Greetings, saints. Sometimes the best way to teach on a topic is to confront the error that opposes it. The error, in its own way, highlights the truth. That's what's happening today in this ZWTF classic from October of 2018.

 

Alan Hess of North Carolina began teaching in 2018 that there was only one gospel. This confused and disturbed so many of the saints that I felt the need to write a report against the new teaching. Because I did that, the report (this edition of the ZWTF) stands as a fairly inclusive and succinct explanation of the two gospels. Not only that, but it's pretty good. 

 

If we mix the gospel that God gave to Israel with the gospel that He gave to the nations through Paul, then we can easily lose our peace. Israel was basically a "test case" nation to prove to the human race that flesh and blood is unable to perform the just dictates of God. I'm not saying that God does not love this nation or that He will not finish what He started with them, but that they were saddled with laws that they could never accomplish in the flesh—and nor were they meant to accomplish them (Romans 5:20). In the meantime, the gospel of Paul given to the nations by the glorified Christ is a gospel void of law or any other work of the flesh. It's a beautiful thing—until you mix it with elements of the gospel God gave to Israel. Then it all goes bad. Paul's gospel goes bad (it gets compromised), and the Circumcision gospel goes bad as well, for different reasons. I will stomp out this error of mixing messages whenever I see it. Paul did the same—just read his letter to the Galatians. 

 

This edition of the ZWTF will be a helpful one, I think, to introduce newcomers to the two gospels. Yes, this is a long newsletter, and yes it is technical in some places, but I think that these things might weigh in its favor instead of against it. Send it to people who might be interested. 

 

With you, I am longing to see Christ and to be extricated from this wicked eon. In the meantime, I am thankful for you all—for your continued love and support—and there is no possible way that I could have continued this work for 27 years without you. Neither can I go forward without my fellow-saints. Truly, we are not only fellow saints but fellow labors together in this gospel of the grace of God. Let us announce it everywhere. 

 

With love and great appreciation from the peninsula, 

 

Martin