Paul and The Final Gospel

I think we are touching on two separate issues. 1. God's gospel to mankind and 2. The level of interaction God has with mankind.

God's gospel to mankind has always being simply repent and He will draw us to Him. NT, Him being Jesus.

Living after the cross, you are right. We definitely have a level of interaction with God that no generation before has had.

Just thinking further. I wonder about the prophets. They spoke like they were in constant fellowship with God and were confident that they were going to be with Him. I mean Jonah said Jonah 4:2. ''He knew God''. Are we closer to God then the prophets were? Is their confidence in going to be with God not evidence of them being new creations from looking forward at the cross? Can we better David's psalms? If their is a case to be made for the prophets, then surely many more...? I am confusing myself now :p.

Those are VERY good questions and definately worth asking . I have found if you ask a good question of God one that is provoked by scripture. Sooner or later you will awlays get a good answer.
There are two ways to ask God a question .
One on the foundation of unbelief .
This is after the order of John the Baptiss father .Who simply did not believe the message of the angel sent to him that his barren wife would conceive a child.
The other is of the order of Mary . Who believed the message but needed more light for understanding ."how can this be seeign I know not a man......?"
I would add to your list/ Job. Who said "in his flesh he will see God " For "he knew his redeemer liveth " and He woudl call and I will answer" Though his body lay corrupt ed in the grave .
The key to his understanding was that he ahd only HEARD of God "but now mine eyes seeth thee"
They were in constant fellowship with God .Oneman confessed to standing before the face of God .
"Little children ye knwo the father and your sins are forgiven you"
Little children know thier father . But thier expereince is of that he goes in and out . they know their mother more than their father .
"Ye fathers ye know Him who is from the beginning" It is my conviction that the church does not know God .They have in the main but heard of Him "who is from the beginning" How can it be otherwise when they do not believe he who inspired men to so write "In the beginning God created the HEAVEN and the EARTH ? and have mixed mans vain philosophies with the truth?
With the storms that are coming the church and every believer needs to know Him who is from the beginning .
Knowing him as SAVIOUR is not enough .He needs to be known who is King of kings and Lord of lords as well.
Even as to be saved FROM Egypt is not enough either .For that is but a half(?) of it for we are also saved TO God.
There are many instances of fameous people of faith in the Bible who had but heard of God .That is to say saw God as of only in the past as it were.
Modern equivelants but by no means all are those who say the day of miracles are past but not for the present.
If you listen to some who have a very ritualistic aproach to God .Theyt oo see God only in the distant past and if any future in a very distant future also .
Davids Pslams I too have found that if I have any experience in God or in life .He has bene there already and was by the grace of God able to articulate it not only for his edification and comfort but for all those who followed him.
For does not the scripture say "with the comfort we have been comforted with we comfort others"?
Some peopl e live or see God only working at the Reformation. Not denied at all that he did .
But then if he so worked then in the lives of men . Why not now?
Gidion had the same questions.
For he believed God and was meditating and asking a good question.Where was God who had wrought so mightily in the past. Judges 6
The answer was simple .The people of God had done evil in the sight of God .
Those very same people ; Midianites ,Amalekites and children of the East are the same people who are ravaging the UK and other places today.
