Grace-Frustrating Work-Trusters

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Great verse right here, for us Galatians 2:21, I do not frustrate the grace of God:
So much of that going on today, right?
You can't make it through a teaching without someone frustrating God's grace.
There's certainly no shortage of grace-frustrating work-trusters.
They're everywhere.
Paul said, I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Love this verse from our apostle.
Truth Time Radio, here unashamedly preaching Paul's gospel.
What does the word gospel mean?
The Greek word for gospel is euangelion, euangelion, which means good news.
In times past, this word, hey, it was used as a military term.
Many are surprised to learn this.
Generals of ancient times, ancient armies, they used the word, gospel, to announce a victory in battle.
After winning, they'd send a messenger.
They'd send him to the nearest city to proclaim the gospel, the good news from the battle that they won.
Victory is ours.
But it was never used as an invite for someone to come and join the fight and help win the battle.
No, these generals published the gospel to let everyone know that the good news is the battle is already won.
Which fits perfectly.
Think about it.
It's perfect.
It fits right in with our gospel, Paul's gospel of Christ.
That through the cross of Jesus, how he was victorious on behalf of the world.
The gospel is not about him sending out invites for anyone to come and help him fight anything.
No, the fight's already been won.
He died for our sins and defeated death by his resurrection.
Now, we simply, we simply compel others to believe that.
We go to them and proclaim the euangelion, the gospel, the good news.
This grace truth, hey, it's largely rejected.
The preaching of the cross is, it's offensive because it takes our eyes off self and puts them on Christ.
Most have been seduced by the grace-frustrating work-truster gospel.
Can't get their eyes off self and their performance.
And this opposes, flat-out opposes the simplicity of the gospel of Christ.
The one that we're not ashamed of.
They go around preaching Jesus needs our help.
No, he does not.
He doesn't need a co-savior.
When you read through the book of Galatians, this is kind of the Galatianism that you'll find in most church gatherings today, in some form or another.
The Protestant world has been Galatianized, big time, and some claim obedience to the law is necessary for salvation, others that are under the Galatianism umbrella, they'll claim that law-keeping is required to maintain salvation.
Unaware that both views are wrong.
In 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 17, Paul said, Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But today's Galatianizers, they're like the children of Israel.
Yes, that's what they're like, they're like the children of Israel, and it's as if their minds are blinded with a veil as they read the Bible.
So, they creep around Galatians 2:4, they creep around like stalkers spying out the liberty that we have in Christ, trying to slip a yoke of bondage around our neck.
Misery loves company, don't you know?
But stand firm, stand firm in this grace, for through the Spirit, Galatians chapter 5 verse 5, through the Spirit, we wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Love this book, the book of Galatians.
But religion, as their custom, they've come along like pirates, they've hijacked this book, hijacked some of Paul's best work.
They took these wonderful grace principles and distorted them.
Many of Paul's letters were written to cities, the city of Rome, the city of Corinth, the city of Thessalonica.
But Galatia is an entire region, very large, very large, and located in Turkey.
Well, Turkey's the modern name.
In Paul's time, it was called the region of Antolia, where the children of God, by faith in Christ, Galatians 3:26, and by your faith alone, you possess eternal life.
We have it now.
Eternal life began at the nanosecond we heard and believed the gospel, and not like at some future date, as the work-trusters would have us believe.
We have to stand up against religion and stand up against them that are bringing in all this leaven.
They only bear rotten fruit.
But as ambassadors of Paul's grace message, we're a problem.
That's a fact.
We preach Christ crucified, 1 Corinthians 1:23 stumbling block for twistianity.
We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves, you're servants for Jesus' sake, 2 Corinthians 4:5.
Preachin' pure grace will get you in trouble.
But it's that good trouble.
It's good trouble.
Amen?
Preaching salvation as a free gift without human effort opposes selfianity.
To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness.
Oh, that's fingernails scraping the chalkboard for most of the world.
Galatians 3:1, listen, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth?
Romans 3:22, Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all, them that believe.
Them that what?
Righteousness unto all and upon all that believe.
Believe what?
The faith of Christ, Paul's gospel of your salvation.
Who taught Paul his gospel?
Jesus, Galatians 1:11.
What's Paul's gospel called?
The faith of Christ.
But the work-trusters out there, they don't see the distinction between Paul's faith of Christ and the gospel of the kingdom.
