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Introduction
How do you typically react to change?
Do you thrive on change, or does it make you nervous?
What does this say about your personality?
What is the biggest life change you’ve experienced recently?
What do you remember most about that experience?
How did you handle the change?
Illustration: I have a boring testimony.
Grew up in the church.
The Bible says that we have all been rescued.
Our need to be transferred out of darkness into light, to be moved from death to life.
All of us are beggars in need of Grace.
Not matter how dull we might judge our own stories, we are desperate people in need of the Savour.
This passage is a great display of God’s grace.
BUT, the bible says that we have all been rescued.
We have all been transferred out of darkness into light and have passed from death to life.
All of us are beggars in need of Grace.
Not matter how dull we might judge our own stories, we are desperate people in need of the Savour.
This passage is a great display of God’s grace.
Transition: Where does the gospel that Paul is talking about comes from?
Where does the Gospel come from?
(Vs.
11-12)
11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel.
12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Where does the Gospel come from?
Why did Paul make a distinction between the gospel he preached and man’s gospel?
Describe these two gospels and their differences.
Now he says the same thing again: “the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel” (Gal.
1:11).
Literally, Paul “gospeled” the gospel that comes from God.
Vs:11 - Same things as verse 1. Literally, Paul “gospeled” the gospel that comes from God. Creating a big gapping hole between what he is saying and what they are saying.
“Preached by me” Paul’s preaching was focuses on “Christ crucified.”
Nothing could be added to what Christ had already done.
Drawing lines still of the different gospel that was being told to the Galatians.
“Not man’s gospel” Denies that it could have come from anyone or anything else.
Vs. 12 Denies that it could have come from anyone or anything else.
The Gospel is not mans good news about God it’s God’s good news for man.
The Gospel is not mans good news about God it’s God’s good news for man.
“Did not receive it from any man” Denies his gospel was something he received by people or taught.
See that further in 16 to 24.
Why would he need to be?
He had seen the risen Christ for himself, there was nothing he needed to double-check.
But than gives a positive.
Unlike that other gospel message that these people are spreading, this gospel messages is from Jesus Christ.
Look at verse 12.
Paul’s response
You got to think that we could not come up with the Gospel.
If we were given the power to determine how one earned God’s favour and a place with him forever, we would make up a scoring system, something that emphasized our good we are.
Why?
Because the natural default mode of our hearts is trying to win brownie points with God by what we do.
But grace offends our natural sensibilities.
We don’t naturally trust grace.
We want control.
People could not make up the gospel; it came from God.
What does the Gospel do to our lives?
(Vs.
13-24)
The gospel of grace is like water: people did not invent it, and people cannot live without it.
We are spiritually thirsty creatures in need of the living water of the gospel.
If you are a Christian, we need to keep drinking from this well of grace.
Many Christians think they should move on from the gospel - as if there is something more important that Christ’s work.
No, keep drinking more of grace keep working the gospel into your heart.
You will be prepared to tell unbelievers that what they desperately need is not good advice or moral improvement, but the good news from God about new life in Jesus.
What is the source of your beliefs?
What is the source of our beliefs as a church?
Think about a GPS.
The other day, dropped Matt off.
First hardware store.
Costume shop.
Second, tire shop.
This GPS was my source for getting to the hardware store, but the system was faulty.
Make sure you are trust in the right source: Jesus.
Don’t trust in the treadmills of work-based righteousness.
Instead, trust in the One who said, “Come to me…and I will give you rest.”
KNOLLWOOD: Let us be a church that is centred on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Let’s trust THIS (HOLD BIBLE UP) alone as our source of beliefs.
It comes out, our believes, in how we act.
People walk through the door and can tell if something is off.
It shows in how we sing.
How we speak or treat or think about other people.
In our desires to be in a community centred around the gospel.
It should in how we handle what we’ve been entrusted with to pass it along to others.
Not only has he called us to himself, but he has called us into this family, it’s why membership is important.
Church membership, done right, reminds us of what God has done in our lives.
That not only has he called us to himself, but also to each other.
Let us be a church that is trusting in the gospel as our source.
Where do we get our beliefs from?
It’s so important tthat we get our beliefs from the right source.
Transition: The gospel comes from God, but what does it do when it arrives?
The answer is that it changes a person’s whole life.
Think about GPS trying to get
The gospel that God gives shows our need for God's grace, transforms our lives, and keeps us faithful to Christ.
What does the Gospel do to our lives?
(Vs.
13-24)
What happened to Paul when he received Christ?
How did his life change?
Paul was transformed by his encounter with Jesus.
He was not just tweaked by it.
Like Paul, we need more than a minor adjustment when we come to Christ; we need transformation.
Only the gospel transforms people from the inside out.
Paul’s story of God working in his life is a good reminder for all of us about the difference Jesus Christ can make in a sinners life.
Look at what the gospel did to Paul.
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