Title Documentary Mission (4/6)-Requirement for Right Faith
Title: Prerequisites for Right Faith
Text: Galatians 1:6-10
Date: 2008. 4. 6. Sunday Day Worship
Then, what are the conditions that must be met in order to have right faith?
First, we must never leave God.
The members of the Galatian church quickly left God (verse 6). Although I received the gospel through Paul, I was deceived by the false teachers who came after Paul and left the God of grace. They were still in the church. However, since they followed a God other than the God of the Bible, they actually became like those who had left God. Paul said he couldn't understand these things. There were disturbers in the background of this (verse 7). They were false teachers from Judea. They were people of legalism. They taught that faith in Jesus alone is not enough for salvation. He taught that Gentiles, like Jews, must be circumcised. The weak Galatians were deceived by false teachers and turned away from God.
A young man came to faith while serving in the military. After vacation, I visited a small chapel in the neighborhood. But the door was locked. From that moment on, his heart was closed. As an adult, I read the Bible alone and had my own faith, but I still stopped going to church. Even if the thief stole all the things from the chapel, he repeated the argument that the door should be left open. The disappointment is understandable. But this is absurd. If you cannot enter because the chapel door is closed, you can go to another church that has the chapel door open. Whoever gives up the faith upon which my life and salvation are at stake is the most foolish. Even if the person you truly believed in disappoints you, you must never leave God. I don't believe in people. He is God.
Second, we must hold onto the clear gospel.
The word another gospel is repeated in the text. Paul expressed his sorrow that the members of the Galatian church were following a different gospel (verse 6). He also testified that there is no other gospel and there is a corrupted gospel (verse 7). He warned that anyone who preaches another gospel will be cursed (verses 8-9). We must hold onto the clear gospel and not any other gospel.
Third, we must focus on God's evaluation.
If you want to focus on God's evaluation rather than human evaluation, meditate on the Bible. The scattered Jews gathered in the synagogue to meditate on the Word of God. Each week, we set up a text to read and read the text determined by the head of the synagogue. Then some of those present came out and preached the text that the leader of the synagogue had read. There is a meeting similar to the synagogue worship in the modern church. A long time ago, Bible Union made a Bible reading table and recommended reading the Bible. Then people began to gather and share what they read and meditated on the Bible. Today, such a collection is called a “cutie group”. Cutie refers to reading the Bible, meditating on the words you read, and applying the lessons found through meditation to your life. The key to cutie is application.
Novelist Mark Twain was reading the Bible when a young man noticed the scene and asked: “Do you understand all the teachings of the Bible?” At this point Mark Twain replied, “It is not easy to understand all the teachings of the Bible. It's a very difficult day. But there is something more difficult for me than that. It is a matter of putting into practice what you have read and realized.” Faith is life, not knowledge. Right faith must be proven by knowing and living rightly. Study and meditate on the Bible to understand God's Word right away, remember and apply the meditated Word to your life to live right.