The Philadelphia Letter
Welcome to The Philadelphia Letter
Years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the apostle Paul wrote a series of letters to the "saints"....new converts....of the early christian churches. He had been a jewish pharisee who zealously persecuted the early christians. Then one faithful day on his way to Damascus, he encountered the Lord Jesus. This encounter changed his life. Those he had persecuted, he embraced. The very gospel he was trying to quench, he spoke. He endured floggings, beatings, and was stoned until believed dead. Yet during all these trials he embraced a truth...the revelation of Jesus Christ. His epistles (letters) are a cornerstone to understanding the gospel of grace. With the Holy Spirit's help, I hope to bring to light once again these valuable teachings of Paul, weaving them together with the testimony of my own conversion into what Paul calls "the simplicity that is in Christ". His gospel was simple: "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve". ( 1 Corinthians 15:3,4,5) In this statement he declares this is the gospel that he received. The event that took place was also prophesied hundreds of years earlier by jewish scripture. But greatest of all, witnesess testified to Christs resurrection. In this day of science and technology where it seems everything is complicated, the church is failing you by complicating salvation by faith.... with it's divisions, petty jealousies, it's squabbling over scripture, it's religious doctrines.....who can you believe? Put your trust in God.......He will not fail you.
"I will call them My people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, There they shall be called sons of the living God." (Hosea 1:10)
" I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ...the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith". ( Philippians 3:9)
"For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." (2 Peter 1:16)
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