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Clay Curtis

Never Move From Christ

Galatians 1:6-9
Clay Curtis September, 24 2020 Video & Audio
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Alright brethren, let's go now
to Galatians chapter 1. Thank you Scott. Galatians chapter
1. My title is an exhortation. It's a needed word. Never move from Christ. Never move from Christ. Verse 6, Paul says, I marvel
that ye are so soon removed from him that called you. That you're 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 than that
which we've preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we've
said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel
unto you than that you receive, let him be accursed. Now the Lord Jesus Christ is
the gospel. He is salvation. He's everything
in salvation. Everything that a sinner needs
to come into God's presence, the Lord Jesus Christ is. And
everything about grace, every grace we need to believe Him,
to continue in Him, to to do what we do in this world, to
do what we do in his church, to interact with one another.
Everything comes from his hand, through his spirit, through his
gospel. Christ is the gospel. He's salvation. And to make anything else necessary
for any aspect of salvation, is to move from Christ to no
gospel at all. If we make anything whatsoever
to be necessary for anything, for salvation, we've moved from
Christ. We've removed from Christ to
no gospel at all, to nothing. To absolutely nothing. And it's
sure to end in damnation. It's to end in being accursed. Now that's serious. That's what
Paul says here. He says, I marvel that you're
so soon removed from him. Now it's important to know what
the false preachers were preaching at Galatians. We don't have to
doubt this. These were false preachers. We know they were
false preachers by what they were saying. And they were telling
believers at Galatia, folks who had believed the God, who'd been
born of God, purified by God, made holy by God, made righteous
in Christ, complete in Christ, accepted in Christ, believers
who were fit to walk into heaven with God and be accepted of holy
God. They came to them and said, but
except you keep the law, you can't be saved. That word accepts
a big word. That's saying it's necessary.
Except you keep the law, you cannot be saved. Now, in our
day, false preachers require the same thing. They say the
same thing. Now, most do not require circumcision,
but they say, except you keep the law of Moses, you cannot
be saved. They're saying the same thing.
They say we're saved through faith alone. They say we're saved
by Christ alone. They say we're saved by grace
alone. They say salvation is of the
Lord. But in addition to Christ, in
addition to faith, in addition to grace, they say except you
keep the law of Moses, you cannot be saved. Now I've never met
anybody in modern day religion who says you have to keep the
law for justification. I've never met anybody who says
you have to keep the law to be just with God before his bar,
before his judgment seat. But what they are saying is in
order for you to be justified before men as being holy and
growing in holiness, you have to keep the law. In other words, we'll use the
law and your obedience to the law as a measure of just how
holy you really are. Look at Galatians 5 and let's
know what Paul said. He said, stand fast therefore,
verse one, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be
not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Now listen to
this carefully. Behold, I, Paul, say unto you. He's attaching his name to this. It's so important. Behold, I,
Paul, say unto you that if you be circumcised, if you have to
keep any law, If you have to, if you have to keep any law,
you can put any requirement of religion right there in that
word for circumcised, if you do that, Christ shall profit
you nothing. For I testify again to every
man that is circumcised, now watch, he's a debtor to do the
whole law. If men tell you you have to keep
one law, You gotta keep the whole law. If you can't be saved unless
you keep one law, maybe it's a Sabbath day. Or as they say
today, it's the Lord's day. And if you don't keep the Lord's
day, you can't be saved. And now I'm all for us gathering
to hear the gospel preached anytime the gospel's preached. But every
day's the Lord's day. God's people worship the Lord
every day. We seek him every day. But now if you're told you
gotta keep a day, or any other commandment, you gotta tithe. Whatever it is, or you can't
be saved, you can't be righteous, or you can't be holy, or you
won't get a reward in heaven, or whatever it is, reason they're
giving for it, if you gotta keep just one, you gotta keep them
all. You gotta keep them all. those that are called and blessed
by God. And he says there in verse four,
look, Christ is becoming no effect unto you. Whosoever you are justified
by law, you're fallen from grace. Be it justified before God or
whether you're using the law to try to justify yourself before
men. In any case, whether it's for
justification or sanctification, if it's a necessity, you keep
the law, you can't be saved. Christ is of no effect. None. Now watch this. We through the
Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. Those truly called
believe on Christ and we wait for that day when Christ returns
