In some of our songs, you may hear references to spirits, UFO's, the occult, and other cosmic things that might have been mentioned in our lyrics throughout our early years.
However,
Jesus Christ on earth was the True Living Son of God; that he was tortured and brutally crucified; that his beaten-to-a-pulp and disfigured body was wrapped and placed in a tomb; and that on the third day, He arose from being dead, and He is alive today.
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This is 'the' gospel that was told by the Jewish apostle Paul to the non-jewish people (called gentiles.) It's called the 'gospel of grace'.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
It's by 'faith'.....which means by 'believing' in Paul's gospel. It's not by anything we can do, or earn, or by trying to be 'good enough'. We don't work to receive a 'gift'. Receiving for earning is not a gift. No person on this earth today can ever be 'good enough' to earn this.
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the 'gift' of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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God is not who we 'think' he is.
However,
Jesus Christ on earth was the True Living Son of God; that he was tortured and brutally crucified; that his beaten-to-a-pulp and disfigured body was wrapped and placed in a tomb; and that on the third day, He arose from being dead, and He is alive today.
........................
This is 'the' gospel that was told by the Jewish apostle Paul to the non-jewish people (called gentiles.) It's called the 'gospel of grace'.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
It's by 'faith'.....which means by 'believing' in Paul's gospel. It's not by anything we can do, or earn, or by trying to be 'good enough'. We don't work to receive a 'gift'. Receiving for earning is not a gift. No person on this earth today can ever be 'good enough' to earn this.
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the 'gift' of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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God is not who we 'think' he is.