Lesson 16 Pentecost! Peter’s Explanation

I ask that as we go through these lessons, that you get your Bible, read it, pray, study, and ask the Holy Spirit of the Living God, to guide you into the truth of his Holy Word.

By comparing scripture with scripture, and comparing spiritual things with spiritual things, we as Christians are able to discern truth from error.

I would like to return to our ongoing study of God’s directions to the disciples in the prophetic program to Israel, compared to the directions in the mystery program as given to the Apostle Paul for the Body of Christ.   

Last lesson we looked at some of the most misused, misunderstood, and at the same time simple to understand verses in the Bible, in lesson 16 we will do the same, and with the help of the Holy Spirit continue our attempt to open the eyes of the misled.

We will pickup at verse 11 of Acts Chp. 2 to get the context, once again we are going to look at the verses, and not try to make them say anything but what they say and teach, we are not going to twist or wrest these verses against themselves, or any other verses. I believe these verses are simple to understand as written.

Acts Chp. 2

[11] Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

The Pentecost Experience happened in the first 4 verses of Acts Chp. 2 and we have seen the Holy Spirit filled the Jewish disciples and believers gathered in Jerusalem. There is always much discussion on this experience mostly focusing around the people speaking in tongues. I believe we clearly have seen the tongues being spoken, were all known languages from different nations of people. 

But more important we are about to learn “what this all means”, and most Christians fail to just read it and believe it, thus overlooking simple Bible Truth.

Acts Chp. 2

[12] And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

Verse 12 we see them all amazed and in doubt and they ask a simple question, “What meaneth this?”, they are simply trying to understand what just happened in the previous verses, what does it all mean, nothing more nothing less, they just want to know what’s going on.  

Acts Chp. 2

[13] Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

Now in verse 13 we see a group that accuses these men of being drunk, that’s what they thought was going on, they thought all this was brought on by the group drinking too much! It’s that simple.

But in verse 14 Peter is going to clarify what is happening, so pay close attention.

Acts Chp. 2

[14] But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:  [15] For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

Peter stands up with the eleven, lifts up his voice tells everyone that these are not drunk, and points out that they haven’t been up long enough to get drunk, pointing out that it was but the third hour of the day.

Once again pay close attention as Peter is going to tell them exactly what happened, don’t miss this, it is one of the most important things you will learn about the Kingdom Church, versus the Church the Body of Christ that began with the Apostle Paul’s conversion.

Acts Chp. 2

[16] But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

Do you see what Peter said happened, “this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;”

I don’t want to seem rhetorical, but what did Peter say here, he said Pentecost was a fulfillment of prophecy which was spoken by Joel, the Old Testament prophet.

This experience was not a mystery at all, but simply what the Lord Jesus had told Joel to write down for future fulfillment in the Old Testament.

After Peter makes the statement to clarify to everyone who is listening to him tell about the Pentecost experience, he then quotes the verses in Acts Chp. 2: 17-21, from the Old Testament book of Joel Chp. 2 28-31 and half of verse 32. Peter didn’t read all of verse 32, because it was not fulfilled yet, and thus will be fulfilled in the future.

Acts Chp. 2

[17] And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: [18] And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: [19] And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: [20] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Now to bring in a verse that Peter uses in Chp. 3 to make this point even clearer. What point God’s Prophetic Program contrasted to God’s mystery program?

Peter makes it real clear, the things about Jesus he is preaching hinges on the words of the Old Testament prophets. Notice God spoke those things by the holy prophets since the world began. Can you not see that, they spoke these things since the world began, not a secret or a thing hid!

Acts Chp. 3

[20] And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: [21] Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Now let’s look at what Paul was preaching about Jesus Christ in Romans Chp. 16: 24-25 and see how it lines up with what Peter was preaching.

Romans Chp. 16

[24] The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. [25] Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

Come on fellow Christians, surely you can see that Peter was preaching words spoken and well known since the world began, and Paul was speaking words that the Lord Jesus gave him that was kept secret since the world began.

Honestly, all you have to do is read it and let the Holy Spirit show you Peter's Gospel of the Kingdom, and Paul's Gospel of Grace are different, and not one in the same!

The simple fact of why so much confusion exists in Christendom today, is due to the Christians failure, or inability, to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth! To take the truth that belongs to believers living in the dispensation of the grace of God, and to not intermingle it with the law or Prophetic Program truth.

Remember 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.

The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles!

2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Remember most unsound Bible Doctrine, is sound Bible Doctrine misapplied to the wrong time period, or wrong group of people.

