together and sing hymn number
296. 296. All the way my Savior leads me,
what have I to ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy,
who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest
comfort, Here by faith in Him to dwell. For I know what e'er
befall me, Jesus doeth all things well. For I know what e'er befall
me, Jesus doeth all things well. All the way my Savior leads me,
cheers each winding path I tread, gives me grace for every trial,
feeds me with the living bread. Though my weary steps may falter,
and my soul a thirst may be. Gushing from the rock before
me, blow a spring of joy I see. Gushing from the rock before
me, blow a spring of joy I see. All the way my Savior leads me
O the fullness of His love Perfect rest to me is promised In my
Father's house above When my spirit clothed immortal Wings
as flight to realms of day. This my song through endless
ages. Jesus led me all the way. This my song through endless
ages. Jesus led me all the way. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
255. 255. Blessed assurance Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory
divine. Heir of salvation Purchase of
God Born of His Spirit Washed in His blood This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day
long. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day
long. Perfect submission, perfect delight. Visions of rapture now burst
on my sight. Angels descending bring from
above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day
long. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day
long. Perfect submission, all is at
rest. I in my Savior am happy and blessed. Watching and waiting, looking
above, filled with His goodness, lost in His love. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day
long. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day
long. Good evening. I'd like us to
turn to the book of John chapter 19. I'll read a few verses in
John 19. I'd like to begin in verse 25. Now there stood by the cross
of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleophas,
and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his
mother and the disciples standing by whom he loved, he saith unto
his mother, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith he to the disciple,
Behold thy mother. And from that hour, that disciple
took her unto his own home. After this, Jesus, knowing that
all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled,
saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full
of vinegar, and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon
Hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus, therefore, had received
the vinegar, he said, it is finished. And he bowed his head and gave
up the ghost. The Jews, therefore, because
it was the preparation that the body should not remain upon the
cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was a high day.
We sought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they
might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and break
the legs of the first and of the other which was crucified
with him. But when they came to Jesus and
saw that he was dead already, they break not his legs. But
one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith
came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record,
and his record is true, and he knoweth that he sayeth true,
that ye might believe. For these things were done that
the scripture should be fulfilled. A bone of him shall not be broken. And again, another scripture
saith, they shall look on him whom they pierced. Let's pray. Our kind and gracious and merciful
Heavenly Father, we bow before you. Lord, we read these words
of our Lord's doing and dying as our blessed substitute. Our
hearts are made to wonder. Our hearts are made to love our
dear Savior, who gave himself, who shed his own blood, not for the sins of himself where
he had no sin, but for the sins of us, his elect, those that
he loved, laid down his life for the sheep that great event, the dying of
the God-man, the greatest event in all the universe, the greatest
event in all of time and eternity, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is
God, and he came down. was made like unto sinful man
and laid down his life, submitted to the death of the
cross. And he did it for his people.
He did it for those he loved. What a wonder. What a savior. Lord, we endeavor to worship
him tonight. We endeavor to see him in His
word as it's opened and read and preached. Lord, help us to rejoice more fully in him,
fill our vision with him. What virtue there is in him,
what greatness, what wonder, what grace and love and mercy
and power and might. In him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. And your scripture says, look
unto me and be saved. Lord, we're looking. Help us
to continue to look. Give us faith to believe. Strengthen
our faith tonight as we consider him. be with our pastor as he leads
us once again. Hold him up and give him grace
and strength and ability to proclaim Christ to us. And Lord, may our
hearts be awakened and revived and caused to, as we sang, this is my story,
this is my song, praising my savior all the day long. He's
worthy. We can never praise him enough.
We can never make too much of him. Pray for the sick of this
fellowship. We do remember Jim and Debbie
and their fight of affliction. Remember Rick and Helen. Lord,
you alone can help in this trial that you've sent to them. Help
us all, Lord, as we live our lives Endeavor to honor you. Give us grace and ability and
desire to honor the Savior in our lives. Save our children
and our grandchildren. Please forget them not. Intervene
in their lives. Make the world a bitter thing
to them. Make themselves bitter in their own eyes, in their own
mind, in their own heart. Save them by your grace and your
time, and we'll wait on you. We'll keep calling out to you
to go to them in your time. Don't let them perish, Lord,
we pray. We pray for this body of believers and this church
and this community that You've established your church in this
place. Lord, continue to cause the gospel
to be preached here faithfully and for generations to come,
if it be your will. Thank you once again for the
gathering of your people. Come and meet with us, Lord.
