**All the Right and Wrong Teachings on the Gospel (Part 5) | Dr. Gene Kim — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Dr. Gene Kim explores four distinct gospels, contrasts Paul's gospel with others, and warns against hyperdispensationalism in this detailed teaching.

## Key Takeaways

- There are multiple distinct gospels in the Bible, each with different audiences and purposes.
- Paul’s gospel of grace through faith was preached before Paul’s ministry and is foundational for Christian doctrine.
- Hyperdispensationalism or Mid-Acts teaching is a heresy that distorts the timing and nature of the church and salvation.
- The gospel of the kingdom and other gospels primarily address Jewish audiences and prophetic timelines, not the church.
- Understanding these distinctions helps believers avoid confusion and maintain sound biblical doctrine.

## What the video covers

- Dr. Gene Kim discusses four different gospels: the everlasting gospel, Paul's gospel, the gospel of the kingdom, and the gospel of armed warfare.
- He contrasts his classification with other dispensationalists who include the gospel of the grace of God instead of armed warfare.
- The gospel of the grace of God was preached before Paul, as evidenced by Romans 1:16 and 1 Corinthians 15.
- Paul’s gospel focuses on the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and was preached both before and after Paul’s ministry.
- Dr. Kim warns against hyperdispensationalism (also called Mid-Acts), which falsely claims the church started only with Paul and emphasizes works for salvation before Paul.
- He emphasizes that the gospel of grace was preached to Jews first and then to Gentiles, countering Mid-Acts teachings.
- The previous gospels addressed primarily Jewish audiences and timelines, such as the tribulation and kingdom gospel, which are distinct from the Christian church gospel.
- Dr. Kim stresses the importance of understanding these distinctions to avoid doctrinal confusion and heresies.
- He encourages careful study and note-taking to grasp the complex differences between the gospels and dispensational teachings.
- The teaching includes warnings about false doctrines and encourages adherence to biblical truth as revealed through Paul’s writings.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction and Overview of Four Gospels
2. 02:56 Paul’s Gospel and Its Pre-Pauline Existence
3. 05:18 Warning Against Hyperdispensationalism (Mid-Acts)
4. 08:09 Differences Between Jewish and Christian Gospels
5. 11:00 Importance of Understanding Gospel Distinctions
6. 15:35 Summary and Final Warnings on Doctrine

Answers

## Questions about this video

What are the four gospels discussed by Dr. Gene Kim?

Dr. Gene Kim discusses the everlasting gospel from Revelation, Paul's gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection, the gospel of the kingdom, and the gospel of armed warfare.

What is hyperdispensationalism and why does Dr. Kim warn against it?

Hyperdispensationalism, also called Mid-Acts, is a heresy that claims the church started only with Paul and emphasizes works for salvation before Paul. Dr. Kim warns it distorts biblical teaching and misleads believers.

How does Dr. Kim differentiate between Paul's gospel and the gospel of the grace of God?

Dr. Kim explains that the gospel of the grace of God was preached before Paul, primarily to Jews and Greeks, while Paul's gospel focuses on the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and the church era.

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Now, last time I was covering the four Gospels. Now, I'm glad that one of the members brought it up to me because someone's been studying their Bibles. Amen.

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So, when I give the account of the four Gospels, and obviously I'm not talking about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The four Gospels that I've been covering to you are as follows.

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What they are is the everlasting gospel that was found in the book of Revelation. And then I've covered the next gospel, which is our gospel, and that's Paul's gospel.

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The death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then I talked to you about the gospel of the kingdom. And then the number four, the fourth gospel, gospel of armed warfare.

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One of the members brought it up that Dr. David Walker, and I believe Clarence Larkin, and some other dispensationalists, they do the four Gospels differently, actually. So, yours truly gave a very different one. But other dispensationalists were bringing up different ones, which

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is number four here. So, what is the difference with number four here? The difference with number four is that instead of the gospel of armed warfare, they would talk about the gospel of the grace of God, the grace of God.

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Now, let's explain the differences of Paul's gospel and the grace of God, and then I'll explain to you why I did not do that. Let's first go to the gospel of the grace of God. That is something that we see in God's grace

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given to people and people were able to receive it by faith and for salvation.

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Romans chapter 1, please. Romans chapter 1. We could probably call this the gospel of Christ.

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And notice that it's not Paul's gospel here. Romans chapter 1 and verse 16. Romans chapter 1 and verse 16.

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We see right here that this is a gospel that was preached to the Jews first, then also to the Greek. So, in other words, it was obviously before Paul's time. This was long before Paul. Romans 1:16. For I am not ashamed

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of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the what? Jew first and also to the what? Greek. Then we go to 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians 15.

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Remember that's the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Remember that one?

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Now, I referred to this as Paul's gospel, but you'll notice people were able to believe in the death, burial, and resurrection for salvation before Paul, before Paul. So, let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15.

