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      "body": "<html>\n<h1><strong>&nbsp;TruthLikeaDiamond</strong></h1>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmSxY145Vxn2c1LisGYMqffpgQ5d7dASa3cwmp3SngYgHa/111.JPG\" width=\"377\" height=\"592\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>CHAPTER 2&nbsp;</h3>\n<h3>(2) Judgment by works, a part of the gospel!&nbsp;</h3>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I explained in the previous section <strong>that the principle of God’s judgment in Romans</strong> <strong>2:6-11—the judgment by works—is the foundation for the expounding of justification</strong> <strong>that starts from the latter half of chapter 3</strong> (verses 21-31). There is an even more&nbsp;crucial and important truth that further confirms this for us. It is the concept that&nbsp;<strong>judgment by works is not only the foundation for justification but also a segment of&nbsp;the gospel.</strong> Some of you may be doubting your eyes as you read this. Judgment by works&nbsp;is a part of the gospel? Yes indeed! It is a part of the gospel.</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>… on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of&nbsp; men through Christ Jesus.</strong> (Romans 2:16)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nDr. Yon-gyong Kwon wrote the following about this verse in his book,&nbsp;<em>A Walk Through Romans.&nbsp;</em><br>\nThe weapon Paul used to destroy that empty sense of elitism of the Jews was&nbsp;not the so-called logic of faith and grace but the Old Testament belief of&nbsp;judgment by works. <strong>Paul makes certain that this judgment by works is a&nbsp;part of ‘my gospel’, namely the gospel that he had preached (2:16).&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><br>\nDr. In-gyu Hong also wrote the following in his book, How <em>Will You Read the Book of Romans?&nbsp;</em><br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;We must here focus on the phrase <strong>“according to my gospel”. “My gospel”</strong> is referring&nbsp;to the gospel that had been given to <strong>Paul for proclamation. Paul did not convey a&nbsp;gospel&nbsp;of cheap grace for the Gentiles,</strong> as some of his enemies had claimed (cf. 3:8).&nbsp;<strong>According&nbsp;to his gospel, God will judge all of the Jews and Gentiles through Jesus&nbsp;Christ, and He will do so by the righteous demands of the Law.</strong><br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;When people think of the ‘gospel’, they generally think of believing in Jesus and being&nbsp;justified at the moment of judgment. They believe that this ‘judgment’ entails that one&nbsp;who believes in Jesus would go to heaven and one who does not would go to hell. But this&nbsp;is not the ‘judgment’ spoken about by Paul’s gospel. Paul’s gospel speaks of the judgment&nbsp;that will judge the hidden sins as mentioned in Ecclesiastes.&nbsp;<br>\nThe conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments,&nbsp;because this applies to every person. <strong>For God will bring every act to judgment,&nbsp;everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.</strong> (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n <strong>Like so, one who does not resolve the issue of such hidden sins, regardless of&nbsp;whether or not they believe, will face the judgment of being thrown into hell.&nbsp;This is the judgment that can be seen in Paul’s gospel. This is ‘judgment by works’.&nbsp;To confirm just once more, here are verses 6-16 of chapter 2.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\n[God] will render to each person according to his deeds: to those who by perseverance&nbsp;in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; but to those who&nbsp;are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and&nbsp;indignation. There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil,&nbsp;of&nbsp; the Jew first and also of&nbsp; the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who&nbsp;does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.&nbsp;For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who&nbsp;have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; for it is not the hearers of&nbsp; the&nbsp;Law who are just before God, but the doers of&nbsp; the Law will be justified. For when&nbsp;Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of&nbsp; the Law, these, not&nbsp;having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of&nbsp; the Law written&nbsp;in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing&nbsp;or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the&nbsp;secrets of&nbsp; men through Christ Jesus.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; The ASV and the Korean translation both have verses 14-15 in parentheses.&nbsp;If we&nbsp; read the passage without the parenthetical segment, the meaning becomes&nbsp;even clearer.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>[God] will render to each person according to his deeds: to those who by&nbsp;perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal&nbsp;life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but&nbsp;obey unrighteousness, wrath and indigna- tion.</strong> There will be tribulation and&nbsp;distress for every soul of&nbsp; man who does evil, of&nbsp; the Jew first and also of&nbsp; the&nbsp;Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew&nbsp;first and also to the Greek. <strong>For there is no partiality with God.</strong> For all who have&nbsp;sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned&nbsp;under the Law will be judged by the Law; <strong>for it is not the hear- ers of&nbsp; the Law&nbsp;who are just&nbsp;before God, but the doers of&nbsp; the Law will be justified … on the&nbsp;day when,&nbsp;according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of&nbsp; men&nbsp;through Christ Jesus.</strong>(NASB)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; The fact that everyone will be judged at the seat of judgment based on his or her&nbsp;own works is a part of the gospel. This is the crucial truth that will put an end to and&nbsp;finalize the fideistic controversy on the gospel, as it completely blocks off all exit routes for any fideistic argument. It is an endlessly precious truth that can bring to an end this&nbsp;heretical Salvation-Sect-based notion of fideism.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Judgment by works is not just the foundation for the gospel; it is a part of it. This is&nbsp;a matter of course, for the final judgment is done according to works. Justification is the rescuing from the wrath of God on the judgment day, so how can one explain or preach the gospel without speaking about judgment by works? Hence, this judgment by works&nbsp;has no choice but to be a part of the gospel. When Paul was preaching the gospel, he&nbsp;first spoke about this judgment by works. Here is one piece of evidence.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nBut some days later Felix arrived with Drusilla, his wife who was a Jewess,&nbsp;and sent for Paul and heard him speak about <strong>faith in Christ Jesus.</strong> But as&nbsp;he was <strong>discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come,</strong> Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for the present, and when I find&nbsp;time I will summon you.” (Acts 24:24-25)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n&nbsp; Paul was not conducting a Bible study with Felix and Drusilla; he was preaching&nbsp;the gospel. If it were a Bible study, there would be nothing&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nwrong with discussing other subjects. But Felix and his wife were not believers, and Paul was thus conveying the message “about faith in Christ Jesus”, namely the gospel. Interestingly, what Paul preached about were “righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come”. Just as Romans 2:6-11 introduces the concept of judgment by works before expounding on the gospel of justification in Romans, Paul too first spoke on the judgment by works as he preached the gospel. More specifically, before covering the ‘judgment to come’, Paul discussed ‘righteousness’ and ‘self- control’. What is this if not judgment by works? Paul did not teach as most pastors do today, that one is bound to go to heaven regardless of sin as long as one believes in Jesus. The gospel preached by Paul includes the judgment by works, which will judge the secret things at the final judgment. He preached that those who hide their sins and do not repent will see ruin at the final judgment, and only those who turn from those sins will receive salvation. This is the true content of the gospel preached by Paul.&nbsp;I am not sure if such a gospel that entails this notion of judgment by works is the gospel that belongs to the many theologians and ministers of this generation. But one thing for sure is that this gospel does belong to Paul. This is an indisputable and clear fact, for Paul wrote like so in many places.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom&nbsp;of&nbsp; God? Do not be deceived; neither</strong> fornicators, <strong>nor</strong> idolaters, <strong>nor</strong> adulterers,&nbsp;<strong>nor</strong> effeminate, <strong>nor</strong> homosexuals, <strong>nor</strong> thieves, <strong>nor</strong> the covetous, <strong>nor</strong> drunkards,&nbsp;<strong>nor</strong> revilers, <strong>nor</strong> swindlers, <strong>will inherit the kingdom of&nbsp; God.</strong> (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)&nbsp;<br>\nNow the deeds of&nbsp; the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,&nbsp;idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of&nbsp; anger, disputes, dissensions,&nbsp;factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of&nbsp; which <strong>I forewarn&nbsp;you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not&nbsp;inherit the kingdom of&nbsp; God.</strong> (Galatians 5:19-21)<br>\n<br>\nDo not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he&nbsp;will also reap. <strong>For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the&nbsp;flesh&nbsp;reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit&nbsp;reap eternal life.</strong> (Galatians 6:7-8)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<strong>For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person&nbsp;or&nbsp;covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of&nbsp;&nbsp;Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words,</strong> for because of&nbsp;&nbsp;these things the wrath of&nbsp; God comes upon the sons of&nbsp; disobedience.&nbsp;Therefore do not be partakers with them. (Ephesians 5:5-7)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;These were all written by Paul. Paul firmly believed in this judgment by works, and&nbsp;he included it in the gospel that he preached. We can also see in the Scripture that Paul was not the only one who preached like so. Peter, the apostle to the Jews, also onveyed&nbsp;the same message.&nbsp;<br>\nIf&nbsp; you address as Father the <strong>One who impartially judges according to each&nbsp;one’s work,</strong> conduct yourselves in fear during the time of&nbsp; your stay on earth.&nbsp;(1 Peter 1:17)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nPeter also knew that God was <strong>“One who impartially judges according to each&nbsp;one’s work”.</strong> It’s as if this verse is a summary of Romans 2:6-11! It is undeniably&nbsp;a depiction of judgment by works. Peter had written, <strong>“If you address as Father&nbsp;the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work,”</strong> indicating that&nbsp;even the believers who are children of God are not exempt from this judgment&nbsp;by works.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nHence, he advised them to “conduct [them]selves in fear during the time of [their] stay&nbsp;on earth.” 16 It is therefore not in biblical accordance with the gospel to say that&nbsp;regardless of whether or not one lives by the Word, one could go to heaven by simply&nbsp;believing. Such a “gospel” is completely different from the one preached by Paul and&nbsp;Peter.&nbsp; &nbsp;About ten years ago, Dr. Seyoon Kim boldly wrote in his book, What Is the \\Gospel?, about the distorted theory of justification that had spread in the Church.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;<strong>The descendants of Luther and the other religious reformers who agreed&nbsp;with&nbsp;him understood the picture of being ‘justified’ only in a forensic&nbsp;sense. Some&nbsp;of them—based on the narrow mindset that the death of Christ was a mere&nbsp;penal substitution—have created the problem of causing the complete&nbsp;separation&nbsp;of ethics from soteriology.</strong> As a result, they believe that since one is ‘justified’ and&nbsp;saved ‘only by faith’ and ‘only by grace’, <strong>a moral life is not important as long as&nbsp;they possess this faith.</strong> This belief has spread amongst casual Protestant believers.&nbsp;There are Christian sects that have driven many people to difficulty through extreme&nbsp;cases of such misinterpretation. Such extreme examples aside, however, <strong>despite its&nbsp;incredible number of Protestant believers and passionate demonstrations of&nbsp;“faith”, Korea today has fallen into the lamentable situation where Christian&nbsp;morality is only faintly apparent in the realm of personal and social ethics. It&nbsp;can be said that the fundamental cause of such a situation is the misinterpretation&nbsp;of the gospel, especially the gospel that is described as “justification”.