Derek Thomas

That you are so quickly deserting Him who called you in the grace of Christ.

And I wanted to emphasize that word grace because what is the gospel?

And the gospel is a message of grace.

That's going to be very important here in Galatians because Paul is deeply, deeply suspicious that many of them are moving away from grace and into something else, into law, into legalism.

And we'll come back to that a little later.

So, the gospel is about Jesus.

It's about the giving of Jesus for our sins to deliver us from this present evil age, and all of this is part of the sovereign will of our heavenly Father, and it's a message of grace.

Then, secondly, if that's the formulation of the gospel, secondly, a passionate believer

observation of the distortion of the gospel, and I want to focus on verses 6 and 7.

We've already mentioned verse 6 several times now, that he's astonished that they're so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel.

And then Paul has to sort of almost correct himself because there really isn't a different gospel if by that you mean that there are two kinds of gospels and you can take one or the other.

No,

One is the true gospel, and the other is a false gospel.

One is a gospel that saves, and the other is a gospel that actually will condemn you, and it's no gospel at all.

It's not good news.

You might call it the gospel, but it's not the gospel.

It's a gospel that condemns.

Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

Paul is writing to Christians.

He's writing to those who profess to be Christians in Galatia, and something has happened.