Volume 25, Issue 7
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The Mystery Of the Gospel
By Ron Webster November/December 2024 God, from the beginning, has always given man a free will, with more than enough reasons to make good choices, that we have ab- solutely no right to blame God for our bad choices.
not make unto thee any graven images (of our imagi- nation), or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth be- neath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.” Paul continues with this subject of other gods in Ro- mans 1:23-25. For they have “changed the glory of the in- corruptible God into an image
What does our free will have to do with our conscience? But to walk by faith in God’s every word, living as we were created to live with a pure conscience! Why then does iniquity only get worse with time? The Apostle Paul makes it very plain as to why in Romans 1:16-22. This was true in the Garden of Eden, with man’s his- tory showing this has only gotten progressively worse. “The gospel of Christ…is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (For within that gospel is the beginning of the right thinking) of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and (wrong thinking) of man, who hold the truth (with the evils of wrong thinking).” How can this be true of a just God? (Verses 19-20). “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in (all of us); for God hath shewed it unto (all of us). For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that (we are all) without excuse.” Why are we all without excuse, and thinking we are not like them? (Verses 21-22). “Because that, when they knew God (as described above, we) glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in (our) imaginations, and (our) foolish heart was darkened. Professing (ourselves) to be wise, (we have become) fools.” I say “we” because we have all been down this road many times! Many, since creation, have claimed to be of the faithful remnant, the chil- dren of God; but lust after the many gods of this world, claiming God as their Father in vain. For as Jesus said of the Pharisees in John 8:13 and 44, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.” God commanded us in Exodus 20:3-5a, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt
like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not (right); being filled with all (wrong thinking).” Thus become one with no conscience left to discern good from evil. The Lord God states in Hosea 4:6-7, “My peo- ple are destroyed for lack of knowledge (the knowledge of God): because thou hast rejected (that) knowledge, I will also reject thee (as rec- ompense for evil), that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing that thou hast forgotten the law of God, I will also forget thy children. As (man has) increased, so has (man) sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame...” (Verse 10), “For they shall eat, and have not enough: they shall commit whoredom (pursuing the many gods of this world), and shall not in- crease: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord… (Verse 12), “The spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God...” (Verse 14), “Therefore the people that doeth not understand shall fall.” For they have seared their con- science, in that so many call themselves Chris- tians and do so in vain without a clue as to why it is in vain. The gospel since the beginning has been very much a mystery to many by their choices of their free will to sear their conscience. To begin to understand why the gospel contin- ues to be a mystery yet today, we will need to look to the writings of the Apostles in the coming months.
made like corruptible man, and to birds and four footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleaness through the lusts of (our) own hearts, to dishonor (our) own bodies (created of God in the likeness of His image) between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature (creation) more than the Cre- ator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” God also had warned us in Exodus 20:7, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.” When He is the only God who can set us free from our bondage to sin, thus we do when we call Him our Lord God and glorify Him not as God when we pursue the gods of this world, thinking this is ok with Him! Are we any different today? We worship His creation as “Mother Na- ture,” lusting for every desire we can imagine! Romans 1:26-29, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature (as a lesbian or transgender): And likewise also men, leaving the natural use of women, burning in their lust one toward an- other; men with men (homosexuals) working that which is unseemly.” (Including cross dressers, as described in Deuteronomy 22:5), “for all that do so are an abomination [8441- loathsom and detestable] unto the Lord thy God” and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet (1163-as necessary to bind
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