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Ten years later (in 2013), Dr. Kim upped his level and gave an even more&nbsp;solid critique on the matter in his book, Justification and Sanctifi- cation.&nbsp;<br>\nThe serious Christians in Korea may emphasize the need for sanctification, <strong>but the&nbsp;majority of believers hold pride in the notion that they have already been&nbsp;justified by grace and faith alone. Some even use&nbsp;the doctrines of Predestination&nbsp;and the Perseverance of the Saints to support their claims as they fall into the&nbsp;Salvation-Sect-like complacency.</strong> This is how such people think: “The Scripture shows&nbsp;that God had chosen from the beginning those that would be saved, and He&nbsp;predestined to give them salvation. According to that predestination, it is said that&nbsp;He will protect the saved ones until the end. Since I have already been justified by&nbsp;the grace of God, I am one that had been predestined for salvation, and God will&nbsp;therefore protect me until the final judgment. <strong>All I need to do now is to be certain&nbsp;of my salvation, regardless of the situation.” (These words silently include the&nbsp;thought, ‘I can thus live my life however I want.’) Those of the Salvation Sect&nbsp;are certain that this is the truth of the gospel as they claim it boldly. However,&nbsp;many orthodox pastors who condemn the Salvation Sect for heresy are also&nbsp;teaching like so in reality. The only difference is that they do it stealthily.&nbsp;</strong><br>\nThis is a truly gratifying critique! Furthermore, Dr. Kim went on to write the&nbsp;following conclusive words toward the end of the same book.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>Whether we view it from the perspective of grace (of God) or faith (of man),&nbsp;the gospel of “justification by grace/faith alone” is structurally requiring us to&nbsp;live a righteous life. Therefore, anyone that describes this&nbsp;as a license for self-indulgence, regardless of who he or she may be, is a heretic preaching a false&nbsp;gospel.</strong></p>\n<p><br>\n&nbsp; It is such preachers, and not those from Beloved Church, that should be labeled as&nbsp;heretics. There is a phrase in the Scripture, “destructive heresies” (2 Pet. 2:1), but it is&nbsp;not only the heretics that are bringing souls to destruction; there are those that pose&nbsp;as orthodox who are also dragging a great number of believers to hell through this&nbsp;distorted Salvation-Sect-like gospel. Lloyd-Jones had written that <strong>“there is nothing&nbsp;more dangerous to the soul than just to be shouting, ‘Lord, Lord’, or to be making&nbsp;use of the doctrine of justification by faith as if it put everything right once and&nbsp;for ever.”</strong>&nbsp; Think about this. Who are the heretics? Is it Beloved Church that has&nbsp;persevered through all sorts of slander and persecution as we uncompromisingly&nbsp;preached the gospel conveyed by Paul and Peter? Or is it those who are preaching&nbsp;the gospel of the Salvation Sect as pointed out by Dr. Kim, those who are rather&nbsp;accusing Beloved Church of being heretics of ‘legalism’ or ‘new legalism’? While we&nbsp;are on the subject of determining who the true heretic is, let us take a look at&nbsp;Galatians, the book that was cherished and loved like a wife by Luther.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nI am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of&nbsp;&nbsp;Christ, for a <strong>different gospel</strong>; which is really <strong>not another</strong>; only there are some who&nbsp;are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of&nbsp; Christ. But even if&nbsp; we, or an&nbsp;angel from heaven, should preach to you a <strong>gospel contrary</strong> to what we have&nbsp;preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now,&nbsp;if&nbsp; any man is preaching to you a <strong>gospel contrary</strong> to what you received, he is to be&nbsp;accursed! (Galatians 1:6-9)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nThere are four instances in these verses that mention a “different gospel” or one that is distorted or contrary to the truth. Who is preaching this different gospel? Who is the true heretic deserving to be accursed? Most pastors generally believe that the gospel preached by Paul is a gospel of ‘only the cross’ and ‘only faith’. If one preaches the gospel with terms other than ‘only the cross’ and ‘only faith’, then they consider him a heretic. There are even ridiculous pastors, such as this one pastor emeritus of a church belonging to the main Presbyterian denomination in Korea, who consider those who preach the need to repent as heretics who go against this ‘only faith’. But even a brief glance at Galatians shows us that the gospel preached by Paul was not this false Salvation-Sect-like gospel. I will provide concrete evidence to support this point.&nbsp;<br>\n</p>\n<h4>1) The cross mentioned by Paul in Galatians is not merely a cross of atonement.&nbsp;</h4>\n<p>But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of&nbsp; our Lord <strong>Jesus Christ,&nbsp;through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.&nbsp;</strong>(Galatians 6:14)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; Many pastors cite only the first half—“But may it never be that I would boast,&nbsp;except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ”—as they preach the importance of ‘only&nbsp;the cross’, as if doing so is the only way to be orthodox. The cross that Paul refers&nbsp;to here, however, is not the mere cross of atonement that they think it is. It is the&nbsp;cross that ‘crucifies me’. It is the cross that makes it so that “the world has been&nbsp;crucified to me, and I to the world.” It is the cross that does not merely bring to&nbsp;us forgiveness of sins; it makes us into new creations. Hence, we can find&nbsp;<br>\nthe following in the succeeding verse.&nbsp;<br>\nFor neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision,&nbsp;<strong>but a new creation.</strong> (Galatians 6:15)&nbsp;<br>\nIt is not only this verse that shows this. Galatians 3:13-14 holds the same message, but as we are not yet ready to fully comprehend these verses, I will refrain from citing them. By the end of this book, you will understand that these verses are in fact holding the same message.&nbsp;<br>\n</p>\n<h4>2) The faith mentioned by Paul in Galatians is not merely a passive one.&nbsp;</h4>\n<p>Paul proves in Galatians that we are justified not by the works of the Law but by&nbsp;faith only. Some may say, “See? It is only by faith!” The faith that Paul portrays as&nbsp;the only method of being justified, however, is not the ‘passive faith’ that is&nbsp;separated from works as is asserted by Luther.&nbsp;<br>\nFor in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything,&nbsp;but faith working through love. (Galatians 5:6)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nAs we can see here, the faith conveyed by Paul was “faith working through love”.&nbsp;Different versions have translated this verse as follows.&nbsp;<br>\nWhen someone belongs to Christ Jesus, it is not important if&nbsp; they are&nbsp;circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of&nbsp; <strong>faith that works&nbsp;through love.</strong> (ERV)&nbsp;<br>\nFor when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being&nbsp;circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is <strong>faith expressing&nbsp;itself&nbsp; in love.</strong> (NLT)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;<strong>As such, the faith that Paul had emphasized in contrast with the works of the&nbsp;Law is faith that is expressed through love.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<strong>Then what does it mean by faith expressed through love? Love is what the&nbsp;Law depends on; it is the essence and the core of the Law (Matt. 22:37-40).&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;If we&nbsp;love God, then we can keep the first four commandments concerning our relation&nbsp;with God, and if we love our neighbors, we can keep the last six concerning our&nbsp;relation with others. Faith gives birth to obedience (Rom. 1:5; 16:26).&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Therefore,&nbsp;faith that acts through love is exactly the same as the “living faith with works to&nbsp;follow” (Jas. 2:14-26) mentioned by the apostle James. We can hence conclude that&nbsp;we are justified not by the passive (speculative) faith proposed by Luther but by&nbsp;the true faith with works to follow. This can be confirmed once more by the&nbsp;preceding verse.&nbsp;</strong><br>\nFor we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the <strong>hope of&nbsp;righteousness.</strong> (Galatians 5:5)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;As it will be discussed later, the “hope of righteousness” is referring to the final&nbsp;justification that is to be received on the day of judgment. Paul is thus stating that&nbsp;the only thing that has any effect in rescuing us from the wrath of God on the day&nbsp;of judgment is the living faith with works, the faith that is expressed through love&nbsp;as mentioned in Galatians 5:6. Any other faith, no matter what it may be called, will&nbsp;not have any effect. I do not understand why Luther, one who mistook faith to be&nbsp;passive, cherished and loved the Book of Galatians like a wife. Paul is in fact&nbsp;emphasizing the very same faith that is asserted in James, which Luther regarded as&nbsp;the insignificant Epistle of Straw. It seems that Luther may have mistook the meanings&nbsp;of Galatians just as he had mistook the meaning of faith.&nbsp;<br>\n</p>\n<h4>3) The judgment mentioned by Paul in Galatians is surprisingly<br>\nthe judgment by works.&nbsp;</h4>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;We touched on the ‘cross’ and ‘faith’ in the previous pages. There is no topic more important than these when discussing justification. I want to come to our conclusion as we expound on ‘judgment’. The judgment that Paul wrote of in Galatians is not the kind that sends people to heaven as long as they believe, even if they do not live according to the Word. It is ‘judgment by works’, which repays those who persevere and do good with eternal life, and those who do evil with wrath and indignation. This can be clearly seen in the following two passages.&nbsp;<br>\nNow the deeds of&nbsp; the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,&nbsp;idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of&nbsp; anger, disputes, dissensions,&nbsp;factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of&nbsp; which I forewarn&nbsp;you, <strong>just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not&nbsp;inherit the kingdom of&nbsp; God.</strong> But the fruit of&nbsp; the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,&nbsp;kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is&nbsp;no law. (Galatians 5:19-23)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nDo not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also&nbsp;reap.&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the&nbsp;one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.</strong> (Galatians 6:7-8)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nBoth of these passages from Galatians are speaking of judgment by works.&nbsp;Dr. Yon-gyong Kwon wrote the following about the latter.&nbsp;<br>\nThese verses can be seen as <strong>the passage that entails the integration of&nbsp;Paul’s theological beliefs passing through the whole Book of Galatians.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\nThis is because it combines the belief that <strong>“because God judges according to&nbsp;works, man will reap what he sows”</strong> with the ‘contrast of the Holy Spirit and the&nbsp;flesh’ (3:3; 4:29; 5:16-26) that drove Paul’s discussion. <strong>It is possible for people to&nbsp;be enraptured by false hope, relying on vain conditions such as circumcision.&nbsp;It is possible to be deluded by this ‘cheap grace’, forgetting God’s principle of&nbsp;one reaping what one sows. This ‘delusion’ is one of the most difficult&nbsp;problems threatening the health of the Church.&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><br>\nAs he concludes his argument, <strong>Paul makes it clear once again that the logic of&nbsp;faith and grace is not referring to a ‘lack of works’. The principle that one reaps&nbsp;what one sows, that God judges according to how we have lived, is a concept that&nbsp;can be seen consistently throughout the entire Old and New Testaments. It is one&nbsp;of the most fundamental principles of God. Therefore, ignoring such a principle is&nbsp;the same as disregarding the God who set those rules. Our delusions do not cause&nbsp;the principle to change, however. It is merely our future that becomes at risk.</strong></p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;This is very true. Ignorance of judgment by works, as well as the intentional&nbsp;neglecting of it, brings about great danger. We must make sure to teach about this&nbsp;judgment by works when we preach the gospel. When Paul wrote the Book of Romans,&nbsp;he included the principle of judgment by works in the beginning (Romans 2).