and makes us perfectly righteous in Him. We wait by faith. We walk by faith. Faith is the
rule we are under. We walk looking to Christ, believing
on Christ. We do good works constrained,
not by law. but by the love of Christ. He
says there, for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything,
whether you were a Jew under the law or whether you were a
Gentile in uncircumcision who never was under the law. Neither
one of those benefits you or hurts you. What matters? Faith which worketh by love. He tells him, you did run well,
You did run well. Who did hinder you that you should
not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of
him that calleth you." A little leaven, just a little bit of
works. You just put one work into it
that you have to do or you can't be saved and you've turned the
whole thing into works. A little leaven leavens the whole
lump. Now let's go back and let's get
our text here and let's read this and see what Paul says here
in these two or three verses. He says, first of all, that Christ
who called us calls us to himself. And if we turn to ourselves,
to our works, to anything that we have to do to be saved, We've
turned from Christ. We've left Christ that called
us. Look here in verse 6. I marvel
that you're so soon removed from Him that called you. He's saying
any of these things that you go to other than Christ is removing
from Christ who called you. It's removing from Christ who
called you. Now let me make this clear. Nobody called by Christ
is ever going to fall away. Nobody called by Christ will
ever be lost. They'll never fall away because
he will not allow his child to turn from him to a lie. He won't do it. He just won't
do it. He never loses one that he's
called irresistibly to him. Never. But those who profess
faith in Christ without a work of grace in the heart, and there's
a lot of people that profess Christ that's never been born
of the Spirit of God. They've never been called by
Christ. And those who turn to man's merit and trust man's merit,
what man does to be saved, to be justified, to be holy, to
whatever it is, whatever the thing is that you must do, they were never called effectually. And what they're doing is a person
who turns from him turns from Christ himself. turned from Christ
himself. Now that's what was, they were
being turned from Christ himself by these Judaizers who were saying,
you need to do something. It sounds, it sounds good when
you hear it. Don't you, why do you want to
trample underfoot the law of God? Oh, nobody wants to do that.
A believer doesn't want to do that. But a believer also doesn't want
to put it in a man's hand and call that keeping the law. because
that's not keeping the law. That's as much trampling under
the foot the law of God as the other is. Christ alone has to
establish the law. Now, each person in the Godhead
calls us. He said, if you turn to your
works and you turn to your merit and you turn to your worth and
you turn to your law keeping, you've turned from him that called
you. Now, who called us? Well, each person in the Godhead
is attributed, gets glory in the gospel for calling us. God
the Father calls us to Christ. Christ said, no man can come
to me except the Father which has sent me draw him, and I will
raise him up at the last day. It's written in the scriptures,
they shall be all taught of God. God will teach all his people.
Every man, therefore, that hath heard and that learned of the
Father comes to me, Christ said. When God calls, He calls His
elect to Christ. They come to Christ. They come
to Christ. God the Holy Spirit calls His
elect to Christ. He said, how be it when He, the
Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth. And Christ said, I am the truth.
He said, He shall glorify me. My point I'm making is the Father
calls to Christ. The Holy Spirit calls to Christ. and Christ calls to Christ. The
Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, is the head of his church. How
real is your head connected to your body? Well, that's how real
Christ is connected to his body. He really is. And how real does
your head control what the rest of your body does? That's how
real our head controls the rest of his body. He's working in
every member. He calls us to himself. He says,
come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest. I wish somebody that's under
Will Works Religion, somebody that's under the preachers that
tell them, you gotta keep this Sabbath day, or you gotta eat
this and not eat that, or you can't do this thing or the other
thing, I wish somebody could hear this and hear Christ speak
affectionately and say, come to me, I'll give you rest from
that. You won't rest from that. Anybody
won't rest from your sin, rest from your, from your trouble
rest, from bondage. Christ says, come to me, I will
give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, learn
of me, learn from me and learn about me. I'll give you rest. I'm meek and lowly in heart.
Did you know the sinners, the real sinners in the day that
Christ walked this earth, really bona fide sinners who it was
known they were sinner, immoral sinner, people nobody else would
have anything to do with. They couldn't come to religious
men. Why? They were scared of being judged. but they could come to Christ.
