Bless this offering to you, then we can put the use to further emission on this world.
Let's see a blessed book, the gift and the giver.
In Jesus' name we pray.
in your Bibles, do Galatians chapter one. Galatians chapter one. Please follow along as we read the
entire chapter. Galatians chapter one, the Bible reads.
I, Paul and Apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father
who raised him from the dead, and all the brethren which are with me unto the churches
of Galatia.
Grace be to you in peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself
for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the
will of God and our Father, to whom be glory forever and ever, amen.
I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ
unto another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and would
pervert the gospel of Christ.
But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you, then 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,
For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men?
For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For ye have heard of my
conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God and wasted it.
profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more
exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who
separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his son
in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with
flesh and blood. Neither when I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles
before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus.
Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days.
But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
Now the things which I write unto you, Behold, before God, I lie not.
Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Silesia.
and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ.
But they had heard only that he which persecuted us in times past now
preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
And they glorified God in me."
Brother Robert, could you pray for the service?
Amen, all right, we are in Galatians one,
and the title of the sermon,
if I was gonna give it one, would be No Other Gospel.
And I'm not gonna cover the whole chapter,
gonna leave the very end bit for next week,
but I just wanna mainly focus upon
what Paul talks about in the very beginning of this epistle.
So, but just a quick overview of the book of Galatians,
of Galatians is to nail down the fact that salvation is not of works of the law of Moses,
that man is completely justified by faith alone, and not of works.
It's very clear what the whole book is about,
and this topic is nailed down in every single chapter of the book Seven Ways to Sunday.
And Paul makes it very clear salvation is not of works.
And I don't know how works salvation,
people can even preach out of these passages
and then look at themself in the mirror afterwards.
It's just super clear.
And so just a breakdown of the of the different chapters Paul in chapter number one addresses the heresy of work salvation and
Doesn't mince words about that. He thinks
About those what if he doesn't mince words about what he thinks about those that teach works based salvation
He also gives details of his conversion and post conversion
Not given in the book of Acts chapter 2 Paul recalls the Acts 15 controversy
false brethren of the Pharisees telling the brethren they must be
circumcised to keep the law of Moses or they cannot be saved. He also tells of
his showdown with Peter of Judaizing and not being a respecter of persons.
Chapter 3 Paul teaches about Abraham being the father of the faith and that
and he was preaching the gospel that he was preaching that he was preached the
gospel excuse me and saved by faith that the laws our schoolmaster to bring us
and not a mode of salvation.
He also teaches very clear that Jesus was the promised seed
and that saved people are chosen,
not the physical children.
Chapter four, he teaches about the saved people,
about saved people being sons and heirs,
also his doubting of their salvation
of the people at the churches in Galatia.
If they continue on believing
in this heresy of work salvation,
He also shows us that Hagar and her son are the bondage and Sarah and Isaac are the faith and promise and an allegory
Chapter 5 Paul establishes that we are not to be entangled with the old covenant
Because we are free from the curse of the law
That we are to walk in the spirit and not in the flesh and what I mean by not entangled with the old covenant
I mean that we are not under the old covenant. We are in the New Testament
And so we are supposed to follow the teachings of the New Testament, but that doesn't mean
The things, everything in the law are things that we're not supposed to follow anymore.
Obviously, we're not allowed to cross-dress and be sodomites and all this other stuff like people just run loose with all this stuff
Those those moral laws are still in effect. You know, it's not okay
You didn't see Jesus hanging around with a bunch of queers. It never says that a New Testament ever one time
So anyway, we'll get to that as we get to chapter 5 but and then chapter 6 is
You know, he talks about reaping and sowing
Final warnings and benediction. So that's kind of just a breakdown of a very short breakdown of the whole book and
itself, so let's dig into
Galatians 1 verse 1 and we're gonna and basically Paul has a signature or customary greeting that he kind of gives
To every church when he starts out and I kind of feel like that was his way of just saying hey, this really is me
This really is the apostle Paul, and the way he signs off on his letters is similar, you know, he kind of has a similar way.
Look at verse number one, the Bible says, Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.
And he really kind of comes out shooting here and just wants to make it really clear that men did not make him an apostle.
it was God that made him an apostle as specifically Jesus Christ made him an
apostle and God the Father who raised him from the dead. So this is important
because people often called Paul's apostleship into question
And you see that in chapters and epistles in the Bible where, you know, he feels like he has to defend himself like in 2 Corinthians.
But even today people continue to say it.
Even Jews continue to say, you know, and just other people will say that Paul's teachings are not right and we have to go by what Jesus says.
But Paul was an apostle of Jesus. He taught the same things that Jesus taught.
He didn't teach different things. He just backed up what Jesus was saying.
Jesus gave him special revelation to teach to us.
And so he expounded on the things that Christ had already taught when he came to this earth.
Paul was a legitimate apostle. He was legitimately picked.
Now...
But people also, whenever they don't like the truth of what a preacher is saying even today,
and through the years, will always be naysayers calling their ordination into question,
calling their legitimacy into question. People do that all the time.
The naysayers of new IFP pastors constantly do this and, you know, other BAP, you know,
they act like we're like Baptist Briders or something.
like well this person you know was that was ordained by that person and that person wasn't in this
perfect Baptist apostolic succession or something and you know they they don't like writer doctrine
Baptist writer doctrine is like basically you have to be able to trace your lineage of a Baptist
church all the way back to John the Baptist good luck with that
But they think that they can and they actually try to say, well, this church was like if you like they take it so far that if one of the Baptist churches in your supposed lineage of Baptist churches ever took communion with real wine,
then that breaks the succession. You are not a real church.