May we not meet in vain. and give us ears to hear as the
word is preached in Christ your name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Abide with me, fast falls the
eventide. The darkness deepens. Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts
flee, help of the helpless so abide. with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's
little day. Earth's joys grow dim in ? Glories
pass away ? ? Change and decay ? ? In all around I see ? ? O
thou who changest not ? ? Abide with me ? I need thy presence every passing
hour. What but thy grace can foil the
tempter's snare? Who like Thyself my guidance
day can be, Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me. Hold thou thy word before my
closing eyes, shine through the gloom and ? Point me to the skies
? ? Heaven's morning breaks ? ? And earth's vain shadows flee ? ?
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me ? Very good service up to this
point. Turn with me to Galatians chapter 1. Galatians chapter
1. Started this to be, I think,
the third message from Galatians. I love that song. Abide with
me. Change and decay all around I
see, but thou who changes not. abide with me. I've got a picture
of me and my brother. He was a year old, and I was
two years old. Now I'm a lot older than that
now, but I've got the pictures. And you can tell it's me and
tell it's him. But now he has to get around
on a walker and in a little scooter, can't walk. And I'm aging faster than I'd like to.
I really am. All right, let's look together
here in Galatians. I want to talk about perverting
the gospel. I'll start again at verse 1,
read down through verse 9. Paul, an apostle, not of men,
neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who
raised him from the dead. Paul's talking about his office.
Man had nothing to do with it. God separated him to the gospel. He obtained mercy from God. And
I tell you what, he's the one who raised up the Lord Jesus
Christ for our justification. And all the brethren which are
with me under the churches of Galatia. So he had a lot of brothers,
a lot of brothers in Christ, and they were writing with him.
wanted to commune with the churches in Galatia. And the first thing
he starts talking about is grace. Grace be to you. Grace comes
first and then comes peace from God the Father and from our Lord
Jesus Christ. God and the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ, they work together. They do the same work. They himself. And oh, this is the gospel right
here. This is the gospel. We know the
gospel concerns a person. It concerns a person, the Lord
Jesus Christ. And that's what he's talking
about, this grace and peace comes from God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. And listen to this, who gave
himself for our sins. Gave himself for our sins. Now that's one thing that every
time I start thinking about Christ giving himself for my sin, it
really, really gets to me, because I know what I am. And I know
if Christ hadn't saved him, gave himself for our sins, I'd still
be in my sins. And oh my, he gave himself for
our sins. Now what sins did he give himself
for? All of them. I hadn't sinned
yet when Christ died and gave himself for our sins. I hadn't
even been born. That's 2,000 years ago when Christ
gave himself for our sins. But when I see that he gave himself
for our sins, I understand that when he gave himself for our
sins, all my sins were yet future. and all my sins that I had from
my childhood, from my being an infant until I am today. Christ gave himself for my sins,
all sins, all of them, all the ones where we committed, all
the ones we do commit, and all the ones we'll have in the future.
When Christ gave himself for our sins, he gave himself for
all of them, every single one of them. Now, I tell you, you're
talking about something. You know, God made Him to be
sin. That's one of the most astounding
statements in the Word of God. As He prayed tonight, the greatest
event between the eternities was Christ giving Himself for
our sins. When He was on that cross, He
was there giving Himself, His blood, His life, His sweat, His
tears, His body, His soul, all that He was, God, He gave Himself
for our sins. Oh, my. And this shows us that
we're neither able to satisfy for our own sins. We couldn't
satisfy God. In fact, we don't even have dominion
over our, you know, and sins don't have dominion over us anymore
because of Christ, what He did for us. And then look what He
says. and that he deliver us from this
present evil world, and this is why he did it, according to
the will of God. This was God's will for him to
do that. God made his soul an offering
for sin. God, this is God's will, God's
way of saving a sinner, Christ giving himself for us. And then
look what verse five says. and all to whom be glory." Everything
God did here, He done it for His own glory. And His glory
is forever. We'll glorify Him forever. As
long as we got breath, we'll glorify Him. And one of these
days, we'll glorify Him without any sin, without a body, we'll
be able to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ. And all glory be to Him
forever and ever and ever and ever. And then you're talking
about some exceeding strong language right here. Let me read the next
few verses. I marvel, verse 6, that you are
so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of
Christ into another gospel, which is not another, but there be
some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, me and my brethren,
preach any other gospel, but we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that you have, that
we have preached unto you, let him be cursed. And he said, as
we said before, so say I now again, if any preach any other
gospel unto you that you have received, let him be accursed. Now this is some very, very strong
language by the apostle. And notice he doesn't call them
apostates. He believes these people are
believers. He believes these people are saved by Christ. He believes they're saved by
grace. He considers them believers. He really does. And this is why
he's so burdened about them. That's why he said, I marvel.