&nbsp;</p>\n<p>In Galatians, he wrote of the principle at the end (Galatians 5-6).&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Ironically, the two&nbsp;epistles that Luther adored the most had judgment by works written in them, which was&nbsp;completely different from his claims. This is undeniably clear evidence that the currently trending “gospel”—that we go to heaven as long as we believe, regardless of our&nbsp;actions—is unbiblical and unrelated to the preaching of Paul.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Furthermore, there is another point we must consider. In Galatians 5:21, Paul made&nbsp;it certain that those who follow the works of the flesh will ultimately go to hell. But&nbsp;according to verse 17, these people are believers. It means that believers will eventually&nbsp;also be judged by works. Only those who have living faith with works to accompany will&nbsp;enter heaven. According to verses 17-20, a saved believer can act in accordance with the&nbsp;Spirit, but can also follow the deeds of the flesh. They cannot inherit the kingdom of&nbsp;God if they follow the clear deeds of the flesh (v. 21).&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;However, one who follows the&nbsp;Holy Spirit will bear His fruits (vv. 22-23), and it can thus be expected to be written that&nbsp;such people will be the ones to inherit the kingdom of God. Yet, the Scripture instead&nbsp;uses the vague expression, “against such things there is no law” (v. 23). Hence, many&nbsp;people think of this as referring to spiritual maturity rather than a requirement for&nbsp;salvation. They are mistaken.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nThe <strong>“such things”</strong> mentioned here is referring to the fruits of the Spirit. <strong>There is&nbsp;no existing law that can go against the fruits of the Spirit. Therefore, there is no&nbsp;law that can condemn a person who bears those fruits. Such people will surely be&nbsp;justified on the judgment day. This is what Paul is referring to. It means that only&nbsp;those that bear the fruits of the Spirit can be justified on the judgment day and&nbsp;inherit the kingdom of heaven.&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;But can it really be that those who do not bear the fruits of the Spirit cannot&nbsp;enter heaven? Most definitely. What is the focus of the parable of the sower? It is&nbsp;that only the good soil, those who bear fruit thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold, will&nbsp;enter heaven. And the fruits signify holding fast to the Word in perseverance&nbsp;(Luke 8:15).&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;There are more verses that show that we must bear fruit to enter&nbsp;heaven without being forsaken.&nbsp;<br>\nAnd do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, “We have Abraham for our&nbsp;father”; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children&nbsp;to Abraham. The axe is already laid at the root of&nbsp; the&nbsp;<br>\ntrees; therefore <strong>every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and&nbsp;thrown&nbsp;into the fire.</strong> (Matthew 3:9-10)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;Beware of&nbsp; the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are&nbsp;ravenous wolves. <strong>You will know them by their fruits.</strong> Grapes are not gathered from&nbsp;thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but&nbsp;the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree&nbsp;produce good fruit. <strong>Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown&nbsp;into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits.</strong> (Matthew 7:15-20)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nTherefore I say to you, <strong>the kingdom of&nbsp; God will be taken away from you and given&nbsp;to a people, producing the fruit of&nbsp; it.</strong> (Matthew 21:43)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;<strong>Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away;</strong> and every branch that&nbsp;bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. (John 15:2)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of&nbsp; which you are now&nbsp;ashamed? For the end of&nbsp; those things is death. But now that you have been set free&nbsp;from sin and have become slaves of&nbsp; God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and&nbsp;its end, eternal life. (Romans 6:21-22, ESV)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;<strong>For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation&nbsp;useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if&nbsp; it&nbsp;&nbsp;yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up&nbsp;&nbsp;being burned.</strong> (Hebrews 6:7-8)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Woe to them! For they have gone the way of&nbsp; Cain, and for pay they have rushed&nbsp;headlong into the error of&nbsp; Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of&nbsp; Korah. These&nbsp;are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you&nbsp;without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds;&nbsp;<strong>autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted.</strong> (Jude 1:11-12)</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Do we need more proof? I am sure this is more than enough. That’s why I have&nbsp;held \\back from quoting the full list of supporting verses.&nbsp;As efficiently proven thus far, it is not our church, but the very pas- tors who accuse&nbsp;us of heresy that are preaching this “different gospel”. They who preach a false gospel&nbsp;are the heretics, or at least Christians with heretical aspects. Yet even though they are&nbsp;in the wrong, they accuse us of heretical legalism when we have been biblically&nbsp;preaching the gospel preached by Paul.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Lastly, if we observe all of the explanations that have been pre- sented thus far,&nbsp;there are some things that become more and more obvious. <strong>The gospel is not&nbsp;an indulgence</strong> (the remission of punishment) <strong>for the judgment by works, and&nbsp;the believer is not exempt from such a judgment.</strong> Through this, we can see just&nbsp;how foolish it is to say that we are saved according to faith and rewarded according&nbsp;to works, that we would go to heaven as long as we believe, even if we don’t live&nbsp;in accordance with the Word. And we can also see when Jesus stated that only “he&nbsp;who does the will of My Father” can enter heaven in Matthew 7:21, it was not a mere&nbsp;expression of emphasis but rather a description of reality. In chapter 1 of this book,&nbsp;I introduced you to an article about Dr. Seyoon Kim in regards to the Four Spiritual&nbsp;Laws. The following words can be seen in that same article.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nDr. Kim retorted back as he asked, <strong>“If we say that salvation is by faith without&nbsp;works, and that once salvation is received it is fixed, do you think members&nbsp;of&nbsp;the church would live a proper Christian life?”</strong> According to Kim, the three&nbsp;things the Korean Church requires of its members are observing the Lord ’s Day,&nbsp;offering, and evangelism. In order to impose these three, they made the doctrine&nbsp;of “post-death rewards”. He criticized, “The Church coerced on its members the&nbsp;notion that if they live a good Christian live, they will receive a great reward in&nbsp;heaven, and if they don’t, then nothing. This is exactly the same as the selling&nbsp;of indulgences by the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nOn October 31st, 1517, Martin Luther criticized the selling of indul- gences&nbsp;by the Roman Catholic Church on the basis of Paul’s concept of justification&nbsp;(Rom. 1:17).&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Though his understanding was not complete, it was the start of a&nbsp;religious reformation. However, a significant number of pastors in the Protestant&nbsp;Church are currently issuing such indulgences against the judgment by works through their preaching of a distorted view on the doctrine of justification. Though the situation is not as severe as the over-issuance of indulgences by the Catholics, these indulgences&nbsp;are something that should not be issued at all. I therefore believe that there is need&nbsp;for another religious reformation.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The Korean Church is under much criticism at the&nbsp;moment. Regardless of whether or not they believe, people are still unaware of just&nbsp;how corrupt the Korean Church has become. It is completely different from what one&nbsp;may see on the outside. Through the persecutions and accusations of heresy, I have&nbsp;thoroughly experienced the insides of the Korean Church, and it is seven times worse&nbsp;than it looks. It has fallen in depravity as far down as it can go, and it’s been long&nbsp;since it lost its ability to purify itself.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Hence, I firmly believe in the need for a religious&nbsp;reformation. A religious reformation is the hope and path to survival! I hope that this&nbsp;book, Truth Like a Diamond!, can be a spark for this reformation. And I hope that all&nbsp;of you can pray together with this same hope.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp;</p>\n</html>",
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      "title": "Why Does the Gospel Have to Be Power? (1) - TRUTH LIKE A DIAMOND!",
      "body": "<html>\n<h3>&nbsp;</h3>\n<h2>TruthLikeaDiamond</h2>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmdLQ3ihYJTcZbft5oDR4PWZedSR1hoCVSLgLioChGEPfL/01.JPG\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmSxY145Vxn2c1LisGYMqffpgQ5d7dASa3cwmp3SngYgHa/111.JPG\" width=\"377\" height=\"592\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<h2>&nbsp;</h2>\n<h2><strong>CHAPTER 2&nbsp;<br>\nWhy Does the Gospel Have to Be Power?&nbsp;</strong></h2>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>&nbsp;We learned in the previous chapter that the gospel is not just some&nbsp;knowledge or a concept but rather the power of God. In order for the&nbsp;gospel to be able to save people, it must be power. If not so, it would&nbsp;not be capable of saving even one soul, for salvation is not merely the&nbsp;forgiveness of sins but the liberation from the rule of sin. This power is&nbsp;therefore necessary (John 8:34-36).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;(1) ‘Salvation by works’ versus ‘Judgment by works’!&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\nWhat is the gospel? It is justification. It is the doctrine of&nbsp;justification by faith. However, there is something we should know&nbsp;before we delve into the doctrine of justification, and we can find it in&nbsp;Romans 2:6-11.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;[God] will render to each person according to his deeds: to those&nbsp;who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and&nbsp;immortality, eternal life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious&nbsp;and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and&nbsp;indignation. There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of&nbsp;man who does evil, of&nbsp; the Jew first and also of&nbsp; the Greek, but&nbsp;glory&nbsp;and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew&nbsp;first&nbsp;and&nbsp;also&nbsp;to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\n<br>\nDr. Yon-gyong Kwon had mentioned that <strong>“it can never be stressed&nbsp;enough just how important these verses are in understanding Paul’s&nbsp;soteriology and theory of justification.”</strong> These words are very true.&nbsp;The doctrine of justification must start from these verses together with&nbsp;the notion in Romans chapters 1-3 that we humans are sinners in need of salvation.&nbsp;This is how we can properly understand justification, and this is how we can&nbsp;comprehend why the gospel must be the power of God. These verses are the&nbsp;very first step necessary for properly understanding the gospel.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Paul states a <strong>very fundamental theological principle in these verses,</strong>&nbsp;<strong>the principle of “judgment by works”.</strong> It is the notion that the works of man&nbsp;become the standard by which the final judgment is passed. Regardless of&nbsp;whether one is a Jew or a Gentile, God will judge every person according to&nbsp;his or her works. Paul gives a very clear statement on this with an efficient&nbsp;use of chiastic structure.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nA. God repays each person according to his or her works. (v. 6)</p>\n<p>B. He repays those who do good with eternal life. (v. 7)</p>\n<p>C. He repays those who do evil with wrath. (v. 8)</p>\n<p>C'. There will be ruin for those who do evil.- First for the Jew, then for the Greek (v. 9)</p>\n<p>B'. There will be glory for those who do good.