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July 8
Sunday


THE RIGHT
STUFF

READ:
Galatians 1:6-12
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No other foundation
can anyone lay than
that which is laid,
which is Jesus Christ.
__1 Corinthians 3:11
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David, I missed you in class today," I told one of my college students when we ran into each other in the Imformation Services office. He gave me that stunned "freshman in the first week of college" look, and then it struck him__he had misread his schedule and had gone to the wrong class.

The funny thing was, there were two grammar labs__mine, and another professor's__and he had attended the wrong one. I told him, "That's okay. You were getting the right information, so I won't count you absent."

As I thought about it, I concluded that this is a little like the options many Christians have regarding the churches they attend. The key factor is to attend a church where the right informatin is shared__where salvation through Jesus Christ is preached (1 Cor. 15:3-5). where the Bible is the standard for faith and practice, and where an opportunity to serve in Jesus' name is provided. It's important that the message proclaims the true gospel and the historical message of Jesus__not a "different gospel" (Gal. 1:6-9). It's not the messenger that's most important; it's the message.

What "gospel" are you hearing? Is it built on the foundation of Jesus Christ? ( 1 Cor. 3:11). __Dave Branon
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A guilty sinner needs to hear
The simple gospel true and clear
That tells how Jesus bled and died,
And for man's sin was crucified. __D. De Haan
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The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ our Lord.

*************Today's Bible Reading__Galatians 1:6-12*************

6 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 the gospel
of Christ. 8 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. 9 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.

10 For do I now persuade
men, or God? Or do I seek
to please men? For if I still
pleased men, I would not be
a bondservant of christ.

11 But I make known to
you, brethren, that the
gospel which was preached
by me is not according
to man. 12 For I neither
received it from man, nor
was I taught it, but it came
through the revelation of
Jesus Christ.

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Bible commentator Matthew Henry (1662-1714) wrote of Galatians:
"The churches in Galatia were formed partly of converted Jews, and
partly of Gentile converts, as was generally the case. st. Paul asserts
his apostolic character and the doctrines he taught, that he might
confirm the Galatian churches in the faith of Christ, especially with
respect to the important point of justification by faith alone." Paul's
letter attacks the idea of salvation by human effort, warning them,
"I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called
you in the grace of christ, to a different gospel" (1:6). It remains a
strong warning for us today as well. __WEC