- The gospel that Paul preached was not intended to help men perfect themselves in the flesh. Paul preached the cross of Christ, the cross that solves the problem of the flesh. The word of the cross is foolishness to the Jews, but salvation to us. Let us not preach worldly wisdom, because that does not solve anything. It is the word of the cross that solves things. We are all saved by the foolishness of preaching (Rom 8:3; 1 Cor 1:18-20).
- We have been set free by grace, through faith in Christ. Do we want to go back to slavery? We have been set free from the law to live in newness of life. We have died, been buried, and been raised with Christ; we are now in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. This is in the realm of faith; let us not go back to the realm of slavery. Thanks be to the Lord; it is by grace that we are saved! (Rom 6:4-10; Eph 2:4-6).
- The “other gospel” is to associate the practices of the law of Moses with faith. Faith takes us to the heavenly realms, but the practice of the law brings us back to earth. They are two completely different things, opposite, irreconcilable, unequal; it is impossible to reconcile faith with the law. Returning to the practice of the law paralyzes the work of God in the New Testament, and paralyzes the work of the Spirit (Acts 15:1,5; Eph 2:8).
- Today we are in the line of the Spirit. God wants to win people who are born of the Spirit and live in newness of life. In the Spirit there is always newness; in the law there is oldness, something repetitive, immobile, without joy or brightness in the eyes, but the Spirit has freedom, newness, freshness. The elderly need to learn to walk more in the newness of the Spirit, in the newness of life! (John 3:1-8; Rom 6:4; 7:6).
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