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SERMONS / GALATIANS
Living to God
The entire purpose of this epistle is to make a clear distinction between the gospel of Jesus Christ and false gospels.
Galatians attacks two false ideas in particular, legalism and lawlessness.
It dismantles the lies of these ideas and paints a true picture of salvation by grace through faith alone.
MATT CHANDLER | , 2012
TOPIC: JUSTIFICATION SCRIPTURE: GALATIANS 2:1521
TRANSCRIPT | AUDIO
If you have your Bibles, go ahead and grab them.
Turn to Galatians, chapter 2.
We're going to knock out this chapter today in our time.
It won't take long.
I know you probably think I'm joking, but it won't take our normal 50-55 minutes.
If you have your Bibles, go ahead and grab them.
Turn to Galatians, chapter 2. We're going to knock out this chapter today in our time.
It won't take long.
I know you probably think I'm joking, but it won't take our normal 50-55 minutes.
So with that said, while you're turning there, I just want to say thank you for something.
This past week kind of ends our first-quarter financial giving, so we took a look at everything, and really, God has blessed us so much here.
Now, what we've covered to this point is really kind of simple.
We've said this is what the gospel of Jesus Christ is.
We were able to take close to $80,000 (in fact, over $80,000) and just kind of give it away, so there was some money that went to some church plants in the U.S.
There was some money that went to the Middle East, some money that went into Asia, and some money that went to Africa.
We were able to just take over $80,000 and just kind of give it away and sow it into other kingdom initiatives because of your generosity.
So I wanted to start today, before we started digging around in Galatians, chapter 2, and thank you for that.
Thank you that you loved the kingdom like that, and that you allow us to do that with your generosity.
I wanted to say thank you for that, and we'll do that pretty much at the end of every quarter.
We kind of look at it, see where we are, and then we go from there.
This is quarter one.
I wanted to let you know what we did with it.
Again, thank you for your generosity.
Okay, let's get to work.
Galatians, chapter 2.
This is what it means.
The good news, the gospel is that you and I have fallen short.
Now, what we've covered to this point is really kind of simple.
We've said this is what the gospel of Jesus Christ is.
This is what it means.
The good news, the euaggelion, the gospel is that you and I have fallen short.
We have worshipped things that aren't God.
We have belittled and mocked God with either our lives, our mouths, or our minds, and God's response to that has been to make a way for us to be reconciled to God in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
We have worshipped things that aren't God.
We have belittled and mocked God with either our lives, our mouths, or our minds, and God's response to that has been to make a way for us to be reconciled to God in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
The two-fold movement that occurs is we get Christ's righteousness, and He takes upon himself our rebellion and sinfulness.
So when God then looks at us, he sees Christ and deems us as perfect and spotless and blameless.
That's the gospel message, and we looked out of Galatians and said there are two real arguments against that gospel.
The first argument is that it does away with the law and the law is holy and divine and you can't get rid of the law.
That was argument number one.
Argument number two was that if you preach that, and if you just let the Bible be what the Bible is, then people will use that gospel as a license to sin.
So what we've done over the last couple of weeks is we've just dismantled those arguments.
We looked at argument number one and simply said yes, the law is holy and it is divine as long as the law is used as the law was meant to be used...as a diagnostic, not a cure.
The law lets us know something is wrong, but the law does not solve what it shows us is wrong in us.
The law is holy and it is divine in that it is able to show us where we're sick and where we need help, but it cannot provide the help that ultimately Christ alone brings.
That's how we kind of dismantled that argument.
The other argument was that if you preach this gospel, people are going to use it as a license to sin.
Oh, you mean God is going to forgive me no matter what?
Then I'll do whatever I want, and God will forgive me.
What we said two weeks ago, and where we spent the bulk of our time two weeks ago is just basically saying that some people are going to make that argument, but if you are converted, if the Holy Spirit lives inside of you, you will not make that argument.
For people to say,
"I can do whatever I want, because Christ will forgive me,"
you're simply revealing that you're not saved, that you don't understand the gospel, and you're not regenerate.
You're not born again.
We did that work two weeks ago.
Paul already told us in chapter 1 that he's not going to relent, he's not going to compromise, he's not going to back off of this.
He doesn't shift gears at all.
He just, like a guy who won't let an argument go, continues to kind of pound on the same drum.
Let's look at it.
I find this whole back part of this text to just be spectacular.
Let's look at verse 15.
By the way, that's us, Gentile sinners.
Okay?
"We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners…" By the way, that's us, Gentile sinners.
Okay?
Look at 16.
"…yet, we know that a person is not justified by works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ."
So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law…listen…because, by works of the law, no one will be justified.
Now I want to stop and just spend a little bit of time here, because he's saying something that's pretty profound, and for some of us, it'll be even more profound.
He said, basically, that the Jews had a moral advantage over the Gentiles, that the Jews had the law.
The Gentiles didn't have the law; the Jews had the law.
The Jews had the prophets.
The Gentiles didn't have the prophets.
The Jews had the covenant.
They had the promises.
They had the sign.
The Gentiles didn't have that.
So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law…
listen…because, by works of the law, no one will be justified.
Now I want to stop and just spend a little bit of time here, because he's saying something that's pretty profound, and for some of us, it'll be even more profound.
He said, basically, that the Jews had a moral advantage over the Gentiles, that the Jews had the law.
The Gentiles didn't have the law; the Jews had the law.
The Jews had the prophets.
The Gentiles didn't have the prophets.
The Jews had the covenant.
They had the promises.
They had the sign.
The Gentiles didn't have that.
If there was ever a moral advantage, it belonged to the Jews, but did you see Paul's argument?
Who cares?
That the law justifies no man, so because they had the law from the beginning, it made no difference.
So let's just chat frankly.
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