Spies, Lies, and Alibis [Part 1]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright and what really happens. For those that are in Christ is that there is a subtle message that is whispered from hell that wants to add something to that complicated. In order to make you worried about it, but also to rob you of the debts faster. Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life will Dino Britt excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series Galatians is presented at renewal the church in North Carolina not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It can be yours for your donation this month made to Alan Wright Ministries so as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today special offer. Contact us Pastor Alan.org at pastor and.org or call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860. More on this later in the program. Now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright you ready for some good news today and I am gospel intoxicated.

I am good news saturated and God is in it build our faith today and to fill us a fresh with the quickening power of the Holy Spirit for the good news of the gospel is that there is nothing for you to add to the cross of Jesus Christ.

He has paid it all. He has accomplished it all. Therefore, you can be guaranteed not only of your inheritance in the saints guaranteed that this day. There is no good thing from heaven that is being withheld from you because you have not added something to the cross. It is finish.

I fell this week. It was a scary moment. Pastor Chris is been laughing at me, called an old man falling. I'm glad my wife didn't see it because she tends laughing.

People fall so I went out to get the paper on Wednesday morning and it had been so much moisture and rain and that's that the sidewalk had this place under the shade of a tree where to get especially slimy and mildew egg with the watery surface and I just was going out to get the paperwork and was like a cartoon both legs just went up like I was on ice and went up and I felt on the hip and on the right elbow.

I fell hard. I feel real hard onto the sidewalk and I was concerned about the hip. I was concerned about the elbow but is the is the is is a moments pass. What is most concerned about is my finger my finger on my left hand side twisted this way to try to to brace and and push that finger in towards other fingers. It was kind of pointed towards the other fingers and it was heartening real bad and so I went to the doctor and have a look at my finger.

I was concerned that it was broken or or worse, and so first I was being observed by diligent young doctor third-year resident.

He was he was looking and being very careful and observant of every detail like a good doctor should and he had my hands out, they said, let me just compare them and he was comparing each joint and the levels of swelling and then he pauses and he said the left hand. The injured hand is discolored. It is more payroll than the right hand, and I thought oh my, I thought I had just injured a finger, but something is happened to where my left hand may soon be falling off altogether and as I was pondering why the left hand might be more payroll. In contrast to the right. It suddenly dawned on me. That's my golf glove hand to save a daylight very often. Oh yeah I don't think that's a it may mean it made me think of another funny story.

We had a lady in the church to go years ago that she developed a problem. I haven't asked her permission to tell this was I'll call her Sally. Although she's the kind of person wouldn't care, but still call her Sally. She began to have a problem. A bluish hands.

It was disturbing bluish hands. It could convey a circulatory problem of some kind. She was concerned about it. She began to research online, all the ailments that could have blue hands as one of the symptoms are some bad things out there that could be going on when you got the blue hand syndrome and what was making matters worse was that the blue bluish coloration was showing up more and and after the times that she came to church, which we being the spiritual people that we are, we began to think you know this could be spiritual and you know my need to rebuke something here and so she was getting ministry and study online can't remember if she sought medical help or not but I know went on for a while. I remember the prayer requests coming on the cards about the bluish hands. Well one day she was sitting in church air conditioning was blown especially hard where she sat in church and and as was her custom sheet she know she had her hands down in between her legs kind of warming them in between her legs, rubbing them in and then she looked down at the new parable of genes that she had on and realize that she she worn those same blue jeans.

The church a few times and as she pulled him up. She knew that her hands had not been bluish before, and she pulled them up and there were hurt, bluish hands, and she realized that those blue jeans were fading onto her hands and I see warming charts and that explain the whole the whole mystery problem solve point being, some things are not nearly as complicated as they might seem, in the gospel Lord Jesus Christ is one of the things Jesus came because father God so loved the world he never wanted us to be separated from him. He never wanted for us to be orphans. He always had intended for us to enjoy fellowship with him on earth and forever more. And he sent Jesus to become the full payment for your sin and to live a righteous life so that when you accept Christ. You become regarded not only is if you never send but even more you become reckoned by God through Jesus as is you were righteous like Jesus and the gospel is so simple and so pure. There's nothing else to add to that, and what really happens. For those that are in Christ is that there is a subtle message. It is whispered from hell that wants to add something to that complicated. In order to make you worried about it, but also to rob you of its power.

