GOSPELS NOT FOR GENTILES

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 14:23-26

Our Lord is telling us in John 14 that while on the earth (or in other words in the flesh - Emmanuel - God with us), that his sayings have authority from the Father who sent him. He spoke it while "present with you," he says (John 14:25). And Jesus says that the Holy Ghost "shall teach you all things," and also notice he says that the Holy Ghost shall bring all things to remembrance, whatsoever Jesus said to them. Our Lord is telling us that the Holy Spirit shall bring to remembrance and understanding things which were already said and taught by the Lord. This is crucial to understand. The promise is that the Holly Ghost shall teach and shall bring all things to remembrance; those things which they were already taught, and the things to come. The Holy Ghost is the principal author of the gospels! These gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) are, together with the other apostles' epistles, our Lord's doctrine, our life and our salvation. They are the word of God. They are one gospel, from one source, both as God with us and the risen Lord.
 

So, if they say that the teaching of our Lord on the earth is not for our salvation - only for Jews - are they not craftily denying to themselves and to you Jesus Christ in the flesh, God with us? He is the Word of God. What he says in Galilee or to Paul, Peter or John, is our amen. Thus, you cannot say, and God forbit you say it, that the Book of Matthew is not to teach from for your salvation - only Paul's epistles. This is not rightly dividing, because the Word of God is not to be divided, only the word of truth from the error.

They say: Yes, Jesus was fully man and fully God, but they say also that you don't have to listen to that Jesus for your salvation - what he says, when he was in the flesh, Emmanuel (God with us). That part is for Jews, some teachers say. Isn't that cleverly denying him? He walked in a form of man, but he was, is and will be forever God, the Spirit of the Lord.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

John 4:24

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

John 6:63

Our Lord, while on earth (God with us), says that the words that he speaks unto us, they are life. The words I speak... they are life. Only for Jews? They were and are life only for Jews when taught from Matthew, Mark and Luke? Our Lord taught in the Spirit, even when he was God among us in the likeness of men. Again, his teachings have authority from the Father, who sent him. And as such, are we not robbing ourselves of this part of the gospel into salvation? And robbing others? And robbing him?

Brothers and sisters, the will of the Father is to hear the Son, which is of the Father, and believe on him. The Son, God with us (and now in us and we in him), is the Lamb at the right hand of God, the Father.

-By Lubomir