God's Gift of His Gospel Truth, and God's Gift of the United States of America

First, the Gospel.

II Corinthians 9 and 10 talks about "the EXPERIMENT of the ministry of the gospel of Christ" - to see if we'll submit ourselves to it and live in what Paul refers to as divine liberty and freedom (Gal 5:1). If we do submit ourselves to it, we have all the blessings, promises and power of God working in us. Jesus and Peter add to this and say we also have God's glory too (John 17:22, I Pet 1:10-12).

Don't miss this! The gospel was the only thing the first century church knew and lived for about the first 100 years. The gospel was the inheritance both Jesus and Paul came to give to us as a gift from God. It gave us God's entire Kingdom (Luke 12:32). It gave us all promises and blessings from God (II Cor 1:20, Eph 1:3). The Holy Spirit's work is partly to show us all God's gifts that are ours so we don't miss any (I Cor 2:12). Paul says what this produces in us is gratitude, thanksgiving, worship, love, grace, righteousness, peace and joy. No wonder Paul says the gospel produces good things in us (Col 1:5-6, Phil 1:5-6).

But today, we have so many church denominations, so many commentators, theories, theologies and opinions that the gospel is polluted beyond recognition. Plus, Paul says the devil himself does his very best to blind our minds to gospel truth (II Cor 4:3-4). So the gospel often goes undefined, as I so desperately try to define it:

We must continually pray for more gospel revelation because Jesus says we must believe and live the gospel (Mark 1:14-15). Paul says we'll be judged by the gospel (Rom 2:16, II Thes 1:7-9). Jesus agrees (John 12:48). Thus far, God has shown me 9 aspects of the gospel, in addition to salvation, but I'm sure there are others to be revealed.

Second, America.

Do we value America? It too was an EXPERIMENT: a gift of great value! After the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin said, "GOD has given you a REPUBLIC, if you can keep it!!" But by the mid-1800s, we had exchanged the republic God gave us for a DEMOCRACY of majority rule by our elected political officials. We forfeited much of our liberty and freedom, and appointed leaders to rule over us. We are much like the ancient Jews who told God they wanted a human king, so they'd be like all the other nations. In many ways, we're making many of the same mistakes that ancient Israel did. We don't learn from history.

Fifty years ago, Bobby Kennedy said we had exchanged our freedom and justice for a system of political red tape. Today we don't have the gift of liberty and freedom we began with, or the education system that was second to none in the world, or the 12-point moral creed this great nation was founded on. And we don't have the revelation the founding fathers gave us as to how to succeed in a free experimental Republic that was unknown to the world.

In both cases... the gospel, and the United States... if we understand and live the foundations we have been given, then we realize the value of the power we've been given. If we know the blessings we have, we will want to defend, protect and proclaim them. The gospel reveals this, and I try to help show these gifts we are given. But I also pray that God uses Donald Trump to help get us out of the PIT that our elected politicians have led us into.

This presidential election is deciding!!! Has God repented on the judging of America with Trump's election? God gave us the gift of his gospel, which was used extensively by our founding fathers, but with all the church denominations and theologies today, it has been lost in the dust. Just as our republic has been lost -- exchanged for a democracy run by elected officials. See http://www.ConstitutionLawyerCoach.com -- introductory articles.

But God wants us all to get back to the basics of the gospel that drove our founding fathers to create "One Nation Under God" -- "In God We Trust." Because of all the theologies today, we often think the gospel is only about 'salvation.' But it is about a whole lot more: http://www.ChristianLifeGospelCoaching.com (see specifically "10 gospel coaching sessions").


 By Roger Himes


Article Source: God's Gift of His Gospel Truth, and God's Gift of the United States of America