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Text: Galatians 4: 17-18

MSITN VITAL DOCTRINES – SALVATION

“They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.”

Galatians 4:17-18

A WORD OF WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE TEACHERS

1. The teachers

a. They may appear to be good and true.

b. But in fact, they were false teachers.

2. Their tactics exposed.

a. They targeted the Galatian Christians.

i. They “courted” them.

ii. But they were not sincere people.

iii. Their goals were “no good”.

b. They “excluded” people to manipulate them.

i. This was one of the ways they manipulated the Galatians.

ii. If they did not follow the teachers, they were “excluded” from their company.

c. They wanted their followers to be “zealous”.

i. Zealous for their own goals.

ii. But not righteously zealous for the Gospel.

3. Zeal for good things.

a. Zeal is a good thing to possess.

i. If it is zeal for things that are good.

ii. This kind of zeal is always good.

b. There were some who were zealous:

i. When Paul was in Galatia.

ii. But that zeal did not last as long as it should have.

c. The zeal that the Galatians once had.

i. Zeal to pursue faith in the Lord Jesus.

ii. Zeal in the development of a friendship with Paul the apostle.

iii. Zeal to serve the Lord and to live for Him.

d. That good original zeal:

i. It was being directed in the wrong direction.

ii. It was being manipulated by the false teachers for the wrong ends.

iii. It should have been used to battle these false teachers!

我夜间的歌曲-重要教义-救恩
经文：加拉太书 4

“那些人热心待你们，却不是好意，是要离间你们，叫你们热心待他们。 在善事上常用热心待人原是好的，却不单我与你们同在的时候才这样。”

《加拉太书 4:17-18》

关于假教师的警告

1．教师们

a．他们可能看起来是好的和真实的

b．但事实上，他们是假教师

2．他们的诡计暴露了

a．他们针对加拉太基督徒们

i．他们“讨好”他们

ii．但他们不是真诚的人

iii．他们的目的是“不好”的

b．他们“排挤”他人以便操纵他们

i．这是他们操纵加拉太人的方式之一

ii．如果他们不追随教师，他们就会被“排挤在外”

c．他们希望他们的追隨者“热心”

i．为他们自己的目标热心

ii．但对福音却没有正义的热心

3．热心于好事

a．拥有热心是一件好事

i．如果这热心是为了好事

ii．这种热心总是好的

b．有些人是很热心的：

i．当保罗在加拉太时

ii．但这种热情并没有持续多久

c．加拉太人曾经拥有的热心

i．热心追求对主耶稣的信心

ii．热心与使徒保罗建立友谊

iii．热心事奉主，为主而活

d．那种原来的热心：

i．它被引向错误的方向

ii．它被假教师操纵以达到错误的目的

iii．它应该是用来对付这些假教师的！