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1) We are face to face with a truth that is of utmost importance. We find these warnings through the whole New Testament these warnings of false teachers an their false doctrines. And sadly to say the church is ignoring these warnings today. And this of course has brought in heresies , schisms and divisions, a people who are tossed to fro by every strange wind of doctrine.Grasping at every new teaching that comes around and tickles their ear. This is a very serious matter the Apostle use vey strong language

“I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel” (Gal1:6) What a most horrible condition. They were being moved from one position into another and the fellowship with God being broken by following these false doctrines . Being led away from the truth about Christ the only way to God. The Apostle John puts it like this; “Who so ever transgresseth an abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God”() False teaching always removes a man from God it takes him out of the realm of grace’ into the realm of the law and condemnation. This is a parallel of what the great Apostle say in the 5th chapter “ yea have fallen from grace”(5:4) He tells them that those who are perverting the gospel shall be accursed. “But there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.......ect ....let him be accursed “(V6) that is eternally doomed by God. He tells them in the 3rd chapter this; ‘’O foolish Galatians who has bewitched you that you obey not the truth before who very eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you”(3:1)this great act of God was not hid, it was made known publickly before the whole world at that time..The Galatians knew this not in a mere way of knowledge but the meaning of why the Son of God had come into this world to die on a cross to bring them unto God. They knew that he had been raised from the dead and seated at the right hand of the Father. They were eye witness of what took place on the day of Pentecost the sending of the Holy Spirit and the great miracles at the hands of the Apostles. They had received the gospel with great joy the Apostle say in the 5th chapter and the 15th verse “ye would have plucked out your on eye an given it to me “but now he ask them this ; “ Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth “(5:15-16) Oh say the Apostle “I am afraid of you lest I have labour in vain “(5:11)

t there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.......ect ....let him be accursed “(V6) that is eternally doomed by God. He tells them in the 3rd chapter this; ‘’O foolish Galatians who has bewitched you that you obey not the truth before who very eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you”(3:1)this great act of God was not hid, it was made known publickly before the whole world at that time..The Galatians knew this not in a mere way of knowledge but the meaning of why the Son of God had come into this world to die on a cross to bring them unto God. They knew that he had been raised from the dead and seated at the right hand of the Father. They were eye witness of what took place on the day of Pentecost the sending of the Holy Spirit and the great miracles at the hands of the Apostles. They had received the gospel with great joy the Apostle say in the 5th chapter and the 15th verse “ye would have plucked out your on eye an given it to me “but now he ask them this ; “ Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth “(5:15-16) Oh say the Apostle “I am afraid of you lest I have labour in vain “(5:11)

2)Now what had happen to these Christian people ? They become Christians ,they had been converted and having great joy, enjoying the forgiveness of sin.They had become Gods people taken from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of Gods dear Son.Now there was a sect of jews who believed that Jesus was the Christ but they also believed that you must keep the law of Moses as well They came to these gentile Christians and told them that the message which the Apostle Paul had preached was true ,but that he had not told them the whole truth . That in addition to believing that Jesus is the Christ ,that he as bore their sins ,that he was put to death in their stead they must also be circumcised . They must keep the law as well, they put this addition to the gospel. They therefore began to follow these false teachers and their false doctrines . Theses jew felt that what the gentiles needed was to become a jew ,it was to the jews whom God had given the law, to them were given covenants and promises. The gentiles were outside of these things and therefore for the covenants and promises to apply to them they must become a jew . Now this shows the subtlety of false teachers and their message. We can see clearly that hinduism, spiritualism, buddhism and those that follow Muhammad are false teachers and we therefore reject them. But according to the new testament there is another type of false teacher and it is they who use the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. these people seem that if anyone is for the truth it is they. Our Lord put like this; “Beware of the false prophets which come to you in sheep clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves”() They look just like the sheep, they sound like the sheep. They seem if anyone is for the truth it is they.The Apostle Paul puts it like this; “For such are false apostles transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no marvel for satan himself is transformed into an angle of light . Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness.”(). The new testament teaching is that these false teachers are right among the church ,they are not outside of the walls of the church but inside the walls of the Christian church The new testament is full of the warnings. Peter in his second epistle puts it like this;” But there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who shall privily bring damnable heresies “() John in his 1st epistle warns that it is the last times , just as they have heard that the antichrist should come so he is in the world now . He goes on to tell them that these antichrist were among the Christian church, he puts it like this . “Little children it is the last times and ye have heard that the anti christ shall come even now are there many anti christ whereby we know that it is the last time They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would have no doubt have continued with us etc..”()

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that in addition to believing the Jesus is the Christ

