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Galatians 5:1-13
During the American Revolution, a group of soldiers was repairing the defenses with no help from their screaming leader.
A nearby rider in civilian clothes asked the officer why he would not help.
The officer shot back, “Sir, I am a corporal!”
The stranger apologized, dismounted, and proceeded to help the exhausted soldiers.
Having done the job, he turned to the corporal and said, “Mr.
Corporal, the next time you have a job like this and do not have enough men to do it, go to your commander-in-chief, and I will come and help you again.”
The stranger was none other than George Washington.
Washington understood something too many of us miss—freedom is not our license to serve self; it is our opportunity to serve others.
Christian freedom is a wonderful gift of God’s grace.
We are saved by faith in Christ and are no longer enslaved to sin and its guilt.
Many Christians, however, misunderstand this gift of freedom.
Like an eager sixteen-year-old with a new drivers license, they forget that Christian liberty comes with responsibility.
Today, we look at what this liberty in Christ is, how Satan attacks it, and how we ought to use it.
In our text, Paul speaks to the believers in Galatia who had come to the knowledge of Christ but were drawn away by the false teaching of the Judaizers.
These Judaizers taught that Christ was not enough for salvation and that believers still had to keep the Jewish law to please God and keep their salvation.
Much of Paul’s focus in the book of Galatians was on teaching the Galatian believers that they were not to seek righteousness through the Old Testament law.
The Old Testament law was not given as a means of salvation.
Rather, it was meant to serve as a schoolmaster to point us to our need for a Saviour in Jesus Christ.
None of us are able to keep all the Ten Commandments.
But the commandments reveal to us our sin, and that is how they serve as a schoolmaster.
When we trust Christ as our Saviour, our salvation is not dependent on our goodness at all but only on His shed blood.
We are now truly free in Christ.
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The Stand of Liberty
In our text, Galatians 5:1, Paul urges the believers,
To stand fast is “to persist and persevere.”
Paul urges the Galatians to remain firmly rooted in their position in Christ.
What exactly does it mean to be in Christ?
A. Position in Christ
Notice in verse 1 that we are called to “stand fast therefore in the liberty.”
The word liberty means “freedom from bondage and slavery.”
This firm stand is in the liberty we believers have received by grace through faith in Christ.
When we receive Christ by faith, we have a new standing in Him.
We are no longer under the yoke of the law but have been set at liberty.
Our new standing in liberty frees us from the guilt and penalty of sin.
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he represents someone who is standing in liberty - he is free
In Galatians 5:1, Paul reminds the believers of their new standing of liberty in Christ and urges them not to be entangled by the yoke of bondage.
To be entangled is “to be held by or ensnared” and bondage means “slavery; the condition of a slave or servant.”
Paul was exhorting them not to be pulled back into the bondage of the law by the Judaizers.
Pull Him back toward the Law
The Judaizers taught that in addition to believing in Christ, they had to keep the law to please God.
Warren Wiersbe said, “When the believers in Galatia trusted Christ, they lost the yoke of servitude to sin and put on the yoke of Christ.
The yoke of works is hard, and the burdens heavy; Christ’s yoke is ‘easy.’
and His burden is ‘light.’…The
yoke of Christ frees us to fulfill His will, while the yoke of the law enslaves us.”
Because of our position in Christ, we are free of the judgment of the law.
A. Position in Christ
B. Position in Grace
Verses 2–4 tell us that a believer not only has a position in Christ, but also a position in grace.
This position does not require any works on the believer’s part.
Religion requires that you work to have the acceptance of God or earn a place in Heaven.
Paul, however, instructs the believers that salvation is only by faith in Christ, not by the works of the law.
Remember, the law’s demands cannot be fulfilled by humans.
If a man were to truly please God by keeping the law, he would have to keep the entire law.
No one, however, is capable of keeping the entire law.
For this reason, the law is incapable of saving man.
Think about the phrase “fallen from grace” in Galatians 5:4.
To fall from grace is to make grace of no effect.
Do you realize the deep significance of that phrase.
If we are relying on our works to be justified, we are denying the power of God’s grace in saving us.
Paul was not saying to the Galatian Christians, as is sometimes taught from this verse, that they had “fallen from grace” in that they had lost their salvation, the Bible clearly teaches that that is impossible.
Paul is saying that they fell away from their trust in grace because they were now trusting in the law.
He is emphasizing that if they are justified by the law, then grace is of no effect.
Grace is undeserved favor.
If God saves us by His grace, our salvation is not something we can earn but is a free gift.
Once we are standing in the position of grace we can never truly fall from grace in the sense of losing our salvation.
In returning to the law, however, it is possible for us to lose the effectiveness of our salvation.
What Paul was essentially saying about Christ and the law is this:
There is no hybrid salvation.
It is either grace or works—all of Christ or all of the law.
When a man stands in this position of liberty, they stand in a ...
A. Position in Christ
B. Position in Grace
C. Position of Hope
When we are saved, we also have hope for the fulfillment of Christ’s work in us.
The word wait in verse 5 means “to expect fully; to eagerly and patiently anticipate.”
As believers, we eagerly anticipate the day when God will complete His plan for us by making us perfectly holy.
The believer has the confidence that God has made him completely righteous in Christ and more like Jesus.
What a joy and blessedness it is to know and possess the security of our salvation!
1.
The Stand of Liberty
II.
The Subversion of Liberty
When there is powerful truth concerned, Satan will always devise ways to undermine it.
He does not want believers to rest secure in their position in Christ, His grace, and the hope of His fulfillment in them.
Satan attacks the truth of our liberty in Christ using two ways—legalism and license.
A. Through Legalism
The truth mentioned in verse 7 refers to the simplicity of our salvation—we are saved by grace through faith.
Satan, however, wants to deter us from enjoying our liberty in Christ and bring us back into bondage.
In our text, Paul was dealing with the problem of legalism caused by the Judaizers in the Galatian church.
The Judaizers were trying to add works to faith.
Pull him toward legalism
What do we mean by legalism.
Consider the following definitions:
Place a sign with the word Legalism on the ladder as you describe how legalism requires you to earn your way to God.
1. Legalism is adding self-effort to faith in Christ for salvation.
2. Legalism is also emphasizing rules more than a relationship with Christ.
One may keep the rules yet be totally carnal in the heart.
Some people look and live right as they climb the ladder of legalism, taking pride in their self-righteousness and finding fault in everyone else.
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