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What Counts Is A New Creation

Galatians 6:11-18

Key Verse 6:14

“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

This is the final message in our study of the book of Galatians. In the last lesson Paul warns us like us this: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” (6:7-8) And he encourages us like this: “Let us now become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if … Read the rest

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Let Us Do Good To All

Galatians 6:6-10

Key Verse: 9

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Paul had earlier written to the Galatians about “Living (or walking) by the Spirit” so that they might not gratify the desires of their sinful nature. He had made a clear contrast between what it is to live by the sinful nature, versus living by the Spirit, and he had recounted to them the fruits of the Spirit that a Christian is to produce in his or her life when they walked by the Spirit. Then in this last chapter, he talked about another fruit of the Holy Spirit in the lives of those who profess … Read the rest

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Carry Each Other’s Burdens

Galatians 6:1-5

Key verse 2

“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”

What is my greatest struggle as a Christian? Is it to fight my sinful nature all the time, or is it to fight the temptations that assail my body and soul all the time? As much as I can say to you that, yes, I struggle at times in fighting temptation because the Lord commands me to struggle even to the point of shedding blood, this is not my greatest struggle as a Christian. My greatest struggle as a Christian is to live by faith in him from first to last, from beginning to end. That is my good and worthwhile struggle— a struggle that is worthy of the Lord … Read the rest

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So I say, Walk By The Spirit

Keep In Step With The Spirit

Galatians 5:19-26

Key Verse 5:25

“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”

“So I say, walk [or live] by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.”  What a magnificent truth this is. Walk by the Spirit, and you will most assuredly not gratify the desires of your sinful nature. These words are like heavenly sunshine to young Christians who seem to be in a continuous struggle (battle) with their sinful nature. You see, there is a war going on in the Christian soul, a war that according to the Scriptures, has already been won, but where the battlefield is so fresh that the young … Read the rest

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Walk By The Spirit

And You Will Not Gratify The Desires Of The Sinful Nature

Galatians 5:16-24

Key verse 5:16

“So I say, live [walk] by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” 

In Galatians 5:13 Paul tells us “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.” We have been given freedom— set free— in Christ by what Christ has done for us through his death and resurrection. But this freedom that we have been given is not so that we might indulge the “flesh” or the sinful nature. Rather Paul tells us how Christians ought to use their freedom. Actually, we are commanded on how to use the freedom that … Read the rest

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Serve One Another In Love

Galatians 5:13-15

Key Verse 5:13

“You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.”

Paul said to the Galatians in 5:6: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” Another way of saying this is: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.” Paul worried about these Christians because they were turning to works of the law as a human effort at righteousness. They were being deceived by some false Christians to embrace a very heretical teaching— that after believing in Jesus for your salvation, you ought to now follow … Read the rest

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Love— The Expression Of Faith

Galatians 5:6-12

Key Verse 5:6

“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor un-circumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”

Here is what Paul said in verses 5 and 6. “For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor un-circumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”

We talked about verse 5 last week. We started out by speaking about the fall of man. What we lost in the garden when we disobeyed God and fell into sin. We lost many things on that day. We lost our hearts to the world. We lost our position as children of God. … Read the rest

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By Faith Through The Spirit

Galatians 5:1-5

Key Verse 5:5

“But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.”

I know that for many Christians it is very important to them to know what the will of God is for their lives. Whether you should go to this school or that school, whether you should purchase a house or not, whether you should retire at this age or continue working, whom to marry, and so on. But there are things that are far more important to you to know as far as the will of God is concerned than such things. If it were urgent for you know the will of God for what job to take or whom to marry, then God would have … Read the rest

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Children Of Promise

Galatians 4:21-5:1

Key Verse 4:30

“But what does the Scripture say? ‘Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.’” 

The natural man— that is, the unchanged person who is born only of the flesh and is subject to the sinful nature— hates the gospel of God’s grace. He hates it because it is entirely God’s doing, and not his doing, and affords him no glory at all, but gives the glory entirely to God. And that is why he hates it. The natural man, hates the gospel of grace because he finds nothing in it that gives him any self-glory, any personal merit, any thing he can boast about; and the natural man loves … Read the rest

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Until Christ Is Formed In You

Galatians 4:12-20

Key Verse 4:19

“My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.”

Let me repeat what I said last week and the week before that. The reason we resist fully putting our faith in Christ and entirely trusting his work in our hearts and lives is because faith requires that we put to death our “flesh”, the “Self” so that Christ might live in us instead. Faith requires that Christ Jesus become the supreme ruler in our hearts while we fade away in the background, until only he shines through and we don’t. Faith requires that we gain nor tolerate any self glory, so that all the glory goes to our Lord. The sinful nature— the … Read the rest

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The Spirit Of His Son Who Calls Out Abba Father

Galatians 3:26-4:7

Key Verse 4:6

“Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father.’”