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Lesson 15 Pentecost! The Prophetic Program Continues

I ask that as we go through these lessons, that you get your Bible, read it, pray, study, and ask the Holy Spirit of the Living God, to help guide you into truth.

By comparing scripture with scripture, and comparing spiritual things with spiritual things, we as Christians are able to discern truth from error.

I would like to return to our ongoing study of God’s directions to the disciples of the prophetic program to Israel, compared to the directions of the  mystery as given to the Apostle Paul and the Body of Christ.   

We will look at some of the most misused, misunderstood, and at the same time simple to understand verses in the Bible, and with the help of the Holy Spirit open the eyes of the misled.

We will look at the first 11 verses of Acts Chp. 2, we are going to look at the verses and not try and make them say anything but what they say and teach, we are not going to twist or wrest these verses against themselves, or any other verses. I believe these verses are simple to understand as written.

Acts.2  [1] And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.  [2] And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. [3] And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. [4] And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. [5] And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. [6] Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. [7] And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? [8] And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? [9] Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,  [10] Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,  [11] Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

I want you to look this up for yourself and verify it, Pentecost was the Jewish festival of Shavuoth.

The definition of Shavuoth as found in Merriam Webster English dictionary is : a Jewish holiday observed on the sixth and seventh of Sivan in commemoration of the revelation of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai —called also Pentecost

If you have read the previous lessons about what Jesus was teaching in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, I believe we proved beyond a shadow of doubt that Jesus was preaching and teaching people to follow the Mosaic Laws.

I have yet for anyone to show, or produce one verse where Jesus, or his disciples, ever told anyone that the rules had changed, and they did not have to follow the Old Testament Laws prior to Paul's conversion in Acts Chp. 9.

It is fitting that on the day of Pentecost, a day the Jews celebrated the revelation of the Ten Commandments, that the Holy Ghost now descends upon them.

Please notice, and don’t let your emotions drive you, but pray and ask the Holy Ghost to reveal the truth to you, as we look closer at these verses.

Acts.2  [4] And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

In verse 4, when they began to speak with tongues, it was as the Spirit gave them utterance, this simply means it was an orderly thing, they spoke one at a time, not chaotically or uncontrolled.

Acts.2  [5] And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

In verse 5, we see these were Jews out of every nation under heaven, this simply means it was a diverse group of Jews, which did not speak the same language.

Acts.2  [6] Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

In verse 6, we see the Biblical definition of what happened, notice every man heard them speak in their own language.

Acts.2 [7] And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

In verse 7, we see that all of the speakers were Galileans, not everyone present was speaking.

Acts.2 [8] And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

In verse 8, we get an ever clearer definition of what happened, the languages being heard were in each person’s native language where they were born.

Acts.2 [9] Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,  [10] Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,  [11] Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

In verses 9-11, we have listed all the different areas that the group of men (Jews not Gentiles) were from. We also are told that the things being spoken of, was the wonderful works of God

The miracle here in these verses, was that a person (Galilean) would speak in an orderly fashion, and the crowd would here them in their own language!

Today’s equivalent would be a United Nations meeting, where a person is speaking, and with the help of modern day technology, each person from another country hears the speaker in his own tongue, or language.

If you look at these verses, just read them, take them as they are written, there is nothing being spoken here on the day of Pentecost, that was not in a known language!

There is no other correct interpretation of what is happening here in these verses. It’s that simple.

I will conclude this lesson at verse 11 as the next section of verses I would like to cover would make the post too long. I encourage you to study ahead with the rest of Acts Chp. 2 as we will continue it in Lesson 16.

Remember 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.

The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles!

2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Remember most unsound Bible Doctrine, is sound Bible Doctrine misapplied to the wrong time period, or wrong group of people.

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Lesson 14 What is Your Doctrine?

I ask that as we go through these lessons, that you get your Bible, read it, pray, study, and ask the Holy Spirit of the Living God, to help guide you into truth.

Since the first lesson we have been comparing scripture with scripture, and comparing spiritual things with spiritual things, this method allows us to discern truth from error. 

I would like to share with you now, when you take the Bible in context, and study it in it’s proper divisions, it becomes sound doctrine.

First a story,

I was speaking to a young man about his need to become a Christian years ago, sharing with him that he could have eternal life, and live forever in a glorified resurrected body, with the Lord Jesus, in a sin free world, throughout all eternity.

To my surprise, he was quick to reject the offer of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus.

He informed me that he had made his own religion, and that was what he lived by.

So I had to ask him, how he made up his own religion, and he shared the following.