I mean, that's how
And most of these Baptist brighter churches
are missionary Baptist churches.
Who's heard of a missionary Baptist church?
I've gone to a missionary Baptist church.
And they won't even take your baptism.
If you're an independent fundamental Baptist,
not a missionary Baptist,
they won't take your baptism in a lot of cases.
So, they're really weird about baptism, they'll exclude people from the Lord's Supper, if
like, say, I remember one time we had a Sunday night church and we never had visitors coming
on Sunday nights, and some visitors were there and they were just kind of going to hang around
and talk or whatever and then the pastor's like, I'm sorry but we're going to have to
ask you to leave, and it's like, it was super embarrassing, it's weird and they never came
I don't blame them because it's like if you're gonna do that that's fine, but don't do it on a church night when
You know
Visitors could show up. You should probably just do it on an off night or something if that's what you believe
And I don't have a problem with people believe you know saying hey only church members are allowed to do it
Because you know that you can run your church how you want as long as it's not super heresy
But you know to exclude people that you you have an open public service where people are there
see ya
I don't know it's always struck me as weird, but
But, you know, how people always just constantly calling peoples, this is what people do.
This is, you know, they attack Jesus, they attack the apostles, they attack the apostles
men and they're still doing it today, attacking God's men and telling them, you know, telling
people they're not real pastors, they're cult leaders, they're this, they're that.
And we deal with this on a weekly basis.
You want to act like I'm not one of the OG apostles, I am an apostle, but not of men,
but of Christ himself. Christ handpicked the apostle Paul, look at Acts chapter nine,
turn over to Acts chapter nine. Next week we'll go a little more deeper into Paul's origin story,
so to speak, and I'm sure most of the people know a lot about the apostle Paul, but maybe if you don't.
What I want to talk about next week
is there's a controversy about whether Paul was saved
on the road to Damascus or whether he was saved
after three days by Ananias.
I know where most of you fall there,
but I do want to show both sides of the story
and then I'll tell you what I believe
and then you can make up your mind for yourself.
But I just, I like to show both sides of it
and you know, I think that there's
some wiggle room where you can think one way or the other,
but I still think that the side that I believe is right.
So I'm going to teach it like I'm right so
But anyway, it'll be interesting next week. So make sure you show it for it
But let's see and it acts chapter 9 verse 13. This is after Paul's conversion. He's already saved here
Oh, no, no, it's not. Well, I just gave myself up. Anyway acts 9 verse 13
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I've heard by many of this man how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem.
So this is when Paul or the Lord's talking to Ananias and telling him what to do with Paul and
It says and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name
But the Lord said unto him go thy way for he is what to say there a chosen vessel unto me
So is that red letter in your Bible, anybody?
Anybody got a red letter edition?
Is it red letters?
Well, and I know that not everybody goes by that,
but I'm pretty sure that's Jesus talking to him, right?
So he says, the Lord said unto him,
Go thy way for he is a chosen vessel unto me
To bear my name before the Gentiles and kings
and the children of Israel, for I will show him how great things he must suffer.
for my namesake. So there's no doubt that Jesus called the Apostle Paul, he's a
chosen vessel. When someone's called they're chosen, right? Or when they, yeah.
So...
The Apostle Paul is right in Galatians 1 to say that he was not of man but called by Jesus himself.
And Paul was chosen by Jesus and Matthias was chosen by the Apostles.
They cast lots to decide and basically you never see people casting lots ever again after that.
And the whole New Testament which is kind of, you know, it kind of shows that God wants to go away from things like that.
in the New Testament. You never see it happen again. As a matter of fact, you never hear of
Matthias ever again in the Bible. But what do you hear a lot about? The Apostle Paul. And as a
matter of fact, after a certain time point in the book of Acts, you don't hear about any of the
apostles besides the Apostle Paul after that. And most of the epistles are written by the Apostle
Paul. Half the New Testament is written by the Apostle Paul. And he did a lot of great things. So
anyway,
Galatians 1-2 it says,
And all the brethren which are with me
unto the churches of Galatia.
So church is plural.
We do not believe in this church
in the universal church.
We don't believe that the world is made up
of a universal church of all believers.
And that everybody that believes
all these different things are all one big church.
Now, at one point, when everybody's in heaven and all things are said and done, there will
be one big church in heaven or whatever, but that's not here, that's not now.
Right now, there's individual congregations called churches, and the proof of it is right
here, under the churches in Galatia.
So individual churches, and Jesus is the head of each individual church.
churches. So, and so churches plural and we don't believe in denominations. We
don't believe in hierarchies with, you know, popes. That's what the Catholic
actually means. Catholic means universal. So if you say the Catholic church, you're
saying that you believe in the universal church. That is what they teach.
And they have the hierarchies, and boy do they have them.
And you know that biblical position they have called the Cardinals?
You guys have read about that in the Bible, right?
Or the Monks, have you read about that?
And how to give their funny haircuts,
have you seen that in the Bible?
Have you heard about the wizard outfits that the Pope wears?
And the funny hat?
And all the weird things that they say?
No, because it's not a real church.
it's super corrupt and super wicked. It's actually just a pagan cult and they
just kind of put Jesus on there. They're not really a Christian church. As a
matter of fact when you go to the door sometimes you'll say, so do you go to a
church or what kind of church you go to and they'll go over Catholic. So are you
Christian? No, we're Catholic.
who's had that happen to him before, lots of people, right?
