Rescued by Grace: The Power of the True Gospel

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Guess what? You and I were once in the same situation. We were stuck in a pit of sin, and Jesus had to come and rescue us. Romans 5:6 says, 'For while we were still weak, at the right time Jesus came into that pit, that pit of our own making, and He rescued us. He pulled us up by His power and by His strength for His glory and gave us a spiritual rescue.' The good news of salvation through faith in Christ is the most important message in the world." [01:35]( | | )

2. "None of us are good enough for God. Amen. I'm glad somebody said that so I didn't have to. No other book in the Bible explains why Christianity is critical. It's completely, uniquely, totally, absolutely different from every other religious faith in the world than this book. Galatians has been called the emancipation proclamation of Christianity. Paul's major point in Galatians is because of Jesus, you are free from rules, regulations, rituals, and even religion. None of those things have anything to do with establishing a relationship with God." [06:11]( | | )

3. "There is only one gospel, and you can put any religious faith in the world up against the gospel and find out that there are only two. There is one that's right, and the rest of them are all wrong. See, one type of religious faith is spelled wrong. It's spelled with two words, do and don't. There are things that you have to do, and there are certain things you better not do if you want to be right with God, but there is only one religious faith that is spelled with one word, and that is done. To telestai, Jesus cried out on the cross. It is finished." [24:07]( | | )

4. "The true gospel emphasizes the grace of God too. The true gospel exalts God's Son. Now when we talk about grace, Paul specifically mentions the kind of grace he's talking about. He says that God has called us to live in the grace of Christ, but we should not allow people, verse 7, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. So he connects grace and the gospel to Jesus. Because the only gospel message worth believing, hearing, preaching, and accepting is the gospel of Jesus Christ." [25:03]( | | )

5. "Jesus is the center and the core and the crux of the gospel. The gospel is all about knowing, believing in, receiving, surrendering to, loving, and having Jesus. The true gospel revolves around Christ. Jesus isn't on the sidelines of the gospel. He is a center stage. He is not in the shadows. He is the spotlight of the gospel." [25:42]( | | )

### Quotes for Members

1. "Paul is a good pastor. And so he skips the formalities and jumps right to confronting the problem. Verse 6. I'm astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel. So Paul is stunned that the people in this church have so quickly turned from the gospel. So what's happening is there's people who were coming in and were infiltrating the church. There were false teachers who were spreading a false gospel, which was a mixture of law and grace. They were known as Judaizers. And they plagued Paul throughout his ministry." [11:25]( | | )

2. "Paul wants to make sure the Galatians understand what gospel it is that is being distorted. He says in verse 11, For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel, for I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. Listen, the gospel is not something that men made up. The gospel is something that God set down. It comes directly from him as I said there are many human gospels but there's only one heavenly gospel." [27:47]( | | )

3. "Listen, it is not the messenger that validates the message. It is the message that validates the messenger. And I'm amazed that some people will believe something because so and so said so. Well, so and so taught this, it must be true. He passes a large church, he has a lot of money, he's very popular. Don't ever judge the message by the messenger. Judge the messenger by the message he brings. Because it doesn't matter how brilliant a man is, it doesn't matter how many degrees he has, he can have more degrees in the thermometer, it doesn't matter what seminary he went to, it doesn't matter how polished or popular or persuasive he may be, if he is not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, he is under the curse of God and he is not the messenger he is not to be believed." [29:04]( | | )

4. "The gospel has moral, the gospel makes certain demands of our lives. It calls for complete and total surrender. The apostle Paul was obsessed with never compromising the gospel because you can either please people or you can serve Christ or you can serve Christ and displease people. And I don't want to sound self-serving, I don't want to sound arrogant or prideful, but every sermon I've ever preached in my entire ministry I have only sought to please one and that is the Lord that has called me, that is the Lord that has saved me." [30:26]( | | )

5. "Charles Spurgeon once said the gospel is perfect in all of its parts and perfect as a whole. It is a crime to add to it, treason to alternate, and a felony to take away from it. See, today we're being told that we ought to be open to new ideas and that the truth is never settled, that the plain teaching of scripture isn't what matters but with the latest scholarship. But I want you to hear this. There are some things that never change. God never changes. Jesus never changes. Truth never changes. And the gospel never changes. There is no gospel 2.0. There is only one gospel." [31:48]( | | )