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And then we'll see at verse, uh, let's see right here. Verse 9. Verse 9.

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For I am the least of the apostles, that I'm not meet to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God.

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Now, notice right here that there was the existence of the church before Paul got saved.

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Indicating that there were people who may have been saved by grace through faith and were able to become part of God's church before Paul. Now, is that going to be the case? Yes, because of verse 11. Verse 11. Therefore, whether

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it were I, Paul, or who? They. Who's the they? The church, the apostles who preached the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ before Paul.

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Now, if you doubt that one, all you have to do is just compare, uh, verse two and then, uh, verse seven. Verse two and seven, you can tell right here that Paul's saying, "This is the gospel that you believed."

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And then he's talking about death, burial, and resurrection. Then he sits talking about all these apostles who witnessed it.

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So, he's talking about in context in verse 11 that if I, the last of the apostles, not the first, the last of the apostles, or they, the apostles who were before me, the church that was before me, the one

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that I persecuted before I got saved, you believed in that gospel of death, burial, and resurrection.

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See that? Now, we see right here that the gospel of the grace of God was preached before Paul. There's a heretical group called hyperdispensationalism.

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They're also called mid-Acts. Now, I'm going to write that down because this group, one day, you're not—they're not going to call out and say blatantly, "I'm a hyperdispensationalist." But, you're going to hear people talking about mid-Acts, mid-Acts, mid-Acts,

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mid-Acts, or that the body of Christ started with Paul, and they're going to emphasize Paul so much, and they're going to say that the church started with Paul, the church never started at Acts chapter 2 or before Paul. When you hear these red flags,

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then what they are is hyperdispensationalists. But their group is actually called Mid Acts.

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So I want to warn about these people to you because they did come to our church and to other California Bible-believing churches, but members were not aware and when they were fellowshipping with them, they were dropping seeds of poison to

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them. And then a few individuals sadly fall into hyperdispensationalism because of that. So let me emphasize that again. Beware of these guys, okay? Now, returning to the point about Mid Acts, they think that you cannot get saved by grace through faith

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without works until you have Paul. That's what they're going to insist. But we point out right here from this text, there were people who received the gospel of the grace of God before Paul.

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So this is a very strong passage for that. Because Romans chapter 1, returning to that point there, he went to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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That's very powerful because remember the apostles, unlike Paul, they were Jewish ministry, right? So you might recall from the different gospels, they're more Jewish, right? So the assumption then is that we're assuming Christian doctrine, church doctrine, the gospel of the grace of God

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cannot go to Jews at all. That's what we're automatically thinking. It had to start with Paul. But I've proven to you from these two texts right here that Paul himself at Romans chapter 1 points out that this gospel of the grace of God

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was preached to Jew first, then to the Gentiles that Paul ministered to. Very powerful against Mid-Acts.

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When Mid-Acts see anything that is Jew, they're going to automatically assume that is not the gospel of the grace of God. It has nothing to do with Paul.

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Now, you can see the trap with hyperdispensationalism. That trap kind of fits with us.

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Because at the beginning, I was pointing out to you how Paul, when he preached his gospel, when he gave his ministry, no one knew about that, remember?

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No one knew about it. And that other gospels before Paul, what they were was Jewish, remember that? And they were different in salvation.

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You remember that? Now, I know I'm being repetitive with remember that, remember that, because I'm trying to drill something in your head. I'm trying to emphasize something.

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That way y'all don't get lost with everything that I'm blabbering to you. If this is blabber to you, then remember this, the previous lessons, you're not having enough good notes or you don't have a good memory of them.

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So, if you remember them, if you wrote them down, you'll perfectly understand what I'm talking about here, okay?

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Remember the previous gospels, okay? Let me repeat again, hammer it in your head, that way y'all don't get lost.

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These gospels here, besides Paul, these gospels, you remember how they're like referring to a Jewish audience?

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Armed warfare was the nation of Israel preparing their defense, their security, if you might recall. National defense security when the Antichrist attacks them. The everlasting gospel was something that was for the timeline of the tribulation. That's a time for Jews.

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Now, Gentiles are receiving this, but nevertheless, you can see that it's at more of a Jewish attention timeline. It has nothing to do with the church, right? The Christian church. And then the gospel of the kingdom was referring

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to the Jews ready to receive their Messiah. So, you notice right here that when I was teaching to you about the different gospels, that it's so easy to think in our minds Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, non-Christian, right?

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Come on, stop that. AKA nothing that has to do with Paul. But then, when you c

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Now, you notice when I give my dispensationalism teaching, it's This is in our unconscious mind, right?

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Do y'all understand that? Remember, I told you and emphasized to you how you're going to find right Christian doctrine is from the writings of Paul, because it's very apparent that's written to Christians. Any other book in the Bible,

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be careful because the doctrines will be referring to a Jewish audience, a different timeline, like the tribulation, which God's going to put that clock back to Israel.

