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Backsliding is a scary thing.
Driving up an icy hill… Hiking on shale rock on the edge of a mountain...
A climber was going up a mountain when he began backsliding down the mountain and over the edge.
Hanging by just a branch dangling over the mountain’s edge he begins to call for help!
Oh God help me!
YES, I AM HERE TO HELP...
God is that really you?
Please help
LET GO OF THE BRANCH...
Hey God, how about you throw a rope, maybe reach down and grab me, or come down to me even...
LET GO OF THE BRANCH...
No, but really God I need help...
LET GO...
But God!… Looking down at the clouds below him… cries out, is there anybody else up there!
Desperate now he lets go of the branch and lands on a ledge that could not be seen before.
Faith… sometimes it seems to be approach from the side that we do it blindly.
In our faith Backsliding is dangerous too and should scare us!
This IS NOT the kind of faith Paul is suggesting to his readers.
RATHER Paul wants his readers, you and I, to consider a series of thought provoking, rhetorical questions and really think through our faith in our passage today.
Galatians 3:1-14
What Paul is telling them is not new, but rather things forgotten or ignored… Look at the tone Paul begins this argument with...
Foolish…
oh, foolish Galatians’ Ga 3:1.
As in the case of ἀσύνετος (32.49), the meaning of ἀνόητος is that people presumably would not use their capacity for understanding and as a result, thought and behaved foolishly.
ἀνόητος does not imply the mental state of being an idiot or imbecile.
Bewitched...
to deceive a person by devious and crafty means, with the possibility of a religious connotation in view of the literal meaning ‘to bewitch’ (see 53.98)—‘to deceive, to bewitch
They are abandoning something because of comfort… appeal… pride… rather than thinking it through.
Paul is pleading with them WHY HAVE YOU NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH?
Have you ever had your parent or as a parent have you ever asked rhetorical questions to make your point?
How did this room get so messy?
Do you think this room is going to clean itself?
How many times do I need to tell you this?
Do you expect me to believe that?
Do I look that stupid to you?
What part of no do you not understand?
We really know the answers, BUT we don’t want to answer…
Paul ask some good questions that deserve some thought.
The answers should be known, yet answering them will mean adjusting what we do...
1. Was not the clear meaning of Christ death explained to you? Verse 1
Paul explained the message death, burial, Resurrection of Christ so vividly they could have been there!
What part did you not understand?
Wasn't it clear?
2. Did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law, or by hearing with Faith?
Verse 2
They knew how the Spirit came when Paul shared the message!
They knew that following the Law had nothing to do with it.
3. Started by the Spirit, are you now trying to be perfected by the flesh?
Verse 3
Think this through… if you can’t get the spirit without faith
Why on earth would you try to live each day without faith
your flesh can’t do it people
4. Was all the persecution you went through in vain?
Verse 4
Acts 13-14 describe some of the persecution they went through as they listened to this message of Faith
They stood for the true Gospel.
Was it vain, pointless meaningless?
5. Has God given you the Spirit and worked miracles because of your good works or because you believed the message you heard about Christ?
Verse 5
They knew they had the Spirit by Faith
God had worked miracles through Paul and others not because they followed the Law but by Faith in Christ!
The salvation came through the gospel they heard!!!
They were wanting a Jewish Christianity!
These Galatian believers wanted something special, new or better, they sought appeal… Beware of these ploys by the enemy.
The appeal of the Judaizers was salvation and Jewishness.
(true christian… better christian)
Verses 6-14 is basically Paul saying to the Galatians: Swindoll writes on this potion:
“You Galatians want a Jewish Christianity?
You want a gospel anchored in the old testament?
You already have it!You and all people who come to Christ by faith are the spiritual descendants of Abraham.
Circumcision, the Law, Pharisees, and Judaizers all came later.
Faith came first!”
The Example of Abraham, the First Hebrew
Paul begins by showing them Abraham Genesis 15:6
God had just made a covenant with Abraham and he believed God!
This is what pleased God then and still today!
You have faith in Christ… you are a son (spiritual descendant) of Abraham!
Paul goes on and now takes up the argument along with Abraham and give Old Testament scripture to defend solidify his argument.
Verse 8 Paul takes back to the blessing in Genesis 12:3
Faith brings a blessing that is shared by Abraham… declared righteous by Faith!
The Testimony of Scripture
Paul is a master of the Old Testament Scriptures!
He now will show the people what God’s Word states concerning the Law and Faith!
Paul takes them to Deuteronomy 27:26
Cursed if you don’t abide by ALL THINGS written!
Remember James “stumble in one point, guilty of all!”
Verse 11 this is evident because NO ONE can keep ALL THINGS!
Paul goes to another Old Testament Prophet Habakkuk 2:4
So the one who desires to be righteous must live by Faith!
Law is not Faith… Paul is systematic in his argument… Leviticus 18:5
If you are under law then this is how you live rather than by faith
Under law one is cursed according to the argument here… verse 13-14
Back to Deuteronomy 21:23 one who hangs on a tree is cursed!
Christ became cursed not for wrong done, rather because He took our wrong on Himself.
WHY????
Back to Abraham… verse 14
The blessing of righteousness/salvation by faith
Not to be confused with the blessing of land, nation,
The church has not become nor replaced Israel.
We are now because of Christ able to share in the blessing of Salvation by Faith as did Abraham the father of Israel.
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