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FAITH and REVELATION are activated by suffering

And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Mark 8:31

opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

Acts 17:3

In a world of Greek philosophical heritage in which we live, where the purpose of life is to seek and achieve personal happiness and well-being, a statement like the one proposed in the title of this chapter would surely offend more than one and could be taken as religious nonsense.

Why should the Christ suffer? Unlike philosophies and religions of higher social projection in history, where their doctrines are based on the realization of man by observing the theosophical rules compiled by their founders, Christianity does not depend on what man does to get his spirituality and eventual salvation. It is widely known that in the Gospel of the Kingdom, salvation is by Grace, Gift of God, and consists in believing in the name of Jesus, precisely to avoid anyone to glory in his deeds.[1]

The Gospel only asks to believe. The apostle Paul summarizes in this unique expression taken from the book of Deuteronomy[2]  the key to salvation:

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.

Romans 10:9

Simple. Believe and confess what is believed. Why then the need to suffer?

Man is a being that tends to gather all his knowledge and to reduce it to a systematic knowledge; by nature, he is very given to boasting about what he knows; thence, so that a knowledge that God gives him does not fall in the “library” of his knowledge, and the Revelation is lost, it is necessary for man to process his knowledge through “experiences” that lead him to put aside his tendency to boast about what he knows; in the process, man discovers God speaking to his spirit. The suffering that man faces is of the same degree as his resistance to depose his tendency to boast.

It was necessary for the Christ to suffer because only in this way man could understand the way of the Revelation of salvation, which is why we read in the epistles of the Apostle Paul that the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. [3]   If there were no suffering, the doctrine of Christ would be reduced to theoretical knowledge only.[4]

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1st. Corinthians 2:14

Thus, suffering makes it possible for the knowledge acquired to be transformed into the Revelation of God’s purposes. It is not that we preach a doctrine of suffering, nor worse, that we exalt it, but it is the form provided by God so that by an attitude of submission to the Lordship of Christ, and by the decision to be participants in His sufferings, a person finds faith as a resource of trust in God; the apostle Paul established among the Gentile communities that it is necessary that through many tribulations we enter the Kingdom of God, note that according to the teaching of the apostle, to remain in the faith means to remain firm in the face of suffering.[5]

In the teaching about the life of the Kingdom set forth by the parable of the sower,[6] Jesus instructed his disciples that unwillingness to tolerate suffering for the sake of the Gospel causes the seed of Revelation and Faith to be lost. The seed that remains superficial on the road, together with the one that is choked by the rocks, and the one that is suffocated by the thorns, are the graphic representation of lives, although interested in developing a life of faith but unwilling to suffer for it; faith and Revelation are not the product of the theory of knowledge, but the experience of being participants in the sufferings of Christ;[7] in the experience of being ‘hidden’ in God is when the things are discovered that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man.[8] A life based on the theory of knowledge is a life that lags behind and is immersed in religious rituals that only encapsulates its confidence in what it knows theoretically about God.[9]

It is not a matter of seeking and promoting suffering, life in Christ Jesus does not consist of suffering for the sake of suffering; the merit of the life of faith does not lie in pain. God determines which revelation needs to be processed by the experience of suffering, when it comes, not avoided.[10] The life of faith does not consist in reproducing stereotypical models of pietistic, silent, tolerant, medieval Christianity; the life of faith in Jesus Christ consists in activating in our own lives the conviction of Revelation that has been deposited in our spirit.[11]

The Revelation of His Word brings faith, but there are Revelations that need to be processed through suffering.

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

1st. Peter 1:7

Faith is not a product of human endeavor; it is a spiritual virtue. God Himself subjects us to situations designed by Him to produce in us the Revelation of His Essence, and for us to believe in Him. It is not the logical, rational belief, product of the acquired knowledge, it is the Revelation of His Power, of His Sovereignty, of His Lordship, and through this Revelation the necessary Faith is activated to move us in His Grace.

15 who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Deuteronomy 8:15-16

These verses are widely known in the religious media, but they highlight only the end result of God’s action: to do thee good at thy latter end, but they deliberately ignore the way God used to achieve that result. That’s why we have many frustrated, disappointed, bitter, and depressed believers today, denying their faith and blaming God for all their misfortunes.

If the Scriptures themselves testify that it is through suffering that the believer receives and develops faith, why then the tendency to avoid it.

13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.           

Hebrews 11:13-16

How much Revelation does God have for you? Suffer patiently the race that is set before you, seek neither merit nor gain nor recognition; let it not be said of you that it is lighter work to put a camel through the eye of a needle, …

All biblical quotations are taken from the King James Version.

