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Study #2: The Cost of Freedom

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the

• ne who called you to live in the grace of Christ…

Galatians 1.6 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucifjed. Galatians 3.1

DO WE NULLIFY GOD’S GRACE?
 DID CHRIST DIE IN VAIN?

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly. Galatians 2.21

DO WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO DEFEND OUR FREEDOM AT ANY COST?

Galatians 2.1-6 Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also… and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles… But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek…

DO WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO DEFEND OUR FREEDOM AT ANY COST?

Galatians 2.1-6 This matter arose because some false believers had infjltrated

• ur ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and

to make us slaves. But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. But from those who were of high reputation… added nothing to my message.

DO WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO DEFEND OUR FREEDOM AT ANY COST?

Though Greek and uncircumcised, Titus had been saved by God through the cross. The price was paid. Now he needed to live his freedom and Paul would fjght to protect his freedom.

DO WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO DEFEND OUR FREEDOM AT ANY COST?

Colossians 1.12-14 Giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualifjed you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

DO WE WALK THE TALK?

When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the

• Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back

and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. (2.11-13) hypókrisis (gr.): literally refers to “someone acting under a mask”

DO WE WALK THE TALK?

When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?.

(2.14)

Orthopodousin (gr.): walking uprightly; Ortho-straight

DO WE WALK THE TALK?

The gospel truth has a vast number of implications for all of life. It is our job to bring everything in our lives “in line” with the thrust, or direction, of the

• gospel. We are to think out its implications in every

area of our lives, and seek to bring our thinking, feeling, and behaviour “in line” . Since we live in the world, we have embraced many of the world’s

• assumptions. Christian living is therefore a continual

realignment process – one of bringing everything in line with the truth of the gospel. Tim Keller

DO WE WALK THE TALK?

2 Peter 3.15-17 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST 
 HAS DONE ON THE CROSS FOR US?

A man is not justifjed by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justifjed by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no fmesh will be justifjed. But if, while seeking to be justifjed in Christ, we

• urselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a

minister of sin? May it never be! For if I rebuild what I have

• nce destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For

through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. Galatians 2.16-19

DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST 
 HAS DONE ON THE CROSS FOR US?

It is entirely by the intervention of Christ's righteousness that we obtain justifjcation before God. This is equivalent to saying that man is not just in himself, but that the righteousness of Christ is communicated to him by imputation, while he is strictly deserving of punishment. John Calvin

DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST 
 HAS DONE ON THE CROSS FOR US?

I have been crucifjed with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the fmesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2.20

DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST 
 HAS DONE ON THE CROSS FOR US?

Martin Luther described the doctrine of justifjcation by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death. J. I. Packer

DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST 
 HAS DONE ON THE CROSS FOR US?

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wild

DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST 
 HAS DONE ON THE CROSS FOR US?

Waking up, surviving, going back to bed… Lucas Cisterna

Study #2: The Cost of Freedom