Adjusting Our Focus back on Jesus

I have noticed more than usual the coming “in” of a different Gospel portraying a “different Jesus.  In fact, it has happened for years ever slowly slithering like a snake into the Church.   We have many different gospels out there but many without the power of the Cross.  I am more aware of it in my own life.  We must go back to the Gospel of Christ.  There is a dangerous “Prosperity” gospel going around that preaches that God is “good,” he is, but when ‘one’ goes through trials and temptations ‘one’ becomes incredibly surprised and even disappointed by this god who is “good.”  This way of thinking is very harmful since God is good and as a Father likes to discipline us to show his love for us.  He uses hardship to discipline us, and the Apostle Paul was not rich even though he preached the Gospel.  Christians might find themselves in adverse situation to prosperity and it makes me wonder; What would Jesus be like if he came to today’s world? 

“But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one, we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.” (2 Corinthians 11:4-5) 

 

The Gospel we must proclaim should be Christ through our lives and values in love and humility.   Please pray for me that I may be able to proclaim the Gospel of the Cross and not todays washed down Gospel of prosperity but the One Gospel of His Presence.  He will be with you always. 

The Gospel that invites everyone and excludes no one.   All of us are limping and sick and blind with sin when we come to him and if we are willing to believe that Jesus is our Healer and Saviour we will be saved and have eternal life.   No one is disqualified from the race by God until it is proven.