THE EVANGEL

PROMISED Evangel Was Promised long beforehand.
"Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry out or raise His voice nor make His voice heard in the street. A bruised reed He will not break, and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not be disheartened or crushed until He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law." [Isaiah 42:1-4]

Behold, My servant will prosper. He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. Just as many were astonished at you, My people, so His appearance was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men. Thus He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand. Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty, that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. He was despised and forsaken of men: a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and like one from whom men hide their face, He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; like a lamb that is led to slaughter, and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, so He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with wicked men, yet He was with a rich man in His death, because He had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth. But the LORD was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied. By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the booty with the strong, because He poured out Himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself bore the sin of many and interceded for the transgressors. [Isaiah 52:13-53:12]

[Jeremiah 31:31-34; Daniel 7:13-14; Micah 5, …]

WORD HAS COME The Evangel Is Jesus Christ. The Evangel Introduces The Kingdom of God.
The beginning of the evangel of Jesus Christ, Son of God. [Mark 1:1]

Heralded shall be this evangel of the Kingdom in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the consummation shall be arriving. [Matthew 24:14]

The evangel of the kingdom of God is being brought, and men are forcefully brought to it, and with violent force they come to enter it. [Luke 16:16]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blesses us with every spiritual blessing among the celestials, in Christ, according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight, in love designating us beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with the delight of His will, for the laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved: in Whom we are having the deliverance through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses in accord with the riches of His grace, which He lavishes on us; in all wisdom and prudence making known to us the secret of His will (in accord with His delight, which He purposed in Him) to have an administration of the complement of the eras, to head up all in the Christ -- both that in the heavens and that on the earth -- in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will, that we should be for the laud of His glory, who are pre-expectant in the Christ. In Whom you also -- on hearing the word of truth, the evangel of your salvation -- in Whom on believing also, you are sealed with the holy spirit of promise (which is an earnest of the enjoyment of our allotment, to the deliverance of that which has been procured) for the laud of His glory! [Ephesians 1:3-14]

TIDINGS & DECLARATION Faith comes out of Tidings, Tidings through a Declaration of Christ.
And Jesus led them about in the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and heralding the evangel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and debility among the people, and forth came the tidings of Him into the whole of Syria. [Matthew 4:23-24]

Yet how should they be heralding if ever they should not be commissioned? According as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those bringing an evangel of good!" But not all obey the evangel, for Isaiah is saying, "Lord, who believes our tidings?" Consequently, faith is out of tidings, yet the tidings through a declaration of Christ. [Romans 10:15-17]

Now I am intending you to know, brethren, that my affairs have rather come to be for the progress of the evangel, so that my bonds in Christ become apparent in the whole pretorium and to all the rest, and the majority of the brethren, having confidence in the Lord as to my bonds, are more exceedingly daring to speak the word of God fearlessly. Some, indeed, are even heralding Christ because of envy and strife, yet some because of delight also; these, indeed, of love, having perceived that I am located for the defense of the evangel, yet those are announcing Christ out of faction, not purely, surmising to rouse affliction in my bonds. What then? -- Moreover, seeing that, by every method, whether in pretense or truth, Christ is being announced, I am rejoicing in this also, and will be rejoicing nevertheless. For I am aware that, for me, this will be eventuating in salvation through your petition and the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ, in accord with my premonition and expectation, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me to be living is Christ, and to be dying, gain. [Philippians 1:12-21]

OBSCURED Evangel Is Obscured to those who are perishing.
For the word of the cross is stupidity/moronic, indeed, to those who are perishing, yet to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I shall be destroying the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the intelligent shall I be repudiating." Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the discusser of this eon? Does not God make stupid the wisdom of this world? For since, in fact, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom knew not God, God delights, through the foolishness of the heralding, to save those who are believing, since, in fact, Jews are requesting signs, and Greeks are seeking wisdom, yet we are heralding Christ crucified; to Jews, indeed, a snare, yet to the nations stupidity, yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God, for the stupidity of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. [I Corinthians 1:18-25]

Now thanks be to God, Who always gives us a triumph in Christ, and is manifesting the fragrance of His knowledge through us in every place, for we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are being saved and in those who are perishing: to these, indeed, an odor of death for death; yet to the others a fragrance of life for life. And for this who is competent? For we are not as the majority, who are peddling the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God in Christ, are we speaking. [II Corinthians 2:14-17]

