Galatians 1:10-12 - The Gospel of God

Here's what we've learned so far from Paul's Epistle to the Galatians:

There is one gospel.

That one gospel comes from God.

That one gospel is the primitive gospel of Christ and his apostles.

Anyone who preaches anything contrary to that gospel, be he man or angel or pope or apostle, will be damned.

This last part he repeats for emphasis.

All this begs the question: Is truth important to Paul? Worth contending for? Worth dividing over? No doubt.

We must be careful for not all truth is worth dividing over, but some truth obviously is. When it comes to the gospel, certainly, there can be no compromise. Paul's gospel must be ours or we are not Christian. So says Paul.

In verses 11-12 Paul makes some pretty brash statements about the message he preached:

No human would invent the Christian gospel for the Christian gospel robs humans of all glory and praise and lays men in the dust. No one wants to hear a message of how bad they are and how worthless they are and how they are guilty and deserve to be in hell. No one wants to hear that. No one wants to hear that they are such wretches that only God alone could save them and that they aren't even capable of contributing the least little bit to it. People want to earn their heaven and feel like they've  accomplished something--like they're worthy. The gospel is an affront to all such human pride.

And no one wants to hear an exclusive gospel either. They want to make their own terms, not submit to a God who says you come on my terms and my terms only. When we say Jesus alone saves we demand that people come to Jesus on his terms and that those who do not are damned. That's offensive to the world. How dare we condemn all those sincere people?

No human would have invented such an offensive message. And yet here it is. It is the message we have been given. Paul says, "It's not my message. Nor did I get it from men. It came from God.

If what Paul says is true then the gospel Paul preached must be our gospel, because it is God's gospel.

Below you will find a link to the audio of the Bible study we had on Wednesday, December 28. Just click the link and take a listen to see the importance of centering our lives and our church ministry around the gospel of Jesus Christ.



Click here:  Galatians 1:10-12 - The Gospel of God


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