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The War is Over
by Lewis McNeely on Tuesday, Jan 5th, 2010 at 09:15 am
We are in a new year. Lets get rid of old unbiblical thinking. The Lord has been reminding me during this fast that the war between him and mankind is over. He ended it on the cross. I think Andrew Wommack describes it well in his new book “The War is Over”. Here are excerpts from his book on his web page:

       “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2:14 They were announcing, “Peace. Good will toward men from God!” Prior to the advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, God was at war against man’s sins. His wrath came upon people because of the sin in their life. Many Christians haven’t mentally separated this out and really looked at it. ... Yet a closer examination of God’s Word reveals that there was a wrath and a judgment from God against people in the Old Testament that is totally unjustified and wrong in the New Testament. Why? Jesus ended the war between God and man. He made all the difference! Despite that, most people run all of this together. They still think of God as being angry at our sins. They mistakenly believe that there is still a war going on between God and man, and that every time they sin that somehow or another it’s a new affront against Him. You’ve probably heard people say, “God is ticked off!” and quote Old Testament scriptures about the wrath of God falling on people. “God is angry today,” they insist. “He’s dangling our country over hell by a thin thread that’s on fire, and He’s just about ready to turn us over to the devil.....Several well-known religious leaders stood up and declared that God was the One who sent the terrorist attacks that happened in 2001, and that this was the beginning of His judgment on our nation. They’re still proclaiming that there is wrath from God towards men. ...

        Yet, this isn’t the message of the New Testament. These angels who announced the birth of Jesus understood the Gospel. They understood that He came to pay the price, to redeem us, and to stop God’s wrath upon sin. The New Testament church should be proclaiming to people that their sins have been paid for. We ought to be telling people the Gospel. The Gospel is good news. In fact, this Greek word translated gospel actually means “nearly-too-good-to-be-true news.” The Gospel is the nearly-too-good-to-be-true news that God isn’t angry with you, that He loves you, and that He wants to extend all of His blessings toward you. As a whole, the church isn’t preaching this. We’re still telling people that God is angry with them, and then we wonder why they aren’t beating down the doors to get in the church. It’s the goodness of God that leads people to repentance! (Rom. 2:4.) God is just, but Jesus paid the price. (See 1 Cor. 6:20.) He totally changed the way God deals with mankind. That’s what these angels were singing about. God Isn’t Upset. While summarizing the ministry of Jesus, Paul made the same point in the epistle he wrote to the Corinthians. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17,18 To reconcile is simply to make friendly or to bring back into harmony. Can you see that God is not upset with you?”

Want to learn more? Wisit: http://www.awmi.net/war_is_over

I also think the entire teaching is free on his web site under the audio section. Let's stop fighting with our Father in heaven and get busy preaching the good news to a lost and dying world.

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