the Bible makes it clear that in the last days,
people will be departing from the faith and giving heed to seducing spirits.
These spirits combine truth and error, and unless a person knows
truth, they will be deceived by the lies spun by workers of "another gospel."
Another gospel? What's that?
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
I found a study that describes what might constitute "another gospel."
I. If the pulpit message excludes grace as the means whereby men and women are justified,
it is "another gospel."
"For by grace are ye saved."
"Therefore by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified."
The New Testament Scriptures are full of this truth.
We are both justified and sanctified by grace: the grace of God fills all the scene in this present dispensation, as the train of the Lord filled the temple in the vision of Isaiah.
II. If the pulpit message is an effort to mingle the principles of Law and of grace, either as the means of justification or as constructing a rule for the life of the believer,
it is "another gospel."
Grave mistakes are made in this regard.
Many preachers undertake to mingle Law and grace in their gospel because they fear that they may dishonor God by leaving the Law out.
Because they have been imperfectly instructed and do not fully understand the doctrine of grace, they preach justification in part by Law, and in part by grace, and they seek to put the believer under Law as to his conduct as a believer and thereby bring him into bondage.
The truth is that we honor God when we give to Law and to grace their true places in the great salvation.
III. If the pulpit message denies the fact of sin and its guilt,
it is "another gospel."
This is the glaring error of Christian Science so called.
It denies the fact of sin. And if there be no sin, then there is no occasion for grace to act, for there is nothing that man needs to be saved from.
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