God’s Word Interprets God’s Word

Mark 16:15-16

And He said to them, Going into all the world, preach the gospel to all the creation.

The one believing and being baptized will be saved. And the one not believing will be condemned.

Matthew 1:21,23

And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.

Behold! The virgin will conceive in her womb and will bear a son, and they will call His name Emmanuel” (which translated is, God with us). Isa. 7:14

Comment

One must believe the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ to show they have passed from death to life. What is this Gospel that must be believed by His promised people in order to demonstrate God has saved them from the punishment of their sins conditioned on the work and person of Jesus Christ alone?

God promises to save His people from the punishment of their sins conditioned solely on Jesus Christ’s atoning shed blood and His imputed righteousness alone without any effort or work from His people being saved. This is the Gospel that one must believe. Matthew 1:21, Matthew 16:16-18, Acts 20:28 Romans 3:9-27, Romans 1:16-17, Romans 4:3-8 John 5:24, John 6:37-44,65, Revelation 5:9,7:9,20:15 Isaiah 64:6 Ephesians 2:8-10, John 6:29, John 10

God is the one that shines into the heart the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Corinthians 4:6

That glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ is the illumination of the knowledge and belief of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

God sends messengers to preach the Gospel to those people He promised to save. He will regenerate His people with a new heart and new spirit unto the knowledge and belief of the truth.

They will know they don’t have a righteousness sufficient to please God; satisfying His justice, holiness and righteousness in order to dwell with Him without God’s substitution and mercy given through Jesus Christ’s work and person John 3:3,5,8 Ezekiel 36:26 Luke 18:13 Roman’s 9:15,16,18 Acts 9:15 Romans 10:14-15, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, Ephesians 1:1-23

Did Mother Teresa believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Did God shine into her heart the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of Christ that salvation is conditioned on Jesus Christ’s atoning shed blood and His imputed righteousness alone and that without faith in that Gospel, it is impossible to please God and that no one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ. Hebrews 11:6

Here is a quote by Mother Teresa. You be the judge if she had the illumination of the knowledge of the truth shined into her heart unto belief of the Gospel. Please keep in mind the following verses

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Matthew 11:27

All things were yielded up to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him .

“Yes, I convert,” Mother Teresa is recorded saying. “I convert you to be a better Hindu, or a better Muslim, or a better Protestant, or a better Catholic, or a better Parsee, or a better Sikh, or a better Buddhist. And after you have found God, it is for you to do what God wants you to do.” Mother’s religious message went to the heart of the people of India, inviting them closer to God. All people who acknowledge the Creator are part of the plan of salvation, according to Vatican II (Lumen Gentium 16).

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All men are without excuse because they suppress the truth in unrighteousness of what God has revealed of His eternal power and divinity in creation. Even those who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ are without excuse. Romans 1:18-32

Also, others are seeking to establish their own righteousness and are not submitting to the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ; believing the Gospel.

Romans 10:1-4

Brothers, truly my heart’s pleasure and supplication to God on behalf of Israel is for it to be saved.

For I testify to them that they have zeal to God, but not according to knowledge.

For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to everyone that believes.

God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient making Him totally capable of sending a messenger of the Gospel to those to whom He chooses. Daniel 4:35 Isaiah 46:10, Acts 9:15, Galatians 1:15-16

Yet, He judges the hidden things of men according to His Gospel through Jesus Christ. Romans 2:16

So, whether or not you hear the Gospel or not, you are still without excuse because what God has revealed to you as stated in Romans 1 was suppressed in unrighteousness leaving you without excuse.

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and believes the One who has sent Me, has everlasting life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

John 6:44

No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

John 6:47

Truly, truly, I say to you, the one believing into Me has everlasting life.

John 6:65

And He said, Because of this, I have told you that no one is able to come to Me except it is given to him from My Father.

John 10:26

But you do not believe for you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.

Highlights and italics are added emphasis

Bible verses taken from 1993 Literal translation by Jay P. Green