He was meek and lowly, so meek and lowly that the foulest sinner
wasn't afraid to come to Him and say, and be honest and say,
I'm a sinner. Well, He says come to Him, and
He calls you to Him. Whatever you need right now,
go to Christ, He'll give it to you. He calls us to himself. He is
the gospel. He is the gospel. The gospel's
not a doctrine. The gospel's not a system. It's
not a bunch of do's and don'ts. This whole book is telling us,
come to Christ. He said, I am the way. There's
no way to God but by him. He said, I'm the truth. He's
the gospel. He said, I'm the life. Lord willing,
that's what we're gonna look at Sunday. Christ, the life.
He said, no man comes to the Father but by me. He said, I'm
the door. What do you do with the door?
You open the door and go through that door. And he said, that's
how you're going to get to God. I'm the door. You know what he
said the law was? A partition, keeping you from
God. He said, I'm the door that'll
take you right through it, right to God. Look unto me and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there's none else.
He's our righteousness, the believer. He's our righteousness and he's
our strength. Surely shall one say, in the
Lord have our righteousness and strength. Even to him shall men
come. And all that are incensed against
him Well, who's that? That's those that are saying,
well, it's okay to believe on Him, but there's something else,
there's something you gotta do. They're incensed against Him.
Paul says later in Galatians, they won't preach Him lest they
suffer persecution for preaching the cross of Christ. They're
incensed against Him, and he said, they're gonna be ashamed. But in the Lord shall all the
seed of Israel, all God's elect, shall be justified, and there'll
be glory in Him. Now, if we turn to ourselves,
so He calls us to Him. Paul said there in verse 15,
when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and
called me by His grace to reveal His Son in me. He called me,
and He called me to Christ. Now, when He's called you to
Him, if we turn to ourselves to some
worth in us, to some merit in us, to some work done by us,
to something we've done or not done that makes us better than
the next person, or makes us more accepted with God, or makes
us more holy, or we start comparing ourselves with ourselves and
thinking ourselves better than another, legalism is entering
the heart when that happens. We're becoming a logger, we're
becoming a legalist when that happens. And when that happens,
he's telling us, we're moving from Christ. We're moving from
Christ. In verse 6, he says, a marvel
that you're so soon removed from him that called you. We just
read over there in Galatians 5, 7, he said, this persuasion
cometh not of him that calleth you, Did Christ call us to Him
and tell us He has fulfilled the whole law of God on our behalf? God the Father sent Him in love
for His people and He laid down His life for His people and put
away the sins of His people. As He said there in Galatians
1-4, He gave Himself for our sins that He might be the one
to deliver us from this present evil world because that's the
will of God our Father. Now would He come and tell you
that? and tell you I'm gonna deliver you, I'm carrying you
all the way to glory, I'm the way, the truth, the life, the
door, no man comes to God but by me, and then tell you now
go to Mount Sinai and put yourself back under the law and do a little
bit more so you can be more holy and then I'll receive you. No.
Paul said that persuasion didn't come from him. He didn't tell
you that. Christ doesn't tell his people
that. Judaizers and preachers say that. Except you be circumcised
and keep the law of Moses, you can't be saved. And they think
they've accomplished some great feat when they get sinners to
want to get under the law and get real moral and start acting
holier than other people and start looking down their nose
on other people and acting like they're very good. They think
they've accomplished something. Do you know that that's what
Christ dealt with the whole time he walked this earth, trying
to get sinners to turn from that garbage? They rejected the Prince
of Life, the Lord of Glory, righteousness himself, for the law, for something
they could do to be saved. And he dealt with that everywhere
he went. Paul dealt with it in every epistle he wrote. If you
read Romans and you study through Romans, you'll find out that's
the sin Paul's talking about. That we are now ashamed of when
he calls us to Christ. Everybody knows you'd be ashamed
of your immorality and your ungodliness and the things you did, but nobody
considers all our righteousnesses we thought we had done and how
we thought we had done something to make God receive us. That's
what believers start becoming ashamed of. It's not a great thing to make
a man want to do something to be justified or sanctified. It's
a great thing though when you get him to stop doing and trust
Christ to do it all. That's a great thing. That's
what Christ calls you to do. But only God can call you and
only God can make us rest in Christ and trust that He alone
has established the law, that He alone is our righteousness
before the law of God, and that when Christ is formed in you,
you're purified, you're holy, and He's the holiness within
you. Only God can convince you of that. that you don't have
to add to Christ. You don't have to add anything
to Him. He's everything. Now let's go to this second point
here. To acquire a work of our hands, to add anything to Christ,
is to remove from the grace of Christ. It's to remove from the
grace of Christ. Verse six, I marvel that you're
so soon removed from Him that called you, and what did He call
you into? Into the grace of Christ. But
he said when you go back to the law, when you go to yourself
or something, you've left the grace of Christ and gone to another
gospel which is not another. Now, there's no doubt we're called
by the grace of Christ. Salvation is all of grace from
beginning to end. But right here when he says you're
called into the grace of Christ, you're called out of the bondage
of the law. You're called out of the bondage of the flesh.
