One True Gospel and Many False Ones Paul knew the danger of the doctrines of Judaism
(Galatians 1 & 2)
Fred R. Coulter—January 25, 2020
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The worst field of deceit is in the field of religion!
John 14 is a Scripture that we go over, and it’s a keynote of the Passover. Jesus told the disciples that He was going away:
John 14:4—Jesus said: “‘And where I am going you know, and the way you know.’ Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going; how then can we know the way?’” (vs 4-5). They didn’t understand it because they didn’t have the Spirit of God, yet!
Verse 6: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.’”
So, we take the Scriptures and we compare everything to the Word of God. That’s why God had the New Testament originally written in Greek. It’s a very precise language. When you get the Interlinear you will see that 80-90% of the words must be translated exactly as it is. You can’t change that. Now, some words have more than one meaning, but it is very accurate and very true. You have the phrase, ‘answered and said.’ There is no other way to translate it. You can’t translate it ‘he was answering and saying’ because of the way that the verb is constructed.
Where do problems come in with the Scriptures? The translators, and those who found deficient Greek manuscripts, which mostly come out of Alexandria and Vaticanus! That’s where the problems come because modern critical thinking of the Greek goes toward those Greek manuscripts rather than the Received Text.
Here is the basic one that we always go to. What’s another one? What did Jesus say about the words that He spoke? They are Spirit and they are Life! They are spiritually discerned or understood!
The Church at Corinth was one of Paul’s greatest problems. In 1-Cor. 15 he says, ‘What is it that some of you are saying that there’s no resurrection?’ Why? Because they were coming out of the Greek religions where it was ‘go to heaven or hell.’
1-Corinthians 1:19: “For it is written, ‘I [Jesus Christ] will destroy the wisdom of the wise… [all the philosophy and wrong thinking] …and I will nullify the understanding of those who understand.’” Nullify is to make it as though it never existed!
Verse 20: “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its own wisdom did not know God…” (vs 20-21).
• Why? You must come to Christ! That’s where we started
• How do you do that? On God’s terms!
• What’s the first thing that Jesus said when He came into Galilee to preach the Gospel? Repent and believe the Gospel, for the Kingdom of God is at hand!
Let’s see what God wants us to do because there is only one Gospel and many false gospels.
Verse 26: “For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many who are wise according to the flesh, not many who are powerful, not many who are highborn among you. Rather, God has chosen…” (vs 26-27). That’s interesting! Not called, but chosen! Chosen comes from repentance and baptism!
“…God has chosen the foolish things of the world so that He might put to shame those who are wise…” (v 27).
How does that work today? When we see all the foolishness of what men are doing, especially in this impeachment thing, we can see where they’re absolutely wrong!
“…and God has chosen the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things. And the lowborn of the world and the despised has God chosen—even the things that are counted as nothing—in order that He might bring to nothing the things that are” (vs 27-28).
The Gospel of God is the same yesterday, today and forever, as the Bible says.
The Christian Biblical Church of God was established in 1983 by a small group of seven true believers and one minister, Fred R. Coulter when they separated themselves from another Church of God organization that had embraced non-scriptural beliefs and practices. The CBCG has since grown to minister to thousands in various fellowship groups and small congregations—as well as to thousands of scattered believers around the world. In fact, over four million distinct users from around the world visited the CBCG's Web sites in 2017—actively utilizing the sites to assist them in their Christian lives and studies.
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