Sermon Tone Analysis

Faith and Freedom: Gospel of Freedom

Review:

“Penguin Impulse” Christians look like.

Review:

Gospel: Not from people or church traditions

Gospel came straight from the top!

2:1-10:

Ch. 1 Argument: The source of the Gospel didn’t come out of Jerusalem,

1. False Brothers

2. Apostle to the Gentile Clan

3. Pillar Apostles

3. Commissioned to the Jews Brother Gospel

“Nationalistic Gospel” vs. “Jewish-and Gentile-universalistic Gospel”

vv.1-3: McKnight: “Paul’s Presentation of his Message”

Barnabas: Barnabas: Jew- Levite!

Son of Encouragement

Travelled with Paul through his first missionary journey

Stoned with Paul

Titus: Greek

God sent him to Jerusalem through a revelation.

Draw up Temple Jerusalem and the ‘Building’ of the Church

Gentiles are now in, just as ‘in’.

Big deal for Titus to be there.

Issue of Circumcision: It’s significance for salvation

McKnight: “Since the “pillars” of Jerusalem did not demand Titus’s circumcision, it can be assumed that they did not think circumcision was necessary for salvation.

It can also be assumed that they did not think joining Judaism was necessary; Gentiles could simply turn to Jesus for their salvation by trusting in him.”

McKnight: “Furthermore, this gave Paul an even deeper argument (essentially the argument of vv.

1–10): his gospel was both independent of, and confirmed by, Jerusalem.

This gave the Judaizers and the Galatians no way out.”

since the “pillars” of Jerusalem did not demand Titus’s circumcision, it can be assumed that they did not think circumcision was necessary for salvation.

It can also be assumed that they did not think joining Judaism was necessary; Gentiles could simply turn to Jesus for their salvation by trusting in him.

Ch. 2: Source was endorsed and similar to the Gospel by Jerusalem.

In other words, what is important about this passage is that the message Paul is preaching is in line with the message that is being preached in Jerusalem.

“False brothers”: Spies

5 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

vv.6-10: McKnight: “Unity expressed by the Jerusalem pillars and Paul Over Paul’s Message”

Ch. 1: The source of the Gospel didn’t come from Jerusalem.

Ch. 2: The source was endorsed.

v.7-8 “Division of labor”

Lifting up Paul as one of those pillars

How would those with authority in Jerusalem respond to this Gospel?

They offered Paul the “right hand of fellowship”.

Recognized the source as legit.

Stott: “It is you Galatians who are deserting the gospel; it is not I.’

Social vs. Theological Issues

Social vs. Theological Issues

Social Issues in the Church:

What do we paint in the walls?

Baptism in the church

Paint

Gay Marriage

Important event!

To ensure the news is the same:

We turn on the 6 o’clock news: Same event, different news

Fake News being spread about the Good News

“Penguin Impulse” Christians look like.

Group:

Group #1: Ambassadors of the Gospel Spectrum

Group #2: Spies Against Gospel Freedom

Group #3: Apparent Pillars of the Gospel for Jews

Group #3: Group #3: Apparent Pillars of the Gospel for Jews

Gospel of Love/Tolerance

One gospel, different accents

: ‘whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.’

Martin Luther: ‘Let this be then the conclusion of all together, that we will suffer our goods to be taken away, our name, our life, and all that we have; but the Gospel, our faith, Jesus Christ, we will never suffer to be wrested from us.

And cursed be that humility which here abaseth and submitteth itself.

Nay rather, let every Christian man here be proud and spare not, except he will deny Christ.

‘Wherefore, God assisting me, my forehead shall be more hard than all men’s foreheads.

Here I take upon me this title, according to the proverb: cedo nulli, I give place to none.

Yea, I am glad even with all my heart, in this point to seem rebellious and obstinate.

And here I confess that I am and ever will be stout and stern, and will not one inch give place to any creature.

Charity giveth place, for it “beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things” (), but faith giveth no place.…

‘Now, as concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.’

Group #1: Ambassadors of the Gospel Spectrum

vv.1-3

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.

3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek

Intro to Barnabbas and Titus

Paul: Jew, Roman Citizen

God sent him to Jerusalem through a revelation.

Barnabas:: Jew- Levite from Cyprus

Son of Encouragement

Introduced in the Bible:

Introduced in the Bible:

Sold a field, brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Travelled with Paul through his first missionary journey

“Stoned” with Paul

Titus: Greek

Faithful companion with Paul, partner in ministry

v.3: Titus: A Greek: He wasn’t forced to be circumsized

God sent him to Jerusalem through a revelation.

God sent him to Jerusalem through a revelation.

Barnabas: A Jew

v.3: Titus: A Greek: He wasn’t forced to be circumsized

Titus: A Greek: verse 3: He wasn’t forced to be circumsized

Foreign to be defined by whether or not you got cut on the 8th day of your birth!

Picture of the Temple and who can get near

Ambassadors of the Gospel Spectrum

Why?

Why?

Group #2: Spies for Slavery