The Foolishness of a Fictitious Gospel

Sermon Series:

Renewal in Christ

Sermon Text - 2 Corinthians 11:1–6

“I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.”

Sermon Summary:

As you may have realized… foolishness comes easy in life. There are many ways to be fooled. So many, that even the best of us are susceptible to foolishness. Jacob was fooled by Leah. Joshua was fooled by the Gibeonites. David is fooled by Absalom. As we come to 2 Corinthians 11, Paul instructs us on how false teachers attempt to fool God’s people and the diligent efforts we must take to continue to walk by faith in Christ alone and thus avoid being fooled for good.