GALATIANSTHE GOOD NEWS

RECOGNISE THE POWER BEHIND SELF-INTEREST

4:3,9 BASIC/ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF THE WORLD - ‘GODS’ THAT COULD ONLY DEMAND BUT NOT HELPPOWERS THAT ENCOURAGE ISOLATION, COMPETITION, SELF-GRATIFICATIONTHAT MAKE US VICTIMS OF OUR ENVIRONMENT THAT PUT US AT THE MERCY OF OUTSIDE FORCES, INFLUENCES OVER WHICH WE HAVE NO CONTROL

NORMAL BEHAVIOUR

5:19-21 IMMORALITY, IMPURITY, SENSUALITY,IDOLATRY, SORCERY, ENMITY, STRIFE, JEALOUSY,FITS OF ANGER, RIVALIES, DISSENSIONS, DIVISIONS, ENVY, DRUNKENNESS, ORGIES

SUCH BEHAVIOUR WILL BAR US FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD

RETURN TO SELF- EFFORT

4:9-11 WE WILL END UP BACK UNDER THE CONTROL OF OLD ‘GODS’BACK UBDER THE CONTROL OF THE OLD LIFE-STYLE 5:4 ANY FAITH IN CHRIST WILL THEN DO US NO GOODGRACE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP US

A NEW SPIRIT IS NEEDED

ONLY THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST LIVING IS US CAN SAVE US ROMANS 8:9WITH THE COMING OF THE SPIRIT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS CHANGED4:5-7 ADOPTION AS SONS

ADOPTION OF SONS

A ROMAN PRACTICE WHEREBY ONE [MALE OR FEMALE] WAS LEGALY MADE ONE WITH SOME ONE SENIORIT WAS A FATHER-SON RELATIONSHIP IN WHCH THE NEW SON BECAME A SHARER IN THE FATHER’S CIVIL STATUS, RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILIYIESTHUS BECAME A PARTNER WITH THE FATHER, HIS OTHER SELF

SONSHIP

SHARERS IN THE TRINITYGOD OUR FATHER, JESUS OUR BROTHER, THE SPIRIT OUR ENABLERSHARERS IN THEIR LIFE, THEIR RELATIONSHIPSTHE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT 5:22-23LOVING EACH OTHERENJOYING EACH OTHERHARMONISING WITH EACH OTHER

FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

BEING PATIENT WITH EACH OTHERBEING KIND TO EACH OTHERBEING GOOD TO EACH OTHERBEING FAITHFUL TO EACH OTHERBEING GENTLE WITH EACH OTHEREACH BEING SELF-CONTROLLED AND NOT CONTROLLING THE OTHERS

THE GOD-PLEASING LIFE

BEGINS WITH CRUCIFICTIONCRUCIFICTION THAT FREES2:20 CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST5:24 HAVE CRUCIFIED THE SELF-SERVING LIFE6:14 THE WORLD AND THE CHRISTIAN MUTUALLY SEPARATED BY CRUCIFICTION

3:27 BAPTISED INTO CHRIST - PUT ON CHRISTHIS CRUCIFICTION AND NEW LIFE

GOD-PLEASING LIFE

CONTINUES BY WALKING IN THE SPIRIT5:16-18 WALKING = LIFESTYLELET THE SPIRIT LEADHE IS THE NAVIGATORLISTEN TO HIM

THE OVERCOMING CHRISTIAN

IS COMMITED TO PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TRINITYSEES INDEPENDENT SELF-DERTERMINED ACTION AS SINIS LEARNING THE ART OF BEING A SHEEPJOHN 10:27-28 MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM AND THEY FOLLOW ME .I GIVE THEM ETERNAL LIFE