Our reading tonight is taken from the book of Galatians,
Galatians chapter 1, and we're going to read.
Verses 1 through 12. You have her Bible, their turn
to the police appointed for the reading Galatians 1 verses 1
through 12. The words will also come up in
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We've been using these. Verses and the first chapter of
Galatians, as a springboard to expose certain false gospels.
I'm already put three messages out there on our church website
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let's do your best to learn and may the Lord be our teacher and
help her. Let's hear the word of God.
Galatians chapter 1, a reading from verse 1.
Paul an apostle, not of man, neither by man, but by Jesus
Christ. And God, the Father who raised
him from the dead and all the Brethren, which are with me unto
the churches of Goleta. Greece speak to you and peace
from God, the father, and from our Lord, Jesus Christ who gave
himself for our sins, that he might Deliver Us from this
present, evil world, according to the will of God and our
father to him, be glory forever. And ever.
Amen. I Marvel that ye are 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 have preached unto you
let him be accursed as we said before.
So, say I, now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you
than that, ye have received, let him be accursed for do I now
persuade men or God or do? I seek to please men for if If I
yet, please, man, I should not be the servant of Christ.
But I certify you Brethren that the gospel which was preached of
me is not after man. For I neither received it of
man. Neither was I taught it, but by
the revelation of Jesus Christ, amen.
To the Lord was stump of his own approval and blessing.
That's reading off the holy scriptures. now my text tonight
is found in Galatians, chapter 1 verses 3 to 5, and they want us
to think this evening of discovering truth about the
death of Christ. Now Paul's epistle to the
Galatians is no one as an emergency Paso.
In other words, it was written and he hissed.
And if you look very carefully at your authorized version and
just read through verses 1 through 25, you will discover.
There's no full stops, the First full, stop as at the last word
and verse 5, which is amen. There's Commerce, there's colons
and their semicolons. And if you want to know what
they're for. I urge you to do eat but of
digging into English grammar, or maybe ask one of the teachers
that are here. They'll give you the answer.
I'm not fully sure. But I'm only going for what's in
the book. It's as if Paul at Harley, took
time to take breath. He's being rating so fast, you
see, sadly, the church has not the plurality, not church, but
the churches and the whole province of Goleta were being
affected and impacted by certain false teachers, certain man had
come into the church and they were adding to the gospel and
they were saying it's great. You've got Jesus.
Lord and Savior wonderful, but you know what?
He's not really enough. You need something more simple
faith in. Jesus Christ is not sufficient.
We need to ask something. What are they going to add a
strict observance of the law? Certain Jewish, rituals and
ceremonies? And they were saying this is
essential to Salvation, especially circumcision and the
Apostle Paul. When he hears this, he's stoned,
he's surprised to learn that the people of good Lord and You
later, the born-again Believers were taken in was such a
message. Look at verse 6.
I Marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel, and the word
another their means something different from what we have
preached and then he says in verse 7, which is not another,
it's not the same. As we have preached, it's a
legalistic gospel and I'm going to expose it in a thumbnail next
week. That's what it was.
But that's why it is different from uncomfort to the true
gospel preached by the Apostle Paul Apostle.
Paul was quickly aware and could understand how quickly and
easily this false gospel message, could spray it and kill
it. He knows it's like a poison
affecting the whole body of Christ.
He knows that the devil's at the back of it.
He knows the devil's using on godly man.
Like Pawns in his game of subtle day.
He knows that it's a mixture of Truth and error.
You think of it. You need Jesus, as Lord and
Savior, but you need a little bit more, something out at
something else and Paul knows that discernment is needed if
they're going to understand the true gospel.
The gospel of the free grace of God must be defended.
No, of course not only in the first century that the gospel
needs to be defended, but also, in the 21st century.
There's a spiritual battle going on for the heart and soul of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. You know that tonight that the
gospel never has been and never will be acceptable to Fallen
sinful man. And because of those on
Relentless attacks, it becomes necessary to constantly defend
the gospel. The gospels heated by man.