He's so burdened. He found this church. He said,
I travail in birth again till Christ be formed in you. He gave
this church years of labor. And I'll tell you, after years
of labor, you know, years of labor can
be torn down in just a short, short while. Years of labor can
be torn down in just a short while. And false teachers had
come in and led these Galatians into error, error. And Paul seeks
to save them from this error. Save them from a perverted gospel. Save them from a perverted gospel. And look what he said in verse
6. He said, I marvel. I marvel. I am filled with surprise. I'm filled with sorrow. I'm filled
with a burden. I stand amazed. I'm so amazed. I marvel. I just marvel at this
thing. It's just, it's incredible. It's
such a burden and I'm amazed. And oh, look what he says that
you are so soon. So soon. Now look to their remove
from, remove from him. Remove from him. Remove from him. Now that's what,
still yet Paul believed they were believers, but I tell you,
removed from him that called you. We dealt with calling this
morning. Removed from him that called
you. God has to call a man, and he called these people. You know,
we're called of God. We're called of Christ. It's
called a holy calling, called by the Holy Spirit. You know,
the scriptures tells us plainly, for you see your calling, brethren,
not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty. God has chosen
the foolish. Preaching is foolish to most
people. Gathering three times a week
is foolish to most people. Bypassing other buildings to
come so far to hear somebody tell you something, and it doesn't
attribute anything to the flesh. And to be removed from the purity,
the simplicity of the gospel. No wonder he marveled. And he
goes on to say, so soon removed from him that called you into
the grace of Christ unto another gospel. to be removed from the
purity and the simplicity of the gospel. No wonder he marveled. Paul was the instrument that
God used to call them and to use the gospel to call them by.
And they were removing from Christ. They were removing from grace.
They were removing from Paul. They were removing from mercy.
They were removing from grace. And oh, it troubled him. And
I'll tell you what, he suffered for these people. They not only
removed from Christ and removed from the grace of Christ, but
they also removed from the Apostle Paul who preached the gospel
to them. And they were sliding the mercy and grace of Christ
and kindness of God and the kindness of the Apostle Paul. And oh my,
look what he said, he called you into the grace of Christ. Keep, keep Galatians 1, turn
over to Ephesians 1, chapter, chapter 1 with me. Look in verse
3, called into the grace of Christ. You know, Christ came because
of grace. Grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. Christ came because of the grace
of God. Nobody deserved to be saved. We didn't deserve Christ coming
into this world. We didn't deserve Christ going
to the cross. Nobody deserved Christ coming
into this world and bearing their sins in his own body on the tree.
We did not deserve that. But Christ came because of the
grace of God. God sent Christ into this world. He came by the will of God. He
came on purpose. And He saves His people by grace. He teaches them grace, calls
them by grace. And look what it says in Ephesians
1, 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who hath blessed us. Now listen to this. With all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places, where are these blessings
at? In Christ. Grace, Christ gives it. Christ
came by grace. Christ brought grace. God, Christ
teaches us about grace. And he calls us into the grace
of Christ. And oh my, I said, I marvel that
you're so soon removed from him that called you into the grace
of Christ. And listen to this, to another gospel. I marvel that
you're so removed from grace of Christ to another gospel,
to another gospel. I marvel, I'm amazed, I'm shocked,
I'm troubled, is what he's saying. And look what he called it. He
said, another gospel, which there's not another gospel. That's what
he said. There's not another, which is not another gospel.
There's not another gospel. There's only one gospel. Not
another. And look what he says that trouble
you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. And that word pervert,
you know what it means? It means to transform into something
of an opposite character. So you're transferring, forming
something, the grace of Christ, into another character. You're
transforming the gospel into another gospel. You're transferring
the grace of Christ into something called works. And so you transform
something into a different character altogether. It'd be like the
sun turning black. And oh my, and I tell you what,
and there'll be some that trouble you. You know, I don't know how
many times I've preached the gospel. I have no idea. God only knows. I brought messages
up here that I preached back in the late 80s, 1990, 1991,
1992, and rework them, bring them up here and preach them.
