Posted on 12/11/2010 7:51:48 PM PST by bibletruth
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Paul writes by the authority of Christ Jesus and God the Holy Spirit, who penned these verses.
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you"
Here, Paul is declaring the gospel of grace which JESUS CHRIST PROVIDED PAUL after Acts 9. Paul was given the gospel of grace for which Paul was to preach to the Gentiles, and Peter to the Jews (and that is Biblical proof in Galatians 2:7-9). When Paul is preaching unto the believers in Corinthians, he states that they received his gospel:
"which also ye have received"
This verse shows clear evidence that Paul's preaching was to those who have received Paul's gospel in Corinth. A.K.A. Believers!
"and wherein ye stand;"
Clearly the verse here identifies that these believers "stand firm" on the gospel which Paul preached to them, indicating that they are fully saved saints, which is a declaration by God the Holy Spirit, not of man. When Paul makes a statement like "wherein ye stand", Paul has been given the authority directly by Christ Jesus to declare this gospel which is the stablished foundation for salvation. Paul's gospel is EQUAL and EFFECTUAL together with Peter's gospel to the Jews. (See Galatians 2:7-9)
"By which also ye are saved
The sequence: Preached. Received. Stand. And now Saved. Many proofs from Paul's authority to declare one who receives Paul's gospel is saved. And why can Paul make such a claim: because his gospel represents the gospel that God the Holy Spirit and Christ Jesus provided to Paul to preach to the Gentiles. And this gospel EFFECTUALLY works to call those whom hear and receive salvation, e,g., resulting in their saved and secured condition.
"if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."
Now this statement by Paul is not declaring that all the Corinthians believed in vain, rather, it is a reminder in strong language that Paul had formerly preached this gospel to the Corinthians - this past tense preaching event is evident from the statement Paul opens with in verse 1, e.g., "I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you". "Preached" is past tense. Paul formerly preached to these believers. Paul's warning then regarding "unless ye have believed in vain": this warning refers to admonish the Corinthians believers, that if they had not believed Paul's gospel, but acepted another gospel, another gospel of another kind (Galatians 1:6-8), then they would have believed that other gospel and not Paul's gospel, thus making their belief in vain. For Paul's gospel now saves: not another, but there be some that trouble and would prevert the gospel of grace of Christ. Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:6 "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:"
7 "Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ."
8 "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."
In Galatians 1:6, "unto another gospel", the Greek word "another" means "to transpose two things, one of which is put in the place of the other". The word means a gospel of another kind, not the gospel of Paul. The Galations, like so many "so called" believers today, are turning away from Paul and his teaching of the gospel of grace, unto the Judaizers with their teaching of salvation by works of the law.
In Galatians 1:7, "which is not another", the Greek word "another" here means it is not only a gospel of another kind, but it is not a gospel at all. Paul speaks of the Galatians turning to a gospel that is false in its doctrine. Thus the Galatians are turning to an opposition gospel diametrically opposed to Paul's message of grace, which was directly given to Paul to preach.
Then in Galatians 1:8, Paul Biblically warns: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."
Why does Paul give such a server warning? It is becuase Paul, through Christ Jesus, teaches this critical path to salvation: Propitiation.
Here lies God's perfect plan of PROPITIATION for the forgiveness of all sins of all time through the FINISHED WORK of Christ. This word "propitiation" only occurs inside Paul's epsitles. Only Paul teaches us about PROPITIATION (Romans 3:25):
Romans 3:25 "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;"
And that propitiation is accomplished at the FINISHED WORK of Christ on the cross. God the Father was fully satisified that Christ died for all sins, that a complete and full forgiveness through Christ's propitiation and our faith in his once for all blood sacrafice can be offered to us-ward to believe. Amen. That is now why Paul alone has the core verses for the gospel: died, buried, rose. Paul was commissioned to preach this gospel to Gentiles and this gospel is the formula which saves someone today (primarily because it has the ingredients of died, buried, rose) [other verses can be utilied, but Paul's gospel in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 is the full formula of died, buried, rose, third day]:
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;"
Paul now states the gospel, which he formerly had preached to the Corinthians back in verse 1, e.g., "I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you". Paul received this gospel directly from God. Paul did not receive this gospel from another man, neither did he received it from an angel from heaven. But Pual, like Moses before him, was given special privilidges directly by God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to receive this gospel and preach it to Gentiles. Of course Paul first preached it to the Jews in their Jewish Synagogues during the book of Acts. But eventually, the Jews rejected Paul's gospel message, and then Paul took and completed his ministry exclusively to the Gentiles.
