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Jude 3

The Gospel preached by Jesus 5 th of May 2008 University of Southampton Presented by Sir Anthony Buzzard anthonybuzzard@mindspring.com. Jude 3.

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Jude 3

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  1. The Gospel preached by Jesus5th of May 2008University of SouthamptonPresented bySir Anthony Buzzardanthonybuzzard@mindspring.com

  2. Jude 3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

  3. 1 Timothy 6:3 If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness...

  4. Hebrews 2:3 How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard...

  5. Mark 8:35, 38 • “Whoever is willing to lose his life for my sake and the Gospel…whoever is ashamed of me and my words.” • Thus the word is the Gospel and is equal to the testimony (Mark 4:14, Luke 8:12 = Matthew 13:19) • The word is not just a synonym for the Bible!

  6. 1 John 5:20 Jesus came to give us an understanding so that we can know God.

  7. Mark 1:14, 15 Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

  8. John 17:8 For the words which You gave me I have given to them; and they received themand truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent me.

  9. Luke 4:43, 5:1 But He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose”…Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;

  10. Acts 8:4, 5, 12 Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and beganproclaiming Christ to them. Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.

  11. Luke 8:11-13 "Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. "Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved. "Those on the rocky soil arethose who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firmroot; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.

  12. Isa 2:2-4 (NLT) In the last days, the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem will become the most important place on earth. People from all over the world will go there to worship. Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Israel. There he will teach us his ways, so that we may obey him." For in those days the Lord's teaching and his word will go out from Jerusalem. The Lord will settle international disputes. All the nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. All wars will stop, and military training will come to an end.

  13. Micah 4:6-8 "In that day," declares the LORD, "I will assemble the lame And gather the outcasts, Even those whom I have afflicted. 7 "I will make the lame a remnant And the outcasts a strong nation, And the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on and forever. 8 "As for you, tower of the flock, Hill of the daughter of Zion, To you it will come-- Even the former dominion will come, The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

  14. Daniel 7:27 Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of allthe kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will bean everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.

  15. Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

  16. Revelation 5:9, 10 And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the book and to break its seals; for you were slain, and purchased for God with your blood menfrom every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to bea kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth."

  17. 2 Timothy 3:15, 16 From childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

  18. F.F. Bruce on the Kingdom Gospel Acts 20:24, 25: The grace of God revealed in Christ is the subject of the Good News. It is evident from a comparison of this verse with the next (v. 25) that the preaching of this Gospel of grace is identical with the proclamation of the Kingdom. The proclaiming of the Kingdom is the same as testifying to the good news of God;s grace, v. 24. (Commentary on the Greek Text of Acts, 1949, p 379, 380)

  19. Edwin Lutzer of Moody Bible Church “I believe the Gospel of the Kingdom is different from the Gospel of the grace of God. The Gospel of the Kingdom had to do with the preparation of the people of Israel for the coming millennium. If they had repented Christ could have established the Kingdom… The Gospel of the grace of God has nothing to do with the Kingdom per se but is a message of repentance which makes us members of God’s family.” (Edwin Lutzer, Moody Bible College, Oct. 30th, 1996)

  20. Clarence Larkin on Daniel The word ‘Gospel’ means good news. The Gospel of the Kingdom is the good news that God is going to set up a kingdom of the earth over which David’s son will reign (Luke 1:32-33). This gospel was preached by John the Baptist and his disciples: ‘Repent because the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Before the king’s death the gospel which had been preached only in Palestine, and not to the whole world, was withdrawn…

  21. Clarence Larkin, cont’d It is to be preached again after the church has been caught out. Between the two preachings of the Kingdom of God gospel, past and future, we have the preaching of the Gospel of the grace of God which is the proclamation of salvation through faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross. (Daniel p. 261, 1929)

  22. Dr. D. James KennedyThe Person of Jesus Christ Many people today think that the essence of Christianity is Jesus’ teachings, but that is not so. If you read the Apostle Paul’s letters, which make up most of the NT, you will see that there is almost nothing said about the teachings of Jesus. Throughout the rest of the NT there’s little reference to the teachings of Jesus, and in the Apostles’ creed, the most universally-held Christian creed, there is no reference to Jesus’ teachings. There is also no reference to the example of Jesus.

