Paul’s Letters to Seven Churches: Galatia

“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8 NKJV

The true doctrine of the church as taught by the entire New Testament is that we are saved by grace through faith. We are justified before God by the merit of Christ alone and not by our own works. If we were to be saved by works then we would not have been saved by grace. If we were to be justified by works then we would not have been justified by Christ. If we are to be justified by works how will we know when we have done enough? 

Paul wrote to the Church in Galatia, a region and not a city, to challenge them on these issues. False teachers had come in and told them they needed to do such and such and so and so to be truly saved. Paul said that those teachers were accursed by God. Many religions are based on “supposed” angelic revelation.  All of them center on the works of man and not the work of Christ. Any angel who offered up such a false scheme is a fallen angel who has been accursed since Satan’s rebellion. Christ is our confidence. Christ is our sufficiency. Christ is our only hope. Paul says that it can’t be much plainer than that.

Dear Father, Thank You for not making my salvation dependent on my own failure to always please you, but to lay it fully on Your Son, my Savior. Amen.

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