"The True Gospel.
I would like to share with you what I understand to be the true, more complete gospel, which virtually all churches miscommunicate.
Jesus gave us one primary commandment, which is two-fold. All other subsequent commandments uphold his primary, new commandment, and they are not burdensome.
*[1Jo 3:23-24 NASB95] 23 This is His commandment, that we **believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another**, just as He commanded us. 24 **The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.***
*[1Jo 5:3 NASB95] 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and **His commandments are not burdensome.***
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* We are to believe on the Son of God; his death for our sins, burial, and resurrection.
* We are to cease from sin and obey his commandment to love one another. Again, it's not too difficult. If we do this til the end, we will be saved.
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In Romans 7-8, Paul explained that in Christ we are released from our bondage to sin, so we really never have to sin again, or even operate under the assumption that we will sin again.
*[Rom 6:1-2 NASB95] 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! **How shall we who died to sin still live in it?***
*[Rom 7:6 NASB95] 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.*
*[Rom 8:12-13 NASB95] 12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- 13 for **if you are living according to the flesh, you must die**; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.*
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If we do sin, we can repent and confess it, but it really should not be a chronic issue or struggle.
*[1Jo 2:1 NASB95] 1 My little children, **I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin**. And **if anyone sins**, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;*
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Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the god of this world. We are to crucify the flesh with its passions and desires to move on to maturity.
*[Gal 5:24 NASB95] 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.*
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At most, sin should be a rare anomaly in our lives.
*[1Pe 4:1-3 NASB95] 1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, **arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For the time already past is sufficient [for you] to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles**, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.*"
----Pleronomicon (Reddit)
I would like to share with you what I understand to be the true, more complete gospel, which virtually all churches miscommunicate.
Jesus gave us one primary commandment, which is two-fold. All other subsequent commandments uphold his primary, new commandment, and they are not burdensome.
*[1Jo 3:23-24 NASB95] 23 This is His commandment, that we **believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another**, just as He commanded us. 24 **The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.***
*[1Jo 5:3 NASB95] 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and **His commandments are not burdensome.***
​
* We are to believe on the Son of God; his death for our sins, burial, and resurrection.
* We are to cease from sin and obey his commandment to love one another. Again, it's not too difficult. If we do this til the end, we will be saved.
​
In Romans 7-8, Paul explained that in Christ we are released from our bondage to sin, so we really never have to sin again, or even operate under the assumption that we will sin again.
*[Rom 6:1-2 NASB95] 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! **How shall we who died to sin still live in it?***
*[Rom 7:6 NASB95] 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.*
*[Rom 8:12-13 NASB95] 12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- 13 for **if you are living according to the flesh, you must die**; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.*
​
If we do sin, we can repent and confess it, but it really should not be a chronic issue or struggle.
*[1Jo 2:1 NASB95] 1 My little children, **I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin**. And **if anyone sins**, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;*
​
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the god of this world. We are to crucify the flesh with its passions and desires to move on to maturity.
*[Gal 5:24 NASB95] 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.*
​
At most, sin should be a rare anomaly in our lives.
*[1Pe 4:1-3 NASB95] 1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, **arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For the time already past is sufficient [for you] to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles**, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.*"
----Pleronomicon (Reddit)
