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What is the Gospel?
It’s the question we STARTED with last week...
It’s the question that Paul - HAD TO ADDRESS - in writing to the Galatian churches...
WHY?
Because false teachers had come INTO the churches - in order to DISTORT the Gospel of Christ…!
THE ONE and ONLY - Gospel of Christ
And we can TELL - early on in this book of Galatians - that Paul is PASSIONATE -
ABOUT the people...
[BECAUSE] he’s passionate about the Gospel!
How did Paul FEEL about the Galatians - TURNING to the FALSE Gospel being preached by the Judaizers?
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And we were confronted last week - with the reality that Paul HERE - equates ...
embracing a false gospel - WITH - WALKING AWAY - from God.
Paul KNOWS the importance of this - couldn’t BE - any higher!
And SO - Paul knows - that for SOME in the Galatian church - THIS MAY be their LAST chance to hear - God’s TRUTH!
Paul knows that they’ve EMBRACED - a LIE...
A LIE that leads to Eternal Destruction...
And so - After EXPLAINING to the churches that there is - ONE GOSPEL…!
Only ONE WAY to get to God...
How?
By Faith ALONE - in CHRIST ALONE!!
And now - after explaining this to the churches - he now WANTS to VALIDATE his message...
He wants to PROVIDE the Galatians with the REASONS they NEED / MUST - believe and embrace what he’s saying!!
What he’s calling them BACK to…!
And the great thing for US today - is that if you’re a BELIEVER in here today...
These truths will HELP YOU - do the very same thing in your life...
So let’s get to our passage for today...
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Here we see Paul - ARGUING for WHY the Galatian people should LISTEN to him...
As we know - Paul has ALREADY preached the Gospel to these people...
in establishing the churches...
And yet - here we are!
SO QUICKLY - they have WALKED away and embraced a false gospel!
And so today - Paul is going to PROVIDE EVIDENCE - to COMBAT the false claims COMING AT him....and the gospel itself!
The first piece of evidence that Paul is going to put forth is this:
SLIDE: Validating the Gospel: God’s Message, Not Our Own
Validating the Gospel
Let’s circle back to see this…
· If you remember from 2 weeks ago – The apostle Paul started out this book by DEFENDING his apostleship.
· And his FIRST point – was that he was sent BY GOD…and not by MAN
· This is a way that Paul VALIDATES his message…
· He doesn’t want his HEARERS to believe that his message originated with him OR with MAN.
· And he EXPLAINS that as him having RECEIVED this message – as opposed to having been taught this message by man.
…”I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ”
· And it’s this point that I feel like – most of the world – either doesn’t understand – or willingly chooses to ignore…
o It seems to me that – the world – at EVERY TURN – is always surprised that Christians believe – basic Christian beliefs.
o *How many times has the world been – UTTERLY SHOCKED – that Christians speak out against same sex marriage….or
abortion?
o ALL the TIME - - EVERY TIME!!
o And it’s like – Have you not figured out yet that – WE BELIEVE in God…
o And we believe this is THE WORD of GOD – and so we believe that GOD has DECLARED that same sex marriage is no marriage at all!
§ Why is this SHOCKING – this ISN’T OUR message!
o Why is it ALWAYS SHOCKING – when Christians speak out against abortion??
o This ISN’T OUR message!
This is GOD’s MESSAGE!!
We BELIEVE – God!
· AND YET – the world wakes up every morning – believing that this message of ours AS believers – is OUR message!!
· NOW – apply this to people IN THE CHURCH…
· What happens when people IN THE CHURCH – people even SEEKING for truth – BELIEVE that what they’re hearing – originated with man?
· Well – we’re taught to – REJECT it.
· Ignore it!
- - God even tells us to DO SO…
· We are to REJECT the message of the world…ACCORDING to God…
· And that makes sense when you consider the – Message of the world…
· The world – LIVES FOR…
o The lust of the flesh
o The lust of the eyes
o The pride of life
· THIS is the message of the world – of man
· And clearly Paul’s message warred against this message of the world…
· BUT – Did Paul’s message ALIGN with Christ’s message?
RIGHT?
If Paul’s message was NOT HIS OWN - but was FROM God...
…then Paul’s message would ALIGN/AGREE with Christ’s message...
Let’s look at Scripture to find out...
SLIDE: The Message of Repentance: Paul vs. Christ
The Message of Repentance
JESUS:
PAUL:
SLIDE: The Message of Justification by Faith Alone
The Message of Justification
JESUS:
PAUL:
SLIDE: The Message of Suffering: Paul vs. Christ
The Message of Suffering
JESUS:
PAUL:
SLIDE: The Message of Eternal Life: Paul vs Christ
The Message of Eternal Life
JESUS:
PAUL:
We could go on and on…WE SEE
· The message of Paul – WAS the message of Christ!
But this wasn’t ALL the evidence that Paul had - TO VALIDATE his Gospel Message...
We’ll see that...
SLIDE: Validating the Gospel: God’s Agenda, Not Our Own
Validating the Gospel
Paul’s going to reveal for us - in our passage - what life looked like according to HIS OWN agenda...
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