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  (CLIP) LIVING IN SIN IN THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
  by Steve Gallagher
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Summary: This sermon delves into the power of deception when mixed with
truth, focusing on the dangers of half-truths that lead to corruption
and distortion of foundational truths like salvation by grace. It
contrasts the historical battle against legalism with the modern
struggle against antinomianism, emphasizing the importance of both grace
and obedience in the Christian walk.

Duration: 2:47 Topics: "Deception and Truth", "Grace and Obedience"
Scripture References: Ephesians 2:8, Galatians 5:4, James 2:17, Titus 2:11

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This sermon delves into the power of deception when mixed with truth,
focusing on the dangers of half-truths that lead to corruption and
distortion of foundational truths like salvation by grace. It contrasts
the historical battle against legalism with the modern struggle against
antinomianism, emphasizing the importance of both grace and obedience in
the Christian walk.

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There's two reasons, really, primarily, that it's so powerful. One is
that it's built on half-truth, much of it is. And that's the most
powerful deception, is when there's truth involved.

So they'll take some portion of truth, which we all understand, oh,
that's a true thing. And they will build on that. But from that pure
foundation, then they add all this other junk.

And they twist and corrupt what began as a pure truth. Now, in this
case, for this lie, the truth is that we are saved by grace. That is
true, absolutely true.

The opposite of that is what Paul was constantly battling in his day,
some 30, 40, 50 years before this, which was the lie of legalism that
the Judaizers brought forth. So Paul was, you know, that was the great
heresy of his day. And he fought it with all his heart.

And some of the strong things he says about grace are to refute that lie
on the other side, see? So now that Paul is gone, Jerusalem has been
decimated by the Romans. And life has gone on almost 30 years after
Jerusalem is destroyed. Judaism, as it was, is gone.

So Judaizers are gone. So now the enemy brings in this lie of
antinomianism through the Greek culture. Antinomianism just means
without the law.

So now it's on the other side of the spectrum. So there's a truth there
that we're saved by grace. But there's also another half to that.

It isn't just that. The other part of that is if the Holy Spirit of God
is living within you, there is something compelling you to live a holy
life, to obey God, and to say that it's all grace, and to totally focus
on that makes it into a lie. Because it's not the whole truth.

It's part of the truth, absolutely, but it's not the whole truth. A.W.
Tozer said, Salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory
impossibility because the essence of sin is rebellion against divine
authority. You know, you can be in unrepentant sin in the evangelical
church.

You can do that, but you can't do it in God's kingdom.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/R8bVRYA65_8.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/steve-gallagher/sermon-clip-living-in-sin-in-the-evangelical-church/
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