So I've been preaching a long, long time, and I'm grateful for
somebody that crossed my path with the gospel, crossed my path
with the gospel of the grace of God, that taught me that there's
only one gospel, And that gospel concerns a person, the Lord Jesus
Christ. And all the things that concern
our Lord Jesus Christ. And it was grace that brought
him, grace that called him. And I'll tell you what he says,
there'll be some that trouble you and would transform the character
of the gospel into a different gospel, a different character. Oh, my. and some that trouble
you, look in Galatians 5.10 with me. And it's troublesome, it is troublesome
to see people leave the gospel. He said in Galatians 5, 510,
I have confidence in you through the Lord Jesus, through our Lord
Jesus Christ, that you'll be none otherwise minded. Now see,
that's what I mean. He believes these are believers.
I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none
otherwise minded. But at he that troubles you shall
bear his judgment, whoever it is that's coming in here troubling
you with another gospel. perverting the gospel. And oh
my, look in, keep Galatians, look in Acts 15, 24. Look in
Acts 15, 24. You know, this whole chapter
here, it starts out in verse one of Acts 15. The first thing it starts out
with is this. And certain men which came down
from Judea taught the brethren, and said unto them, Except you
be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved." That's a strong statement. There's only one way you can
be saved. You gotta believe the law, you gotta believe Moses,
you gotta look to Moses, and you've got to be circumcised. And if you're not, there's no
way in the world for you to be saved. That's what they were
teaching. And look what it says down in
verse 24. For as much as we have heard that
certain which went out from us have troubled you, oh my, there
be some that trouble you. and with words subverting your
souls, saying you must be circumcised and keep the law, to whom we
gave no such commandment." We'd never sit nobody out with that
kind of a message. But here they come to Galatia.
Here they come. They come in here. And let me
tell you something about false teachers. They don't come in
with something on their lapel that says, listen, I'm a false
teacher. I'm a false prophet. I'm gonna come in and lie to
you. I'm gonna come in here and pervert the gospel. They don't
come like that. They don't come that way. No, no. He doesn't
come, you know, he don't come here and say, I'm false. I've
got sheep's clothing on me, but I'm really a raven and wolf,
and I want to deceive you, and I want you to lead you away from
the grace of Christ. I want to lead you away from
the gospel. I want to lead you away to where you know how it
is to really be saved. The devil doesn't come as a devil.
He comes disguised. He comes disguised. I'm going
to show you that. In Galatians, you go, you're
back, you're in Galatians 1. Just go back two chapters, back
to 2 Corinthians 11. Two chapters, just go right back
to your left and go to 2 Corinthians 11. You know, there's a, he comes
disguised. There's a black devil. Those
are called, you know, those are sins of the flesh. Murder, adultery,
lying, extortion, those kind of things. But look what he said
here. And I think it's verse 12. I think Corinthians 11, 12. But
what I do, I will do that I may cut off occasion. that I may
cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion. They want
to step up. They want an occasion to come
and preach to you. But I stepped up to cut off them,
cut them off, that wherein they glory, they may be found even
as we. Try to be like us. But look what
he says, but such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. And that's no reason
to marvel about that, for Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light. And so if he's changed into an
angel of light, no marvel, for therefore it is of no great thing
if his ministers, whose ministers? Satan's ministers, also be transformed
as the ministers of righteousness, and all whose end shall be according
to their works. Oh, my. So you see, that's what
he's talking about, trouble. These fellas don't come that
way. You know, if Eve woulda knew that that serpent, that
serpent, now Satan came as a serpent, a talking serpent, and he came
to Eve, and if she woulda knew how he was gonna deceive her,
she wouldn't have been deceived, she wouldn't have listened to
him. But she didn't know it. And most people don't know it.
Somebody's gotta tell them that there's another gospel. And it's
a perverted gospel. Paul said there's only one gospel.
And oh, there's that, you know, the white devil. I called him
a white devil. He comes as an angel. He comes
and tells you God loves you. He comes and tells you works of law bring in Moses. Christ does a good work. Christ
does a good work. I mean, he saves us. He really
saves us. But yet, you got to go back to
the law to be sanctified. You got to go back to the law
to learn how to live. You got to go back to the law
to find out how you're supposed to live in this world. You know, how in the world, you
know, I've had preachers ask me that. I've had people that,
I don't think they're real preachers, but they've asked me, why do
you discipline your church? What do you do about people committing
adultery? What do you do about people lying? I don't do anything
about them. What would I do about it? What would I do about it? I've
been preaching for 46 years here and we have never one time ever
put anybody out of the church. Now I've had private conversations
with people. But I tell you, my business is
not to decide who's doing what. Christ will deal with his people.
