The Gospel has been reduced from Jesus single handily saving humanity at the cross through himself once and for all to telling people if they dont believe they will go to hell! A very interesting fact is the doctrine of hell never existed until after the 1600s after the church split and you had your Armenianism and Calvinism show up on the scene but yet people act like Its sound theology! The majority of whats being taught today has only existed a few hundred years. The word hell is the world in the Hebrew Sheol which simply means death! David said in Psalms 139:8 If I go up to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, you are there. Man listen the Gospel has nothing to do with our efforts and what we believe but it has everything to do with Christ and His cross! The Gospel is a scandalous message and it invalidates anything we could possibly do to think we played any part in it other than being there mystically with Him! Just as you became a sinner because of ones man disobedience without your choice, so did Christ saving act make you righteous without your choice! You are saved because Christ saved you not because you mustered up enough faith to believe in Him! Colossians 3:11 tells us, Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Then you have the people that say well Romans 10:9 says If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. So we have cherry picked one scripture to puff us up in our self righteous to think we are headed to Heaven and some other people are headed to hell because we made the right choice but lets not forget what Paul says in Romans 14, As surely as I live, says the LORD, every knee will bend to me, and every tongue will confess and give praise to God. Man just rest from your works and striving to get what you already got and know its all gonna be okay! God had the cheat code book for humanity before we ever begun! Lets all remember Christ was the lamb slain before the foundation of the world and we were found in Christ before we were ever lost in Adam! Again just as David said In Psalms If I go up to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, you are there. There is nothing that exist outside of God! We are beautifully included in Him and there is NO ESCAPING HIM! Separation doesnt exist, it is all an illusion! Just as Paul said in Romans 8:38-39 tells us, And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from Gods love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow--not even the powers of hell can separate us from Gods love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below--indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. Also John 12:32 tells us, And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. It makes no since at all to believe in a God who would send his very creation to be tortured because of not making the right choice or believing the exact truth. No where does hell in scripture even mean a torture chamber or this place God isnt. Its simply defined as death which in my opinion is the very state of unbelief! I would also go as far as saying many people are atheist and have switched to other religions because of how the institutional church has treated people and have hurt so many and the bullshit being taught in the pulpits. People want to hear good news and sick of bad news! They work all week and have a ruff week then come up to church and are told if they say shit before they die they are going to hell or they are unworthy of Gods love. It makes no since theologically, scientifically, and practically if we are honest! We should all remember truth is not a doctrine but rather it is a person! Then the question arises: if we are all saved what the point of preaching? Thats a great question! I believe the reason for sharing this good news is because many dont know it and we were created to enjoy our effortless union with Him and enjoy bliss right now! This gospel isnt about getting you to Heaven but how Heaven is already inside of you! We were created in a garden of pleasure (Eden) and we were created to enjoy this beautiful thing called life! Eternity has already begun! Share the good news of our reconciliation so people can start to enjoy the party they have been included in all along! If no one knows there is a party going on how can they enjoy it? The party has always been going! Wake up and start enjoying your life and have fun! We do not have the ministry of reconciliation but we carry the very message of reconciliation in our DNA! Apostle Paul tells us again in 2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Love you so much guys! Its all gonna be okay! We do all have these 2 choices: to enjoy our inclusion or to be miserable and reject our inclusion but the bottom line is ALL ARE INCLUDED!
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:13:09 +0000
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