BEWARE OF THE BEWITCHING (7)
Scripture: Galatians 3:1-5
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Beware of the Bewitching (7)
Series: Galatians
Robert Dawson
Galatians 3:1-5
Like many of you, I enjoy food, especially good southern cooking. My mom and grandma were the absolute best. I loved the corn, peas, butterbeans, green-beans, fried chicken, fried pork chops, cube steak, okra and squash. I loved the hoecake of cornbread fried on the stove and those made from scratch biscuits smothered in cane syrup. I loved everything they made, almost. I never developed a taste for collard greens or mustard greens. One thing about greens, you couldn't disguise them. There was no hiding them or passing them off as something else or something that I liked. Liver however was a different story. Liver, I hate. Liver could be dressed up and passed off as cubed steak or some other form of round steak to the untrained nose until you got a good mouthful of it. Growing up, that happened a few times because for some strange reason, liver was supposed to be good for me. Since liver was supposed to be good for me, mom fooled me into thinking it was something that it really wasn't. She was devious.
In Galatians, Paul is dealing with some devious people, people who have dressed up false teaching and tried to pass it off as the Gospel. Unfortunately, the Galatians, who were apparently lacking in spiritual discernment, had taken a big bite out of this faux-Gospel and could not distinguish it from the real thing or just decided they liked it better. The problem is, unlike liver (I'll take mom's word for it that it was good for me), this fake Gospel and its fruit was not good for them. In fact, it was and is detrimental.
Truthfully, we are all in danger of being fooled or at the very least foolishly turning our backs on what we know the Gospel of Christ to be. When the Gospel message is altered it no longer possessed power. It is devoid of the power to save. It is devoid of the power to help us live righteous lives before the face of God.
Paul's rebuke to the Galatians ser ...
Series: Galatians
Robert Dawson
Galatians 3:1-5
Like many of you, I enjoy food, especially good southern cooking. My mom and grandma were the absolute best. I loved the corn, peas, butterbeans, green-beans, fried chicken, fried pork chops, cube steak, okra and squash. I loved the hoecake of cornbread fried on the stove and those made from scratch biscuits smothered in cane syrup. I loved everything they made, almost. I never developed a taste for collard greens or mustard greens. One thing about greens, you couldn't disguise them. There was no hiding them or passing them off as something else or something that I liked. Liver however was a different story. Liver, I hate. Liver could be dressed up and passed off as cubed steak or some other form of round steak to the untrained nose until you got a good mouthful of it. Growing up, that happened a few times because for some strange reason, liver was supposed to be good for me. Since liver was supposed to be good for me, mom fooled me into thinking it was something that it really wasn't. She was devious.
In Galatians, Paul is dealing with some devious people, people who have dressed up false teaching and tried to pass it off as the Gospel. Unfortunately, the Galatians, who were apparently lacking in spiritual discernment, had taken a big bite out of this faux-Gospel and could not distinguish it from the real thing or just decided they liked it better. The problem is, unlike liver (I'll take mom's word for it that it was good for me), this fake Gospel and its fruit was not good for them. In fact, it was and is detrimental.
Truthfully, we are all in danger of being fooled or at the very least foolishly turning our backs on what we know the Gospel of Christ to be. When the Gospel message is altered it no longer possessed power. It is devoid of the power to save. It is devoid of the power to help us live righteous lives before the face of God.
Paul's rebuke to the Galatians ser ...
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