The scriptures say that the Assyrians WERE the scourge of Israel for thier hipocracy and idolitory .It also says they were raised up to be the scourge of the gentiles too and worse. For the same reasons.
Assyria is the womb of islam and if islam has any successes today it is because of the people fo God doign what is right in thier own eyes. and primarily the USA and the UK who have know the truth and better things .
For God has not changed he si the same yesterday today and forever .
That beign so we ,the church has to start facing reality . and face it in the light of who God is what He has done for us who it is who is with us and what he ahs promised for the future and in THAT light we may do things we never would have thought was possible.
"For they that know thier God will be strong and do exploits"
The great problem Muslim have is they are under the delusion that thye are strong and they are numerically .
But it does not need many christains to defeat them.
I am not talking about bloodshed here you understand?
"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal"
But they have not seen or too rarely seen strong christians full of the Spirit of God and who knwo their God sufficiently to withstand them.
or can bare witness to the truth .
There is coming a day "when thier minds will change ........" and islam will be judged .The end is sure.
But it was when Gidion began to think the right things and his thoughts drew him towards God that God then spoke to him . It weas when the communication lines were opened AND established that things began to change for the better . Both in his own life and in the lives of all "the other little ships"
and God blessed the many by the few.
He always does . Even to the Battle of Britain.
For those brave airmen did not endure what had to be endured in thier own strength . But the whole nation was praying for them and God was answerign those prayers and as the scriptures say of it "He bore them up as on eagles wings"
In the 1945 general election we forgot 1940 .
and laid the foundations of a Socialist and Godless state .
Which Winston Churchill warned this nation. "In the end the socialist will have to resort to some form of Gestapo............."
I hear as much in the States when Godless forces are trying to take 'religion' or rather Christianity out of government .
Which is an indirect attack on the Constituion and its first and primary principle .
"It is a self evident truth that all men were CREATED equal"
They are therefore trying to cut the States off at its roots .
and" if the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do?"
So here so there .
But God raised up the UK and then the USA to be the defenders and upholders of those liberties that the world nwo calls its rights .
They are not rights at all.
For God is not mocked whatsoever a man sows that shall he reap.
and if any man takes diobolical liberties with his liberty he will lose them Even as Adam and Eve did thiers .
and no bill of human rights will can does or even should preserve them.
You are right then.
and i perfectly understand the 'confusion'
But it stems praimarily from the fact that THE Gospel our "so GREAT a Salvation" has been reduced at best to beign but BORNagain. At worst it has been so watered down that if it was a poison it would not kill anybody and if a medicine heal no one.
That the message TO THE CHURCHES given by HIM who said "I am the Alpha and Omega the begining and the end " who John saw and depsite the fact he was the one the closest to the Lord still fell down when |He saw him as one dead.
Said to all but one of the churches to "repent." has by those churches all changed the message as NOT applying to them . But to the world which needs to repent.
But was not the children of Isreal given for our ensample?
Another aspect to your question.
Paul says to be NOT like them. and was for that matter very concerned that the church would be decived as Eve was .That is she like Eve would believe the wrong message . or another gospel ."Not that there is another gospell............."

