Then in verse 8, Paul made one of the strongest statements he ever made, This is what Paul called a perversion of the Gospel in Galatians 1:7. That type of teaching puts the burden of salvation on us and opens us to the condemnation of the devil. No one argues that we shouldn’t pray, study the Word, go to church, etc., but any time it’s proclaimed that God is angry with us if we fail to do these things, it’s not the true Gospel. It is not what Jesus did for us plus our actions of holiness. Faith in what Christ did for us is enough. Today, the same legalistic message is being preached using things like prayer, Bible study, church attendance, and other actions of holiness as necessary actions for God to love and accept us. In Paul’s day, the issue was circumcision. We have to be holy, or the Lord won’t accept us or answer our prayers, etc. The same lie is being propagated today, except now it’s said we have to be holy. They were being told they also had to keep the Old Testament Law in order for God to accept them. The Galatian Christians hadn’t renounced Jesus as being their Messiah, but legalistic Jews had convinced them that they couldn’t be right with God by believing in only what Jesus had done. Any deviation from that is a perversion of the Gospel. In chapter 1, verse 6, Paul said, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.” Paul used the terms “Gospel” and “grace” interchangeably. Paul wasted no time making his point in his letter to the Galatian Christians. ![]() I believe that a study on the grace of God from the book of Galatians combined with the teaching from Romans could be a one-two punch that knocks out condemnation in your life. Paul takes off the gloves and gets brutal in his teaching about the grace of God. The book of Romans is Paul’s masterpiece on the study of grace, but the book of Galatians is his strongest teaching on the subject.
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