It always will be always has been.
It is constantly being attacked by the minions of hell and it's
possible, of course, to give loads of illustrations in the
past. Present-day illustrations to
that effect tonight even and Westminster parliament in the
Scottish and Welsh and storm. And establish that we hear the
cries of certain people who have raised their voices against the
gospel and against Christ and the gospel is under attack.
It's under attack from false preachers from Liberal
theologians. It's under attack from Beavers
your Monster eating tonight as preachers of the gospel and the
pulpits of the land. I'm because of these attacks and
the gospel, the Holy Spirit. And Paul heard was happening in
the churches Goleta, put in the heart of Paul and his heart and
mind to rate. What is really a stirring
defense of the Gospel. Listen to me carefully.
This is what someone has said. The great fundamentals of the
Gospel have been hammered out in the anvils of controversy
without this false teaching coming into the churches of
Galena. They would have been no ladder
to the churches and Galina. That's what it means.
The great fundamentals of the Gospel of been hammered out on
the Anvil of controversy. And of course, the book of
Galatians sets forth. The very heart of the Gospel
message. At its heart is the great
doctrine of justification by faith alone.
A fool free and forever justification.
And that's at the very heart of the gospel.
And Paul is setting forth in this letter, what the gospel is
undone, so doing he has to include and sets forth.
Why? The Lord Jesus Christ died on
the tree? See people tell us today that
it's unloving and unkind and it's nasty and harsh to defend
the gospel. It's not Paul says, I'm sat for
the defense of the Gospel of love for Christ.
Paul was set for the defense of the Gospel.
He knew what the gospel was. He knew what the gospel was.
Not and out of love for Christ. Paul set forth his defense of
the gospel and what was happening in Gilead.
Grave damn to the core and there.
Love for Christ, and the swords of man, Paul sought to present
the gospel and exposed us false legalistic message that the
judaizers were preaching in Goleta and as he did.
So as he set forth, the heart of the gospel story.
He entered just the death of Christ.
She salvation is not by the law salvation is of the Lord and we
want to ask the question tonight.
Night, why did Christ die? Why did he come into the world
in the first place? What was his goal?
His mission as purpose. You see, it's summed up, in
these words. Look at these words, Galatians
chapter 1, verses, three, four, and five Greece.
Be to you and peace from God, the father, and from our Lord,
Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins, that he might
Deliver Us from this present, evil world, according to the
will of God and our father to him, be glory forever and ever
met. Now, as you think about the
death of Christ. Here's the They want you to
discover. So we're thinking tonight, on
this tax, discovering the truth of the death of Christ.
The first thing I want to teach you.
Is this the spring of the death of Christ.
Remember I said, this is all one sentence.
Look at verse 3, grease be to you.
And we'll pause there. Here's the spring of the death
of Christ, the death of Christ as connected to on attributed,
to the free grace of God. Notice.
It's Greece. First Grace be to you.
It's not peace and any salutation of Paul.
It was never piece. First.
It was always greedy. Asst piece always follows on
from Greece, because Greece, is always first because God deals,
with man on the pieces of Greece.
And the spring of the death of Christ is connected to the grace
of God in eternity past. And Eternity present.
Someone has said, Greece is God's riches at Christ's
expense, and that's good. But there's more to it Greece as
the undeserved, unmerited, favor to criminals and lawbreakers.
Somebody else's coined. This, that will free us what
they thought was interesting Greece.
Everything for nothing. Everything for nothing.
You see the gospel is called the gospel of the grace of God.
And in this chapter three times, the word Greece, as mentioned
verse 3, grease be to You Verse 6.
I Marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.
And then in verse 15, he announced the words, but when it
pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called
me by his Greece. You see.
What's her? Number?
Three is the number of witness in the Bible, a third of work of
grease in the soul. Nobody can be saved.
And here's the freeness of Greece.
All that God doors. He dolls freely on the basis of
Greece, God's not coerced young people.
God's not pressed into act and do something.
