February 24 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

Galatians 1:1-10:

¹Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
²And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
³Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
⁴Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
⁵To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
⁶I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
⁷Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
⁸But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
⁹As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
¹⁰For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Devotional

It was no matter of indifference to the apostle Paul that false teachers had come among the churches of Galatia to trouble them and pervert the Gospel of Christ. "But though we," he says, "or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."

We, too, must not be indifferent to false brothers who seek to subvert the precious Gospel, the only Gospel, of the Lord Jesus Christ. There should be on our part no easy tolerance of false gospels, no pacifism in the struggle between truth and darkness. We, too, must consider it important that the Gospel of Christ - and only this Gospel - be preached in the churches. We must regard it as important that on this Lord's Day our souls be nourished by that Gospel. We must regard it as important that the Gospel of Christ - and only this Gospel - be sent to the ends of the earth.

Welcome to "Think on These Things," a twelve-week daily devotional prepared by the late Dr. John H. Skilton, an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and for many years Chairman of the New Testament Department at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.

We are indebted to P & R Publishing and Skilton House Ministries for permission to use this copyrighted material on the OPC Web site. (P & R held the copyright from 1975 to 2005, at which time they reassigned the copyright to Skilton House.)