp unto our pathway. He puts our name in the Lamb's Book of Life. He places us in the Body of Christ, and we are constantly now a people with a heavenly citizenship, and we are headed for a glorious eternity. I was sharing with our Tulsa class the other night how few believers, I think, have any concept of the glory that the Body of Christ is going to enjoy in eternity. Now remember, in eternity it's going to be a whole new ball game. I think the whole universe is going to be brought back to it's origin. I think everything, heaven, earth, and everything that has ever been created is going to be brought back to a nothingness and recreated more glorious than ever before. Because everything in the universe has been tainted by the old devil himself, and so God is going to create it all new.
Now when we go into that eternal state as members of the Body of Christ (not part of Israel which will enjoy their earthly domain on the new earth), we're a heavenly people. What does that mean? I think we're going to rule and reign in this whole new universe that God is going to bring about. I think we're going to have places of responsibility, and you also want to remember, in that eternal state, there is no time, and distance means nothing. We'll be able to go from one end of the universe to the other in a split second of time, so don't let that bother you. We just can't imagine the glory that is waiting the believer, and the world down here thinks we're a bunch of kooks. They think that we try to shun some of the pleasures of this world for a few years, but they have no concept of the ratio. What is seventy years to unlimited billions of years, well you can't even put it into mathematical ratio. So Paul is speaking of that (the Gospel) which prepares us for that kind of eternity when he says:
I Corinthians 15:2
"By which also ye are saved, (but you've got to know what you believe, so the next part of the verse says) if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."
Then here comes the Gospel that saves you, and we've stressed it over and over on this program and in our classes. This is the Gospel! Now I don't have any fault with John 3:16, and I'm not going to tell people not to use that verse. Don't get me wrong. But listen, John 3:16 doesn't have this part of the Gospel. You have to use this in conjunction with John 3:16 to make sense, and what is it?
I Corinthians 15:3
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;"
It wasn't an accident that Christ died for our sins, because God had already planned it back in the eons of pre-eternal existence. He would create mankind, and man would sin, and He would bring about a plan of redemption. It was all in the foreknowledge and council of God according to Peter in Acts Chapter 2, and now verse 4:
I Corinthians 15:4
"And that he was buried, (now we can't leave that out, because we have to understand that Christ was truly dead. The purpose of the three days was to prove that there was no life left in Him.) and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:" Now that is what Paul calls my Gospel, and the Gospel you must believe for your salvation
I Corinthians 15:1
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, (And these Corinthians came out of their paganism because of Paul's Gospel.) which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;" Now what was Paul's Gospel? Well in a nutshell we find it in these next 3 verses, and then we're going to go back and look at some of the other ramifications of it. But in these next 3 verses he says:
I Corinthians 15:2a
"By which also ye are saved,..."
Now I know that a lot of people don't like that word, but nevertheless it's a Scriptural term that refers to that act of God that takes us out of darkness and eternal doom in our future, and instead He covers us with His righteousness. He puts our feet upon the Rock, He gives us the Lamp unto our pathway. He puts our name in the Lamb's Book of Life. He places us in the Body of Christ, and we are constantly now a people with a heavenly citizenship, and we are headed for a glorious eternity. I was sharing with our Tulsa class the other night how few believers, I think, have any concept of the glory that the Body of Christ is going to enjoy in eternity. Now remember, in eternity it's going to be a whole new ball game. I think the whole universe is going to be brought back to it's origin. I think everything, heaven, earth, and everything that has ever been created is going to be brought back to a nothingness and recreated more glorious than ever before. Because everything in the universe has been tainted by the old devil himself, and so God is going to create it all new.
Now when we go into that eternal state as members of the Body of Christ (not part of Israel which will enjoy their earthly domain on the new earth), we're a heavenly people. What does that mean? I think we're going to rule and reign in this whole new universe that God is going to bring about. I think we're going to have places of responsibility, and you also want to remember, in that eternal state, there is no time, and distance means nothing. We'll be able to go from one end of the universe to the other in a split second of time, so don't let that bother you. We just can't imagine the glory that is waiting the believer, and the world down here thinks we're a bunch of kooks. They think that we try to shun some of the pleasures of this world for a few years, but they have no concept of the ratio. What is seventy years to unlimited billions of years, well you can't even put it into mathematical ratio. So Paul is speaking of that (the Gospel) which prepares us for that kind of eternity when he says:
I Corinthians 15:2
"By which also ye are saved, (but you've got to know what you believe, so the next part of the verse says) if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."
Then here comes the Gospel that saves you, and we've stressed it over and over on this program and in our classes. This is the Gospel! Now I don't have any fault with John 3:16, and I'm not going to tell people not to use that verse. Don't get me wrong. But listen, John 3:16 doesn't have this part of the Gospel. You have to use this in conjunction with John 3:16 to make sense, and what is it?
I Corinthians 15:3
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;"
It wasn't an accident that Christ died for our sins, because God had already planned it back in the eons of pre-eternal existence. He would create mankind, and man would sin, and He would bring about a plan of redemption. It was all in the foreknowledge and council of God according to Peter in Acts Chapter 2, and now verse 4:
I Corinthians 15:4
"And that he was buried, (now we can't leave that out, because we have to understand that Christ was truly dead. The purpose of the three days was to prove that there was no life left in Him.) and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:" Now that is what Paul calls my Gospel, and the Gospel you must believe for your salvation