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Well I’m excited to be coming back into our study of Galatians this week.
Having three weeks off was nice to say the least but I’m ready to get back into our study.
Having said that, I would like to open our time together by laying the same groundwork that the Apostle Paul laid.
As this letter began, Paul in essence set up a form of a mock court.
A mock trial if you will.
And inside of this courtroom, Paul is putting the Gospel on display in all of it’s fullness!
The question Paul is answering is who’s Gospel is this that He had brought to the Galatians?
Was it the Gospel given by the Lord Jesus Christ?
Or was it Paul’s own version of the Gospel that he somehow picked up?
If you’re paying attention, this is basically Paul’s second time in saying this in just a few short verses.
In the beginning of the Epistle Paul lays out that His Apostleship was from the Lord and not from men,
That was Verse 1.
Paul, an Apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead.
Notice there in the first verse his argument is pointing to a divine calling.
A calling into the service of the Lord that’s not governed by man or by man’s appointments.
Now not only is Paul showing the Galatians that this calling was from the Lord.
But he now moves his argument into the arena of asking who’s Gospel this was.
And in order for him to do this, he has to go into his conversion story.
Not only does he have to go into his conversion story but he’s going to cover his call and the ministry that he was involved with prior to working in Galatia.
This account from Paul begins here at 1:11 and runs all the way through 2:21.
One could say that this was his autobiography which gave an account of the life of Paul and the way Christ used Paul in ministry.
Through this journey we should be able to point to Jesus Christ and His atoning work at Calvary.
We should be able to Christ’ inner working in the heart of the Apostle.
Yet the one thing that we’re not able to do is to look at Paul and see a man who invented a Gospel.
And before we get too far into this text, I want to real quickly show you four ways that we know that this Gospel that Paul gave to them was true.
The Gospel that Paul proclaimed always pointed away from self and towards Christ Jesus.
Never once did Paul’s Gospel emphasize the obedience of man as being salvific but He always pointed back to Jesus’ obedience.
The core and fundamental message from the Apostle Paul was that all things look to Christ in some way.
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Whether it’s looking at His atonement or His ascension.
His purpose was always to point others back to the message that came from Christ.
But that is not everyone else’s goal!
Many in the first century and the years that have followed have had ulterior motives.
Though they preach a form Christ, it is often times a false Gospel.
Yet in the first century I don’t think that we will find as many false gospels as what we see today.
In a general reading of Scripture the two most prominent false gospels that we find is the false Gospel of gnosticism and the false gospel legalism.
In our day and age I think we could stand here all day and discuss the false gospels of our time and we still couldn’t teach all of them before our second service.
However, even though there are what would appear to be many more false Gospels today.
I think the false gospels of our time find themselves rooted in the 2 false gospels of the first century in one way or another.
They are either pointing towards some form of a mystical Jesus which is found in Gnosticism.
Or they’re finding their roots in the idea of legalism.
Now you might be wondering how it is that I can make such a statement.
How is it I could take something as far fetched as the moral Gospel of our generation and point it back to this idea of a Gospel of legalism?
I want you to think about this for a second, the Gospel of legalism teaches a person that everything is about them.
Yes it’s works oriented but ultimately it points the person back to themselves.
And anytime that we’re focused on ourselves we can find some roots in moral law violations.
In this case, it stems from idolatry.
And that’s what you find in the moral Gospel of the day.
Think about this for a second.
How many of us in here have turned on our radios in our vehicle to a station like K-Love?
How Biblical are the songs?
They often times sound good.
Yet they are often times focused on the self.
Think about this for a minute.
Positive, encouraging K-Love.
It’s great to be positive and encouraging but if you miss the whole mark of the Gospel, you’ve encouraged someone in the wrong way.
In the theological world that idea is called Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.
It teaches the person to be moral.
To live a good and upstanding life.
It acts as a form of therapy to the heart but it does so without the Gospel.
It points them to a creator without pointing them to THE CREATOR!
Now I’m not saying that every song that comes on their radio is bad so please don’t take it that way.
But I am asking you this question, when was the last time you heard the Biblical doctrine of the Gospel on there?
I used to listen to it for years and I still can’t tell you when the last time was that I heard the Gospel.
Now I’m not knocking the radio station, I’m knocking the message that’s promoted.
It promotes a gospel that tells you that sin has robbed you of your sense of fulness.
And in Christ’ death we find our worth and we can see our potential.
That’s not the Gospel.
The Gospel isn’t that through Christ you can be a better you.
That form of a gospel is man’s gospel.
It’s one that leads you into many erroneous errors.
As does every form of any Gospel that doesn’t come from the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that’s Paul’s point here.
Those Judiazers who crept into the Galatian Church were claiming that Paul was not only a false Apostle.
He was also not sharing the real Gospel Message.
In their eyes, Paul had traveled to and fro and even been in the midst of the “REAL” Apostles.
And by being in their midst he took the principles that he liked and abandoned the ones that he didn’t.
And when he began traveling and proclaiming this Gospel of his, he was espousing a Gospel that was centered upon mans understanding.
He was spreading a Gospel that was second hand if you will.
The problem though is that as Christians looking backward almost 2000 years, we can see that’s not the case.
Paul’s Gospel lined up with those other Apostles long before he ever really had the chance to sit down and to discuss the Gospel with them.
That is going to be the primary focus of today’s message.
But before we get there, I want to look at the other side of this issue.
The other side of this is that when man has the chance to make his own Gospel, it’s never motivated by grace.
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It’s never dependent upon the full and Sovereign work of Jesus Christ.
Instead it’s dependent upon the individual.
The motivating factor inside of false Gospels are not centered around grace.
They’re centered upon the individual ability.
As we’ve stated before, man took Jesus as the starting block and then built upon it something of their own desire.
Yet this isn’t their only issue.
The other problem that we’ll encounter is that the Judiazers taught that the message of the Gospel had to be learned.
The problem with this whole thing inside of the Judiazers thoughts and their message though was not just that it centered around men learning from one another.
No that’s not even the fulness of the issue.
The fulness of the issue is that they were dependent upon men teaching other men this message of the Gospel.
There was no place for the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit to kick down the idolatrous and stoney heart and replace it with a heart made of flesh.
No that couldn’t be in their message at all.
Their idea was that the individual had to be taught the Gospel and through their actions are given their gospel.
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