God works freely by his grace grease is marked by the freedom
of the will of God. Only God is truth feet, freedom
of Greece to act according to his.
Well, we could talk tonight about the fullness of Greece and
you see all that every sinner needs.
God freely pervades in the gospel message, everything that
is essential for salvation is bound up in the gospel.
It comes to us in the gospel of the grace of God.
You should think tonight of the matchless Greece.
We sometimes sing Amazing Grace, how, sweet decide.
Greece. To deal with and cover every one
of our sins Greece. That brings us to the knowledge
of God grace. That brings us into the state of
peace with God. Unto know, the peace of God.
There's the spring of the death of Christ.
So when you think of the death of Christ in Good Friday.
You think of God acting freely in Greece to give us his son.
I want you to think also of the source of the death of Christ.
If you look at our text that says in verse 4, according to
the will of God and our father. You see, here's the real reason
under root cause young people of the death of Christ and the
cross. It just didn't happen by
accident. It wasn't something willy-nilly.
It's wasn't just something that just happened out of the blue at
a certain point in history. No, it was according to the will
of God and our father. See the death of Jesus Christ
was not a mistake. Do you know that?
There's preachers? Tell the congregation that they
preached to every week that very thing, but the death of Christ
was not a mistake. It was certainly not a
miscarriage of human Justice. It was certainly not a mistake
or a failure. No, it was all part of the well,
and mind of God, and that from all eternity CeCe.
Let's remember. Everything is according to the
will of God. And our father, did you?
And I deserve to be saved you, and I didn't deserve to be
sieved. If we got our just deserts, from
the hand of God. God could have just sleep in
each of us and the lowest hell, no, man deserves or owns
anything from God, and of God had treated us according to our
sins deserve. He can adjust, we put us in hand
because you and I deserve the Lost hail.
We have no love for the Art, there's no spark of goodness in
us. If you think of the order here
grease and peace from God, our Father.
And from the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at verse 4, it mentions and
our father. You have to think of.
Eternity, you've got to think of the really Covenant of
redemption. You've got to think of an inter
trinitarian relationship between Father and Son, and Holy Spirit,
understand the Holy Spirit, guiding Paul superintending, the
rating of these words. So here he is.
And what does he mention? He mentions the father.
Because the father always speaks of tenderness, always speaks of
love, always speaks of Greece, always speaks of mercy and then
Spate of our sinfulness tiered, in spite of the fact that were
dead and send dark and in sin disease bison, totally bankrupt.
Listen to what Paul says in the Book of Romans in Romans 3 and
verse 10 as it is written there. Is none righteous.
No, not one. There's none that understandeth.
There is none that seeketh after God.
They're all gone out of the way they are.
Gather become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good.
No, not one for Roman nuns. I remembered a new Castle when I
was preaching there and one occasion, with the fifth
Mission. There was a company of nuns can
pass one day. And I must confess, I couldn't
resist myself. And I started mentioning this
portion of scripture. And I said, let me talk about
the Roman lumps here and listen to what the Bible says.
And I quote it those references, and I remember that day.
Here's the will of God being revealed to us.
There's none righteous. No, not one.
There's none that understandeth. There is none that seeketh after
God. They're all gone out of the way.
There are together become unprofitable is none that doeth
good. No, not one.
And listen to verse 24 being justified, freely by his grace
through the Redemption, that is in Christ Jesus.
There's not one shred of goodness.
And it's like, Joe we have to confess behold.
I am Veil. I'm God hasn't saved us because
there's any goodness. The truth is were devoid of any
goodness godward. We have no ability in her power
to render any goodness spiritually toward the lord.
And the good news of the Gospel, is this?
That at its source, it is bound up in the will of God.
That's what I'm going to call. The fundamental framework
through which God works. God works alone.
According to his well and the death of Christ and the cross
was according to the will of God and our father, and it was sad
from all. Eternity, doesn't Revelation.
13:8. Talk about the lamb, slain from
before. The foundation of the world.