Now, if our evangel is obscured, it is obscured in those who are perishing, in whom the god of this age blinds the apprehensions of the unbelieving so that the illumination of the evangel of the glory of Christ, Who is the Image of the invisible God, does not irradiate them. For we are not heralding ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, yet ourselves your slaves because of Jesus, for the God Who says that, "out of darkness light shall be shining", is He Who shines in our hearts, with a view to the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. [II Corinthians 4:3-6]

REVELATION Evangel active through a Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Jesus is saying to them, "Now you, who are you saying that I am?" Now answering, Simon Peter said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Now, answering, Jesus said to him, "Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood does not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in the heavens. [Matthew 16:15-17]

Yet, after Jesus having done so many signs in front of them, they believed not in Him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet, which he said, may be being fulfilled, "Lord, who believes our tidings? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?" Therefore they could not believe, seeing that Isaiah said again that He has blinded their eyes and calluses their heart, lest they may be perceiving with their eyes, and should be apprehending with their heart, and may be turning about, and I shall be healing them. [John 12:37-40]

COMPLETING Evangel comes in Word, in Power, in the Holy Spirit, and with Much Assurance.
Yet more daringly do I write to you, in part, as prompting you, because of the grace being given to me from God, for me to be the minister of Christ Jesus for the nations, acting as a priest of the evangel of God, that the approach present of the nations may be becoming well received, having been hallowed by Holy Spirit. I have, then, a boast in Christ Jesus, in that which is toward God. For I am not daring to speak any of what Christ does not effect through me for the obedience of the nations, in word and work, in power of signs and miracles, in the power of God's spirit, so that, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, I have completed the evangel of the Christ. [Romans 15:15-19]

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for you, and am filling up in my flesh, in His stead, the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ, for His body, which is the ekklesia/church/edah of which I became a dispenser, in accord with the administration of God, which is granted to me for you, to complete the word of God -- the secret which has been concealed from the ages and from the generations, yet now was made manifest to His saints, to whom God wills to make known what are the glorious riches of this secret among the nations, which is: Christ among you, the expectation of glory -- Whom we are announcing, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we should be presenting every man mature in Christ Jesus. [Colossians 1:24-28]

For the evangel of our God did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in Holy Spirit and much assurance, according as you are aware. Such we became among you, because of you. [I Thessalonians 1:5]

INVITATION to Reconciliation by His death
 …Renewal/Rebirth into His life/Spirit
 …Glorify God

God is commending this love of His to us, seeing that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for our sakes. Much rather, then, being now justified in His blood, we shall be saved from indignation, through Him. For if, being enemies, we were conciliated to God through the death of His Son, much rather, being conciliated, we shall be saved in/by His life. Yet not only so, but we are glorying also in God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom we now obtained the conciliation. [Romans 5:8-11]

Jesus answered and said to him, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten/fathered/birthed anew, he cannot perceive/enter the kingdom of God." Nicodemus is saying to him, "How can a man, being a veteran, be again begotten/born? He cannot be entering into the womb of his mother a second time and there be begotten!" Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten of water and of spirit, he cannot be entering into the kingdom of God. That which is begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten by the spirit is spirit. You should not be marveling that I said to you, 'You must be begotten/fathered/birthed anew/again.' [John 3:5-7]

REPENTANCE Evangel Received in Repentance, acts of contrition and righteousness/justice.
Now, hearing this, their heart was pricked with compunction. Besides, they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "What should we be doing, men, brethren?" Now Peter is averring to them, "Repent and be baptized each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the pardon of your sins, and you shall be obtaining the gratuity/gift of the Holy Spirit. For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all those afar, whosoever the Lord our God should be calling to Him." [Acts 2:37-39]

Now as they came along to Paul, he said to them, "You are versed in the facts, from the first day on which I stepped into the province of Asia, how I came to be with you all the time, slaving for the Lord with all humility and tears, and the trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews; how under no circumstances did I shrink from informing you of anything which was expedient, and teaching you in public and at your homes, certifying to both Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. [Acts 20:18-21]

Paul continued, "Whence, king Agrippa, I did not become stubborn as to the heavenly vision, but first to those in Damascus, besides in Jerusalem also, besides to the entire province of Judea, and to the nations, I reported that they are to be repenting and turning back to God, engaging acts worthy of repentance. On this account the Jews, when they saw me in the outer sanctuary, tried to have me arrested…" [Acts 26:19-21]

