Simple Devotion to Jesus 
By Mike Rule

“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the One who called you by the grace of God for a different form of Good News. The thing you are striving for is not good news! Why are you looking for something other than Christ? Evidently somebody is trying to confuse you. Don’t let anyone teach you something other than Jesus Christ. Anyone that teaches something more than Christ should be accursed! I fear that just as the serpent deceived Eve, you are somehow being led away from pure and simple devotion to Jesus Christ. Don’t just believe whatever anyone tells you. Many are preaching about a different Jesus than the one I am preaching to you today. Don’t be deceived by a different spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you first believed.”  (From Galatians 1:6-8 and 2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

Verses for Reflection

Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. I John 4:1 (HNV)

For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13 (LITV)

...but according to the Holy One who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct; 1 Peter 1:15 (LITV)

and there is salvation in no other One, for neither is there any other name under Heaven having been given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12 (LITV)

I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel, which is not another, but some are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:6-8 (MKJV)

...and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ; 2 Corinthians 11:3 (YLT)

For if, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these . 2 Corinthians 11:4 (MKJV)