The old testement men of faith Paul says "were not made perfect without us" or could not be .
if they then by Pauls list in hebrews did so much with thier imperfection.(?) How then we do so little without pefection(?)
If you want a 'modern' equivelent .
If they at the reformation did so much with thier so little understanding. How is it we do so little with what some boast as our "better understanding"?
Then I must conclude as a whole we do not know God as we should or could.
I would then agree with the Lord that he is "Outside the church knocking on its door"
The knocking on the door then is a call to the whole church INSIDE to repent.
For no matter what church you or I may belong to .Wether we consider it to be THE church by whcih all must conform to or a member of THE church . then we are ALL inside the the church if we are.
Then the Lord knocking on the door for ingress . Suggests he is either unwilling or unable to enter of His own volition.
Despite the fact that after the resurection there was no door closed or locked that was either an obstical or hinderence to him eneterign a room.
The call then is to all inside the church to repent .The promise however is not to all but given to those who "have ears to hear and open the door " To THEM ........................"will I and the Father have fellowship with .
But the church has said that is not for us .it is for the unsaved and the world where the lord is knockign on the hearts door.
For we are rich increased in goods and ion need of nothing?

The world is on a downward spiral of chaos corruption and death.
The devil is trying to preempt God .
We are in the last days . Indeed the days are no longer "green" but "dry"and ready for the fire.
But that does not mean the church should go all happy clappy and 'celebrate' while millions are chained to the devils chariot to hell whos mouth is wide open and is "never satisfied"
Better would it be that she should weep now rather than rejoice that she may" enter with her sheaves rejoicing " Than to rejoice now so much and enter heaven weeping and empty handed then.
God in the beginning gave a greater light to RULE the day and a lesser light to RULE the night .
The moon even in the darkest night when it still shines ; bares witness to the world that the sun still shines adn there is coming a pefect day .
But she can only do this if her face or attitude is towards the sun constantly . and her attitude to the world is also right .
You cannot save the world by beign like the world .
Nor can you be light if you do not have light .
You cnanot excersise authority unless you are subject to authority .
and Authority never comes from below (man) but from above .
Jesus spoke with authority not as the Pharasses .
He spoke with authority because he was sent by God .
As the Father sent me so send I you.
He was sent for he proceeded from the Father .
We are sent because we have come not on our own name but His.
An easy thing to say and amny religionists have said it and do even to false prophets and apostles .
"he who comes in his own name seeks his won glory . But he who comes in the name of Him who sent him is both righteous and his message true ."
Isiah was indeed a true prophet of God.
Yet when "he saw the Lord high and lifted up " he said "woe is me for I am a man of unclean lips "
When Job saw the Lord as God revealed himself to him..
He confessed " I had heard of thee now mine eyes seeth thee ;I repent in dust and ashes........"
There are too many of such instances that we can lightly go over them and not take note.
There must come a point in every believers life when they meet with God .
Someone say s they know God ?
As Little children?
Young men?
or as fathers?

in Christ
gerald
 
Noblemen I do agree with you & think the words `good news` helps us to see that over a period of time God revealed the good news of His purposes to different groups. The scripture in 2 Peter truly encourages & amazes me -

`Grace & peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God & of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life & godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory & virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great & precious promises, that through these you may be PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE,.....` (2 Peter 2 -4)

Marilyn.
 
Noblemen I do agree with you & think the words `good news` helps us to see that over a period of time God revealed the good news of His purposes to different groups. The scripture in 2 Peter truly encourages & amazes me -

`Grace & peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God & of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life & godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory & virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great & precious promises, that through these you may be PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE,.....` (2 Peter 2 -4)

Marilyn.

Are you sure that the quote posted is from 2 Peter 2:2-4??
 
Hi Major,

Good to know people are watching the details. Yes thank you, the scripture should read 2 Peter 1: 2 - 4.

Marilyn.
 
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Christ comes into the believer my brother by invitation by the believer through faith in the work of Christ for us.

Yes, there is something not right for sure. Read through the comments on any Christian web site and you will see very quickly that there is a real lack of Bible understanding in those who proclaim to be Christians. For sure there is a lot of knowledge about what we like and what we want to believe and what we want to do, but what about what God has said????
 
I think it also helps to know that the Apostle Paul was given the `whole counsel of God,` which he then passed on to the believers.

`For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.` (Acts 20: 27)

People in other times have been given some of God`s counsel, but we, the Body of Christ have the whole counsel of God. Thus we know God`s purpose for the Body of Christ, His purpose for Israel & His purpose for the nations. Yet all these individual purposes are all under God`s great purpose in Christ -

`God....having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven & which are on earth - in Him,...` (Eph. 1: 9 & 10)

`In one,` is the harmony & rulership under Christ. It does not mean we are all in one place. God has many areas in His great kingdom & each group have a special place.

BTW I think when we say `church` we think of a building, thus I use the term `Body of Christ` as people then think of believers through out the world & down through the ages. So also the word `gospel,` people think of `come to Jesus.` Where actually it means the `good news` & there has been much good news that God has declared down through the ages. Thus I like to use God`s terminology `the whole counsel of God,` to show that we, the Body of Christ have the full picture. That term does not bring division, but helps us to appreciate that we are most blessed.

Marilyn.
 
I think it also helps to know that the Apostle Paul was given the `whole counsel of God,` which he then passed on to the believers.

`For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.` (Acts 20: 27)

People in other times have been given some of God`s counsel, but we, the Body of Christ have the whole counsel of God. Thus we know God`s purpose for the Body of Christ, His purpose for Israel & His purpose for the nations. Yet all these individual purposes are all under God`s great purpose in Christ -

`God....having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven & which are on earth - in Him,...` (Eph. 1: 9 & 10)

`In one,` is the harmony & rulership under Christ. It does not mean we are all in one place. God has many areas in His great kingdom & each group have a special place.