-First for the Jew, then for the Greek (v. 10)</p>\n<p>A'. There is no partiality with God. (v. 11)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;“There is no partiality with God,” means that He judges in fairness, repaying each one&nbsp;according to his or her works. Rhetorically, the center of such chiastic structure is what&nbsp;usually receives the most emphasis. In this case, sections C and C' on the works of evil&nbsp;would be that center. Through this structure, Paul is strongly criticizing the Jews who&nbsp;break the Law yet have no fear of judgment.Nonbelievers and worshippers of idols cannot receive eternal life. Therefore, the ones&nbsp;mentioned in verse 7, “who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and&nbsp;immortality,” cannot be nonbelievers. They would have to be true Jews, namely those who&nbsp;are Jews inwardly. Furthermore, in verse 29, the reference to being “by the Spirit, not by&nbsp;the letter” is an expression in relation to the new covenant, and it can thus be understood&nbsp;as connotatively referring to Christians as well, for Christians are also true Jews. This is&nbsp;what Dr. Han-soo Lee wrote as he commentated on verse 10, which runs parallel to verse 7.<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;<strong>If we consider the expression, “First the Jews, then the Gentiles,”&nbsp;as being applied to those who believe the gospel in chapter 1 verse 16&nbsp;aswell as those that do good in chapter 2 verse 10, then we can conclude&nbsp;that “those that do good” is connotatively referring to Christians.</strong>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Paul is merely using as general an expression as possible in order for his logic to&nbsp;broadly apply to the people.<br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;On the other hand, “those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey&nbsp;unrighteousness” in verse 8 signifies those who are Jews outwardly, including nominal&nbsp;Christians. God repays such people with wrath and indignation; what awaits them is&nbsp;condemnation and ruin. As these verses show, God’s judgment is based on works.&nbsp;This judgment by works is a clear biblical truth that is mentioned countless times in&nbsp;the Old Testament, the four Gospels, and the Epistles of the New Testament.&nbsp;Dr. Han-soo Lee had written that <strong>“judgment by works is a fundamental part&nbsp;of Christian and Jewish faith.” 4 He also mentioned that “Paul … applied&nbsp;the principle of judgment by works not only to non-Christians but to&nbsp;Christians as well.”&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;This reminds me of when I had gathered together all the verses in the Scripture that dealt&nbsp;with judgment by works during my time at seminary. I read those verses to every student&nbsp;or fellow believer I met, and I remember explaining the gospel to them as I saw their&nbsp;shocked expressions. I want to share with you just some of the verses that I used back then.<br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;“When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits&nbsp;iniquity and dies because of&nbsp; it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.&nbsp;Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed&nbsp;and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life. <strong>… Therefore I will judge&nbsp;you, O house of&nbsp; Israel, each according to his conduct,”</strong> declares the Lord GOD.&nbsp;(Ezekiel 18:26-27, 30)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;And you, son of&nbsp; man, say to your fellow citizens, “The righteousness of&nbsp; a righteous man&nbsp;will not deliver him in the day of&nbsp; his transgression, and as for the wickedness of&nbsp; the wicked,&nbsp;he will not stumble because of&nbsp; it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas&nbsp;a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the&nbsp;day when he commits&nbsp;sin.” … When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he&nbsp;shall die in it. But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and&nbsp;righteousness, he will live by them. Yet you say, “The way of&nbsp; the Lord is not right.”&nbsp;O house of&nbsp; Israel, I will judge each of&nbsp; you according to his ways.&nbsp;(Ezekiel 33:12, 18-20)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;For I say to you that <strong>unless your righteousness surpasses that of&nbsp; the scribes&nbsp;and&nbsp;Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of&nbsp; heaven. </strong>(Matthew 5:20)</p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of&nbsp; heaven, but he&nbsp;who does the will of&nbsp; My Father who is in heaven will enter.</strong> Many will say to Me on&nbsp;that day, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out&nbsp;demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?” And then I will declare to them,&nbsp;“I never knew you; <strong>depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.”</strong>(Matthew 7:21-23)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>If&nbsp; your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off</strong>; it is better for you to enter life crippled,&nbsp;than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. If&nbsp; your foot&nbsp;causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your&nbsp;two feet, to be cast into hell. If&nbsp; your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is&nbsp;better for you to enter the kingdom of&nbsp; God with one eye, than, having two eyes,&nbsp;to be&nbsp;cast into <strong>hell.</strong>&nbsp;(Mark 9:43-47)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nDo not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear&nbsp;His voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of&nbsp; life,&nbsp;<strong>those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of&nbsp; judgment.</strong> (John 5:28-29)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>For if&nbsp; we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of&nbsp; the truth, there no&nbsp;longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of&nbsp; judgment and the&nbsp;fury of&nbsp; a fire which will consume the adversaries. </strong>(Hebrews 10:26-27)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong>Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished,&nbsp;it brings forth death.</strong> (James 1:14-15)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>What use is it,</strong> my brethren, if&nbsp; someone says he has faith but he has no works?&nbsp;Can that faith save him?&nbsp;</p>\n<p>(James 2:14)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;<strong>Little children, make sure no one deceives you;</strong> the one who practices righteousness is&nbsp;righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of&nbsp; the devil; for the devil&nbsp;has sinned from the beginning. The Son of&nbsp; God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the&nbsp;works of&nbsp; the devil. <strong>No one who is born of&nbsp; God practices sin, because His seed abides&nbsp;in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of&nbsp; God. By this the children of&nbsp; God and&nbsp;the children of&nbsp; the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is&nbsp;not of&nbsp; God, nor the one who does not love his brother.</strong> (1 John 3:7-10)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the&nbsp;end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of&nbsp; the water of&nbsp; life without cost.&nbsp;He who overcomes will in- herit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My&nbsp;son. <strong>But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral&nbsp;persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that&nbsp;burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”</strong> (Revelation 21:6-8)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nAs it can be seen, the Scripture is full of verses concerning judg- ment by works. <strong>It is&nbsp;important here to note that ‘salvation by works’ and ‘judgment by works’ are two&nbsp;different things. Asserting that salvation is determined by works is unbiblical and a&nbsp;heresy. Such a claim is asserting that one can be saved by the works of the Law.&nbsp;Stating that judgment is determined by works, however, is entirely biblical and&nbsp;proper. It is the very evidence proving, in accordance with the Scripture, that only&nbsp;those with true faith will receive salvation. This notion of judgment by works can be&nbsp;seen in many books and works of renowned men and women of God.&nbsp;(Our church too supports this judgment by works.)&nbsp;I want to share with you just a few of those writings.&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><br>\nFirst, these are the words of Thomas à Kempis from his book, <em>The Imitation of Christ.&nbsp;</em></p>\n<p><br>\n <strong>On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have&nbsp;readbut what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how&nbsp;well we have lived.</strong></p>\n<p><br>\nJonathan Edwards also wrote the following.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nSuch holy practice, in the sense in which we have explained, is the best kind of evidence&nbsp;of the reality of grace in the Christian’s conscience. 7 … This great evidence of holy&nbsp;practice will be used before the judgment seat of God. … The Scriptures abundantly teach&nbsp;us that the Judge’s major evidence will be men’s works or practice here in this world.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nMartyn Lloyd-Jones wrote the following in his exposition on Romans.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nNo, in the judgment, the one question that will be asked is, ‘What about sin? What of&nbsp;your life? What have you done?’ The judgment is concerned and interested only in this&nbsp;question of sin. And it does not matter who you are if you have sinned. … It does not&nbsp;matter whether you are a member of a church or have never been a member of a&nbsp;church. … If you have sinned, you have sinned and you will be judged according to&nbsp;your sin. That is what he is saying.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nThere is another author that cannot be left out when dealing with explanations on&nbsp;judgment by works. John Stott is known as the greatest evangelical theologian of our&nbsp;generation, and the explanations in his book, Authentic Christianity, are worthy of such&nbsp;compliments.&nbsp;<br>\n</p>\n<p><br>\n<em><strong>Judged by our works&nbsp;</strong></em></p>\n<p><strong><br>\n&nbsp; The whole New Testament teaches this; although we sinners can be ‘justified’ only&nbsp;by faith in Christ, yet we shall be ‘judged’ by our works. This is not a contradiction.&nbsp;It is because good works of love are the only available public evidence of our faith.&nbsp;Our faith in Jesus Christ is secret, hidden in our hearts. But if it is genuine, it will&nbsp;manifest itself visibly in good works. As James had put it, ‘I will show you my faith&nbsp;by&nbsp; what I do … faith without deeds is useless’ (Jas. 2:18, 20). Since the judgment&nbsp;day will be a public occasion, it will be necessary for public evidence to be produced,&nbsp;namely the outworking of our faith in compassionate action. Jesus himself taught this&nbsp;many times. For example, ‘The Son of man is going to come in his Father’s glory with&nbsp;his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done’&nbsp;(Mt. 16:27). It is not our salvation, but our judgment, which will be according to our&nbsp;works.</strong><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<strong>In the same book, Stott also wrote the following.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<em><strong>The Christian and good works&nbsp;</strong></em></p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>Although we cannot be saved by works, we also cannot be saved without them.</strong> Good works are not the way of salvation, but its proper and necessary evidence.&nbsp;A faith which does not express itself in works is dead.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp;Unfortunately, there are far too many theologians and preachers that are ignorant of&nbsp;such a clear and important truth. There was a time during my ministry in Ulsan, Korea&nbsp;when I gave an exposition&nbsp;on the Book of Romans. Amidst the materials that I had&nbsp;researched then, I found that many exegetists and scholars were perplexed by these&nbsp;verses. Why would they be perplexed? To put it nicely, they were influenced by Luther’s&nbsp;theory of justification. To put it harshly, they were brainwashed by the distorted theory&nbsp;of justification like that of the Salvation Sect. It is obvious that they would be perplexed&nbsp;by these verses as they read them with such a distorted view. The notion that God judges&nbsp;according to the works of each person was bound to confuse them, since they had been&nbsp;engrained with the notion that simply believing would forgive them of their sins and allow&nbsp;them to enter into heaven. Dr. In-gyu Hong of Baekseok University also made the same&nbsp;criticism in his book,&nbsp;<em>How Will You Read the Book of Ro- mans?&nbsp;</em><br>\n<br>\n“[God] will render to each person according to his deeds” (Rom. 2:6).&nbsp;<strong>This is declaring that the final judgment will be based on works. This principle&nbsp;can be found not only in the Old Testament but also in different places of&nbsp;the New Testament, including the epistles of Paul&nbsp;himself </strong>(e.g. Rom. 14:12; 1 Cor.&nbsp;3:8,&nbsp;3:13-23; 4:4-21; 9:17; 2 Cor. 5:10; 9:6; Gal. 6:7-10;&nbsp;Eph. 6:8; Col. 3:23-24; Matt.