Bewitched

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Bewitched. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you? Galatians 3.1 The Greek word for bewitched is used only this once in the New Testament and does not necessarily refer to witchcraft as such. The connotation is fascinated or deceived.

Unlike most of his other epistles, the book of Galatians includes no commendations from Paul nor even any prayer requests. Paul evidently was very disappointed in his church and its ministry. He had clearly preached the gospel to them, setting forth Jesus Christ and Him crucified among them, and they had apparently believed and started out well. They seemed to understand the great doctrines of salvation by grace and of liberty in Christ, and it was hard for Paul to understand how they had been so quickly led astray. If anything, this is an even greater problem today than in Paul's day.

Professing Christians are being tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, not only with legalism, but also with evolutionism, hedonism, emotionalism, materialism, and many other unscriptural heresies. Many who profess to be Christians have, like the Galatians, been bewitched by clever persuasion and peer pressure into such deceptions. They may consider themselves especially enlightened or intellectual or just up to date, but Paul would call them foolish, just as he did the Galatians. In Christ alone, our Creator, Redeemer, and Lord, are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. As Paul concluded his letter to the Galatians, God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

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