The Lullaby of A Counterfeit Gospel: Galatians 3:1-5

The most evident aspect of your salvation is that the holy spirit is working in you and when an individual accepts the counterfeit they believe that they have to work in order to save themselves. Let me share something with you God never intended for you and I to say about self. That's why he sent his son Jesus Christ.

Good morning, good morning and welcome again to the Mount Olive Baptist Church and preaching and teaching Ministries and messages from the Mountain View. Glad that you with us we're so glad that we are able to share with you for the word of God today. What did you want me to wear the prayer Heavenly Father? We thank you God for your goodness to us. We pray the Lord that you would superintend over a Time father that you would bless my brothers and sisters father. Give them strength Lord God we pray and ask this in the master's name of Jesus Amen. Well, you know, we've been talkin about strides through freedom. And so since we've been talking about strides freedom for be coming from the book of Galatians and the Book of Galatians basically is next position on justification by faith and with it being an exposition on the justification by faith. It basically has three parts to it. First of all is what you called the gospel of grace defend it. Chapters one and two the gospel of grace explain chapters 3 and 4 and the gospel of grace applied to Paul has been talking about you know, what it means for a Believer to be saved by the grace of God and be justified by faith. He's been talking about that in chapters 1 and chapters 2 and now he's come to chapter 3 and chapter one. We covered what it means to deal with an authentic gospel the realness of the gospel and what it offers in Chapter 2 we talked about what happens when we allow cultural and religious ideas to superimpose itself upon the nature of the Gospel, but now we come to chapter 3 and you want to talk about what I call a counterfeit gospel if you will and I would say just I want to count encapsulate and say that it's it's a lullaby of a counterfeit gospel. Now when I was in banking when the things that that happened was they taught us how to recognize when we came across a counterfeit an done and I'm like what most folks would think you would think that what they would do is that they would give you a counterfeit that is a counterfeit dollar bill or a counterfeit 5 or 10 or 20 even 50. They would give you one of those he'll give you multiples of those in order for you to be able to detect when you finally came upon a counterfeit bill, but they didn't actually what they did was they just had us to become so familiar with a true of 110 V $2,100 bill that when we got in the midst of dealing with that which was a counterfeit bill. We were able to pick it out immediately. All is good with that and some types of ways when he's here in Chapter 3 of The Book of Galatians guitar with me there a Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3 verses 1 to 5 the text reads this I'm reading from the King James version if you will owe foolish Galatians who have Bewitched you that you should not obey the truth. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ have been evidently set forth crucified among you. This only what I learned of you received you the Spirit by The Works of the law or by the hearing of faith. Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit? Are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain he there for that minister to you the spirit and work of Miracles among you. He it by The Works of the law or by the hearing of faith. Not the Apostle Paul. What he does is he deals with this what I call the Lullaby of a counterfeit gospel and you know when you talk about a lullaby you talk about somebody kind of seeing a child to sleep in and this is the type of thing that happens to individuals who don't want to have the authentic gospel, but it's said what they do is they want to hear another gospel. If you will it snow here the text bring to attention these three sailing ideas that the Apostle Paul brings to us regarding this this counterfeit gospels. The first thing he says about this counterfeit gospel is is that it's one that asked without wisdom. In fact when he talked about it, the reason why he says oh foolish Galatians the idea here is is that you're acting without using wisdom wisdom is the application of knowledge and time and that's what we saying here is that you acting without the benefit of using wisdom as if you were cast under a spell. In fact some translation says that who has cast you under spell and that's why he says who at be with you quest cast you under spell if you will so that you choose to not obey the truth. You see the truth of the Gospel is such that it caused people to receive Jesus Christ Alone. Watch this solar crystals by faith alone solar feed a watch. This is not on that by grace alone Sola gratia in the name of Jesus alone solar crystals up to hear you have a situation where people are choosing to add on to the gospel as opposed to accept it full and free and at 332 Niles you first of all There is the denial of Truth Alaysia if you will that which is real and the real thing that happened here is is that Jesus Christ died and he die amongst all of