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Study #1: The Gospel of Grace

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Paul’s first Journey: 45-48 AD Letter to the Galatians: 48-58 AD

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THE GOOD NEWS OF GRACE

• Through Jesus Christ

and God the Father (1.1)

• From God our Father and

the Lord Jesus Christ (1.3)

• Through a revelation of

Jesus Christ (1.12)

1) The Good News comes from God

THE GOOD NEWS OF GRACE

The Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins (1.4)

2) The Good News is Jesus Christ Himself

THE GOOD NEWS OF GRACE

GRACE: We couldn't afford it, God gave it to us. PEACE: The complete adjust we couldn't have

• r do it ourselves

3) The Good News is all about Grace and Peace

THE GOOD NEWS OF GRACE

GRACE to you and PEACE from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen. (1.3,4)

THE GOOD NEWS OF GRACE

I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not nullify the GRACE of God (2.20-21)

THE GOOD NEWS OF GRACE

• For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ
• Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ

have clothed yourselves with Christ. (3.26-27)

• If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s

descendants, heirs according to promise. (3.29)

• You are no longer a slave, but children (4.7)
• It was for freedom that Christ set us free (5.1)

THE BAD NEWS

LEGALISM: Get God’s favour through works Working to earn God’s favour NOMISM: Conduct based on law Working in our own power LIBERTINISM: Misuse of freedom Working according to our own rules

THE BAD NEWS

• Salvation through works (3.2-5)
• Observance of Jewish rites (4.9-10)
• Sin as something normal (5.13)
• Need for circumcision (6.12)

I must listen to the Gospel. It tells me, not what I must do, but what Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has done for me. Martin Luther

PAUL’S REACTION

I am amazed ... (1.6) But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!

(1.8-9)

PAUL’S REACTION

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justifjed by law; you have fallen from grace. (5.4) The one who is disturbing you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. (5.10)

PAUL’S REACTION

The glory of God: For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. (1.10)

PAUL’S REACTION

The Galatians’ welfare: There are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

(1.6)

Some have disturbed you with their words, unsettling your souls.

(Acts 15.24)

I dare say that if we cared more for the glory of God and for the good of the human soul, then we would not be able to tolerate the corruption

• f the gospel of grace.

John Stott

PAUL’S REACTION

You are… deserting Him… for a different gospel; which is really not another gospel.

(1.6,7)

Heteros (gr.):

• ther, changed

Allos (gr.): another one, something else

PAUL’S REACTION

I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel

(1.6)

Metatithêmi (gr.): To transfer fjdelity

PAUL’S REACTION

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucifjed? … Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the fmesh?

(3.1,3)

Bas-kah’-ee-no (gr.): to fascinate

PAUL’S REACTION

You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? (5.7)

PAUL’S REACTION

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.

Hebrews 12.2

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been fjrmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and

• verfmowing with gratitude. See to it that no one takes you captive

through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the fmesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your fmesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

Colossians 2.6-13

How little people know who think that holiness is dull… when one meets the real thing, it’s irresistible! Jeremiah 20.7


O Lord, You have deceived me and I was deceived; You have

• vercome me and prevailed. seduced

Study #1: The Gospel of Grace