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*Sermon one of Galatians*
~* Pastor Roy has recently given me the opportunity to preach twice a month at the evening service.
~* So what I thought would be good was for me to do something that was new to me.
I have never preached a series of sermons.
~* I umed and ared over what the content of the series should be, then I remembered something that Pastor said to me about working through a particular passage or book in the bible.
~* He shared that to do such a series meant that you couldn’t avoid hard subjects.
If you follow a book you can hardly leave out a passage of scripture that you know might be hard to talk on.
~* Well anyway I decide to jump in at the deep end and go for it by preaching a whole book.
~* So tonight I would like to start a series of sermons on the book of Galatians.
~* I can’t say that I had any particular reasons for choosing this book.
I just felt that Galatians was right.
~* Now I don’t know how God speaks to you but for me He tends to lay things on my heart or He just leads me to think about something in particular.
So I’m trusting that I have picked this book because God Himself has laid it on my heart.
~* So let’s get started with the book of Galatians.
~* I thought that it would be a good idea to start this series by looking at some of the background to this book.
~* When was it written?
~* What was going on?
~* Why did Paul feel the need to write such a book?
Things like that.
~* Now it’s believed that Galatians was written around AD 48 - 49 and is addressed not so much to one church but to a number of churches in the Galatia Province.
~* Galatia was a bit like the Eastern Province here in that it encompassed a number of towns.
~* There is a debate as to whether the churches in Galatia were planted on Paul’s 1st or 2nd missionary journey.
~* This debate is not for us today.
Let scholars argue that.
~* I think that what is important is only, that the churches of Galatia at the time Paul wrote this letter were relatively young and still learning the foundations of the faith.
Foundations that we as the modern day church still today hold too.
~* Now things weren’t going altogether well in this the Province of Galatia.
There were some among the rank and file of the church that were leading the others astray.
~* There was a bunch of people referred to as the Judaizers.
These guys came preaching a different message to that of Paul.
~* The Judaizers were a party in the church, who, though Christians accepted Christianity only as the fulfilment of the Jewish old covenant hope and firmly held that God’s people must be a part of Israel.
~* The Jews had despised Gentiles for a long time; yet their new faith would not allow them to think that God would not want to save Gentiles.
~* There were both Jews and Gentiles within the Galatian churches.
~*The teaching they tried to preach to the newly formed Galatian churches declared that, to experience salvation, the Galatian Christians must also be initiated into Israel by the rite of circumcision.
On top of this they tried to say that all Christians had to obey the Jewish laws.
~* This false teaching was leading Christians away from the truth that Paul had preached to them earlier on his missionary journey.
~* Hearing of this, Paul, I would say, would have been very upset that those whom he had shared the gospel with were looking like they were being snatched away by the enemy.
~* Paul wrote this letter to the churches of Galatia with desperate love for them.
He wanted them to return to the path of truth, rooted in the saving work of Christ and Christ alone.
~* How might we feel today if we saw someone that we loved, being lead astray?
~* So it’s this love that Paul is expressing in writing this letter and makes the book of Galatians a book that speaks right to the hearts of Christians both then and today?
~* God as we know is concerned for all His people both in Paul’s day and right through to our day today.
God doesn’t want any of His people lead astray.
~* Now I’ve titled this message the heavyweight championship for the world for a very good reason.
~* The book of Galatians is a bit like a boxing match:
In one corner you have salvation by the grace and provision of God and in the other corner you have salvation by works.
~* These are both two very big contenders.
~* The Jews had been living under the law which included circumcision for a long time and believed that fulfilling such laws was the only way to God.
~* Paul as the other contender preached a message of salvation that was not based on works but on the grace of God shown to us by the death and resurrection of Jesus for our sins.
~* We will be seeing how these two ideas pitch up to each other throughout this book.
~* While we listen to what God has to say to us through this book, we will see in whom or what we should be putting our trust and just what it means to be a Christian saved by our Lord Jesus Christ.
~* Before we go any further I thought it would help us as we embark on this journey to think about the impact this book has had upon the church.
~* We are today as Jeffrey’s Bay Baptist church, part of the Protestant Reformation church that broke away from the Roman Catholic church back in the 1500’s.
~* Martin Luther was one of the key players in that move and he was greatly influenced in his life by his study of the book of Galatians.
~* So we are about to open up a book that can bring about incredible change.
~* It’s been said of the book of Galatians that it is the Magna Charta of evangelical Christianity.
It is Paul’s great declaration of religious freedom - a freedom that involves independence from men and dependence on God.
~* Can we just pray before we go any deeper into this message?
~* PRAYER
~* Ok let’s open up God’s word.
Please turn in your bibles to the book of Galatians.
We will be reading verses 1 – 5.
/1 This letter is from Paul, an apostle.
I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead./
/2 All the brothers and sisters here join me in sending this letter to the churches of //Galatia//./
/3 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
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/4 Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live.
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/5 All glory to God forever and ever!
Amen./
~* These verses are what we would call the salutation and are found at the start of Paul’s letters.
~*Now I’ve read them to you from the New Living Translation but I would also like you to hear them in the Message translation because for me they really do have an incredible punch about them.
/I, Paul, and my companions in faith here, send greetings to the Galatian churches.
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/My authority for writing to you does not come from any popular vote of the people, nor does it come through the appointment of some human higher-up.
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/It comes directly from Jesus the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.
I’m God-commissioned.
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/So I greet you with the great words, grace and peace!
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/We know the meaning of those words because Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we’re in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
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/God’s plan is that we all experience that rescue.
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/Glory to God forever!/
~* I just love the way in which Eugene Peterson translates scripture don’t you?
There is a directness about it that is, I feel sometimes lost in some of the other translations.
/Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we’re in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
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/God’s plan is that we all experience that rescue.
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~* Now I think that this is the key message for us as Christians today just as it was for the Christians of Paul’s day.
We are saved by Jesus and Jesus alone.
~* This is the message that Paul first preached when he set out on his missionary journeys and this is the message that Paul now, sadly has to defend.
~* I think it’s very interesting that in our world today, some people are hung up on subjects like whether or not we should allow gay relationships or whether women should be allowed to preach etc.
People like to debate such subjects from scripture often at the expense of what is really at the heart of scripture.
/Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we’re in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
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/God’s plan is that we all experience that rescue.
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~* Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not standing here today saying that issues on gay relationships etc aren’t important, I believe that scripture is the definitive word of God and is quite clear on such subjects.
~* What I am saying is that such subjects should not distract our focus from the message of salvation through Jesus our Lord, that all must hear and respond too.
~* At the heart of Gods message to us is that we can be saved by the grace of God in and through the saving work of Jesus when He died for us on the cross of Calvary.
~* Now I think I’m jumping ahead of myself here, because I believe that there are some other important things to notice in our reading of verses 1-5.
~* Paul in verse one starts his salutation by stating his authority to bring such a message as that found in the book of Galatians.
~* Now for now I don’t want to spend too much time on Paul’s right to call himself an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ’s and so to bring the message of salvation.
~*Paul addresses this a bit later in this book & we will look at that then.
~* So let’s look instead at verse two
/All the brothers and sisters here join me in sending this letter to the churches of //Galatia//./
~* It’s interesting to note that Paul isn’t standing alone in his defence of the message of salvation that he brought to the Galatian churches.
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