So they don't even claim a lot of times to be Christian.
They just want to make sure that you know
that they're Catholic, they're different.
And boy are they.
But
I think a lot of people are generally sincere, grew up in it, that's in their culture, a lot of times being a Catholic is just a cultural thing, they don't even really go to church, maybe they got sprinkled as a baby, did communion or did their first communion, and don't they do something else like confirmation, yeah.
And then, yeah, just all this tradition.
And then they live like the devil most of the other time.
But there are some died-in-the-wool Catholics, Jesuits,
and they do believe the doctrines of the Catholic Church.
But anyway, this is an assignment about the Catholic Church.
I just wanted you to see that it says
unto the churches at Galatia.
There was multiple churches that the apostle Paul
planted in that area.
So, but our church is, sometimes people go,
We go to a non-denom church,
has people said that to you at the door before?
We go to, it's almost like they're saying,
you know, when we say we're a Baptist church,
they wanna make sure to throw it out there that they're,
we go to a non-denom church,
like they're better than us or something
cause we don't have a denomination.
But I always say we're not denominational either,
because we're not.
There we don't have a denomination a denomination is where someone is the head of the headquarters and all this other stuff
So our church is non-denominational in the sense that we do not answer to a pope or a hierarchy or a board of elders
Outside of our own church
We answered the pastor he meant is when he was the pastor of the church and then when he ordained me and cut the umbilical cord
So to speak we became sure foundation Baptist church and we are no longer called a verity Baptist church now
We are an independent church and we do not
We're not beholden to any other human institutions.
So then we you know when we start church plants or satellites
They are under the authority of our church until an elder is ordained and then they become independent and autonomous
Or self-governed is basically what that means as our church is now now
I say self-governed as in that church is self-governed by the pastor and then the pastor is governed by the Bible
By the Lord Jesus Christ himself, so and whatever's in the Bible are the rules of the church
So if we're getting something wrong
Then we got to fix it and the Bible is the thing that fixes what our problems are
The Apostle Paul started many many churches and had the authority to ordain elders as an apostle
And those elders beget other elders
as they trained them to take on those other churches.
There were no doubt other men that were trained
in those churches and sent to start other churches.
So you probably had the local homegrown pastors
that sprung up in those areas, they got saved.
And then, you know, he took Titus
and sent him to different places.
And speaking of Titus, let's go ahead and turn to Titus,
chapter one, verse number five.
Titus chapter one, verse number five.
It says in Titus 1.5, it says,
for this cause left I.V. in Crete,
that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting,
or the things that are lacking, right?
And ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee.
So the Apostle Paul left Titus there in Crete,
which is just a small island,
that he should ordain elders in every city.
So God's will is that there's pastors for every church,
in every place that there's been one planted,
in every city, and even in a small island
where there's multiple little cities,
he still wants pastors in all those places.
So the apostle Paul had the authority to do these things.
And...
Then the pastor had the authority to ordain other elders as this verse shows now turn to Acts 14 verse 23
Acts 14 verse 23
now the apostle Paul was sent out of
the church at Antioch
but didn't he say he was an apostle of
Jesus sent him not man, right?
But man did ordain him and sent him on that mission
those trips, right? But why didn't Paul just go without being ordained? Well
because he put himself under the authority of that church. That's what I
believe because otherwise why why would he do that? You know the Holy Ghost
called him in Barnabas and said set me you know set them apart and then they
prayed and fasted and laid hands on them and sent them out.
So they were accountable to a certain extent to the church at Antioch.
Why did they always come back from their missionary journey and go back to the church at Antioch?
Why do Baptist churches always have their missionaries that they send out come back and report at the church
that they're sent out of? Who's been to Baptist Church at Old IFB? Baptist Church is where they do that.
Why do they do that? Because that church was sent out of that church. They were ordained out of that church
That's just something that tradition still does now though. You're not gonna find the word missionary in the Bible
It's just not there
But you will find the word evangelist and you will find pastor, but there's no more apostles.
So, but Paul was an apostle, but he also did the work of an evangelist and he did the work of a church planter.
There's just no doubt that Paul did the work of a church planter.
He had authority over the churches that he started and then he would ordain them.
Look at what it says in verse 14-23.
And when they had ordained them elders in every church
and had prayed with fasting,
they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed.
Sounds like they're kinda cutting the cord there, doesn't it?
Right?
They commended them to the Lord.
They're like, you know, you're in the Lord's under the Lord now.
And they ordained them, they sent them, and that was it.
So, and I'm not saying that Paul wasn't invited back, I'm sure he was,
but I think that once they ordained those elders and prayed,
they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed they ordained.
So they were in charge of the church after that.
Now look back at Galatians chapter 1 verse 3, Galatians 1-3.
And the rest of the introduction there is grace be to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ
He says similar things in other epistles and who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world
according to the will of God and our Father to whom be glory
forever and ever, amen. So this is kind of
standard introduction, but I did want to kind of cover that part about him saying
you know, he wanted to make sure to say I'm not called by other men.
I'm called of God to do these things. So
look at verse 6, it says, I marvel
that you're so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto
Gospel he's really shocked to see this take place because Paul is the one that won these people to Christ
He started these churches and he's like I marvel that you're so soon removed
It's like this is seems to have happened in a short space
But you know if these guys some of these people aren't really saved
You know sometimes there's people that you know, it doesn't pan out
They really didn't get saved or they pretended or whatever, but he's shocked by this
It's not like Paul's a false prophet. Paul just there might have just been some false converts or
these guys that came to Judaize them or whatever are so slick that they've just kind of talked them
into it. Maybe they already had a Jewish background and they're like oh yeah maybe we do have to do
this. But he's you know but look at what it says into the grace of Christ onto another gospel. So
we're saved by grace through faith, right?