Well Alfred, it was easy, I went to the Bible, the Koran, Buddha, Confucius, Hinduism, and I took all the positive things out of each of the world religions, and that is what I live by, that is my religion.

I have always felt any religion is ok to live by, the real discriminator is how is it to die by, that's the really important thing, where does it get you after you are dead?

I felt that I needed to remind him that Jesus stated that he was the way, the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father by Jesus.

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.

Of course this did not persuade the young man, as he just saw Jesus as another great philosopher, or wise man, and not the God that created Heaven and Earth.

Matt. 1: [23] Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

John.1: [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] The same was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. [14] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Col. 1: [13] Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: [14] In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: [15] Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: [16] For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: [17] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. [18] And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

I am here to tell you that if Jesus Christ is not God, then he is one of the worst people ever to live on planet Earth, for him to falsely claim to be God, and give millions of people the false hope of “Eternal Life” if they simply confess him, and believe that he was raised from the dead. 

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.

It doesn’t get any worse than this, for someone to give someone a false hope of eternal life!

I don’t want to hear Jesus was just a great teacher, or he was just a wonderful person. If that's all he was, then he was a liar claiming to be God, and did not rise from the dead! You can't accept Jesus' teachings without also accepting he claimed to be God.

Ok back to the point of this lesson, the majority of Christians that read the Bible are just like that young man. They want to just take the positive things in the Bible, and reject the negative.

The modern day Christian likes to hang out in the Gospels, mostly the sermon on the mount, with all the love, peace, and happiness that Jesus spoke of, and then turn right around and reject the “Hell Fire and Brimstone”, that the same Lord Jesus warned people about.

Christians today, I am afraid are guilty of creating their own religion, and trying to worship the Lord Jesus with unsound doctrine.

The people who are mingling the message of Grace, with the message of the Earthly Kingdom that Jesus and the 12 disciples were preaching, have created a distorted, or false gospel, and they are going to be in big trouble.

We simply cannot have a different church on every corner of the United States, teaching different doctrines, and really believe that they are all correct.

I get this all the time from people about doctrine, people complaining that they don’t like doctrine, or don’t want to discuss doctrine.

Well my question is always the same, can people have a right relationship with Jesus based on unsound doctrine?

With Jesus himself making the comment “in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men”.

Matt. 15:[7] Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, [8] This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. [9] But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

John.4 [23] But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. [24] God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

I would offer the following, 13 times the word doctrine is used in Matt.-John, and in all the places it was concerning Jesus.

In the Pauline epistles we have the word doctrine used 23 times, with the Apostle Paul speaking these words, (which I believe are the very words of Jesus, given to Paul to share with the believers of this dispensation, and that the words you find Paul speaking, carry just as much weight, as any of the red letter words in Matt.-John, as they were given to Paul, by Jesus from Heaven and apply to us believers today in 2015) ;

2Tim.4 [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.

1Tim.4 [1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

 

I believe that if you, and I, as believers in Christ, sit down with the same Bible, and look at the same verses, and compare spiritual things with spiritual things, that we will be able to come to the same understanding on any particular subject.

Let's conclude this lesson with the following, If you take the Bible and just pick and choose the verses you want to live by, you are essentially creating your own doctrine, this is what the Pharisees and Sadducees were guilty of,  and the doctrine they created was unsound doctrine.

But guess what, we all have to pick and choose what verses we are going to live by, Paul said in Titus 2 that we should speak things which become sound doctrine.

Tit.2 [1] But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

There is a correct way to interpret the scriptures, and if you fail to see this, then you can never get your doctrine correct, and you will be as Paul warned, and cautioned against, being “tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine”.

Eph.4 [14] That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

If you search the scriptures daily to see whether the things you hear on the radio, TV, at church, read in these lessons, etc. are correct, and ask the Holy Spirit of the Living God to help you understand his word, I believe he will do this for you.

I also believe if you just kickback as a lazy Christian, and don’t ever open your Bible and read it for yourself, the Lord will let you believe any doctrine, even unsound doctrine.

Acts.17  [10] And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.  [11] These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles!

2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Remember most unsound Bible Doctrine, is sound Bible Doctrine misapplied to the wrong time period, or wrong group of people.

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Lesson 13 Why Paul? The “Thirteenth Apostle”

I ask that as we go through these lessons, that you get your Bible, read it, pray, study, and ask the Holy Spirit of the Living God, to help guide you into truth.

Since the first lesson we have been comparing scripture with scripture, and comparing spiritual things with spiritual things, so that we can discern truth, from error.