This is why they Galatianize the scriptures by mixing law and grace.
They're grace-frustrating work-trusters is what they are.
Paul has strong warning for those that do this.
Galatians 5 verse 4, Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.
And in verse 7, he said, Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Like we see today, some come to an understanding of grace, at least enough to get saved, but then draw back and return to a work-trusters program,
allowing someone to persuade them that God's grace, his grace alone, just can't be enough.
You know that, come on.
Here in verse 8, Paul said, This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
So what happened?
Well, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
And this is why we have so many denominational divisions today.
They allow leaven to come in.
Leaven to come in and persuade them.
The Methodists, Catholics, Baptists, Eastern Orthodoxy, Church of Christ, Lutherans, Nazarenes, Anglicans, they all take the work-trusting road,
going down the road of work-trusting and lordshiping salvation.
Hey, we can take all the work-trusters and lordshiping salvationists out there, take them to the courtroom and present Paul's faith of Christ, and watch what happens.
Their head explodes.
Their case falls apart.
His 13 grace epistles destroy the entire platform whereby the work-trusting road to salvation was built.
Yes, it does.
They're out there trying to get you to join their cult of good-enoughism.
Good-enoughism doesn't do anything but trap you in the endless cycle of wash, rinse, repeat.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
It's foolish.
Just like Paul called the Galatians, O foolish Galatians.
This foolish teaching, guys.
Paul says, pay no mind.
Just pay it no mind.
That's right.
Were to Galatians 5:1, Stand firm, stand fast in the liberty, whereby Christ hath made us free.
And don't get entangled again, do not allow that to happen, don't go back, don't draw back, don't return and get entangled with that yoke of bondage.
That's of the world.
That's of the flesh, not of the spirit.
Today, the bondage is in the mind.
Mind bondage is what it is, and it's got people locked up in a spiritual prison, causing unbelievers to miss heaven and believers to doubt where they stand with God.
The law was fulfilled.
Our freedom was purchased by the blood of Christ.
The religious machine, it'll turn on anyone when they choose to stop serving it.
Like a video clip we received the other day from a listener, where we witnessed the legalistic mindset firsthand, while watching.
It made a man lose control and get all caught up in his feelings, allowing his jealousy to rear its ugly head and cause him to make a stark raving fool of himself, ranting and raving about people who watch him but then leave and go watch other teachers.
It's cultish, is what it is, using cult-like man-made control tactics to shame and guilt his viewers.
He got upset and told them they gotta choose a side.
Choose a side?
This is child's play.
Sounds like when you're back in elementary school on the playground picking sides for the kickball teams.
Choose a side.
Unreal.
That's what happens when you get under the groupthink mentality.
You're just another member of the herd.
Listen, the body of Christ is worldwide.
It's not in little groups that's set up by men.
They preach against going to church buildings, yet they make their own little social media church buildings, and want you to be a member.
And if you leave and go to another social meeting, they get mad and they get jealous.
This is religion, this is flesh rearing its ugly head, among some who claim to teach grace.
There are no sides, but this is what the religious mindset will have you doing, placing people under your bondage.
And then you go act a fool because you got caught up in your flesh, and you put your foolishness on full display for everyone to see, demanding loyalty from your viewers.
That's not grace.
This is a result of trying to build a social club.
A social club disguised as a ministry.
See, grace gives freedom.
Grace says, I love you now, I'll love you tomorrow.
I love you when you're here, I love you when you're not here.
Come and go as you please.
See you when you get back.
Grace is anti-controlling, anti-force.
Be careful who you're watching and listening to.
Some of these guys have abuser tendencies.
Open your eyes and be discerning.
Look for the signs.
Educate yourself so you know what to be looking for.
Let's get Galatians chapter 4.
So thankful today, aren't you, aren't you thankful for this grace, this grace that's not frustrated, you see, it's not of the world, it's not of flesh, it's the spirit that brings this freedom.
Grace is unearned.
We don't have to perform for the circus ring master.
We're secure and have total salvation assurance in Christ.
This is the dispensation of grace, not law, spirit, not flesh.
See, the law says keep trying, you'll get there eventually.
Grace says, what you talking about, Willis?
You're already there.
The law condemns the best of men, grace saves the worst.
The law was temporary, grace is permanent.
The law dealt with the external, grace deals with the internal.
The law brought wrath, grace brings peace.
The law is weak, grace is strong.
