One With The Son (2)

Good morning Church!!

BIBLES OUT…DON’T HAVE A BIBLE? SEAT IN FRONT!

Continuing our series in Galatians…

Last Week Recap…

captive…imprisoned under the law (v22-23)

Law was our GUARDIAN UNTIL JESUS CAME! (v.24)

KJV “school master”

Law placed because of sin...

to show us that we are sinful…

That we cannot obtain righteousness on our own…

ONE IN JESUS BY FAITH IN JESUS (3:26-28)

KJV v. 26 “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

Through faith alone in Jesus we are all children of God

Because…WE ARE ONE IN CHRIST JESUS!!

The bible says when we were saved by this faith…

Baptized…here he is illustrating the washing clean of your sins thorough faith in Christ…

Paul says we PUT ON Christ

Our identity is in Jesus…

Here is what Paul is saying…

When God looks at you Christ follower…

Even though you have sinned against Him…

Alls He see’s is Jesus…All He sees is His beloved Son...

Because through Faith in Christ alone you have put on Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

Jesus took ALL of OUR SIN

And gave US ALL OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS

AND BECAUSE we are all ONE WITH CHRIST

We are ALL ONE IN CHRIST

v28 READ AGAIN

Bible says “There is no more Jew or Greek”…

No more man or woman…

No more slave or free man…

ALL ARE ONE IN CHRIST JESUS…

this is a radical shift man

this is completely different than anything the worshippers in this era have ever heard of

All through out the OT there has ALWAYS been a difference between Jew and Greek…

Think about who Paul is addressing…Judaizers right?

Who thought they were more righteous because they lived under the law…

WE TALKED LAST WEEK ABOUT TITLES…

How the title Jew meant that they were God’s people…

Because of the promise to Abraham…

Because they are God’s chosen people…and they were…

But the gospel has changed everything!

Now ALL who place their faith in Jesus are seen as righteous

BUT HOW???? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN????

Thats what Paul is trying to get across to the Galatians to the Judaizers and to us!

BIG IDEA: The Gospel makes us one with the Son!

What kind of God do we serve y’all?!?!?

That He would make us one with Him???

Even the men who sentenced Jesus to death…

The men who beat him bloody…

Who spat on Him…

Who pressed the crown of thorns into His scalp...

Even the men who drove the nails through His hands and feet…

If any of those men placed their faith in Him…

THEY WOULD BE MADE ONE WITH HIM!!!!

If your in this room today and haven't placed your faith in Jesus because you think you are too far gone…

Hear this…the man writing this letter..PAUL…was a persecutor and murder of God’s people…

And placed his faith in Christ…and NOW HE IS TELLING YOU…YOU TOO CAN BE ONE WITH JESUS!!!

And as we continue on in this text we will see Paul tell us ALL THE BENEFITS OF BEING ONE WITH THE SON!!!

If being made righteous wasn’t enough there is more!!!

READ 3:29-4:5

There are 2 benefits of oneness Paul is going to show us today…

the first is this…

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ONE WITH JESUS

We Become Heirs with Him (3:29-4:5)

We already established that we are children of God through faith in Jesus…

But since we are children of God through faith…that also makes us HEIRS

By definition HEIR is that of an inheritor…those who receive their allotted possession by right of sonship.

What Paul is saying is that

Romans 8:17 “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.”

We are adopted through Jesus!

He dwells inside of us f(4:6-7)