So if it's something else, then it's not the gospel.
If it's not the grace of Christ, it's not the gospel.
We're saved by grace through faith,
not of anything else that we've done, not of works.
I'm not gonna have you turn to all these verses,
but I'm gonna read some of them for you just the first time
that grace is ever used in the Bible, Genesis 6-8.
but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah, all the way back to Noah,
he was saved not because he was a good person
or because he was, obviously he probably was a good person,
but he was not saved because he was like super holy
or whatever, he was just saved because he found grace
in the eyes of the Lord.
He was saved because he called upon the name of the Lord,
he had faith in the Lord,
and grace goes all the way back to them.
John 1 17 says, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
So Moses gave the law, that was his covenant that he brought forth.
that was to what? To show people before Christ came. It was a schoolmaster to
bring us unto Christ and it was put in place for transgressions because while
you know he couldn't just have people continue to act a fool and and the world
would have just got worse and worse so there had to be something in there to
try to restrain and help people understand hey you can't just live
like this and those were the rules so and so that covenant was there
until Christ came Christ brought in that covenant and that covenant is grace so
let's see Romans chapter 3 I will have you turn there turn to Romans chapter 3
so I mean there's just no doubt I mean I can't even go to all the verses because we just don't
have time for that but I want to take you through some passages here of Paul just clearly talking
about grace
And what is grace?
A lot of people use acronyms and stuff like that
for the word grace.
Grace can mean different things.
You know, if someone always is tripping and falling
and just hitting their head like Jack used to do all the time,
my grandpa, if someone's always was really clumsy
would say, hey, grace, you know, like,
you're not very graceful in your movements or something.
And so you're clumsy.
So he would say that to make fun of you, call you grace.
but anyway, grace doesn't always mean what it means here, but this grace is talking about
I've heard it said this way,
God's riches at Christ's expense.
So God gives you the riches,
the heavenly gift of salvation
because Christ paid for it for us.
We don't deserve to be saved.
We don't deserve it because we are sinners
and we wouldn't be saved at all unless Christ paid for it
and redeemed us from the curse of the law.
So look what it says in verse 24 in Romans 3.
freely by his grace. Another term for grace would be free. You know, we get salvation for
free. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom
God has set forth to be a propitiation, which means like an appeasement for God's wrath,
For the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God
So God for bears the judgment that we should get and he just kind of just gets rid of that bill
So like when you're you know when someone for bears a bill that you have or something like they say oh, yeah
You don't have to pay that
That's what it is, and it's because of Christ, but that is what grace is. It's free
So to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the
Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus
So there is a prerequisite for being saved by grace is that you have to believe in Jesus
That's all you have to do. Believe in Jesus.
Return to Romans chapter 4, verse number 3.
So what's Paul upset about in this book?
That they're so soon removed from the grace
that is in Christ Jesus. So they have
taken themselves out of that by being
Judaized by these people. And we'll get into that more as we get into
Romans chapter four, verse three, it says,
for what sayeth the scripture?
Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him
for righteousness.
It's just like when we believe in Jesus,
God counts that to us for righteousness.
The blood of Christ is applied to us,
he sees our sins no more.
and that is a done deal.
We are saved forever.
But it says, now to him that worketh
is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
So if you think you're gonna work your way to heaven,
if you think salvation is in any way, shape, or form,
by works at all, then it's not really,
it's actually of debt.
You're working off a debt
that you're never gonna be able to pay.
It's a credit card bill with, you know,
a huge Judaizing amount of interest.
that you can never pay because that's what it really is.
Anybody that's trying to add works of salvation is adding something that
they're never going to be able to pay because you've already sinned before
and you can't make up for those. Someone had to pay it for you.
It says, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifyeth the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Very clear verse.
And a lot of the times you can show that to people and they still are just like zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
You got a point right there, and what's the point you're counted for righteousness?
Even as David also
Describe it the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness
Without works
So God imputes righteousness without works, but people always say you got to work
Oh, you got but you got to have the works, right?
No show them this verse
David is describing the blessedness of the man
unto whom God will impute righteousness without having any works.
The thief in the cross is a perfect example of that.
He didn't have any works.
All he did is just said,
remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom.
He was in heaven that day, as soon as he died.
As soon as they broke his legs, what a horrific way to die.
I mean, we never really think about that part of it.
Like Jesus was already dead, they didn't break his legs.
But the other two guys, they broke their legs.
and then they died that way.
Just like, ugh, man.
Sledge hammered to the leg, ah, man.
Anyway, that's what I always think,
how they probably did it.
So, but you can't really stand up anymore
and push yourself up with broken legs.
So, I know, horrific.
But it says, seeing blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
So God will not impute sin any more to someone who's already saved
Meaning you're safe. It's grace through faith. That's it Romans turn to Romans 11 verse 6
This verse has the word grace in it four times just to help people get it
But you can give this verse out to people so many so many times and they still just over their head
It says, and if by grace, then there's no more of works.
They're opposite of each other.
Otherwise, grace is no more grace.
But if it be of works, then there's no more of grace.
Otherwise, work is no more work.
Isn't that saying that they're like the opposite
of each other?
That you can't mix them together.
