Teachings of Paul in The Acts and Epistles

These days, new churches and TV programs teach chiefly about prosperity, and I think the message of the early church has been made to lose sting. I like these churches and their message and I am a member of one. I have managed to steer my thinking in a way of giving and I surely receive. If that could be then, end of things, then many are doomed.

Like the Epistles written by John and Peter, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the key. Rom:3:27: ‘Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. v28: Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.’ Jews wanted the law thing to be paramount, primarily circumcision. If you cut a fore skin you would be saved. Sad.

Faith is to believe in the ability of God to give you anything you want without doubting. That is Biblical. The early church preaching, days, weeks or months after the Lord Jesus Christ defeated death and ascended, was that as in 1 Cor :2:5: ‘That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.’ Paul went on to say in 1 Cor :13:13: ‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.’

A line after that, he explains that faith should be based on the resurrection of the Lord, because if Christ never rose, then everybody is wasting time. Historically and otherwise, the overwhelming evidence of the resurrection and ascension is every where. Many people would fancy it being easier to believe in those days.

After going through scriptures earnestly several times, I found two options to deal with matters of time. Either I took and placed myself in the shoes of people of ancient times and then ask myself what would make me different from them. Most of these guys went about their sinful lives as if there was no tomorrow. Somebody pops up and tell you someone was born and then died and then rose.

Or I would take the times and bring them forward to the time I started to be a man, say of 18, and I knew all the details of what Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus were preaching. With all archaeological and historical evidence we see on the History, National Geographical and BBC Channels and the like, it would be folly to ignore them.

Now with all we have, we have to believe these things happened and that, as says in Gal:3:25: ‘But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. v26: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.’ The faith in Jesus is something one has to confess by their own mouth and truly believing that whatever they confess is honestly true, that Jesus is Christ and Lord. This, Paul and others mention at all times.

You can do that right here, right now. God loves you.