WHAT YOU BELIEVE JESUS MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE!

 

Galatians 1:6-10 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel– not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

 

Now, it may be a blinding flash of the obvious, but that is not the same with everyone who calls themselves a Christian. Paul was facing a confrontation dilemma of eternal necessity. Some men were twisting around the good news to fit what they thought, not what God was telling them through Paul. People were skipping out left and right when some men started to proclaim something more, perverted, wrenched and distorted from the simple devotion to Jesus Christ and the good news of His coming, His death, His burial and His resurrection…. Why is it always the case – people complicate the simplest of things. Religious people add and surmise and bring into the Bible and the Truth so many things that just take away from the fact that all have sinned, all fall short, all need saved, and those that call on the name of Jesus will be saved.

 

I have been reading and studying other denomination’s and cult’s material that they add to the Bible, as equally authoritative. You wouldn’t believe, and I hope you never do, the crazy things they claim about Jesus who they think He is – things Jesus never would have said or it never would have entered His mind.

 

One false-work states that Father God was once a man and became a God. Another stated that Jesus’ body and blood are literally present in the bread and the wine. Others state we will one day become god’s and goddess’s just like the Father… co-creators of our own worlds and planets.

 

I read of rituals for “sealing” forever marriages, and baptisms for the dead, Michael the archangel became Adam, and ordinances of special endowments to be priests and vows and the list goes on…. None of which are in the Word of God.

 

Yet, by the thousands, and millions – people that once turned to Jesus turned to these extras, these twisted “prophetic” revelations that supersede Jesus’ Words. Many have claimed “angels” came and showed them golden tablets in the 1800’s, others in the 1900’s claimed God is an alien, even another claims they got “angelic” messages regarding moon rocks, and today – the legalists claim they are better Christians because they adhere to the laws of Moses, and still others claim you cannot eat certain foods, marry those not approved by the hierarchy or outside their denomination, some consider their denomination or cult like organization the true restored church, and all others between the 1st century until 18th century are apostate. Even one says they are the mother church. Today we have one claiming angel feathers fall on them and gold dust does too, as they worship.

 

Paul was right – people follow “their Jesus” – and others exploit that! I was pondering a question asked, regarding working with or interacting with the types of individuals Paul described – here is question: What would Jesus say to them about what they think about Him, and about those who compromise to please men rather than God?

 

How about you? What would Jesus say about what you believe about Him? Does it line up with what He says about who He is? And how much do you compromise to please men rather than God?