They're not like,
I always like to say like in the checkout line,
you know, you can't have grace and works
checking out at the same time.
One of them cancels out the other one.
It's gotta be grace only.
You can't add works with it.
Otherwise it cancels the transaction.
So you cannot get to heaven and say,
well, I did believe in Jesus,
but you thought you had to do works too?
Cancel.
It cancels the transaction.
You cannot be saved if you believe that.
And then of course the greatest verse in the whole Bible about grace is Ephesians 2-8-9.
You don't have to turn there, you probably know it by heart, but if you want to you may.
Ephesians 2-8-9 says,
For by grace are you saved through faith. That's pretty plain and simple.
It's a very clear statement, isn't it?
And that not of yourselves.
So it's in no way, shape, and form of yourself.
It is the gift of God.
something he gives you, something that's free,
not of works, less than any man should boast.
I mean, two of the most clear statements
in the Bible about salvation,
that it's in no way, shape, or form of works,
it is only of faith.
It's not what we do, it's what he did.
But people always wanna work for their salvation.
They wanna say that they did it, it's pride.
But the Apostle Paul is saying how could you have turned from something that I taught you very clearly?
I marvel that you're so soon removed from it and then let's go back to Galatians 1. It says in verse 7
Which is not another it's not another gospel. It's you know, it says to another gospel in
Verse 6 it's not another one though, but there'd be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ
Now, there's gospel perverts everywhere in our world.
And I was thinking about this before I preached a sermon.
I was thinking in the Old Testament, the false prophets weren't really...
I mean, you knew that they were only if God told you they were.
But like...
Just think of Balaam. He's kind of hard to figure out until the New Testament actually shines the light on him and
Exposes him for the false prophet. He is we you see that he's he's bad
But like it's kind of weird because God's talking to him
And then he says I can only say the things that God tells me to say but then at the same time
It's like in the New Testament. It's it names him as a false prophet that he goes after the greediness and
wants that money
So, you have in the Old Testament, people are not clearly always a false prophet, it'll
just say the prophets sometimes are like, but then they'll say, you know, of course
all the ones against Jeremiah, you know, they're smacking him in the face and saying that he's
not really prophesying and he's speaking falsely, but we know that God is telling him to say
all these things to him.
But in the New Testament, it's super clear who the false prophets are.
The Bible is just very clear.
And people like, well, why do you talk about false prophets so much?
It's in the whole New Testament.
It's talked about by Jesus.
It's talked about by Paul.
It's talked about by Jude.
It's talked about by Peter.
It's talked about by John.
It's talked about, like, in every epistle.
false prophets false teachers be warned their wolves and sheep's clothing
It's like why are you talking about so much because it's in the whole New Testament?
They said they said to be warned of it be you know, you should be warned of these false teachers
and it's like
Yeah, because the Bible says in the last days that people they're gonna be you know in the latter days
Let's look at it. I don't have it my nose, but let's look at I think it's 1st Timothy
4 or 2nd Timothy 4
Does anybody know?
Like you're the pastor, figure it out.
Is it 1st Timothy 4? Ah, yes.
1st Timothy 4 verse 1 it says now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith given heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
And so we know that the last days began when Jesus began to come on the earth, but that was 2,000 years ago, so
It's going to just get worse.
So today we have just a whole bunch of false teachers out there.
The churches in this area, do you think that all the pastors in this area
that have churches are saved?
Do you think a high percentage of them are saved?
Do you think a high percentage of them are preaching the right gospel?
Do you think that their church website has the right gospel on it?
Do you think that their invitations have the right gospel on it?
Probably not.
Probably not. That'd be a good mission to see. Let's just go visit. Let's go to all the churches and find their websites to see what they say
So look at what it says. It says speaking lies and hypocrisy having their conscience seared with the hot iron
forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meets Catholic Church
Which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth
For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with Thanksgiving. Does it say every creature?
including catfish
Bugs
bats
Pig
Yeah, but they'll say oh you can't eat this certain kind of meat on Friday and whatever. It's garbage
But it says doctrines of devils. There's teachers out there. They're teaching doctrines of devils
How about you have to be a vegetarian L and G white?
But the but the you know 70 avidness will be like, oh, well, you don't have to be
But we're gonna just push it really hard on everybody in our church. And if you're not they'll shun you
But this is what the Bible says, there's going to be more and more people and there's going to be teachers with itching ears and all that stuff.
People just heaped to themselves teachers having itching ears.
But there's gospel perverts everywhere. Pentecostals are perverts.
They teach a false salvation, they teach that you don't have eternal security, you can lose your salvation.
Jehovah's Witnesses are perverts. They don't even say that Jesus is God. They don't have the right salvation.
They said that Jesus died on a torture stake. They just have to be different or something.
There's no, you know taste in the in the slimy marshmallow or whatever they got a dumb Bible version
They said that Jesus was a God
small G I
Mean their perverts their Bible gospel perverts the Mormons are perverts in more ways than one
But there you know, I mean Joseph Smith was a pervert trying to get it marry everybody's wife
Trying to marry a 14-year-old girls and stuff. I think he did marry 14-year-old girls just like Muhammad pervert
But they're their doctrines perverted to their Gossels perverted
I mean I talked to a Mormon the other day at the door and I I I caught that he was a Mormon
He's talking about baptism. It's like well. I was baptized and it's like
Mormon what else did he say brother Alex? He said something else that caught that I caught on anyway
I can't remember what it was, but
Yeah, there's no hell everybody's going to heaven. That's the new thing. That's what Jehovah's Witnesses say, too
That nobody isn't you're not even annihilated anymore. Yeah, it's just like you just cease to exist
Well, what's the then why not just live however you want because there's no punishment for it
Just do whatever do whatever feels good. I
Mean because who wants to hang out with a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses for the rest of eternity?
