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by David Wyper

“My eyes haven’t seen, nor have my ears heard, what my Father has in store.” Words from a song that I recorded years ago, “The Scars in the Hands of Jesus.” They proclaim the words from Isaiah and then repeated by Paul to the Corinthians.

When you hear these words what do you think the following message should be about? If you said Heaven, you’d be wrong. The song was ultimately about Heaven but the scriptures are not. “What! That’s been the message ever since I’ve been in church!” Yes it has, but these verses have nothing to do to with Heaven.

God speaks of Heaven in very specific ways in the Bible and does not leave it up to our imaginations. “In my Father’s house are many mansions”….” “There is a river that makes glad the city of God .” A place with no tears, no sorrow, no dying or loneliness, where God is the light…a city of jeweled walls and gates…

Isaiah says that God has a plan in place before the earth was formed. A plan where He and He alone will save us from our righteousness, filthy rags to Him, with His righteousness and man will not have a clue of what it is He will do for those who love and trust Him. Isaiah is prophesying Christ Jesus on the Cross.

Paul repeats the plan, in I Corinthians Chapter 2, in the context of, “I have come to you not knowing anything but Christ and Him crucified.” He doesn’t say he comes knowing only what God has in store for us in Heaven. Paul says it’s a mystery that man cannot understand except by the Holy Spirit. If the princes of the world had understood, they would, Paul says, not have crucified the Lord of glory. For it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” Paul then goes on to proclaim that when this mystery is known and understood, those who are spiritual should judge all things according to this revealed mystery, the Cross.

So when you hear these words, remember the Cross, remember the Lord’s death until he comes. This is what God prepared for you. Man gave up the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. God replanted it on the hill of Calvary, with the blood of Jesus, which now sustains us in all things to this day, the believer and unbeliever alike.

One thing that is very true about the song I recorded, is that God planned our redemption to be fulfilled by the nail prints in the hands of Jesus. It is finished!

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by David Wyper for TCC
www.thechristiancompass.com

The Mormons, and all other religions that do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ, as specified by the disciple John, do not have have God. Those who do abide in the Doctrine of Christ, have both the Father and the Son, in fact GOD. The Mormons do not believe that God came in the flesh as the Son, Jesus. But Jesus said He was God and John, again, said He was: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the WORD WAS GOD and the Word became flesh and dwelt among
us.”

When Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished,” that’s what he meant. The plan for mankind’s total redemption, put into motion by GOD, Father, Son and Holy Spirit (again, not a belief of the Mormons), before the foundation of the Earth was laid, was completed by the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Nothing to be added (Book of Mormon) and nothing to be subtracted (countless empty theologies denying the person and works of Christ.)

Certainly, Paul, Peter and John, all preached after the cross. In fact, outside of the Gospels, all of the New testament is after the cross. But as Paul said, he comes, not with flowery words or great theologies, but to know only Christ and Him crucified. They didn’t add or subtract from the finished work of the cross, but spoke of the power and peace that comes through His completed work.

Jesus said the bread He gives to us is His flesh, and He gave His flesh for the very life of the world. Believer and non-believer alike exists only because of the finished work of Christ on the cross. “My flesh is meat and My blood is drink.” Everything IS because of His finished work.

Simply, Christ IS GOD. When you believe this and put your faith in the absolutely finished work of the cross, you abide in the Doctrine of Christ and have both Father and Son. If you don’t, you don’t have God. Sadly, the Mormons, and many other, sometimes very moral and well meaning people, don’t have God.

Tags: Cross, David Wyper, Doctrine, Mormons by Sharon
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