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Introduction
How often do we do something or hear something and say something like: “Man that was solid.
I am going to do that.
I am going to start following that system.
That will bless so many people I need to do it.
I believe and know this is true.”,
only to walk away and forget most of it?
Or how often have we been in a situation where we have been told to do something one way only to have someone come along and say to do it differently?
Only to find out that the first way was the way we were supposed to do it.
I have experienced this in many areas of work.
I know of several experiences where we were supposed to start running cows through the chute by the bosses orders only to have another guy say we need to start processing the calves first.
Then we do this and cause a massive mix up because the boss had a reason for running the cows first.
He was planning on loading them and hauling them to another area and had the trucks coming at a set time.
Now we ran the calves or were running the calves and the cows were not ready when the trucks arrived.
This was frustrating and can cause great grief but it is not nearly as bad as what the Galatians had done with the gospel.
This is what we see in the following text though.
Paul had explained the gospel to them and they had believed.
This belief was abandoned because another had come in and said they were wrong.
They said it was this other gospel they needed and the Galatians were confused and some started following that gospel.
Verses 6-10
We see that they have wandered from the true gospel in the following verses.
They had let someone creep in and convince them that the message that Paul had proclaimed was not the gospel.
This is found in verses 6-7.
Here Paul has some very strong words for those who have proclaimed these false messages.
In verses 8-9 he lays out a very intense punishment for those who have distorted the true message.
The gospel needed defended because some had decided to change the order.
They decided that Paul did not know what he spoke of.
They made a change without asking the boss.
Why is the gospel that Paul proclaimed so important?
Here is a very sound and solid reason from the New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic.
Euangelion and its cognates appear even more often in Paul’s letters than in the Synoptics.
(Euangelion is the Greek for gospel.
Since Paul wrote on it more than others it is a very important message to him.)
Here the message proclaimed by Jesus is seen more explicitly to have been embodied by him in the fact that he died for sinners, was buried and was raised from the tomb (1 Cor.
15:3–5).
Thus, Jesus not only declares the good news; he is the good news (Rom.
1:1–4, 9; 1 Cor.
9:12b; 2 Cor.
4:4).
Just as he is divine, eternal and unparalleled, so is the gospel; and just as this gospel must be proclaimed, so also it must be faithfully heard, received and applied for *salvation (1 Cor.
9:16–23).
Thus, for individuals, societies and the world as a whole, the gospel is nothing less than a matter of life and death.[1]
A matter of life and death.
That is very serious indeed.
It was, and is, the truth.
It needed no added message, nor did it need any subtraction.
It is the gospel of Jesus Christ, the gospel of grace, and that is the saving message, nothing more and nothing less.
These Judaizers were legalists and they had crept in and were telling the believers that to be really saved they must conform to the Jewish laws.
Therefore, in these first few verses we see Paul defending not only his apostleship but the gospel as well.
He was angered that these people had crept in and that they were able to deceive the Galatians.
Paul says that these men who had crept in were to be accursed.
Accursed means that whatever it is is cursed.
That it is to be cut off and removed.
This was the opposite of blessing.
Paul is placing a severe charge against those who have distorted the gospel.
They are under a curse under damnation.
The utter ruin of one devoted to destruction.
Simply, this is not a pleasant charge against one.
Paul is calling down severe punishment on the one who teaches a false gospel.
Many teachers and preachers today will face sever punishment one day for their distortion of the gospel.
James says that Jas.
3:1 “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.”
Many will face the music for their false teachings and their leading of many astray.
All in the prosperity gospel will face this severe punishment.
They teach that one can have health and wealth if they only give enough or have enough faith.
That the Lord will return to them 100 fold what they give.
They say that if you will only bless their ministries with x amount of money then the Lord will bless you.
This is all they teach and say.
They never teach that we are wicked and hell-bound sinners in need of a savior.
They never teach that Jesus came and suffered and died for us so we can have everlasting life.
They only teach that if you give more money you will receive more money.
This is an accursed gospel.
But it is not the only one.
Many others teach that we are saved by allegiance alone.
When we commit ourselves to Christ and swear allegiance to Him we are saved.
They say the word faith means allegiance not belief on the basis of the reliability of the one entrusted.
We believe that Christ will save us because of the work He did, not the work we do or if we have gave ourselves fully to Him in allegiance.
Then there are those who say we must confess Him as Lord and surrender ourselves fully to Him to be saved.
We must count the cost and commit to Him all things and stop all sins before we can be saved.
Some within this camp say we must do works to prove salvation and if you are not working then you are not saved.
These are all accursed gospels.
None of them base salvation on grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
That is the gospel.
Salvation by grace through faith in Christ.
That is it and if anyone says any different they are teaching a false gospel and are accursed.
In the first nine verses we see this deep defense of both.
Yet, in verse ten we see the strongest, minus the call for those who teach falsely to be accursed, defense in the epistle.
Verse 10
He tells them outright that he is not seeking the approval of man.
He tells them that if he was still trying to please man then he would not be a servant, (doulos) SLAVE, of Jesus.
This means, “The idea that he is a slave to Christ carries the sense of belonging to him—Christ has bought him and owns him.”[2]
Paul is not his own and therefore, this message is not his but His who called him.
This is what he goes on to say in the following verses.
Here he states, “For I would have you know…” (1:11).
“This was Paul’s way of saying, “I want to make this perfectly clear.”[3]Also
Paul was known for his sometimes-arrogant pronouncements.
Despite his reputation for [making these types of pronouncements], Paul could on occasion speak with great tentativeness and hesitation.
For example, concerning the status of virgins in the church at Corinth, Paul frankly confessed, “I have no command from the Lord” (1 Cor 7:25).
Again, concerning his own translation into the third heaven, he was uncertain about whether or not this experience was corporeal (2 Cor 12:2).
But here in Galatians, Paul was not dealing with a matter of secondary importance.
He was defending the very heart of the Christian faith against a sinister and subversive attack upon it.[4]
He wanted to make it perfectly clear where the power for salvation and this message of salvation came from.
He had already spoke of this message, the gospel, not coming from him in the previous verses, but he lays it out in a perfect story for them now.
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