Leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. I get it. It's annoying. Everybody

asks, but I'm going to tell you why. When you give us a positive review, what that does is it

triggers the algorithm so that our podcast shows up on more people's news feeds. You and I both know

that this ministry is willing to talk about things that most ministries aren't. We need

this content for the glory of God to reach more people's ears. The great threat to the church

in the New Testament era from 8030 to 8070 was the Judaizers. This was the great heresy

that was the single greatest danger to the future of the Christian faith.

We look back on this, and it almost seems quaint.

A modern evangelical does not fully appreciate just how destructive this heresy was.

We read Galatians and the Jerusalem Council in Acts and think that it was all just a big

misunderstanding. They really just didn't get it. We sometimes approach it like there was just a little

confusion about the transition from the old covenant to the new covenant, but they got it all cleared up.

But the reality is, Paul did not treat it like some minor misunderstanding.

It was a direct attack by Satan on the church.

And it was far more dangerous than the attacks from the outside,

the kind that Paul, before his conversion, participated in, dragging Christians away,

imprisoning them, beating them, and killing them. No, this was far more serious than even that.

This was the church being subverted from the inside. This was not people merely being confused

about things. These were people actively destroying the church from within.

This is the case with nearly all heresy.

Heretics mask their subversion in theological debate and confusion,

but their ultimate aim always is control and manipulation of Christ's sheep.

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