&nbsp;5:20, 5:22,&nbsp;5:27-30; 7:21; 16:27; 25:31-46; Luke 18:18-30;&nbsp;John 5:29; Heb. 6:7-8;&nbsp;10:26-31; 2 Pet. 1:10-11; Rev. 2:7, 2:11, 2:23, 2:26; 3:5, 3:12, 3:21; 14:10-12;&nbsp;20:12-13; 22:12).&nbsp;There are people who believe that the doctrine of judgment being by works&nbsp;is inconsistent with the truth that we are saved by faith alone. However, such&nbsp;thoughts are a result of misunderstanding the salvation of Christ. … Judgment&nbsp;by works is not saying that God is acknowledging the achievements of man.&nbsp;Rather, it is the judging of whether or not their life was one that was under&nbsp;the lordship of Christ.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;You are free to believe what you wish. The truth, however, will not change. For those who persevere and do good, God rewards them with eternal life. For those who follow evil rather than the truth, He repays with<strong> “wrath and indignation”.</strong> No one can change this fact. Judgment is passed only ‘in accordance with truth’ (Rom. 2:2). I therefore hope that we can all become those that properly know the truth and fear of the Lord (2 Cor. 5:11).&nbsp;&nbsp; There is another point we must all consider. What is justification? Justification is the act of rescuing us from God’s wrath and indignation on the day of judgment. It is the countermeasure and solution to the righteous wrath of God.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n&nbsp; … and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is <strong>Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.</strong> (1 Thessalonians 1:10)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nSalvation is nothing other than the rescuing from the wrath to come. This is why Paul wrote the following.&nbsp;<br>\nFor God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our&nbsp;Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:9)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Take note of the contrast of the words ‘wrath’ and ‘salvation’. Justification is the&nbsp;<strong>salvation</strong> from that wrath. Dr. Seyoon Kim hence wrote the following in his exposition&nbsp;on this verse.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong> &nbsp;That the Son of God rescues us from God’s wrath is the language of&nbsp;justification. That is because being saved from God’s wrath at the final&nbsp;judgment, negatively speaking, means that we have been declared as&nbsp;innocent, and positively speaking, means that we have been declared as&nbsp;righteous. These two meanings are ultimately the same. This is justification.</strong></p>\n<p><br>\n&nbsp; Here is a very real explanation. Are you not afraid when your husband gets angry? Does it&nbsp;not scare you when your wife is angry? Are you not afraid when your boss at work is about to blow his or her lid? It is indeed frightening! Then how much more so would it be when&nbsp;God is angry? Just as how there is a saying that we must “beware the anger of the quiet&nbsp;ones”, the fact that God is gentle should make us more afraid (Rom. 2:4-5).&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nThe wrath of a king is the most frightening kind of wrath belonging to man.&nbsp;<br>\nThe fury of&nbsp; a king is like messengers of&nbsp; death. (Proverbs 16:14)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<strong>The terror of&nbsp; a king is like the growling of&nbsp; a lion; He who provokes him&nbsp;to anger forfeits his own life. </strong>(Proverbs 20:2)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nThis is because the king has the authority to determine one’s life and death. However,&nbsp;the wrath of God, the King of kings, is seven times more terrifying than the wrath of any&nbsp;human king. This is what the Scripture shows us of how terrifying the wrath of God is.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Who understands the power of&nbsp; Your angerAnd Your fury, according to&nbsp;the fear that is due You? (Psalm 90:11)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Then the kings of&nbsp; the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich&nbsp;and the&nbsp;strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and&nbsp;among the rocks of&nbsp;&nbsp;the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the&nbsp;rocks, “Fall on us and hide&nbsp;us from the presence of&nbsp; Him who sits on the&nbsp;throne,&nbsp;and from the wrath of&nbsp; the&nbsp;Lamb.” (Revelation 6:15-16)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Like so, even kings hide before the wrath of God. Then why is the wrath of God so&nbsp;terrifying? The reason lies with the fact that God has the authority to cast us into hell.&nbsp;<br>\nI say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of&nbsp; those who kill the body and after that have&nbsp;no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after&nbsp;He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him! (Luke 12:4-5)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If&nbsp; anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will <strong>drink of&nbsp; the wine of&nbsp; the wrath of&nbsp; God,</strong> which is mixed in full strength in the<strong> cup of&nbsp; His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of&nbsp; the holy angels and in the presence of&nbsp; the Lamb. And the smoke of&nbsp; their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no&nbsp;rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and&nbsp;whoever receives the mark of&nbsp; his name.” </strong>(Revelation 14:9-11)<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Justification, however, is the very thing that rescues us from this terrifying wrath of&nbsp;God at the seat of judgment between heaven and hell. This is why justification is&nbsp;important. This is why it is salvation. And what is it that we see in Romans 2:6-11?&nbsp;The terrifying wrath and indignation of God at the seat of judgment.&nbsp;<br>\n[God] will render … to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not&nbsp;obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, <strong>wrath and indignation. </strong>(Romans 2:6, 8)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;The prior verse also mentions the wrath that is to come on the day of judgment,&nbsp;namely the day of wrath.&nbsp;<br>\nBut because of&nbsp; your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up <strong>wrath&nbsp;for yourself&nbsp; in the day of&nbsp; wrath and revelation of&nbsp; the righteous judgment of God.</strong> (Romans 2:5)&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Thus, Romans 2:6-11 is not unrelated to justification. Rather, justification has a deep&nbsp;relation with these verses. Justification must therefore be interpreted and understood&nbsp;within these boundaries. This is how we will be able to know why the gospel must be&nbsp;power. This is how we will refrain from being deluded by the Salvation-Sect- like doctrine&nbsp;of justification that has become so popular nowadays.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;And this is how our faith won’t become like the house built on sand. God judges in&nbsp;accordance to the works of each person. The judgment of God is judgment by works. Yet,&nbsp;can we overcome sin with our human strength? Definitely not. We need the power of&nbsp;God. Therefore, the gospel cannot be anything other than the power of God.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n &nbsp;Just as how God had brought Israel out of Egypt with His mighty hand and outstretched arms, it is not words or knowledge, but power alone that can free us from the shackles and reign of sin. The gospel must be the power of the omnipotent God. A gospel that is not the power of God is a false gospel! I therefore hope that all of you can believe in this true gospel that is the power of God and be justified.&nbsp;<br>\n</p>\n<p><br>\nNEXT<br>\n(2) Judgment by works, a part of the gospel!&nbsp;</p>\n</html>",
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      "title": "The Gospel Is the Power of God!- TRUTH LIKE A DIAMOND!",
      "body": "<html>\n<p><br></p>\n<h1><strong>TruthLikeaDiamond</strong></h1>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmSxY145Vxn2c1LisGYMqffpgQ5d7dASa3cwmp3SngYgHa/111.JPG\" width=\"377\" height=\"592\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmdLQ3ihYJTcZbft5oDR4PWZedSR1hoCVSLgLioChGEPfL/01.JPG\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<h1>1. The Gospel Is&nbsp;the Power of God!&nbsp;</h1>\n<h2>&nbsp;<strong>If you ask Sunday Schoolers what they think the gospel is, many will&nbsp;think of the Wordless Book. The Wordless Book was made in order to&nbsp;explain the gospel simply to illiterate children. The book consists&nbsp;of&nbsp;six colors.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2>\n<p>&nbsp; ① Gold (heaven): God loves us and has prepared heaven for us.</p>\n<p>&nbsp; ② Black (the sin of man): However, our sins are as black as ink, and we cannot enter&nbsp;that heaven.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp; ③ Red&nbsp; (the atonement of Christ): Jesus took on my sins and&nbsp;died&nbsp;on&nbsp;the cross.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp; ④ White&nbsp; (the forgiveness of sins): If we believe in Jesus,&nbsp;we are&nbsp;forgiven of our sins&nbsp;by the merit of Christ’s&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;lood and&nbsp;are&nbsp;deemed as righteous before God.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp; ⑤ Gold&nbsp; (heaven): Hence, we have no merit, but we enter heaven by&nbsp;the merit of&nbsp;Jesus.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp; ⑥ Green&nbsp; (growth): We receive salvation free of charge by God’s grace.&nbsp;We must&nbsp;therefore be thankful of this&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;grace and continue to grow.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; The majority of Christians believe the gospel to be the same as the&nbsp;contents of this&nbsp;Wordless Book.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; If you ask college students what they think the gospel is, many will think of&nbsp;the Four Spiritual Laws taught by Cru (formerly known as the Campus Crusade&nbsp;for Christ). These Four Laws are a method of conveying the gospel using the&nbsp;following four principles.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; ① Law 1: God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; ② Law 2: Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore,&nbsp;he&nbsp;cannot know and&nbsp;experience God’s love and plan for his life.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; ③ Law 3: Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for man’s sin.&nbsp;Through&nbsp;Him you can&nbsp;know and experience God’s love&nbsp;and plan for your life.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; ④ Law 4: We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior&nbsp;and&nbsp;Lord; then we can&nbsp;know and experience God’s love and&nbsp;plan for our lives.<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; However, the Four Spiritual Laws are not a complete explanation of the gospel&nbsp;either. Many years ago, there was an article on Dr. Seyoon Kim and his thoughts&nbsp;on these Four Spiritual Laws.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; Dr. Seyoon Kim has stated that a distorted notion of justification in&nbsp;the Korean Church has brought about an erroneous viewpoint on salvation.&nbsp;According to&nbsp;Dr. Kim, <strong>one of&nbsp; the most accurate representations of the&nbsp;soteriology of the&nbsp;Korean Church is the ‘Four Spiritual Laws’</strong>.&nbsp;If we examine&nbsp;the Four Spiritual&nbsp;Laws, it says that we are saved the&nbsp;moment&nbsp;we simply say that Jesus is&nbsp;Christ, even without a personal encounter with&nbsp;Him&nbsp;or the sense&nbsp;of will to&nbsp;believe. Dr. Kim stated,&nbsp;<strong>“The Four Spiritual Laws are&nbsp;distorting the&nbsp;notion&nbsp;of salvation.&nbsp;A Korean church that holds&nbsp;to this sort of&nbsp;soteriology is&nbsp;no&nbsp;different from the Salvation Sect&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; We can see that the Four Spiritual Laws, like the Wordless Book, are&nbsp;also&nbsp;not a biblical&nbsp;portrayal of the gospel.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lastly, if you ask adults what they think the gospel is, some will think of&nbsp;the training&nbsp;they had received in Evangelism Explosion. The ‘Evangelism&nbsp;Explosion Training’ was at&nbsp;the forefront of evangelism in the 1970s in Korea.&nbsp;However, the gospel displayed by&nbsp;this training is far more seriously distorted&nbsp;than the gospel portrayed by the Four&nbsp;Spiritual Laws or the Wordless Book.&nbsp;This is how the Evangelism Explosion explains the&nbsp;gospel.&nbsp;&nbsp; They first ask a question.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<strong>&nbsp; “If you were to die tonight, would you know for sure that&nbsp;you would go to heaven?”&nbsp;</strong><br>\n &nbsp; I wonder, however, if there is a single person (among the unbelievers)&nbsp;in this world&nbsp;&nbsp; that lives life without sinning.&nbsp;Who would be able to confidently answer yes to this&nbsp;&nbsp; question?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Next, they explain how punishment will always follow sin.