You're called out of that bondage of the prince of the power of
the air. And you're called into the grace of Christ. And that's to be called into
the enjoyment of the fullness of grace that's in Christ. To enjoy it. to be called into
joy, the enjoyment of the fullness of the grace of Christ. When
we were called into the grace of Christ, His work appeared
so perfect. Do you remember this? You that
have been in the faith a little while, when you first saw Christ
as everything, you saw Him as all, you saw He as the perfect
completion of the law, He is your perfect acceptance with
God. He's your completion with God. There's nothing left for
you to add. If you died right now, God would
receive you. Just like that thief on the cross.
I'm so glad God called him. I'm glad Christ called him, aren't
you? He had everything you need to enter into glory. He had righteousness. He had wisdom. He had that holiness
without which no man will see the Lord. He was redeemed from
the curse and condemnation of the law. He had everything you
need to enter into glory with his hands and his feet nailed
to a cross. That means he did not do one thing. He had it all. He was in the fullness of the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ called into that life. And when
He does that, He makes you so ashamed of all those duties you
had to do and all those commandments you were trying to keep and all
the extra commandments of men and churches that they had you
under and the bondage they put you under. He makes you ashamed
of all that because you see how perfect His work is and you think,
why didn't I believe Him all along? And you know that's what
God said He'd do. Go to Ezekiel 16, I'm going to
show you this. God said that's exactly what
he'll do when he calls his child. The sin and the shame of Israel,
it wasn't, it was their false religion, it was their trying
to come to God by the works of the law, by all the things they
added to it, and look here, verse 62, Ezekiel 16, 62, I'll establish
my covenant with thee, he's talking about his everlasting covenant
of grace, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, that thou
mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth anymore
because of your shame. When I'm pacified toward you
for all that you've done, saith the Lord God." That's exactly
what he's saying. He's saying, when I've called
you to me, you're going to be so happy with me and see me as
being so completely your all. You're never going to open your
mouth and talk about your righteousness again. David Brainerd said on
that, David Brainerd, some of y'all know, but for those that
don't, he preached to the Delaware Indians right over here on the
Delaware River. And he said, I wonder that I should ever think
of any other way of salvation. This is what he said when the
Lord did this for him and made him ashamed of all his works.
He said, I wondered that I should ever think of any other way of
salvation. If I could have been saved by
my own duties, my whole soul would now have refused it. I
wondered that all the world did not see and comply with this
way of salvation by the righteousness of Christ. Didn't you feel that
way when he called you? You think, if now I could go
back and I could take everything I ever did in religion, I wouldn't
want to depend on any of it. That's what Paul meant in Romans
6 where he said, you were the servant of sin. Now you're ashamed
of that that you were in before. You're ashamed of it. Then we begin to live unto God
by Christ living in us. We begin to live unto God. Before
we weren't living unto God, we were living to the works of our
hands, to preachers and to people. We wanted everybody to see us.
We're trying to justify ourselves before men. And there wasn't
no fun, there wasn't no joy in that, that was bondage. Now you live unto God, depending
upon Christ for everything. All the blessings of grace are
in Christ's hand to give to his people. Paul said in Ephesians
4.7, he's arisen and he says, and unto every one of us, talking
to believers, unto every one of us is grace given according
to the measure of the gift of Christ. It's all in his hands
to give to each believer in the measure he'll give it. According,
he knows what you need, don't you? When you have a child, you know
how much to feed them. You know when to stop feeding
them. You know what clothes they need to put on. You know when
to turn them this way or turn them that way. You can see when
they're fixing to fall. You know when to get them and
catch them. You know when to let them fall. You know how to teach
your children, don't you? It's all in Christ's hand. He's
the head of his church. As real as if he was standing
here instead of me. and telling you these things
and teaching you. He's doing it that real in the
midst of His church and religion doesn't believe that at all.
