Countering the Counterfeits, Part 2 "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father," Gal 1:4. (Preached in Tavistock FPC, November 13th, 2016) We noted last week how that Paul at the very beginning of his epistle reiterates the fundamentals of the gospel. We must ever remember that the gospel is the medicine of heaven for all our ills. "That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations," Psalm 67:2. The church stays healthy only as she continues on a diet of Gospel truth. Let her stray and she falls sick. It is by feasting the eyes of faith upon Christ we stay healthy and also recover our health, Gal 3:1. As we continue in our study of Paul's efforts to recover the churches in Galatia from their turning away from the Lord, we come to the second phrase of our text. "That he might deliver us from this present evil world." The world today is what it was in Paul's time, even worse. I noticed a strange warning in a newspaper the other day. "Leprosy was thought to have died out in the UK in medieval times, but . . . . recent discoveries confirm that red squirrels carry the disease." The old diseases are still about today though long suppressed by the gospel in days of revival and blessing. We must avoid the world lest we become stained and contaminated and drawn away from Christ.