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; Then the LORD passed by in front of&nbsp; him and proclaimed, “The LORD,&nbsp;the&nbsp;LORD God,&nbsp;compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding&nbsp;in&nbsp;loving kindness and&nbsp; truth; who keeps loving kindness for thousands,&nbsp;who forgives iniquity, transgression&nbsp;and sin; yet He will by no means leave&nbsp;the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of&nbsp;&nbsp;fathers on the children and&nbsp;on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”&nbsp;&nbsp; (Exodus 34:6-7)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<strong>&nbsp; They then introduce Jesus.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong><br>\n&nbsp; All of&nbsp; us like sheep have gone astray,&nbsp;&nbsp; Each of&nbsp; us has turned to his own way;&nbsp;&nbsp; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of&nbsp; us all&nbsp;&nbsp; To fall on Him. (Isaiah 53:6)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; They say that by the merit of the cross of Jesus, all of our sins can be orgiven.&nbsp;If we&nbsp; believe in Jesus, our sins are completely forgiven. Though we are sinners,&nbsp;God will not&nbsp;&nbsp; condemn us. He will acknowledge us as righteous, and we can&nbsp;enter the kingdom of&nbsp;heaven. Hence, they tell us to believe in Jesus.&nbsp;<br>\n4 To summarize, we should believe in&nbsp;Jesus, be forgiven of our sins, and&nbsp;go to heaven. There is a significant difference&nbsp;between this and the gospel mentioned in the Scripture. Of course, I understand that&nbsp;it may have been&nbsp;distorted due to the attempt at conveying the gospel in a short&nbsp;time,&nbsp; but it is&nbsp;a distortion nonetheless. The problem lies in the notion that those who&nbsp;&nbsp; accept Jesus after hearing this “gospel” end up living the rest of their lives&nbsp;thinking&nbsp;that this is all there is to the gospel. It lies in the fact that many&nbsp;of these people go&nbsp;to hell.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; On the other hand, if you ask those who are knowledgeable of the&nbsp;Scripture what&nbsp;they think the gospel is, they will answer like so.&nbsp; &nbsp; “The gospel is the gospel of the kingdom of heaven, in other words,&nbsp;the gospel of&nbsp;&nbsp; the kingdom of God (Luke 16:16).&nbsp;<br>\nIt is accepting Jesus, who God had raised as King,&nbsp;to be our Lord and&nbsp;Savior, and it is accepting that reign. It is the blessed news that&nbsp;&nbsp; we can enjoy heaven in our hearts now and enter into that eternal&nbsp;kingdom of heaven&nbsp;after death.”&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; “The gospel is the news concerning the Son of God (Rom. 1:2-4).&nbsp;It is the spreading&nbsp;&nbsp; of who the Son Jesus is as the God-sent Messiah,&nbsp;what He did, and how we ought to&nbsp;believe in Him.”&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; “The gospel is the word of the cross (1 Cor. 1:18)! It is the news of the crucifixion and&nbsp;&nbsp;resurrection of Jesus (1 Cor. 15:1-4). It is the act of&nbsp;proclaiming that Jesus died on the&nbsp;cross for our sins and rose again&nbsp;to be our Lord and Savior.”&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; It is undeniable that these answers are based on Scripture and are correct.&nbsp;Yet, they&nbsp;are a mere summary and not a detailed description of what&nbsp;the&nbsp;gospel is. Without the&nbsp;details, one’s answers are bound to be incomplete.I therefore want to use this book&nbsp;to explain to you the content of the gospel&nbsp;in full detail, but I won’t start with that&nbsp;yet.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; I have laid out the expected answers to the question of what one thinks is&nbsp;the gospel&nbsp;&nbsp;because I wanted to raise this point. There are many that would&nbsp;give these common&nbsp;answers, but how many Christians do you think would&nbsp;answer that <strong>the gospel is the&nbsp;power of God</strong> as mentioned in the Scripture?&nbsp;To bring it a step further, how many&nbsp;ministers would be able to give this&nbsp;answer?&nbsp;How many theologians even?&nbsp;This is&nbsp;what I wanted to bring to the&nbsp;table.&nbsp;It is clearly written in the Scripture that the gospel is the power of God.&nbsp; <br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; For I am not ashamed of&nbsp; the <strong>gospel</strong>, for <strong>it is the power of&nbsp; God</strong> for salvation to&nbsp;everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.&nbsp;(Romans 1:16)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; There are two more verses in 1 Corinthians in addition to this.&nbsp;<br>\nFor the <strong>word of&nbsp; the cross</strong> is foolishness to those who are perishing,&nbsp;but to us who are being saved <strong>it is the power of God</strong>.&nbsp;(1 Corinthians 1:18)&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; … but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks,&nbsp;<strong>Christ the power of God</strong> and the wisdom of&nbsp; God.&nbsp;(1 Corinthians 1:24)&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; The gospel is the news concerning the Son of God (Rom. 1:2).&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; Therefore, the phrase&nbsp; &nbsp;‘Christ the power of God’ is also saying that&nbsp;the&nbsp;gospel is the&nbsp;power of God.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; Furthermore, the Greek word translated to ‘power’ in these verses is&nbsp;‘dynamis’&nbsp;(δύναμις), from which the word ‘dynamite’ was derived.&nbsp;There is a dynamite-like&nbsp;power in the gospel. This power is not physical&nbsp;but moral. James Dunn wrote the&nbsp;following concerning the phrase,&nbsp;“for it is the power of God”&nbsp;&nbsp; (dynamis gar Theou estin / δύναμις γὰρ Θεοῦ ἐστιν).&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; … “for it is the power of God,” is a regular concept in Paul. By it he clearly&nbsp;has in&nbsp;&nbsp; mind <strong>a force that operates with marked effect on people,&nbsp;transforming them</strong>—as&nbsp;evident particularly in conversion and&nbsp;resurrection—and providing <strong>a source of energy&nbsp; to sustain that qualitatively different life.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\n &nbsp;Over ten years ago, I discovered the following while reading a book&nbsp;by Gary&nbsp;Whetstone titled Victory in Spiritual Warfare.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp; Faye and I ministered in Indonesia for six weeks. We traveled with a nationalevangelist who interpreted for us. But the most profound benefit of our&nbsp;evangelistic&nbsp;effort wasn’t so much what happened to the crowds as what&nbsp;happened to the&nbsp;preacher. It transformed my ministry.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; While we were in that country, the Spirit of the Lord asked me,&nbsp;<strong>“What is&nbsp;your gospel?”</strong>&nbsp; I answered, “My gospel proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God&nbsp;who died for the&nbsp;world.” Even though my response was not wrong,&nbsp;I sensed that God wanted to&nbsp;communicate to me something beyond&nbsp;what I was currently perceiving.&nbsp;<br>\n &nbsp;<strong>“The good news doesn’t just tell about something,”&nbsp;the Spirit of the Lord said to me.&nbsp;&nbsp; “The good news is something. The good news is the power of God.”&nbsp;</strong><br>\n&nbsp; Even though I had gone through Bible school and had been to many churches,&nbsp; I had never thought of it that way before. I knew Romans 1:16: “I am not&nbsp;ashamed of&nbsp;the gospel, because it is the power of God.” I had read that&nbsp;passage at least a undred&nbsp;times. But when the Holy Spirit spoke to me&nbsp;I received a different understanding.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp; The Lord repeated, <strong>“I’ve given you good news, and that good news is the power of&nbsp;God.”</strong><br>\n&nbsp; I was deeply impressed as I read this part, and I could feel that there was an&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; incredible&nbsp; &nbsp;truth hidden in that passage. I even almost arrived at the ultimate&nbsp;&nbsp; realization that the gospel is God’s power back then. It is hard for me to remember&nbsp;exactly, as it was many years ago, but I believe I had preached a&nbsp;sermon in three parts&nbsp;with the title, <strong>“The gospel is the power of God”.</strong><br>\n<br>\n</p>\n<h4><strong>1. The gospel and the power of God&nbsp;</strong></h4>\n<p>The gospel is the power of God.&nbsp;For I am not ashamed of&nbsp; the gospel, for it is the power of&nbsp; God forsalvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.(Romans 1:16)&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n</p>\n<h4>2. Salvation and the power of God&nbsp;</h4>\n<p>The gospel is the power of God that saves us from the rule of sin.&nbsp;<br>\nFor I am not ashamed of&nbsp; the gospel, for <strong>it is the power of God for salvation</strong>to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.&nbsp;(Romans 1:16)&nbsp; <br>\n</p>\n<h4>3. Faith and the power of God&nbsp;</h4>\n<p>The gospel is the power of God that saves those who believe&nbsp;from the rule of sin.&nbsp;<br>\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for <strong>it is the power of God for salvation&nbsp;to everyone who believes</strong>, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.&nbsp;(Romans 1:16)&nbsp;<br>\nI preached that we must therefore believe in this power. With that as my base,&nbsp;I then quoted from 1 Corinthians 2:4-5.&nbsp;<br>\nAnd my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of&nbsp; wisdom,&nbsp;but in demonstration of&nbsp; the Spirit and of&nbsp; power, <strong>so that your faith&nbsp;would not&nbsp;rest on the wisdom of&nbsp; men, but on the power of God.&nbsp;</strong><br>\nI could sense deeply in my spirit that this was a very special and important piece of truth, and I remember I would often preach this sermon whenever&nbsp;I was invited to speak at a different church. But as I had only scratched the&nbsp;surface and did not know of the deeper things, and as I was unable to see any&nbsp;other preacher proclaiming that the&nbsp;gospel is the power of God, this realization&nbsp;of mine was eventually covered under the sands of time.&nbsp;<br>\nUntil now, I had been going on frequent hikes in the mountains for my health,&nbsp;but recently they came to a stop. I used that time to read the books of capable&nbsp;scholars, and in those works I rediscovered this truth. Thankfully, this time&nbsp;around, I was able to fully understand why Paul described the gospel as the&nbsp;power of God. And I trembled in excitement as I realized just how desperately&nbsp;necessary and important this truth was for the people. My heart was pounding!<br>\nThrough this book, I will be sharing with you this truth that is comparable to&nbsp;a diamond, and I hope that you will look forward to this.&nbsp;The Scripture mentions very clearly in three different places that the gospel&nbsp;is the power of God (Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor. 1:18, 24). Most theologians and&nbsp;ministers, however, have overlooked this, which resulted in this truth being&nbsp;veiled. This is why I touched on the ‘mysteries’ in the preface. Despite being&nbsp;so clearly&nbsp;presented in the Scripture, this truth has been ignored for so long&nbsp;and by so&nbsp;many. I believe that one of those reasons is that the devil has&nbsp;persistently been&nbsp;hiding this truth, knowing how precious and crucial it is.&nbsp;Yet, this truth is&nbsp;nothing strange and nothing new. It is an extremely traditional&nbsp;and sound piece&nbsp;of truth, but I want to provide some evidence for this claim&nbsp;so that you will not&nbsp;have any misunderstandings.&nbsp;<br>\nFirst, here are some words by Robert M’Cheyne from his classic,&nbsp;A Basket of Fragments.&nbsp;<br>\nTo unregenerate men the gospel appears the most foolish thing in the world.&nbsp;The scheme of salvation, by the obedience of another, is to them foolishness.&nbsp;And then men think there is nothing in it—there is no power in it. But to us&nbsp;who are saved, it is the power of God, and the wisdom of God; to those who&nbsp;have seen the power of it on others—to them that believe its power, it is&nbsp;the power of God unto salvation.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nMy brethren, <strong>there is a divine power sleeping in the gospel, if I may&nbsp;be allowed so to speak, which is able to break the hardest heart.&nbsp;That gospel that you despise—</strong>the dogma that you hate, <strong>is all powerful.&nbsp;Brethren, it is more powerful than the thunder or lightning, for it&nbsp;converts the soul. Paul once felt its power; once he hated the gospel,&nbsp;and made havoc of the Church, entering into every house, and hailing&nbsp;men and women, committing them to prison. Brethren, what could turn&nbsp;such a heart? You might as well think of turning back a river, as&nbsp;changing such a heart; but God revealed his Son to him, and from that&nbsp;day the river was turned back, and he became a new creature in Christ&nbsp;Jesus. And, brethren, Paul had seen its power on others; he had seen&nbsp;its power on the hearts of multitudes, and, therefore, Paul was not&nbsp;ashamed of the gospel.