Any Other Gospel!Gal. 1:8-9 But even if we, or an

angel from heaven, preach any

other gospel to you than what we

have preached to you, let him be

accursed. As we have said before,

so now I say again, if anyone

preaches any other gospel to you

than what you have received, let him

be accursed.

● The best and sure way that I have found is to

use “poison” on them, it works every time!

● Have any of you ever read the box?

●On average there is anywhere from 1 to 3%

poison in them, some as low as .0025% and the

rest is actually good for them!

●Even that little bit of poison is enough to kill

them!

How many of you have ever had a

rat problem before? What did you do

about it, how did to get rid of them?

As this is true when it comes to killing rats, it

is also true when it comes to true religion!

Even 1% of error can be deadly!

● Jas 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole

law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of

all.

● 2Jo 1:9-11 Whoever transgresses and does

not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have

God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has

both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to

you and does not bring this doctrine, do not

receive him into your house nor greet him; for he

who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

One might preach truth 99% of the time, but it

is the 1% of error that can be deadly!

● It has often been said that, “the best lies

have some truth in them!” or that “a half

truth is a whole lie!”

● It is our goel today to make sure that we

are believing the right Gospel! It is only

Jesus that saves!

●Act. 4:12 "Nor is there salvation in any

other, for there is no other name under

heaven given among men by which we

must be saved."

I. Denying the Gospel!● I am sure most everyone here knows what the

word “gospel” means!

●It is the “good new” of Jesus Christ!

●The Greek word is you-on-gleely-on which is a

compound word good/heathy and

message/teaching!

● The gospel is summarized by Paul as the

death, burial and resurrection of Jesus!

●1 Cor. 15:1-4

●When one denies their need for a Savior they

are denying the Gospel!

This was often the problem of so many in

Jesus’ time!● Joh 8:21-24 Then Jesus said to them again, "I

am going away, and you will seek Me, and will

die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come."

So the Jews said, "Will He kill Himself, because

He says, 'Where I go you cannot come'?" And

He said to them, "You are from beneath; I am

from above. You are of this world; I am not of

this world. "Therefore I said to you that you will

die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I

am He, you will die in your sins."

Let’s look together at what the gospel is?

● 1Co 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare to

you the gospel which I preached to you, which

also you received and in which you stand, by

which also you are saved, if you hold fast that

word which I preached to you--unless you

believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of

all that which I also received: that Christ died

for our sins according to the Scriptures, and

that He was buried, and that He rose again the

third day according to the Scriptures,

There are some that deny the Gospel of Christ

and there are some that deny that Jesus is

Christ!● 2Pe 2:1 But there were also false prophets

among the people, even as there will be false

teachers among you, who will secretly bring in

destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who

bought them, and bring on themselves swift

destruction.

● Jude 1:4 For certain men have crept in

unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this

condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of

our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God

and our Lord Jesus Christ.

II. Distorting the Gospel!● This is often times the most dangerous of

the two! The one denying the gospel is not

giving people “false hope!” The one

distorting the gospel often is!

● Distorting = to pull or twist out of shape;

give a misleading account; change the form

of something (Oxford Dict.)

● Many people rather than bending their

lives according truth, try to bend the truth to

fit their lives!

Let’s notice how this often works!● 2Ti 4:1-4 I charge you therefore before God

and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the

living and the dead at His appearing and His

kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season

and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort,

with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time

will come when they will not endure sound

doctrine, but according to their own desires,

because they have itching ears, they will heap up

for themselves teachers; and they will turn their

ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to

fables.

We must learn to line our lives up with the

Gospel and not the Gospel to try and fit our

lives!

● It is God’s Word that must direct us!

●Jer. 10:23 O LORD, I know the way of man is

not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct

his own steps.

●Ps. 119;105 Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light to my path.

● Men many tell you that it doesn’t really matter,

but God says it is a matter of heaven and hell! (2

Thess. 1:7-9)

III. Demanding the Gospel!● This last point is really important for two reasons!

●First, because far too many believe they

shouldn’t say anything when knowing that what

someone believes is wrong!

•Let’s go back to the rat poison for a moment, if

you saw someone about to eat rat poison and

you could stop them, would you or would you let

them eat it and die?

•Then, why is it so hard for us to speak up when

someone is denying or distorting the Gospel of

Jesus?

Second, because we must stand up

for what is right!● 1Ti 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold

on eternal life, to which you were also called

and have confessed the good confession in

the presence of many witnesses.

● Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was very diligent

to write to you concerning our common

salvation, I found it necessary to write to you

exhorting you to contend earnestly for the

faith which was once for all delivered to the

saints.

If God’s people will not standup for what is

right, then who will?

● We are after all called to be “soldiers of Christ!”

●2Ti 2:1-4 You therefore, my son, be strong in the

grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that

you have heard from me among many witnesses,

commit these to faithful men who will be able to

teach others also. You therefore must endure

hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No

one engaged in warfare entangles himself with

the affairs of this life, that he may please him who

enlisted him as a soldier.

Conclusion:● Truly there isn’t any other gospel, other

than the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

● Let us make sure we are not denying it,

distorting it, but rather demanding it!

● We ask you this morning, “have you come

to believe and obey the Gospel of Christ?”

● May we never take for granted the one

and only thing where by we can and must

be saved, the Gospel of Jesus! (Rom.1:16)