“I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough. For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles. But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge? I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.” (2 Corinthians 11:1-9 WEB)
In the passage above, Paul is speaking as a father to his daughter in the Lord.
The church is the bride, betrothed to Jesus and we are waiting for Him to receive us for the wedding.
Let us keep ourselves spiritually pure and not commit adultery by running off to believe in false gospels.
Paul taught the Corinthian church the true Gospel, but other false teachers were teaching a different, perverted gospel.
The Gospel is so simple: believe in Jesus and receive everything you need based on His finished work at the cross.
Man’s sinful flesh has a tendency to complicate it by adding works to it, saying we have to deserve the blessings by obedience to the Law.
The flesh says the Gospel is too good to be true—that it can’t be so easy.
That’s why many believers get bored of the Gospel, saying that they already heard it before and know about it.
However, true knowing means to apply it. If they know, then why aren’t they living by those truths?
It’s because the knowledge is in their mind, but the revelation has not reached the heart to cause true transformation.
Just like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: there was only one rule. Don’t eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
God’s ways are simple because He wants to bless us based on His goodness at His expense.
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