Lesson 2: Faithfulness to the Right One
Read Galatians 1:1-24 - www.bible.com/bible/59/gal.1
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

As we learned in the last lesson, we are accountable for knowing what is true. For this, we are accountable to Jesus, who in John 14:1-6 said He IS Truth. Our verses today say this as well – Paul scolds the believers of the church in Galatia for accepting someone else as being God. In the strongest words Paul uses in the Bible, he states that even if angels from heaven would come to tell them something different from what the Bible says, they should be cursed.


Sometimes we as humans want something great or fantastic to happen to prove to us what God says is true. Jesus had the same requests of Him when He was here on earth – people asked Him to prove He was God by great and marvelous signs and miracles (Luke 11:29-32). Rather than doing as they demanded, He gave them a sign from their history and used it to prophesy about His own death and resurrection.

*What kinds of things do you ask God to do for you to prove He is who He says He is?

How do we keep ourselves accountable to staying true to Jesus Christ, especially when our human nature wants to see the exciting kinds of things that happened in the Old Testament? We need to understand.

Yes, we need to understand the purpose for those miracle-things we read in the books of the Old Testament. Just as we begin teaching children to read with picture-books, the miracle-things of those days of history were picture-lessons for people who did not yet have the written word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

We also need to understand the very nature of God. God is the same, yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). But He tells us now that His perfect revelation is found in His word rather than in picture-book examples (Luke 16:19-31).

God shows Himself to us through the Bible in amazing ways if we are willing to see. And by doing so through His word, we have the ability to go back to it every time we need His touch again. The Bible is His written contract with us. His Spirit in us is His seal (Ephesians 1:13).

Then, believing in Him, you will see Him making you into the person He created you to be in ways you never dreamed possible.