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Beware of
those preaching that the world is still under God's law and not His loving grace.
Good day
friends!
As I was
reading my bible this morning I was drawn to Galatians.
For those who
don’t know, Galatians is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the churches
of Galatia.
You see, the
people of Galatia, who were Gentiles, were in a state-of-confusion because there
were some people going about spreading the message of the Old Testament, which is
the message of law and that in order to receive God’s favor one must abide by
the Jewish laws, rather than preaching the message of grace.
How do we
know this?
Because in
Galatians 1:7-9 Paul tells the churches this; “Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are
trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than
the one we preached let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so
I now say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you
accepted, let him be eternally condemned!”
In other
words, he’s telling them all not to forget that they already accepted Christ
and thereby live under grace and not by Jewish law.
We can
clearly see just how upsetting this is to Paul in his words. He’s not too happy
at all! He sees the Galatians slipping away from God because of their thoughts
and actions rather than drawing nearer to him and His grace and love as a
result Christ’s sacrifices.
They we
getting it wrong and all because of some who were still going on about law and
not preaching about Christ, love, and grace.
Remember folks,
Paul was a Jew who in his own words admits to persecuting the church of God and
tried to destroy it!
But God
revealed Christ to him so that he could go out among the Gentiles and preach
the message that Christ is the redeemer and that through Him we are able to
receive God’s grace because our sins were cleansed as a result of Christ’s
bloodshed and death on the cross.
And boy did
he ever go out and preach the good word and he paid some pretty heavy prices as
a result!
But, he
never wavered from His message of grace, even while he was being prosecuted and
faced death…and he faced death many times.
Well here we
are in the year 2104 and there are still those who are being taught that the
only way to receive merit from God and to go to heaven is to abide by the laws
of the Old Testament and also by our deeds, works, thoughts, and actions.
If this is happening
to you then remember what Paul told the Galatians and remember what and who you
accepted when you accepted Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.
Perhaps
someone you know or someone you associate with believes in the law rather than
grace. Folks don’t turn away, it’s God’s will for all his children to spread the
word about Christ and that through Him we rest under a secure blanket of God's
loving mercy, forgiveness and most of all His wonderful grace.
In other
words through Christ we’ve been set-free!
This is the
message we all need to be spreading and never one that speaks of salvation through God's old covenants and laws.
God Bless
All!
Dana
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I came across the above advice recently and while it's done in jest it got me thinking, from a religious standpoint, about the pros and cons of technology and whether or not it's helping or hindering religion. It’s no secret that technology has made it possible for the gospel to reach people in ways never imagined before thereby, on one hand, making technological advances pretty essential for religion as a whole. On the other hand when we see things like the saying above, we are seeing technology doing to religion the exact opposite of growth, and someone who’s recommending people who are lonely or feeling forgotten to turn to Facebook instead of God, is a perfect example of this. So do the pros of technology in religion outweigh the cons? The long arm of technology As Christians it’s our responsibility to spread God’s message and word, plus how through Christ we’re able to live this earthly life living with and in God’s divine grace rather than law.
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