2.5.12. “Finding Truth,” Gal 1:6-10

Our healthiness is bound to our identity with Jesus.

MAIN IDEA: We must cling to Jesus. It is easy to say, but there are so many ways to grow cold or to drift. This passage presents three areas that we must guard.

I. First, guard your heart. (6)

deserting: metatithēmi = to transfer, exchange, change sides

A. evaluate your love for God

B. evaluate your desire to please Him

II. Second, guard your doctrine. (7)

throwing you into confusion: tarassō = to disturb, to trouble, to cause inward commotion, to disturb mentally with fear, excitement, and perplexity

pervert: metastrephô = to completely change into something of the opposite nature

A. stick to the Bible

B. watch your desire for more

C. remember: tolerance ≠ acceptance

Warren Wiersbe: “The test of a man's ministry is not popularity, or miraculous signs and wonders, but his faithfulness to the Word of God.”

III. Finally, guard your motivation (10)

win the approval of: peithô = to convince; to bring over to kind feelings, to conciliate. to win over, gain the favor of, make a friend of

A. am I seeking to please God?

B. am I seeking to please man?