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So, this is swimming in our our mind. That's why it's so easy to fall into mid-act stuff.

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But what you're going to find out is that this is not all the time true.

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Now, this is a good Don't get me wrong. This is a good filter to have. But it's only a filter because what you're going to find out is that some of this stuff that's is Christian or that is Paul, you're going to find

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out is going to fall upon somewhere along here. You're going to see inklings of that.

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So, it's not all the time like this. A more accurate model will be this one swimming in your unconscious mind with inklings of this falling on over here.

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Okay? So, you want to keep that in mind in the future. Because for people to say you can never find anything Christian, nothing that Paul teaches in the Old Testament. Think about it. 66 books in your Bible, right? 66 books in your

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Bible. And Paul wrote 12 epistles that's written for the church. You're telling me you're cutting off You're cutting off more than like 80% of your Bible where you're not going to find anything Christian. Then you might as well rip

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out the entire Old Testament, rip out the rip out a good chunk of your New Testament. And your Bible's going to be this thick and large.

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That's your daily Bible reading. All of you would faithfully read your Bible more often after that. All of you would be Bible reading experts. Some of you are like feeling so backslidden. Oh, man, I only read the Bible through once

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or twice. But if you if your Bible's this thick, you know, all of you would boast, I read through the Bible 10 times, you know. And that's for backslidden Christians. Who can boast [laughter] that?

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Now, returning to the main point, that's why it makes more sense to say that obviously you can find some Christian stuff or Christian doctrines. I mean, when you read your Bible every day, don't you find something Christian? When

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you read the book of Leviticus, for example? Don't you see something that Paul taught similarly when you jump to uh the book of Revelation, for example?

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I mean, you're going to find stuff like that. Obviously. Now, how are we explaining and then debunking the hyperdispensationalism view? The When we debunk this, we see right here that the gospel of the grace of God is before Paul's gospel.

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Then Paul's gospel, what is that more accurately? It is more than just simply salvation by grace. And this will also explain about what you're all are confused about.

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Pastor, you said that salvation by grace through faith, Paul was able to reveal that no one knew that before.

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So, shouldn't I start with Paul? That just makes more sense, pastor. Wouldn't it make more sense that the Christian church who got saved by grace through faith, not by works, started with Paul?

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That's a mid-Acts heresy you have to be careful of. So, how do I explain this contradiction?

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It's not a contradiction. What it is, when you get into doctrine, is that as you come across things that are confusing or it's a contradiction, it's deeper than that. There are some things you just don't know about that

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doctrine. That's the explanation. So, let's get a little deeper, and it's not as hard as you think. Let's go to the book of Ephesians, the book of Ephesians.

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Chapter 3, Ephesians chapter 3. Let me explain two answers here to the two things you're confused about.

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Again, the two things that you are confused about is one salvation by grace through faith it was never revealed by anybody until Paul. So what do you mean pastor that this salvation was before Paul, right? That's the quick confusion number one.

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Confusion number two, then what is exactly Paul's gospel? Isn't that the gospel of the grace of God? Why do you have to distinguish the two? So let me explain the two.

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Ephesians chapter 3 and we'll look at verse four, verse four. Whereby when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. So this is Paul's specifically given to Paul, this mystery.

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Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men. So no one knew about this.

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As it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit. So this is never been revealed until Paul.

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He emphasizes that again. That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and parti and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel.

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Notice that there. The gospel of salvation by grace through faith. But the additional part, here's what people don't pay attention to, Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body.

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See? Get this now. When the church started with the apostles, law when we go back to Acts 2 and then when Jesus went up to heaven, think about it.

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The Jews thought that the salvation or the ministry was for them. They They were very uncomfortable with Gentiles. They didn't think Gentiles would get in. Why would Jews think like that, right? Why would Jews think like that? Wouldn't it be natural

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for us to think it's for everybody? Why would Jews think it was for them unless what your pastor taught you was true that they're so used to hearing the different gospels and salvation that was specifically Jewish and not Christian.

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Not for Gentiles, not for all the world. See, this proves even more so of dispensationalism.

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Different gospels, different salvations. This is unheard of to Jews cuz they're so used to hearing for example, Jesus preaching about the gospel of the kingdom, doing the healing signs and water baptism for salvation that was specifically for a Jewish audience.

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Not for every Christian church around the world. So, why do Christian churches take the gospel of the kingdom and you got to get water baptized for salvation, you got to do healing signs. No, no, no, no, that's not only for Jews, you know, that that's

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a heresy. No, no, that was common sense to all Jews. Literally all Jews that time. So, they're very ignorant of their history. People who talk that the healing signs and wonders, water baptism for salvation when you rightly divide

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that to Jews, that's a dispensationalist heresy. No, that's being very ignorant of forget the Bible, that's very ignorant of history.

