“Which is not another, but there be some that would trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ,” (Galatians 1:7)

To the sinner in whom the Spirit of God has revealed Christ, there is no sweeter sound than the Gospel of Christ. His Gospel is declared throughout the pages of the inspired Word, and reveals Him as the only Savior and Substitute of the elect, Who came in the flesh and satisfied law and justice, by His obedient life and sacrificial death, and has thereby forever redeemed, justified, sanctified and glorified every sinner that the Father gave Him from eternity.

If the LORD has so taught you, you know the blessing, assurance, comfort, and rest that this blessed Gospel brings to your heart. Why then should we ever be troubled by the nay sayers and those who would preach a message of conditions, requirements and duties to perform either to initiate, maintain, or complete our salvation. And yet, that is exactly what happens if you allow yourself to listen to or be subject to preaching that requires terms and conditions to be performed by us in order to entitle us to Gospel Grace. Such preaching finds a natural lodging in our depraved hearts and minds, and tends to distress the soul, weaken faith, dampen love to Christ and others, and deject hope. However, more deadly, such preaching keeps sinners in blindness and ignorance, and deceives them into looking to gain salvation by something they do or don’t do.

While others may think their message of conditions and requirements to be the Gospel, Paul calls it a perversion of the Gospel. He does not even honor it by calling it a Gospel. He simply says, “It is not another.” It is merely a system of man’s devising. Such a message makes great pretence of morality, holiness, and righteousness, but it is nothing more than a show of the flesh, troubling and deceiving many, Col. 2:23.