As Paul said in Galatians 4, let me find it here real quick.
We need to read it.
I want you to get this.
See it for yourself.
Love this book.
The book of Galatians from our apostle Paul.
Many priceless grace truth principles right here in this letter.
Here we are.
Galatians 4 verse 9.
Galatians 4 verse 9.
See, the law is weak, grace is strong.
Watch this, But now, but now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements
whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Paul's freaking out here.
What?
How are you, why would you want to return after learning this mystery of God's grace?
Guys, beware.
These men are making up rules to put you in bondage.
Why would anyone, after getting a taste of this sweet, juicy grace, want to return to the sour, dry, weak, and beggarly elements of the law?
For attention.
There's your answer.
Some desire attention.
They need attention.
And you can't get it when you put it all on the cross of Christ and all on grace.
You've got to bring in your filthy flesh.
They have a desire to be seen so people can look at them.
A fair show of the flesh.
A desire to get credit for something.
They're full of ego and pride.
The law said, strive, grace says, rest.
The law says, do, grace says, done.
The law said, observe days.
Remember that?
Grace says, don't observe days.
The law curses, grace blesses.
Galatians 3:13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
Don't frustrate the grace of God.
Salvation is a completed work of Jesus Christ, who as the word, willingly left the heavenly realm, put on flesh to be cursed on the cross, so that we could be justified by our faith, without human effort.
Grace abides forever.
Under grace, we're free not to obey.
How about that?
Some don't like that, but they don't like the way it sounds, but it's a grace truth nonetheless.
Under grace, we are free not to obey.
And it's almost impossible to obey, until we first realize this.
Take a moment, let that sink in, think about it.
We're free not to obey.
And it's hard to obey, until we realize that we're free not to.
Paul spells it out for us, how to live, how to live a successful grace life.
Living the grace life is about a mindset, a transformation, an attitude.
It's about focus.
We're redeemed from the curse, yet the satanic system of this religious world, it's designed to steal our focus, to rob us from the positional identity we possess in Christ Jesus.
Moving our focus away from the cross and to ourselves.
Satan's biggest scam has been his ability to redirect the focus from the cross of Jesus to the flesh of man.
But Paul has the solution.
Get Romans 8.
The solution to all this is in his written word.
Like the Lord told Ezekiel in chapter 2, he said, Open your mouth, so that he could eat the words the Lord was about to give him.
Then he wanted him to go relay that message to the children of Israel.
He told Ezekiel that they may not hear and they may not forbear it because of their rebellion, but tell them anyway.
That's the solution, this word.
We need not rebel against God's word.
Just open it up and eat it.
Romans chapter 8.
Here in Romans 8 verse 8, Paul says this, So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God, but ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Verse 9, But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
And it does.
The Spirit dwells in all believers.
So, as saved believers, we find our identity, our justification, position,
and walk in Christ, and not in anything we perform in our flesh.
Galatians 5:2, watch, Behold, I, Paul, say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Now look closely.
You might be here today and you say, well, I know circumcision isn't for today.
I know we're not under the law.
Yeah, but do you realize how many things that religious institutions
substitute for circumcision?
See, circumcision represents things you can do in the flesh.
And there's a wide array of things you can do in the flesh.
Don't just focus on circumcision only.
Anything outward, anything you can see someone do in their flesh that has made a requirement to gain favor with God to be saved is law.
Maybe not the law of Moses, but the law of man.
Why do men love their man-made laws?
Paul, he's got our answer for us.
Galatians chapter 6 verse 12, As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised.
The clear answer here is, men love their man-made laws because they desire to make a show, a fair show, of their flesh.
They do that in order to feed their ego, to feed their fleshly appetites.
It's the very reason Charles Finney came up with the altar call.
Then came all the Billy Grammers out there who followed suit.
Nothing biblical about it.
People don't need the Bible to tell them that.
That's the problem.
They call themselves teachers and preachers, but all they have to do is see something they like in their flesh, see another man that they respect and who's highly favored among people, and they'll follow suit.
They'll follow his footsteps, and start doing whatever he's doing.
Doesn't matter that it's not in the Bible.
Bible smible, who really cares, right?
Nothing biblical about an altar call, never has been, it's a man-made invention to make a fair show of the human flesh.
Finney was a Presbyterian evangelist, and this was his way, this was his means to gauge how successful his revivals were.
