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For the next few weeks right up to the Christmas season we will be studying the book of Galatians. The book of Galatians is Paul’s letter to the Galatians, to the believers, encouraging them to shift somethings, let somethings go, to exalt their faith over traditions and formalities.

Let me give you a little background on the Galatians, they were believers who started their walk with Christ believing in the authentic truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ which boasts that we are justified by faith alone.

The doctrine of the gospel is plain and simple and teaches that Jesus and only Jesus provides the way for us to be accepted by God and that it is Jesus and only Jesus by which any one can be fully a member of the Kingdom of Heaven.

True believers of God live by faith in Christ, his birth, his life, his death and his physical resurrection.

Here is where the problem Paul was having with the Galatians that he seeks to lay to rest in this phenomenal book.  

See, during the 2000 years leading up to the coming of Christ, God’s people believed the only way to experience God’s saving blessings was by succumbing to the works of the law of Moses.

This is where believers even today need clarity, follow me close.  Because as we live and breath in today times this belief system has exalted a form of blasphemy against Jesus Christ, as it has allowed yokes of slavery to once again bound us from the very thing Jesus died to free us from.

In Galatians 1:6-8, Paul says as he speaks to the Galations, I am amazed that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, turning to a different gospel.  Paul goes on to say there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Paul continues in his proclamation by announcing But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

In other words, Paul is saying I don’t care who comes knocking on your door, who presents themselves as wise, who calls themselves a pastor, evangelist or an apostle.  He even goes as far as to say even if an angel comes to you teaching and preaching anything outside the parameter of the true and authentic gospel which is you are saved by faith in Jesus alone, then let them be under God’s curse.  Ok, what specifically is Paul talking about?  

We know that in Exodus 31 the Word of God tells us that the ten commandments were received by Moses and inscribed in the stone tablets by the finger of God.

The laws conveyed in those commandments clearly reveal God’s standards for His people living in a fallen world.  Our behavior, God has commanded us to be righteous.  His commandments make us conscientious of our sins, as God once and for all codified morality.

There is absolutely no question of God’s opinion concerning adultery, murder, theft and the addressed sins in the ten commandments.  And there is no question concerning that violation of His commandments will reap a penalty.

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