Be Transformation: Learning to walk with straight feet
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20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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Theology-Study of God
Theology-Study of God
Reconciliation-Restoration of man to God then to his fellow man
Reconciliation-Restoration of man to God then to his fellow man
Unity-Blending together of a body into one whole
Unity-Blending together of a body into one whole
Transformation-Changing of form
Transformation-Changing of form
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20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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-Historical context of the book of Galatians.(Do not spend too much time on historical context of the book)
1 Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), 2 and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen. 6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel;
Galatians 1:
(v.6) What was the different Gospel that Paul was referring too???
3 But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
(v.3) The Jews were trying to impose circumcision as a requirement on the Gentiles for salvation.
Why is that a Problem?-The Jews where setting up another layer to Salvation. When we do that it is if we are saying that the cross is not enough. It is heresy to add anything to the cross. It is like taking 100% pure water and adding a little bit of poison. If something is already pure there is know need for adding anything.
-Paul calls it a different gospel.
-Most of us like to read about a good fight. Well today we are going to read about a beef between two heavyweights of the faith.
11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. 13 The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? 15 “We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles; 16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. 17 “But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be! 18 “For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
Galatians 2:11-
(v.11) “But when Peter came to Antioch” let’s try to put a timeline on this event:
-EXPLAIN -Folks at the end of the chapter got saved (v.45) Says “All the circumcise believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the HS had been poured out on the Gentiles also. Peter celebrated and shared food with them. Look at the beginning of Chapter 11 now
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1 Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him, 3 saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.” 4 But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying,
-(v.1) Word started to spread that the gospel was being preached to Gentiles and that they were being saved.
-(v.2) Peter returned to Jerusalem to get a rebuke from the circumcised who were questioning him over his dinners guest.
-(v.3) Basically saying why you down there eating unclean food with unclean people.
Sidenote: These were not Pharisees; they were the new converts to Christianity, that still could not let go of their ethnic superiority issues.
-(v.4) Peter tells them his vision and explains it to them
Now skip down to (v.15)
21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord. 22 The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch. 23 Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord; 24 for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And considerable numbers were brought to the Lord. 25 And he left for Tarsus to look for Saul; 26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
1 Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him, 3 saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
Acts 11:
15 “And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning. 16 “And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 “Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?” 18 When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.”
(v.15-18) Peter says when I preached to them they accepted the message and HS fell on them just as he did us. This message quieted down the Jewish Converts and they accepted the message that God was saving the Gentiles.
-Peter then tells them his vision,
How does Paul get to Antioch?
21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord. 22 The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch. 23 Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord; 24 for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And considerable numbers were brought to the Lord. 25 And he left for Tarsus to look for Saul; 26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
Acts
(v.21-26) Folks were getting saved down in Antioch it was a revival and the church at Jerusalem sent Barnabas down there to observe and to give validation to the revival.
(v.23) Barnabas saw it was a legit revival and he had a praise session
(v.25-26) Barnabas needed some help with all these new converts so he left and went to Tarsus to recruit Paul… “Barnabas said Paul it’s on fire in Antioch, and I need your help ministering and teaching all these folks”
(v.26) Paul agreed to come down and minister for a whole year the church exploded and that is where the Antiochene believers were named “Christians”---Little Christ. They did not call themselves that. Other people did as a term of mockery.
Sidenote: In the Early Church besides the church at Jerusalem(primarily Jews)…the First Baptist Church of Antioch(Primarily Gentile) was off the hook.
-In Chapter 13:1 The Church of Antioch was the church that commissioned Paul and Barnabas as missionaries to the Gentiles. They left and sailed to many cities to deliver the gospel.
-In Chapter 14 they are returning:
26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from which they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had accomplished. 27 When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they began to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. 28 And they spent a long time with the disciples.
(v.26-28) They return to Antioch to give a report of the missionary journeys and of all the testimony that they experienced. During that time they had a praise ceremony to celebrate that God had opened up salvation to the gentiles. They spent sometime at Antioch ministering. I think that it is during this time that Paul confronted Peter.
11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. 13 The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? 15 “We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles; 16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. 17 “But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be! 18 “For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
Galatians
(v.11) Paul is reflecting back on a past issue that happened between him and Peter(Cephas) “But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned” Paul is about to tell us about a situation that was so serious that he had to check Peter openly.
