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I love to hear a good testimony of salvation.
I like to hear them because I know there is always someone who can relate to it.
Paul was known to share his testimony on a regular basis.
His testimony was different than most of the ones we hear today.
He didn’t say :
I know what it’s like to be a drunk because I used to be one
I know what it’s like to be strung out on drugs
I know what it’s like to be an atheist.
There was none of that.
Paul’s testimony was :
I know what it’s like to be a false teacher because I used to be one.
By the way, that’s probably one of the reasons he was so passionate when preaching about false teachers.
Paul was probably around 30 years old when he realized he was preaching false doctrine.
He thought he knew how a person is made righteous before God.
When he was saved, he realized how wrong he had been.
He spent the rest of his life sharing the way of righteousness with anyone who would listen.
This morning I’m going to show you three things Paul teaches us about righteousness from this text.
1.
There is only one group of righteous people (1-3).
A. This truth must be repeated (1).
Look at what Paul says in verse 1.
He says he is writing the same thing to them that he has already told them.
Paul had no problem repeating himself.
He gives two reasons he repeated himself in verse 1.
1) It was no trouble to him.
It didn’t bother him to share the same gospel over and over.
It didn’t bore him to preach the same gospel over and over.
Any good preacher will repeat himself.
You say, “I need something new preacher?”
Well, you won’t find it in the Bible.
Everything in the Bible is old.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Why do you want something new?
Are you bored with the gospel?
Why does the preacher repeat himself?
The gospel is the same
The devil is the same
God is the same
Human nature is the same
Eternity is the same
2) It was safe for them.
Whether they realized it or not it helped them to hear the same things over and over.
When you got married you told your wife you loved her.
I hope you have reminded her since.
When your child drove the car for the first time you told them to be careful.
I hope you have told them since.
The context here is false teachers.
The church needed to be reminded that the devil is real and he is trying to destroy the church.
He is busy teaching people the wrong way to achieve righteousness.
The constant reminder would help the church to be on guard.
B. There are false teachers who preach a false gospel (2).
Notice Paul is warning the people.
Three times he says “Look out” in verse 2. Look at his description of these people.
He calls them dogs.
To the Jewish person the term had serious implications.
It was used as a derogatory slang word.
Goliath asked David “Am I a dog that thou comest to me with staves?” (1 Sam.
17:43).
1) Dogs have a keen sense of smell.
They can pick up a trail and follow it wherever it may lead.
These false teachers seemed to always pick up the trail of Paul.
They would follow him to the churches to do their damage.
The dogs were always following Paul around.
2) Dogs will devour anything.
These false teachers had no regard for the souls of people.
They would come into a church and devour the people.
They would tear the church apart for their own personal pleasure.
Many times the Scripture even shows them eating the remains of humans.
This was a symbol of great humility as it removed possibility for a decent burial.
The most famous person eaten by dogs was Jezebel (2 Kings 9:36).
3) Dogs are unclean animals.
These false teachers may have appeared moral but they were not.
They were sinful through and through.
The term was also used to refer to male prostitutes (Deut.
23:18).
4) Dogs are cruel.
They have no love for Christ or His people.
They surrounded Him at the cross (Psalm 22:16) and they surrounded Lazarus on the ground (Luke 16:21).
Today they continue to bring shame to Christ and His people.
They find people at their weakest point and exploit them just as they did Christ and Lazarus.
5) Dogs are shut out of the kingdom (Rev.
22:15).
Regardless of how sure they are of their own salvation, they are void of any saving grace.
They will spend eternity with the rotting corpses they love to devour.
There is nothing in heaven that pleases them.
He says they are evildoers.
Their putting a stumbling block before the people of God.
They are a hinderance to the gospel.
In September of 2020 two Los Angeles police officers were ambushed and shot in their car.
Protestors against the police went to the hospital where these men were fighting for their lives and blocked the entrance to the emergency room.
They yelled “We hope they die”.
The people protesting didn’t shoot the cops but they had a message they wanted to get across.
In sharing that message they were blocking people from receiving life saving treatment.
The Sheriff’s office had to put out a message that said:
DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL, "People's lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through."
I think we could all agree those folks are evil doers.
These false teachers were blocking people from receiving souls saving treatment.
Their message was a hinderance to the gospel.
They were evil doers.
He says they mutilate the flesh.
He’s talking about circumcision.
These false teachers were Jewish and they were teaching that circumcision was necessary for salvation.
The Jews were known as “The circumcision”.
Paul would not give them that much respect.
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