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Read Galatians 3:28-29.
Some pretty significant movements have been spinning around our culture the last 10 years.
All of them making a
About 8 years ago, there was the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
It was a protest against the wealthy.
It claimed that 1% of the population controlled a majority of the money, while 99% of the population suffered.
It became popular to say that wealth should be redistributed.
The wealthy should give back of what they have, or have it taken from them and have it given to the 99%.
Then about 6 years ago, in 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement arose.
It began as a protest of police and legal systems that are felt to be structurally opposed to people of color.
Then last year, in 2018, the Times Up or #MeToo movement developed.
This is a movement calling for gender equality and pay, especially among those in Hollywood.
The question for us in the church, is how do we respond to these things.
And believe me there is pressure upon the church to become involved in these movements.
Some have gone so far as to say that the Gospel is not just what Jesus has done and the forgiveness of sins, but that the Gospel includes the redistribution of wealth, the rise of social justice, and the end to gender as we know it.
Today’s text has been used to strong arm Christians into saying that the Gospel is these things.
That if you are in Christ, you must:
Become involved in economics.
Acknowledge your part in systematic racism.
And remove all roles upon people based on gender.
It would appear that we are confused what it means to be in Christ, and what our purpose is in being a Christian.
What does it mean to be in Christ, and how does that relate to our relationships with others?
What does it mean to be in Christ, and how are you to view these different movements?
This is what we are going to talk about.
First we will address your New Identity in Front of People.
In your outlines today, I’ve left a couple blanks.
And your first fill in the blank is People.
We will first look at your new identity in front of people.
As I’ve already told you, this is a very dangerous text.
It’s been used to say some pretty crazy things.
Some have said that this text means that:
Culture is irrelevant.
There are no more classes among people.
Meaning we should get rid of the rich and the poor.
And there are no more genders.
We need to stop calling people male and female.
Any time we look at a text that can be divisive and dangerous, we must remember the context of the passage itself.
We don’t get to rip out of the Bible and pretend it’s the only verse ever written.
We must remember who this is written to and what it is about.
Galatians is a letter written to the church in Galatia, that has been bewitched, oppressed and mislead by a group called the Judaizers.
These Judaizers have been saying that if Gentiles want to enter into Christianity, they must reject Gentile pasts, and become Jewish.
They’ve been told:
They must obey the Law.
They must do works.
And only then will they be able to enter into heaven.
In about 450 bc, a piece of work was developed within Judaism called the Mishnah.
It was additional Jewish writings, not included in Scripture, but very helpful in their religion.
It contained extra rules and laws.
Within the Mishnah was a series of blessings, or prayers that men would pray.
3 of the blessings were:
Shelo Asani goy.
Shelo Asani ived
Shelo Asani isha
They mean:
Blessed are you for not making me a Gentile.
Blessed are you for not making me a slave.
Blessed are you for not making me a woman.
These were 3 prayers and blessings men would pray every single day.
That’s interesting because those are the 3 categories that we find in verse 28.
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female ...”
It’s safe to say that the Judaizers were bringing the Mishnah and it’s extrabiblical requirements upon the Galatians.
Even expecting them to pray:
Shelo Asani goy.
Shelo Asani ived.
Shelo Asani isha.
Thank you for not making me a Gentile, slave or woman.
They were teaching the Galatians that the true blessings were not for Gentiles, slaves or women.
Paul is writing to the Galatians to free them from this extra and outright sinful burden.
But when this text is ripped out of context, forgetting who it’s written to, then all sorts of terrible ideas develop.
Paul says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek ...”
Sadly, within the United States, especially among missions, we’ve handled this wrong.
We’ve gone to other nations, and we’ve said, “Be like us.”, become American.
We’ve expected people to adopt:
Our political structure.
Our clothing styles.
Our taste in music.
And even how we do church.
Many times when Americans send missionaries across the world, American Christians have this idea that we will show you how to do church, and the way to do church is to follow American culture.
Becoming a Christian doesn’t eliminate the color of our skin, our national pasts, or our culture.
In fact Paul acknowledges this back in .
He said:
“To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews.”
He said
“To those outside the law I became as one outside the law … that I might win those outside the law.”
“To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak.”
Remember, Paul is the one writing , where he says there is neither Jew nor Greek, and he’s the one who wrote .
This man acknowledged that there are different cultures and ethnic groups.
If he were saying there really isn’t any different groups of people, then he’d be contradicting himself.
He went on to say why he would live like a Jew or a Gentile, “I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
I do it all for the sake of the gospel ...”
We can acknowledge culture, even race, and use it as a jumping off point to share the Gospel, to win some.
For example, last year a team of us went to the Czech Republic.
Obviously, they are a different country.
And when we went there, obviously we are Americans
We can’t hide that.
We like our air conditioners and ice in our drinks.
That identified us as Americans by the way.
And they are fascinated with Americans.
We didn’t ignore this difference.
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