Interestingly, Jeremiah once prophesied that there people in his day they were saying peace peace where there was no peace to an important word because spoken to people who are not walking with God. People who do not know the Lord and yet false prophets would say oh it's fine there's no problem, and there is to a dying world that doesn't know Jesus, a false message that says oh no worries. Peace. Peace. There's no problem sends not an issue. And so, in a real sense to those that don't know Christ, the enemies message is peace peace where there is no peace but to those who do know Christ. The message seems to be whispered from hell and an opposite direction and that is unrest.

Unrest to those who have already been given peace through Christ Jesus, for God was in Christ reconciling the world unto him and in him, he has made peace between us and the father and the message that is whispered from hell over and over in a thousand different subtle ways is that you need to add something do something to amend this gospel is at this very similar to what the serpent did in the beginning he Slithered into the garden and there perfect paradise.

Adam and Eve in perfect fellowship with God, with no blessing being withheld by God from Adam and Eve, he his son and his daughter whom he loved in a perfect fellowship with him, and yet the voice of the enemy went essentially like this look there's a tree you can't eat of it looks pleasing to eat. It looks like a blessing. It looks like to me that maybe God has said that bad things would happen if you eat of it, but what really would happen is you would become more like God you would be more blessed if you would just do this one additional thing.

In other words, what the voice of the enemy did was to slither into that paradise where the freedom and definition of the paradise was at Adam and Eve didn't have to do anything in order to enjoy God and therefore they had no shame whatsoever. They were utterly free, but the voice of the enemy essentially said if you really want to be free. Then you need to eat of that fruit. There is something else you need to do if you're going to embrace full freedom, and in that subtle deception. They lost their freedom. In other words, as soon as they believed they had to do something in order to be blessed more fully by God. They lost the blessedness they knew. That's Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series an option for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you I'll never forsake you. When you feel cherished.

Know what would happen if I'm hundreds that same person. Sad that Shayna got enough for me to measure up on the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison.

The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil.

Grace is bit of luck in introducing unlimited capacity for fear that if I don't measure up. When might I be rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church. They pass Apollo is outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Reitz 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with pure grace. It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power at the grace of God. When you make a gift to Alan Wright ministry said I will send you pastor outlines messages in an attractive CD album with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out and got lick today's teaching now continues your once again is Alan writing when we come to Christ.

There is a transformation that is so magnificent. We cannot even describe it and we won't fully fully understand it until we are completely glorified with him. But if we could see it.

And this is what faith sees this transformation is so complete that Paul says that we are new creatures in Christ, you are not just forgiven.

You are a creature you are born anew. Jesus something so radical happens and what what the enemy wants to do is then come in to your consciousness and allure. You with this thought you could be more blessed if in addition to your faith in Jesus Christ. You would also do fill in the blank.

This is what Paul was up against and the controversy amongst the Galatian churches we are in our fourth week this morning of an in-depth study of the epistle of Galatians. We're going to be unhurried and spend months here in Galatians and one of Paul's most passionate letters where urgently he is pleading with the Galatians, let no one rob you of the freedom and power of the Gospels. Galatians chapter 2 is where we are and invite you to join me there to set the con text of this the background in place. In chapter 1, Paul has essentially said I am not authorized because of a group of men or a council in Jerusalem.

The gospel is the authority and the gospel authorizes me.

He takes the gospel and he speaks of the gospel, not as a mere mental assent to Christian doctrines is important as doctrines may be, but he says the gospel is more like a living power of God under our salvation. And he says the gospel that was given to me was given from the Lord, and I didn't receive it from any man, and he is he is he is laying out some of his own autobiographical evidence for the gospel at work by sharing in chapter 1 about his own conversion, and how dramatically his life was changed. This autobiographical portion of Galatians continues in chapter 2, where now he's going to describe how 14 years after his ministry began and he had had this flourishing flirting ministry amongst the Gentiles, how he goes back to Jerusalem and he meets with the brothers there to share with them the purity of the gospel that he sharing and how it was that those brothers were in full agreement about the pure and simple gospel of the Lord Jesus and what is going to describe in our text today is that there were double agents. There were spies that had infiltrated the fellowship that were, he said, spying on their freedom in order to entrap them and to seek to enslave them and what you'll see here is Paul being very pointed because there's a lot at stake here is a spiritual battle that is going on and today I want to expose that spiritual battle of the religious spirit.

I want to invite you into the full infusion of the power and the simplicity of the gospel of the Lord Jesus.

