Transcript This presentation looks at the key issue in The letters of Romans & Galatians and its relevance to today. BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH Studies on.

This presentation looks at the
key issue in The letters of
Romans & Galatians and its
relevance to today.
BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
Studies on The Books of Romans and Galatians: Part 1
Abe Simpson
THE GOSPEL: CENTRAL THEME OF
ROMANS & GALATIANS
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Rom 1:16 For I am not
ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of
God unto salvation to every
one that believeth; to the
Jew first, and also to the
Greek.
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Mat 24:14 And this gospel of
the kingdom shall be
preached in all the world for
a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end
come.
Revelation 14:6
THE GOSPEL WAS BEING CHALLENGED
BY ANOTHER GOSPEL.
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Gal 1:6, 7 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.
per·vert (pr-vûrt)
tr.v. per·vert·ed, per·vert·ing, per·verts
1. To cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; corrupt.
2. To bring to a bad or worse condition; debase.
3. To put to a wrong or improper use; misuse. See Synonyms at corrupt.
4. To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort:
Free Online Dictionary
WHAT WAS THIS OTHER GOSPEL?
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Act 15:1, 2 And certain men
which came down from
Judaea taught the brethren,
and said, Except ye be
circumcised after the manner
of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
When therefore Paul and
Barnabas had no small
dissension and disputation with
them, they determined that
Paul and Barnabas, and
certain other of them, should
go up to Jerusalem unto the
apostles and elders about this
question.
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Gal 5:6 For in Jesus Christ
neither circumcision availeth
any thing, nor uncircumcision;
but faith which worketh by
love.
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Gal 6:13 For neither they
themselves who are
circumcised keep the law; but
desire to have you
circumcised, that they may
glory in your flesh.
THE TWO GOSPELS PREACHED TO THE
GALATIANS & ROMANS
TRUE GOSPEL
FALSE GOSPEL
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•A
person is
saved by
grace through
faith in Jesus
Christ. Rom 3:25; Gal
3:26
person is
saved by
grace through
faith in
Circumcision.
THE TWO GOSPELS PREACHED TO THE
WORLD TODAY
TRUE GOSPEL
FALSE GOSPEL
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person is
saved by
grace through
faith in Jesus
Christ.
person is
saved by grace
through faith in
anything other
than Jesus
Christ.
WHY CIRCUMCISION?
• They were mostly Jews who still had strong mental, emotional
and identity ties to the symbolism of circumcision and its
association with Truth.
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Was given by God to Abraham as a token of His promise.
Gen 17:10
• God emphasize its importance to Moses. Exodus 4:24 – 26
• This strategy was the most likely to succeed in dividing the
Jewish Christians and the non-Jewish Christians.
GOD’S PURPOSE FOR CIRCUMCISION
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Rom 4:11 Circumcision was a sign
or seal of righteousness. A sign is
only as good as the substance it
signifies. It symbolised the cutting
off of the flesh.
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Was Abraham Righteous before or
after he was circumcised?
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Rom 4:9-12 Abraham received
forgiveness & imputed
righteousness when he was yet
uncircumcised. He was therefore
Father of both Jews & Gentiles. If
Abraham was declared righteous
before circumcision then
circumcision was not necessary
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1 Cor. 7:19; Gal 5:6; Gal 6:15 Faith
in Christ with or without
circumcision was sufficient.
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Rom 2:25-27 Circumcision was
profitable when the law is kept
and of no purpose when the law is
not kept.
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Rom 2:28,29 Circumcision was to
be a token of the inward
conversion of the heart. It was a
practical illustration of doing away
with reliance on the flesh to do
God’s will.
FAITH & THE FALSE GOSPEL
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Everybody lives by faith in something. The false gospel leads us
to place our faith in anything or person other than Jesus Christ.
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Atheist believe there is no God or gods.
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Evolutionist believe that given enough time things will evolve of
its own self into a more organized form. Non-living to living;
amoeba to human; etc. (this contradicts the scientific laws of
thermodynamics – 2nd Law)
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Many are not aware of what they really believe: nevertheless
they have unconsciously adopted underlying assumptions
about life that governs how they live their life.
FORMS OF THE FALSE GOSPEL: THE JUST
SHALL LIVE BY FAITH IN •
Money;
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WIIFM –
What’s In It For Me? self
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-isms – Catholicism, Hinduism, Islamism,
Evangelism, Seventh Day Adventism, etc. A
person’s faith is placed in the church
organization or creed rather than in Christ.
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The false gospel manifests itself in many ways.
THE TRUE GOSPEL
Next
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Act 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none
other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.
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Isa 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
for I am God, and there is none else.
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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.
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Gal 1:3, 4 Grace 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:
This presentation shall look at
the Role of the Law in relation
to the True and False Gospel.
THE LAW & THE GOSPELS
Studies on The Books of Romans and Galatians Part 2
Abe Simpson
THE LAW!
James 2:8- 12
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It’s a Royal Law
If ye fulfil the royal law according to
the scripture, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But
if ye have respect to persons, ye
commit sin, and are convinced of
the law as transgressors. For
whosoever shall keep the whole
law, and yet offend in one point, he
is guilty of all. For he that said, Do
not commit adultery, said also, Do
not kill. Now if thou commit no
adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art
become a transgressor of the law.
So speak ye, and so do, as they that
shall be judged by the law of liberty.
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The Law is based on love for thy
neighbour.
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The sixth and seventh
commandment of the Ten
Commandments is quoted.
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Breaking one of the
commandment makes you guilty
of breaking all.
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We shall be judged by the Law
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It is a Law of liberty.