us in such a way. That is like someone what about proclaiming an extra extra Read All About It Jesus Christ watch this a from Nazareth died on calvary's cross. And so what he saying here is that these Galatians have chosen to turn away from the true that which is real the fact that Jesus Christ did die, but I don't know only that but they also have a denial of the spirit. We see that coming along in Chapter 2 Infuse mean verse to he said he says here he says this is only what I learned from you learn from you received you the Spirit by The Works of the law or about the hearing of Faith chops when he gets the transition from chapped from from verse 1 Verse to he brings to the kitchen that they've already decided to act without wisdom and without acting with this wisdom. They didn't go on not to obey the truth. And then he said it's before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set for crucified among you that Jesus Christ himself was crucified but then he goes on they did not have a spirit. They didn't I what they heard that is the only one he's at this only when I learned of you receive you the Spirit by The Works of the law or by the hearing effect that watch this the Apostle Paul is asking rhetorical question. He's doing the same thing that you would do when you're dealing with a counterfeit is this in fact real? Does it has all the markings on the actual dollar bill does it has all the intricate things that they put inside of the money in order for you to be able to detect whether or not it's true or whether or not his fault. And so what the Apostle Paul says did this thing that you received? That is the truth is it such that you have decided to deny it? That's what the Apostle Paul brings out. This thing was publicly portrayed before you and yet still you would deny the truth. So he says did you not receive the spirit that it is is it because of the law that you received the spirit or did you receive it by Faith? Remember we talked about those three Solas solo Kristoff's that's Christ alone. Right then you have sole of feet 8 is faith alone see that and then you have if you will Solas scriptura that is the scripture alone, but then he said something else not only that this lullaby of a counterfeit Gospels. Sing the song of an individual acting out wisdom, but he also is sings the song of arguing for Works instead of the spirit. That is an individual believes. They can facilitate their faith by works instead of Watch Works of the flesh is stood up by the power of the Holy Spirit. You don't want to deal with the one of the evidences of the holy spirit is, you know, Jesus talks about in John chapter 16. He's at the Holy Spirit Will convicted convicted word of righteousness and judgment the Holy Spirit convicts watch this convinces and ultimately converts the individual to the truth of what's the Apostle Paul is talking about him the most active the most evidence of that the fact that an individual has been has been impacted by the spirit and they have a life of conversion Watch The Life is convert. The life is change of any man be in Christ he or she is a new creature. So we see that the person now has been totally converted. By the power of the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit by the spirit of God, they've been sealed to the day of redemption, but I don't miss you today Redemption by the spirit of God. They've been filled with the spirit so much so that now they can sing to themselves songs hymns and spiritual song because they have the Holy Spirit in him and I watched what happened to the midst of all of this. Now you have a person who has received all the benefits of the spirit who now tries to accomplish those things in the flesh. You don't want to think that you and I and we talked about the flash be talking about going back to the old Nation, you know, I was when you and I were in the old nature anytime a person stepped on a you know, that that that that corn that we had we gave them a piece of my mind that we could not afford to give away any time somebody cross this on 495. We had some things that we want to share with people. I'll temper with short out patients with show What we had no self-control, but what happened was when we got converted by The Spill with the spirit of God came in and took over. I live all of a sudden begin to change and become converted right before my very eyes in the person that we saw the mirror had experienced a miracle that God changed our lives God begin to bring back. Thanks to our remembrance Now by way of spirit that helps you and I and difficult time to begin to talk to us by way of his spirit and ways that we wouldn't listen before things that God was saying to us before that we were to spiritually deaf to hear now I ears will open to hear What God Says Yes To Love by the counterfeit gospels that they act without wisdom. They argue for Works instead of the spirit and because of that day and Brace human effort and deny the spiritual in futility something with you when the Holy Spirit is working inside of you. Guess what it's almost like it's working natural. This is the supernatural power of God working in your life with moving in your life helping you to get where you need to be bring it to your remembrance of those things. You need to know that