MORE THAN A ZEAL

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Acts 18:26,28

When Priscilla and Aquila heard him preaching boldly in the synagogue, they took him aside and explained the way of God even more accurately.

He refuted the Jews with powerful arguments in public debate. Using the Scriptures, he explained to them that Jesus was the Messiah.


The whole message of salvation is all about Christ Jesus, the Messiah, who gave Himself for the sins of the whole world, that's the summary. Thus when Apollos who must have been a disciple of John the Baptist, full of zeal was teaching about Christ, He had limited knowledge, definitely he had not had the Pentecost experience. Priscilla and Aquilla had to take home aside to bring him up to date, they gave him the accurate knowledge.


Many are full of zeal but with incomplete or false knowledge, we see many in different religions and sects guarding and holding on to one belief or the other. However, only one truth remains.


John 14:6

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.


And it continues:


John 3:3,5,16

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.


For Christ Jesus is the fulfilment of the laws and the prophets!


Matthew 5:17

“Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.


So every thing done outside of Christ does not count.


It doesn't matter where you are from or what your geneology is, when Christ died and rose a new Covenant began, all was brought under sin that all may be saved:


Romans 3:21-24

But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago.

We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

Yet God freely and graciously declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.


Colossians 3:11

In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.


Everyone must understand this truth, live it and tell it.


He calls us Blessed.


Love

@the watcher

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