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There is something very difficult about the Gospel today.
Because we receive nothing from God from keeping the law.
We lose nothing by not keeping the law.
It is a radical thing to believe the beauty of the Gospel.
But the problem is that for many people the response from hearing the Gospel is, If that is the case, then people will be able to do and live any way they want.
Shane if you do not hammer the law and judgement then people will be profane and hedonistic.
“Any way I want baby.”
Over the centuries, throughout church history, there is always a time where there was a real effort to tone down the radical nature of the Gospel.
The Anabaptist and John Bunyan.
Let us not lose the essence or true nature of the Gospel today.
Galatians
I. Truly Set Us Free
A. Verse 1 is essentially the summary of the last 2 chapters of the book.
Paul first tells us that we have been set free in an extraordinary sense.
B. One time where knowledge of the Greek is helpful here.
Both the noun and verb of this phrase is freedom.
For Freedom Christ has freed you.
So what does that mean?
Freedom is both the means and the end of a Christians life.
The essence of the Gospel is freedom.
Christ came to bring freedom.
Luke
C. Christ truly has set us free.
This is in the aorist tense … a past completed action.
So if you are a Christian, you have truly been made free in Christ.
D. But what we also see here is just how quickly the chains came return.
Good ole Legalism wants to have you back in his chains again.
How can we keep this from happening?
E. 1. Stand Firm.
Stago… A military term.
Stand your ground.
Hold your ground.
Hold your position.
And do this by keeping alert, holding on, resisting attacks and sticking together.
Some vivid pictures to understand what Paul is commanding.
It is an imperative.
F.
Even though we are Christians and have been made free, we can lose our freedom if we do not fight for it.
Deception is coming.
False teaching is coming.
Bad doctrines of the philosophies of this world are coming.
Legalism is coming hard.
We have got to fight against them.
G. 2. Do not get tied up again.
Don’t let Mr. Legalism put those shackles around your neck and hands again.
The understanding is of a yoke or even a burden.
Don’t let him put that weight on your shoulders AGAIN.
Legalism or even paganism is a burden or yoke that you have been set free from.
Eternal insecurity.
Fear based guilt ridden religions and systems.
You cannot carry this.
Don’t lose yourself in this.
Do not lose sight of what counts, your freedom in Christ.
The Methodist movement began in the mid-eighteenth century with a small band of intensely devout students at the University of Oxford.
These were towering figures like John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield.
They would meet regularly for study and devotion; they were known as the Holy Club because they practiced strict methods of increasing their spiritual zeal for God.
Yet amid all the religious devotion and moral striving, these men had lost sight of what ultimately counts.
In fine, the Holy Club men knew little or nothing of grace as taught in the Scriptures.
Their ironclad régime was one of human effort, that provided no assurance and left the all-important salvation of the soul a distant uncertainty.
Its practices brought little joy.…
These ardent men strove on and on, yet saw no point of arrival.
Following his conversion, George Whitefield admitted how he’d gotten off track by losing sight of what ultimately counts: “God showed me that I must be born again, or be damned!
I learned that a man may go to church, say his prayers, receive the sacrament, and yet not be a Christian.”
II.
When Christ Has No Value
A. Are you counting on circumcision?
The Galatians have an either/or decision to be made.
Will they find it in Christ or will they find it in circumcision.
Were they really doing this.
Yes.
It is similar to the teaching that had to be dealt with in Acts.
Acts 15:
B.
Here comes Mr. Legalism.
Legalism is treating that which is good as though it were essential.
Legalism is treating that which is good as though it were essential.
C. Ok so what is Paul saying.
If you believe this, Christ is of no value to you.
In historic protestant circles the saying goes.
“You cannot add to Christ without subtracting from Christ.”
Christ is either all of our value or he is without value.
Christ is all or nothing…period.
Wilson, T. (2013).
Galatians: Gospel-Rooted Living.
(R. K. Hughes, Ed.) (p.
171).
Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
D. If law obedience is to be part of the system of salvation then Christ has no value to you at all.
Nothing.
If we say that 50% of our salvation is the blood of Christ and 50% is our efforts in keeping the law.
We fail.
If we say that the blood of Christ is 80% of our salvation and 20% is our works.
We still fail.
If we say that the blood of Christ is 99.9% of our salvation and .1% our ability in keeping the law.
We still fail and we will go to hell.
James 2:
E. Paul wants to say it again.
If you are gonna find favor from God by keeping the law, then you gotta keep all of the laws.
Not just circumcision.
If you do this you will fail.
F. So you see.
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