  23. Dave Hunt of Berean Call MinistriesBerean Call, Jan 2007 “God promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their seed everlasting possession of the physical land on this earth with prescribed boundaries (Gen. 11:31; 12: 1, 5, 6, 7; 13:15; 15:7, 18-21; 17:7, 8; 26:3-5; 28:13, 14; 35:9-12; I Chron. 16:15-18, etc.)…

  24. Dave Hunt, contd. For example, “I will give to you and to your seed after you… all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession and I will be their God” (Gen. 17: 7, 8). No such promise of possession of a particular land on this earth was ever given to the church! Israel possessed this land for centuries. How could the church, whose inheritance is in heaven, replace physical Israel on earth?.. The church never was promised a land, never occupied a land, never was cast out of that land for her sin, never was promised that she would be brought back into it. The church is not Israel.

  25. H.G. Wells on Kingdom of God “As remarkable, is the enormous prominence given by Jesus to the teaching of what he called the Kingdom of God, and its comparativeinsignificance in the procedure and teaching of most of the Christian churches. This doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, and which plays so small a part in the Christian creeds, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?” (H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, vol. 1, p. 426)

  26. Dead Sea Scrolls and Messiah • The DSS have thrown up three interesting fragments: one speaks of the time ‘when God will have begotten the Messiah among them,’ (I QSa. 2:11,ff.). • The second speaks of the hoped for Davidic Messiah who is described specifically in the language of divine sonship using II Sam. 7:11-14 and possibly associating it with Ps. 2:7 (4QFlor. 1:10)

  27. The third speaks of a mighty king: ‘he shall be hailed as the Son of God and they shall call him Son of the Most High’ (4QpsDan A. cp. Test Levi 4:2– ‘men unbelieving still will persist in their wrongdoing. The Most High has given heed to your prayer that you should become a son to him, as minister and priest in his presence. The light of knowledge you shall kindle in Jacob. Blessing shall be given to you and to all your posterity until through His Son’s compassion the Lord will visit all the nations forever [although your sons will lay hands on him to impale him]. Therefore counsel and understanding have been given to you so that you might give understanding to your sons concerning this. Because those who bless him will be blessed and those who curse him will be destroyed.’

  28. Is Orthodoxy Orthodox?Dr. Norman Snaith “Your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece” (Zech. 9:13) arose first as a rallying cry in days long ago when some Jews sought to reinterpret Judaism in order to make it more acceptable to Greek ways of thought and life. There have always been Jews who have sought to make terms with the Gentile world and it has in time meant the death of Judaism for all such… the question needs to be faced as to whether it is right. Our position is that the reinterpretation of Biblical theology in terms of the ideas of the Greek philosophers has been both widespread and everywhere destructive to the essence of Christian faith…

  29. Father Hebert (RC) rightly sees in the Catholic system a conception of salvation conceived in Aristotelian terms and ‘an idea of Beatitude…closely related to the Neo-Platonic idea of the Vision of the One and bearing little relationship to the Beatitudes of the Gospel.’ Equally rightly he sees a marked tendency in contemporary Protestantism ‘to lay emphasis on the development of personality and a human movement towards the realization of ethical ideals. The KG is regarded as something achieved by human effort’ If these judgments are sound, and we believe they are sound, then neither Catholic nor Protestant theology is based on biblical theology. In each case we have a domination of Christian theology by Greek thought…

  30. What, then, is to be done with the Bible? It is to be regarded as the norm, and its distinctive ideas as the determining factors of Christian theology? Or are we to continue to regard Plato and Aristotle with their pagan successors as contributing the norm, and the main ideas of Greek philosophy as the determining factors of Christian theology, with the Bible as illustrative and confirmatory when and where suitable?... We hold that there can be no right answer to the question what is Christianity until we have come to a clear idea of the distinctive ideas of both the OT and the NT and their difference from the pagan ideas which have so largely dominated ‘Christian’ thought…

  31. Is Orthodoxy Orthodox? Dr. Norman Snaith: We find in the OT no passages at all which speak of the immortality of the soul, which is not a biblical idea at all.

  32. Wendt on John 17:3 Jesus is not speaking in John 17:3 about eternal life, as to its essence, but about how eternal life is to be obtained. ‘Jesus is the resurrection’ means that Jesus is the answer to the question about how we get resurrected… his words are the means to achieving eternal life (6:63)… John 17:3 tells us that the knowledge of God and Messiah is the exclusive and perfect means of obtaining eternal life… Jesus was sent to impart life for ever… in 6:63 he was conscious that a divine spiritual power operated [energized] through his preaching – a power shared in by all who received his message in faith (Teaching of Jesus, 244-247) [Cp. I Thess. 2:13]

  33. Primitive Christianity by Bultmann (1956) The proclamation of Jesus must be considered within the framework of Judaism. Jesus was not a “Christian” but a Jew and his preaching is couched in the thought forms and imagery of Judaism” (p. 71).

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