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THE GREATEST MEDICINE EVER

The GREATEST Medicine in the world as we know comes directly from God our Savior. This medicine if taken in through a faithful saints service to the sick and dying lost sinner will save unto forever if received (from a Saint) and believed and no sickness or any other cause of death shall overcome this eternal reality!

ON THE ROAD TO HEAVEN

Romans 3:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Galatians 3:

22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Romans 6:

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 3:

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

What is the meaning of perish?

John 5:29

"29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."

Revelation 21:8

"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

IF WE BELIEVE THE GOSPEL

1 John 2:

25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Ephesians 2:

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Romans 5:

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

John 14:

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

1 Corinthians 15:

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures

5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

Romans 10:

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

THE FRUITS OF FAITH

Romans 5:1

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Galatians 5:

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

SALVATION IS FOREVER: GOD KEEPS US. WE DO NOT KEEP GOD! 

John 10:

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Romans 8:

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 5:

11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

GOD IS CALLING YOU

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MISTAKES IN THE BIBLE BY GRACE AMBASSADORS?

By Justin Johnson

It is a shame that seminaries teach pastors that there are mistakes in the Bible.

Armed with this dangerous misinformation pastors leave seminaries and convince their congregations that there are ‘better renderings’, ‘unfortunate translations’, and plain mistakes in the Bible.

As a result no one memorizes scripture anymore; saints think they need to spend years studying Greek and Hebrew before they can understand God’s word in English; and doctrines suffer endless twisting and corrupting when a verb meaning needs a little push in the direction of a three point outline.

Critics cannot find a single legitimate mistake in the Bible (yes, that was a challenge), yet many pastors seem to be focused on creating them by peppering the scripture with ‘better renderings’.

It would be better if instead of spending our time confusing congregations with third grade Greek that we teach them the word of God in English!

Shouldn’t we first learn why Christ was baptized twice rather than learning that the Greek word for baptism is baptizo?

Isn’t it more important to know that there is more than one gospel in the scripture than to know that the Greek word for gospel sounds like evangelist?

Instead of shamefully casting doubt on any word in scripture our leaders should be defending every syllable!

If no one else in this generation is going to say it, let me be the first. There are no mistakes in the Bible. Go ahead take me to school on it. It will be a short class.

Choose you this day which Greek text you will never fully learn. As for me and my house we shall read the Bible without one mistake in it.

If you have been victimized by amateur Greek translators decide now to trust God’s ability to inspire and preserve his words for you to use. Study your Bible in English. You will not regret it.

Give God the benefit of the doubt. God does not make mistakes; men make mistakes when they correct God. God inspired and promised to preserve his book. It would be a mistake for men not to believe every word in it.

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WHAT THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU BY GRACE AMBASSADORS

By Justin Johnson

For years we have had a graphic on our homepage that says:

Learn what most seminaries don’t tell you.
Learn what most churches won’t tell you.
Learn what most pastors should tell you.

It is intended to spark the thought that perhaps there are things you are not being told from people and places that ought to be pillars and bastions of truth.

Of course, not everything taught from seminaries, churches, and pastors is wrong, but leaving one important ingredient out of a recipe can turn what should be sweet into something bitter.

Seminaries

Seminaries claim to train Christian leaders, but here are some things most seminaries don’t tell you:

1. The Bible has no mistakes. [1,2]
2. God has promised to preserve his perfect words forever.[1]
3. God has preserved the Bible in English and we do not need a hundred competing English translations.[1]
4. Different Bible translations do affect major doctrines. [1]
5. Difficult Bible verses can be resolved without changing the words or spiritualizing. [1]
6. The most important tools for Bible preaching and teaching are free. [1, 2, 3, 4]
7. You can understand God and the Bible without a Ph.D, M.Div, or Th.M.[1]
8. The most profitable attributes of a minister cannot be taught in a classroom.[1]
9. Christian ministry is not a means of employment. [1, 2]
10. Churches are where you should learn to do church ministry. Preparing for church ministry at a university is like learning to swim in the desert. [1, 2]

Churches

With hundreds of churches in your county, you would think that you could find one that would tell you these things. Unfortunately, most churches won’t tell you some or all of these things.

1. Not all the Bible is written to you. It must be rightly divided.[1]
2. Water baptism does not make you a member of the church.[1]
3. You should not be tithing. It was part of Moses’ law. It comes with a curse. God tells us to give voluntarily. [1]
4. The church is not a building, and you are not required to attend. [1]
5. Church growth is unrelated to last week’s attendance or the bank account.[1]
6. Church service is not when the pastor speaks. [1]
7. The church is not a travel agent, entertainment hall, or talent show.[1]
8. There is nothing special about the altar in the front. [1]
9. There are no holy days that the church is told to keep, including Sabbath, Christmas, Easter, Lent, or Lupercalia.[1]
10. 80% of money in churches goes toward salary and maintenance.[1]
11. Worship does not always involve music.[1, 2]
12. The most important function of the church ministry is holding truth in purity.[1]
13. The mission of the church is to make all men see the fellowship of the mystery.[1]
14. The pattern for the church is not found in Israel, the red letters, or at Pentecost, but in Paul’s epistles alone.[1]

Pastors

Leadership in churches is ultimately responsible for encouraging the assembly to hold fast to the truth. What things should pastors tell you that most are not? Here are a few.