helping you in The Mists of discouragement to overcome to abound if you will because the spirit of God is working you the most evident aspect of your salvation is that the holy spirit is working in you and when an individual except the counterfeit they believe that they have to work in order to save themselves. Let me share something with you God never intended for you and I to say about self. That's why he sent his son Jesus Christ. God sent his son Jesus Christ to die on Calvary school cost to a you and me might experience watch this eternal life by being connected to him after we believe that true that the Apostle Paul talks about not only that not only do that without wisdom. Not only argue. For the work instead of spirit, but they also accept the spiritually absurd. That is a big step that thing with your spiritually impossible to accept or two it to embrace and this particular case. These folks had decided that they wanted to continue in the fresh that thing which began the spirit. You know, I went to school down in Texas Dallas, Texas with the Dallas Seminary and I remember one of the things that we did with our family will be went down to Six Flags Over Texas. The largest wood roller coaster in the country is called the Texas Giant. Now I don't know about you. But when you get on the Texas Giant and I like to ride on the front and I like to see everything so I'm going to ride on the front. And so as you get on the Texas Giant what happens is it slowly makes its way around to the point. Where is going to go with the hill? And as it begins to make its way up the hill you hear the click click click click click, click click of that. Nice link chain, bringing the roller coaster all the way to its peak. And when it gets up to his Peak then the gravitational pull that the engineers have said inside of the roller coaster then is released and that that roller coaster begins to go down at a velocity of 4050 miles an hour with you and I who whoever is riding with us. It's sitting on the front of it in it, but just imagine just imagine if you will that a person decides that I think it all the way to the top of the roller coaster that they now want to get off and go down by their own power. See, that's what it's like that's that's what it would be like what individual who has been saved by the supernatural power of God to didn't try. Do they live their life In the Flesh to the beautiful thing about the power of the holy spirit is it energizes you and me for us to be able to live by what the Holy Spirit and what God wants us to do it empowers us to live watch this not by flesh. But by the grace of God. So here we see the acceptance of survive me because what they say is God saved you by the law and not Miracles liquid says there are doing to text versus a Ford 500 pieces. Are you so foolish have begun the spirit and not now made perfect by the flesh. Have you suffered so many things in vain if he get being Bank in other words was this whole thing that took place something that never really took place at all. He says he there for that Minister you the spirit and working miracles among you Duffy do it by The Works of the law. And I'm worth what he saying is is that God saved you by the law that we know that that's not possible. The law doesn't save anyone the law can Vicks as we know that no one can keep the 10 commandments. No one can keep the 613 doubt that those those dowel shells and thou shalt not to Reno That by The Works of the law. No, man, shall be justified. But the Apostle Paul says in order to bring the bring this word home to you and only bring the absurdity of what you trying to embrace over the grace of God in order for me to bring home to you how absurd you believing that the works of the Lord would save you all I'm saying to you that God chose to do that over this. What cause God didn't God did not save us by The Works of the law because the works of the law show no show no flesh be justified. But God what he did was he saved us by the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ you pay for a citizen by us claiming that truth. We did Aaron to South Pacific relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and by doing that what happens if we automatically experience America you say Reverend, how can we experience a miracle by accepting the fact that God didn't save us by the law but he save America or first of all as it says again and 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 If any man be in Christ he or she is a new creature. That's the first miracle that we experience that I lights have been reconciled to God the fact that we've been justified by faith, but the fact that you and I now on no longer the same person. We've been translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son that another self it is a miracle but the Apostle Paul, If you want to believe in that absurdity, you have to believe that God saved you by the law and not by a miracle or beloved or beloved God today. He saves people by the miracle of Salvation by the law and not by faith that you and I both know that the Bible says here and Hebrews that without faith. It is difficult to please God. No, it's hard to please God. No, it is impossible to please God and so we know that is by faith that God has called you