THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

 

What is the gospel of Jesus Christ ?  In a few words here it is below.

True Christians, GODS chosen elect saints, actually heard and understood the true gospel. 

Ephesians 1:13 “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation.  When you believed you were marked in him with a seal, the promise of the Holy Spirit.”

If you don’t know the true gospel then you are not marked in Christ, not sealed and do not have the Holy Spirit.  Anyone preaching a lying gospel is cursed. 

 Galatians 1:8 “but if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the gospel we preached to you let him be under a curse.”

The true gospel of Jesus Christ is: that when you are converted and given the Holy Spirit you have the hope, the promise , the guarantee of immortality and become an heir with Christ having access to forgiveness of your sins upon sincere repentance. You will receive salvation which is everlasting life as an immortal, impeccable spirit being in the kingdom of GOD when Jesus returns. 

 Even if you die before Christ returns you will be raised from the dead to live again as an immortal spirit being. It is the one who endures to the end that is saved. When you die you die in this hope, to receive salvation, which is everlasting life, to inherit the kingdom.  The only way to live again is by a resurrection from the dead that happens at the last day, the appearing of Jesus the second time or the second advent.  The Apostle Paul explains this thoroughly as follows;

 1 Corinthians 15:2 “by this gospel you are saved”

  then verses 35-49. 

35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” 36 Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind  of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial bodies and  terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised (resurrected) in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised (resurrected) in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised (resurrected) a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made  of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the  man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall (In the resurrection at the last day) also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

 then we have verses 51-54

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep (that is be unconsciously dead) , but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

The seventh trumpet is the return of Jesus, the last day Jesus spoke about in the gospels, and this is when the dead live again.

 1 Peter 1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who foretold the grace to come to you, ...

1 Peter 1:3-5

 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

This change Paul describes is the resurrection of the elect saints at the return of Christ and at that time is when the dead in Christ are made alive again and have put on immortality, at the last trump. Then see 1 Corinthians 15:52  “For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 

2 Corinthians 5:1-5 “For we know that if this earthly body is destroyed we have another body from GOD, a body not made with human hands everlasting in the heavens. For this body we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed with our new body which is from heaven. if indeed having been clothed we shall not be naked. For in this physical body we groan not because we want to be unclothed but further clothed that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now HE that prepared us for this very thing is GOD who also has given us HIS spirit as a guarantee.” 

John 14:2-3 “In my FATHERS house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again (the return of Jesus) and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also.”

It is at THE RETURN OF CHRIST that the saints live again, not before, therefore all who believe in instant life after death are wrong and deceived.

In the book of Job read this scripture, Job 14:13-15

 13 “Oh, that You would hide me in the grave,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my hard service I will wait,
Till my change comes.
15 You shall call, and I will answer You;
You shall desire the work of Your hands.

 Job knew about the first resurrection and that he would be dead, have no life, until the resurrection at the last day when Christ returns.  No human being, including Jesus, survived in any manner after death. To say anyone has is a lie, a false gospel. 

Hebrews 9:28

27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

Colossians 3:3-4

  3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

John 6:39-40

 39 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

It is the last day, the return of Jesus, when the dead are made alive again and immortal by the first resurrection .

Anyone who teaches or believes that somehow either Jesus or any of the saints survives death and exists consciously is under a curse for preaching a different gospel.  

Righteous anger is motivated by the desire to protect the truth, not just to cause harm out of selfish ambition.

Mark 3:5  “Jesus looked around at them in anger being grieved by the hardness of their hearts….”

Acts 17:16   “Now when Paul was waiting for them in Athens his spirit was greatly angered to see the city was full of idols.”

The true gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended by GODS elect if one who comes among them blasphemes the gospel message.  Righteous anger may flare up if this person refuses to hear the truth and yet attempts to bring a lie into the church. The People of this world we leave alone, it is only a person who comes among us that we concern ourselves with.  Then depending on how that person responds to the correction of the elect, they will either listen to us or be offended a leave fellowship.

The gospel is the most precious message of all and we elect saints have been greatly blessed to have been taught it by GOD through Jesus Christ.