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It is historical evidence when you look at the data, when you look at Jewish sources and cultures at that time, that they thought that the salvation was specifically for a Jewish audience. It was unheard of that Gentiles would get

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in there. That's Paul's gospel. Paul's gospel is different where it was unheard of to Jews. Hey, this gospel of the grace of God and the gospels that you're used to hearing is not specifically for a Jewish audience.

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This is for Gentiles, too. So, we can both get it. All right. So, we solved problem number one or confusion number one. But, what about confusion two about the gospel never being revealed until Paul? Well, just because, as Dr. David

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Walker mentioned, just because something was never revealed until now, doesn't mean that it wasn't operating before. So, for example, uh he mentioned about the pocket right?

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So, uh here's my wallet. So, my wallet is not revealed to you until at this time now, right? But, this doesn't mean I never had this wallet all that time.

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That's right. Yeah, it was always with me for a long time. It was in my pocket, it was behind the pulpit, but it was hidden.

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And you didn't know about that. Until now, it was revealed. See that? Get this now. The apostles, obviously, were preaching about grace, salvation, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. They were obvious They were obviously preaching about that the whole

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time, but they didn't realize until Paul as clearly where Paul was pointing out to them, this is where Jews and Gentiles combine. And get this now.

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All the other things that you Jews are used to hearing, water baptism for salvation, Sabbath keeping, uh healing signs and wonders where that is absolutely necessary to keep the church going. Blah blah blah blah. All those Jewish things,

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they're not required for salvation. They have nothing to do with salvation. That was unheard of before to the apostles because you can tell, and I've given you the verses, when the apostles they were preaching and in their ministry, they were continuing on Jewish

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doctrine. Things that they were used to hearing as Jews. I mean, remember, they were from a timeline of the Old Testament for over a thousand years, so that's all the stuff that they know. And here's Jesus with only three and a half year ministries

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and just an extra 40 days to cram three years of PBI studies on to them.

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So, they didn't There's obviously a lot that they still didn't know about. But they just went out and preached the best that they could. Just like many Bible believers today, right? You feel like God's rushing you to the ministry or to

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teach and preach and you feel like you don't know the Bible as much and you're not ready. But that's what God calls people to do. But then, he'll send some Paul in your life. And eventually this Paul will clarify things to you that you

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didn't know about before. That's what Paul's simply doing. See? But by the way, I think I've even shown this to you before, but let's re- keep this argument again. Go to Romans 16, Romans 16.

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Paul specifically says that the salvation by grace through faith, he calls it my gospel, my gospel.

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And then he points out this was never revealed by anybody until me. But at the same time, he says this, the Old Testament prophets before Paul, the people before Paul, they were preaching about it. They did mention about it.

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But he's saying that even though they mention about it people didn't really know about it. It was not publicly revealed. It wasn't clear to the public until me, Paul insisted. So go to Romans 16:25.

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Let me repeat the argument again from the last classes. Now to him that is a power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ. So notice right here a clue. He calls this my gospel, but this is

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something Jesus preached before. Pointing out that the grace of God, it was preached before Paul, okay?

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According to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began. It's secret. People didn't know about it.

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But now is made manifest. So Paul insists this is not known publicly until him. But this doesn't mean that it was never operating before salvation by grace through faith. This doesn't mean that it wasn't uh mentioned before. He

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meant he points out here and by the scriptures of the what? Prophets. See that?

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Paul said that this grace, my gospel was found by previous prophets before us in the written scriptures.

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Paul had to use that to prove his gospel of salvation by grace through faith.

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Otherwise, he couldn't prove salvation by grace through faith if he didn't have Old Testament verses to cite.

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If you look at tons of Paul's writings, he quoted tons of get this now, not New Testament passages, Old Testament passages.

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On salvation by grace through faith. Men acts will have a hard time with that.

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Yes, you can find Christian doctrine in the Old Testament, even salvation by grace through faith. So, let's go back here. Remember, in the Old Testament, the Matt Ox are right. We are right for thinking in the Old Testament,

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it's a different salvation. There was a faith and works system. There was a law, water baptism, all these kind of stuff, right? So, during the timeline of the Old Testament, we see that was generally the case. But, like I showed you from this model,

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that doesn't mean that we see inklings of this. There were mentions here and there. There was salvation by grace through faith here and there. For example, the thief on the cross, you think he kept the Sabbath day for

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salvation? [laughter] Do you think he got water baptized for salvation? That's a favorite argument we use against the Church of Christ, who insists water baptism for salvation.

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Then we ask them, "What about the thief on the cross?" Obviously, he trusted in that savior, Jesus. He believed. That's an example of salvation by faith, and obviously, that's an example of God's grace where he got saved.

