The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Well, let's turn to the fifth chapter of the book of Galatians again, and these messages

in this opening part of the fifth chapter are somewhat difficult to preach and very

frequently will You ever hear them preached because they are such severe denunciations

of false doctrine and false teachers.

The opening twelve verses are designed to make it crystal clear how the Apostle Paul and

God Himself feels about false doctrine and false teachers.

And I'm not talking about other religions, I'm not talking about some form of paganism

or false religion, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, or whatever else.

The issue here has to do with an aberrant form of Christianity, which is no different

than a pagan religion as we will dramatically see in this passage.

And what Paul is attacking in this entire letter is the idea that you can temper with the

gospel of salvation.

The gospel of salvation says that men and women are saved from sin and death and hell

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