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Introduction
Remember the 80’s fashion?
Raiders football gear, tight rolled pants, overalls with one flap down.
And what about those hairstyles?
Guys wore mullets, and ladies were walking fire hazards with all that hairspray on those bangs!
My parent’s generation wasn’t any better.
Liesure suites, short coaching shorts, waterfall haircut.
I remember looking through photo albums and wondering: “What were they thinking” It’s all a sign that we are fallen people.
Platt, David.
Exalting Jesus in Galatians (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary) (p.
136).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
Of all the things that have been worn, what do you think the disciples would have thought was weird?
So why does Paul say this is the only thing that you can boast in?
Paul begins his closing statement summarizing his thoughts and contrasts his cross-centred ministry with the self-exalting ministry of the false teachers.
Platt, David.
Exalting Jesus in Galatians (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary) (p.
136).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
1. Compelled Vs. 11
Vs.
11 Why is Paul writing with such big letters?
The boldness of the handwriting answers to the force of the apostle’s convictions.
He wants to get his readers attention.
Paul want’s to reemphasize the central message of the letter and his own personal investment in it.
the boldness of the handwriting answers to the force of the apostle’s convictions.
Vs. 12 Look!
These people want to make you fulfill the law because they don’t want to suffer.
George, T. (1994).
Galatians (Vol.
30, p. 432).
Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
Paul is charging them, as we will see later, not only with dangerous doctrinal deviation, they have moved from the true gospel to a false gospel, but thier motivation where even wrong.
“Maybe if I get them to be circumcized, I can still call myself a Christian, and not get persecuted for it.”
“to make a good showing in the flesh” These teachers wanted to make a good impression outwardly.
When these false missionaries got home, they wanted to declare at their next missionaries meeting of how much they have to show for their efforts.
So by their teaching, they are showing what they cherish the most.
Application: This is a massive warning for me.
A challenge not only to make sure that the message is true, but that my motives are right.
The only way I can combat the pride that wells up within my is to daily crucify those passions and desires (5:24).
Christians inevitably face this temptation because the cross has a way of inviting persecution.
It arouses opposition because it says that we are sinners under God’s curse.
It tells us that we need someone else to die for our sins, that there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, only trust in Jesus.
Christians inevitably face this temptation because the cross has a way of inviting persecution.
It arouses opposition because it says that we are sinners under God’s curse.
It tells us that we need someone else to die for our sins, that there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, only trust in Jesus.
There’s a story of a pastor who once had a conversation with a woman who was wrestling with the claims of Christ.
She had begun to realize that surrendering to God’s will for her salvation would require radical changes.
“If I believed that my friends at the pool were really going to hell,” she said, “then I would have to tell them about Jesus, wouldn’t I? But then I wouldn’t have any more friends!”
Maybe not.
People generally do not like being told that they are sinners who need a Savior.
But this is what it means to be a Christian: it means standing up for Christ and his cross.
Ryken, P. G. (2005).
Galatians.
(R. D. Phillips, P. G. Ryken, & D. M. Doriani, Eds.) (p.
271).
Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
BI: When you know the significance of Jesus’ death, then you can agree with Paul’s desire to boast only in the cross you will see the emptiness of anything else.
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An Empty Boast.
Vs. 12 -13
Vs. 12 “to make a good showing in the flesh” These teachers wanted to make a good impression outwardly.
When these false missionaries got home, they wanted to declare at their next missionaries meeting of how much they have to show for their efforts.
Paul is charging them, as we will see later, not only with dangerous doctrinal deviation, they have moved from the true gospel to a false gospel, but thier motivation where even wrong.
“Maybe if I get them to be circumcized, I can still call myself a Christian, and not get persecuted for it.”
“to make a good showing in the flesh” These teachers wanted to make a good impression outwardly.
When these false missionaries got home, they wanted to declare at their next missionaries meeting of how much they have to show for their efforts.
True religion is inward.
Although it always works its way out, it starts within, where the Holy Spirit regenerates a sinner’s heart.
The problem with making something like circumcision the essence of Christianity is that it is only an outward sign.
It is merely external, something done to the body, to the flesh of sinful self-reliance.
True religion is not based on outward works; it is based on inward faith.
And these missionaries motives were wrong as they wanted to be able to brag about what they had done, not what God had done.
Their motives were also wrong in another way.
Ryken, P. G. (2005).
Galatians.
(R. D. Phillips, P. G. Ryken, & D. M. Doriani, Eds.) (p.
272).
Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
Are you cultivating humility in your life and trying to crucify human pride?
How can you do this?
You must go to the cross.
At the cross, our pride bubble gets popped.
There is no room for boasting at Golgotha.
We must crucify the flesh and walk by the Spirit to cultivate humility and avoid the false teacher’s pattern.
“In order that they may not be persecuted from the cross of Christ.”
These people want to make you fulfill the law because they don’t want to suffer.
Paul is charging them, as we will see later, not only with dangerous doctrinal deviation, they have moved from the true gospel to a false gospel, but their motivation where even wrong.
“Maybe if I get them to be circumcized, I can still call myself a Christian, and not get persecuted for it.”
Application: This is a massive warning for me.
A challenge not only to make sure that the message is true, but that my motives are right.
This is the challenge when one feels opposition.
The only way I can combat the pride that wells up within my is to daily crucify those passions and desires (5:24).
Christians inevitably face this temptation that these missionaries faced, compromising on what the Bible says, because the cross has a way of inviting persecution.
It arouses opposition because it says that we are sinners under God’s curse.
It tells us that we need someone else to die for our sins, that there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, only trust in Jesus.
There’s a story of a pastor who once had a conversation with a woman who was wrestling with the claims of Christ.
She had begun to realize that surrendering to God’s will for her salvation would require radical changes.
“If I believed that my friends at the pool were really going to hell,” she said, “then I would have to tell them about Jesus, wouldn’t I? But then I wouldn’t have any more friends!”
Maybe not.
People generally do not like being told that they are sinners who need a Savior.
But this is what it means to be a Christian: it means standing up for Christ and his cross.
For us, the application is clear.
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