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Experiencing The Gospel of Peace
The Apostle Paul Defines the Gospel as “The Gospel of the Grace of God,” (Acts 20:24) and “The Gospel of Peace” (Romans 10:15).
The average Christian’s understanding of salvation is not wrong, but it is limited and incomplete. When Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of God, He spoke in terms of heaven, but he also said, “The Kingdom of God is within you.”
What we most often hear preached is the heavenly, eternal aspect of salvation, but not earthly, here and now reality.
If most preachers today lived before the time of Jesus, what they say would be correct. But because they live after the cross, much of what they preach is at least incomplete because they don’t preach the truth of the reformation that occurred on the cross of Christ (Hebrews 9:10, and 10:9).
The cross of Jesus Christ ushered in an entirely new dimension to the Christian life. In Ephesians 3:2 Paul calls it a new dispensation. The cross of Calvary ushered in a lot more than just a new calendar. There was a total ‘changing of the guard’ at the time of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
We changed from the Old to the New Covenant. We changed from a system of self-righteousness under the law to a time of grace, peace and joy in God’s imparted…