They're perverts, too
Seventh day Adventists perverts some IFB churches perverts with their repent of your sin gospel and
Holding hands with John MacArthur. I
Mean there was more Baptist independent Baptist than I want a stomach
Like pictures with John MacArthur with their arm around him and stuff. I mean rolling Rasmussen's rolling around his grave watching that
literally
He's up in heaven like spitting probably
I mean, John MacArthur was a wicked devil.
But people just loved him because he just waxed eloquent
with his little study, legacy study Bible or whatever.
We got a bunch of perverts out there,
T.D. Jakes, what's that woman's name
with the short haircut?
Joyce Meyer, Paula White.
I mean, we actually have women now,
a whole group of women preachers.
And that's just normal.
What's the lady's name that oh Victoria Olstein, you know, you don't do it for Jesus you do it for yourself
It's like what you look crazy lady and
I mean we probably you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a false prophet in this town or any
I mean imagine how bad the South is
I mean, there's Baptist churches on every corner,
and like Georgia and places like that,
but do you think they all got the right gospel?
Probably not.
It's, we got a dearth of the land,
and we got a bunch of Bible,
gospel preaching perverts out there,
and any church that isn't salvation by faith alone,
by grace alone, are nothing but perverts.
They have departed from the faith,
and they preach another gospel.
Any church that teaches that you are not saved unless you do works, we call them perverts.
Anybody that teaches that you can lose your salvation if you do something wrong,
we call them in Vancouver, we call them perverts, don't we?
Bible perverts.
And I say what Paul says, let them be accursed.
We shouldn't be making friends with them, you know
We had that pervert Pentecostal come in here and he's trying he's come to our church a couple times
And he finally nails me and just sucks me in with his pervert
Tractor beam or whatever trying to get all of his stupid doctrine out
I just like wanted to just kill myself just in his presence because he was so annoying and then I tell him
Hey, you know cuz he's like I just want to be able to sit here and just learn from you
I was like, well, if you believe you can lose your salvation,
you believe salvation isn't my faith alone.
I said, do not share that with anybody.
And if you just keep your mouth shut, you can stay here.
You can come here and whatever.
And then like the first thing he does is gets up and walks
and talks to all of our guys at the door
and starts talking about the same crap
he was talking to me about.
And I just was like, get out of here, you know,
weirdo, throw him out of the church.
We can't have perverts here.
It's disgusting it's a work salvation idiot. I hear what was he what was he talking to you guys about like?
Oh, yeah about works right you'll be judged by your works
He thinks that believers in yeah, that's what it was
He believed he thought that believers are judged by their works in the great white throne judgment
isn't it
I forgot all about that, but it's funny that I got those verses of my notes, so we'll look at them.
Yeah, he's definitely not saved. I mean, he's raising his hand to be answered upon.
Like, he said that some prophet, some Pentecostal Russian prophet or something told the people over in Ukraine
that the Baptists were going to have a spiritual awakening and do a lot of great works in the end times.
What are the Pentecostals doing besides, you know,
shaking rattlesnakes and rolling on the floor?
And saying that God tells them something.
God didn't tell you anything.
He was saying they were trying to tell me
that God tells them stuff.
Liar.
But let them be damned, let them be accursed.
Don't pray for these people.
People are like, well, we should just prove for them
that they get saved.
They're not gonna get saved because they're accursed.
They're preaching to another gospel.
We are not supposed to love these people
and pray for their good.
Do not wish them Godspeed.
Do not say to bless them or tell them to have a nice day.
And it's hard because, you know, we're just nice people,
you know, and sometimes you might accidentally go,
oh, have a nice day.
You're like, ah, ah, I didn't mean it, Lord.
I didn't mean it.
Don't invite them to your home.
You know, I keep getting these Jehovah's Witness letters in the mailbox. I'm just like
It's like I would rather have you knock on my door than send me a letter
So I could tell you to your face I
Feel like replying, but then I just don't have I just continue living my life
I leave the letter out for a while and I was like
Let's rip it up. Anyway, I turn to second John chapter one second John chapter one
Second John chapter 1
Look at verse 9
The Bible says whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ
Half not God
He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ he has he has both the father and the son
So I mean a lot of times people think that John is really cryptic in his epistles
But I mean what is it? Let's just read it for what it says if you abide if not in the doctrine of Christ
You don't have God
It's pretty simple, isn't it?
And then it says, if there, in verse 10,
if there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine,
receive him not in your house,
neither bid him God's speed.
This is the Jehovah's Witnesses
and the Mormons that come knocking on your door.
Do not receive them into your house.
Neither bid them God's speed.
Neither say God bless you or hey,
have a great day or whatever.
It says,
for he that bideth him God's speed
is partaker of his evil deeds.
This is talking about someone coming to you
and preaching a false gospel.
We're not supposed to be nice to them.
We're not supposed to entertain them in our home.
We're not supposed to give them good tidings
when they leave.
You know, it's more like get the hell out of here
and don't ever come back.
Amen.
And I hope your kingdom hall burns down.
