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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMONS AND ADDRESSES. The Marks of the Lord Jesus. THESE are the pathetic?yet commanding? words of Paul addressed to the church at Galatia. To fully comprehend their force and significance we must understand the circumstances which called them forth. The apostle had founded this church, and from the beginning his relation to it had been peculiar. It was here that he was detained for some time on his second visit by his special affliction which he designates as his temptation in the flesh, and which he says was of such a character that they might well have rejected and despised him. But this they did not do. On the contrary, they received him as the angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. Indeed, he says, so great was their love and zeal in his behalf that, had it been possible, they would gladly have plucked out their own eyes and given them to him. But when he passed through this same city three years afterward, on his way to Ephesus, a great change had taken place in their warmth and affection toward him. And now, after the lapse of another three years, he learns while at Corinth that they are in danger of entire apostasy. To make matters more painful still, this change 85 in their feeling toward him had been brought about by Judaizing teachers, who had come down from Jerusalem and had taught them that their Christianity was defective; that the Gentiles could be saved only by becoming Jews: by submitting to the severe rite of circumcision, and adopting all the ritualism of the Jerusalem church. Furthermore, to help their cause along, they had attacked him personally. They declared that he was a spurious apostle; that he had never seen the Lord, but had received his gospel from men; and that his doctrine of justification by faith was simply a spurious gospel; that by...
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