How do we Rightly Divide the two main gospels in the Bible?

Now, when you mix these two gospels together, you cause a short circuit and the sparks of confusion fly.

But, how do we divide these two gospels? What is the answer? We find repeatedly in Acts 9:15, 13:46, 18:6, 22:17-21, 26:17,18, 28:28, Romans, Galatians 1:11-2:10, Ephesians 3:1-9, and Colossians, that Paul is the Apostle of the Gentiles / the UNcircumcision.

Not only did Paul preach a new gospel (the gospel of the grace of God) (Acts 20:24), but as you've seen, he showed that God had a new spiritual blessing for this dispensation, which we call eternal security.

Let's look at the best portion which describes this doctrine for this dispensation, Eph 1:3-14.

^3. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,"

Notice, we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing because we are in Christ. This opens a section where he explains that spiritual blessing we've been discussing, of verse

This spiritual blessing is unique to the dispensation of grace. We are the only ones who have this eternal security. This blessing may be special to us because this is the dispensation in which God is not showing signs and miracles to His saints.

^4. "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love," Notice two things, we were not chosen to salvation, we were chosen to be holy and blameless. Also, once we believe in Christ as our Savior, we are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ (1 Co 12:13).

Then we find out that the body of Christ was chosen before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blame. Because we were baptized into Christ, we now have this security. We will be holy and blameless before God because we are in Christ. This is an absolute. We can't lose it because God predestined anyone who is in the body of Christ to be holy and blameless.

⁵ "having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will."

The benefit of the adoption we now have and will experience at the rapture, (Rom 8:23) is predestined. We can't lose it. Our holiness and blamelessness is secure once we trust Christ as our Savior.

⁶ "to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved."
Once we believe, He makes us accepted in Christ because of His grace. We don't have to endure to be saved, He keeps us.

⁷ "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
⁸ which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,?"

We are in Christ. The Holy Spirit seals us in Christ (Eph 1:13; 4:30).

Because of this, we have redemption. We are accepted. All of our sins " past, present, and future " are forgiven. All of this is according to His abundant grace. But it is only because we are in Christ.

⁹ "having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

¹⁰ that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth in Him."

We see from this that He has made known to us His purpose for this present dispensation. He wants to fill up the church which is the body of Christ in this dispensation. Christ accomplished the act of propitiation by dying on the cross. We become part of His fullness when we believe.

¹¹ "In Him also we have obtained an inheritance,"

It's not that we will obtain the inheritance; we have it right now. But we only have it because we are "in Him."