&nbsp;</strong><br>\nBrethren, it is the power of God unto salvation, not to destruction. <strong>Paul had&nbsp;seen so much of the power of the gospel …; it was this that nerved the&nbsp;arm of Paul when he went to Rome to preach the gospel—he felt he&nbsp;had that which was the power of God unto salvation to everyone&nbsp;that believeth.</strong><br>\nMartyn Lloyd-Jones, who had greatly influenced many preachers,&nbsp;briefly wrote the following in his book, Revival.&nbsp;<br>\nWhat is the gospel? Well, you remember the answer of the Apostle Paul,&nbsp;‘It is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth’ (Rom. 1:16).&nbsp;How easy it is to forget that. <strong>How easy to preach it as a system,&nbsp;to preach it&nbsp;as a collection of ideas, or just to preach it as a truth.</strong>… There are people, says&nbsp;the Apostle Paul, who ‘have a form of godliness,&nbsp;but deny the power thereof ’&nbsp;(2 Tim. 3:5).&nbsp;Christianity is primarily a life. <strong>It is a power.&nbsp;It is a manifestation&nbsp;of energy.</strong><br>\n<br>\nAs Lloyd-Jones was commentating on Romans 1, he preached on verses 16-17,&nbsp;the very same verses that we are examining in this chapter. It was under the&nbsp;title of <strong>“The Power of God that Saves”</strong>, and in it he explained in detail&nbsp;how the&nbsp;gospel is the power of God.&nbsp;What the Apostle is saying here is that the gospel is God’s power unto salvation—so that we must interpret these verses&nbsp;in such a way as to make it clear that it is powerful action on the part of God,&nbsp;not on the part of man.&nbsp;What then does the Apostles mean by calling the&nbsp;gospel a ‘power’— the power of God? Negatively, we must say&nbsp;that the gospel is not about the power of God;&nbsp;<strong>Paul says that the gospel itself is the power of God.</strong><br>\n&nbsp;‘I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto&nbsp;salvation’. <strong>Not a mere description of it! Not simply saying&nbsp;something about it!&nbsp;The gospel itself is the power of God.&nbsp;That is the Apostle’s&nbsp;actual statement.&nbsp;</strong>So that another negative we&nbsp;would make is, that <strong>it is not God telling us what&nbsp;we have to do, because&nbsp;if that were so, then the power required would be in&nbsp;us and not in God</strong>.&nbsp;But I will go even further.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>The Apostle here is saying that&nbsp;the gospel is not even a statement&nbsp;of what God has done about our salvation.&nbsp;It might have been that. But if so, he would not say that it is&nbsp;the power of God&nbsp;unto salvation. He would say it is a message&nbsp;telling us about God’s power unto&nbsp;salvation—</strong>a very different thing! …&nbsp;What, then, is Paul saying? Positively, we put it like this. <strong>He is telling us&nbsp;how God</strong> has prepared, and made and produced, and <strong>is working out this&nbsp;salvation in us.</strong> Clearly, that is something different.&nbsp;<strong>The gospel is God’s way of saving us. It is God’s power producing&nbsp;salvation in us.</strong> In other words, it is God in us. …&nbsp;<br>\nAnother way in which Paul says the same thing is found in 2 Corinthians 5&nbsp;verse 5: <strong>‘Now he that hath wrought us</strong> for the selfsame thing is God’.&nbsp;That is the same teaching exactly. <strong>Then there is another&nbsp;very striking&nbsp;statement to the same effect in the Epistle to the Ephesians, 1:19-20.&nbsp;He prays that the Ephesians may know, among other things, ‘the&nbsp;exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according&nbsp;to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when&nbsp;he raised him from the dead’. That is another way of stating that&nbsp;the&nbsp;gospel is the power of God unto salvation.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<strong>Yet another way is seen in the 2nd chapter of Ephesians, verse 10,&nbsp;where we read, ‘We are his workmanship’. Exactly the same thing!&nbsp;It is the same teaching; it is the power of God working salvation.&nbsp; …&nbsp;What I need is not knowledge, but power. I may know what is right,&nbsp;but the question is, how can I do what is right? Knowledge of the law&nbsp;does not enable me to keep the law and to fulfill it. But, says Paul,&nbsp;I have got a gospel which is not like that. This gospel works.&nbsp;It succeeds.</strong><br>\nPastor Omar Cabrera, one of the most respected ministers in Argentina,&nbsp;gave the following simple explanation of the gospel that he preaches and&nbsp;the methods he uses to spread it.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>I taught that Christ was powerful enough to make everything&nbsp;new in&nbsp;the lives of those who trusted in Him for salvation&nbsp;and who surrendered to&nbsp;His lordship. Convinced that the gospel&nbsp;“is the power of God for the salvation&nbsp;of everyone who believes”&nbsp;(Rom. 1:16, NIV), I preached the message&nbsp;“not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstrationof the&nbsp;Spirit’s&nbsp;power” (1 Cor. 2:4, NIV).</strong><br>\nFrancis MacNutt, the world-renowned healing minister from Harvard,&nbsp;also wrote the following in his book Healing, a book regarded as text-&nbsp;book material for a ministry in healing.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>If the good news is that Christ came to save all people,&nbsp;then the power to save has to be there. …&nbsp;</strong><br>\nI shall want to know not what these self-important people have to say,&nbsp;but what they can do, since the kingdom of God is not just words,&nbsp;it is power (1 Cor. 4:19b-20).&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>Christianity is more than doctrine; it is power. It is power to transform&nbsp;our&nbsp;lives, to destroy the evil that prevents us from loving God and our&nbsp;neighbor. …&nbsp;What we have done all too frequently has been to take the&nbsp;good news and turn it into good advice. The good news is that Christ&nbsp;has come to help us enter into the very life of his Father and to&nbsp;transform us by his power into new persons who can love and rejoice&nbsp;and help the poor in a way far beyond our own capabilities. In contrast,&nbsp;good advice is to hold up a Christian ideal of life and service,&nbsp;and then&nbsp;to say: “Here’s the ideal; now use your willpower to&nbsp;achieve it.”&nbsp;</strong><br>\nThe renowned evangelist, Luis Palau, was also known to have written&nbsp;the following.&nbsp;<br>\nBut [Paul] also rejoined in God’s complete forgiveness and actively pursued&nbsp;holiness. Paul could say, “Not that I have … already been made perfect, but&nbsp;I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me”&nbsp;(Philippians 3:12). […] <strong>Such a statement is your privilege as a Christian.&nbsp;It’s the great offer of the gospel.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<strong>But good advice isn’t good enough. God’s Good News is the radical&nbsp;power of the Lord Jesus Christ. He doesn’t offer us advice; He offers&nbsp;us power to live holy and transparently in a corrupt and deceitful age.</strong><br>\nI want to share with you just one more example. Han-soo Lee, a professor of&nbsp;New Testament at the seminary of Chongshin University, had written a 1,500-page commentary on Romans, which was chosen in 2009 for an excellence&nbsp;award in the New Testament department of the Korea Christian Publication&nbsp;Association. Lee wrote the following in the inspiringly titled book,&nbsp;<strong>The Gospel Is the Power of God for Salvation.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<strong>The gospel is the power of God</strong>. … The reason the gospel holds&nbsp;such power is that it spreads the message of Jesus Christ, the Son of God&nbsp;‘empowered’ through resurrection. He sits at the right hand of God,&nbsp;exerting His universal sovereignty. <strong>When the gospel is proclaimed,&nbsp;God works through Christ, His Son.</strong> Through the gospel, Jesus Christ&nbsp;expresses His universal sovereignty and authority delegated from God&nbsp;by the resurrection. In this sense, the power of God holds the basics of&nbsp;Christology, and it also holds a direct correlation with the gospel.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>The gospel is not a mere play on words to Paul; it is power that&nbsp;holds the very power of the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 4:20). It isn’t&nbsp;mere good advice given to people; it is the power to change them&nbsp;into the people of God. As the kingdom of God exists by this power&nbsp;of the gospel that is proclaimed, they are able to experience this&nbsp;power that transforms their sinful existence.&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<br>\nI have thus far given you examples from the books that give evidence on the&nbsp;gospel being the power of God. I fall into the category of one who reads much,&nbsp;yet this is all I could find. It shows how rarely this topic is spoken about.&nbsp;Some may ask, “Doesn’t the Scripture refer to the gospel being the power of&nbsp;God only in this passage in Romans and twice more in 1 Corinthians? It is only&nbsp;seen a total of three times, so shouldn’t it be obvious that such a theme would&nbsp;only be mentioned briefly during sermons that deal with those sections?”&nbsp;However, this is not so, for there are much more than these three verses that&nbsp;prove that the gospel is the power of God. As you continue to read until the end&nbsp;of this book, I am sure you will come to understand everything. Thus, I will&nbsp;omit the explanations and leave you with just the verses for now.&nbsp;<br>\nAnd my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of&nbsp; wisdom, but in demonstration of&nbsp; the Spirit and of&nbsp; power, <strong>so that your faith would&nbsp;not rest on the wisdom of&nbsp; men, but on the power of&nbsp; God</strong>.&nbsp;(1 Corinthians 2:4-5)&nbsp;<br>\nBut I will come to you soon if&nbsp; the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words&nbsp;of&nbsp; those who are arrogant but their <strong>power. For the kingdom of&nbsp; God does&nbsp;not&nbsp;consist in words but in power.</strong> (1 Corinthians 4:19-20)&nbsp;<br>\nBut we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so <strong>that the surpassing greatness of&nbsp; the power will be of&nbsp; God</strong> and not from ourselves.&nbsp;(2 Corinthians 4:7)&nbsp;<br>\n… since you are seeking for proof&nbsp; of&nbsp; the Christ who speaks in me, and <strong>whois&nbsp;not weak toward you, but mighty in you.</strong> For indeed He was crucified&nbsp;because of&nbsp; weakness, yet He lives because of&nbsp; the power of&nbsp; God. For we&nbsp;also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nof&nbsp; the power of&nbsp; God directed toward you. Test yourselves to see if you are&nbsp;in the faith; examine yourselves! Or <strong>do you not recognize this about&nbsp;yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you</strong>—unless indeed you fail the test?&nbsp;(2 Corinthians 13:3-5)&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>He therefore that gives unto you the Spirit and does works of&nbsp; power&nbsp;among you,</strong> does he do it by the works of&nbsp; the law or by the obedient ear&nbsp;of&nbsp; faith? (Galatians 3:5, JUB)&nbsp;<br>\nI pray that the eyes of&nbsp; your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know&nbsp;what is the hope of&nbsp; His calling, what are the riches of&nbsp; the glory of&nbsp; His&nbsp;inheritance in the saints, and what is <strong>the surpassing greatness of His power&nbsp;toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of&nbsp;the strength of&nbsp; His might.</strong> (Ephesians 1:18-19)&nbsp;<br>\n… that He would grant you, according to the riches of&nbsp; His glory, <strong>to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.&nbsp;</strong>(Ephe- sians 3:16)&nbsp;<br>\nFinally, my brethren, <strong>be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.&nbsp;</strong>(Ephesians 6:10, KJV)&nbsp;<br>\nI have the strength to face all conditions <strong>by the power that Christ gives me.&nbsp;</strong>(Philippians 4:13, GNT)&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and&nbsp;in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction;</strong> just as you know what kind of&nbsp; men we proved to be among you for your sake. (1 Thessalonians 1:5)&nbsp;<br>\nTo this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you&nbsp;worthy of&nbsp;&nbsp;your calling, and <strong>fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of&nbsp; faith&nbsp;with&nbsp;power.</strong> (2 Thessalonians 1:11)&nbsp;<br>\nFor God has not given us a spirit of&nbsp; timidity, but of&nbsp; power and love and&nbsp;discipline. Therefore do not be ashamed of&nbsp; the testimony of&nbsp; our Lord or of&nbsp;&nbsp;me His prisoner, but <strong>join with me in suffering for the gospel according&nbsp;to the power of&nbsp; God.</strong> (2 Timothy 1:7-8)&nbsp;<br>\n… holding to a form of&nbsp; godliness, although they have denied <strong>its power</strong>;&nbsp;Avoid such men as these. (2 Timothy 3:5)&nbsp;<br>\n… who are protected by the power of&nbsp; God through faith for a salva- tion ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Peter 1:5)&nbsp;<br>\n… seeing that <strong>His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining&nbsp;to life and godliness</strong>, through the true knowledge of&nbsp; Him who called us by&nbsp;His own glory and excellence. (2 Peter 1:3)&nbsp;<br>\nThese are quite a few, are they not? However, the verses showing that the&nbsp;gospel is the power of God are not limited to these alone. These are only the&nbsp;verses that have directly used the word ‘power’ in their descriptions. There&nbsp;are far too many to list them all if we include the verses that describe how the&nbsp;gospel is the power of God without using that specific word.