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HERETICAL GOSPEL
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Acts 15:1-5

Matthew 24:23-25

 

“…insomuch that, if it were possible,

they shall deceive the very elect.”

HERETICAL GOSPEL
 
Some churches hold to a doctrine of the Scriptures and to certain methods of Bible interpretation that cause their church members to have a low view of the Bible, tearing them away from the Word of God. These are very dangerous. When these false doctrines creep into the church, they are like pathogenic viruses that can easily multiply to harm and destroy the spiritual body. They easily spread fast and furious especially among the spiritually immature ones who are still young in the faith (though they may have been longstanding members of the church).
 
Circumcise to be saved: Salvation is of God. It is by the grace of God through faith alone in Jesus. He lived a perfect life on earth to fulfil the law’s demand, and then He died on the cross, shedding His precious blood for the remission of sins. He was buried and rose again on the third day, victorious over death that all who fully trust in Him will have life eternal in heaven. Yet, there were Judaisers who asserted that except a man be circumcised, he cannot be saved. Paul and Barnabas, having known the truth, debated and argued with these heretics.
 
Commandments to be justified: The Jews who came to believe in Jesus wanted to enforce on all Gentile Christians the keeping of the commandments of Moses for justification. These arguments brought Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem to confer with the leaders of the first church.
 
The Westminster Confession of Faith 11.3 states, “Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Father’s justice in their behalf. Yet, inasmuch as he was given by the Father for them; and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead; and both, freely, not for anything in them; their justification is only of free grace; that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.” Read Romans 5:18-19. Can your own good works add to what Jesus has already done for you?
 
THOUGHT: Am I fully trusting that only Jesus saves?
PRAYER: Father, praise be to Thy name and thanks be unto Thee for the work of salvation wrought by Thy Son Jesus Christ.

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