PERVERT THE GOSPLE

1)Now what false teacher do says the Apostle is to pervert the gospel of Christ .Which means to reverse , to change to the opposite , to turn about This is always their method , they use biblical term but apply different meaning to the words, they use all the great biblical words justification, faith, regeneration, the Christ , sanctification. But they twist the meanings for their own profit are we can look at it like this: they add to the gospel, are they may take away from the gospel . Their are those who have great deal to say about faith but the definition they attach to it is not the biblical one . They say that what faith is, is the ability to cause things to come to pass . By faith they say you can cause your destiny to come to pass.Oh they say by faith we can have all the riches we want in this world all we have to do is believe God for them. But the biblical view of faith is that we receive all the spiritual blessing from God that were secured by the Lord Jesus Christ on our behalf . We are not producing something by faith but receiving what the Lord Jesus Christ has done. The whole bases of their doctrine is that the Christian has become a little god small g, and is therefore able through the power of faith to produce his destiny. They say that if a Christian gets sick it because of his lack of faith that he just does not realize who he is and the power that he has.This is nothing more than a repetition of what took place in the garden of Eden at the very fall of man. When the devil came to Eve and said that God was being unfair to them he was holding them down by not letting them eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods” () Its the same old lie of the devil , they have added to the gospel and taken away from it and placed their manufactured definitions in

2)There are those who have a great deal to say concerning the Lord Jesus Christ but have take away from the gospel .They deny his deity that he is truly God, less than the gospel . But yet they still claim that they are Christian, they come and knock on our doors and say that they believe the same thing that we believe . But yet they are trying to convert us to their religion.But why are they wasting their time with us if they believe the same thing ?There is only one answer they do not and that is why they are trying to convert us. They have perverted the gospel, they have deny the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.They do not believe that he has all power they do not believe that he is the Son of God the second Person in the Trinity. They say he was just a man, a great prophet but not Almighty God

3) They deny the virgin birth.They say that they do not believe in miracles , but they say thats gospel. They do not believe in the miraculous and therefore they reject the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ . There are those who take out the substitutionary atonement their gospel is that what took place on the cross was God giving man view of his great love . That in spite of man putting his Son to death he forgives , the whole idea of Christ dying in our stead is complete rejected. The whole idea that a loving God would pour out his wrath upon his only Son and put him to death thereby , is unthinkable. No no they say God is a God of love and any idea of Gods wrath is rejected ,many believe in what is called universalism , which means all will be save in the end

4)There are those who bring in their additions they say Christ died for our sins but after we come to that knowledge we must keep our salvation by our works, they like the expression , God has done his part now we must do ours. By which they mean that Gods part was Christ dying on the cross and our part is to keep ourselves saved by our good works . But let us be fair there is another form that goes to the other extreme and say that because we are saved by grace is does not matter what you do.But what the gospel declares is that the man who is saved by grace is the man in whom this grace by which he was saved produces in him good works.

5) These false gospel come to us like this as well; they say that in addition to Christ dying on the cross you must be baptized. Now I am not saying the a man should not be baptized , but what I am saying is that it is not essential to salvation, it does not save anyone. We are baptized because we are commanded to by our Lord. Baptism is a outwardly sign that we have enter into covenant with God, it is never to be at the center , Christ is at the center. But there are those who always put it at the center they argue that the mode of baptism is of the up most importance . They say that if a man is only sprinkle with water and not full immersed then he is going to hell. They give the whole of their time to this. There are those that say that you must be baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that if you have been baptized into the name of the Father , Son , and Holy Spirit than you are bound for hell, you must be baptised into the name of the Son.

6)Many preach that in addition to believing in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ you must speak with tongues. They are adding to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel message is the man is made right with God by the work of the Son of God alone and we receive this great blessing of God by grace only through faith alone apart from any activity of ours.

7)There are those who deny the Holy Trinity. They say that what the bible teaches is that God reveals him self as the Father Son and the Holy Spirit . Therefore denying the three Persons of the Holy Trinity

ANOTHER GOSPEL

1)The result is that they are preacher another gospel than that which was give by Christ to the apostles . They are therefore preaching and entirely different Jesus . And those’s who receive this this perverted gospel are receiving a different Jesus and they are receiving the testimony of and evil spirit And are therefore receiving by this spirit in which hey have received certain false experiences. These experiences are a counterfeit to the real testimony of the Holy Spirit of God. Our Lord put it like this ;

‘’Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out many devil’s and in thy name done many wonderful works And than I will profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity”()

These people have had these great experiences , they felt that they had done wonderful thing for the Lord , but it was all fraud . Listen to the way the Apostle Paul puts it to the Corinthians

“But I fear lest by any means the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ . “For he that cometh preach another Jesus whom we have not preached or if ye receive another spirit which ye have not received are another gospel which ye have not accepted ye might do well bear with him”() I have no hesitation in say that this is the spirit of the anti christ which John warns us of in his 1st epistle

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“Beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether hey are of God because many false prophets have gone out into the world”()