Author: Daniel Tomberlin

BS, MDiv, DMin. Ordained bishop in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN); pastor for 37 years; Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministries at Pentecostal Theological Seminary (Cleveland TN).
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Do Not Touch the Lord’s Anointed!

When David had the opportunity to kill King Saul he refused declaring, “Far be it from me because of the LORD that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’S anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD’S anointed” (1 Samuel 24:6). These words have been used and misused too often to suggest that Christian ministers and priests are exempt from scrutiny because of the divine anointing that rests upon them. This is a serious misuse of God’s word.

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An Open Heart

Jesus Christ is the standard by which all Christians must model our lives. Christians are called to be an example of his suffering (1 Peter 2:21). Jesus’ self-sacrificing death is the example of love that Christians are called to express. Just as James insisted that “faith without works is dead,” John insists that love without sacrificial deeds is empty.

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A Political Gospel has Fallen from Grace

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace (Galatians 5:4).

Paul was deeply concerned about the believers at Galatia. Some of the leaders have disturbed the church by preaching a “distorted” gospel (1:7). The believers have deserted Christ by embracing “a different gospel” (1:6). This distorted gospel has “bewitched” the Galatian believers (3:1) to such an extent that they “have been severed from Christ,” they have “fallen from grace” (5:4). What heresy had they embraced? They were “seeking to be justified by law” (5:4). In seeking to be made righteous by the law they were distorting the Gospel of Christ.

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