THE UNITY OF PETER AND PAUL Pastor Art Watkins of Coden Bible Church (Coden, Alabama) November 4, 2017 If you listen to some of these hyper dispensationalists you would get the idea that Peter and Paul were at odds with each other and contradicted each other doctrinally. Nothing could be further from the truth. They labored together and were in unity with each other, especially in important matters such as the gospel, redemption and grace. Read for yourself. -------------------- Paul’s Gospel 1 Corinthians 15:3-4: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Peter’s Gospel 1 Peter 3:18: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: -------------------- Paul’s Redemption Ephesians 1:7: In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Peter’s Redemption 1 Peter 1:18-19: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: -------------------- Paul’s Grace Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Peter’s Grace Acts 15:8-11: And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them (gentiles) witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. -------------------- Peter and Paul were on the same page with each other in these important doctrines especially the gospel. Don’t let some hyper dispensationalist deceive you into believing that God sent Peter and Paul to preach two different and opposing gospels, redemption and grace at the same time. That's nonsense and a lie. Hyper dispensationalism has become just another ism and cult, among others, to deceive the hearts of the simple.