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LifeMatters:
Character Matters
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Galatians
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Galatians 4:13
As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the
gospel to you.
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Acts 15:1
“Unless you are circumcised … you cannot be saved”
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Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and
emasculate themselves!
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Galatians 2:16
We have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified
by faith in Christ, and not by observing the law.
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Galatians 2:21
I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could
be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
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Galatians 3:1
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very
eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
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3:2
I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the
Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?
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3:3
Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by
human effort?
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3:5
Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you
because you observe the law, or because you believe what you
heard?
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Romans 10:17
faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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Martin Luther
“the only organs of a Christian are his ears.”
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3:11
Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The
righteous will live by faith."
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3:14
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might
come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the
Spirit.
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3:16
The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but "and to your seed," meaning
one person, who is Christ.
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3:17
What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does
not set aside the covenant previously established by God
and thus do away with the promise.
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3:23
Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
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3:24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.
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The Law as a Tutor …
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The Law as a Railroad Track …
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“The problem with the Law is not the neglect of its ceremonial
statutes, but the horrible prostitution of it which turns it from a railroad track of grace,
leading us to Christ;
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into a ladder of works, on which we try to climb up to God. The transgression against God is to
presume that you can climb your way up a ladder of morality into
his favor.”
John Piper
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3:25
Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision
of the law.
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3:26-27
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.
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3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female,
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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3:29
If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
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Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
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Galatians 4:6
Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our
hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."
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The LAW
or
The PROMISE
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4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave
woman and the other by the free woman.
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4:23
His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born
as the result of a promise.
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Hagar = Ishmael = The law
Sarah = Isaac = The Promise
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4:24
These things may be taken figuratively, for the women
represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and
bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
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4:25
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai …
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4:26
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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4:28
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
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The Law HagarIshmael
Birth according to flesh Mount Sinai in desert
Present Jerusalem
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The Promise Sarah Isaac
Birth according to the promise Mount Zion
Jerusalem in Promised Land Heavenly Jerusalem
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4:30
But what does the Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and
her son …
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Galatians 5:1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and
do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of
slavery.
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5:4
You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from
grace.
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5:5
But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the
righteousness for which we hope.
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5:6
…. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through
love.
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1 Peter
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping
his promise, as some understand slowness.
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What if I screw up and I don’t wait on God?
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5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,
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5:23
gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no
law.
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5:25
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
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5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each
other.
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C. S. Lewis …
"The devil is perfectly content to see you develop expressions of the fruit of the Spirit, if he can be
sure that as you mature, your pride also increases …
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… just as he would be quite content to see you cured of one
terminal illness if he was allowed, in return, to give you another.”
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Galatians 5:25
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
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