They prove it by trying to yoke and bind and bite and devour.
We're filled with fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ. It begins with Him giving us
life and faith and repentance That's the gift of Christ. He
purchased the right to give it to you. He gives it to His child.
And He never stops giving you faith and repentance. It's not
a one-time thing. It's ongoing all the days of
our life after He calls us. And through faith we're comforted
by the free justification Christ has accomplished for us. He gives
you pardon. He gives you the pardon and the
peace of atonement when He purges your conscience and makes you
know that you complete Him. And then He gives you wisdom
to walk by faith in Christ, to know that He's everything, to
follow Him. He called His people and He said,
follow me, follow me, follow me. And He gives you the wisdom
to do it and He gives you the strength to do it. And it's all
given through the continual preaching of the faithfulness of Christ.
Go to Galatians 3, that's exactly what Paul is saying. He said,
foolish Galatians, who's bewitched you? The gospel was preached
so abundantly to you, you saw Christ set forth, crucified among
you. Now watch. He said, did you receive
the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?
Was I preaching law to you and telling you what you had to do,
or were you hearing Christ's faithfulness preached when the
Spirit came and gave you life? Are you foolish, having begun
in the Spirit? Are you now made perfect by the
flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain, if it be yet
in vain? He that ministers to you the Spirit, he's talking
about Christ, he called you into this grace. He's giving you this
grace, it's the grace of Christ. He ministered to you the Spirit
and he works miracles among you. Did he do it by the works of
the law or by the hearing of faith? Hearing his faithfulness.
Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for
righteousness. I love Paul continually using Abraham. 430 years before
the law was given, here's a man who walked by faith and didn't
have those Ten Commandments. And he did everything he was
supposed to do. You say, well he messed up a
lot. Nope, he did everything he was supposed to do. And not
a thing that man did that God didn't will for him to do and
God worked it in him. The sin was his. But you read
Hebrews 11. He did everything he's supposed
to do. He walked by faith. But if I'm able to turn from
Christ and turn from the grace and turn back to the false gospel
of works, did Christ work that? Men want to say, this is real
sanctification. You got to have some evidence.
God don't give but one evidence. It's faith in Christ. If you
can trust Christ and keep your eye on Christ and follow Christ
and walk by Christ, faith is the evidence. Stop looking for
other evidences. The man who starts looking for
other evidences and going to other evidences just manifested
he's not walking by faith. All he evidenced was he wasn't
called to Christ. Prove that to me, all right?
Verse Galatians 2, 16. Knowing that a man's not justified
by the works of the law, but by the faithfulness of Jesus
Christ, even we've believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be
justified by the faith of Christ, not by the works of the law.
By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if,
while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are also
found sinners, Did Christ minister that? Is He the minister of sin?
Did He make us do that? God forbid. Now what sin is He
talking about? If I build again that which I
profess was taken down in Christ, what's He talking about? He's
talking about that middle wall of the law. He's talking about
what Peter did when he got up and went from the Gentile table
to the Jews table and he built the law back up and said the
law is how it's going to be made to differ. That's what Paul's
calling sin. He said, if I do that, did Christ
make me do that? Was Christ the minister of that?
Did he tell me that this thing of progressive sanctification
is true? No, he didn't. I made myself
a transgressor. That's of me. That's of my flesh. Here's being in the grace of
Christ right here. Here it is. I, through the law,
am dead to the law. I'm going to tell you all something.
This is all my hope right here. The sinner you see in me, the
sinner you see that I am, God don't see him. He's dead. He
died over 2,000 years ago at Calvary, and he was buried, and
he's gone. It's that real. And I live now
under God. I am crucified with Christ. I
was on that cross. If you're his, you were on that
cross. You were crucified with Christ. Watch, nevertheless I
live, yet not I, Christ liveth in me. In the life which I now
live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God,
by his faithfulness, the same faithfulness by which he loved
me and gave himself for me, now he lives in me. And I don't frustrate the grace
of God. Oh, that'd be an awful thing.
