Men Bewitched

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Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth…

I. THE SUBTLE DANGER. Epidemic of error. People calmly tolerating what shortly before they would have indignantly repudiated.

II. THE ONLY PRESERVATIVE — Christ crucified.

1. Set forth plainly.

2. Realized vividly.

3. Clung to simply but firmly.

III. THE SUPREME FOLLY OF ANY OTHER COURSE. If you say, "We see what the gospel can do in the way of reclaiming sinners, but we are going to try something else," you will be fools. I am always ready to try a new machine: we will try the electric light one of these days, instead of gas, when we are sure of it; but suppose it should all go out and leave us in the dark! I will wait till the invention has been tested. So it may happen with the new religious lights that men bring up, which are like dim rushlights compared with the blazing sun of gospel truth; we are not going to try anything new to the risk of our souls. We will keep to the old, old gospel, until it is worn out. When that happens, it will be time to think of something fresh.

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