All these facts are according to the Scripture, not men's invention, nor men's tradition: they are communicated to us today via Paul's gospel, which was directly communicated to Paul by Christ Jesus, not via angels, nor man.
"And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures:"
Gospel verse: Christ died, was buired, and rose again on the third day. Christ gave us ample evidence of His crucification occuring 3 days and 3 nights, by referencing Jonah in Matthew 12:40. We cannot count to the thrid day without first using the Jewish Calendar: where evenings and morning set the time table. This was established in Genesis 1:5. In Israel's Calendar, the new day starts at evening, at dust (approx. 6:00pm/18:00 hour); and the following evening, 24 hours later, commenceses the next day. Therefore, in order to account for a full 3 days and 3 nights, we need to count using Jewish Calendar days, from the cross to Sunday morning when the empty tomb was discovered by Mary. Only then will we discover that the full 3 days and 3 nights cannot fit between Friday and Sunday:
Wednesday: before 18:00 (pm): Christ is crucified on the cross outside of Jerusalem
Thursday: 18:00 (pm) evening through Thursday morning until 17:59 (pm): evening begins 1st day; morning completes 1st day.
Friday: 18:00 (pm) evening through Friday morning until 17:59 (pm): evening begins 2nd day; morning completes 2nd day.
Saturday: 18:00 (pm) evening through Saturday morning until 17:59 (pm): evening begins 3rd day; morning completes 3rd day.
Sunday: morning: Christ rose from the dead very early in the morning hours.
This fully accounts for 3 full 24 hour days/nights. Friday to Sunday only accounts for 1.5 full days. It is impossible to get 3 full 24 hour days/nights with the Friday to Sunday tradition.
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I fully support righty dividing the Word of truth by Jesus Christ and of God’ s grace of the free gift of God. Our eternal salvation is fully assured by the FINISHED WORK of Christ.
Friday before sundown... Day One...
Saturday... Day Two...
Sunday... The Third Day.
If you change that model... the model laid out in Genesis has to change to... because if the Sabbath were the ‘seventh day’... we would be going to church every 9th day instead of every 7 days... and think of what that would do attendance... people can barely handle every Sunday.
The Wednesday to Sunday model for the crucifixion to resurrection doesn’t make any sense.
Excellent Post! Very clear and concise presentation of the gospel.
Paul said: 2Tim2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
2Tim2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Romans thru Philemon; Pauls writings is the only place in scriptures where anyone can find how to be saved today.
bibletruth you are a workman; your posts always remind me of Pauls final instructions to Timothy, as follows:
2Tim4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Always expect the fiery darts...
Grace and Peace!
Your days count is missing 24 hours, which include 12 hour daylight and 12 hour night. Your model does not fit with Scriptures since Christ Himself said His full cross (died, buried, rose on the 3rd day) would only fit inside 3 days and 3 nights. You fail to understand that the time and culture was Jewish, not western culture. A Jewish Calendar must be used to fulfill 3 full days + 3 full nights. Tradition has it all wrong because people like you only count the days. Friday to Sunday is incorrect Scripture interpretation, plain and simple.
You realize 20th century... included the 1900s? Don’t you?
20th century. 19th century. These have no bearing on Jewish Calendar events in the Bible. Jewish Calendar rules the date and timing of events in the Gospels, not 20th or 19th century concepts of time.
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Scripture text: Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
You still haven’t addressed the issue that the Sabbath is on the 7th calendar day... by your standard it would fall on the 8th.
What does your post have to contribute any value on the discussion of the Gospel of Grace by the Apostle Paul? I do not see any point to it! And I’m not stupid of your devices.
“And I’m not stupid of your devices.”
Really?
And you have not answered how 72 hours fits into Friday starting 6pm - 18:00 hour - until Sunday very early morning hours - probably 3am or 4am when the empty tomb of Christ was discovered! Because it is impossible to prove by Scripture that a Friday to Sunday death, burial, and resurrection can be possible in less than a full 3 days + 3 nights, like Jonah in the whale.