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Think about Samson. You think that he kept works for his salvation with his fornicating life? Think about Lot. You think that he's that he was saved by being a good testimony, and yet Peter called him righteous.

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And he was doing incest. And he lived in the city city of Sodom, held a very special position amongst the Sodomites.

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How about that? So, that don't mean that it never happened. Of course, we see cases of that. But, just because we see cases of that, that doesn't mean that it was salvation by grace through faith this whole time and everybody knew about

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that. Obviously not. Because like Paul argued, people didn't know that until him. Why? Why didn't Jews didn't know about that? Because Jews always took it for granted salvation was by works and by the law.

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And Samson obviously knew that. The thief on the cross obviously knew that. Why do you think they begged for God's grace for salvation?

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Why do you think that they admit I'm a sinner? I'm going to go to hell.

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I can't keep the law and I'm begging for your grace, your mercy to grant me salvation. Do you think a God of grace and mercy will turn that down?

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Think about that. All right? So this is a great I've given you great arguments. Never forget this.

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We got to be in right doctrine where we can maintain the right balance. All right? I have given you the right balance of right doctrine where you don't fall into Calvinist teachings of covenant theology. What is that, pastor?

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They teach in covenant theology and a branch of that is covenant of grace that it's always been salvation by grace through faith without works during the entire Old Testament. You know, you don't have to wait till Jesus died on

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the cross. That's hooey. You don't You can't put it there, actually. During the timeline of the Old Testament, it was faith and works for salvation, the law and everything. Jews knew that was common sense. Why do you think they got

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mad at Paul when he was preaching about that? Because it wasn't revealed. They took it as common sense that it was works and the law.

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But Paul pointed out what about these cases of salvation by grace without works. So he was pointing it out right here.

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Because those cases were people who knew it was common sense to do the law for salvation, they were going to go to hell, so that's why they were begging the grace of God instead for salvation.

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And God's grace was able to make exceptions and do that. So, which is a miracle.

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So, we don't fall into this anti-dispensational salvation camp. But also, we don't fall into this hyper-dispensationalism camp. That there was never salvation by grace through faith without works until Paul. When they do that, they're going to have a hard time.

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That's why they have a hard time to time where to put the Christian church at.

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Where to put the body of Christ. They have a hard time. That's why they jump it to the middle of Acts or beyond Acts or all the way to the book of Ephesians.

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Some crazy hypers do that. Really? That's insane, obviously. But as we saw 1 Corinthians 15, Paul power- powerfully argued there were people before me who believed in the death, burial, and resurrection for salvation.

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And he argued successfully that before me, the church was always existing, the Christian church.

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All right. So, that cleared up a lot of things, right? About the distinctions of the grace of God and Paul's gospel. Now, let's cover the confusion that everyone's asking, "So then, Pastor, why couldn't you do it that way, right? Why

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couldn't you do it that way? The Why do you have to make these two inclusive?" The reason why is this. So, uh what you're going to find out is Bible believers, it's going to be normal.

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They're going to teach differently. There's nothing wrong with that. Now, unless it's a major doctrine and a major heresy, then we're going to make a big deal about this one.

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But this one is not a big deal because the reason why I put Paul's gospel right there is well, we saw the verses, the grace of God is automatically in there, right?

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And because I did it that way, I didn't find anything wrong with that. Now, salvation by grace, we see that this was before Paul. Don't get me wrong about that. We see that's before Paul, but I was focusing on where it was clearly

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revealed. Because gospel means uh good news that was preached to people and people that means it was revealed to them. That means people understood it and people were able to take it in. Be- The salvation by grace through faith,

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not by works, where you separate everything from Jews, that was definitely not clear before Paul.

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See? So, that's why I just conglomerated the two together. But, the more major reason is this. The ones who put four gospels with kingdom, grace, Paul, and everlasting, and when they dropped armed warfare, it's like this thing is

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swimming in limbo. And you're like, "What are you going to do with this?" Dr. David Walker knows that this armed warfare, this gospel in Hebrews is different.

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So, he knows that, all right? Bible-believing dispensationalists know that. I will give you $5,000 if Dr. David Walker uh goes to Hebrews and he said, "No, I didn't know that. I thought that was a Christian gospel. I had no idea." I will

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give you $5,000, all right? He knows that gospel at the book of Hebrews is not uh Paul's gospel or the church gospel.

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That's something for the tribulation saints, okay? For Jews, all right? That's something Jewish. So, then I'm uh So, then I'm like, "Well, this is swimming in limbo.

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Shouldn't we mention that?" So, they should at least mention five, right? They should at least mention five. But, uh the classic is always four throughout dispensationalism history. So, I just wanted to say it this way, okay? So, that's the explanation from yours truly.

