Title Beware of the Other Gospels
Contents
The book of Galatians is called the 'short book of Romans' because it teaches the doctrine of justification by faith like Romans. In the legalistic Judaism of Judaism, not long after the new gospel idea of salvation through faith began, when the Galatian church was confused by the forced claim that salvation through the law was confusing, Paul rarely used the term love in this book. Those who preach other gospels with an angry tone were even cursed, giving severe warnings and judgments.
In the history of the church, several religious meetings and quarrels arose because of heresy and other false evangelical ideas occurring within the church rather than suffering from the world when preaching the gospel.
We live in the age of all-knowledge, and because of too much information, our judgment is lacking and our will is weakened. In this turbulent age, we believe that we need to properly understand the primary color of the gospel God has given us and to have confidence in our own salvation. In this age filled with false ideas within the church, I would like to ponder the word on the topic of beware of other gospels at this time.
1. The True Gospel
First, let's define the true gospel. The word gospel, eujaggevlion, means good news, good news. That is, if we believe in Jesus, we can receive atonement and receive eternal life.
(1) The source of the true gospel is a revelatory product from God.
4 “Christ gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this evil age, according to the will of our God and our Father,
12 I did not receive it from men, nor did I learn it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
(2) The content of the true gospel is centered on Jesus Christ
We must believe, understand, confess, and testify exactly what the essential content of Christianity is. Not only preachers and evangelists, but all believers must be so sure.
John 20:31 “But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
1 Corinthians 15:19 “If in this life our hope is only in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiful.”
2. Another Gospel
Another gospel does not mean a pagan religion that is completely different from Christianity, but a similar gospel.
Importantly, heretics use the Bible. While making more use of the precious language of the Bible, they seduce the people with clever teachings that are essentially beyond the goals of the Bible.
(1) They say it is the gospel given by angels other than the Bible and pretend to be spiritual.
Angels may appear, but when you read the text, it means that there are also deceiver angels and demons. The heresy inside the church is that there is a revelation that an angel other than the Bible appeared to them and gave them a revelation. and seduced me. Even today, heretics behave in the same way.
8“But if we, or even angels from heaven, preach any gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be accursed.” 2 Corinthians 11:14 “This is no wonder, even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”
(2) Change the gospel according to the will of man
11“I tell you, brethren, that the gospel I preached was not according to the will of men.”
The so-called human way of thinking, which is also a weakness of human beings, has a problem in meeting God properly. The more we try to meet God through humanism or to understand the Gospel in this way, we become farther from God.
(3) The gospel that pleases people
10“Now do I seek to please men or God or do I seek the joy of men? If I have been seeking the joy of men, then I am not a servant of Christ.”
3. Another Gospel History
The strong hope that this book Galatians would convey the essence of the gospel in a strong way was because of Jewish legalistic ideas at the time. At the same time, Christian history has continued to show and reform, re-emerge, and establish in various forms within the Christian history, and these reforming activities had to be continuously continued.
This is a phenomenon where the devil's obstruction of God's truth to save sinners occurs.
Apostolic Age - If it was a Jewish thought
The Age of the Rapid Apostles - Mysticism Starting with Montanus, Schleinmagcher's emotional theology continues to appear dangerously in the church society.
Middle Ages - Centered on the Pope, the church's ideology was corrupted by institutional and administrative corruption and doctrinal corruption, and the Reformation took place.
Modern - Around the 19th century, rationalism, philosophical thought, and idealism were more popular than God's revealed gospel. Due to humanistic theology that criticizes the Bible here and there, the mystical and holy characteristics of the church society have disappeared in order to adapt to the world culture.
2 Timothy 4:3 “The time is coming when people will not be taught sound teaching, but will have itching ears and will accumulate many teachers to suit their own desires.”
The last days - When the era of the Antichrist comes, the whole world will go to pluralism and unification through the integration of politics, economy, society, culture, and religion. Will it become impossible to claim only the truth of the Gospel of Christianity? With secularism, the world is going into an ideological system that is bound to be judged (Revelation 13:).
4. How do you pay attention?
First of all, we need to know that we are those who hear the gospel and receive salvation and lead a religious life as Christians. If we casually see the cross of the church as a life of faith, we should know that they are all the same and should not be treated without criticism.
1 John 4:1 “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
Only the gospel preached by the apostles should be known as the true gospel. - Be careful about the content that pleases people in the Bible. The main content should be the thought of Christ Jesus. In fact, we have to stand up from the illusion that there are many truths in the world.
The problem with the Korean church today is not that the number of church members gathers and then decreases. However, the mistakes of the members or the ethical problems within the church are not the biggest problems, and the most important and urgent problem is that the essence of the essential gospel of the church is not taken into account.
In any case, we must become those who understand and understand the truth of the Bible. Ephesians 4:13 “We will all become one in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, so that we may become perfect men, to the point of being full of the stature of Christ. I did.
All over the world right now, it's unclear what's right and what's wrong.
The Christian gospel can only have a future with no regrets if you believe, claim, and live according to the truth and purpose of the Bible centered on Jesus Christ.
If you break away from the essential truth of Christianity and are infected with the stories of the world and get used to the language of how to live according to each level of life, and you prefer words like success and happiness rather than words such as cross, hardship, and eternal life, your soul will be ruined. Be careful and listen again to the lesson Paul proclaimed with a very strong tone in this book of Galatians.
8-9 “But let us, or even angels from heaven, be accursed if they preach any gospel other than the one we preached to you. 9 As we have said before, I say again now, if anyone Cursed if you preach the gospel.”
What a terrifying statement, how much leaders and church members fall into the world of secularism and try to live by ignoring the essential spiritual world of the gospel and the wonderful spiritual joy of spiritual and eternal life, and the church may be completely destroyed.
In the last days near the day of the coming of the Lord, I pray that you and I who are faithful to the gospel ideology centered on the Lord will be comforted by all the pains of the past when we meet the Lord who will come again without burden and joy when we leave the world and choose the Lord.
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Source: Cyber Theological Seminary View Original Author: nulserom