The Didache
“But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned” (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).
The Letter of Barnabas
“We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead” (Letter of Barnabas 15:6–8 [A.D. 74]).
Ignatius of Antioch
“[T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death” (Letter to the Magnesians 8 [A.D. 110]).
Justin Martyr
“[W]e too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined [on] you—namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your heart. . . . [H]ow is it, Trypho, that we would not observe those rites which do not harm us—I speak of fleshly circumcision and Sabbaths and feasts? . . . God enjoined you to keep the Sabbath, and imposed on you other precepts for a sign, as I have already said, on account of your unrighteousness and that of your fathers . . .” (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 18, 21 [A.D. 155]).
“But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead” (First Apology 67 [A.D. 155]).
Tertullian
“[L]et him who contends that the Sabbath is still to be observed as a balm of salvation, and circumcision on the eighth day . . . teach us that, for the time past, righteous men kept the Sabbath or practiced circumcision, and were thus rendered ‘friends of God.’ For if circumcision purges a man, since God made Adam uncircumcised, why did he not circumcise him, even after his sinning, if circumcision purges? . . . Therefore, since God originated Adam uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, consequently his offspring also, Abel, offering him sacrifices, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, was by him [God] commended [Gen. 4:1–7, Heb. 11:4]. . . . Noah also, uncircumcised—yes, and unobservant of the Sabbath—God freed from the deluge. For Enoch too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, he translated from this world, who did not first taste death in order that, being a candidate for eternal life, he might show us that we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please God” (An Answer to the Jews 2 [A.D. 203]).
Where in the scriptures is it said that Jesus rose at the 73rd hour?
Then again... I’m sure it’s right next to the verse that says that no one should call Abraham ‘father.’
bibletruth says:
“And I’m not stupid of your devices.”
Victorinus
“The sixth day [Friday] is called parasceve, that is to say, the preparation of the kingdom. . . . On this day also, on account of the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, we make either a station to God or a fast. On the seventh day he rested from all his works, and blessed it, and sanctified it. On the former day we are accustomed to fast rigorously, that on the Lord’s day we may go forth to our bread with giving of thanks. And let the parasceve become a rigorous fast, lest we should appear to observe any Sabbath with the Jews . . . which Sabbath he [Christ] in his body abolished” (The Creation of the World [A.D. 300]).
Eusebius of Caesarea
“They [the early saints of the Old Testament] did not care about circumcision of the body, neither do we [Christians]. They did not care about observing Sabbaths, nor do we. They did not avoid certain kinds of food, neither did they regard the other distinctions which Moses first delivered to their posterity to be observed as symbols; nor do Christians of the present day do such things” (Church History 1:4:8 [A.D. 312]).
“[T]he day of his [Christ’s] light . . . was the day of his resurrection from the dead, which they say, as being the one and only truly holy day and the Lord’s day, is better than any number of days as we ordinarily understand them, and better than the days set apart by the Mosaic law for feasts, new moons, and Sabbaths, which the apostle [Paul] teaches are the shadow of days and not days in reality” (Proof of the Gospel 4:16:186 [A.D. 319]).
Athanasius
“The Sabbath was the end of the first creation, the Lord’s day was the beginning of the second, in which he renewed and restored the old in the same way as he prescribed that they should formerly observe the Sabbath as a memorial of the end of the first things, so we honor the Lord’s day as being the memorial of the new creation” (On Sabbath and Circumcision 3 [A.D. 345]).
Wait... that was written in the 300s (4th century if you’re scoring at home)... and CLEARLY... Satan prevailed against Christ’s church for 1500 years before reformers got it right.
By the way... the 1500s... was the 13th century if one properly understands how calendars work.
Not-Father Abraham would have said so...
Ik ben niet onbewust van uw teleurstelling.Dutch to French:
Je ne suis pas inconscient de votre déception.French to Hindi:
मॅँ यह नहीं कर रहा हूँ बेहोश हो तो आप के निराशा प्रकट करते हैं ।Hindi to Chinese:
如果您是表達的失望，我不是不自覺的，而。Chinese to Arabic:
إن أنت تكون التعبير خيبة أمل, ليس أنا لاشعوريّة, غير أنّ.Arabic to English:
Indeed you were formed the expressing disappointment, not I unconscious, nevertheless.
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