The Gospel According to Christ and His Apostles

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Scripture Summaries

Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

Additional Scriptures

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

An Original Work / January 29, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[timothyu]

The counter-culture

 

[Christsfreeservant]

The counter-culture

Please explain

 

[timothyu]

Please explain

What you described is contrary to the traditional ways of mankind. They are of the Kingdom, not the world (and that is good)

 

[Christsfreeservant]

What you described is contrary to the traditional ways of mankind. They are of the Kingdom, not the world (and that is good)

Thank you. Glory to God.

 

[Christsfreeservant]

Well said.
But seems that it is ignored by many CF members, who typically ignore the real good articles and stories.

We Live in a day and time when the biblical gospel is largely being ignored in favor of a cheapened version which purposely allows the "believer in Christ" to continue living in sin without guilt and without biblical repentance.

 

[timothyu]

We Live in a day and time when the biblical gospel is largely being ignored in favor of a cheapened version which purposely allows the "believer in Christ" to continue living in sin without guilt and without biblical repentance.

That kind of always has been the direction taken by the adversarial spirit. Consider that the institutional Christian religion itself turned away from the Kingdom and united back with the world of man 1700 years ago, to be part of the empire and later a worldly kingmaker and empire itself. There is a reason scripture says the blind lead the blind. Even the concept of apostolic succession is tainted as it was James, not Peter who headed the Jerusalem church (the first church) after Jesus. The Empire and Gentile movement had its own ideas, which leads me to believe sticking to the beginnings and the Kingdom as intended, is the proper path.

 

[joechristianwarrior]

The Gospel which almost every 'Christian' rejects these days is what Jesus actually taught.

 

[Christsfreeservant]

The Gospel which almost every 'Christian' rejects these days is what Jesus actually taught.

The gospel message which Jesus taught is largely rejected by most who profess faith in Jesus Christ, I would agree.

 

[timothyu]

The Gospel of the Kingdom alone.