Galatians chapter 2 verse one Paul writes that after 14 years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas taking Titus along with me. I went up because of a revelation is set before them the privately before those who seemed influential the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles in order to make sure I was not running written not run in vain. But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek because of false brothers secretly brought in who slipped into spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery to them. We did not yield and submission even for a moment. So the truth of the gospel may be preserved for you to hear his urgency. We didn't yield that not one moment the gospel is too important were preserving this gospel to proclaim it to you saying to the Galatians, verse six and from those who seem to be influential what they were. Makes no difference to me. God shows no partiality. Those eyesight who seemed influential added nothing to me. On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised. Just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised, for he wore through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised work also through me for mine to the Gentiles, and when James and Cephas, and John who seem to be pillars receive the grace that was given to me. They did the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me that we should go to the Gentiles.

They do the circumcised, or they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing that I was eager to do this if I can summarize what happened. Paul got a revelation. That's what we told adverse to apocalypses. This was not Paul feeling threatened or worried or fearful and therefore compelled God told him to go. We don't know how we receive this word what it was is the leading of the Holy Spirit whether there was some discernment amongst the brothers. The ways we hear from God. A very but it was a revelation God told Paul go and meet with his brothers was God's timing shows also how important this was at this moment in the history of the church of Jesus Christ.

So Paul goes and he takes with him Titus and Barnabas and while he is there he meets privately with some that are called the pillars of the church and he meets with Peter and he meets with James and John and they come to this agreement, the Titus, though he is a Gentile, there's a Greek doesn't need to be circumcised in order for to be acceptable to God.

They come to an agreement that Paul has primarily though he preaches first of the Jew and then a Gentile that Paul is ultimately going to have a very powerful mission, especially amongst the Gentiles and it Peter is a very powerful mission, especially amongst Jewish brothers and that they are proclaiming the same gospel and what happens at this pivotal meeting is that there is this incredible agreement about the purity and the simplicity of the gospel such that today the whole idea of of whether someone needs to be circumcised, or to be a Christian is not an issue for us. The reason that is not because it was essentially settled right here in this meeting that is describe a Paul what he says is it while he was there he explained to them and exposed that there were spies that had infiltrated their ranks, so to speak that were trying to undermine the gospel in chapter 1 what we saw is that Paul said that essentially he had been accused of not being a true apostle that one of the ways that the people seeking to undermine the gospel were trying to undermine Paul essentially say since you were not with Jesus while he was here in the flesh as is this is is apostle, then you're not a true apostle and that was leading Paul to explain that what had authorized him was the gospel itself. And so Paul was never fearful of any of these there were trying use various tactics to undermine his his place because he was saying is that is not really about my authority or any group that sanction me, it's really about the gospel and their only is an gospel in its pure and simple.

And it must be Undefiled will what it happened is it. Evidently there were these are called false brothers that were pretending to be with them there really against them.

There are three words that are used by Paul here to describe this in verse four. They slipped in the spy out our freedom to bring us in to slavery, the false brothers secretly brought in slipped in and a spy three different words that all relate to military espionage. They they are being described as double agents that are in arm as they are being described truly is spies. What Paul is saying is that it is so important that we recognize that they are spies Helen Wright entities teaching continues on an exhibition, but here in the studio. Allen is back in a moment with additional insight on what we've heard today for your life in a final word are teaching spies lies and alibis in our series on Galatians stay with us the power of blessing your life discovering God's grace filled vision for your life by signing rights, free daily breast he went fill your heart with grace and encouragement. Allen writes a daily blessing. It's free. Just a click away.

Pastor Alan got away and knocking for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you I'll never forsake you.

When you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundred today that same person said that Shayna got enough for me to measure that on the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison. The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace bit of luck in introducing unlimited capacity for fear that if I don't measure up. When might be rejected. When the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church. They pass Apollo is outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Allen writes 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with pure grace. It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power at the grace of God. When you make your get to Allen Wright ministries today will send you pastor's message as an attractive CD album with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and dialect that I have heard so many preachers who will draw attention to good clever alliteration and then there are sermon titles like this when spies lies an alibi that very mellow that is acute when but it's very serious for Paul, the really referring to. These are spies and the lies that they are bringing that is contaminating the gospel.

The issue here and in the Galatian church is over. This matter of the Jewish ritual of circumcision and really learning a lot more about why is that become so important and no, why not just let it go all on me. Why worry about it so much. Well, it's because the gospel is at stake. And the good news. Daniel is not good if part of it is up to you and what rituals do you keep once you infect the gospel with a little bit a law you have tainted the whole thing. That's what Paul is after today's good news message is a listener supported production of Allen Wright ministries