I forgive you, Chuck, because you do not know what it is you are doing. You have been taught by false teachers and they have led you astray on what the gospel is about. Jesus was not a rich man. Jesus had no place to lay his head. Paul had one coat. This is the truth. This is the true Gospel. May the Lord have mercy upon you for denying Jesus Christ who Michael preaches. - Jeri
The gospel is not that Jesus was not a rich man or no place to lay his head. That is another gospel (Galatians 1:8).
The gospel is in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 and even Paul's message in 1 Cor. 15:1 calls it the gospel.
1 Corinthians 15:2 By which also
ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
What am I saved by? The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Gaatiansl 1:6 ¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto
another gospel:
1 Corinthians 15:2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
The gospel is the voice of God where our Creator can be heard. But only believers will hear Him while a saint preaches the gospel to them. Unbelievers can't hear anything in the gospel that's preached to them.
John 5
37: And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me.
His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen;
38: and
you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent.
39:
You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;
40: yet
you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
1 Corinthians 2
10: God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11: For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12: Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
13: And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
14:
The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15: The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
16: "For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2
1: When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.
2: For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3: And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;
4: and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5: that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6: Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
7: But
we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.
8:
None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9: But,
as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,"
Only a few Christians were chosen to hear the hidden wisdom that I speak to them. Most Christians can't hear the Truth in the gospel I preach to them. They're blinded by the Old Covenant "veil" as they read the prophecies without God interpreting them.
2 Corinthians 3;
14: But
their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
15: Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds;
16: but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed.
17: Now
the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18: And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
As long as Christians are waiting for the flesh of their Jesus to appear in the clouds, they are blinded from the true spirit of God that we saints speak to our believers.
John 6
63:
It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail;
the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.