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I remember trying out for sports growing up and coming to the realization that trying to impress makes things worse.
When we had to run laps, I would do all that I could to be at the head of the pack to show the coach what I could do.
I remember that before the laps were over I was a bit behind the pack.
I ran my first two sprints decent, but then the rest were not so good.
I was so tired and exhausted before try-outs were over that I was not putting on a good performance.
I didn’t make the team.
I started the race off well.
But did not finish well.
I looked good at first, but in the end I was not in good enough shape to keep it up.
Or maybe something got in the way?
For us as Christians, we start well but don’t finish well or don’t even finish.
Jesus was very familiar with this dynamic.
Matthew
Paul was deeply concerned with this.
You were doing so well?
What has happened to you?
What has gotten in your way?
Who has held you back?
I. False Teachers
A. The false teachers in Galatia are the one Paul is alluding to when he asks them “who has held you back?” How dangerous are false teachers?
They are actually able to hold you back from obeying the truth.
They are not harmless.
This is what Paul is showing us here.
They are able to keep you from running the race of Christianity well or even finishing.
Remember the video.
B. False teachers in Galatia are not from God. Verse 8 makes this abundantly clear.
Whoever they are, they are for sure not from God. God is the one calling us to run the race, why would He try to hinder us?
God called you to freedom.
If you do not have freedom and are unable, then it is not from God. Whoever is holding you back I can assure you it is not God.
And we know that it is not God because they are teaching a false Gospel.
David Platt - “Regardless of whether someone tells you that God ‘called’ them or ‘sent’ them, do not believe them if they are not teaching the true Gospel.”
C. False teachers in Galatia are contaminating.
It is amazing how fast and how pervasive false teaching will spread.
Paul refers to it as yeast.
All it takes is a small amount and it will permeate the entire patch of dough.
False teaching will start small, but it will spread like gangrene.
Jesus warns us about bad teaching.
Matthew
In 1833, William Miller, a Baptist preacher, preached for the first time the actual time of Christ’s return.
This would be false teaching because the Bible says that the day and the hour is not known.
By 1840, 7 years later, they went from being a small movement to a national one with a national publication called Signs of the Times which is still being published today by 7th day Adventists.
By 1841, it spread throughout all of Canada and got to England.
How pervasive?
In 1870 a millerite minister named Jonas Wendell preached a sermon that greatly influenced a young 18 year old that would start a journey that was far reaching.
He continued to grow in the theology of William Miller and the millerites and he studied them zealously.
How pervasive was the false teaching of William Miller?
The 18 year old’s name was Charles Taze Russell who in 1881 started the Watch Tower Tract Society of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
D. So you see in verse 9 we have a vivid description as to what false teaching will do.
This is why Paul is so passionately dealing with this issue and why we need to be vigilant for the truth as well.
False teachers are so problematic because they affect so many people deeply.
This is why Paul is so intense.
Remember the video.
E. False teachers will be judged.
Paul is also showing here that those who are truly in Christ will be ultimately protected from this false teaching as he trusts Christ.
He is also showing that with his warning the true believers will detect the error and will walk in step with the truth of the Gospel.
And that those who are teaching this error will be judged by the Lord.
F. Let them be accursed.
Anathema.
Used in the OT for Jericho.
Something very pervasive today are associations.
Guilt by association.
They gotta stop being supported.
And John tells us that those who support false teachers are koinonia partners with the evil work.
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The False Teachers persecute true teachers.
Paul is saying here that he is being persecuted because he is preaching the true gospel.
The people are not accepting of the true Gospel and so Paul is not saying what the people want to hear and that is why he is being persecuted.
H. False teachers will persecute and we see it today.
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But why would people not want to hear the true gospel.
It goes against all the we have come to hold on to.
The cross is offensive.
What it represents, goes against all our postmodern society stands for.
It goes against all self esteem teachings.
Existential purpose and meaning principles.
It crushes human pride, it eliminates our need for achievement.
It wipes out the idea that we are saved by keeping the laws of Moses.
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And to make the cross pivotal to Christianity is a huge deal indeed.
Do we know what it represents?
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The cross is offensive.
That is why when you have the desire to preach so that you don’t offend people the message of the cross is missing.
If you do not want the message of the cross then you will not like Christianity.
That is why we cling to the old rugged cross.
L. So if you are preaching that salvation comes from faith and circumcision then you are losing the offense of the cross.
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Emasculate Themselves
A. Paul is not really taking a shot here.
There is a bit of irony here, but it is not to hit back with a sarcastic remark.
It is to make a point using some irony.
B. In the Gospel we know that our inclusion into the kingdom of God does not come from circumcision.
So at this point, it has no religious value in Christ.
What you are simply saying then is a little mutilation carries spiritual value, then be consistent and go the whole way like the pagans who emasculated themselves did to show the gods their true devotion.
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This is the background as to how the people would have saw it, but it would have brought a laugh as well.
Because it is being used facetiously.
Just rid the place of these agitators.
This is what Paul is showing us about the seriousness of false teachers.
Why can’t we all get along?
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