How is that possible? Them in the heart and mind of
God was already for day and then plan.
So there's the source that's another truth that we should
discover. I want you to think thirdly.
The sacrifice of the death of Christ.
If you look at verse forward, it says, who gave himself for our
sins, see good Freight. He's coming, would be thinking
about it. We're thinking about the death
of Christ and the cross. And as we think of the death of
Christ on the cross, what would you be thinking of?
As you think not only if the spring, the grace of God and the
source according to God's well, but you think of the sacrifice
of the death of Christ Christ? Actually, on the cross.
What sort of sacrifice was it? Well, it was a voluntary
sacrifice. It was a sacrifice above, any
other sacrifice that you could think of it stands Head and
Shoulders above every other sacrifice, It's a Wonderful
unique. Matchless sacrifice think of
these words, who gave himself, underlying the route of pruning
himself. He didn't give an angel.
He didn't send a cherub a seraphim.
He didn't even send the Archangel Michael or Gabriel.
You've got to think of us person here.
Who has a well, we've got his name is already under just to
us. We've been told in verse 3.
Our Lord Jesus Christ. It's not strange that he should
mention not in verse 3, our Lord Jesus Christ.
There's his full title Lord, refers to Daddy, Jesus refers to
his Humanity Christ. As his ministry, turned over
there to the last chapter of Galatians.
Look at chapter 6. And with me at Verse 18,
Brethren the grace of our Lord. Jesus Christ.
Be with your spirit. Oh, man.
Do you see that there as you think of as person hears the
neum that sent their just the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who's
Alpha and Omega from the very beginning to the end.
You've got this comprehensive title.
And as I've said, you've got to focus on those, Danny his
humanity and unders Ministry, all that.
He had all that he is was involved in, not voluntary,
sacrifice. His Incarnation.
God was manifest In the Flesh, his virgin birth, and the
fulness of time his sinless life.
He kept the law of God perfectly.
As we'll see in a moment, his atoning death.
So from his Incarnation, his birth, his life, his death.
All that he had, he gave himself to this one end and this one
goal, his heart and soul was in it.
His taint. His touch his life of
intercession as weeping and guess amening, when he prayed
openly and prayed profusely. Mmm.
And so passionately, that his sweat was mingled with drops of
blood when he prayed. He didn't offer crocodile tears.
There were hot burning tears. In other words, his heart was
and that he held nothing back. He was open.
He was almost he was genuine. He was sincere.
He voluntarily give himself. Right up to the Tama, give
himself on the tree freely, cheerfully voluntarily and all
that. He suffered.
It's a voluntary sacrifice. Let me tell you something else.
24, carry a sacrifice. Notice the wording here who gave
himself for our sins. It's not interesting arson.
You've got to think of the substitute taking our place, but
he wasn't just a substitute. He just didn't die in our stead.
He became our sacrifice who gave himself for our sins.
Do you know the on the cross? The Lord Jesus bore the
condemnation of the broken law. If you look at John chapter 3
for a moment, it says in verse 18 these words and he that
believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth
not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name
of the only begotten, Son of God every unbeliever tonight stands
condemned already. They're guilty of the sin of
unbelief. And of course, doesn't the Bible
talk about unbelief in relation to the Book of Revelation, the
great white Throne, judgment, Revelation, 21 and verse 8.
It says, but the fearful And the unbelieving the abominable and
murderers and whoremongers and Sorcerers and idolaters and all
liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire
and brimstone, which is the second death due to the first
two that's mentioned the fearful the monitor woman boy or girl,
who knows as well as the heads in their body, need to repent
and receive Christ to be see him, but they don't because the
fear of man brings a snare on the unbelievers.
Hey, The roots and of unbelief as they are in their heart and
mind. And here's the Lord, Jesus on
the cross. And he come under the rod of
that condemnation. He was treated as if he had
transgressed himself and broken the law.
He stood in the place of condemnation.