(v.12) “for prior to the coming of certain men from James” these men would have been men of high reputation and status. The James in this text is Jesus brother who was the Pastor of the Church of Jerusalem.
(v.12) “he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof” these are two imperfect verbs. Imperfect means past tense. This tells us that Peter’s withdrawal was not immediate, but very slow and methodical.
What was Peter doing????
-When Peter spent time with the Gentiles he ate; Ribs, Lobster, and scallops. When these Preacher sent from James the brother of Jesus came to observe what was going on in Antioch Peter would slowly separate from these new Gentile believers and pretend he did not know them anymore.
-(v.12) The word tell us why Peter did this: “fearing the party of the circumcision” The Party of the Circumcision are those that believed that gentiles needed to be circumcised before they were to be considered clean(saved).
What did Peter behavior lead to???
-(v.13) “The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy” Notice what Paul calls Peter’s action---Two-facedness---or crooked. To live hypocritically is live a “crooked” life.
-This sin by Peter affected other believers and the reason it affected other believers is because Ole Pete had such a big reputation. We might say “Peter was the man”
-(v.13) Now look at Paul “with the result that even Barnabas was carried away into hypocrisy” It’s as if Paul is saying “you even got my boy Barnabas pulling away from the Gentiles and causing a division in the body” Over circumcision.
-(v.14) “But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel” Normally when we think about the gospel we think of something spoken, but in this case it was not Peter message that was flawed it was his lifestyle. He was reverting back to his Jewish roots which the Lord had already freed him from. The Gospel is not just a verbal message, it is seen lifestyle. In other words how we live speaks that gospel as well as what we say.
---Straightforward---Orthopodeo---Right footing
----Paul says the living crooked and then causing others to follow so I had to confront them openly:
Principles for open confrontation:
The person is a person of influence
The sin has manifested into a visible act
The sin attacks the unity of the body
The sin compromises the truth of the gospel---leaving baby christians or the unbelievers confused.
-(v.14-18) Let me summarize Paul’s check of Peter:
-Paul basically tells Peter since you were freed up by Jesus from your former life as a Jewish man and now you act more like a gentile how is it that you now lead the gentiles back to your former behavior as a Jew.
-As the chosen people we were set apart to God, and the Gentiles were considered sinners and dirty, but we both recognize now that all of our righteousness, ethnicity means nothing, because the ground is level at the cross. Race, Social Status, neighborhood, and your last name don’t matter with Jesus. All of those things that meant something to us the things that we valued don’t mean a hill of beans to Jesus. And Peter you know that “Do better Pete leave your former life bury it in the grave, stop vacillating back to your old Hebrew ways.” In a nice way he was telling Peter to grow up.
-(v.18) Notice this verse
18 “For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
(v.18) Peter when you start to rebuild salvation by grace & circumcision you are rebuilding something that you once destroyed.....That makes you a transgressor....Oh church:
I. I Died
I. I Died
When you go back to lying after the Lord has delivered you
When you go back to alcohol when the Lord has already delivered you
When you go back to pride and anger when the Lord has already delivered you
When you go back to sexual sins when the Lord has already delivered you that makes you a
Transgressor---One who deviates from truth
Now after all the background should come alive for us
I. I Died
I. I Died
I. I Died
I. I Died
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
galatians 2:20
(v.20) “I have been crucified with Christ”
a. Crucified—Perfect Passive Verb---Perfect means an action in the past the has present implication. Passive meaning that Paul did not crucify himself it done to him by someone else.
What does Paul mean when he says he has been crucified?
Who crucified Paul
Paul means that I have died to my former life and my old self. Paul says who I used to be was put on the cross with Jesus. Jesus bore all of my sins and the root cause of my sins on the cross. When Jesus died my old self died as well.
Listen to these verses:
11 It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
Romans 6:3
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(v.6) Our old self all of things that we held tightly all of the sins that we loved have been crucified, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.......
Who crucified us???
(v.20) “you have been crucified with Christ” since we have been crucified with Christ then we must ascertain who crucified our Lord. In the natural world it was the Romans, but in the Spiritual world it was his own Father, who crucified.