Or whatever you don't have to say that but I don't say that you could you might say that no
Thought I heard one of you say that one time
No, I was kidding but I will tell him to leave if we're in an apartment complex and they're there
I'll just like hey, this is our territory get out of here and they will
But like I heard some Mormons like mobbed up on you guys in some neighborhood one time like they brought like van loads out
baseball bats or something
No, not baseball bats, okay, I'm embellishing but like then they come out like in a couple loads of guys and try to like
Punk you out of a spot or something
Two or three vehicles
Well, they got tough
Did they tell it say anything to you guys oh?
They were just trying to compete
And did you yell at them?
Good job Alex
All right, yeah, I mean yet. We can't be nice to them
We'll get second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 2 and you know sometime
I just I get sick of watch seeing these Jehovah's Witness Towers
You know they have they don't do what they used to do now
They've kind of gone to other means where they'll be at the airport
They wouldn't let us pass out our invitations out of an airport. I'm guarantee you they wouldn't
But for some reason they let them put their little watch tower tower with all their stupid magazines and stuff and they just stand there
Nobody talks to them. I just walk by and just false profit
That's what they are
But then they think they're getting persecuted so I'm like, I don't know. Is this a good idea
Second second Corinthians 11-2 says
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you a chaste
Virgin to Christ. But I fear less by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety
so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Being saved is super easy.
It's simple. It shouldn't be hard. When people try to make it complicated, then you know you're not dealing with the right person.
You know when a missionary you ask a missionary what they what what someone has to do to be saved and they're just like
It's like a brand new baby, you know, or whatever they just start preaching weird stuff like that
They don't know how to explain the gospel
It's just like believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and now shall it be saved
You're saved by grace their faith and that's all you got to do and it's just like you got eternal life
You know, that's it. It's simple
So Paul is saying here he doesn't want them to be you know corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ
It's just you know, don't let people corrupt what you believe
Says for if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus whom you whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit
Which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accept which you have not accepted
You might bear well with him skip down to verse 12
But what I do that I will do that I may cut off occasion from them the desire occasion
See people always want to come and bring their false prophet stuff people just don't get away with it here
They might get away with that another Baptist church because the they don't they never want to throw anybody out because they might be a potential tither
Even though they're super weird, the pastor knows it and they believe they're not even saved, the pastor knows it.
But they allow them to operate in their churches.
But what does that do? It undermines your whole congregation.
And that person is allowed to just slither around and undermine your church members.
And it's really bad.
But what's the apostle Paul say? He says, cut off occasion from them,
which desire occasion that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
See, they pretend they look like them. You know, there's no other apostles though. That's the thing. Paul is the last apostle.
So if some woman says she's an apostle so-and-so, she's a stinking liar.
She's transformed herself into an apostle of Christ, but really she's just a deceitful worker.
And any man that says that he's an apostle today is a liar.
There are no more apostles. The apostle Paul was the last one.
And he's the only apostle that we could recognize after the other apostles were ordained.
And it says, and no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
When he appears to other religions, how does he appear?
Oh, the archangel Gabriel came to Mohammed and told him that, you know, whatever he told him.
But if he would have just listened to the apostle Paul, he would have never listened to that angel.
And Mohammed thought he was possessed by devils.
You know why? Probably because he was.
Because only a devil would marry a six-year-old girl and consummate the marriage at nine
This is something that they admit. This is something that if you Google that
It's gonna say yes, that is really true. They can't deny it. She played with dolls and
An angel supposedly came and gave him that revelation
Aisha herself wrote in Hades and said she played with dolls. She was nine years old. It's disgusting
but then the world and the perverts and Google and whoever else you ask if you try to even ask
Grock Grock will be like well it's just a normal thing for those times no it's not the normal
thing for those times it's never normal to be a pedophile
So when some angel so Satan himself was transformed into an angel of light
Yeah, to Muhammad. Yeah to Joseph Smith the angel Moroni. I mean I he probably did that to troll people
moron I
I mean really
So stupid he's like suckers
Let me marry your daughter
But you know he got smoked
So, cool. But, you know, look, his religion lives on.
And they would be a bunch of polygamists right now if the U.S. government had to set it was against the law,
and pass laws against it.
So, is Satan really a light bearer?
People say he's the light bearer.
He's the light bearer in the Masonic Lodge.
He's called the light bearer in the Masonic, you know, in the Masonic Lodge.
And, you know, they believe they worship Lucifer.
They believe it and in any other religion Satan is the actual being that they're actually worshiping
He transforms himself
So it says therefore is it no great thing if his ministers
Also be transformed in as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be what to say there
According to their works
So, Mr. Dumb Pentecostal, who's at our church saying that save people are judged according
to their works in Revelation chapter 20, is wrong.
No, these types of people get judged by their works.
They're wicked works because they're not going to have enough good works to overcome it because
that's just not possible.
Unless you have the shed blood and the imputed blood of Jesus on you, you're going to go
No amount of works that you do no amount of doing good things mother Teresa, which that's even disputed whether she was actually good or not
Look at Revelation chapter 20
Revelation chapter 20
What's the Bible actually say it's so funny because I wasn't even thinking about that guy when I was
Right in the sermon, but it kind of came back to me when I was going back and forth with Bill here
but that guy was telling everybody here that
Saints are judged according to their works.
But we just saw in 2 Corinthians 11, 15,
that those people, his ministers,
who are his ministers, Satan's ministers,
the sons of Belial, the workers of Iniquity,
they're the ones, they're gonna be judged by their works.
What's Revelation 20 say?
