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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 56
I John 1:1 – 1:9
So come back to John’s Gospel chapter 3 verse 17.
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Remember in our last lesson we read - "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." All have sinned! Now finishing verse 18.
"…because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19. And this is the condemnation, (here’s God’s point of controversy) that light (that can expel darkness) is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,.…" I’ve often wondered why barrooms are almost totally dark.
That "Christ died for our sins, and that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures." Luke 18:31
Look at the next verse.
I John chapter 1 verse 9. Forgiven!
Paul’s Gospel teaches that the moment you believe, you’re forgiven all trespasses – past, present, and future. But that’s not the way this verse 9 in I John approaches it. Well, this verse in I John is still Kingdom ground. John has no concept of the Gospel of Grace. John has no concept of our relationship with Christ as the Head of the Body. He’s dealing with Jews in the Kingdom economy. Repent and be baptized. Our instructions are that we believe in our heart the finished work of the cross for our salvation! Verse 9 again.
"If we confess our sins, (if we repent, then) he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,.…" God forgave him. That if we confess our sins – if we repent of our sins as a lot of people are still preaching today, then of course, He’s faithful and just to forgive. Now we’ve got to compare how Paul approaches this whole thing under Grace – Paul, our Apostle of the Gentiles. We’re all sons of Adam. And we’re sinners. Romans 3 verse 23; a verse I think that just about everybody knows from memory.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" That’s what verse 23 says. For everybody has sinned and come short of the glory of God, but oh, now read on, verse 24.
Romans 3:24-25
"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25. Now verse 26.
Romans 3:26a
Is that what Paul teaches here? NO!! Romans 3:26b
"…which believeth in Jesus."
Shock and awe? God justifies us.
I Corinthians chapter 1 verse 17 – now what a difference and it’s supposed to be. We’re a whole different economy with Paul’s preaching. We’re not under that Kingdom economy (that was Israel). The Kingdom economy again. (Law) Nothing of Paul’s Gospel of Grace. See? Paul’s epistles.
What Peter and John were preaching applied to Israel. We’re under the Gospel of the Grace of God, which He gave to Paul for us. All right, I Corinthians chapter 1 verse 17 where Paul writes:
I Corinthians 1:17a
"For Christ sent me not to baptize,.…" Well goodness sakes, what did he send John the Baptist to do? I Corinthians 1:17a
"For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:.…" And that Gospel of Salvation according to I Corinthians 15:1-4 is, "Believe in your heart that Jesus died, was buried, and rose again."
"For the preaching of the cross (not the Messiahship of Christ, it’s the cross of Christ) is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved (those of us who have now been declared justified by our faith in the finished work of the cross) it is the power of God."
Leave the Kingdom economy with Israel and believe this Gospel of Grace that’s appropriate for us today (that we receive from the Apostle Paul’s writings).
This whole long chapter has 58 verses. The resurrection. James and Peter and John never mention it. We just saw where John said that "If we have fellowship one with another and walk in the light then the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us." That’s the only reference those men make to the work of the cross.
But the Apostle Paul – that’s all he knows – that everything was consummated when Christ went to that cross, shed His blood, was put to death and rose victorious over everything that opposed. Not ‘a’ Gospel of salvation, but ‘the’ Gospel of salvation.
"Moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2. So you don’t have a choice to choose either the Gospel of the Kingdom which was preached to the Jews by the Twelve, or the Gospel of Grace which was preached by Paul. Because when God saved Paul, and gave him these revelations for the Gentiles in this Church Age, the Gospel we must believe was complete once and for all. So, people that don’t believe Paul’s Gospel are believing in vain.
All right, "How that he died for our sins according to the Scriptures, the Old Testament.

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