Part 1 - Another Gospel?
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. —Galatians 1:6-7
6 I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News 7 but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ. —Galatians 1:6-7, NLT
- When you move away from the true gospel, you move away from
and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. —Matthew 7:25
and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” —Matthew 7:27
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. —1 Corinthians 3:11
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. —Hebrews 13:8
- To be a disciple is to have a life
1. The gospel is an
into the kingdom of God.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. —Philippians 3:20
Indeed, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.” —Psalm 87:5
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. —Hebrews 12:22-24
God’s kingdom has a
John 18:36 - Jesus said “my kingdom is
The gospel is
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
• The more we are formed by this world, the more offensive the gospel becomes. —John 15:18-19
2) An essential part of the gospel is
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The first message of Jesus’s public ministry was “
Repentance means to think differently, to turn, and to change. Repentance is
When responding to the gospel invitation, you come as you
The new birth
3. The gospel has two
: grace, and truth.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. —John 1:14
13 Then He went out again by the sea; and all the multitude came to Him, and He taught them. 14 As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.
15 Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him. 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” —Mark 2:13-17
- A gospel that contains truth, but not grace, is not the gospel.
A gospel that contains grace, but not truth, is not the gospel.
We are not saved
15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. —Galatians 6:15
8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. —Galatians 1:8-9
- Acts 17:30 – God…commands all people everywhere to
Mercy and truth have met together;
Righteousness and peace have kissed. —Psalm 85:10
Actions steps:
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2) Say
3) Surround yourself
4) Watch,