Sermons on Galatians - FROM PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION TO THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE (I)

We just published the second sermon book on 1 John. I believe that many people have returned to God after realizing the Truth revealed through God’s Word in 1 John. I pray that God will grant the blessings of salvation from all their sins to all those who seek the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit.
These days some Christians have misunderstood some verses in 1 John. And they do not know that believing in Jesus exactly means believing in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. I have the duty to explain God’s will, which lies in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, to every person.

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Before I begin my sermon on this passage, let us together read Galatians 5:2-3: “Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.” I asked you here to read Galatians 5:2-3 so that we can first examine the background and the reason why the Apostle Paul wrote Galatians, and then I can proceed with my sermon on chapter 2.
What was the problem that the churches of Galatia faced? Unlike the Corinthian church, the problem for the churches of Galatia was over the issue of circumcision. In the Galatian churches, there were many who were circumcised, and many who also insisted on physical circumcision. In other words, in the churches of Galatia there were those who insisted on circumcision, arguing that anyone who comes into their churches must be circumcised. This obviously raised a great deal of the Apostle Paul’s concern.

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Even nowadays there are those among Christians who lead foolish spiritual lives. To such Christians, the Bible says, “Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?” (Galatians 3:3). They live their lives without knowing the gospel of the water and the Spirit. They say that they are serving God, but they cannot but minister in foolish ways because of their ignorance of the true gospel. On the contrary, we can believe in our Lord as our Savior and serve Him because we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Thus, we are delivering the souls of many from all their sins with the faith in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit in our hearts.

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The Bible says, “For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (John 3:20).
Many people live in this world with empty hearts. To find true satisfaction and true joy for the heart, people have turned to the carnal pleasures of music, fine arts, literature, and so forth. In general, people think that if all their basic necessities were met, or if they were rich and powerful, their hearts would be truly satisfied. However, no one can be truly satisfied with the wealth of this world. A man might live in a huge mansion, but the reality is that he cannot even fill his small heart merely with the things of the earth. You need to realize that through money, pleasures, fame, power, logical/physical relationships, or any such things of the world, no one can really satisfy his heart. Everyone thus has searched through the religions of this world, but none could find true satisfaction even there.

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The Book of Galatians was written to warn against the false teachings of circumcisionists. Among the saints of the Galatian churches, there were some people who were advocating physical circumcision. These people argued that to become God’s people, the saints had to be physically circumcised even after believing in Jesus, but such beliefs were utterly wrong. This is similar to the widespread fallacy of the doctrine of prayers of repentance that plagues today’s Christians. This man-made doctrine has misled many Christian sinners to try to wash away their sins through their own endeavor even after believing in Jesus. From the Book of Galatians, we can see just how profoundly mistaken such legalistic beliefs are before God.

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