Threats to the Gospel

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians to expose false teaching, for he knew the gospel was at stake. Today, Derek Thomas reveals that the gospel is just as much at stake in our day as it was in the first century.

Donate any amount to request R.C. Sproul's commentary on Galatians and Derek Thomas' video teaching series No Other Gospel on DVD. You'll also receive lifetime digital access to all 14 messages and the study guide: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/4510/offer

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Meet Today's Teacher:

Derek Thomas is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	There are false brothers secretly brought in in Galicia, Judas, we're not sure who they are.
0:06.3	But now they've heard that Paul is bringing Titus to Jerusalem, and so these false brothers,
0:13.2	there are people who are advocating something which isn't the gospel.
0:30.0	Any man-made requirement added to grace alone, by faith alone, turns the gospel into something other than the good news, a false gospel.
0:33.8	I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:39.6	We're spending several weeks in Galatians with Derek Thomas' series No Other Gospel.
0:45.9	There were threats to the gospel in the first century, and there were threats to it today,
0:50.9	which is why it's important to unpack Galatians. If you would like to make Galatians a focus
0:56.3	of your study in the new year, you can request this series on DVD, along with digital access
1:02.4	to the study guide and the messages, along with a hardcover copy of R.C. Sproles' commentary on Galatians
1:09.1	when you give a year-end gift in support of renewing
1:12.1	your mind and the global outreach of Ligeneer Ministries at Renewing Your Mind.org.
1:17.5	But be quick and respond before this offer ends at midnight.
1:22.2	Well, here's Dr. Thomas on some of the threats to the gospel.
1:35.3	We're in Galatians chapter 2 and verses 1 through 10. Let's recap just a little.
1:37.3	Paul was defending himself at the tail end of chapter 1.
1:42.3	Judas is in the Galatian Church, accusing him of being a
1:48.2	charlatan, Johnny come lately, wondering where he got his gospel from. And Paul went out of his
1:56.1	way to give some history and narrative about his conversion and how he'd gone to Arabia and then he'd gone to
2:02.3	Jerusalem and he'd met with Peter for 15 days. But the whole point of all of that was to say
2:07.8	that he got this gospel, not from men, not even from Peter or James and John, but he got it from
2:14.7	the Lord. It was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit and through his studies of
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