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[1] Ephesians 2:8

[2] Deuteronomy 30:10-14

[3] 1st. Corinthians 1:18

[4] Ditto 1:21-23

[5] Acts 14:22

[6] Mathew 13:1-23

[7] Philippians 1:29: For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

[8] 1st. Corinthians 2:9

[9] Mathew 13:19-23

[10] Ditto 10:38

[11] Jeremy 31:33

Deliverance through the food we eat?

A pastor recently asked me about 1 Samuel 14:27, if the honey referred to God’s Revelation to man; this is the answer I gave him: The text refers to the deliverance that the man of faith can acquire through the food he eats, the Revelation, however, is established on the basis of the deliverance.

But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. I Samuel 14:27

There is deliverance through food, and this is a clear example. Surely the reader will be familiar with issues such as the defilement that certain foods produce when they are eaten, because this is the counterpart issue, a little known issue, which highlights that God establishes deliverance through the food that He points out for that purpose.

God establishes a “diet” and He does it with the purpose of establishing operations of liberation, in and with, the people to whom He reveals them, such as Samson;

but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. Judges 13:7

God provides a “diet” to establish operations of the Spirit, they are operations of Kingdom establishment through which precedents of faith are established in the regions, examples of which you read in the diet that He designed for Adam and Eve,

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Genesis 1:11

You see it again in the wisdom that led Daniel and his companions not to contaminate themselves with the ration assigned to them,

12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. 13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. 14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. 15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat. 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse. Daniel 1.12-16.

There will be people, however, who will highlight an intrinsic value in food, that is not the biblical teaching, food itself does not have a value independent of the Will of God.

God arranges a “diet” with the purpose of establishing and maintaining liberation in those who serve Him, because for there to be Revelation, it is necessary first to establish liberation, we see it in the diet that God determined to the priests and the Nazarites,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord: 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. Numbers 6:1-4

For that very reason, the recommendation that the church in Jerusalem gave to the church of the Gentiles was given precisely to cut the satanic bonds that are established in the person through food,

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. Acts 15.20

Many peoples of the earth have food contaminated with idols, and unfortunately the children of light continue to consume it. Foods based on the blood of animals, such as moronga (blood sausage) are consumed by people who claim to be followers of Jesus by arrogating to themselves a freedom that is not sustained by the Word.

whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Philippians 3.19

I emphasize, the diet is established by God, not that man/woman should seek one according to the basis of science. There is deliverance through food, and in His grace, God gives revelation of how to use food.

Eating a lot of red meat is constituted in bonding and contamination. Spiritual bonding is established by what the animals carry. Animals perceive and dwell in unclean spirits much more readily than humans, the example being the demons that entered the herd of swine (Luke 8:32).

Not that red meat cannot be eaten, for in God’s commandment, animals are given to Noah to eat (Genesis 9:3-5), but they are not to be the food base of a man of faith. When you minister deliverance to someone, put them on a meat fast for at least a week, and you will see the results.

Remember, it is not just a matter of “stopping” certain foods, it is necessary to discover, and implement, God-revealed diets to fulfill purposes and operations of the Spirit. So, not only should pork be seen as “bad”, bad can be everything that feeds a person’s ego. How about coffee? How about mate? Do you understand? It is to understand that we eat not only to subsist, but also so that the human spirit can be quickened to “see”, like Jonathan’s case, what God is doing, or what God wants us to do.

The biblical quotations are taken from the Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

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What is the Gospel of Jesus? What does it consist of? The value of faith

The Gospel, although it is a teaching, is not activated just by nodding to it; faith is necessary. In one of the previous sections we explained that the Gospel is Doctrine, the Doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven; and we also explained, that doctrine in turn means teaching, which, for the purposes of learning it is necessary to “believe” it, for as we will be taught in something, or of something, if we do not believe in it; this point we can confirm in the words of the writer of the Gospel of Luke, who in his introduction to Theophilus, writes: it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightiest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. (Luke 1:3-4). Teaching is believed, it is the step that makes us followers of Jesus.

However, while it is necessary to believe it as true teaching with spiritual value, the teaching —the doctrine— requires that it be validated by faith. An example that helps us to understand this is the account in the book of Acts that describes the attitude that the believers of Berea adopted to the teachings of the Apostle Paul during his visit to the city: 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. (Acts 17:11). The passage illustrates that after having believed the teaching, the next step is to activate the teaching through faith; otherwise, the teaching loses its spiritual value and becomes mere information for the person.

