J.Wesley Wrote Hear this, all ye who vainly hope to keep in favour both with God and with the world!
James 4:4 know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Dean Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dean Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dean Moore
Fear God and keep His commandments/ trust Jesus
David on the below reference the Apostle give us clear direction on remove
our selves from false prophets-v. 8 instructs us to not only remove
ourselves from them in religious activity but to also remove them from our
company all together. If you will note this is Wesleyan teachings-as you
claim to hold.
Gal.1:6-9
Gal 1:6 I marvel2296 that3754 ye are so3779 soon5030 removed3346 from575
him that called2564 you5209 into1722 the grace5485 of Christ5547 unto1519
another2087 gospel:2098
Gal 1:7 Which3739 is2076 not3756 another;243 but1508 there be1526 some5100
that trouble5015 you,5209 and2532 would2309 pervert3344 the3588 gospel2098
of Christ.5547
Gal 1:8 But235 though2352, 1437 we,2249 or2228 an angel32 from1537
heaven,3772 preach any other gospel2097 unto you5213 than3844 that3739
which we have preached2097 unto you,5213 let him be2077 accursed.331
Gal 1:9 As5613 we said before,4280 so2532 say3004 I now737 again,3825 if
any1536 man preach any other gospel2097 unto you5209 than3844 that3739 ye
have received,3880 let him be2077 accursed.331
Adam Clark wrote:
Gal 1:6 -
I marvel that ye are so soon removed - It was a matter of wonder to the
apostle that a people, so soundly converted to God, should have so soon
made shipwreck of their faith. But mutability itself has not a more apt
subject to work upon than the human heart; the alternate workings of
different passions are continually either changing the character, or giving
it a different colouring. Reason, not passion, the word of God, not the
sayings of men, should alone be consulted in the concerns of our salvation.
>From him that called you - The apostle seems here to mean himself. He
called them into the grace of Christ; and they not only abandoned that
grace, but their hearts became greatly estranged from him; so that, though
at first they would have plucked out their eyes for him, they at last
counted him their enemy, Gal_4:14-16.
Another gospel - It is certain that in the very earliest ages of the
Christian Church there were several spurious gospels in circulation, and it
was the multitude of these false or inaccurate relations that induced St.
Luke to write his own. See Luk_1:1. We have the names of more than seventy
of these spurious narratives still on record, and in ancient writers many
fragments of them remain; these have been collected and published by
Fabricius, in his account of the apocryphal books of the New Testament, 3
vols. 8vo. In some of these gospels, the necessity of circumcision, and
subjection to the Mosaic law in unity with the Gospel, were strongly
inculcated. And to one of these the apostle seems to refer.
Gal 1:7 -
Which is not another - It is called a gospel, but it differs most
essentially from the authentic narratives published by the evangelists. It
is not gospel, i.e. good tidings, for it loads you again with the burdens
from which the genuine Gospel has disencumbered you. Instead of giving you
peace, it troubles you; instead of being a useful supplement to the Gospel
of Christ, it perverts that Gospel. You have gained nothing but loss and
damage by the change.
Gal 1:8 -
But though we, or an angel - That Gospel which I have already preached to
you is the only true Gospel; were I to preach any other, I should incur the
curse of God. If your false teachers pretend, as many in early times did,
that they received their accounts by the ministry of an angel, let them be
accursed; separate them from your company, and have no religious communion
with them. Leave them to that God who will show his displeasure against all
who corrupt, all who add to, and all who take from the word of his
revelation.
Let all those who, from the fickleness of their own minds, are ready to
favor the reveries of every pretended prophet and prophetess who starts up,
consider the awful words of the apostle. As, in the law, the receiver of
stolen goods is as bad as the thief; so the encouragers of such pretended
revelations are as bad, in the sight of God, as those impostors themselves.
What says the word of God to them? Let them be accursed. Reader, lay these
things to heart.
Gal 1:9 -
Let him be accursed - Perhaps this is not designed as an imprecation, but a
simple direction; for the word here may be understood as implying that such
a person should, have no countenance in his bad work, but let him, as
Theodoret expresses it, ????t???? est? t?? ?????? s?�at?? t?? e????s?a?, be
separated from the communion of the Church. This, however, would also imply
that unless the person repented, the Divine judgments would soon follow.
Gal 1:10 -
Do I now persuade men, or God? - The words pe??e?? t?? Te?? may be rendered
to court or solicit the favor of God as the after clause sufficiently
proves. This acceptation of pe??e?? is very common in Greek authors. While
the apostle was a persecutor of the Christians, he was the servant of men,
and pleased men. When he embraced the Christian doctrine, he became the
servant of God, and pleased Him. He therefore intimates that he was a
widely different person now from what he had been while a Jew.
Accursed
ACCURS'ED, pp. or a.
1. Doomed to destruction or misery:
The city shall be accursed. John 6.
2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated.
I could wish myself accursed from Christ.
3. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable.
Keep from the accursed thing. Josh 6.
Hence,
4. Wicked; malignant in the extreme.
J.Wesley Wrote:
Gal 1:10 - For - He adds the reason why he speaks so confidently. Do I now
satisfy men - Is this what I aim at in preaching or writing? If I still -
Since I was an apostle. Pleased men - Studied to please them; if this were
my motive of action; nay, if I did in fact please the men who know not God.
I should not be the servant of Christ - Hear this, all ye who vainly hope
to keep in favour both with God and with the world!
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