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*“Is the Gospel Good News?”*
Text: Galatians 2:15-20
*Scripture introduction*
All the Christians know that Jesus is the Gospel itself.
We believe that His birth and His life and His death, and resurrection, all of them are the facts of the Gospel.
We know that when we believe in Him, we can be righteous and saved, but most of us do not know what the Gospel should be in our personal life nor how it should change our personal life.
If you have a desire to have better understanding of the Gospel in your personal life, this passage is for you.
*Galatians 2:20 /“20/*/I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”/
*Introduction*
*To raise interest*
In the mission field as missionaries preach the Gospel to the native people, they try to find the best way to explain it in their culture.
This is because without explaining the Gospel in terms of their culture, they cannot properly understand and apply the Gospel in their personal life.
Some tribes might not have a word for “peace” in their language because there has been no peace.
If we explain Jesus as “the God of peace,” they will not understand Jesus.
*To introduce the subject of the message*
The Gospel itself is the Good News, but when we do not personally apply the Gospel to our life, the Gospel may not be Good News.
Even though many Christians can explain the Gospel as the story of Jesus and as Jesus Himself, they may not know how to explain how the Gospel can be the Good News to and in their personal life.
The passage we just read is how Paul makes the Gospel Good News in his life and how Paul personalizes the Gospel as the Good News in his life.
*To make the subject personal*
Is the Gospel Good News to us?
We can say, “Yes,” but how is it the Good News to us?
And why is it the Good News to us? Can we give correct answers for these questions?
If not, we are on the wrong way.
/Many of us fail to understand the Gospel as the Good News in our life.
This means that we still have not applied the Gospel to our personal life /(FCF).
Here in the second chapter of Galatians, Jesus phones in this wake-up call: */“Be justified by faith and make the Gospel Good News in your life!!”/*
*Proposition:** Because we are justified by faith in Christ; we must make the Gospel Good News in our life.*
*Transition*: “Being justified by faith in Christ” means that we personalize the Gospel in our life as the Good News.
Justification is the result of making the Gospel Good News in our life.
How do we know whether we are justified or not?
The answer is “we can know it by whether the Gospel is the Good News in our life or not.
If so, how can we make the Gospel Good News in our life?
*I.
**To make the Gospel Good News, in our life we must confess that we died with Christ.*
*Place & Proof*: Look at the beginning of v19 and v20! Paul says */“/**/19/**/For through the law I died to the law…..”/* */20/**/I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live….”/*
In these verses Paul expresses how he proclaims his own death.
To make the Gospel Good News, we must recognize and proclaim our death with Christ.
*Explanation*
In these verses we can find three key words that Paul uses to personalize the Gospel in his life.
From v15-18 Paul just explains how we can be righteous.
It is not by the work of the law, but by faith.
vv19-20 is about Paul’s personal testimony.
He talks about how the Gospel in general could be the Good News in his life.
The first key word in his testimony is *“die”* or *“death.”*
In v20 Paul says “*/20/**/I have been crucified with Christ./*”
This is the main point of his death.
Having been crucified means that Paul identifies himself with Christ who died on the Cross.
By using the phrase */“with Christ”/* Paul seems to imply that he was one of the robbers on the right or left sides of Christ.
The admirable thing is when Paul says this, he does not say /“I was crucified with Christ,/” but he says /“I have been crucified with Christ.”/
He uses /“a present perfect tense.”/
This present perfect tense may be used to /emphasize/ that the results of a past action are still continuing.
This means that his death with Christ is still going on since he believed in Jesus.
*Sub-Point1: To Paul being crucified is to die to the law.*
In v19 Paul says */“For through the law I died to the Law…..”/* This death was caused when Paul was crucified with Christ.
What does “the death to the law” mean in this verse?
In Romans 7:6 Paul uses the same Greek word /“death”/ and gives us more of an idea about /“the death to the law.”/
Paul says “*/6/*/But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive……”/ Paul explains that “the death to the law” means to be released from the law that held us captive.
Paul says “I am freed from the authority and penalty of the law.”
This is one of the results of being crucified with Christ.
How could we be freed from the law?
Paul confesses that it is because /“he has been crucified with Christ.”/
His death with Christ is the reason for his freedom from the law.
*Sub-Point2: To Paul being crucified with Christ is to die to sin.*
In Romans 6:11 Paul says /“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin….”/
In Romans 6:17-18 Paul continually says /“Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin….. Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.”/
To Paul, death with Christ means to die to sin.
Like the death of Jesus on the Cross to set us free from the sin, Paul says that he is free from the debt of sin by being crucified with Christ.
*Sub-Point3: To Paul being crucified with Christ is to die to his earthly desire.*
In the middle of v20 Paul says “*/It is no longer I who live….”/*
Paul indirectly says that he is a dead man.
This is how Paul denies his personal life and his earthly desire.
Galatians 5:24 “*/24/*/And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”/
In 6:14 Paul also says “*/14/*/ ……by which ////the world ////has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”/
Paul lays down his earthly desires and he also seems to say /“I am free from my earthly desire because my earthly desires have been crucified.”/
In 1Corinthians 15:31 Paul also says /“I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!”/
When do we feel free?
When we do not have any earthly desires, we feel free.
Paul says /“It is no longer I who live…../”
*Application*
Whether we believe or not, we have been crucified with Christ since we believed Jesus as our personal savior.
As Paul identifies himself with Jesus, we also must identify ourselves with Christ.
It is because Paul’s confession is not only his confession, but must be the confession of our faith too.
When we believe in Christ, the death to the law and sin and our earthly desire can happen, but I do not think it can continually happen without our confessing that we died with Christ.
As Paul says in 1Corinthians 15:31, we must confess that “/we die every day with Christ!”/
As Paul confesses his death with Christ, our death with Christ must happen every day in our life.
How can we confess that we died with Christ?
We can confess whenever the law insists its authority and whenever the sin insists that we are its slaveries.
Then talk to them, I have crucified with Christ.
My Lord is not you, but Jesus.
We must go against sin.
What is the Good News in our life?
Why is the Gospel Good News in our life?
It is because we have changed our master or our boss to Jesus.
It is because we are no longer under the control of sin.
It is because we are able to resist against the sin in the Name of Jesus.
Do not just let it go or let it be, but fight against sin and proclaim that sin is no longer my master, but the Lord Jesus is now my master.
How is the Gospel Good News in our life?
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