Well, Chris...... as strange as it may seem to you, it IS only the Gospel of the Grace of God that Paul preached. The Gospel of the Kingdom was the gospel for the Jews in the nation Israel, and was also called the Gospel of the Circumcision. Paul's gospel was NOT the Gospel of the Kingdom, but was called the Gospel of the UN Circumcision, as well as the Gospel of the Grace of God.
This gospel was given to Paul ONLY. He preached the UNsearchable riches of Christ. These things in Paul's epistles are the revelation of the mystery. These things were hidden in God since before the foundation of the world.
John the Baptist preached the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Our Lord Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Peter and the 12 preached the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Paul did NOT preach the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Paul preached the Gospel of the Grace of God, which was revealed to him by the risen Christ.
Paul was the first person saved under the Gospel of the Grace of God, and the first member of the Body of Christ. In the 15th chapter of Acts, Paul finally goes to Jerusalem, BY REVELATION, after preaching his gospel for years, to reveal to Peter, James, and John the gospel that he was preaching. They did NOT know this gospel. Peter writes in his 2nd epistle, "And account that the longsuffering of our Lord IS salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to THE WISDOM GIVEN UNTO HIM hath written unto you; As also in all HIS epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which some things are hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as THEY do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." (2 Peter 3:15,16)
Chris, these things are plainly written in the epistles of Paul, the general epistles of Peter, and the book of Acts. They may seem strange to you, but they are the truth. |
