Galatians 1:3-8 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

“6I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse!”

Missing The Point

So many people today are missing the whole point of what God’s grace is all about. For it is not just forgiveness of sins and a guarantee of eternal life with God based off a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ gave His life up for us on that cross to take on Himself our sins, and to put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Him, we will now deny self, die to sin, and follow Him in obedience to His commands, all in the power of God at work within the lives of those whose lives are surrendered to Him as Lord.

Jesus Christ didn’t give His life up for us on that cross just to forgive us our sins, but to deliver us out of addiction to sin, to change us, to transform us, and to conform us to His likeness so that we will now live for Him. For the grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return for His faithful (obedient) bride, His church, the beloved of God (see Titus 2:11-14). So know the truth!

A False Gospel

We have many people among us who are faking their Christianity who are serving as pastors, elders, bible teachers, missionaries, and evangelists, but who are malicious, morally unclean, deceivers, and manipulators who are spreading a false (fake) gospel message to the people. They are taking Scriptures out of their correct biblical context, and they are making them say what they do not say if taught in the right biblical context. And they are gaining much ground, and multitudes of people are buying into their lies.

And what they are teaching is that all we have to do is to profess faith in Jesus Christ and now all our sins are forgiven and heaven is our eternal destiny, but regardless of how we live. Many of them are teaching that God does not require that we repent of (die to) sin and that we now obey His commands (in practice), for they call that “works salvation.” Or if they do teach on repentance and obedience, many of them are making it optional. So we have many giving lip service to the Lord still living for the flesh.

The People’s Response

So many people are accepting the false gospel message over the true gospel message because it sounds good, and it feels good to their human flesh. For they want things to be easy. They like to hear that believing in Jesus clears them of all guilt and that nothing is required of them, but that God does everything for them. They prefer the broad (easy) road which leads to death in place of the narrow (hard) road which leads to life eternal, because it makes no demands of them that they live holy lives, pleasing to God.

But God never said that believing in Jesus would be the easy life. He taught us over again that following the Lord with our lives will be hard, and that we will be faced with persecutions and sufferings for the sake of the name of Jesus and for our testimonies for Him. He taught us that faith in Christ, which comes from God, and is gifted to us by God, and is persuaded of God, requires that we deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin and to self), suffer for His sake, and follow Him in obedience to His commands.

The True Gospel

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey His commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims He is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Many Turning to a Different Gospel
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Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Who Believes?

Based off Isaiah 53
An Original Work / October 3, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gospel message, who believes?
Jesus Christ died on a tree,
Saving us from all our sin,
So we might be cleansed within.

Had no beauty found in Him,
That we should desire Him.
Man of sorrows, suffering;
Crushed for our iniquities.

Surely He has borne our griefs;
From our sadness, brings relief.
Bore the stripes; forsaken, He,
So forgiven we might be.

We, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us turned his own way.
Jesus calls, “Repent today;
My commandments, now obey.”

Jesus said, to come to Him,
We must die to all our sin.
Crucified with Him, we live,
Walking in His righteousness.

Suff’ring servants, we will be,
Taking His identity on us,
When confessing Him
As our Savior, Lord and King.