Text: Philippians 3:1-3
Philippians 3:1-3 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of gods, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
I. To rejoice IN the Lord, We rejoice in the cross!
It is the Sacrifice ON THE CROSS, that we celebrate, not a wooden beam!
To die on a cross within itself cannot save a soul; There is no Salvation in wood
It was WHO JESUS WAS and IS that made it a vicarious (substitutionary) efficacious (EFFECTIVE) Sacrifice
This was the ONLY SACRIFICE that God would accept and is the ONLY ONE HE accepts today! NONE OTHER!
Cain and Abel both had altars - one was soaked in blood, one was barren except the fruit of the ground (CAIN)
Jesus was 100% Man and 100% God; Lived 33.5 years without sin, absolute PERFECTION
He was SPOTLESS, without SIN, PERFECT, BLAMELESS - THE ONLY SACRIFICE GOD COULD ACCEPT!
If he failed to keep the law in any point he would have been a lawbreaker subject to death penalty of sin (Romans 6:23)
He faced every onslaught of darkness as all other men and even more so! YET WITHOUT SINNING!
He became the LAST ADAM which means He could not depend on His Deity to carry out this - ONLY THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
He did not have a Sin-Nature - Thus the importance of the Virgin Birth - had He had that He'd been a sinner by natural procreation - "ALL HAVE SINNED" - except CHRIST
Satan don't care what a person believes as long as that person's faith is not anchored in the Cross
He does not mind the modern Faith message or any other type message, prophetic word which deceives a gullible public
it looks right, sounds right, because it claims to be the Word of God but yet it is not
The Church has moved away from the foundation of the Cross that it little discerns what is right and what is wrong
The Cross of Christ is the FOUNDATION of ALL DOCTRINE, ALL CHRISTIANITY and ALL SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
We speak of the Cross we speak of the Resurrection and the EXALTATION of CHRIST, not man! (Eph. 2:6)
These three types of false teachers the Holy Spirit called "dogs," "evil workers" and the concision" make the Cross incidental
They wrapped up their theology in the Cross AND keeping the Law of Moses (traditions of men)
Paul Called the Philippians to REJECT, IGNORE and MINIMIZE these "enemies of the Cross of the Christ!"
There is LITTLE difference today in the modern Faith message and the Judaizers of old!
II. Dogs and Evils Workers
There is a power about false doctrine and that power is evil spirits
All instigators of such are controlled by these spirits!
Paul gave same warning in 1 Tim 4:1 regarding what? DOCTRINE! TRUTH
They that worship God must WORSHIP him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH! NOT JUST SPIRIT BUT IN TRUTH!
Satan through "his ministers" - 2 Cor. 11:13-15 presents false doctrine as an angel of light
That which looks like it is of the Lord and in fact may even contain "some" truth which is the hook
It leads one to 2 Cor 11:14 - "Another Jesus, Spirit and Gospel"
It is not just a mere presentation of a philosophy but a LIE fabricated by Satan with the power to deceive
It is always accompanied by some truth!
The Judaizes touted Christ! Paul said BEWARE of such!
Galatians 1:8 - any other message of salvation or blessing other than the cross - REJECT IT!
The Judaiziers HATED Paul and those who spouse false doctrines will always hate the truth!
The Jews regarded Dogs as most unclean - Paul was insulting them to their face!
Anything outside the cross is a DOG in the sight of God is SPIRITUALLY UNCLEAN and UNHOLY and damns men's souls to hell
There is NOTHING worse than a false way of salvation and for the believer a false way of sanctification
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