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The Bewitched And The Perverted Gospel by Goshen360(m): 5:55pm On Jul 27, 2012
For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:17 –Kjv

Soon after Apostle Paul had established the Galatians Churches in the truth of the word of God which he received by revelation from Jesus Christ. It marveled Paul that the Galatians are SOON/SO QUICKLY REMOVED from the true gospel of Christ which is based on Grace and faith in the laws of Christ UNTO ANOTHER PERVERTED GOSPEL by those who trouble the church of God (Gal. 1:6-7). The REMOVAL of the Galatians Church from the truth of the Gospel of Christ is self removal by which they were bewitched by Judaizers of their time who are false teachers and are still evident in our days. This REMOVAL is parallel to that of Jesus spoken to the Church in Ephesus in Revelation 2:5,

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

It amazed Paul as much as it amazes God today that many believers/Christians engage themselves in self removal from the truth of the Gospel of Christ by allowing themselves to be perverted from the Gospel of Christ to a different/another Gospel which is not grounded in Grace and truth for the law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. Many Christians today like the Galatians Christians are being bewitched. To be bewitched does not necessarily involved in physical witchcraft gathering but it involves manipulation, deception, intimidation, controlling and perversion of the nature of God in a believer.

The Apostle Paul asked the Galatians Christians WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU? Evidently, it is Satan who bewitched the Church through the invasion of his false teachers who have come into the church in order to pervert the Gospel of Christ. Today, professing Christians are being “tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine” (Ephesians 4:14), not only with legalism but also with evolutionism, emotionalism (being witched by appealing to your emotions in the church to hear what you want to hear rather than what God says), libertinism, traditions of men and many other unscriptural heresies. Many, like the Galatians, have been “bewitched” by clever/subtle and "sugar quoted/sweet tongued" persuasion into such deceptions. The Greek word for “bewitched” is used only this once in the New Testament, and does not necessarily refer to witchcraft as such. The connotation is “fascinated” or “deceived.”

The word of God through the Apostle Paul says, “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light and so also his servants or ministers” 2 Cor. 11:14-15 (Niv). Are you bewitched and perverted not to obey the truth of the Gospel of Christ? Are you soon removed from the Grace and truth that came by Jesus into obeying a different/another Gospel? What is "another or other gospel"? and what are the symptoms of being bewitched or Grace/truth perverted Gospel?
Re: The Bewitched And The Perverted Gospel by Goshen360(m): 5:58pm On Jul 27, 2012
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. Gal. 1:6-7 Kjv

What is this “another gospel” and what is the “gospel of Christ”? The “Another Gospel” is the Grace and truth perverted Gospel which is contrary to the truth and Grace of the Gospel of Christ. The perverted Gospel is the distortion of Grace of God that came through Christ. It is turning the Grace and Truth into something else and adding the requirements, ceremonies and standard of the old covenant as a necessary prerequisites to salvation and blessings of God. It is telling God's people they can continue to sin and live immorally because they are now under grace of God. It is teaching the people of God to keep the laws and its requirement for justification and requirement to earn God's righteousness.

The “Another Gospel” was the Gospel of “law MIXED/DISTORTED with the Gospel of Grace and Truth which is characterized by the following:

1. If observed, it voids the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal.5:4

2. It was the gospel that could not give the new birth. Gal. 4:28-30

3. It brings bondage. Gal.4:9, 24, 5:1

4. It makes the observers a servant, and voids the son-ship Gal. 4:1-3.

5. It is not in force for Christians 3:19-25

6. It was a schoolmaster that was given until Christ came and was to lead to Christ. Gal. 3:24-26; Heb. 7:28, 9:9-10.

7. It could not give righteousness and life. Gal.3:21

8. It was added only to make/reveal the sin nature. Gal. 3:19; Rom. 3:19-20.

9. It doesn't give an inheritance. Gal. 3:18

10. It is not of faith and whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Gal. 3:12; Romans 14:23

11. It is a gospel that brings only curse and not blessings. Gal. 3:10

12. It is a gospel that is void of justification. Gal. 2:16, 3:11, 5:4

On the other hand, the Gospel of Christ being referred to is the gospel of Grace and Truth that was given by Jesus Christ and preached by the Apostles being characterized by the following:

1. It is the gospel of Grace and truth. Gal. 1:8; John 1:17

2. It is a gospel that gives justification. 2:16

3. It redeems from the curses of the law 3:13

4. It is of faith. 3:22-25

5. It makes us son and not servants. 4:6

6. We operate in the law of Christ. 6:2

7. It gives us new birth. 4:21-31.

What shall we say then? But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. Gal.1:8-9

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