   

“Why Paul”, why was there a need for Jesus to make Paul, the thirteenth apostle, after all he already had 12 apostles, as identified in Acts. chapter 1.

There is, and was, absolutely no need for the Apostle Paul, unless Jesus started a new program! We continue to reinforce the fact, Jesus gave the 12 apostles commandments they were instructed to teach, and preach.

Acts 1: [1] The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, [2] Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

In Acts 1: 12-24 the 11 apostles choose Matthias, to replace Judas Iscariot, so the number of Apostles was restored to 12.

Now let us look at a future prophecy yet to be fulfilled, I want you to think about this when you read the following concerning the New Jerusalem in Rev. 21: [12] And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: [14] And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Guess what, I can tell you without any hesitation the names of those twelve apostles, we find them listed in Acts. 1: [13] And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. [26] And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

Guess what else, Paul’s name is not going to be listed with those twelve apostles of the Lamb, because once again the Apostle Paul had a different commission, with different instructions, for a different group of believers, than the Nation of Israel.

Don’t you believe that Jesus could have given any one of the 12 Apostles, which were already chosen, and recognized as having apostolic authority, the revelations, and instructions, that were given to the Apostle Paul?

Matt. 19: [27] Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? [28] And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jesus could have done this, but the fact is the 12 Apostles were part of the Prophetic Kingdom program; they had a different job, or commission, than the commission given to the Apostle Paul.

Let’s look at some interesting facts concerning Paul’s Apostleship.

First we see in Paul was called to be an apostle in 1^st Cor., for this lesson I will spend most of the rest of our time in the Corinthian epistles.

1Cor.1: [1] Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God. 

In the next verses, we see Paul tell us what he was not sent to do, as well as what he was sent to do.  

In verse 17, he states that Christ did not send him to baptize, but to preach the gospel. In the earlier lessons dealing with the instructions Jesus gave to the 12 apostles, it is clear that they were sent to baptize. Again in the future we will look deeper into water baptism.

1Cor.1:  [17] For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.  

In verse 18 we see Paul tell us that it is the preaching of the cross of Christ by which we are saved, no one prior to Paul ever spoke of preaching about the cross to be saved, the message prior to Paul’s conversion was the gospel of the kingdom!

1Cor.1:  [18] For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

We see Paul in Chp. 9 defending and confirming his apostleship to the Corinthians.

1Cor.9  [1] Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?  [2] If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

In three verses, two of which are also in 1^st Corinthians, Paul tells the Corinthians that should be followers of him. I could not find any of the other Apostles telling anyone that they should follow themselves?   If I am correct in my understanding of Paul’s message it makes perfect sense that he would tell people to follow him, because his message was different than the message the other 12 apostles had.

1Cor. 11 [1] Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

1Cor. 4 [16] Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

Phil. 3 [17] Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Now let’s close this lesson out by looking at what I believe our commission is, as members of the Body of Christ, as given to our apostle Paul by the Lord Jesus Christ after he had ascended back into heaven.

Rom.11 [13] For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

The Apostle Paul describes himself, and us believers in the Body of Christ, as ambassadors for Christ.

Eph.6 [20] For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

2^nd Cor. 5: [17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  [18] And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;  [19] To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.  [20] Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

What I find very interesting is that nowhere else in the New Testament does the word ambassador appear, other than in Paul’s epistles.

The word ambassador means, (This is straight out of an English dictionary.) an official envoy; especially: a diplomatic agent of the highest rank accredited to a foreign government or sovereign as the resident representative of his or her own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment.

An ambassador is a person who represents his/her leader and county in a foreign land.

Thus we are representatives of the Lord Jesus, who is not residing here on planet Earth at this current time, but is in Heaven.

So the definition for us believers in Christ as his ambassadors, is a perfect fit!

That is why, when the Lord Jesus, gave Paul the words to write in his epistles, the Lord Jesus declared us to be his ambassadors.

This is Paul’s, and our commission today, to be ambassadors for the Lord for Jesus, while he is heaven awaiting his triumphal return to planet Earth, riding on that white horse!

This is the answer to “Why Paul” because Paul was given a new commission, with new instructions, and a new gospel, 1Cor. 15: 3-4 “...Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.” 

It’s that simple!

Think upon these things, pray about them, and I believe God will reveal to you the importance of getting your instructions from the Pauline epistles for today in the year of our Lord 2015. 

Applying and living by Paul's epistles will help remove the confusion caused by trying to live by doctrine in the Bible that is not for the Body of Christ. 

The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles!

2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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