Saved from the Inside

By Tammy Lacock

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27, KJV)

“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” (Galatians 1:1–16, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains how Paul, the Apostle of Grace, is the only writer in the Bible who reveals God’s final gospel to humanity. This final gospel, what Paul calls the “mystery” is revealed to us throughout his epistles. His gospel is grace, God’s grace. Paul tells us we are currently living in the Dispensation of Grace.

“If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ).” (Ephesians 3:2-4, KJV)

And by His grace, we need only to believe in Jesus Christ to be recipients of this great mystery. The mystery is revealed to us over 146 times throughout Paul’s and John’s writings. The mystery is this: Christ literally living in believers. We are no longer subject to our satanic sin-nature passed down by the curse of Adam. We are no longer bound by this world and the law. Paul tells us it’s time to move from law to grace. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we moved into grace. When Christ died, we died too. When He arose, we too arose to a new life in Him. Our old lives died. We are born again by Christ’s seed now planted in every believer. We are brand-new creations by His unrelenting, amazing Grace.

“Jesus answered and said unto him (Nicodemus), verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3, KJV)

Paul tells us we are literally saved from the inside. He knew Christ lived in him, and he knew Christ in Spirit more than anyone else in the Bible. He tells us that by the Cross, there’s no longer a need for us to be saved by our outer works. Christ did the work on the cross and by His death, burial, and resurrection, we now have His very life in us. This is the mystery. This is what it means to be born again. No other writer — except John in his later years and after 30 years of getting ahold of Paul’s writings — tells us of the great mystery of being born again in Christ. The law was so strong in the disciples and other writers that they never preached the cross and God’s grace given to us by the cross. In fact, in the 2,000+ years since, the churches haven’t caught on to Paul’s gospel of grace.

We need to understand, by the Holy Spirit renewing our minds, that God no longer accepts us by what we do or don’t do. He sees Christ in us, our new life.

Paul was the only one raised up by Christ, Himself, to reveal to us the mystery of Christ now living IN us. And he tells us, “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:1). NOW is the time to spread this final gospel of God’s grace to humanity.

Simply put, it’s an inside job!