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Today we continue to walk through Paul’s letter to the Galatians…and what we’ve been hearing OVER and OVER again from Paul...
Is that the Galatians - IF THEY were to receive circumcision as a means of salvation - would become ACCOUNTABLE for the whole law!
They would take themselves - back UNDER the law of God…NEEDING to adhere to it - PERFECTLY - for all time.
And so what Paul has been doing is - GUARDING the Galatians from the law AS their savior.
Paul knew - and taught - that the law of God was POWERLESS to save!
And so - as we’ve been saying - Paul has been calling the Galatians - AWAY from using the Law as a savior!
That our WORKS CANNOT save us!
And then TODAY - in our text - Paul does something that I feel resembles what he did in Romans chapter 6...
IN Paul’s letter to the Romans - He spends the first 5 chapters ELEVATING - FAITH over works!
And in chapters 3-5 ESPECIALLY - Paul throws FAITH haymaker after FAITH haymaker...
PUSHING FAITH ALONE - as that which SAVES!!
Faith ALONE in Christ ALONE!
And BECAUSE THAT was Paul’s message early on in the letter - PAUL Does what?
See - Paul KNOWS who he’s dealing with!
We talked about it last week...
What will MANKIND DO - when given FREEDOM!
We’ll - Take…it for granted!
We’ll take advantage of it!!
We’ll hear that CHICK FIL-A is giving away FREE sandwiches - and we’ll ASK - HOW.MANY
We’ll hear that our TEST won’t COUNT for anything - and we - WON’T.STUDY
We’ll hear that FAITH ALONE saves - and we’ll CONTINUE in SIN…that grace may abound!
Paul’s response in Romans after HAMMERING - “it’s ALL OF FAITH”?
Do you see what Paul did here in Romans?
He had CALLED people OUT from UNDER the LAW...
SLIDE: ROOM GRAPHIC
It’s like Paul is standing in the MIDDLE of a ROOM.
...and on the RIGHT side of the room - you have the LAW of God!
On the OPPOSITE side of the room you have LAWLESSNESS (sin)!
Paul is standing in the MIDDLE!
…Calls for these people - WHO ARE UNDER the law - to come out from UNDER it...
…and JOIN him in the middle - STANDING on Faith Alone!
WELL - Paul KNOWS - mankind!
He knows that UPON HEARING about - FAITH ALONE...
Those people will RUN RIGHT PAST him…to the OPPOSITE side of the room...
AND DECLARE - ...let's continue in sin that grace may abound!"
And so - ROMANS 6:1 is a WARNING verse...
it’s Paul - BLOCKING the path - to lawlessness!
And this is EXACTLY what Paul is doing in our text today!
He’s been calling the Galatians to NOT GO BACK UNDER the LAW...
He’s looking at MAINLY gentiles - and saying - NO - you don’t NEED to get circumcised to be saved...
TRUST ME - it’s FAITH ALONE - in Christ ALONE!!
And- AS the Galatians come running toward Paul to POSSIBLY blow right past him and head to - LAWLESSNESS...
Only 3 verses today - but they are PACKED with an IMMENSELY relevant truth in your life!
In Paul calling the Galatians - to STEP AWAY from circumcision… as a means of salvation...
We see that there is a battle going on between Paul and the False Teachers!
The False TEACHERS - calling the Galatians to EMBRACE circumcision in ORDER to BE SAVED...
…were calling the Galatians to LIVE A CERTAIN WAY…!
They wanted the Galatians to WALK thru life - Physically circumcised!
PAUL on the other hand…was ALSO calling the Galatians to LIVE A CERTAIN WAY!
How?
The false teachers were saying - WALK thru life - PHYSICALLY circumcised!
Paul said...
walk thru life - BY THE SPIRIT!
Or - by MEANS of the Spirit!
WHY?
Last half of the verse...
“…and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh”
And so what’s on the table today?
The Spirit
The flesh
Remember how for the past several weeks we’ve talked about those two paths of life...
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FREEDOM
SLAVERY
Well - we see here today that ...
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FREEDOM (Walking by the Spirit)
SLAVERY (Walking in the flesh)
Well we know that Paul has been calling the Galatians - to - - FREEDOM - IN Christ...
And if we just GLANCE BACK at our text from last week for a moment…we're going to see this...
SLIDE: Walking by the Spirit: Leads to Loving Service to Others
Walking by the Spirit
NOW - the past couple of weeks we’ve seen those TWO paths of life (FREEDOM and SLAVERY)
FREEDOM up against SLAVERY
NOW - today....
Here we have FREEDOM up against - - the FLESH
We see here Paul calling the Galatians to LOVING service of others...
How does that happen according to this text?
by the FLESH?
NO - in the FREEDOM we have IN CHRIST...
That’s how this service comes...
The flesh won’t SERVE others....it will what?
v15 from last week...
The FLESH will devour our fellow man...
and then - next verse - our first verse today...
See it?
Walking by the Spirit - will lead to LOVING service of others!
Paul’s SAYING - Don’t DEVOUR one another!
INSTEAD - Walk by the Spirit!!
*See - when that person INSULTS you.... YOUR OWN strength is only strong enough to DESTROY them!
We’re not strong enough - in and of ourselves - to NOT destroy them.
We need the STRENGTH of God Himself - His Spirit - to LIVE THROUGH us...
SO THAT we can SERVE them - even our enemies!!
And you might say - yeah but MIKE - I know non-christians who are SUPER CHILL - and wouldn’t hurt a fly..they wouldn’t RETURN insult for insult!
SEE - your analogy doesn’t work!!
Well - When I say SERVE them - I don’t mean - BE NICE to them!
I mean - SERVE THEM with a CHRIST-LIKE servant heart...
I mean - LOVE THEM with the love of Jesus!
Your non-believing friend - who is SUPER-NICE to everyone - LISTEN - HATES EVERYONE because they don’t LOVE others with the LOVE of Jesus!
They might get insulted - and they might respond by baking that MEAN person some cookies...
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