and I to be saved matter fact God gives us the best example of it was Abraham Abraham believed God watch this had faith in God and God imputed unto him righteousness. That is Abraham didn't have righteous this the only way that he could receive righteousness was that he had to ask. I'll be leaving God and when he trusted in God he believed in God invested in God. Ogden gave him a righteousness that he needed in order for him to be declared righteous. That's why the text says in Romans chapter 5 verse 1 therefore being justified by faith that is declared. Right just declare righteous as if you have not send it all he says now we have peace with God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ old beloved beloved love it. If you are listening to the lullaby listen folks out here today who I working themselves into a frenzy if they were a horse that would be lad. They would lather themselves and works in order to just rather than just accept Christ free gift of Salvation never wear the work themselves into a frenzy when all God says if you just trust me, you know, it's amazing to me when I have conversations with people who who are religious who say what I kept the Ten Commandments or I go to church every day I give money or I do this and you try to explain to them that that is nothing that you can do in order to Burn Salve should you receive salvation by simply believing in the Lord Jesus Christ? That's the thing that you do, you know, that's the thing about this this thing that he brings out here. He says he says watch this. The Lullaby of the counterfeit gospel is one you act without wisdom. That is you don't believe the obvious truth that Jesus Christ died on the cross number to you argue for Works instead of the spirit another word to you choose to try to complete and do in your flesh with God is already done by the spirit and number three you accept the spiritually observe that God chose to save you by law instead of Grace that God chose to save you watch this without the benefit of Miracles. That is you not translate to the Kings Dear Son your translated to a world of religiosity and churchianity know the Apostle Paul says that in order for you to have received Christ you had to believe in him and therefore not to understand that is to be foolish and this particular case the glacier machine seen as foolish because they knew what took place with regard to Jesus was they never knew of anything of the law because they were not Jews. So for them to embrace the law Judaizers over the fact that they had faith in Jesus Christ made them very very foolish people and you know, you have people today like that in the church. They con people in the believe in certain things about their salvation when when in reality, they never taken the time to investigate their faith for themselves. Get a what what is it about a counterfeit that that makes things so terrible. Well it what what what what it is is cost more. You know when you counterfeit something, that means that that that that the original and the authentic maker of it has to put more work into making sure that everyone knows his authentic but in the case of Believers the thing that happens with a counterfeit gospel is it cheapens the grace of God and it also diminishes not insignificant, but in terms of the minds of people that is exposed to and cheapest the salvation of Jesus Christ the great sacrifice on calvary's Cross has something with you today. There's some No Doubt Who have chosen? Not to embrace. the miracle of salvation You know, the question was asked to a a person who happened to have been what we would call in the vernacular a wino. What recently got in converted? I saw the person has to say Do You Believe In Miracles you that do I believe in miracles? You say? Yes, I believe in miracles. He said you mean the Miracles like the water being chased in a while. He said no, I believe in the miracle with wine was changed into clothes with wine was changed into Furniture. Wehrwein was changed in to helping people get what they need. Is he he understood what God can do when he trusted his life to him. And so I want to see what your day. Would you trust your life to the Lord Jesus Christ and watch a miracle take place and not believe or embrace the Lullaby of a counterfeit gospel. simply simple essay, Lord, Jesus Forgive me my sins. I am a sinner coming to my heart take my life and make me the person you want me to be in the Bible says that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's his promise to you. And if you do that today, if you do it right now, I promise you that Jesus will not fail. Make you one of his. You buy with me. Father we thank you. For loving us enough to send the best that you had in the form of your son Jesus Christ dying on calvary's cross for our sins. We pray to Heavenly Father that we Father who know the Lord Jesus would share him with others. And for those who don't know him on the side of my voice God they would choose to make Jesus the Savior Lord today God. We ask that in the matchless name of Jesus, Amen. Well beloved. We look forward to seeing you on next week when we get to talk about what it means to be a part of confirmed in Christ will talk about that next week until next week. God bless you. Richly my blood by bye for now.