A Complete Gospel

"Saved and unsaved fighting a war God has already settled. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for all men, all women."

IT’S A prosperity gospel. It’s all sufficiency, you give and you get, God pouring out His goodness upon you so that you cannot contain it. It’s richness, without lack. Without fear or anxiety or worry over one single need. It’s blessing after blessing after blessing.

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

It is NOT ego or arrogance or bragging. It is not “all for me and none for you,” as my mother used to tease. Selfishness and survival-of-the-fittest mentalities come from the devil, who would have us pitted against each other, in and out of Christ. Saved and unsaved fighting a war God has already settled. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for all men, all women, so that no one would have to die in their sins and spend eternity in hell.

“The old me who lived for self—who sought to get instead of give, the me who lived on the survival-of-the-fittest principle—died when I recognized the true significance of all that Christ has done. That old me no longer lives, but Christ—with his character of self-sacrificing love—now lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live by trust in the Son of God, who loved me and freely gave himself to win me back to trust and to purge humanity from selfishness and death.” (Galatians 2:20, Remedy)

It is a healing gospel. The blood of Christ, shed on the cross at Calvary, provides healing for any affliction: genetic, accidental, environmental. We are not meant to fear death. We can walk in faith and believe God will protect us from any snares we might fall into otherwise, will protect us from getting sick, being injured, not feeling well, and thus giving up on life. Our loving Father wants us to walk in health. Without any physical or mental trauma. Jesus gave up all of His memory of who He was to be born as an infant. He had to learn to walk and talk and think. He knew Nazareth and His family and the synagogue. It was only through the Spirit’s teaching that He became aware He was Christ. He was truly tempted or tested in every way we are.

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (3 John 1:2)

It is a supernatural gospel, telling the truth of a supernatural kingdom, the kingdom of God which came to earth and was poured out upon us. The kingdom of light defeated the kingdom of darkness. But here’s what we miss. The devil lives in a constant state of denial. He won’t accept it. He’s so lost in his lies and delusions, self-painted portraits of himself as victorious that he can’t see how small and worthless he’s become. I heard a minister, the other day, talk about troubles in his marriage, when he and his wife were first wed, and his words have stuck with me ever since. He said what the devil fears is the image marriage of a man to a woman represents, for there, in Ephesians 5, is Christ in love for the church. This minister was given a vision of their arguments and saw he and his wife both listening to the whispers of the devil. His argument with her was ungodly, and her words to him weren’t God speaking either.

How powerful this is because the Spirit provides the way to pull down all our incorrect thinking, and most usually, it is about someone else (2 Corinthians 10:4-5). We decide they are no good, can’t be saved, will never get their life together. These are not God’s thoughts. As Pastor Bill Johnson always says, “God always has a redemptive solution.” For everyone, in any situation they face. We must see things God’s way and embrace the fullness of the gospel that it is shalom, nothing missing, nothing broken, with all our needs supplied. For our heavenly Father knows what we have need of and has said not to worry about it. Far in advance of time, He set the plan of our rescue in motion and His Savior, our King, His Son accepted all that it asked of Him, regardless of the cost, and “pulled it off” successfully.

There was never any doubt that He would.

“He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.” (1 Peter 1:20, BSB)

“Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: ‘Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” (Hebrews 10:5-7)

Tree Image by Amore Seymour from Pixabay
Stars (Left) Image by Gun from Pixabay

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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