The "Gospel" Isn't A Message, It 's A Reward, THE Reward--Man's New Status Before God In The Promised Redemption By The Son--Satan's Head Crushed, And MAN ALIVE WITHOUT SIN

"Likewise also the Messiah offered Himself one season, through His [human] Essence He obliterated the sins of many, so as in the second season those who held onto Him would see themselves Alive without their sins" (Hebrews 9:28 Alexander, and I am SO sorry if you stick only with Western Bibles and do not temper their views with Alexander's). Work on this idea: the gospel is not a message but is a reward. THE Reward (search my blog for the word euaggelion). See yourself alive without your sins NOW, for this IS the second season, and Eternal Life is given NOW, if we will but confess our sins, accept Christ, and receive the Holy Ghost, who is the reward.

We are told that the gospel message is the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16 KJV). What if Paul was here referring to the reward God gave believers and not to a message about it? Eternal Life is GIVEN!! Paul wasn't ashamed of the reward God gives--GAVE--for it is the REAL reward (the Pagan religions also claimed to give salvation to their believers--empty promises to be ashamed of). Kind of a stretch? I don't think so. The original meaning of the Greek word euaggelion, which was translated as "gospel" and "glad tidings"--i.e., a message--by the New Testament translators, HAD ALWAYS MEANT "THE REWARD FOR PRESENTING GLAD TIDINGS." Euaggelion did not mean the glad tidings themselves. This switch was an errant application, a misconceptualization by the unregenerate in the church (2 John 6 and 7). They didn't understand that the Holy Ghost is GIVEN and needs only to be received (un-yourself in surrender and submission to God, accepting what He will give).

What reward is there for believers that is the power of God unto salvation? In the second paragraph here: "4) The reality of His Life today in believers"; i.e., the reward is man's new status before God after being fully redeemed by the promised and long-awaited sacrifice of the Son (Genesis 3:15). This new STATUS, a concretely effected transition--our becoming a new creature--is the reward which when believed upon saves us and heals us. Life in the Holy Ghost is constant--it is not coming in the future. We are just too stupid to RECEIVE what has been GIVEN to us. Overcome this stupidity.

I believe the meaning of Deuteronomy 6:4 is that Israel, "Eil's Prevailing in Manifestation," is IN the one God YHWH is.

"Whoever believes in the Son of God, has this testimony in his soul. And whoever does not believe God, calls* (makes) Him a liar, by not believing the testimony that God gives* (testifies) about His Son. And this is that testimony, that God has given us Life to [the end of] the universe* (everlasting life), and this Life is in His Son. Whoever takes the Son, also [receives the everlasting] Life, and whoever does not take the Son of God, does not [receive the everlasting] Life. These things I write you so that you may know that you have Life eternal* (the the end of the universe), [you who] believe in these things in the name of the Son of God. And this familiarity we have with Him, that whatever we ask of Him, He is pleased to hear us. And if we ask in faith* (resolved) that He hears us in regard* (over) to anything that we may ask of Him, we can rest assured that we have already received the requests we made of Him" (1 John 5:10-15 Alexander, footnotes incorporated, emphases mine).

PS: a note posted elsewhere: The Greek word euaggelion did not mean glad tidings. Look it up. Euaggelion was the REWARD given to the one who brought glad tidings. It wasn't the message, but the reward given for it. Jesus received a reward after dying for us--the right to forgive repentant sinners and to restore them to eternal life. We are to believe in AND ENTER the reward, reconciled to God, ALIVE WITHOUT SIN.