BTW I think when we say `church` we think of a building, thus I use the term `Body of Christ` as people then think of believers through out the world & down through the ages. So also the word `gospel,` people think of `come to Jesus.` Where actually it means the `good news` & there has been much good news that God has declared down through the ages. Thus I like to use God`s terminology `the whole counsel of God,` to show that we, the Body of Christ have the full picture. That term does not bring division, but helps us to appreciate that we are most blessed.

Marilyn.
 
I doubt very much that many have" the full picture" if any .
The full council of God as opposed to denominational theology.
The full council of God covers ALL of scripture not those parts we like best or a denomination has approved of.
The full council of God does however relate to "till we all come to the unity of the faith......"
For if faith comes by understanding as well as hearing the word of God. Clearly to have a unity of the faith needs must have a unity of understanding . Or in other words be of the same mind .Let this mind be in you as it was in Christ .
In that regard I think in the main the people of God are of the same mind as to the need to be BORN again but in all other matters there as many opinions as their are churches.
For it seems to me while men have been willign to be LED to Christ as Saviour not so many as Lord and King.
I also do not think the church in general knows God at all.
They have heard of Him .
They clearly do not know "Him who is from the beginning" for most of the church it seems does not believe the scripture of the beginning . How then can they know Him who is from the beginning?
they have but heard of Him.

We boast in" our better understanding" but do less than those who then is implied had less understanding .

The whole picture? What then do we 'see'?
do we in fact see HIM ? who is the first born of a new creation?
Do we see Him who is the Alpha and Omega?
How often and do we ever actually enter into the Holy of Holys? Or do we stand as it were afar of happy to be BORN again and our sins forgiven and "know the father " but seem deaf to what we are called for .

to be more than conquerers ? what is MORE than a conquerer ?

etc .
I say this simply as a matter of fact . and why we should seek Gods face .
For God says seek my face . David replied "Thy face will I seek"

in Christ
gerald
 
Hi Gerald,

Yes, individually all believers do not know the whole counsel of God, as we are still in the `tossed to & fro` stage. However we, the Body of Christ (as I said) have the whole counsel of God in His word. And yes the Holy Spirit is guiding us into all the truth till we come to the unity of faith.

Marilyn.
 
Hi Gerald,

Yes, individually all believers do not know the whole counsel of God, as we are still in the `tossed to & fro` stage. However we, the Body of Christ (as I said) have the whole counsel of God in His word. And yes the Holy Spirit is guiding us into all the truth till we come to the unity of faith.

Marilyn.
You cannot know the whole council of God unless it is preached or taught.
That I am afraid is rarely done .
For what Paul calls the milk of the Word in Hebrews many have called or have made the meat .
If you want people saved you have to preach Salvation.
if you want people healed you needs must preach healing.
If you want people filled with the Holy Spirit you needs must preach it .
If you wants the Bride to be perfected you must preach the Bride.
If you want sanctification you must preach it .
and so on.
If you want to know the whole counsel of God you must preach it.
I would argue that if you wanted a unity of the faith you cannot with a myriad of versions of the Bible .
For all must be reading from the same book.

in Christ
gerald
 
Hi Gerald,

Yes, individually all believers do not know the whole counsel of God, as we are still in the `tossed to & fro` stage. However we, the Body of Christ (as I said) have the whole counsel of God in His word. And yes the Holy Spirit is guiding us into all the truth till we come to the unity of faith.

Marilyn.
There is no doubt Paul gave to us the "whole counsel" of God that was given unto him. In other words he told us everything that he knew. Of course, there must be more to what God has in store for his Church, which he himself has reserved for him self to disclose to his Church.

Eph 2:4.. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Eph 2:5.. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Eph 2:6.. And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7.. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

How much of this future that has already been prepared for us is only limited to how much we want to know. If we seek we will find great and mighty things that we might not know right now, but are available to us to know if we draw close to the Lord. Like this scripture tells us here.......

1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
 
So the birthing means nothing, just another commingling of everything that is writen like there is no specific message to anyone.
What He said to Abraham is good for Isaiah.
What He said to Adam is good for Moses.
And so on, it is just not there and to pinpoint that God has done specific things with specific people's at specific times all through the Scriptures is to Tread on the doctrine of the multitudes

There is no doubt that God's revelation to man progressed through the ages. It's final revelation of God is given to us in the man Jesus Christ. Even all the prophets in the Old Testament did not understand the things they prophesied about. It was not meant for them to know. They spoke about things that only our generation could possibly understand even though they sought to know them diligently. Angels even wanted to understand these things.

