YOU DID RUN WELL

Sunday Morning:  October 19, 2003

Text: Galatians 5:7-12  "Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? 8. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. 9. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 10. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. 11. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. 12. I would they were even cut off which trouble you."

YOU DID RUN WELL

Galatians 5:7  "Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?"

RUN FOR THE PRIZE

1 Corinthians 9:24-27  "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [disapproved, rejected]."

DO NOT RUN IN VAIN

2 Timothy 2:5  "And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully (according to the rules)."

RUN WITH PATIENCE

Hebrews 12:1  "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"

NOT OBEY THE TRUTH

Galatians 5:7  "Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?"

FOOLISH AND BEWITCHED

Galatians 3:1  "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, . . ."

THINGS TO COME

John 16:13  "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all [the] truth: . . he will show you things to come."

THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY THE TRUTH

Romans 2:8-9  "But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, (their judgment) indignation and wrath, 9. Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil . . ."

PAUL DID NOT TEACH THIS

Galatians 5:8  "This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth [present active participle] you."

PAUL CALLED THEM

Galatians 1:6  "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ . . ."

JUSTIFICATION BY PLEASING GOD

Galatians 3:11  "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live [future middle] by [out of, by means of] faith."

LEAVEN

Galatians 5:9  "A little leaven leaveneth [present active] the whole lump."

LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES

Matthew 16:6  "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."

LEAVEN IS DOCTRINE

Matthew 16:12  "Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."

THEIR DOCTRINE

Acts 15:5  "But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

BEYOND THEIR DOCTRINE

Matthew 5:20  "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."

HE THAT TROUBLETH YOU

Galatians 5:10  "I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth [present active participle] you shall bear [future tense] his judgment, whosoever he be."

PAUL CALLED THEM

Galatians 1:7  ". . .  there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ."

BEAR THE PUNISHMENT

Ezekiel 14:9-10  "And if the prophet be deceived [entice, flatter] when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived [allured, enticed] that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10. And they (the teaching prophet) shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh (the teaching of the prophet) unto him;"

THOSE WHO OFFEND

Matthew 13:41-42  "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity [lawlessness]; 42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

NOT FORGIVEN

Matthew 12:32  "And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh (teaches) against (the way of the truth) the Holy Ghost (who guides in the truth), it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world [age], neither in the world to [the one] come [the one coming, present active participle]."

OFFENCE HAS NOT CEASED

Galatians 5:11  "And I, brethren, if I yet preach [present active] circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution [present active]? then is the offence of the cross ceased."

THE CROSS IS DAILY

Luke 9:23  "And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."

BEAR THE CROSS

Luke 14:27  "And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."

PREACHING THE CROSS

1 Corinthians 1:17-18  "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."

THE POWER OF GOD

Romans 1:16-17  "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth [present active participle]; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17. For therein (the gospel of Christ) is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."

KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD

1 Peter 1:5  "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

WE NEED TO ENDURE THE CROSS

Hebrews 12:2  "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

NO WORD OF RESTORING

Galatians 5:12  "I would they were even cut off which trouble [present active participle] you."

NOT FORGIVEN

Matthew 12:32  "And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh (teaches) against (the way of the truth) the Holy Ghost (who guides in the truth), it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world [age], neither in the world to [the one] come [the one coming, present active participle]."

THE WARNING

2 Peter 2:1-2  "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of [the] truth shall be evil spoken of."