Nobody wants to frustrate God's grace. How do you do that? Except
you keep the law. Except you add your morality. Except you, except you, except
you. That's frustrating the grace
of God. And here's what that is. It's
saying, Paul said, if righteousness doesn't come by the law, it's
saying Christ is dead and vain. to turn a man back to himself,
back to the law, back to his work, to require him to do anything
other than what Christ has done is to say Christ died in vain.
He didn't get it done. You talk about blasphemy. That's why we don't put a man
under law. That's why we don't put that bondage on a man. That's
saying Christ died in vain. Who wants to say that? The grace of Christ gives perfect
righteousness by His obedience. Paul said in Romans 5.15, the
grace of God and the gift by grace is by one man, Jesus Christ. And He's faithfully, actively,
powerfully working in us, supplying all our need. All our need. If we turn from grace, turn from
Christ, we've turned to works. Law and grace can't mix. Paul said, I've turned from that
grace He called me into. I've turned from Him and I've
turned from grace. Law and grace can't mix. He says
in Galatians 3.12, the law is not of faith. Law's not, nothing's
wrong with the law. We're talking about when your
motive becomes you having to do something to please God, rather
than Christ doing it all. That's law, and that's not faith. It's not faith. If by grace,
it's no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace, and if
it's works, it's no more grace, otherwise work is no more work.
They can't mix. Work says, The man that does those things
of the law shall live by them. That's what works here, you gotta
do it all. But grace says this, we believe unto righteousness. You wanna try to come under bondage
and keep the whole law yourself? Or believe on Christ and be the
righteousness of God in him? I've got a few more things but
I'm going to end it. I want to turn in with 1 Corinthians
1.4. I want to show you this and we'll
be done. This right here shows you the
full supply of His grace right here. Now you think about it,
there's nothing left out here, not anything. Verse 4, Paul said, I thank my
God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given
you by Jesus Christ. That means everything you need
in this life, everything you need as a believer, Christ has
given it. Now here it is. He covers it
all. In everything, you're enriched by Him. What do you need? You're enriched by Him in everything.
In all utterance and in all knowledge, Just like the gospel was confirmed
in you. Just like it was in the first
hours by Christ giving it to you. So it is in every hour.
And you don't come behind in any gift. You come behind in
no gift. You're waiting for the coming
of the Lord Jesus. Watch. Now here's the end. He'll
confirm you to the end. He's gonna provide what you need
all the way to the end. And then when the end comes,
He's gonna make you to be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus.
That's everything you need. That's everything from the beginning
to the end, everything. And nothing else left, nothing
left out. And if you know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
you know what it took to give you that. You know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ who though he was rich, yet for your
sakes he became poor that you might be rich. I'm gonna give
him the glory and say he's gonna enrich me and everything because
he gave his life and became more poor than anybody on this planet
ever to give me those riches. He gets to give them, and He
alone gets to give them. Here's my point. Turn from Christ. Just deviate from Christ and
think there's something you have to provide. You've left Christ
altogether. Go to works in any regard, you
left grace altogether. It's all in Christ, and everything
we need in this life is given us by Christ. You need to be
brought down, he'll bring you down. You need to be lifted up,
he'll lift you up. You need wisdom, he'll be your
wisdom. You need strength, he'll give you the strength. You need
whatever. How did you get it the first
hour? The same one will give it to you in every hour. It's
Christ, Christ, Christ. Never leave Christ. Paul said,
when you do, you've not gone to another gospel. We're not
all preaching the same gospel, we just differ a little bit.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. If Christ is not all, then he's
nothing to you. It's all Christ. And Paul said,
and if a man's preaching anything but Christ, let him be accursed. And that's how it's going to
end. It's going to end in the damnation of God. Never move
from Christ. Never ever move from Christ. I pray God will bless you.
Clay Curtis
About Clay Curtis
Clay Curtis is pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Ewing, New Jersey. Their services begin Sunday morning at 10:15 am and 11am at 251 Green Lane, Ewing, NJ, 08638. Clay may be reached by telephone at 615-513-4464 and by email at claycurtis70@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the church website at http://www.FreeGraceMedia.com.

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