1Pe 1:10.. Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,
1Pe 1:11.. inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
1Pe 1:12..It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
 
There is no doubt Paul gave to us the "whole counsel" of God that was given unto him. In other words he told us everything that he knew. Of course, there must be more to what God has in store for his Church, which he himself has reserved for him self to disclose to his Church.

Eph 2:4.. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Eph 2:5.. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Eph 2:6.. And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7.. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

How much of this future that has already been prepared for us is only limited to how much we want to know. If we seek we will find great and mighty things that we might not know right now, but are available to us to know if we draw close to the Lord. Like this scripture tells us here.......

1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Very little of what Paul taught is preached and what could be taught much of it many are unable to bear . Still needing the milk of the Word when they should be partaking of the meat .
Paul gave the whole counsel of God not a part of it .
The whole Bible is the whole council of God . and needs nothing added to it or omitted though many are doing so .
Paul spoke about the hights the depths and the breadths and the love of God .
No man will ever know the highst depths and breadths of the New testament unless he learns to "swim" in the Old testament.
But men think that if they learn Greek and Hebrew they will understand "the deep things of God ."
it did no good to Saul of Tarsus nor the Pharasees who opposed the Lord at every turn .
Why should it be any profit now?
For is it not written "the letter killeth"?
Yet the sane is that men will lean more upon their understanding of Hebrew and Greek and all their 'qualifications' and "better understanding" Than they will " lean upon the arm of the beloved "
To know Him from the beginning .
Is to know HIM who was before all things the creator .
How can you even see from a distance as it were if you do not believe Him who inspired men to so write "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"?
and all that followed.
But rather half believe the world ideas of things .
Surely the young man who heard the words "son thy sins be forgiven you" then believed also the words "take up thy bed and walk!"?
Why then do we not believe Him who led us so faithfully to the Lord of our salvation and the same who inspired men to so write the first book even to the last ?

We have paddled in the waters at the shore ,We have perhaps by the grace of God gone up to our loins and then felt the great power of the sea and the possibility that it can destroy us .
Then by the grace of God we have taken a little courage swallowed our fear and taken our feet off the bottom and given ourselves to the sea and found to our joy it does not destroy us but bears us up and we have learnt to swim .
Some have learnt to swim the English channel . But no one has yet or can swim the pacific .
We need a ship.

The deep things of God ? we have but scratched the surface and poked our heads under the water .

in Christ
gerald
 
The whole Bible is the whole council of God . and needs nothing added to it or omitted though many are doing so .
Brother, the Bible does not contain all the counsel of God as Jesus did many more things not recorded in scripture. No Book could ever declare to man every thing God has said or done, but it can point to the one who can give us these things.

Joh 21:25.. Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
 
Hi gerald,

I do like your picture of us swimming in God`s `deep.` However, it does seem to me (please correct me if I am wrong) that you are making generalisations concerning the Body of Christ, when none of us can know what the Holy Spirit is doing in millions & millions of believers across the Body & down through the centuries. Just think on the wonderful truths that the Holy Spirit has led the Body in over the years & here we are nearly at the time of the unity of faith, (obviously still amid great error).

Marilyn.
 
Brother, the Bible does not contain all the counsel of God as Jesus did many more things not recorded in scripture. No Book could ever declare to man every thing God has said or done, but it can point to the one who can give us these things.