1. Pastors do not have a special anointing.[1]
2. Pastors cannot forgive sins.[1]
3. Pastors do not have a special source of knowledge inaccessible to you.[1, 2]
4. Pastors are not your mediators with God. [1]
5. Pastors do not have a special gift of spirituality or holiness. They struggle with sin like everyone else.[1]
6. Pastors copy from each other. There are books of sermons and illustrations that help with just such a thing. [1, 2]
7. Blessing the pastor will not get you a blessing from God.[1]
8. You have all the spiritual blessings and riches from God that they do. [1]
9. Everyone in the church is called to ministry and are equal members of the Body.[1]
10. You are accountable to the Lord Jesus Christ, not him. [1]
11. Your salvation and your behavior are by grace, not by the law. [1, 2, 3]
12. Everything necessary to save you was already done by Christ when he died for your sins and resurrected to offer you his grace. There is nothing left for you or the pastor to do, but believe.[1, 2, 3]
13. God’s will for you is clearly revealed in scripture, but you may not like it. [1]

Why the Silence

Clearly there are things seminaries, churches, and pastors are not telling you, but the question is why? Some might turn immediately to conspiracy theories, but often people’s motivations turn out to be much simpler and more common.

Ignorance, unbelief, compromise, money, power, and reputation are sufficient reasons for these things to remain untold. The truth will only be known when these reasons are countered with an increase of knowledge, faith, humility, integrity, and trust in the living God more than in money or power.

Now that you have learned what they don’t tell you and why, what do you have to say? Will you tell anyone?

THREE TROUBLING PASSAGES FROM PAUL'S EPISTLES BY GRACE AMBASSADORS

By Justin Johnson

The most amazing statements on salvation by grace without works in the entire Bible are found in Paul’s epistles. What liberation it is for sinners to learn that God offers salvation freely by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ (Eph 2:8-9; Gal 5:1).

There is nothing you do to deserve or earn salvation from God.

Nevertheless, there are a few Pauline passages that repeatedly trouble new believers as to whether their sins can negate what God has given them by grace.

For the religious minded fruit inspectors 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Ephesians 5:5-6, and Galatians 5:21 become tests of salvation, and when you fail the test one of these explanations is given:

“You were never a Christian in the first place.”
“A Christian would never do these things.”
“Faith without works is dead.”
“You need to repent and get right (again) with God.”

Not Tests of Salvations

Let’s be clear. If these three passages are talking about conditions or qualifications for salvation then there will be no one but Christ in the kingdom of God.

A look at the wide scope of sins mentioned in these passages disqualifies all but the self-righteous in their own delusions.

It would also mean that your salvation by grace is not through faith, but through your continuance in doing good works the rest of your life. This described salvation under Israel’s covenant relationship, but not in this dispensation of grace (Mark 13:13; Lev 18:5).

No, these passages are not tests of salvation or membership in the body of Christ.

Not Conditions of Inheritance

To avoid the obvious problem with making them tests of salvation, it is sometimes suggested that these three passages put conditions and qualifications on your inheritance, blessings, or levels of glory in heaven.

While it is true that the work of the saints will be judged by Christ for reward or loss, these passages can not be referring to that either.

1 Cor 6:10 says that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom, it does not say they will not have as many rewards or will “suffer loss” as does 1 Cor 3:15 at the judgment of the saints.

Eph 5:5 makes it clear that those sinners do not have “any inheritance”. It is not lesser inheritance, but any inheritance at all. This would be contrary to Eph 1:3, Eph 1:18, and Eph 3:6 that describe the saved having “all spiritual blessings”, “the riches of the glory of this inheritance”, and as being “fellowheirs” according to the mystery.

While these passages are surely intended to condemn wrong thinking and actions among the saints, they cannot be referring to believers who have been promised an inheritance by grace even if we do suffer loss for poor workmanship at the judgment seat of Christ.

A question remains. Why is Paul warning believers about what happens to unbelievers who are living in their flesh?

Understanding Your Position

Something often overlooked in Paul’s instructions to the saints is the difference between our position and our condition. It has also been referred to as our standing and state, salvation and service.

Your salvation, standing, or position in Christ is received by grace through faith. This new position in the body of Christ has changed your identity, that is, who you are.

