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If you were with us when we began our trek through the book of Galatians - HOPEFULLY, having been outside of Galatians through the month of May...
...you remember the apostle Paul calling the Galatians to - BE WHO THEY HAD BECOME…!
To recap where we left off in our journey through Galatians...
Let’s look back...
If you recall - False Teachers had come into the churches of Galatia - in order to PERSUADE the people that they needed to be CIRCUMCISED if they wanted to be a part of the Household of God...
And so - OF COURSE - Paul has been combatting the false teachers and their claims.
- And one of the arguments that Paul uses was how he had confronted Peter - publically about how he had - BY HIS ACTIONS - preached a false gospel!
Do you remember?
Peter was in Antioch…and he was eating with the Gentiles...
BUT THEN when Judaizers came to Antioch…Peter separated himself FROM the gentiles...
And in doing so - he REBUILT the wall of hostility between Jew and Greek - the WALL that Christ had torn down!
Paul then began to hammer the point home that we are justified by FAITH and not by WORKS of the Law!
And so Paul continues...
Using Abraham
the Law
Inheritance
And more recently - IDENTITY
as arguments against the False Teaching...
Paul wants the Galatians to - THINK...
to really contemplate - who they had become BY FAITH - before God - and UPON WHAT BASIS.
When we were last in Galatians - Paul - REMINDED the Galatians about what the Law actually says...
And he DID so by taking them to the story of Sarah and Hagar...
Paul had said...
As we know - the Galatians - who had embraced the truth of the Gospel - INITIALLY - from Paul...
had TURNED from that truth - and were now choosing to embrace Circumcision as a means to their salvation!
And Paul - had decided - to help them understand what they were actually doing by embracing the False teaching within the churches!
He showed them that they were actually - By GOING back UNDER the LAW - - running back to a sinful path of disobedience!
And so TODAY - Paul’s gonna lay it all out there!
Today Paul’s going to MAP out- 2 Paths of Humanity
And so if you were EVER going to share a sermon with your lost family member, friend, coworker, neighbor - this would be it!
Paul’s going to show us that there are ONLY 2 paths in this life…!
That IN this life - you WALK ONE of these paths -
and if THIS ONE - then NOT THAT one..
OR...
if THAT ONE - then NOT THIS one!
And in explaining these paths, Paul will show us the consequences of our choices...
Let’s get to our text...
If we circle back to verse 1 - we see this verse is saturated with the CONTEXT of the situation happening in Galatia at this time...
Paul is speaking to those IN THE CHURCHES - in Galatia - who are standing at a FORK in the ROAD!
These people had HEARD the TRUE Gospel....from Paul...
And NOW - they’re faced with a FALSE Gospel… from the false teachers
And so Paul - speaking to THOSE people - says -
STAND Firm!
Stand Firm - in the TRUTH of WHO YOU ARE!!
Several weeks ago - I preached a sermon TITLED - Be Who You Have Become!!
That’s what Paul is saying HERE!
Stand Firm in WHO YOU HAVE BECOME!!
And Paul HOLDS UP - two opposing STATES of Spiritual Status!
at this FORK in the ROAD!
SLIDE:
[Freedom] & [Slavery]
And so Paul is saying - OK - you have a choice to make...
You can REST in the Freedom of Faith IN Jesus Christ
OR
You can submit yourselves to a YOKE of slavery...
What’s a YOKE?
It refers to an instrument that was used for DRAFT animals...
For PULLING and LABOR...
So you can REST in the Freedom of Faith in Christ...
OR - go back to SLAVERY!
So- Submitting to circumcision…ACCORDING to Paul - equated to - Submitting AGAIN to a YOKE of slavery!
This circumcision here - is a PHYSICAL circumcision ...
THAT’s why this was part of the FALSE teaching in Galatia...
The teaching was - you MUST be circumcised PHYSICALLY in order to get saved!
So Paul is saying - ACCEPTING circumcision…or RECEIVING circumcision....GETTING circumcised....FOR THAT PURPOSE
MEANT - that you were now TRUSTING in circumcision to EARN you a place with GOD....
AND THAT - meant that you now were CHOOSING to USE the LAW as your path to GOD...
The False teaching in the Galatian churches said -
SLIDE:
The Law is your path to get to God
And so PAUL - a JEW - then clarifies what THIS ACTUALLY MEANS…for those choosing that PATH...
FOR those choosing SLAVERY over freedom...
Ok, THINK of what this is saying....
Remember - Paul is a - JEW - thru and thru!
And he’s now - holding up -
[Physical Circumcision] (part of the Abrahamic Covenant) (and we all know how important Abraham was to the JEW)
holding THAT - up against...
[Jesus]
WOW - Paul’s saying - you EITHER - take one or the other!
AND IF you take - CIRCUMCISION....
Jesus will be OF NO ADVANTAGE to you...
In case we’re NOT CLEAR on what THAT means....Paul clarifies!...
See - it’s a PACKAGE deal...
SLIDE: Spiritual Slavery: If You Choose One Law, You Must Keep the Whole Law
Spiritual Slavery
We call this Spiritual slavery - because THAT’s what it is....ultimately...
BUT listen - we can’t even keep the law - PHYSICALLY!
FOR UNBELIEVERS - trying to get to God...
Let’s go further back...
Mankind - by DEFAULT - are EXPERT law breakers!
And the deeper we get into the scriptures - the more clearly we see that BY DEFAULT...
Man CAN’T DO ANYTHING - BUT - be in a constant state of Law Breaking....
Law # 7 - You shall not commit adultery
NOW - When I say - Adultery....our minds run to - a spouse sleeping with another
But Jesus confronts that thinking in Matt 5
What does Jesus do here?
He takes the LAW - and pushes it - INWARD!
He’s saying - it’s DEEPER than merely - physical!
WHICH MEANS -
*Unbelievers - as they STAY out of bed with someone NOT their spouse...
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