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I - I LOVED the first day of school - Turning over a new leaf
In middle and in high school I was not a very good student, for lots of complicated reasons.
Looking back I think it had a lot to do with anxiety.
But I always LOVED the first week of school for a bunch of reasons.
No Homework
New Locker
Seeing my friends again
No Homework
School supplies
I liked the change of it.
But most of all
But most of all, its a fresh start.
Everyone begins the year with an A, and in my case it didn't always stay that way.
But I would start the year FULL of optimism.
Ready to turn over a new leaf.
Remembering the stress, and the failures of the previous year, but ready with a plan to do it better this year.
To really try hard in all my classes.
To keep track of my homework and do it.
To listen in class and study for tests!
Ready and optimistic about a new beginning.
Ready and optimistic about a new beginning.
And for that first glorious week of school and perhaps even the next few.
I would stay on top of things.
My efforts would pay off.
I would even get ahead in my classes.
But before long.
After a week or two or three one thing would start to slip.
I would zone out in math class one day and get behind.
My best intentions and my extra effort had warn off and I was ready for the next year and the next “new leaf” to turn over.
Y - Am I good Enough - Turning that Leaf
It seems like no matter how hard we try to be better.
How hard we try to turn over that new leaf in life it doesn’t seem to last.
My faith was a lot like that too growing up.
Massive spurts of effort, thwarted by the long haul.
We hear a really inspirational talk, get challenged by a passage of scripture, start a new year, or read a really good book.
And we go for it.
The bold among us tell a few people or even put it up on facebook.
From now on I am going to, quit smoking, eat better, excercise every day, get enough sleep at night
or Be kinder to people, put my phone away when I am home with the kids, own up to my mistakes
or read scripture every day, pray before i go to bed, go to church more often
And we get up all this energy, create a plan, and start grinding it out.
Checking off the list until we miss a day, things get busy, something big and distracting happens in our lives and, yup, here we are same place as before.
It can get so discouraging, it can make us feel SO guilty too.
So much so that year after year of this perhaps we give up on this kind of stuff completely.
We say, “I guess I’m just not a healthy or kind or spiritual kind of person,” some of us keep trying, and keep beating ourselves up when we fall short, and still others find another way to move forward.
We so desperately want to find a way to BE BETTER, to be Good enough.
We want something that we can actually live up to to be BETTER, to be GOOD.
B/c i dont konw about you but ive never met anyone who doesnt want to be “good” on some level.
On one side we double down on effort, or we give up entirely.
We are a slave to a system of behavior OR a slave to our own passions urges, and sinful desires.
(we eat a salad for every meal OR a plate of cookies) there is no inbetween!
G -
Transition: I think this deep anxiety about being good enough or just desire to be a good person gets mixed up quite a bit in how we think about God and our faith.
And many people and many many religious people of all kinds have a way of looking at the world that falls into a paradigm like this.
I think this
Be Good, Live Well, Do the Right thing, behave, follow the rules, whatever.
AND TEN
God, or the universe, or whoever will reward you.
With, blessings on earth, blessings in heaven, Love, acceptance.
whatever.
Many people, possibly even most people think about christian faith like this.
Jesus + Live Better/Be Good + Believe the right thing about x = God’s love/acceptance, being ok, go to heaven whatever.
Go to church, pray, be a good person, believe the right things, Believe in Jesus, follow the rules, read the bible behave ect.
(each group has a slightly different idea on what this looks like.
Baptism, predestination, drinking, eating, movies, VOTING, race, gender, marriage, ect.)
AND THEN
Go to heaven when you die, get blessing for self and family now.
Galatians did this
From what we can tell reading Galatians they had adopted a very simialr paradigm after some very conservative Jewish christians spent some time with them.
They were wrestling with this question, What does it mean to belong to God?
And some of them were starting to adopt that paradigm.
Theirs looked like this.
Believe in Jesus + Be Jewish in practice (And Be circumcised (guys), Eat Kosher, Keep Sabbath, follow Torah) = God’s love acceptance as his child.
Paul says STOP -
Galatians is Paul saying NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to that.
More emphatically then he says just about anything else in all of the NT.
(In 1 Corinthians son’s are sleeping with their step parents and Paul waits 5 chapter to talk about it.)
No real greeting, not encouragement, no massaging egos, just straight to the point.
1:6 gives a little peek at how serious he his.
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
(His blinking RED CHECK engine light) - THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG> STOP THE CAR.)
This is importnant.
An emergency letter
1:6 - listen to the tone of Paul’s letter.
Paul is worried
This letter reads like the blinking red check engine light.
(stop immediately pull over, ENGINE DAMAGE)
When something bad is happening far away and you dont know what to do… So you write a quick email, make a quick call.
this reads like “DONT TOUCH THAT LIVE WIRE”
but when you read the rest of galatians it can be kind of confusing what the big deal is and why it really matters, what is Paul so worried about?
So what is Paul so worked up about?
The Debate of Galatians - Who belongs in God’s family.
Jews are giving the gentiles an easier way- doing something
Paul says - Everyone who know CHrist.
Rather than letting god change all of them - they change their bodies (this lie is always like this) - gIVE GOD THIS INSTEAD - But it cant justify us, becaues righteousness comes form God, no matter how hard we try, or not.
Judiazers say - Everyone who knows Christ and you cant really know christ unless you belong to the Jewish people (circumcision, diet, sabbath, and torah)
So what if a few gentiles get circumcised?
Whats the big deal?
righteousness comes by faith As does transformation.
THe problem of a Jesus + Gospel.
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