THE LAW!
Deuteronomy 33:2, 3
And he said, The LORD came
from Sinai, and rose up from
Seir unto them; he shined forth
from mount Paran, and he
came with ten thousands of
saints: from his right hand
went a fiery law for them.
Yea, he loved the people; all
his saints are in thy hand: and
they sat down at thy feet;
every one shall receive of thy
words.
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God gave the Law from
Mount Sinai – Param =
Arabian Desert.
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The Law is the Ten
Commandments which was
written by His finger.
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God loved the people in the
giving of His Law.
GOD’S LAW IS THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS!
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God gave the Ten
Commandments
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It is based on love for God
and love for neighbour’s.
Exo 20:6
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It deals with the thoughts
and intents of the mind.
“Remember…”
THE TWO
GOSPELS
AND THE
LAW
Above The Law
Under the Law means to
be condemned and
guilty of breaking the
Law. A Sinner.
Rom 3:19 Now we know
that what things soever
the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the
law: that every mouth
may be stopped, and all
the world may become
guilty before God.
Under The Law
Above the Law means to
be righteous, not guilty,
not a transgressor – never
broken the Law
THE TWO
GOSPELS
AND THE
LAW
Above The Law
1
2
Under The Law
All are sinners and
under the Law.
Romans 3:23
There are two ways to
elevate a sinner
above the Law!
The True Gospel does
this by changing the
sinner to meet the
requirements of the
Law.
The False Gospel
does this by changing
the Law to justify the
Condition of the
sinner.
THE TRUE GOSPEL
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Rom 7:12 – The Law is holy, just & good.
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Rom 2:13 – Doers of the Law are justified.
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Rom 13:10 – Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
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Gal 3:10 – You are cursed if you do not keep the Law.
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Rom 3:19, 23 – Under the Law a person is guilty for all have sinned.
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Rom 3:20; Gal 2:16 – No one can be justified by the Law.
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Rom 4:15 – Law worketh wrath.
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Rom 2:23 – Jews boast about the Law but they did not keep it. (Gal
6:13)
THE TRUE GOSPEL
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The Law cannot justify a sinner because a good Law cannot
call a sinner righteous when he is not. A good law can only
condemn a sinner.
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The sinner must be made righteous first before the law can
pronounce him a righteous person. That is the work of Jesus:
He changes a sinner and makes him righteous.
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Romans 8:3, 4 For what the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
THE FALSE GOSPEL
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In its pure form the Law needs to be changed, while the sinner
does not need to be changed. This lies at the heart of all false
teachings. In practice the pure form is camouflaged by
requirements that give people a sense of ‘pleasing God’ while
violating His precepts. E.g you must be circumcised!
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Acts of the Apostles. Page 178 “In the beginning, God gave His
law to mankind as a means of attaining happiness and eternal
life. Satan’s only hope of thwarting the purpose of God is to
lead men and women to disobey this law, and his constant
effort has been to misrepresent its teachings and belittle its
importance. His master stroke has been an attempt to change
the law itself, so as to lead men to violate its precepts while
professing to obey it.”
THREE COMMON FORMS OF THE FALSE
GOSPEL IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
1.
Pharisaic Form: The Law is misinterpreted
to lower its standards.
2.
Evangelical Form: The Law is done away
with by the death of Jesus.
3.
Roman Catholic Form: ‘Think to change
the Times and the Laws’
PHARISAIC FALSE GOSPEL
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Matthew 5: 20-22 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter
into the kingdom of heaven. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old
time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the
judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a
cause shall be in danger of the judgment:
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Mat 15:3 -9 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the
commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying,
Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him
die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a
gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father
or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God
of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you,
saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me
with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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Laodicea
EVANGELICAL FALSE GOSPEL
Jesus
died to
remove
the Law
There is
no Law
No need for
people to be
born again.
There is
no Sin
No need
for Jesus
No need
for
Salvation
No need
for a
Saviour
EVANGELICAL FALSE GOSPEL
Jesus
died to
change
the Law
Law is
faulty
God has
double
standards
There is
a new
Law
Lawgiver
is at fault
Jesus is
the
Lawgiver
We need
a better
Lawgiver
Lucifer
should
take the
place
of Jesus
EVANGELICAL FALSE GOSPEL
“From the first, the great controversy had been upon
the law of God. Satan had sought to prove that
God was unjust, that His law was faulty, and that the
good of the Universe required it to be changed. In
attacking the law, he aimed to overthrow the
authority of its Author. In the controversy it was to be
shown whether the divine statutes were defective
and subject to change, or perfect and immutable.”
Patriarchs & Prophets 65, 66
ROMAN CATHOLIC FALSE GOSPEL
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Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear
out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they
shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Rev H Tubermille “An Abridgment of Christian Doctrine”
Question: How prove you that the church has the power to command feast and
holy days?
Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants
allow of.
S Keenan “A Doctrinal Catechism” p 174;
Question: Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to
institute festivals of precepts?
Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have substituted the observance
of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh
day, a change for which there is no scriptural authority.
THE TRUE GOSPEL
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God does not change. His law does not need changing. The
problem is with sinners and it is the sinner that needs to be
changed.
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Mat 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or
the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I
say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever
therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom
of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
THE TRUE GOSPEL
The
End
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Mat 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have
mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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Strong’s G3341, μετάνοια, metanoia, From G3340; (subjectively)
compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication
reversal (of [another’s] decision): - repentance.
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Thayer Definition: 1) a change of mind, as it appears to one
who repents, of a purpose he has formed or of something he
has done
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Jesus came to change sinners, not His law.