10 But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
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Listen to me Saints: When Jesus carried that ole rugged cross to golgatha and they used that hammer and nailed him to the cross, all of my former self was also on the cross. The Father knew that we was going to draw me unto himself, and so he put my former self: My bad attitude, my pride, my lust, my arrogance, by fear, and my weaknesses on the cross with the Lord.
Paul was telling Peter and all of us that you have died to the dead religion of the Jews. You have died to the false pride that comes from the works of the law. You have died to the pride that comes from being a clean Jew.
Why would anyone who has died with the Lord chose to live as a practice in their old lifestyle after having tasted the newness of a walk with the Lord..
Illustration about the enzyme that is inside the caterpillar that puts the cocoon around him and liquifies his body
How has my life changed now???
II. I Rose
II. I Rose
II. I Rose
II. I Rose
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
(v.20) “it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” This says that I have come out of the grave as a different person. I am:
a. Spiritual----My Spirit man is now alive giving me the capacity to truly follow God, and to love God, and to see and understand God and most importantly the chains of sin have been broken I am no longer a slave to sin
b. Natural-----My natural man is perishing and refuses to admit that is is dying. My job is to remind my flesh daily that my I am spirit man and that I will not be lead around by my natural desires. Because God has given me dominion over my flesh......Analogy----Michael Myers & Jason keep getting shot and still get back up. Our flesh is like that. You have to keep shooting it. Then one of these old days when I either die or when the Lord comes back I will experience the full redemption of my natural body and I will never be tempted to sin again.
(v.20) When I went to the cross a spiritual exchange happened I changed from one slave master to another. Before my slave master was sin, now my slave master is Christ!!!!
-I want to live in such a way that people don’t see me anymore they see the Lord in my life.....Larry is gone I am a Son of the most high God, I am an offspring of El Shaddai, I am the progeny of Yahweh. I want you to see my big brother(Jesus) and my Patient Father(Elohim)
III. I Believe
III. I Believe
III. I Believe
III. I Believe
(v.20) “and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God” My life is no longer lived in the natural world. I do not make decision based on what I see, but based on the unseen God. Paul says my life is now a life based on trusting my heavenly father who is not tangible. I can’t touch nor do I see him. But I can deduce his present by what I observe in the world… I have never seen the wind of a hurricane, but I can see it’s power. I have never put Love in a test tube, nor have talk to Love to do an interview to see if it is real, but I see that tangible effects of Love everyday. I have never seen a microwave, a radiowave, nor have i seen a sunray but I know they exist because I have seen their effect. I put a bag of popcorn in the microwave and in 45 seconds I hear the popping of popcorn this tells me that there is an unseen force working on that bag of popcorn. I have never seen him, nor have I touch him. but I have seen his power by what he produces. He took a lustful, arrogant, prideful, silly boy and took him clean him up, dusted him off, and made him a preacher of the good news.
When this young boy picked up his bible and started to read it the words began to changed his life. Because the bible is more than just words. They are the words of God. And in these words are power to transform our lives into something new!!!!
Scientist used to believe that Butterflies were proved evolution, because they thought that although the butterfly is different than the caterpillar, then essential building blocks of the caterpillar still reside within the butterfly, but since they have discovered slow motion infrared cameras they can now watch in slow motion the whole process that happens when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly and the conclusion they have come to is that a caterpillar does not add wings, but that the caterpillar liquifies and morph’s into another species. Isn’t that like to use an insect to give us a hands on visual of what the christian life is.......It is not an addition, but a total transformation.
Now if God has change you from a caterpillar to butterfly why would you ever want to go back to squirming around when you can fly with beautiful wings on????
-Maybe it’s because you have never been truly changed from a caterpillar to a butterfly???? You see if you hang around butterflies long enough you can start to think you are butterfly when really you are still a caterpillar.
How can you know????
-When confronted with the truth either through the word, or through prayer, or through the saints do you make changes.....Let’s take a look at Peter after Paul checked him---Did he make the necessary changes to his life.
1 Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue. 3 Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren. 4 When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them. 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.” 6 The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter. 7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 “And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; 9 and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. 10 “Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11 “But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.” 12 All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Open the doors of the church
Have you been transform????
Pray for those that need Salvation
Pray for believers that need correction
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
“who loved me and gave himself up for me”