The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Galatians 1:6-10, “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel;
7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing 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 what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!
10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.”

The words of the Apostle Paul are as relevant today as they were to the day of their original writing. People who claim to know Christ one day deny Him as their Savior the next day. People who claim to embrace the Gospel one day, turn from it the next day. Moreover, there are “ministers,” who embrace truth one day and deny it the next. What are those who sit under such a ministry to believe?

We simply must pray for our pastors and trust the teachings of the Word of God. If your pastor alters his thinking as to the Word of God, you must seek out another pastor –one who “earnestly contends for the faith (that was) once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3).

Paul earnestly contends that anyone who preaches “any other gospel” than what he has preached and continues to embrace it is to be accursed. “To be accursed” means to be set aside for divine destruction. Note well, too, that Paul uses the word accursed twice. He is serious!

Men who fail to proclaim the Gospel Paul proclaimed are not true men of God. Such men do not deserve to be heard! Nor are we spiritually enriched with teachings that come from outside the Word of God. We live in seriously desperate times. We need the LORD and His Word alone as our instruction.

May God richly bless those ministers, who are true men of God; and may He bless us
as we pray for them and live daily in His Word.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom