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To The Unknown

God

Acts 17:22-34

Paul begins to

explain to the Athenians who God is, who Jesus is, what is expected from men

and their response to God’s plan of salvation, and judgment to come. They had

false ideas of God and of salvation. Paul begins to relate to them the full

gospel of Jesus, not a quip phrase to lure them into serving dumbed down

definition of God. Paul wanted them to know the fullness of truth, so that they

would not mingle their ideas/philosophy with Christianity. They did anyway. As

we see, immediately, false teachers entered the church preaching another Jesus

and another gospel

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Corinthians 11:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

4 For if he who comes preaches another

Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you

receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different

gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

Better, the adverb being emphatic, and

intensely ironical, “you put up with it!” Paul means, of course, that they have

done much more than tolerate the preachers of the false gospel, but have paid

them an extravagant respect.

The gospel is

not John 3:16 This is a portion of the gospel, as is Acts 2:38 or John 3:5. The

gospel is not, “Good news! You do not have to live under Jewish law because the

OT was really really bad!”

These Scriptures

are all key ingredients, but they are incomplete. Say I was to give you two

ingredients in a recipe:

2 eggs

1 stick of

butter

What am I

making? You have no idea.

The gospel is

not just “Good news, God loves you, believe in Jesus”. It is much more than

that. The gospel includes all of the teachings of Jesus and the apostles

recorded in Scripture. If you don't share the full truth, the full gospel then

you are skipping steps and only giving others a part of what they need-

If you do that

then you are considered to be a thief and a robber keeping part of what they

need back from them. It'd be like attempting to give someone a gift but you

only give half of it- what if I said I was going to give you a car? You would

be super excited until the car I gave you had no tires and no engine. But hey,

the brakes work great! What good is it? It is incomplete. So they have part of

what they need but not the whole thing. Don't give partial truths and don't

give just part of the gospel. Give the full gospel and the full truth.

Why do I tell

you this? Because you must become acquainted with the genuine so that you can

immediately recognize a fake

There are a

bunch of “gospels” mentioned in the Bible:

Doctrine of the

Nicolaitans (Rev 2:15)

the doctrine of

Jezebel (Rev 2:20)

doctrine of

demons (1 Tim 4:1)

doctrine of

Balaam (2:14)

These are

perverted gospels- which all stemmed from Christians who mingled with worldly

ideas and concepts and entered the church in the first and second century. The

perversion of Christianity started immediately.

Galatians 1:6-7 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you

in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which

is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want

to pervert[a]the gospel of Christ.