Are you despising the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? Yet, in accord with your hardness and unrepentant heart you are hoarding for yourself indignation in the day of indignation and revelation of the just judgment of God, Who will be paying each one in accord with his acts: to those, indeed, who by endurance in good acts are seeking glory and honor and incorruption, life into the ages; yet to those of faction and stubborn, indeed, as to the truth, yet persuaded to injustice, indignation and fury, affliction and distress, on every human soul which is effecting evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek, yet glory and honor and peace to every worker of good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek. [Romans 2:4-10]

Now I am rejoicing, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry according to God, that in nothing you may suffer forfeit by us. For sorrow according to God is producing repentance for unregretted salvation, yet the sorrow of the world is producing death. [II Corinthians 7:9-10]

Now a servant of the Lord must not be fighting, but be gentle toward all, apt to teach, bearing with evil. With meekness, training those who are antagonizing, seeing whether God may be giving them repentance to come into a realization of the truth, that they will be sobering up out of the trap of the Adversary, having been caught alive by him to his purpose. [II Timothy 2:24-26]

FAITH-OBEDIENCE
(obedience with faith)
For Faith-Obedience among people of all nations.
Jesus Christ, our Lord, through Whom we obtained grace and apostleship for faith-obedience among all the nations, for His name's sake, among whom are you also, the called of Jesus Christ. [Romans 1:5-6]

Now to Him Who is able to establish you in accord with my evangel, and the heralding of Christ Jesus in accord with the revelation of a secret hushed in times long ago, yet manifested now and through prophetic scriptures, according to the injunction of the ageless God being made known to all nations for faith-obedience: to the only and wise God, through Christ Jesus, be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen! [Romans 16:25-27]

JOINS Joint Participants in the Evangel. 
  • joint comprehension of the mystery/secret of the Christ
  • joint partakers of the allotment
  • joint Body {One Body of Christ}
  • joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus
  • joint participants in "run the race"
Now all am I doing because of the evangel, that I may be becoming a joint participant of it. [I Corinthians 9:23]

On this behalf I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you, the nations -- since you surely hear of the administration of the grace of God that is given to me for you, for by revelation the secret is made known to me (according as I write before, in brief, by which you who are reading are able to apprehend my understanding in the secret of the Christ, which, in other generations, is not made known to the sons of humanity as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets): in spirit the nations are to be joint enjoyers of an allotment, and a joint body, and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the evangel of which I became the dispenser, in accord with the gratuity of the grace of God, which is granted to me in accord with His powerful operation. To me, less than the least of all saints, was granted this grace: to bring the evangel of the untraceable riches of Christ to the nations, and to enlighten all as to what is the administration of the secret, which has been concealed from the eons in God, Who creates all, that now may be made known to the sovereignties and the authorities among the celestials, through the ecclesia, the multifarious wisdom of God, in accord with the purpose of the eons, which He makes in Christ Jesus, our Lord; in Whom we have boldness and access with confidence, through His faith. [Ephesians 3:1-12]

according as it is just for me to be disposed in this way over you all, because you, having me in heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the evangel, you all are joint participants with me of grace, 8 for God is my Witness how I am longing for you all in the compassions of Christ Jesus. [Philippians 1:7-8]

LOSE TO GAIN To Lose Your Soul for the Sake of Jesus {Messiah, Yeshu} and The Evangel.
Jesus summoned the multitude with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up the cross, and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for My sake and the evangel's shall save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels." [Mark 8:34-38; Luke 9:23-26]

TURN ABOUT Conversion Examples:
VENGEANCE Vengeance for those who do not know God and are not obeying the Evangel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We ourselves glory in you in the ekklesias/churches of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions with which you are bearing -- a display of the just judging of God, to deem you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering also, if so be that it is just of God to repay affliction to those afflicting you, and to you who are being afflicted, ease, with us, at the unveiling of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful messengers, in flaming fire, dealing out vengeance to those who are not acquainted with God and those who are not obeying the evangel of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who shall incur the justice of extermination from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of His strength -- whenever He may be coming to be glorified in His saints and to be marveled at in all who believe (seeing that our testimony to you was believed) in that day. For which we are always praying also concerning you, that our God should be counting you worthy of the calling, and should be fulfilling every delight of goodness and work of faith in power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, in accord with the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. [II Thessalonians 1:4-12]