The Mystery of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

The denial of scripture is the hallmark of false doctrine.
We were made sinners. To deny it is to deny scripture.
Those God transfers into Christ are made righteous.
By the numbers:
1) The gospel of Christ was mentioned in the Old Testament, but not presented clearly, thus the gospel of Christ had been a mystery within the Old Testament.
2) But in the New Testament, the Gospel of Christ was presented clearly, and is no longer a mystery to those who accept what scripture says rather than rewrite it according to some man-made doctrine.
3) Part of the Gospel is we were chosen for salvation through faith in the truth.
4) Part of the Gospel is we were made righteous through the blood of Christ
5) Part of the Gospel is Christ died for all mankind, a truth partially revealed in the Old Testament.

 

Being justified in Christ, we are not sinners in the eyes of God. But we think and do sinful things, and so we strive with the help of our indwelt Holy Spirit, to be more like our sinless Lord and Savior.

 

I skipped over most of the last 7 pages so someone probably mentioned this.

There are IMO 2 "mysteries" (formerly unrevealed truth) of the gospel.

1) That the promised messiah - deliverer/restorer from sin - would be God come in the flesh.
2) The gentiles would be full recipients of the messianic promise.

 

Again, the messiah was not a mystery.
Each of these knew of the promise of redemption and such was NOT hidden, but looked forward to as a promise by God through the law and the prophets.

Elizabeth:

“Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”​

Zachariah:

“76And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
77to give his people the knowcledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
78because of the tender mercy of our God,”​

Simeon:

29“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismissd your servant in peace.
30For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: 32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.”​

If the Scriptures to the Jews were a benefit, as all the law and prophets do, they point to both a redeemer and ruler messiah. A delivering messiah from both physical and spiritual oppression.

What WAS hidden from the prophets and the law was that there would be a “church.”

The great assembly of all believers from all time

That is the “mystery of the Gospel.” Not that the Gospel was the mystery, but the mystery OF the gospel.

This thinking and posting that the message and work of Christ was in some manner a hidden secrete from the ancients is false.

Do the folks not know that even our Lord pointed to the law and prophets because, “they spoke of me (Him).”

If they (law and prophets) spoke of Him, then there is no mystery of the gospel.

The mystery is the church, that which was never revealed in the law or prophets.

 

The Messiah was not a mystery but that He would be the incarnation of the I AM was.

Another "mystery" I thought of was that He would through His blood atonement make the Holy of Holies beyond the veil accessible to humankind through the High Priest sacrifice of the New Covenant after the order of Melchizedek.

whosoever will may come.

There is NO EXCUSE!

Acts 17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent,

 

I disagree, Hank.

What the teaching of the promise was is that there would be a suffering Messiah that would raise to the level of being both the political and spiritual redeemer.

In the temple/tabernacle days, the blood atonement was a picture of the promised messiah, but what was hidden (and you are correct in this) was that torn veil significant as all may come, the salvation is for all, no longer hidden from the all and only the appointed could see and occasionally enter. (This is part of the Melchizedek teaching of Paul).

Your Acts 17 verse supports that all people without regard to station, gender, or ethnicity are included, This was the mystery - the church.

The great “unveiling,” that great rending of the curtain, was not disclosing of the gospel, for the blood of substitution had long been presented as the promised messiah, but the availability of that gospel to all, the forming of the body of believers, the assembly, the church that was hidden.

 

OK that sounds good

 

Hank, you are a worker of peace.

What part of the earth do you desire to inherit?

 

Hawaii

 

What you have done is set up an unbiblical standard "go into Genesis" to show that Abraham understood this. I will tell you that it is not necessary to go into Genesis to show you this as it is never addressed there, however I can prove it elsewhere in scripture:

John 4:25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

Luk_24:44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

Luk 24:25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Luk 24:26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
Luk 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Not sure why that has to be explained.

 

True, but we still have our pesky sin natures that always want us to stay away and apart from God!

 

Uh I thought, according to Calvinism, our natures were changed.

 

Hi Revmitchell, yes one of the ploys used by Calvinists is to assert non-Calvinist doctrine apparently to muddy the water, but your cited example may be purely accidental. In any event, those who have been born anew love God and strive to keep His commands.
Romans 8:28
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

 

Still have old sin nature, but now also have the new nature in us....

 

No, I mean they claim our natures had to be changed in order to be made alive. Now this one is claiming it is the same nature that causes sin. Can't have it both ways.

 

So where does scripture delineate these two natures?

 

ALL who have ever been saved, whether in OT or NT, were saved on the basis of the Cross of Christ, and them having faith in what was revealed to them by God concerning that event.
The OT saints looked forward, while we have the greater revelation knowledge, and look back to the Cross.
Its really a measure of just how much revelation God was granting towards His own in which time in history here...

 

Your mistake, and it is a weird one, is that you believe that the entire gospel was a mystery. How embarrassing, this is what they mystery was:

Eph_3:6 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs,

Boom, mystery over and that was not the entire gospel. Now do I have to break it down an explain what "fellow heirs" means to you?