Persusasion!
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Twisted Logic
Twisted Logic
We live in a polarized world. It doesn’t take much to see that, and that polarization is everywhere. Some people argue that these lines were always there. That people have always been this way there are no grey areas in life, compromise is a word that holds little meaning. Truth is subjective. What matters is what you and I believe. The Gospel is true, the Bible is true because we believe it to be so. God exists because of my faith in Him.
The problem with this twisted logic is it leads us to doing life wrong, but more importantly it leads us to a real issue that is spoken about across the New Testament.
I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
This is a concept that Timothy had to deal with as well
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.
But why what is the reason for this. Again it comes back to this idea of twisted logic. Both of these scriptures show that twisted logic, the first one has Paul amazed that the people who had come to a real genuine daily walking around Jesus with Skin relationship suddenly deciding that some of the things that they understood the gospel to be were not really what they liked.
Timothy is dealing with something similar. This second group has decided that they want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes that could be the truth, but what happens when that truth contradicts a personal desire or conviction? What do we do when the truth of the gospel messes with our own idea of what a good Christian is.
In both verses we find a group of what by and large people would consider “good Christian people” not really being good Christian people and in some instances not even being good people .
What it is, is.
What it is, is.
Like so many things it’s a noun and a verb..the noun is of course good news good tidings. For our purposes today we are also going to notice that it’s a verb to proclaim good news and then a lesser known but important one proclaim good news in advance.
But what is this good news. What is it that Paul is talking about?
We actually find the basics of it just a few verses up in Galatians chapter 1.
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
We can find a clearer pictures of it here.
For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
So the Gospel is laid out right there and what it does. That is the truth that is what matters.
Messing it up
Messing it up
The problem the Galatians had and the Problem that many Christians today is something that always happens.
For the Galatians it was a slide to legalism. The main problem with Legalism isn’t the rules and regulations. The problem is that Legalism removes God from the equation. It takes the truth of the gospel and tosses it out in favor of the lie of human accomplishment.
not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Legalism can take many forms. It can take the form of a Social Gospel that states what I do directly effects my relationship with God. Do enough good and i’m good enough for God. Reach al these needs that i see around me and God will notice and society will be changed and made better because of all my work and dedication to the Mandate that Jesus game in Matthew 25.
It can also take the form of hyper spirituality and separation from the world completely, setting up rules and regulations that are used to show how much better the people that go to church are than everyone else.
Both of these extremes pervert the gospel. Both make it easy to attach things to Christianity that are not even a part of it.
That these two ideas of the Gospel split the Church of God is even more of a problem.
We end up with people being in one of two camps instead of the camp that we are all supposed to be in.
In the States it translates to one of two places.
Christian Nationalism.
Christian Socialism.
Both are wrong. Both put humanity in the center of the gospel
Yes we have a part to play in the plan of salvation, but we are not the one that does the saving.
Paul makes it pretty clear what matters and it’s not the things that the Galatians are letting in.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him! As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!
Big words with real consequences. (expound)
Our Real Audience
Our Real Audience
For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
We have to ask ourselves a pretty important question one that Paul asked.
When we add to the gospel to suit our own ideals and plans and understandings. To fit the narrative that makes us most comfortable. To validate our preferences whatever they may be. We forget who we are serving, and who we are supposed to please.
We begin to try and morph and shift to make people happy, sometimes we try and show God all that we are doing in the hopes that we will get a celestial stamp of approval for all our hard work.
What we have to realize is we will never persuade God that we can do enough to make ourselves right with him. That’s why Jesus came in the first place. We also have to realize that the treadmill of persuading people with our own ideas of What the Gospel is will always do the same thing, end in failure and exhaustion.
*expound*
This Week’s Challenge
This Week’s Challenge
Memorize the Words and Verses that show the gospel from start to finish!
Creation---------------Genesis 1:26
Sin-------------------Romans 6:23
Love---------------Isaiah 53:5
Grace----------------Ephesians 2:8
Life------------------Acts 2:38