The Gospel (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to Living Supernaturally, thank you for being here today, thank you for taking this time to be part of this daily devotion. We've been looking at Paul's letters to Timothy and particularly we know that there are a lot of instructions, there's a lot of wisdom, there's a lot of practical things that Timothy is receiving in the form of instructions from Paul. So, we are looking today at 1 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16, and Paul writes and he says, ‘and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.’ In a nutshell, Paul is putting together the reason why the Lord came and what He did and right from birth, till the time He was glorified and He ascended to heaven and this in a nutshell is the gospel and this is what he is sharing with Timothy and he's declaring it to Timothy once again. And he says God was manifest in the flesh, lest we forget the Lord Jesus, yes He had an earthly birth but it was a supernatural birth. The word of God declares that this was God manifest in the flesh. So, God laid aside His glory, His majesty and He was manifest in the flesh. Now this is very important, it's an important creed and it's an important truth for us to understand and to receive and it's central to our belief and central to our faith as Christians, as followers of the Lord Jesus. So, God was manifest in the flesh and He was fully empowered by the Holy Spirit to do what He was called to do and whatever He did, He did by the power of the Holy Spirit. Next He declares that He was justified in the Spirit. He was declared to be holy and sinless in the Holy Spirit. This happened at the time of water baptism, when John baptized the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus came out of the waters from the river Jordan and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him, there was a voice from heaven to declare, ‘this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’ The voice of the Father, affirming that this is Jesus, the beloved Son in whom He's well pleased, which means that He was holy, He was sinless, He was not doing anything wrong, He has not done anything wrong and the Father is well pleased. It also goes on to say that He was seen by the angels, that He was visible to the angels, He was preached among the Gentiles and we see this happening in the book of Acts, after the Lord was taken up, He was preached among the Gentiles; starting from the house of Cornelius, the Roman centurions. For the first time in his house, there were people who were non-Jewish people who were gathered and He was preached, Jesus was preached among the Gentiles. He was glorified and believed on in the world and glorified and received up in glory. Now this is the gospel, this is the great news and Paul is reiterating this is what it is, you need to handle and receive the whole counsel of God's word. Shall we pray, Father, we thank you for the wonderful and marvelous gospel of the Lord Jesus. We thank you for all that happened that you were manifest in the flesh and we thank you that you carried our sickness, our sin upon yourself and we thank you that this good news reached us and because of which we are saved today. We give you praise and Lord we pray that we will go ahead and declare this to others as well, we thank you, in Jesus’s matchless name we pray, Amen.

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