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Now, if you want to put five, that's fine, all right? If you want to put uh my way four, or if you want to go the dispensationalist four, that's fine, too. And put this at, you know, limbo, that's fine, too, all right? If you want

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to put everything else in limbo, that's fine, too. What Whatever you want to do, all right? But just make sure you distinguish the salvations and don't teach that the gospel that Jesus was preaching about the kingdom on the

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Sermon on the Mount, that is fully applicable for Christian saints, all right? If you do that, then you are teaching heresy. Then that's a major problem okay?

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Now, when we go back to these uh four gospels, all right? These four different gospels, it's going to give a lot of answers to what we're going to cover Mark 16. I mentioned that we're going to get deep

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here, right? And then I had to pause myself a bit quickly. So, let's go to the book of Mark, chapter 16.

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Mark 16. Mark 16 has been a huge stumbling block for many heresies. I actually the temptation is so strong that I actually want to put a different gospel here, Mark 16. But technically, that wouldn't be correct. But to just make

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things simple for people to understand, that way they they don't uh get confused, I want to put a fifth gospel here, all right? But technically, it's not.

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But what I'm going to do, that way people don't get confused, let's do the chart this way, all right? What I would like to do, all right? Is put number five here, just for simplicity's sake, all right? Simplicity's sake. You're

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going to find out the Mark 16 gospel is going to be interchangeable with these.

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That's interesting. It's either going to be interchangeable or one of these gospels or it's going to be one of these gospels that carry a similar operation with one of those gospels. Now, if that just confused you, it'll clarify

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everything as I keep teaching. All right? But basically, this gospel uh this gospel here is something very unique, very interesting, and I saved the best for last, the deepest teaching.

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All right? So for simplicity sake, let's just call this the Mark 16 gospel. That way we uh we can see, all right, all this I already know. Now, let's separate those things and start out with something new here that's going to operate

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differently from these, okay? So that's just for picture's sake, simplicity's sake. Now, this is going to be a lot of fun, the Mark 16 gospel.

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What you're going to find out is the Mark 16 gospel, I left it off with the gospel of the kingdom that Jesus was preaching. Jesus was preaching, remember, the whole time the gospel of the kingdom. You remember that?

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That was his whole ministry. When we look at Mark chapter 16 verse 15, he says, And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

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He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. I don't know if you remember the very first classes on the gospel series, but I pointed out to you the gospel of the kingdom match

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very well with Mark 16 where Jews were getting water baptized ever since John the Baptist to prepare for their Messianic king.

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And they're trying to get their sins washed away or repented of, either or. So, this water baptism seems to be required for salvation, but he that believeth not shall be damned.

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And then, verse 17, and these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them,

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they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. We notice right here that signs and wonders, I've told you before when the Messiah came, he was doing those signs and wonder to prove, "Hey, I am the

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Messiah that y'all been looking for." So, that was accompanying the gospel of the kingdom, if you remember that from the first classes, okay? That's why it's so important to write down notes and to constantly remind yourself, all right?

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So, always do that, always do that. Otherwise, you know, you're going to just agree with me like a tree full of owls like this.

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Well, Pastor Kim Smart, he knows a lot of Bible, so it must be so.

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[laughter] How many 80% of us are guilty of doing that, right? Yeah. I mean, I'll have I know human nature cuz I do that, too, obviously. I do that, too, with other preachers. That's why it's so important to study, write down notes, and recall,

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all right? Why? I could be lying to you. That's my favorite line, right? I could be lying to you. Look at the verses, study, and then, while I'm talking, see if it matches up with what you already studied from the word of God with prayer

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before, all right? This is not a brand new teaching, this is review, all right?

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Now, returning to the point, Mark 16. So, we see the the of the kingdom. Remember, the gospel of the kingdom is that famous sermon on the mount in Matthew 5 through 7. So, if you didn't know that before, you better

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write that down. So, Matthew 5 through 7, let's go to Matthew 5. Matthew 5.

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Now, fresh review, all right, and I'm going to say this very quickly. If If the gospel that is preached here, gospel of the kingdom, if that's the gospel preached from Mark 16, the rules is found at Matthew chapter 5

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through 7. Now, if you might recall, the timeline is definitely proven at Matthew 24.

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I've shown you from Matthew 24 that this gospel, the gospel of the kingdom, is going to be preached during the timeline of the tribulation. You all remember that?

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So, Jews are dispersed throughout all nations around the world. So, this gospel of the kingdom will be preached all over to them.

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Okay? So, it's to Jews throughout all nations around the world. So, this is a tribulation timeline.

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Matthew 5 through 7, you're going to hear people talking about the Messianic kingdom. So, when Jesus establishes his kingdom, he insists all of these are required for salvation.

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So, while the tribulation is undergoing, pay attention to this part so you all don't get confused.

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While the tribulation is undergoing, the gospel of the kingdom is being preached for the Jews to prepare for their Messianic kingdom.

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So, that when the Messianic kingdom runs, they'll be able to follow along all the rules of Matthew 5 through 7.

