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biggiestomp

biggiestomp

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Do you spend your life trying to please everybody? Paul had to speak harshly to the Christians in Galatia because they were in serious danger. He did not apologize for his straight-forward words, knowing that he could serve Christ faithfully if he allowed the Galatian Christians to remain on the wrong track. Whose approval are you seeking-others' or God's? Pray for the courage to seek God's approval above anyone else's.

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 (Galatians 1:10).​

For Paul, it was one or the other. He could not direct his ministry towards pleasing men and at the same time direct it to pleasing Jesus Christ. And if his concern is not first to please Jesus Christ, then he is not a servant of Christ.

Servant perhaps is not the best translation here; it may be better translated slave. “It is unfortunate that . . . our English translations should so consistently fail to give this word its true meaning, thereby encouraging the false conception of Christian ‘service’ (as something essentially voluntary and part-time) so characteristic of modern religious idealism. The ‘bond-servant of Christ’ is not free to offer or withhold his ‘service’; his life is not his own, but belongs entirely to his Lord.”
 
tribesman

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The truth must always be told. Doing that will mean much strife, hatred and rejection from those who do not love the truth, or hold it in unrighteousness.
 
biggiestomp

biggiestomp

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tribesman said:
The truth must always be told. Doing that will mean much strife, hatred and rejection from those who do not love the truth, or hold it in unrighteousness.
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I agree with you brother! But this is not speaking of the truth being spoken or not, or of the strife that may come from unbelievers! It's speaking of the watered down of the truth in pleasing others! Or giving half truth in order not to offend! Those who are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.


Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you (Galatians 1:8).
 
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