He said, they're my sheep and I'll take care of them. The shepherd's
responsible for the sheep. My responsibility is to love
you, preach the gospel to you, and tell you, you know how we're
supposed to live in this world? The same way we're saved, by
grace. As you receive Christ Jesus the
Lord, walk in him. How do you receive him? By grace. You received him as a sinner.
You received him as helpless. You received him as nobody that
you had no ability. So you follow him the same way
you received him. You had no ability then, you
still ain't got none. You had no power then, you still
ain't got none. So how you gonna, just like you
received him, walk in him. Ain't that right? Oh boy. I tell you what, they come along,
bring in Moses. Christ done a good work. And
he's begun a building, but he's unable to finish it. Moses has
got to do it now. Moses got to help you. And I
tell you, I remember preaching here one
time and we had a bunch of visitors from somewhere. And when I got
through, the man came up to me and said, If I heard you right,
the law has nothing to do with the believer. Is that what I
heard you say? I said, that's what you heard
me say. He said, that means you're an Ananomian. And I said, well,
what is that? He said, that means somebody
without law. I said, I am. But oh my, you know, if Satan
can't hurt us by persecuting us, he'll destroy by coming in
the guise of Correcting us and building us up and taking us
just a little deeper in the word I'm gonna teach you a little
bit about prophecy. I'm gonna talk about practical Christianity
I won't teach you about how to have a good marriage I won't
teach you about how you ought to how you ought to raise your
children listen That's not has nothing to do
with the gospel Preachers get up and preach against every sin
under the sun, but preaching against sins never saved anybody.
Christ is the Savior. You can preach against communism,
materialism, denominationalism, every kind of ism you can think
of, and I'll tell you something, isms is not what saves, Christ
is the one that saves. And that's what people got to
learn. Got to learn that. We, we, oh, oh, take us here. No, that's what they want to
do. Let's go just a little deeper. That preacher, that preacher's
not preaching deep enough. There's, there's another aspect
to the gospel you're not getting. There was a fella got up one
time and, He says, you know, there's more to preach in the
Bible other than Christ. Big old boy, when he got out
of the pulpit, met him there and said, if there is, buddy,
you ain't got it yet. I don't want to hear it. He said,
if there is, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear
it. I'll tell you at all. And here's the thing. I marvel
that you're so soon removed from the grace of Christ unto another
gospel back in Galatians 1, which be not another. There'll be some
that trouble you, they troubling you. And that is troubling and
would pervert the gospel of Christ. Oh, those who mingle law and
the gospel, they're perverters of the gospel. You try to mingle
works and grace, you're perverting the gospel. Either Christ must
remain and the law's got to go. Or else the law has to stay and
Christ has to go. You can't have them both. You can't have law. You know,
I've got a book in there. It's called The Genius of the
Puritans. And the premise of that book
is that the Puritans could note how to preach the law and the
gospel and make them come out to say. That's no genius in that. I read that, I thought, boy,
where's the genius at in this? You know, the purpose of the
law, by the law is the knowledge of sin. The law entered that
sin, S-I-N, might become exceeding sinful. When you look at God and His
holiness, And look at what God demands, perfection. From the
day you're born to the day you die, you know what you find out?
I can't do that. I can't live like that. I don't
have any ability to do that. So what does God do when you
find out you're a sinner? There's only one place to go,
only one person to trust. Huh? Listen. For Christ and the law can by
no means agree and reign together in the conscience. It just can't
do it. Christ can't reign there, and law can't reign there at
the same time. Either one of them's got to be
the master. Either Christ's got to be the master, grace has to
reign in the heart, or law has to reign in the heart. Oh my. You know, Let me tell
you something. He said, you'll find that there's
no gospel which is not another. That's what he says, not another.
There can't be another gospel. How are sins removed? By Christ,
who made satisfaction to God in his holiness and his justice
and satisfied God once and for all. Christ did. Who justified
us? Christ did. Whose righteousness
do we have? Christ's righteousness. And to
turn from that, to turn from what Christ did, to what? Justification
by works? Justification by law? Justification
by the flesh? You're talking about going backwards.
That's going backwards. That's why I said it's a perversion
of the gospel. And oh my, look at his confidence
in what he preached. He had confidence in his gospel.