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All right, did we all get lost or did you understand perfectly? That's why even before Matthew 24, Jesus was preaching about it during his timeline.

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He was preaching during his timeline the gospel of the kingdom because those Jews were getting ready to enter the Messianic kingdom. But as you know, they rejected it, right? So now we have to wait till the tribulation timeline. I

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say we know we're gone. I'll be gone. Yes, I'll be gone when the tribulation enters, I'll be gone. So I should say they. All right, if you hear me say we, just ignore that and call it heresy, okay? So [laughter]

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or forgive me, all right? Forgive me. Now, let's go back to Matthew 5. Now, this is very interesting then.

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In this gospel of the kingdom that is being preached, this includes it in verse 29, 29.

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And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And

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if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee. For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

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Now, Jesus said if you sin with these body parts, he specifically aimed for the right eye and the right hand. Now, why is that interesting? Because he could have mentioned any other body part right?

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Then could it be during the tribulation that there a lot of people are going to be sinning in this area here and this area here.

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Now, use your heads, okay? There's a damnable system from the Antichrist during the tribulation that a lot of people know about, 666, the mark of the beast.

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There have been people who are not even Christians, but they can see from the news and technology and the mark of the beast that uh when you when you're talking about the mark of the beast, it connects to

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something electronic, virtual, or maybe some kind of chip inserted in you or whatever, right? They're all connecting it to something computerized.

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Did you notice that as we uh get more digital digital digital and technology keeps advancing, they're really trying to create a virtual reality even? Or uh transhumanism, uh half robotic, half human, and the areas they hit quite often is to put is

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the hands, right? That's how you operate, or through the forehead, where your eyes are functioning.

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Goggles right? So, Jesus says, "If those things offend you, you better what? Cut it off." If those things are tempting you to take that mark, Jesus says, "Cut it off." If you're going to put that on you, you're

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going to have to cut it off. That's That's something pretty serious during that timeline. So, that's the interesting part of the gospel of the kingdom. Now, let's go back to Mark 16.

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Let me tell you another interesting part here, and then we'll close. But, it uh I'll explain more further on.

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If this is the gospel of the kingdom, get this now, it's called kingdom. Right?

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This word is extremely important. You want to keep that in mind. It's the gospel of the kingdom.

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Now, if it's called kingdom, we're automatically thinking about Messianic. But, here's something else you got to realize. In this Messianic Kingdom we're getting deep. All right, y'all following me so far?

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All right, what did I just say just now? It's going to get deep, right? Y'all remember that? Did you remember that?

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Did you remember that? Don't get lost. You remember that? All right, just paying attention just making sure you pay attention. Okay.

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Check this word, kingdom kingdom. Jesus was preaching about the kingdom. The mis uh not the mistake, let me get back here.

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The Jews were expecting the Messianic Kingdom. This Kingdom is not just physical. Now, remember the Jews are anticipating a physical king and a physical kingdom.

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But if you pay attention to the account of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, when Jesus preached this gospel of the kingdom, which is a lot of physical stuff that the Jews were expecting, he mentioned a lot of spiritual things,

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too. Did you notice that? About the kingdom? And the Jews, they didn't like that part. Did you notice that?

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God knew that. That's why eventually the Jews were casted out of the kingdom. And then that's why the Jews are they don't have their kingdom now and they've been cast out until obviously the tribulation. They get back.

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But the spiritual things about the kingdom, the Jews hated that cuz they're so used to the physical things. That's what they were anticipating. Now, let's go to Matthew 5 again. This is very interesting.

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Matthew 5. Remember that's the gospel of the kingdom, right? And your hands at Mark 16, okay? You don't want to lose that.

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Matthew 5, gospel of the kingdom. Remember. Matthew 6, Jesus is still talking. He didn't stop.

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Gospel of the kingdom then. Matthew 6, look at this. This is amazing. He says right here in verse 31.

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31, therefore take no thought saying, "What shall we eat?" Physical. "Or what shall we drink?" Physical. "Or wherewithal shall we be clothed?" Physical.

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For all these things do the Gentiles seek, for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

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Physical right? Jesus is deemphasizing physical here and trying to open up their eyes to verse 33. But seek ye what?

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First the kingdom of what? God and his righteousness. Now, notice that looks spiritual, right?

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God is a spirit, the Bible says. Spiritual. Righteousness, is that physical or spiritual? Spiritual, right?

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Jesus says, "First go to the spiritual things, and all these things, the physical, shall be added unto you." We got a clue here. He says something here that uh spiritual right?

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But notice he calls this the kingdom of God. Now, I don't know if you have a good memory, all right? But if you have a good memory from my early teachings, when I said Messianic kingdom I said here and there kingdom of heaven.