He stood in the police of the lowest criminal over there and
Mark, chapter 14, and in the verse 64, we come across these
words. I think it was interesting that
There's testimony came from the lips of ungodly, man.
This is what they said about Christ.
Mark, 14 verse 64. You have heard the blasphemy
what Finke and they all condemned him to be guilty of
death. Jesus Christ day does a
condemned mom. They condemned him to be guilty
of death and he was condemned for something that he didn't do.
He died for something that we did.
Harsh. And he took our sins and our
sorrows. He made them as very own bore,
the burden to Calvary suffered and died alone.
He bore the condemnation of the ruined.
Okay. I'll tell you something else
before the curse of the Brooklyn law.
What is sin? Sin is the transgression of the
law because of transgression and sin, all men are under the curse
of a. Holy God.
Listen to The Book of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 27:26.
Khurshid be, he that confirm of not all the words of this law to
do them and all the people shall say, amen.
And over there in the book of Galatians and Galatians chapter
3 and verse 13. We read Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the All they made a curse for us for it is
written. Cursed is every one that hangeth
on a tree you see transgression send an inequity places the
transgressor under a curse, the curse of the Brooklyn law and
the Lord. Jesus not only bore the
condemnation of the broken do but he stood in the police of
the curse and he took that curse fully upon himself.
And yes, he kept the law of God perfectly in this life.
He for felled, it's Precepts hehehe for felled.
Its penalty when he died. We were singing their free from
the law. Oh, happy condition.
Jesus. As Bland.
And there is rameshan cursed by the law.
Bruised by the Fall Grace, hath redeemed, us once for all he
bore the completeness of the Brooklyn law.
Notice it says, he gave himself for our sins.
Sins are in the plural. All our sins, not just some but
all every past sin every presents in sends of the
deepest, die sends even in the future.
Is it? Not written verse John 17, the
blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanseth us from all sin.
Isn't it? Wonderful that he's Cleanse This
today? He cleansed as yesterday glory
to God. He Kansas tomorrow and he'll
keep on cleansing. What a sacrifice.
What A Savior think of all the a dead tonight and behalf of
Sinners, a substitute who took our please, a substitute that
was unique. That was once for all and and,
and they're not offering of himself.
It was a vicarious sacrifice and that he bore the condemnation of
the broken doll, the curse of the Brooklyn law and the
completeness of the Brooklyn law. the Brooklyn law, demanded
death and Christ data death unto the shedding of his blood.
See, the world tonight is no knowledge, or thought or ADF
what Sinners? They deny that sins.
The transgression of the law. They oppose the concept of sin.
Even try using the law through Parliament, to deny what sin has
But the book tells us Hebrews 10 and 12.
But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins
forever. Sat down in the right hand of
God. Let me tell you something.
Else is the Victorious, sacrifice?
If you think it up, link it up with 1:1?
Who raised him from the dead? He will be thinking and Easter
Sunday about the great doctrine of the Resurrection.
He is alive, there's Victory in Jesus.
There is power to be an overcomer and soul find him.
And you know what? The Lord Jesus held nothing
back. Give us all, not thinking of
himself along them. All of the spent in a spheres,
aren't to scourges back and and spank him to the tree.
And remember there. He could have called twelve
Legions of angels to deliver him, but he didn't why?
Because he had his eye and Victoria's prize.
And the prize was your salvation and mine that he was
accomplishing. It was a victorious sacrifice.
Let me say in closing not only think about the spring of the
death of Christ, the grace of God, and the source, according
to the will of God and the sacrifice who gave himself for
our sins, but think about the salvation of the death of
Christ. Notice the words in the text as
we finish that he might Deliver Us from this present, evil
world. You've got to think of Christ
delivering power. There's only one who can deliver
us. Only one who was good enough and
what is the word Deliver Us main?
Does it not presuppose that we're in danger unable to
deliver or rescue ourselves? Young people.
He came in a rescue mission. He came as a deliver to deliver
us. Here's one of the reasons he was
born to Deliver Us from this present, evil world, for the son
of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.
