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Let me talk to you about how to get up to speed, regarding understanding the NT, Paul, and "justification by faith".
Saint....The Bible, the entire bible, is God showing you how He deals with mankind, over time, making changes.
And revelation changes, because the bible is a book of progressive revelation.
The word of God is "being revealed", as time manifest this reality before you very eyes.
For example, you have the Old Testament, which is not the New Testament.
You have the Old Covenant, which is not the New Covenant.
In the Old, you have animal sacrifices that could not keep you righteous or make you righteous.
In the New Testament God CHANGED all this, and offered HIMSELF as Christ's Blood, which is freely given, and this BLOOD Atonement IS the eternal Power to not only keep you sinless, but keep you saved.
So, see that difference?
That is God doing something in the past, that He changed into something different and completed, or as Jesus said from the Cross..."it is FINISHED", or "it is Accomplished".
= Your Salvation.
So, the Bible is a book of progressive revelation.., and you have to catch up and stay in the current, or you will be found stuck in the previous that is irrelevant.
2nd Key.
When reading what an Apostle has written, you have to discern this according to the same rule that rightly divides the word of God.
This rule is.....God's word is a progressive revelation.
For example, right now we are in the "time of the Gentiles"....and there are RULES related to this dispensation.
This "time of the Gentiles" will END, and that means new rules , the next revelation, will begin, and that is the Great Trib.
And after that, more revelation, and more new rules..
So...when you are reading an Apostles letters, or you are reading what they do in the Acts of the Apostles, you have to always realize that they were learning about the next God given revelation, same as you.
And not all of them had the same revelation of what God was doing= at that time.
If you can realize this.......and find this LIGHT< then you can keep from becoming trapped in a cult's theology, that was created because they stopped in a past revelation, and God kept going as the word, being revealed.
So, lets look at Acts 2:38.
This is a transition chapter, where you have Peter enlisting the OT "water baptism" theology, of the Jews,.
And that is what he knew at the time...
But God's REVELATION moved on, because the Cross was now given, the Blood of Jesus was now shed, and the "Gift of Salvation" was the = new Revelation.
See, "the Gift of Salvation" is not water baptism.....
The Gift of Salvation is the NEW REVELATION of the "Gospel of the Grace of God", which is "justification by faith".
See that?
THat is God bringing in the new Light, that Peter didnt have yet, in Acts 2.
What happened is this...... AFTER Acts 2, Jesus called PAUL to be the chosen "apostle to the gentiles', IN THE "TIME OF THE GENTILES", ....AND Paul was given the next reveal, which is what Paul calls "my Gospel"..
And THAT ONE< is "faith is accepted as righteousness". "without works".
Paul's Gospel, is the current revelation of Salvation that is active in the "time of the Gentiles", that Peter was not given yet, in Acts 2.
Result? Peter can't preach in Acts 2 what Peter does not yet know.
So, if you are in a denomination that is preaching Peter's Acts 2 water baptism, then your denomination is not "current revelation", as found in Paul's gospel, that came LATER.
The current revelation is "time of the Gentiles" and that is Paul the "gentile apostle" with all the Light given that you are to understand, so that you are following the correct Light of Revelation, in the "time of the Gentiles", given to you by the "Apostle TO the Gentiles"
Let me talk to you about how to get up to speed, regarding understanding the NT, Paul, and "justification by faith".
Saint....The Bible, the entire bible, is God showing you how He deals with mankind, over time, making changes.
And revelation changes, because the bible is a book of progressive revelation.
The word of God is "being revealed", as time manifest this reality before you very eyes.
For example, you have the Old Testament, which is not the New Testament.
You have the Old Covenant, which is not the New Covenant.
In the Old, you have animal sacrifices that could not keep you righteous or make you righteous.
In the New Testament God CHANGED all this, and offered HIMSELF as Christ's Blood, which is freely given, and this BLOOD Atonement IS the eternal Power to not only keep you sinless, but keep you saved.
So, see that difference?
That is God doing something in the past, that He changed into something different and completed, or as Jesus said from the Cross..."it is FINISHED", or "it is Accomplished".
= Your Salvation.
So, the Bible is a book of progressive revelation.., and you have to catch up and stay in the current, or you will be found stuck in the previous that is irrelevant.
2nd Key.
When reading what an Apostle has written, you have to discern this according to the same rule that rightly divides the word of God.
This rule is.....God's word is a progressive revelation.
For example, right now we are in the "time of the Gentiles"....and there are RULES related to this dispensation.
This "time of the Gentiles" will END, and that means new rules , the next revelation, will begin, and that is the Great Trib.
And after that, more revelation, and more new rules..
So...when you are reading an Apostles letters, or you are reading what they do in the Acts of the Apostles, you have to always realize that they were learning about the next God given revelation, same as you.
And not all of them had the same revelation of what God was doing= at that time.
If you can realize this.......and find this LIGHT< then you can keep from becoming trapped in a cult's theology, that was created because they stopped in a past revelation, and God kept going as the word, being revealed.
So, lets look at Acts 2:38.
This is a transition chapter, where you have Peter enlisting the OT "water baptism" theology, of the Jews,.
And that is what he knew at the time...
But God's REVELATION moved on, because the Cross was now given, the Blood of Jesus was now shed, and the "Gift of Salvation" was the = new Revelation.
See, "the Gift of Salvation" is not water baptism.....
The Gift of Salvation is the NEW REVELATION of the "Gospel of the Grace of God", which is "justification by faith".
See that?
THat is God bringing in the new Light, that Peter didnt have yet, in Acts 2.
What happened is this...... AFTER Acts 2, Jesus called PAUL to be the chosen "apostle to the gentiles', IN THE "TIME OF THE GENTILES", ....AND Paul was given the next reveal, which is what Paul calls "my Gospel"..
And THAT ONE< is "faith is accepted as righteousness". "without works".
Paul's Gospel, is the current revelation of Salvation that is active in the "time of the Gentiles", that Peter was not given yet, in Acts 2.
Result? Peter can't preach in Acts 2 what Peter does not yet know.
So, if you are in a denomination that is preaching Peter's Acts 2 water baptism, then your denomination is not "current revelation", as found in Paul's gospel, that came LATER.
The current revelation is "time of the Gentiles" and that is Paul the "gentile apostle" with all the Light given that you are to understand, so that you are following the correct Light of Revelation, in the "time of the Gentiles", given to you by the "Apostle TO the Gentiles"
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