&nbsp;(Indirect references include the topics of regeneration, new creation, keeping&nbsp;the Word, godliness, holiness, grace, the Holy Spirit, etc.) The fact that the&nbsp;gospel is the power of God is not such a minor and peripheral truth that can&nbsp;be covered by one or two mentions. It is the most representative thesis of the&nbsp;gospel, the truth that shows its core. We must therefore focus on this truth.&nbsp;On the other hand, there is another matter we must solve before moving on.&nbsp;Paul says in Romans 1:15, “So, for my part, I am eager to&nbsp;preach the gospel&nbsp;to you also who are in Rome.” Why was he so eager to preach the gospel to&nbsp;them?&nbsp;<br>\nFor I am not ashamed of&nbsp; the <strong>gospel</strong>, for <strong>it is the power of&nbsp; God for&nbsp;salvation to everyone who believes</strong>, to the Jew first and also to the&nbsp;Greek. (Romans 1:16)&nbsp;<br>\nThe original Greek text starts this verse with the word ‘for’ (γὰρ) in&nbsp;its sequential conjunctive use to introduce the reason for the previous&nbsp;clause. Hence, the reason for Paul wanting to proclaim the gospel to&nbsp;the&nbsp;&nbsp;Romans was that it is the power of God for salvation.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>For in [the gospel] the righteousness of&nbsp; God is revealed from&nbsp;faith to&nbsp;faith</strong>; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”&nbsp;(Romans 1:17)&nbsp;<br>\nOnce again, this verse starts with the word ‘for’ (γὰρ). Why is the&nbsp;gospel&nbsp;the power of God? The reason is shown in the verse.&nbsp;The gospel is the power&nbsp;of God for salvation to everyone who believes,&nbsp;because in the gospel, God’s&nbsp;righteousness is revealed.&nbsp;<br>\nBut this is the problem. For a long time, the Church has interpreted the&nbsp;‘righteousness of God’ to be referring to the forensic righteousness that is given&nbsp;(imputed) when one believes in Jesus. It has hence been easy to misinterpret&nbsp;this and think that the gospel is the power of God for salvation simply because&nbsp;we are deemed righteous, or in other words, because we receive salvation by&nbsp;believing in Jesus. Such an in- terpretation would render useless all of the&nbsp;explanations until now.&nbsp;How should we go about solving this? We can try understanding it like so.&nbsp;There is, of course, a forensic meaning in part to the term ‘righteousness of&nbsp;God’. However, most scholars consider the faithfulness of God as being the&nbsp;main interpretation of this term. I will&nbsp;explain it in more detail later, but&nbsp;without a doubt, the righteousness of God signifies God’s faithfulness.&nbsp;If we assume such an interpretation, then the statement of ‘God’s&nbsp;righteousness being revealed in the gospel’ creates perfect harmony and&nbsp;no conflict with the notion that the gospel is the power of God that saves&nbsp;us from the reign of sin. Dr. Han-soo Lee wrote the following about this&nbsp;controversial verse.&nbsp;<br>\nWe can examine a few facts in this place. Firstly, the term ‘revealed’&nbsp;has with it an apocalyptic nuance, but it is different from the dualistic&nbsp;ideals of apocalyptic literature in the fact that it shows the actions of&nbsp;God that are happening right now, saving sinners in this present generation.&nbsp;Secondly, <strong>God’s righteousness must be understood in relation to&nbsp;His covenantal faithfulness that saves His people.</strong> God had made a&nbsp;covenant with His people, and He promised to save and preserve&nbsp;them from their enemies. The expression that God’s righteousness&nbsp;is revealed ‘from faith to faith’ must be understood precisely&nbsp;within this covenantal relation. God’s righteousness arrives at a&nbsp;crucial moment in the history of salvation, and starting from the&nbsp;faithfulness of God, it aims toward the faith of man. <strong>Thirdly, if our&nbsp;observations are correct, in understanding the righteousness&nbsp;of&nbsp;God,&nbsp;one must not be so keen to differentiate between the&nbsp;Giver&nbsp;(the active element of God who gives salvation) and the Gift&nbsp;(the receptive element of salvation). The gospel is the power for&nbsp;salvation&nbsp;to all who believe because the righteousness of God is&nbsp;revealed in it. Therefore, when God deems sinners to be righteous in&nbsp;the gospel (active element), the sinners experience the grace of&nbsp;salvation by that declaration of righteousness and become created&nbsp;as new creations (receptive element). Though the notion of&nbsp;ighteousness may carry a forensic background, the declaration of&nbsp;justification is not&nbsp;a forensic declaration merely treating sinners as&nbsp;if they were righteous.&nbsp;It is what transforms them into new creations&nbsp;(compare 2 Cor. 5 verses 17 and 21). The gospel is therefore&nbsp;the&nbsp;message containing the powerof God for salvation.</strong><br>\n<br>\nMore simply put, God’s faithfulness is shown through the sending of the Messiah andthe redemption on the cross. It will be explained in more detail later, but the cross leads&nbsp;us not only to be justified but also to receive as a gift the Holy Spirit (Gal. 3:13-14).And the Holy Spirit leads us to rebirth and frees us from the reign of sin. These arethe two concepts that are compressed into the notion of God’s righteousness beingrevealed in the gospel. It is therefore now obvious that, as the righteousness of God is&nbsp;revealed in the gospel, the gospel would be expressed as the power of God forsalvation from the reign of sin.&nbsp;The gospel is not advice. It is not a command. The gospel is the power of God. It is a&nbsp;divine and powerful aid. The gospel is not a mere intellectual theory, nor is it a doctrine&nbsp;or creed in which we must believe. It is power that we must experience. Salvation is the&nbsp;experiencing of that power. This is why Paul described the gospel as the power of God&nbsp;that saves us (Rom. 1:16).<br>\nFor the word of&nbsp; the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to uswho are being saved it is the power of&nbsp; God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)<br>\nPaul described the word of the cross as “the power of God” “to us who are being saved”. This means that for those that receive salvation, the word of the cross is nota theory but the experience of power. Those who believe truly experience the wordof the cross as the power that it is. Considering the word of the cross to be knowledge,&nbsp;a notion, or a creed to believe in is not true faith. A person who has not experiencedthe word of the cross as power is one that has not been saved. Pastor Ki-sung Yoowrote the following in his book, One Who Is Dead to theSelf and Lives in Jesus.<br>\nThe people of this world that have not received salvation look at the cross&nbsp;without knowing its meaning. In their eyes, the cross is merely foolish and absurd.&nbsp;Yet, to us who have been saved, the cross is the power of God.&nbsp;“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us&nbsp;who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Cor. 1:18).&nbsp;<strong>Do you, then, know what kind of power this word of the cross is?&nbsp;Have you ever experienced in detail the power of the cross? …&nbsp;Those who believe in Jesus, yet do not believe properly, cannot&nbsp;understand why the word of the cross is power. …&nbsp;</strong>We know the power of money. Even a three-year-old child knows the power&nbsp;of money. There clearly is power in money, even to the extent of there being&nbsp;the phrase ‘no penny, no pardon’. <strong>As a Christian, there is a serious&nbsp;problem&nbsp;if we know of the power of money yet not of the cross. …&nbsp;</strong><br>\nIf we want to break free from that lifestyle of being … powerless and latched&nbsp;onto spiritual doubt, we must re-examine the fundamentals of our faith. Above all,&nbsp;we must first know what power the word of the cross entails.&nbsp;<br>\nPastor Yoo then wrote these next words toward the end of that book.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>The power of the cross is not something that follows us around&nbsp;and washes us every time we sin. It is the power for us, who were&nbsp;enslaved by sin, to fight and win against it.</strong><br>\nDo you truly believe this? I am not asking if you agree with the fact that the gospel is the&nbsp;power of God. I am asking if you have actually experienced this power of the gospel.&nbsp;I am asking if you have been freed from sin by this power.&nbsp;I recently read a book by Dr. Yon-gyong Kwon titled, Do You Un- derstand What You Are&nbsp;Reading? There were these words from that book that deeply resonated with me.&nbsp;<br>\n<strong>Unlike preachers and ministers who are required to put in the effort&nbsp;of making&nbsp;words more eloquent, the members of the church who wrestle&nbsp;with reality are&nbsp;concerned with not the eloquence of words but the realism&nbsp;of it. They care for the&nbsp;realistic strength of those words. Hence, when&nbsp;istening to a sermon, they try to&nbsp;identify in whatever way they can just&nbsp;how those proclamations can have a detailedeffect and application in&nbsp;their lives. Why do you think testimonies are some of the&nbsp;best-selling books?&nbsp;Are we preachers then to criticize the “low-grade” preferences&nbsp;of these believers? Theologians may obsess over a more accurate and more&nbsp;orthodox theology, but for the common believer, spiritual lethargy comes&nbsp;as a&nbsp;more lethal enemy. They need not words to decorate them but&nbsp;words to sustain them.&nbsp;</strong><br>\nNeedless to say, the easiest way to identify the actual power of the proclaimed&nbsp;gospel is to examine the one who proclaims and understands it first, the preacher.&nbsp;It is to observe how the life of the one who knows and proclaims the gospel is&nbsp;influenced by that very gospel. <strong>Such observation is likely an expression&nbsp;of the desperation of the believers who know the force of the sinful reality&nbsp;and are all too familiar with words such as despair, limitations,&nbsp;and helplessness. It comes from their desperate desire to see if it really&nbsp;is possible to overcome the reality of despair with the power of the gospel.</strong>If not even the preacher who understands the gospel the best can be moved by the&nbsp;gospel he himself preaches, what can the other members of the church who have to&nbsp;bear the greater weight&nbsp;of reality expect? <strong>For what we are waiting for are not&nbsp;the&nbsp;words but the reality those words depict. We long for not the&nbsp;language of the gospel&nbsp;but its power. …&nbsp;</strong><br>\n<strong>What is really important are not the words but the life, the power to&nbsp;overcome&nbsp;not the poverty of thought but the tyranny of sin that is ruling&nbsp;over us in specific&nbsp;situations. The key to open the kingdom of God ‘does&nbsp;not consist in words but in&nbsp;power’ (1 Cor. 4:20). Are not Paul’s words&nbsp;still true today?&nbsp;</strong><br>\nThese words are very true, and it is why I have written this book. This book is written to&nbsp;present a solution to the ministers and believers who have felt despair, limitations, and&nbsp;helplessness. Under the thesis of the gospel being the power of God, I will present and&nbsp;interpret for you the doctrine of justification as we penetrate through it in the Book of&nbsp;Romans. You will realize through this book what the power of the gospel truly is, and you&nbsp;will be freed from sin through that power. So I hope you can maintain your expectations as&nbsp;you read until the end of this book.&nbsp;<br>\nLastly, I want to give an honest confession. As I have emphasized so often,&nbsp;<strong>faith is receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior (John 1:11-12). This is the&nbsp;biblical and clear truth. However, it is only a part of it. Faith would feel&nbsp;like the law to us if this is all we know.</strong><br>\nI had tried fishing for a couple of days this past year. There were&nbsp;times when fish would&nbsp;bite even when I hooked on a half or a third of a worm, as opposed to the standard whole.&nbsp;The same is true of the gospel. The gospel I have preached until now is comparable to the&nbsp;use of only half a worm as bait. Yet, countless people hear this half of a gospel, are changed,&nbsp;and even receive salvation. What’s worse is that&nbsp;the Salvation-Sect-like gospel that has&nbsp;spread throughout the majority of churches is comparable to using a third of a worm as bait. <strong>It is bait that actually needs to be replaced.</strong> Yet, there are still fish that are lured and&nbsp;caught&nbsp;by such bait. There are still souls out there that are changed and saved after&nbsp;hearing this&nbsp;incomplete gospel.&nbsp;<br>\nThen can we rest assured since souls are being saved in one way or another?&nbsp;Definitely not, since the percentage of those who receive salvation after hearing those&nbsp;sermons would be different. 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