He said, I'm coming at you. Of life and you might have it
more abundantly and what a rescue mission.
Jesus Christ is involved in. Not only think of Christ
delivering parbat. Think of a dreadful police.
What does it mention this present evil world?
Do we not all leveled, an ungodly environment, is this
world? Not Pagan to its core.
It's this world not changing, not for the better, but for the
worse slowly. Think of 20 years ago, think of
30 years ago, some of your conduct back to the past.
And there's on a magical things been happening now and talked
about quite openly on the radio and on television.
Fashion and, and people can send to the point where their forget
even the blush. This world is a wicked world.
That's world is a world of wantonness, a world of Woe a
world under, the wrath of God, think of the pressure creases of
this agent. And those who wallow in the
filth and mire of The Siege. And yet the child of God.
He's being delivered from this ungodly environment through the
power of God has not what the drunkard needs.
Tonight, is. Not what they drug.
Addict needs is not what the Gambler needs rules and ruined
by there are tection and who can deliver them.
Are you of this Dreadful place? The this, this ungodly
environment, but will Christ. He's the only deliver Think of a
divine plan here. According to the will of God and
our father. Isn't it wonderful tonight that
Jesus Christ is not just a teacher.
Not just a leader. Not just a great example.
Jesus Christ is primarily a savior.
What was this purpose? Here's the divine plan,
according to the heart and mind of God.
We were chosen and craze from before the foundation of the
world. I said on Friday night to the
young people. I love the look.
Of course. I have to say that the follow
Jesus. No turning back.
And I remember being in a
meeting and cooled region, and that was being emphasized, and I
was quite happy and pleased. I've decided to follow Christ to
become a Christian and was almost a ready to pop myself in
the back. Whenever they the man, then did
the flip side to that. Talking about human
responsibility in the renewed will be inclined to Christ and
asking for the desire come and then he turned to the other side
of the Arts and said here you are chosen and Christ Ephesians
1:4 from before the foundation of the world.
See remember gold working all things according to the counsel
of as well. Not according to the will of
man. Not according to the will of the
church. But according to his own will
there's a divine plan and not the vein plan is that we should
not live. According to the latest state of
the world. We should not use the language
of the world. We should not conform to the
image that has has for us why we should live, according to the
will of God because there's a master plan at work in
delivering us. We could finish with a thought
think of distinct pre is here. It says in verse 5 to him be
glory forever. And ever.
Amen. The glory of God is not not
Mounds Chief and the glory of God does it not say in the Book
of Revelation and Revelation chapter 4?
And verse 11. It makes this amazing statement.
Listen to these words as we finish Thou Art Worthy O, Lord
to receive glory and honor and power for thou Hast created all
things. And for thy pleasure, they are
and were created. Were created Anew in Christ.
Jesus to the glory of God time. We forgot to give him the glory.
Tell me, forget the give him a Prius but this is a distinct
Glory this would deserve glory in it only belongs to him to
him. Be glory forever and ever.
This is declared Glory. Paul's declaring it.
Unless a directed Glory. It's directed to the Lord alone.
Oh tonight, as we think about the death of Christ has become
the Good Friday, as we think about Jesus on the cross.
Think of these words who gave himself for our sins, why to
Deliver Us from this present, evil world.
And what was the cause what was the spring?
The source of that? That's according to the well of
God, our Father. I want you to think of this
salvation tonight. Have you experienced this
delivering par? To whom the son sets free is
free. Indeed has the sun set, you free
because you have bowed the knee. Before him.
You've owned your censorship. You've thanked them said, Lord.
Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins.
Lord. I love at an ungodly world, but
Lord, I want to be off the world, even though I have to
live in it. I want to live different and
distinct. You have a divine plan and
purpose for my life. Lord.
I Want To Live. According to your well what
pleases you that I made for fill?
The very purpose that you made me.
And glorify your name and enjoy you forever.
There's some thrift store. We need to discover about the
death of Christ. I trusted you discover them
tonight and the Lord will help and give understand.