Guarding the True Gospel- 04/05/2026

From the very beginning, the enemy’s strategy hasn’t been to completely deny the truth, but to subtly distort it. In Genesis 3:1, the serpent asks, “Did God really say…?” not removing God’s Word, but twisting it. And that same strategy is still at work today. If the enemy can’t stop the Gospel, he’ll try to distort it by adding to it, complicating it, or reshaping it just enough that it no longer leads to life. He turns grace into something we feel like we have to earn, and faith into performance. He convinces people they need to clean themselves up before coming to God, or that others aren’t worthy of hearing the Gospel at all. And this doesn’t just happen outside the church, it can happen inside it, even among sincere believers. That’s exactly what we see in Acts 10 and 11. People who loved Jesus but had added to the Gospel. So, God sends Peter to restore the Gospel through confronting pride. In this passage, we learn that the only way to rightly receive, share, and guard the gospel is with humility.