He had confidence in the gospel. And oh, he said in verse 8, But
though we, and when he talks about we, he's talking about
them brethren that are with me. These brethren that are with
me. But though we, or perhaps even if an angel was able to
come from heaven, which he's saying that's an impossibility,
but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel
unto you than that we have preached unto you, let him be cursed. Oh, that's how dangerous it is
to preach another gospel and pervert the gospel. If you preach
another gospel, Paul says, let him be accursed. If an angel
come down, could come down and preach another gospel, and us
people say, oh, I've seen an angel, I believe in angels. I
believe, I said I had a vision of an angel. If I had a vision
of an angel, I'd say Satan sent it to me, because God don't give
you visions of angels. He gives you visions of Christ.
And oh my. And his confidence in, suppose
I came and preached another gospel. If an angel came down from heaven
and he started telling you another gospel. If we did, Or anyone
else does, let him be cursed. Let God curse him. And that word there really means
let him be damned. Damned, that's what it means.
And oh my, and I tell you to be accursed of God, look on and
show you in Acts chapter 15, 10 of me, and look back over
in Acts again with me. I want to see you in Acts 15,
10. I want you to see something over here. Talking about the
law, talking about this law and these works business. When these
men come and talked about, you know, that they wanted to pervert
the gospel and they wouldn't let them, they wouldn't give
them an inch, not even listen to them talk. But look what Peter
said down here in verse 10, Acts 15, 10. Now he's talking to them.
These men who said this, therefore why tempt ye God? That's what
you're doing, you're tempting God. To put a yoke upon the neck
of the disciples, which neither we nor our fathers were able
to bear. Our fathers under the law, they
couldn't bear it. We couldn't bear it. And look what else it says in
verse 11. But we believe, through the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved, even as Him." Oh, to be accursed of God. To
be accursed of God. I want to show you another thing. I hope I ain't preaching too
long. But look over with me at 1 Timothy. Look with me over
in 1 Timothy. chapter one, talking about this,
another gospel. What happens when men preach
another gospel? There's not another gospel. Paul told Timothy, first Timothy
chapter one, verse 18, this charge I commit under thee, son Timothy,
according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou
by'st them might war a good warfare." You're in a war. And I pray that
God will enable you to war a good warfare. Holding faith. Hold
fast to that faith. Hold fast to the gospel of faith. Hold fast to what we believe
with all your heart and soul. And having a good conscience,
which some have put away concerning faith. They may shipwreck of
the faith. It's like a ship, you know, gets
busted up on the rocks and everything. They had faith, and then all
of a sudden they wreck, and their ship gets tore all to pieces.
And he names people, of whom here's Imanious and Alexander,
and listen to this now, whom I delivered unto Satan, that
they may learn not to blaspheme. He had the power to do that.
Our Lord said, you know, whatsoever you Remit, and heaven shall be
remitted. Whatsoever you remit on earth
shall be remitted. And okay, so listen, let's go
down to verse 9. And as we said before, so say
I now again. I said it before, I'm going to
tell you again. It's worth repeating. If any man, if any, preach any
other gospel unto you that you have received, let him be accursed. I want to repeat it. And what
he's saying, if anyone comes with any other message other
than an eternal, full, free, complete salvation in Christ,
by Christ, let that man be accursed if he brings anything else other
than Christ and Christ alone. Well, don't move away from Christ.
Don't move away from the gospel. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Once you ever learn that gospel,
you'll never do it. You'll never do it. I don't care
what anybody comes along and says. Our Lord said, my sheep
hear my voice. And you know what else he said
about it? They ain't going to follow a stranger. They're not going to listen to
a strange voice. I hear a voice out there. He's telling me something
about works. He's telling me something about law. He's telling
me something about Moses. He's telling me something about
how to live. Oh, listen. I ain't going to listen. I ain't
going to hear. I'm not listening to that. I'll put bands over
both ears. I'm not going to hear it. I'm
not going to hear it. Our blessed Savior. Our gracious,
gracious God, in the blessed, blessed name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, how precious, how precious, how precious is your gospel,
how precious is your grace, how precious it is to know it, believe
it, preach it, rest in it, find such comfort and assurance in
it. And Lord, I thank you that you've enabled me by your grace
Priest, these wonderful truths, they're so wonderful, so precious. And oh, Lord, you've done it
for poor, poor wretches like us. Thank you, Lord. Bless your holy
name. Amen. Amen. Amazing Grace, 236 in the book
if you don't know. How sweet the sound that saved
a wretch like me. I once was lost But now am found,
was blind, but now I see. T'was grace taught my heart to
fear. And grace my fears relieved How
precious did that grace appear The hour I first begun Through
many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. This grace has brought me safe. thus far and grace will lead
me home when we've been there ten thousand years bright shining
as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's
praise than when we first begun. So you wish to