Galatians 2:15-16
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Justified by faith in Jesus
Recap and intro: Maps and who Paul is and why he is writing to the Galatians.
Today: Diagram – points: Say what you will say, say it, and say what you said. PPT
Paul keeps rebuking Peter, because Peter acted hypnotical and not in step with the truth of the gospel.
Then Paul recounts what he said to Peter: We are Jews by birth, and not Gentiles/ethnos, sinners.
How to be made right with God?(Sin taken away).
But as Paul writes Peter and Paul know that there is a problem, because: a person is not justified by works of the law! So, then the Jew is in the same situation as the Gentile. Because the works of the law can’t justify. (So even if the Gentiles did not live according to the law, and the Jews did, it will not help the Jews to be justified because that is only bay faith in Jesus as we will see).
Instead of works of the law – Paul and Peter and us all should rely on faith in Jesus Christ, what does that mean? That we believe Jesus is the Christ the messiah the one that was to come and make all things new, that we also believe in Christ Jesus, in his works, life, death, resurrection, and what that means so that we can justified by faith in Christ, (not our own works of the law, that can’t give us right standing with God).
This might explain why Paul is so angry and concerned for the Galatians, that they are falling back in to relying on the law to justify them, and there by annulling Jesus’ work for them. Now instead they have to save them self by works of the law, but as Paul writes (quoting Psalm 143:2) no one can be saved by woks of the law.
In the same way Paul is telling them about how he called Peter back to the truth of the gospel, away from trusting the works of the law for justification, or what would be seen as works of the law. Again, to free the Gentiles and the Jews from thinking that the earn right standing with God by works of the law.
Paul call Peter back to the truth Peter knows the truth but was led astray away from Jesus because of his fear of the Jews that came from James. We should also be aware that even if we know what is right, that Jesus is our lord, God and savior, we were able by faith to trust in him and his works. We might be lead astray, from Jesus to trust in our ability to serve Jesus/ or successes or do good works or fear, or whatever we might sometimes trust in instead of Jesus work. We and Paul and Peter and the Galatiens don’t have to trust in there works of law, or other works for our justification.
No, there is much better news. They/we can trust in Jesus by faith in Jesus Christ, and therefore believe in Christ Jesus, so they can be justified in Christ Jesus.
They don’t have to save them self by works of the law, or works that justify.
A few questions:
Do we know we are Gentile sinners – or that all people are sinners and need a savior? (The world does not like talk about sin, do we understand our and all peoples needs for cleansing of sin? Or this augmentation would make no sense if we don’t need to be justified).
The world and some churches don’t like to talk about sin, but do try to justify them self. Or we might also do that: by good works, our job, our hobby, look at me all the good I do…. I do more good works that bad so I my be just… Well, it dose not work that way. As we learn form the text. (Paul and Peter agree that works of the law can’t save, the same goes for other good works and accomplcements).
Instead of relying on our own work we are to through faith Jesus Christ, trust in his work. And Believe in Christ Jesus. so that we can be justified. PPTS on Justification.
What is Justification?
It is God declaring us cleaned of sin, and made right in his sight, someone said Paul uses the word here taken from the courts, that an offender is made right before the judge. The sin is taken away, and right standing is obtained with the judge. PPT
Jesus work on our behalf, not our own striving to be loved, but understanding the good news of the gospel that God showed his love for people in sending Jesus, to do the work he did, to make justification possible for Jew and Gentile, this is the good news not striving to obey religious rugels to be loved but understanding Gods loved showed in Jesus Christ, that only his works can save and justify.
Then again we are called by Paul to look to Jesus Christ, when we all see our sin, failure towards God, rebellion, shame, pride, our need for others to praise us, we are remined how much we need Jesus Christ, and remined that God showed his love for us while we were still sinners and in darkness. Why then would we not try to justify our self by our own good deeds? God must love me more today because I was a good Christian today, oh he must love me less today because I failed to do good and sinned. Well, no it no up to us, that is the beauty of the gospel. It is what Jesus has done.
By are you saying it dose not matter what I do? No, that is not what I said and would be a misunderstand of the gospel. If we know someone loves us, and what the very best for us, do we then, try to hurt them, call them names, cheat be unfaithful? Because they love us or do we do our very best because we know we are loved to live a life that honors them? The same with God, our life and what we do tell a story about how much we believe the gospel.
We talked about them before; fear, works, value, worth, trying to earn Gods regitusness. Why do we do that? I think it is when we are drifting away from the gospel away from God beliving lies and false gospels, so Paul calls us back to Jesus. Back to Gods good news, it is not your righteous works, it is by, beliving in Jesu Christ, to be the one that justifies us. By his works. Life, Death, resurrection, his coming back.