the unchanging gospel
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The Unchanging Gospel. In a Changing World. Change = to make different, replace with another. “ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.”. Gal. 1:8. Transportation. Medicine. Changing World. Good. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.”
Change = to make different, replace with another
Greed - Lot = Gen. 13:10-11
Love of Money - 1 Tim. 6:9-10
Love for Preeminence - Diotrephes 3 Jn.9
Love of the world - 1 John 2:15-17 Lust of the flesh Lust of the eyes Pride of Life
Guidance - Jer. 10:23
Salvation from sin - Rom. 3:23
Encouragement
Gal. 6:1-2
1 Thes. 5:14
Hope - 1 Cor. 15:19
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” Rev.1:8
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Heb.13:8
Still the Saviour - Heb.12:1-2
Laws cannot be altered - Matt. 24:35
Condition of Salvation remains the same.John 3:5Mark 16:16Acts 2:38
Toward SinJohn 8:24 and Rom. 6:23
Toward disbeliefMark 16:16
Toward errorMatt. 15:9-13
Toward ManJohn 15:13,14
It Shows Our Faults
James 1:23-25 - like a mirror Heb. 4:12,13 - pierces like a sword
All of us have sinned
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Rom. 3:23
Separates us from Sin
Rom. 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
It Humbles Men
We see how helpless we are Draws us down to size
1 Cor. 15:19 “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”
We get rid of our old man
8. “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:” Col.3:8-10
Galatians 1:6-9
The gospel + anything is not the GOOD NEWSIt is a counterfeit
Galatians 1:6-9
They will be cursed - condemned Rejecting the authority of Christ Final damnation and wrath
Galatians 1:6-9
Jesus “gave himself for our sins” Gal.1:4
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 14:6
The Gospel does not change It is the same today as was for our
parents or grandparents
Man does not have any Right or Need to change the gospel
Heb. 7:24 “But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.”
Heb. 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road
Evans, Ga. 30809
706-855-1249
[email protected]@bellsouth.net
www.evansgachurchofchrist.orgwww.evansgachurchofchrist.org
Sunday Morning April 17, 2011