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Bewitched

Bewitched Arguments for Justification by Faith

Arguments for Justification by Faith

This begins the doctrinal section

Chapters 3–4 are doctrinal, for in them Paul explains the relationship between law and grace.

Three words that are repeated frequently are faith (fourteen times), law (nineteen times) and promise (eleven times).

Paul presents arguments, in each chapter, seeking to prove that salvation is by grace, through faith, apart from the works of the Law.

The galatians were bewitched by the judaizers.

If any thig n turns ou from setting your hope in Christ alone for salvation it is satanic the work of the devil.

They thought they had become learned and understood the way of salvation better but in fact they were just under a curse.

THe devil operates by blindness and he uses all manner of things to blind people to the simple truth of God's message

2Co_4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Who has bewitched you?” he asks,

if anything that leads a man to trust in his own works it should be hated as the incantations of a witch.

“Who has bewitched you?”

It is a dangerous state, it is a devilish snare to be brought into—to be led to trust anything else but Christ.

It is a strange thing that those who have seen Christ should ever go back to these things

So Paul lays it out with no stone unturned in the next two chapters as the reasons why it cannot be the law it is CHrist alone or we are without hope.

Personal argument

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Jezabel simon the sorcerer witch with saul bewitched the people it is a form of manipulation to get people to do detrimental things by which they stand to gain.

It was the Judaizers that bewitched them.

Witchcraft, the exercise or invocation of alleged supernatural powers to control people or events

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

You need to learn to identify them.

Who is it that is trying to get you to disobey God ?

They do six things manipulation

They try to get you to disobey God vs 1

If someone is trying to get you to violate the pure truth of the scriptures that is witchcraft.

And if you go along and think it will be ok to disobey God you are bewitched.

Take credit for what God does vs 2

It is not you you are not great God is great.

THey flattery you and puff you up

They take advantage of your lack of experience.

( fool knows but does not do) Vs 3

A fool knows the truth but he does not practice the truth.

They took advantage of these inexperienced christians.

Manipulate you when you are gullible.

They can see when you do not live up to what you believe and swoop in.

They try to get you to mix works and faith vs 3

(you trust God for your spiritual life but not your daily life)

You do not need only God you also need me and my system.

They operate off of fear

He that believeth on the name of the Lord Jesus christ shall still be saved

They try to minimize your salvation experience vs 4

They try to get you to make your own miracle vs 5

Simon said give me this power by money

They were foolish in their decision to give them ear.

By trying to follow the law.

To make sure they were saved and by keeping the holy days to try to earn favor with God they became disobedient.

They were disobedient by trying to be obedient.

Obedience to the truth for salvation is faith to trust to rest in the free gift

Anything else is disobedience.

Ist that good you just rest in what God did for you

Well I am kind of nervous trust me.

Well I am also going to do this that is showing disobedience to trusting christ.

Imagine if a man is on an airplane and the plane will eventually go down running out of gas throw him a parachute put this one it will save you.

HE puts it on but says there is more to be done maybe I can go check the engines.

But to do that he has to take the parachute off.

The more scared he is the more tightly he should cling to the parachute.

Listen all our hope is tied up into what Christ did.

IF it is not true we are without hope and of all men most miserable.

Who bewitched you to take off the parachute?

Than he goes on to say

before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

They saw God the Son (v. 1)

It was “Christ and Him crucified” that Paul had preached in Galatia, and with such effectiveness that the people could almost see Jesus crucified for them on the cross.

evidently set forth means “publicly portrayed, or announced on a poster.”

Just as we put important information on a poster and display it in a public place,

Paul openly presented Christ to the Galatians, with great emphasis on His death for sinners on the cross.

They heard this truth, believed it, and obeyed it; and as a result, were born into the family of God.

How I taught it so plainly so vividly so that you could almost see it like you were there.

I showed you how he did because of you and for you.

They received God the Holy Spirit (vv.

2–4)

This only would I learn of you,

Answer this question tell me this let me understand what you are thinking?

Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

When the holy spirit came into you when you were born again was it because you did something special ?

Or because you had faith and believed ?

It is important that we understand the work of the Spirit in salvation and Christian living.

The Holy Spirit convicts the lost sinner and reveals Christ to him ().

The sinner can resist the Spirit () or yield to the Spirit and trust Jesus Christ.

When the sinner believes in Christ, he is then born of the Spirit () and receives new life.

He is also baptized by the Spirit so that he becomes a part of the spiritual body of Christ ().

The believer is sealed by the Spirit () as a guarantee that he will one day share in the glory of Christ.

Are ye so foolish?

having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

This is a great verse to show that you are saved by grace and you are kept by faith.

People that do not believe in eternal security do not believe this verse.

It was grace a free gift.

Suppose you are out in the ocean on a cruise ship.

And you way out and you get knocked off the boat you can swim and you are trying to tread water

And a motor boat comes by big motor boat speed boat.

And the guy jumps out of the boat and does the backstroke and the australian crawl dn the breast stroke says this is how you do it gets back in the boat

Or what if he circles you and reads you a book about swimming and how to stay safe swimming and how to glide through the water

Blub blub

What if he reaches out grabs you pulls you into the boat and towels you off and on the way back to sore he throws you out because you are not sitting in the boat right?

You do not need and example you do not need instructions you need a savior.