We have reached the point where we enter properly into the study of the meaning and value of the Gospel: in order to understand the Gospel, it is necessary to understand it through faith.

Faith is a person’s ability and willingness to follow instructions. I know that we are used to the definition given in the eleventh chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews, which defines faith as the substance of things hoped for, and the demonstration of things not seen; However, religious philosophy has made us see in this definition the intention —understanding the capacity to visualize things— of wanting to believe in what we do not see, but which we expect, as if it were a human capacity to “materialize” what we are believing will come, which is not what the apostolic and prophetic writers intended to define in their writings.

Faith is simply the willingness of a person to follow an instruction as he or she is asked to do, or as he or she is commanded to do; in other words, faith is the willingness in a person not to contravene the instruction, nor to inquire why necessarily so, or why not otherwise; faith is obedience. Surely the reader will have heard more than one old-time preacher say that God demands blind faith, now he can understand what they meant.

Faith is the ability to follow instructions, hence the reader will now be able to understand why when Jesus worked miracles among those who followed Him, He asked them to “do” something as a condition for operating the miracle among them. We have many examples, but let us quote a few: The healing of the blind man who sent to wash in the pool of Siloam,[1] the ten lepers He sent to appear before the priest,[2] and the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, an act which He performed on two occasions.[3] The little faith of some consisted in their reluctance to do what He demanded of them.

So it’s clear to us, faith is the ability to follow instructions; now let’s take it a step further. The basic principle of faith is instruction by the Word that the Spirit of God imparts to the reader when he or she is exposed to the Word, or to the Spirit; this is because some instructions come from the Bible, while others come from the intervention of the Spirit’s move in the person. To support this definition we quote the following texts:

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20

The text of Isaiah presents us with the way God speaks to His people: by the Law, and by the testimony. The Law means all that is written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms,[4] while testimony means that which is not written explicitly but which comes by the testimony of the Spirit of prophecy; of the latter, the Words of Jesus confirm it,

14 He (the Holy Spirit, according with the context) shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. John 16:14-15

Faith is based on the person’s willingness to follow instructions, the instructions given by the Word and/or by the intervention of the Spirit of God; whoever is not willing to follow the instructions of the Gospel cannot grow in faith.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18

Faith is nourished and grows as we follow instructions, but stagnates as we interpret the instructions and/or alter them to our own convenience. Hence, as the apostle Paul rightly pointed out, there are many weakened believers and others sleeping, because they have rebelled against the Lord’s instructions.

29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 1st. Corinthians 11:29-31

The Gospel is not based on arguments that question the veracity of the Word, or on hermeneutic methods of interpretation; the Gospel is God’s instruction to man to establish God’s Justice on earth, so that man/woman may walk according to His Will, who fall into the vice of interpreting the teachings of Jesus are far from being man/woman of faith.

The next step in the development of faith is not to accumulate information, but to do the Word; God entrusts the Word to us in order, first, to establish with each one a precedent of faith for the region we inhabit, as in the case of Abraham from whom we all took part;

6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. Romans 9:6-8

Second, to establish an act of Justice or judgment, as in the case of Peter when he declared that Jesus is the Son of the Living God, allowing darkness to be judged by the word,

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18

Or, like the case of Noah, who condemned his generation for the fulfillment of the instruction given by the Lord,

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. Hebrews 11:7

And third, simply so that we may grow as a community of faith in the midst of a nation of darkness.

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 1st. Peter 1:7

[1] John 9:7

[2] Luke 17:14

[3] Mathew 16:8-10

[4] Luke 24:44

What is the Gospel of Jesus? What does it consist of? The value of Authority

Another aspect of the Gospel that we should study is its legal aspect, that is, its value in the face of the forces of darkness. Referring to the text of Matthew 16, where Jesus declares to Peter the value of his words before the forces of evil, the following question arises, Why before the message of the Gospel does darkness have to flee?

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:18-19

The ” rock ” on which the Lord builds His church is the declaration of faith in Jesus confessed by those who recognize Him as Lord and Christ (Messiah). Take time to review carefully the dialogue between Jesus and His disciples, and you will see that the prophetic confirmation Peter received was due to the response he presented to Jesus:

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matthew 16:16

So the ” rock ” is the spoken word that confesses that Jesus is Lord, Christ (Messiah) and God Himself, in whom Alone is found the way to the recovery of the image and likeness committed by Adam in the garden; this ” spoken word ” is constituted in virtue of the faith of the one who speaks it in the message of the Gospel, as we read in the account presented by the writer of the book of Acts of the Apostles:

Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee. Acts 10:32

who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. Acts 11:14

The message of the Gospel is not a formula, the Gospel is a message believed, confessed as a declaration of the recognition of the Lordship of Jesus, and spoken in response to the testimony that it is necessary to announce what we have seen and heard concerning the Word of life (1st. John 1:1-3). Do you see it now?

