Galatians 1:6. “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.”
REMOVED FROM HIM. No word of fellowship now appears, no “brethren” or “faithful friends.”
Something terrible happened there when others came to teach;
The Galatians had turned and deserted grace;
Revolted from what Paul preached.
The marvel is that it happened quickly – so fast they had turned away.
How could they fall under such a bondage sore;
And under false teaching of men to sway,
In so short a space of time?
Like soldiers who desert and become turncoats – over to the enemy go;
So away from the good news, they no longer wanted;
To the condemnation of the law, they once bore;
They go back with conscience undaunted.
Back to news that is not good news, back to the imitation.
Back to the tyranny, the bonds of a broken law;
Back – under condemnation.
Ignoring the grace that they saw.
Another gospel, that is not good news, it is not a word that brings peace.
The true Gospel itself is by grace alone;
It is grace that brings relief.
A counterfeit cannot atone.
“I greatly fear, O Father God, that there are some who think they are all right when they are really all wrong. Spare them by Thy great mercy to hear again the truth of God’s grace and respond to it without the sin-polluted works they are trying. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”