Joh 21:25.. Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

But what did Jesus say? "the Word is the seed"

While the scriptures make no claim to have recorded everything that Jesus said and did ,What did John say ?"these things are wrtitten that ye may know........."
A seed has this property ,it has everything that is needed and nothing that is not needed to reproduce the fruit.
Some one has said Jesus is the perfect expression of all that god had said before in sundry times and in divers ways?
Yet did not Jesus being the " express image of the invisible God " God manifested in the flesh"
Die and was buried in the earth ?
Yet did he not say that every seed abideth alone but if it dies and is buried it bringeth forth much fruit .
The Bible IS the whole council of God and nothing will be added to it or taken from it by God .
Yet it is but a seed .
a finite book with and end and a beginning and can be held in the hand . But at the same time is the eternal word of God.
The idea that anything God may show or reveal to us in our hearts will be contrary to what has already been given by scripture is a false idea.
It will simply be of another order than we supposed before and will be in perfect harmony with scripture.
For the scriptures are a perfect revelation of God.
yet the understanding of those scriptures will lead us to the one we have it seems but heard of by them. But never met .
and if one will say I know the Lord . I will not doubt it per se . But I will ask in what measure ? As little children? Young men? or as fathers?


in Christ
gerald
 
But what did Jesus say? "the Word is the seed"

While the scriptures make no claim to have recorded everything that Jesus said and did ,What did John say ?"these things are wrtitten that ye may know........."
A seed has this property ,it has everything that is needed and nothing that is not needed to reproduce the fruit.
Some one has said Jesus is the perfect expression of all that god had said before in sundry times and in divers ways?
Yet did not Jesus being the " express image of the invisible God " God manifested in the flesh"
Die and was buried in the earth ?
Yet did he not say that every seed abideth alone but if it dies and is buried it bringeth forth much fruit .
The Bible IS the whole council of God and nothing will be added to it or taken from it by God .
Yet it is but a seed .
a finite book with and end and a beginning and can be held in the hand . But at the same time is the eternal word of God.
The idea that anything God may show or reveal to us in our hearts will be contrary to what has already been given by scripture is a false idea.
It will simply be of another order than we supposed before and will be in perfect harmony with scripture.
For the scriptures are a perfect revelation of God.
yet the understanding of those scriptures will lead us to the one we have it seems but heard of by them. But never met .
and if one will say I know the Lord . I will not doubt it per se . But I will ask in what measure ? As little children? Young men? or as fathers?


in Christ
gerald
Notice: every thing Jesus said and did was not written in scripture, so we do not have the complete "counsel" of God!!! What we do have is enough to find and come to know the one who does have the complete counsel of God, which is Jesus Christ himself.

John 20:30.. Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
Joh 20:31.. but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
 
Hi CCW95A,

I believe that we do have the whole counsel of God (what He desires us to know) & that the other things which are not written of the Lord in the Bible would still be relating to God`s counsel - healing the sick, casting out demons, authority over unseen powers, etc All confirming that Jesus is the Son of God & the Son of Man, the Lord & the Christ.

Is that how you see it too?

Marilyn.
 
Hi CCW95A,

I believe that we do have the whole counsel of God (what He desires us to know) & that the other things which are not written of the Lord in the Bible would still be relating to God`s counsel - healing the sick, casting out demons, authority over unseen powers, etc All confirming that Jesus is the Son of God & the Son of Man, the Lord & the Christ.

Is that how you see it too?

Marilyn.
Hi Marilyn, you rock sister!!!! :)
We have what is needed to know in the Bible that Jesus Christ is the Son of God which Jesus himself said that all scripture was for that purpose.

John 5:39.. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Knowing Jesus is the Son of God causes us to know by faith that he himself is Lord. This revelation in knowing that Jesus is Lord is what is needed to become a child of God. If we confess that Jesus is Lord, and confess him to have been raised from the dead we will become his. (Romans 10:9-10) The Apostle Paul simply revealed everything the Jesus gave him through revelation, or we could call this the "complete counsel" of God. The complete counsel of God is not every thing the Lord God knows, or every thing he has said and done, but it is just enough information man needs to become his child. Once that happens, the one who knows all things takes up his residence inside that person. Now we have the complete whole counsel of God living inside us.

God has called me to teach his Word, and I reveal to who ever will listen the complete counsel of God that he has given me to teach. That means I don't hold anything back, and not keep anything hidden. This does not mean I know All complete counsel of God himself, but only what was given unto me to speak. I do understand the one who knows all things does live inside me, so I am always learning new things, and adding to the complete counsel that I already know.

The bottom line is there is no Book that could ever hold all the complete counsel of God, as that is impossible as God is endless in his knowledge, but it can point us to the one who does have it.


 
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