You are no longer a sinner, but a saint (Rom 5:19). You are no longer in Adam, but in Christ (Rom 5:17). You are no longer a servant of sin, but a servant of righteousness (Rom 6:17-18).

This new identity is like the job title you are given on the first day of work. You have not done any work, but you have been given a new identity, you sit in a new position.

What would happen if on day two in your new position you were doing your old job and not your new one? No doubt, your boss would remind you that you no longer hold that position, and need to do the work becoming of your new position.

Whether or not you are operating according to the privileges, benefits, or description of your new position is called your condition, service, or walk. It concerns your performance in Christ.

All three troubling passages are trying to correct the performance, walk, or service of believers by reminding them of who they are and who they are not.

“Remember your position. Remember who you are, not who you were. Walk according to who you are now in Christ.”

Knowing your position will put these trouble passages in the proper perspective. Let’s look at each one.

Trouble Passage #1) 1Corinthians 6:9-10

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither … shall inherit the kingdom of God.” – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

This is very clear that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Though you had been in the position of an unrighteous person before you were saved, you have now, after trusting the gospel, been made the righteousness of God in Christ by grace through faith (2 Cor 5:21).

Notice the verse right after the troubling passage which distinguishes what the Corinthians were with what they are now in Christ.

“ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. “ – 1 Corinthians 6:11

They were unrighteous, but now they are justified and sanctified. What they were was not what they are now in Christ, and it had nothing to do with their behavior. The reason Paul condemns the unrighteous is that the Corinthians were acting like them as if it were acceptable behavior in their new position.

“Stop doing unrighteous things. That is not who you are anymore! Those things are condemnable.”

Trouble Passage #2) Ephesians 5:5-6

“…hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.“ – Ephesians 5:5-6

What a terrifying verse, and rightly so! Sin deserves all wrath, and the wrath of God is revealed upon all sinners (Rom 1:18).

The question remains are you a child of disobedience or not? Is that your title? Is that your position?

The religious minded would have you believe that if you disobey, then that means you are a child of disobedience. That was the case under the law, but no longer under grace. Now, you can be justified by grace through faith in Christ without works and without the law. This is the mystery of Christ!

Notice the verses immediately following the condemnation of the children of disobedience.

“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.” – Ephesians 5:7

Don’t partake with them? Who are they? Not the saved Ephesians. But why?

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light…” – Ephesians 5:8

They were children of disobedience and darkness, but now they arechanged. They have a new position in Christ! Every saved member of the body of Christ is a child of light, and Paul teaches them to walk according to their new job description received and secured by grace without works.

“Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called” – Ephesians 4:1

Trouble Passage #3) Galatians 5:21

“…that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” – Galatians 5:21

Like the previous two passages, knowing your position puts this troubling passage in context as well.

The Galatians had received the Spirit and salvation through faith, but they were being persuaded to walk under the law. There is a difference between living in and walking in. There is a difference between position and condition.

The Galatians thought the only way to avoid the condemnation of sin after salvation was to go back under the law, but the law brought condemnation. Paul exhorts them in the better way, “Walk in the Spirit” (Gal 5:16).

“But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.” – Galatians 5:18

If they were truly saved by grace through faith, then they do not live in the flesh, but in the Spirit and not under the law.

If there is one thing we cannot be condemned for under grace, it is the work of our flesh. The power of the law to condemn the flesh was removed when it was crucified with Christ (Gal 2:20; Gal 5:24; Rom 6:6; Rom 7:4).

The admonition Paul gives the Galatians in chapter 5 is found in Gal 5:25:

“ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

But how do you know if you are walking after the Spirit or after the flesh?

They could tell whether their flesh or the Spirit was winning the war for their walk by what comes out of them. The works of the flesh were manifest, and are condemned by God. The fruit of the Spirit is where there is no condemnation (Rom 8:1; Gal 5:23).

If the Galatians received the Spirit by faith, then they lived by the Spirit. They needed to walk after the Spirit in order to bear the fruit of the Spirit. Any attempt to walk under the law would strengthen their condemned flesh, bring condemnation, and manifest the condemnable works of the flesh.

Conclusion

These passages have troubled grace believers for a while and it is time to set them at rest. They may be difficult but not impossible. There is no reason to sacrifice the riches of God’s grace by neglecting to remember who you are in Christ and how you were saved.

Don’t forget who Christ made you, and how that was possible. It is the cross of Christ that did all the work necessary for your salvation, and the power of the resurrection of Christ that guarantees you a heavenly place with Christ.

The response to sin for the believer is to stop living like who you were, and start living according to who you are in Christ by faith.

Now it is our duty to live up to the high calling we have received freely through Him.

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WHAT DOES "THE GOSPEL" MEAN

Excellent video by John Piper on what the word "Gospel" means according to the Word of God. You can also click on the link provided to read more about it.

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