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The Christian life - as the apostle Paul has been recently pointing out to the Galatians - is a life of war.
And it’s been interesting to hear Paul speak this way - because when he does - it SEEMS as though the Christian life - is...
Performance based
That if you PERFORM up to a certain standard - then in the end - you’ll MAKE IT!
Last week we looked at - The War Within...
And we COULD HEAR the tension of this WAR in our text last week...
We can HEAR in this verse - the WAR that would play out WITHIN the Christian.
The WAR that - IF we are HIS - we’ve ALL been a part of.
Now - as we mentioned last week - THIS WAR that we all experience as BELIEVERS in Christ...
THIS WAR - has caused MUCH - salvific doubt over the centuries in the lives of believers...
Believers can fall into - DOUBTING their salvation when they look at their life - and they experience this...
it’s crystal clear here - that our lives - AS CHRISTIANS - will be marked by an - INNER DICHOTOMY
And it’s this truth that - TODAY - will be...
elevated with an ETERNAL ULTIMATUM…(so kinda scary)
AND - at the same time
be GROUNDED in rock solid assurance of Faith…
And so let’s get right to our text....we’re actually gonna step BACK INTO a couple verses from last week to start...
As you know - especially if you attended our last Bible study...
GRAMMAR plays a HUGE role in how we interpret the Bible...
And so if we were to go back to the verse we began with today, we would read this...
Sounds like an important verse does it not?
NOW - ON IT’S OWN - we read this and we may draw a conclusion...
But grammatically, the verse is begging us to do something...
The verse BEGINS with a conjunction… (but)
Which TELLS US - a comparison is being made…with information BEFORE this verse
SO we need to read the prior verse (AT LEAST) to get a better context for this verse...
Remember this verse from last week?
It tells us that AS BELIEVERS - we should be PREPARED for - - WAR
An INNER war!
An INNER struggle - that may lead to -
confusion
worry
even DOUBTS of salvation!
EVEN DOUBTS of SALVATION....
next verse
SLIDE: Having the Spirit: Removes Condemnation Under the Law
Having the Spirit
Another way to THINK ABOUT being - Under the Law - is to equate that idea - with being - Under God’s Wrath...
When we are UNDER the Law....we are UNDER God’s wrath!
Why?
Think about what - UNDER the LAW - means...
If we just go back to chapter 3 of Galatians, we’ll see Paul address this...
This is saying that BEFORE Jesus came - everything was - UNDER - what?
Under sin...
WHY? because ALL have SINNED and fallen short of the glory of God! (Romans 3:23)
next verse...
v22 told us that before Christ came - we were UNDER SIN...
v23 said - before Christ came - we were held captive UNDER THE LAW...
Is this teaching that the Law is SIN?
NO - remember what the Law does?
The law - REVEALS our SIN...
See - when we’re UNDER the LAW - the law is not the problem…WE ARE the PROBLEM!
The LAW SHOWS US - that WE are the problem!
Our SIN - is the problem!!
And the Bible is CLEAR on this...
Think through what this is saying...
Paul is saying....
Whether you HAVE the LAW or NOT, you will PERISH - why?
Because of SIN!
[Read verse again!]
This is saying - ALL will PERISH because of SIN....
Perish - FOREVER - APART from GOD - because of SIN...
Again - see - UNDER the Law - there is CONDEMNATION!
See it?
UNDER THE LAW - without the shedding of blood - there is NO forgiveness of sins!
Under the law - there is CONDEMNATION!
UNDER the LAW - there is - CONDEMNATION!
To be UNDER the LAW - is to be UNDER the WRATH of GOD!
Now - back to our text today....
and our point from this was what?
Having the Spirit: Removes Condemnation Under the Law
See - to be LED BY the Spirit - the IMPLICATION IS - you HAVE the Spirit!
You can’t be LED BY the Spirit - if you DON’T HAVE the Spirit...
Those who HAVE the SPIRIT - are no longer UNDER the LAW…No longer UNDER condemnation...
SO - i hope we GET IT!
It’s good Paul starts here BECAUSE - what comes next will sound like - a PERFORMANCE based religion...
What does this SOUND LIKE?
Sounds like - a WORKS BASED religion!
DO THESE THINGS - and you will NOT enter heaven
I’ve heard Pastors I RESPECT - USE these verses to try to CONVINCE people - to NOT SIN!
And I just think that’s OFF...
Stay with me!
We just heard about - WORKS of the FLESH!
Let’s jump to verse 22 to read it- and then we’ll circle back...
OK, these 2 verses HERE are going to INFORM our THINKING about the prior verses...
There are 2 things we need to consider to THINK PROPERLY thru these verses...
BECAUSE - Paul here is NOT preaching a works-based religion!
So why does he speak this way....
What 2 CATEGORIES are being discussed in this passage?
Let’s look at verses 19 and 22...
SLIDE: Gal 5:19, 22
We have 2 categories listed here…AND NOTICE the labels given them...
SLIDE: Gal 5:19,22 - highlights
And these labels are important…because they point to a Spiritual reality
The first category that Paul walks us thru - is -
SLIDE:
Works of the flesh
The Works of the Flesh are WORKS that we perform - that FLOW FROM - our flesh!
Now - REMEMBER our text from last week...
Our FLESH - DESIRES - at EVERY MOMENT - to dishonor God
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