The reason that the false teachers were being tolerated is because there was not a proper distinction and application between the law and the gospel.

Sin was downplayed to make it achievable to live in this way that would earn you some kind of favor with God.

And so the gospel was not such great news after all,

since all I need is a booster shot and a little help from my friends.

This is preaching Christ.

Preaching Christ is a radio collection of sermons from Lutheran pastors around the world

who are dedicated to preaching the Gospel of Jesus

Christ and Him crucified for the remission of sins.

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God, our Father, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit who calls

us to faith and makes us holy by means of His Gospel Word and sacraments.

Amen. amendments. This letter to Bishop Timothy starts right away off after the greeting with talking about the

false teachers that are disturbing the churches. The problem at heart with the false teachers is that they were teaching

a if-then kind of gospel. If you do this, that, and the other thing, then you can have assurance, then you can know that you have salvation.

When the gospel is really a since now kind of gospel. Since Christ

has accomplished all things in your stead.

Now salvation is yours.

Paul's antidote to the false teachers

and their misuse of God's law is the answer for us when our own conscience

according to our own nature runs amok with the law and confuses it into even the gospel of Christ.

It's not that the law is a bad thing just before our pericopy. Paul says we know that the law is good.

If one uses it lawfully, the law is to be used in accordance with the law, what it is given for, what its limitations

are. The law, he says, is not laid down for the just or the righteous, but for the lawless and

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