But even earlier, before Finney, Methodist preachers, they were already using a similar tactic.
It was something they called the Mourner's Bench.
Some of you might be familiar with this.
It's where they invite you to come forward, you know, every head bowed,
every eye closed, no one looking around.
Three biggest lies in church is what that is.
If you feel the Lord tugging at your heartstrings, why, bless God, you come down here, and you give it all to him.
Give your life to the Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
See, these men, they themselves don't even do some of the things they require you to do.
We got modern-day Pharisees, guys, right in front of you.
Wake up, pay attention.
Paul said, Galatians 6:13, For neither they themselves, who are circumcised,
keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory
in your flesh.
Don't allow no man to put you under a yoke of bondage, to put a yoke under,
between, I should say, between you and God.
Don't allow that.
There's no such thing today.
Everything needed has been done for you.
Any preacher, any teacher, that says you must submit to doing something in the flesh to gain favor with God is a liar.
Don't frustrate the grace of God.
Our apostle, watch, watch what he says about this, Galatians 5:3, For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
So this right here should tell us something.
That anyone, anyone who submits to doing one fleshly thing that the preacher says to do is a debtor to all the fleshly things the preacher says to do.
Despicable is what that is.
This is dirty doctrine.
Full of MUD.
You need a spiritual shower after this.
These grace epistles, they'll give you one.
And watch what Paul says.
Watch what Paul says happens when someone submits to the call of the flesh.
Galatians 5:4, Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.
Oh, that's pretty strong language right there.
Christ becoming of no effect.
Yeah.
Is it loss of salvation?
No, there is no such thing.
But good luck with living out the rest of your life here trying to justify yourself by keeping not one item of the law, but the whole law.
That's some serious debt, let me tell you.
You've placed yourself in bondage under the law and now it requires performance.
And to perform perfectly, by the way.
You had it made, but you blew it.
You came to grace realizing that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth, Romans 10:4, but then, like a dog returning to its vomit, went backwards to try and establish your own righteousness.
You can't find support, none of us can, in the law of Moses.
We can't find support in the law of man.
Trying to do so only takes our focus off the crosswork of Christ.
And once we do that, everything falls apart.
We're to place no confidence in ourselves, Philippians 3:3.
We worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus.
We have no confidence in the flesh.
You didn't make Jesus Lord of your life for your salvation.
That's a Lord-shipping lie.
A false teaching that can only offer a false sense of salvation security.
You didn't cry out all night long for the Lord to save you as Paul Washer told a woman to do for her salvation.
And these who say, I called upon the Lord and he saved me.
You didn't do it.
That's so vague, and it's not the gospel.
Don't be bedazzled by the grace-frustrating work-trusters.
They'll have you caught up in your flesh and functioning from your feelings,
guilting you to stay in their cult as if you can't make it without them.
Just stick with Paul on the matter.
Break free from the herd and be your own independent thinker.
His gospel of Christ isn't vague.
There's no crying out, calling on, asking him to save you, repenting of sins, making him Lord, accepting him as your personal savior, inviting him into your heart, making a decision to accept Jesus, responding to the altar call, stay right here with this group or leave and go to hell.
None of that.
These are inventions of mind-manipulating men who have successfully popularized these buzzwords and catchphrases.
Bumper sticker and church sign slogans that won't save anyone.
Christ died for every sin you'll ever commit, was buried but defeated death and rose on the third day.
In him is eternal life.
How do you get in him?
Through faith.
Stop trusting self and trust Christ.
Believe on him and thou shalt be saved.
Hello.
I'm grateful to be able to lend my voice to thank you in person, so to speak, with a personal message.
When my friend and brother here in Plano sent me this link and I tuned into the YouTube channel, I was immediately impressed that God was adding to
what he's been doing in my life over the last three months and also just a dismantling of bad theology and a restructuring of a firm foundation built on faith and the knowledge that God loves me.
And that's something that I did not know.
And could not trust was that God loves me.
So I'm so grateful.
And I look forward to following these teachings and diving in deep and allowing it to work and create in me a new dialectic that I can share and challenge others to be free in Christ, free to do the work of the ministry as he has purposed us to do and to be ambassadors for Christ and ministers of reconciliation.
To the lost and needy.
And so thank you, brother.
I am so grateful to have discovered you.
I know it was God who led me to you.
And I look forward to the future and to our Lord's soon return.
Thank you, brother.
God bless.