Now that we have understood this, let us ask the original question again, and let us answer it: Why does darkness have to flee before the message of the Gospel? The answer is simple and forceful: because the Gospel has a legal value that gives authority over the forces of darkness to the one who speaks it, that is, to the one who speaks the Gospel.

Yes, the Gospel has a legal value, and it is not a value per se, that is, by the mere fact that it comes from heaven; a message spoken by one who is not subject to the Lordship of Christ is an anathema message, as we read in Galatians 1:8: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed; such a message is subject to perdition, according to the very teaching of Jesus:

21 Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven….     23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7:21-23

Not all the apostles spoke on this subject; the apostle Paul presented it in one of his teachings in the epistle to the Romans:

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16

The legality of the Gospel consists in the right and authority that is acquired through Revelation, is what we read in Matthew 16 in Jesus’ own words:

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 16:17

The Gospel is not knowledge, it is Revelation; only those who “understand” the Revelation of the Lordship of Christ, and submit to it, are the only ones who can establish the legality of the Kingdom, that is what the apostle Paul refers to when he writes:

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16

And later when he also points,

for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 14:17

The forces of darkness recognize the men and women to whom the Gospel gives authority, not all have such authority; the contrast is clearly marked in the following text:

28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Acts 20:28-30

Why after Paul’s departure? Why didn’t the wolves come out during his presence? Paul had acquired the authority to establish the legality of the Kingdom, the Revelation of the Gospel had given it to him.

Many can preach, but not all can establish legality, they are not assisted by the authority of Revelation.

The biblical quotations are taken from the Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

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What is the Gospel of Jesus? What does it consist of? The value of Revelation

The concept of the Gospel cannot be defined or explained only by the etymological meaning of the word, or worse, by the religious definition that modern times have assigned to it; the Gospel must be understood on the basis of the Revelation that the Holy Spirit assigns to it in the Holy Scriptures.

In the epistle to the Galatians, the apostle Paul discovered by the Spirit that God evangelized Abraham (3:8), and explains that such an act did not consist in “informing” him about his future plans with him and his descendants, but in the faculty Abraham received to “believe” in him, that is, to generate faith in the Word of God, to such an extent that as the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews also discovers by the Spirit, Abraham believed that God was able to give Isaac back to him even after he died,

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. Hebrews 11:17-19

God evangelized Abraham when He discovered to him the purpose of his presence on earth, and said to him: In you all nations will be blessed. It was not to prosper him for we all know from history that he dwelt in Canaan as a stranger; the Gospel to Abraham meant a dowry of Revelation, faith and purpose.

Such teaching helps us understand that the Gospel is Revelation of the very essence of God, the Gospel is nourished by faith in the Word; no proclamation of the Good News makes true sense if the message does not foster the value of faith in God, a message based on highlighting only personal benefits is not a true Gospel message; the Gospel reveals to the person by the Spirit God’s purpose for him or her.

34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him…   18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Acts 10:34,35-11:18

In his epistle to Timothy, the apostle acknowledges that God’s mercy reaches out to people to transform their lives, so that with them they may glorify the Lord.

12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; 13 who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 1st. Timothy 1:12-14

The Gospel is Revelation of purposes, it is discovering by the Spirit to the person the meaning of living hidden in Christ, it is showing him the service that God wants each one to develop for the benefit of the body of Christ. Hence, in the testimony of the apostle John, every person occupies a leading position within the Kingdom,

12 But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13

Paul presents this same teaching by the Spirit as the harmonious integration of the members into one body, where all the members exercise a spiritual function of establishing the Kingdom,

15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 1st. Corinthians 12:15-17

The Gospel is therefore not just a message, it is Revelation that commissions the person to move in the Spirit by establishing with their decisions and actions the spiritual support for other members to move in the same way.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Philippians 2:4-6

It could be that some only have information about Jesus, because it could be that the Gospel they approached only contemplated the information of a historical Jesus; upon discovering that the Gospel “attributes” essence and divine substance, today it is convenient that we discard everything that is merely informative, and begin, like Abraham, to discover the power of transformation that the promise of his life in Jesus gives to the person who believes.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16

for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 14:17

buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. Colossians 2:12

18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Ephesians 1:18-20

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. Romans 8:37-39

The biblical quotations are taken from the Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

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