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“For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. [*2 Corinthians 2: 17 (KJV)]”
“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. [*2 Corinthians 4: 1, 2 (KJV)]"
“And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. [*2 Peter 3: 15-17 (KJV)]”
The glorious gospel of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; it takes a theologian to screw it up! The preaching of the cross is the power of God, and the wisdom of God unto salvation, from the clutches of both ourselves and our own self-righteousness; but once again, we’ve become entangled, ensnared, wrapped up in… even, preferring… competitive, scriptural intellectualism with its vainglory, over the cross, being completely void of any power at all! What was Apostle Paul’s prayer to God, for natural Israel? “That they might be saved.” But “saved” from what, or from whom? Some place, called, “Hell,” is nowhere mentioned; neither is “hell” mentioned in any of Apostle Paul’s writings! So again, “saved” from what, or from whom?? Apostle Paul’s heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel was, that they might be saved from their ignorance of God's righteousness; which in turn, was driving them to go about attempting to establish their own righteousness. They hadn’t “submitted” themselves unto the righteousness of God! What is this “righteousness of God”? The true image and likeness of our heavenly Father; as He is only seen in, and by, and through, and because of The Lamb! And this would also include the mystery of our inclusion in The Lamb; as no one was excluded, outside of The Lamb!
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