Paul was broken hearted that the young and inexperienced Galatian Christians were so easily fooled by those who wanted to make them Law-abiding Jews like themselves. Here we’re talking about God’s laws, so when we say “Law-abiding”, it actually sounds like the right thing to do. But that’s where the trick is. The whole concept of the Christian faith confirms that no one is able to achieve righteousness (that is, no one is able to be accepted by God) through obedience to Laws of God; and for that reason God sent his Son Jesus to … Read the rest

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Do You Wish To Be Enslaved Again?

Galatians 3:26-4:11

Key verse 4:6-7

“Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father.’ So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”

Not many people believe in the existence of and activity of demons and evil spirits. But there is a kind of darkness in this world that is not of this world. Even many among “Christians” do not take this crucial Biblical teaching seriously—  to their loss. But in doing so, they disregard the counsel and wisdom of our Lord Jesus and of his apostles. Paul tells the Ephesian Christians. “As for you, you were dead in … Read the rest

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The Law And The Promise

 Galatians 3:15-29

 Key Verse: 3:29

 “If you belong to Christ, they you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” “

In the last passage we looked at, Paul warns the Galatian Christians who were influenced by a new teaching that contradicts the gospel of God’s grace. Paul had once preached the gospel to them, and they had accepted it. They had once received God’s blessing by putting their faith in Christ Jesus. What kind of blessing did they receive? They had been forgiven for their sins. In other words they had been justified before God and made righteous. They had also been adopted as God’s children, and included in Abraham’s family of faith. One more thing: they had also received the Holy Spirit whom God gives to … Read the rest

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Receive The Promise Of The Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:10-14

Key verse 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.”

“All who rely on the works of the law are under a curse”! This is a pretty strong statement to make. But against whom was Paul making it? Against those who had poisoned the churches of Galatia with what Paul calls a “false gospel”. He also makes this strong statement against those who were poisoned by their teachings and had decided to follow it. Paul is saying: You are cursed and under a curse when you could have been blessed!

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Children of Abaraham

Galatians 3: 6-9

Key Verse 3:7

“Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham.”

[Intro: This is the last thing we looked at before we heard the Christmas messages. Galatians 3:1-5, where Paul rebukes the Galatians telling them: “You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 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? Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort? Have you suffered so much for nothing–if it really was for nothing? Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, … Read the rest

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Because You Believe What You Heard

Galatians 3:1-5

Key Verse 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?”

The hope of every Christian— and that’s our confidence as well—  is that on the day God calls all human beings to judgment, and he will— is that as I stand before his throne to give an accounting for the life that I lived here on earth, his verdict for me will be “Righteous”— that I am righteous in his sight and sealed by the blood of his Son and marked by his Spirit. Meaning: that I will escape the eternal condemnation that awaits those who will not be found righteous in his sight, who will have to pay for … Read the rest

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I Do Not Set Aside The Grace Of God

 Galatians 2:1-21

 Key Verse: 2:21

 “I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

Paul wrote this letter to remind the Galatian Christians of the freedom they had in Christ Jesus— that they should not be listening to those who brought a different gospel than the one Paul had given them through which they were justified by faith in Christ .

It happens! Ever since the gospel was first preached, the devil had desperately tried to change it, to tweak it, to distort it, to corrupt it, to compromise it— and he did so with a purpose— that he might do two things. (1^st) to undermine the work that Christ … Read the rest

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And They Praised God Because Of Me

Galatians 1:12-24

Key Verse 15-16

“But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles.”

When Paul wrote this letter to the Galatians he was basically telling them that the gospel truth was at stake. This was one of the most serious issues in Christian history. If you remember in our last passage Paul said something momentous in 1:8-9. Basically he said that whether they or we believe the gospel he preaches or not is a matter of life or death. He boldly declared that anyone who preaches a gospel other than the gospel he preaches— which is what these people were … Read the rest

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Another Gospel

Galatians 1:6-10

Key Verse: 1:8

“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!”

Paul’s letter to the Galatians is his defense of the true gospel. He was upset that those Galatians who had received the gospel through his preaching were quickly turning away from the true gospel. What would make them do that? In other words, why would anyone who had received the gospel do such a thing? Another question is equally as important. How serious is it for a Christian to turn away from the true gospel to a counterfeit gospel? Are they innocent or guilty? How does God see that? How much responsibility does the Christian carry when he … Read the rest

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Who Gave Himself

Galatians 1:1-5

Key Verse 1:4

“Who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.”

There are many things that the book of Galatians talks about, but perhaps two things stand out the most: (1) The gospel of Christ and (2) the Spirit of Christ. And why are these so important? Because we can be made right with God only through the gospel of Christ. And we can be healed inwardly and live for God only through the Spirit of Christ. And there is no other way. You cannot be restored in your relationship with God except through the gospel of our Lord Jesus. This means that you cannot possibly hope to have a … Read the rest

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