PAULS GOSPEL by William Newell July 10, 2014 at 10:19pm THERE are two great revelators, or unfolders of Divine Truth in the Bible—Moses in the Old Testament and Paul in the New. Here Mr. Newell expounds the uniqueness of Pauls ministry. 1. The UNRIGHTEOUSNESS before God of all men. 2. The impossibility of justification by works before God— that is, of any man’s attaining a standing of righteousness before God by anything done by him. 3. The scriptural fact of righteousness on the FREE GIFT principle—that is, of Divine righteousness, separate from all man’s doings, conferred upon man as a free gift from God. 4. Propitiation—Gods satisfaction regarding man’s sins rendered by Christ’s blood. 5. Reconciliation—the removal by Christ’s death for man of that obstacle to righteousness which man’s sin had set up between God and man. Man-Gods enemy, brought nigh. 6. The the actual conferring of the gift of righteousness upon all who believe,without any distinction. This change of a sinner’s standing before God, from one of condemnation to one of righteousness, is called Justification. Negatively, it is deliverance from guilt on account of Christ’s shed blood and deliverance out of the old creation by identification in death with Christ on the Cross. Positively, it is a new standing in the risen Christ before God. 7. Redemption—the buying back of the soul through the blood of Christ from sin; from the curse of the law—even death,involving exclusion from God under penalty; from the power of death, which involves the hand of the enemy; and from all iniquity. There is the purchase of all men, and a loosing for them that believe. 8. Forgiveness—the going forth of Divine tenderness in remitting the penalty for sin in view of the blood of Christ trusted in, and in complacency and fellowship to creatures who before were rightly under Divine judgment. 9. Remission of sins—that is, the actual removing of transgressions or trespasses from the sinner, so that for all time and eternity his sins shall not again be upon him. 10. Identification—(see above, Justification). The great fact that those who are in Christ were united with Him at the Cross by God’s sovereign inscrutable act and were crucified with Christ and buried with Him,so that their history (in their sins, and in Adam their head) is now ended before God. And when Christ was raised up as the Firstborn of the new creation,they also were raised up with Him and their history began as new creatures in God’s sight in Christ, the Last Adam. Of course, in the experience of the Christian there comes a time when he is (he must be!) actually made partaker of this new life—that point of time when he is, as we say, saved, or converted, or born again, etc. Nevertheless, the life that is in every Christian came up out of the Tomb, and it is in Christ Jesus that a man is created anew. 11. Incorporation—This tremendous doctrine Paul alone mentions, and he makes it practically the foundation of all his exhortations to the saints with regard to their conduct and life. By incorporation we mean the fact that all those who are really saved and are new creatures in Christ Jesus become members of one organism (called the Body of Christ), which is more real than the very earth we tread upon—Christ Himself in Heaven being the Head of this Body and every real Christian a member of it. So that believers are thus members of Christ in Heaven and also members one of another here on earth. No wonder Paul is able to exhort the saints to love one another when they are members one of another! (Rom. 12; 1 Cor. 12; Eph. 4). 12. Inhabitation—The wonderful fact that the Body of Christ and each member of it individually is indwelt by the Holy Spirit Himself, and not only so, but that the Church is being built together as a great temple of God so that in the future God’s actual eternal dwelling place will be this wonderful, mysterious company built into a building called a holy habitation of God in the Spirit. This mystery is a great and marvelous one—the fact that we are saved, are partakers now of the life of the Lord in glory, that the Holy Spirit indwells us. 13. Divine Exhibition—That is, that through the Church in the ages to come is to be made known that which God counts Hisriches, even His Grace (Eph. 2:7; 3:10). We also learn in Eph. 3:10 that the church is a divine exhibition- to the angelic host- of the wisdom of God. ...thanks Greg Noebel
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