BE LOYAL TO THE GOSPEL OF GRACE

BE LOYAL TO THE GOSPEL OF GRACE
Sunday, 2nd February 2020
Pastor Victor

Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Grace is the gospel. Apostle Paul in our theme scripture used grace and the gospel of Christ interchangeably. This implies that grace is the gospel and gospel of Christ is grace. You have to humble yourself and accept this truth.

Thus if what you are preaching does not have the undertone of grace, then it is not the true gospel that Jesus died to give to us. I believe some preachers need to overhaul the message that they are preaching. How can a preacher preach that if you don’t live right God will not accept you? This is not the gospel, for we are accepted by God on the account of Christ.

What angered Apostle Paul (which I believe angers God today) was the disloyalty that was shown by Galatian church to the grace Gospel. Some folks came from Judea and told the Galatian church that, until they are circumcised they can’t be saved. The Galatian church quickly moved away from the grace Gospel that Paul preached to them which brought them salvation through faith, unto the law that brings men into bondage. This is disloyalty to the gospel of grace.

I know there are people who are preaching extreme things concerning the grace gospel. But that does not change the fact that grace is the gospel of Christ. The only balance to the grace gospel is faith and not the law, for we are saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8). I counsel you to keep on believing and preaching the grace gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16).

Apostle Paul made a solemn declaration that we all need to take a clue from: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed (Galatians 1:8‭-‬9)

If you have drifted away from the grace gospel, either by persecution or wrong teaching, it is time to come back to the true gospel that liberates men from guilt and condemnation and delivers an inheritance unto them. Scripture even counsels us to grow in the soil of grace (2 Peter 3:18).

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