Sermon Tone Analysis

We’re going to pick up where we left off last week on the book of Galatians.

*I.

**Last time* we talked about *why* Paul *wrote* this *letter*.

*He mainly wrote it* *because* of what is called *LEGALISTIC JUDAIZERS*.

*A.

*These *LEGALISTIC JUDAIZERS* *went* into *every city* that *Paul went* to in the *Province of Galatia**.

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              *1.

*There were *4 main cities* in this Province, “*Antioch, Iconium, Derbe, and Lystra*.”

*a.

**Paul started a church and preached the Gospel* in *each* of these *cities*.

*2.

*The *LEGALISTIC JUDAIZERS* *went into* the *cities* *after Paul left* *and* *began* to *teach* them that “*You can only have salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and by keeping the OT law*.”

*a.

**Trying to keep* the *OT law* in order *to keep* your *salvation*, *is a denial* *of* *Christ’s finished work*.

*i.

**It’s saying* that *what Jesus did* on the cross *isn’t good enough*.

*ii.

**Really* that *blaspheme*.

*B.

*Even in *today’s church* there are many *teaching* “*salvation coming by faith* *and* by *keeping* a set of *rules and regulations*.”

*1.

**When* we *try to keep* a set of *rules and regulations* *to stay holy*, *be more spiritual*, *to receive God’s promises*, *to get saved* *or* *keep our salvation*, *WITHOUT ANY SCRIPTURE BASIS*, IT IS A *RITUAL* and *A DEAD WORK*.

*a.

*It *does no good*, but *actually* it does *more harm*.

*i.

*As we said, it *denies* (in most part) the *work* that *Jesus did* for us.

*ii.

*And it *also* *takes away time* that *we should be spending with the Lord* *and* *doing what He* has *told us to do*.

              *2.

**There are things that we are to do*.

                   *a.

**Jesus said* in (*John 14:21*) “*He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him*.”

KJV

                   *b.

**John* said in (*1 John 5:3*) “*For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous*.”

KJV

              *3.

**Paul’s main teaching* *in* the book of *GALATIANS* *is* *salvation by grace through faith*; *and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast*.

*II.

**GAL 1:3*

              *A.

*Notice that *Paul already* *begins* *to bring out* *the Grace of God* in his opening.

*1.

**In* *just the beginning* of *Paul’s letter*, he *makes it clear* that *GRACE and TRUE PEACE* *only comes* *from* *God* the Father *and* from the Lord *Jesus* Christ.

*B.

**GAL 1:4-5*

                        *1.

*In (*V 4*) it *says* that *Jesus gave himself for our sins*.

*a.

**Paul brings us back* *to the death of* the Lord *Jesus* Christ *and* that *it’s through his death* that *He took away our sins*.

*NOT through his death and us keeping the LAW*.

*b.

**Why did he deliver* us *from* our *sins*?

*i.

*Paul then adds “*That he might deliver us from this present evil world* (*AGE*).”

*ii.

**In this* *EVIL AGE* *sin abounds in the lives of people that don’t know Jesus*, *which leads them to* *ETERNAL DEATH*, *BUT* *Jesus has delivered us* *from the evil age* *namely SIN*.

*iii.

**It’s not* *our works* *that make us free* *from* the *LAW of SIN and DEATH*, *but* it is *the works of* the Lord *Jesus* Christ.

*c.

**Salvation*, *the promises of God* *and* *Being set free from sin* *and* *it’s bondage’s of sin* *did not come by something we did*, *but by* the Lord *Jesus* Christ.

*i.

**All we did* was to *except* what Jesus did.

*C.

**GAL 1:6-9*

                        *1.

**Paul said*, “*I marvel*.”

*Other translations* say, “*I am astonished*, or *I am amazed*.”

*a.

**What was Paul* so *amazed or astonished about*?

*i.

*He *could hardly comprehend* *that the Galatian believers* *could walk away from God*, *who called us into the Grace of Christ*.

*b.

*The Word “*CALLED*” that Paul uses here in (*V 6*) is an “*Aorist Participle*,” *meaning* an *action that took place once and for all*.

*i.

**This V* *could be translated* this way, “*Who called you once and for all into the grace of Christ*.”

*ii.

**Bringing us back again* *to salvation* *coming through the Work of Jesus* *and* *not by what we have done* *or could do*.

*All we did* was to *receive*.

*2.

*In (*Vs 6-7*) *Paul calls* the *teaching the teaching of keeping the LAW* *or* *dead works* *“ANOTHER GOSPEL, WHICH IS NOT ANOTHER.”*

*a.

**Anything that leads you away from the truth* that is in the Word of God *is not another Gospel*, it is a *false religion*.

*b.

*The word “*Gospel*” in (*V 7*) means “*Good news*.”

*i.

**If something leads you away from the Gospel* it is *not Good News*, *it’s Bad News*.

*3.

**Paul says* in *reference to someone* *teaching* these *false thing*, *“Let him be accursed,”* *doomed to destruction*.

*III.

**In* the *next passage* of scripture that *I’m going to read* to you *deals with Paul’s call into the ministry*,

              *A.

*But the *main point* that *Paul is trying to give* here is* a defense* *to those* *that said he was not a true Apostle*.

*1.

**He gives* what you could call *his* “*Apostolic Credentials*”

              *B.

**GAL 1:10-24* (*V 10 from the NIV*) (“*Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God*?” NIV)

                        *1.

*I’m *not* going to *go into* this in *depth*, *but* just *to say* that *Paul received his revelation not from men* *but* *from the Lord Jesus Christ*.

*C.

*In *1st* *part of Chapter 2* *Paul* *continues* his *Credentials*, *but* He *also talks about* *how the other Apostles were in agreement with him*.

*1.

**GAL 2:1-2*

                                  *a.

*In (*V 2*) *when Paul said* that *he went to the other Apostles and shared the Gospel with them* *what he was preaching*, he said that *he did it* *“privately.”*

*b.

**Paul did this not* *for the reason* *that* the *other Apostles might not agree with him*.

*c.

**So what does it mean* *when Paul said*, *“Lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.”

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                                           *i.

**Paul went to the other Apostles privately*, *because* *if they did not agree with Paul* *it could hinder what the Lord was doing with the Gentiles*.

*ii.

**Paul already received* *what he did from the Lord*, there was *no changing Paul’s mind*.