And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it
from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away
and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened
Which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books
What's it say there according to their works
Just like these false prophets these false ministers were judged by their works
So who's judged by their works the people that refused to get saved the people that took the mark of the beast the false prophets
They're judged by their works and whatever station and hell or the lake of fire that they're gonna be in forever and ever
They're gonna get according to what they did
And if they led a bunch of souls to hell because of their damnable
false gospel and lying false religion,
then they're going to be judged according to that.
And the Bible talks about there being a lowest hell
and a greater damnation.
And that retard that came in here,
sorry for saying that, but I apologize.
He's a spiritual retard though.
He came in here thinking he could subvert our church members thinking he's gonna get over on us somehow
But he's wrong every one of our the men in our church could refute anything that he said
But you don't you're just not gonna come into sure foundation Baptist church and think you're gonna just pull a fast one
Pull the wool over our eyes all the ladies in our church could have smoked that guy
Easily
But they're just like the guys can handle this
Bill had him himmed up real quick
But it's he was making me really mad and then he finally just kind of saw that he was making me mad
And then he tried to make peace with me
But like I hurt when I heard him saying a lot of stuff. I was just like
man
He made me mad anyway
And it says in the sea that gave up the dead which were in it and death in hell delivered up the dead
Which were in them and they were judged every man
According to their what to say again there
Works, a believer will never be judged by their works.
We're not even gonna be judged like that.
We're not gonna be judged
in the great white throne judgment.
Anybody who is dead, it's dead in Christ,
is gonna be raised with a new body.
They're not gonna be judged according to their works.
We will not spend one second in hell.
We're not gonna, if we got judged by our works,
we'd go to hell.
We're judged.
According to what Jesus did for us,
the blood of Christ is imputed upon us.
When God opens up the book of life,
if your name is written in it,
you are saved through grace,
through faith already.
And then if you have a blot over your name,
you're out of here, buddy,
and you're judged by your works.
So,
You don't want to be judged according to your works anybody that's judged according to their works is completely doomed
Look at verse 14 and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death
So anybody's judged by their works is going to the second death. That's not Christians
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. No Christians going there
Let's go back to glations 1a we're almost done here
Galatians 1-8 it says 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 and people get really mad about us
cursing false prophets and ripping on them and stuff but what's the Apostle Paul say? I just learned
it from my spiritual leader the Apostle Paul he says let him be accursed that means let him be damned
And, you know, that's just the fact and, you know, just, we need to accept it.
People need to quit whining about, you know, us saying stuff like that because the Apostle Paul said it.
And he's just being ultra and abundantly queer in the next verse too.
He's like, well, in case you just didn't read carefully or you just kind of tuned out in the last verse, let me just say it one more time.
Verse number nine.
As we said before, so say I now again in the next verse.
If any man preach any other gospel unto you
than that which you have received, let him be accursed.
Let me be very clear with you, they're cursed.
And all you have to do is go and read 2 Peter
and the book of Jude that all false prophets are damned.
And then you see the warnings in Matthew chapter seven about being aware of false prophets and you see in Acts chapter 20
how Paul said that he wept and day and night he was warning them about the false prophets.
Let's finish up.
And so verse 10 in Galatians one says for now, now I do I persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men?
For if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
What is he saying? That I'm preaching the gospel that I was taught.
I'm preaching the gospel that I got saved by.
Last verse, last little spot and we're done.
says little children
It is the last time and as you have heard there that that antichrist shall come
Even now are there many antichrists 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 no doubt have continued with us
But they went out that they might be made manifest that there were not all of us
Look, and look, if you take those verses at face value,
think about the pastors that have left,
think about the people that have left,
and if they're not continuing in the faith,
if they're not continuing in the same doctrine,
then what's the Bible saying about them?
It's saying that they're not of us,
that they're pretenders, that they weren't real.
It says, but you or ye have an unction from the Holy One.
It's like an anointing of the Holy Spirit and you know all things.
I have not written unto you because you know not the truth,
but because you know it and that no lie is of the truth.
People shouldn't be able to spin lies to our church.
You guys know way too much Bible
and when people try to do these things and just preach all this weird stuff we
should not doubt.
what we are seeing happen.
We should just know it for what it is.
Hey, there's something wrong.
You know, there's something off with this person.
No matter how much you loved them in the past,
no matter how great you thought they were before,
if they just start preaching another gospel
and just completely strange doctrine,
there's something wrong.
It's not us, it's them.
You know you left us. We didn't leave you. There's a big difference and the Bible clearly says that they weren't of us
So we just need to believe what the Bible says, you know, we need to believe what our eyes tell us in this book
we need to listen to sound preaching and sound doctrine and you know friendships
come and go sometimes and you know we have to choose between God and the Bible
and friendship sometimes unfortunately so let's pray Lord we thank you so much
for the book of Galatians and Lord we look forward to many lessons here about
salvation by faith alone and how bad work salvation is Lord I pray Lord that we
how important it is to keep the faith and Lord,
to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered
and the simplicity that's in Christ.
Pray, Lord, you'd help us and get us closer
and just help us to learn more about salvation.
And Lord, sometimes we just need to be brushed up
on these things and know exactly what we're saying
when we say things.
I pray you'd help us with those things.
Bless us tonight as we go our separate ways.
all right closing song is 472 this is my father's world 472 it's a great song
sing it out with us no visitors here to judge your singing
this is my father's world and to my
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The sky's and sea's is and the wonder's rock.
This is my fault.
This boy, father's womb, he shines it all that fair.
In the rose-ling grass, I hear him pass.
He speaks to me everywhere.
through the wrong seems all so strong. God is the ruler yet. This is my fault.
close this with a burp.