As I read my own contemporary REACTION to Paul’s epistle (letter) to the ‘foolish Galatians’ I realized that the Apostle had provoked PREACHING in my own commentary.
Which HOT Topic that matters to YOU will push your button of REACTION?
WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO PERVERSION?
OR YOUR REACTION TO HYPOCRISY?
HOW DO YOU REACT TO SIN?
IF you even hold that SIN is identifiable in a man or woman.
IS YOUR REACTION TO OPPONENTS OF GOD SIMILAR TO PAUL’S?
IF YOU YOURSELF are not opposed to the ONE GOD and JESUS CHRIST?
REACTION to Galatians
Think of this an extended personal COMMENT and reaction to my own post AND then ADD your reaction to Paul's letter with YOUR comment. Please forgive any overlap of content from Scripture. It is my hope that these exhortations may also convict 21st century christians in addition to the Galatians.
Apostasy appears throughout the Holy Bible when God’s people become unholy.
Roger@TalkofJesus.com
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?
It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
Paul’s epistle to the churches in Galatia 3:1 ESV
Foolish Reactions of milk-fed christians
(My REACTION to those led to ‘some other gospel,’ as Paul puts it.)
For the turning away H4878 of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
See Paul’s reference to foolishness according to Proverbs
God’s reaction to worshipers turning from HIM!
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine:
the soul who sins shall die.
the word of the LORD through His Prophet Ezekiel 18:4
It is NOT ONLY the flesh which will wither and die; but, SAYS THE LORD, ‘the soul who sins shall die.’
Galatians 4:
SON OF A SLAVE! (What’s your reaction to that?)
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
DOES THIS NOT CONTINUE TO BE THE CONDITION OF EVERY CHRISTIAN BEFORE WE TURN TO JESUS CHRIST?
So why then, O foolish 21st century sinner, do you speak of reparations for slavery when you continue to refuse release from the CHAINS of CULTURE?
We are ENSLAVED by CULTURE! – the PERVERSE cultures of media leavening every moment of our day; the PERVERSE claims of political leaders PAID FOR secretly by those evil ones of Satan to whom their parties are chained.
The list is endless in these last days of this 21st century since the ascension of the risen Christ until HE returns to judge the living and the dead.
What’s your REACTION to HELL?
Now there's a HOT Topic to avoid for those who pervert justice and oppose the Gospel of Christ's return. Again Paul's concern for the Galatians ought to mirror our own concern for 21st century church.
9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
OR, foolish claimant of Christ, is your own perversion of the Gospel leading your own soul into inevitable darkness, death, Judgment and right punishment for preaching culture and not Christ?
15 What then has become of your blessedness? .. 16 Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
DO YOU CHOOSE THE TRUE GOSPEL or have you foolishly followed the descending flow of their cultural gospel (which is false) into the very pit of perdition?
17 They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.
The Apostle Paul exhorts so-called christians of the churches of Galatia to return to the GOSPEL OF CHRIST. I, too, have cultural HOT buttons of REACTION.
You can’t be Orthodox AND Roman..
You’re no longer Catholic..
You can’t be righteous to Allah if you claim Christ..
Moroni and Smith hid in a secretive and false church of Jesus Christ in these latter days..
Our preaching is NOT Universal and CANNOT accept all religions..
Buddha can help you find your true SELF..
Our gods of the earth and nature bring you to the karma of this life..
We are ALL good..
The Bible is just another book.. )
DO YOU SEE THE DANGERS?
Evidence of Christ or Signs of Apostasy?
No Bible translation I know is so brash as to use this HEADING for Paul’s closing argument in his case against some members of the churches we call Galatians;
yet I’ll risk closing this HOT topic with such a summation for a jury of my Christian peers.
4 You are severed [cut away] from Christ, you who would be justified by the law;
you have fallen away from grace.
The GOSPEL of Christ’s grace IS good news not only to the redeemed but in its evidence to others.
17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit,
and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh,
for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
CAN THE PERVERSITY OF HYPOCRISY BE ANY MORE OBVIOUS IN ITS WITNESS THOUGH THOSE WHO CLAIM CHRIST?
Perversion of the FLESH? vs. Fruit of the SPIRIT?
WHICH do YOU choose AND what evidence does every juror see, you who have been given the Gospel?
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident:
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies,
and things like these.
I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;
Paul’s epistle [instructive letter to the churches] to the Galatians 5:22-23a ESV
against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
ARE YOU a christian wearing the Cross of Christ while living in the flesh just as Paul calls out to the Galatians to return to the GOSPEL of CHRIST?
- Does REACTION to your christian claim lead to further apostasy from God?
Does Paul’s HOT Topic #2 for the saints of the churches in Galatia CONVICT YOU?
WHAT FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT do you lack?
OR
Is your witness as a christian saint somewhat steeped in the unholiness of the fruit of the flesh?
COMMENTS? or Questions?
