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Abraham’s Children
Please open your Bibles to .
Read .
The Galatian churches were Christians, that had fallen for a trap.
They had a genuine conversion.
Verse 3 of this chapter, says they had begun by the Spirit.
Conversion only happens because of the Holy Spirit.
Though conversion happens because of the Spirit, it doesn’t mean Christians are invulnerable.
We still sin.
We still make mistakes.
Satan masquerades as an angel of light, why?
Because he’s trying to deceive us.
I Peter says that he is our adversary, prowling around like a lion.
We can still be tempted.
We can still be attacked.
The Galatians had been attacked and fallen victim to a trap.
They had fallen for a trap set by a group called the Judaizers.
The Judaizers were Jews that called themselves Christians, but used their race as a way to make themselves super Christians.
Basically, saying unless you make yourself Jewish, you aren’t fully Christian.
The Galatians were not Jewish, but were fooled into thinking they needed to become Jewish.
They became legalistic.
They adopted Judaism.
The men were being forced to be circumcised.
They were being forced to obey special diets.
They were attempting to put on the old ceremonial law.
In the end, they wanted to be called a child of Abraham.
That’s not a bad desire.
This is something that the big 3 religions of the world all would consider a compliment.
This is something that the big 3 religions of the world all would consider a compliment.
Judaism.
Islam
And Christianity, all embrace Abraham.
In fact the most annoying Sunday School song of all time, echoes that same desire.
“Father Abraham had many sons, and many sons had father Abraham.
And I am one of them, and so are you.
So let’s just praise the Lord.”
But the reality is that not all people are a children of Abraham.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
In , Jesus has this conversation with the Jews.
He addresses them as Jews, knowing that they trace their lineage, their birth back to Abraham.
, he says, “I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.”
Your ancestry goes back to Abraham.
But you don’t live like a child of Abraham.
I had a conversation with a dad, who was frustrated with the behavior of his grown children.
His children were raised in the church.
Were taught good things.
But they didn’t live out what they were taught.
And with a sad, tired acceptance, the dad said, “I didn’t raise them to be this way.”
The Jews weren’t supposed to be that way.
They weren’t raised to be that way.
They had:
The Law.
The Prophets.
The history.
And yet, when Christ came they missed it.
They might have been descendants of Abraham, but they certainly didn’t live as children of Abraham.
Paul talks about this in .
Paul says that being born a child of Abraham isn’t what counts.
he says, “This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.”
And these same people, these children of the flesh, who didn’t live as children of Abraham, came to the church saying we have the credentials, be like us.
You want to be a child of Abraham?
Be like me.
It’s not “be like the Judaizers”, because they’re disqualified.
They are preaching a different gospel.
It’s a gospel that says it’s Jesus and something else.
It’s Jesus plus something.
That’s a different Gospel.
Earlier in the book, he said if anyone preachers another Gospel, let them be accursed.
Condemned.
Damned.
That’s why Pauls starts off by saying in verses 6-7, “just as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness?
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.”
Paul is clarifying, it’s not be like the Judaizers.
The Galatians were trying to live up to the Judaizers expectations.
The Galatians were trying to live up to the Judaizers expectations.
And Paul says, “That’s not what it is.
It’s believing in God.
It’s trusting in God.
The true son of Abraham is he who has faith.”
he says the true child is “the children of the promise are counted as offspring.”
But we love to compare ourselves.
We love to have standards.
The Galatians had fallen for the trap of comparing themselves to someone else.
They were comparing themselves to the Judaizers.
And this is a trap that frequently raises its ugly head in the lives of Christians.
During the time leading up to the Protestant Reformation, it was the rules of the Roman Catholic Church that became the standard.
Be like the priests.
Be like the pope.
Obey these rules.
A couple of weeks ago, 7 of us went to Grace Community Church for the Shepherds’ Conference.
A couple of weeks ago, 7 of us went to Grace Community Church.
It’s this huge church.
Lot’s of programs.
Lots of people.
It’s thriving.
It’s easy to compare ourselves to them, and say, we aren’t a true church, till we are Grace Community Church.
I compare myself to John MacArthur.
I need to be more like him.
Then I’ll be a good pastor.
Do you ever look at other Christians, and compare yourself to them?
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