For Christians, there can always be a temptation to think that we contribute something to our salvation.

Belief that certain styles and certain rules, man-made rules, rules of a certain religious tradition,

and unless these are kept and kept rigorously and kept to the full, there cannot be an assurance

of salvation.

When we add additional requirements to the gospel, we distort it.

It becomes, as the Apostle Paul put it, a different gospel.

It's an era which dates back to the first century, to one of the earliest churches,

and it reminds us of our own tendency to add works to the gospel.

This is the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and we're starting a series on the gospel as our featured

teacher Derek Thomas turns our attention to the Book of Galatians. And until midnight tonight,

you can request this series. It's titled, No Other Gospel, along with a copy of R.C. Sproles'

commentary on Galatians when you give a donation at

renewingyourmind.org. Well, here's Ligonier Teaching Fellow, Derek Thomas, to begin our study.

Well, hello. We're going to take a tour of what I think is one of the most exciting

letters in the New Testament by the Apostle Paul,

and that's Galatians. It's a short letter, six chapters. We're going to cover it in 14 sessions.

This is Paul the young man, rather than Paul in the pastoral epistles as a man 20 years older than he is here.

And here, he comes across passionate, zealous, sometimes right on the edge.

Something's happening in the church in Galicia that's upsetting him, and he doesn't spare anything.

And at one point says that some witches have cast a spell on them, and they're retreating

from the gospel. We can't think of Galatians without thinking of the Reformation and Martin Luther

and a wonderful commentary that he wrote on Galatians without thinking of the Reformation and Martin Luther and a wonderful commentary that

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