The Effects of Faith
Summer 2022 • Sermon • Submitted
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· 3 viewsThis summer, we are going to spend some time with Paul. We begin with Galatians where Paul condenses many of his arguments in Romans surrounding the results of justification by faith. We will explore what Paul means as we learn how to live faithfully in Christ.
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23 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
1. We are liberated from the law. (vs. 23-25)
1. We are liberated from the law. (vs. 23-25)
15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
Galatians (The Law’s Purpose (3:19–25))
Paul reinforces justification by faith apart from the law in 3:24 by underscoring the law’s temporary nature (cf. 2:16). He identifies the law as a “pedagogue.”168 The ancient pedagogue had many functions.169 One of those functions was to serve as a temporary guardian over the child until the appointed time of the father.170 This seems to be Paul’s use of the pedagogue in 3:23–4:7, for he discusses the temporary nature of the law as a guardian from 3:19–4:7. The law served as a temporary guardian until the coming of Christ into the cosmos to identify sin as transgression so that justification would be experienced by faith (3:24). Although Paul is negative toward the law in Galatians, “the Law is not an adversary of God’s redemptive purpose; rather, God has used the Law to illuminate Israel’s condition—and therefore a fortiori, the universal human condition—of bondage to the power of Sin (Rom 7:7).”171 The law, then, temporarily imprisoned all under sin so that God would fulfill what he promised to Abraham through Jesus Christ, his offspring (cf. Gal 3:16, 25–27).
2. We are one in Christ through our baptism. (vs. 26-28)
2. We are one in Christ through our baptism. (vs. 26-28)
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
3. We are heirs to the promise. (vs. 29)
3. We are heirs to the promise. (vs. 29)
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.