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Stop Thief!
Have you ever had anyone steal something from you, or try to steal something from you?
Not a very pleasant experience is it?
There are people, organizations that are trying to steal from you, Paul offers reminders and warning now.
(Scripture references Jn10:10; Jn8:44; Jn8:32; Rom8:1-4)
(Stop Thief Picture)
Paul is making a shift from the doctrinal to the practical, from knowledge to application.
There is much to learn in the last two chapters of this book.
Much we can learn historically about then and preventative for us today.
Judiazers were trying to steal the grace of God then, legalism today can do the same thing.
Jesus said (not on slide):
Satan is a thief, he is a liar and a murderer and has been since the beginning (Jn8:44).
He uses many ways to try to steal away the grace of God.
He uses religion to try to do it in the form of legalism following a set of rules, doctrines of man, vs relying and trusting in the grace of God and the sufficiency of Christ.
It was at the cross Satan was defeated, it was displayed at the resurrection.
But still, he wants to kill your freedom, and destroy your walk with Christ, but remember why Jesus came, to give you life, and give it abundantly, or some versions say “full.”
The Judiazers had hundreds of years, many generations with the system of works they were accustomed to.
Some believed in the grace of God and believed in Jesus but did not believe it was enough.
Jesus was a good teacher, but they believed they still needed their high standards.
Today in our society if people realized the freedom they have in Christ, legalism due to creeds and doctrines outside of the bible would not be an issue, there would be One church that Jesus Christ is the head of.
Some may say that without the creeds, doctrines, teachings that must be followed there would be religious anarchy.
Anarchy means a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.
Christians who live by faith and have been justified by grace through faith are not going to be anarchists (rebels).
Quite to the contrary they are going to experience inner discipline of God rather than outer discipline of man-made rules.
Christians who live by faith and have been justified by faith through grace are not going to be anarchists (rebels).
Quite to the contrary they are going to experience an inner discipline of God rather than the outer discipline of man-made rules.
“No man could become a rebel who depends on God’s grace, yields to God’s Spirit, lives for others and seeks to glorify God.” - Wiersbe
Christians who are surrendered to Christ, who depend on the power of the Spirit are not denying the Law of God, they are not even rebelling against it, they are fulfilling it.
According to (v.3) what was the law? - weak!
What was Jesus (v.4) the fulfillment of the requirement of the law
So if it is fulfilled what does that mean? - it is no longer needed.
Maybe an outline of the last 2 chapters can make it easy to see the flow of the rest of the book.
I am set free; no longer in bondage to the Law (Gal5:1-12)
I need someone to control my life from the inside (Gal5:13-26)
Because of the Spirit’s love, I want to live to serve others (Gal6:1-10)
Loving my liberty and living to give glory to God (Gal6:11-18)
No matter how we look at it, no matter who we may slice it, legalism kills.
Kills grace, kills unity, kills salvation.
It is insidious and dangerous to the health of the church.
When we abandon grace for law, or try to add to grace you always lose.
(Stop Legalism picture)
May we stop for a minute, I want you to think about legalism today, can you give any examples?
Our section tonight we are looking at what is at risk, what we can lose when we turn from God’s grace to man-made rules and regulations.
You lose your liberty
Freedom!
This series has been all about freedom or the liberty that we have in Christ Jesus and there is much at stake here that can be lost.
(Freedom picture)
Do you remember that movie that is from, Braveheart and the iconic line that said “they make take our lives but they will never take our freedom.”
Well, it is for freedom that Christ came.
Freedom from the law, freedom from legalism then, and we have the Word to free us from it today.
Paul has already shown us what the Law is
A schoolmaster/guardian (Gal3:24)
A bondwoman (Gal4:22ff)
Peter uses same imagery (Act15:10); and Paul speaks of freedom that can be taken in our passage tonight (Gal5:1)
The yoke of the law, Peter said they, fathers could bear it; Paul calls it a yoke of slavery.
Let me give you the passages though
and here is from our passage tonight
Maybe today it is not the law of Moses that people yoke themselves too, but other forms of legalism.
Maybe people are following a leader and not the Bible, turning to what man says vs. what God says.
That is a yoke.
Christ calls for us to yoke ourselves to Him (Mt11:28-30)
What does Jesus say to do (v.28)?
Who is to do it (v.28)?
What are the instructions in (v.29)?
What are the results of following the instructions (vv.29-30)?
I know this is basic stuff right?
but if we are not careful we may not be diligent in protecting our freedom or forgetting what we have in our freedom and be taken back into a form of bondage we do not need to have.
The yoke of the law enslaves us, to the unsaved person today it is a yoke of sin (Lam1:14), to the legalist today it is a yoke of bondage (Gal5:1)
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Christ has made us free, set us free from the curse (Gal3:13) and set us free from the law to be under grace (Rom6:14) and gave us the Spirit of life (Rom8:1-4)
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Christ has made us free, set us free.
How?
By taking on the curse of the law by dying on the tree.
We are no longer under the law, but under Gods grace through faith
Now, don’t think that because we are under grace that we are free to sin; we are freed from the bondage of sin.
We are free to live for Christ and have the freedom He died for us to have.
No external force (law) is needed to help us keep God’s will and to know God’s will.
We have the internal and eternal leading of the Holy Spirit.
You have heard the expression “just do it” you may have even heard the expression “don’t do it” well that is a legalist implied term.
Don’t do this, don’t touch that
Paul commands, issues an ultimatum “Don’t be entangled in a yoke of bondage, take up your stand for liberty!
Take your stand (Gal5:1; Php1:27; Eph6:13) Protect your liberty by your stand!
Stand firm in one spirit, mind, striving together for the gospel
Stand firm having put on the full armor of God.
We need God’s armor for the days are evil, perverse, crooked, people want to take away your liberty in Christ from the outside and even on the inside of the church at times.
Next thing you can lose when you do not stand firm in your liberty, your freedom in Christ Jesus is:
Lose your wealth
Paul asserts his apostolic authority, as the one who taught them the gospel and they responded to it.
Now he addresses the ability to lose their wealth, their riches in Christ.
This is a very strong section with serious implications.
What do you see, what do you notice, what sticks out to you?
(Freedom from bondage or legalism picture)
When you turn from Christ, the sufficiency, the superiority and the supremacy of Christ and you trade the grace of God through Christ then it is a form of bondage, a form of legalism then.
Christ will be no benefit to you (v.2)
expand on this
You become a debtor to the whole law (v.3)
when we were unsaved, we were debtors and had a debt we could not pay.
But Jesus, well, he took it on and paid the debt, paid the ransom, the price of redemption!
When we turn to the law we must keep the whole law, for there is no means of justification under the law.
It demands perfect adherence.
You have been severed from Christ (v.4)
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