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I don't know if you all recall that. Go to Matthew 11. Matthew 11. When I was preaching about the gospel of the kingdom from Jesus' ministry to you, and we're thinking Messianic kingdom, automatically in our minds we're thinking physical, physical, physical,

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physical right? That physical is kingdom of heaven. That's not spiritual. This is a kingdom on Earth where people are fighting for, trying to build up a kingdom, and claiming that I'm doing this to build God's kingdom on the

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Earth. That's why Hollywood even knew that, that the Catholic Church and Muslims were trying to do that, so they titled the movie Kingdom of Heaven. Not talking about going up to Heaven, they're talking about here on Earth.

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That kingdom that the Catholic Church wrongly applied, because Christians don't do that, amen. That's something for the Jews back then that they messed up in.

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Matthew 11, Matthew 11. Notice right here in verse 12, 12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven what?

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Suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. You think that's spiritual? You think that's all the way up in Heaven, or does that sound like an earthly kingdom?

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See, kingdom of heaven is that physical earthly kingdom. So, what's this gospel of the kingdom?

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The gospel of the kingdom consists of two things, what you will hear Bible believers talk about, the kingdom of heaven, one, and the kingdom of God, two.

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We divide these. A few Bible believers into dispensationalism, they think that it's one kingdom with uh two different sides, all right? Or they'll integrate it. Whatever, that's fine. As long as they properly divide the physical and spiritual, I have no

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problem with that. But, if you don't divide the physical and spiritual, you're going to come across a lot of heresies.

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You might say, "Why is that, Pastor?" Because you see a lot of the physical things that relate to kingdom of heaven, that's Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew.

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And then, what you see here is Paul preaches this. Paul. Romans 14. Romans 14.

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And then, I'll have to end it here. Sorry. I can't uh fully answer that question right now. Let's go to Romans 14.

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Romans chapter 14 verse 17. Now, let me summarize it best as I can where y'all can understand it. So, the answer is this, all right? You're going to find out from Paul the kingdom of God is operating. Well, then, why can't we

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say the gospel of kingdom the gospel of the kingdom is ongoing? So, what we say is this, is that this gospel of the kingdom, get this now, is that we could say that it is ongoing. Ongoing in the

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sense related to when you look at this board, the gospel of the kingdom in its spiritual side here, number two, okay?

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So, it's continuing on. But, Paul says, "If anyone preach any other gospel to you than what I preach, let him be damned." Well, then, the gospel of the kingdom's not ongoing. No, it's ongoing through Paul. That's what you could say. So, Paul's gospel, it

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includes the gospel of the kingdom. See that? So, because it's included in here, Paul says, "This is my gospel." And why is it still unique? It is unique because now, instead of thinking only Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew, they see that

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Gentiles are included. Well, why was it Jew Jew Jew before? Because the Jews rejected it.

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The Jews had their chance of the physical and spiritual, the kingdoms of heaven and God in this gospel of the kingdom. But, they rejected it. So, that because they rejected it, God says, "I'm going to give that kingdom to the

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Gentiles." There are tons of verses on that. But the mistake that people think is that when God says he'll give the kingdom to the Gentiles, THEN THEY JUMP TO MATTHEW 5 THROUGH 7.

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BUT MATTHEW 5 through 7 is the kingdom of heaven, physical. All right. So, I just summarized that, right? I tried to do it as easy as possible so no one gets confused, all right? So, hopefully [laughter] that was all processing in your head.

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Now, go to Romans 14 and let me finish it here, verse 17. 17. For the kingdom of God, Paul says this, is, present tense, not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in

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these things service Christ, present tense. So, notice right here, spiritual, not physical. And it's operating under Paul's ministry. So, Paul's gospel is carrying on the gospel of the kingdom, all right? That means then, if we go back to Mark 16,

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when Jesus says preach the gospel, and that includes the gospel of the kingdom throughout all the world, Paul was continuing that.

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But then, he pointed out, "This is my gospel." So, he made his gospel the standard because his gospel was way more clear than what Jesus preached, obviously. So, his gospel would be the best replacement. It's like the same

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thing as like, um when you get a revised book or second or third edition, you obviously want the fourth edition, the newest book, right? Why? Because it's more clear than the first book. But that don't mean that this fourth edition

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is not carrying the first edition of the book, right? But it's still different, obviously, these two books. Did that make sense? All right, so that's the explanation over there for all of this. Now, let's close it with a word of prayer and then it'll get

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a lot more fun next Sunday, all right? Uh it'll get a lot more fun in the next time I teach this. So, don't miss it out. All right? This is the fun stuff.

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Heavenly Father, I pray that you'll dismiss us now with your blessing. Bless the choir practice, the fellowship, and everything else. In Jesus' name we pray.

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Amen.

Topics: four gospels Paul's gospel gospel of grace hyperdispensationalism Mid-Acts dispensationalism Jewish gospel gospel of the kingdom Dr. Gene Kim Bible teaching


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