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If you’ve been with us the past couple of weeks - 2 weeks ago we broke into chapter 5 of Galatians...
And we saw that Paul highlighted for the Galatians - the 2 paths of humanity
The path of Freedom
The path of Slavery
That freedom - ultimately, only comes through Jesus Christ...
And that the only other option is Slavery…OR
…a trusting in Self
These 2 paths of life consist of EITHER - Trusting in Jesus .... or… Self
Paul made it crystal clear what happens when we choose to TRY to get to God - by our good deeds...
By this truth here - we see that those who try to get to God by way of the Law...
..are SEVERED from Jesus Christ...
That He becomes of no advantage to you...
AND that you’ve been CUT OFF from Grace....God’s grace
So if you remember - Paul’s been hammering away at the idea that if the Galatians EMBRACE circumcision as a means of salvation…that they would be heading back UNDER THE LAW!!
And BEING under the Law - Now accountable to ALL of it…the whole law
And so he’s been saying - YOU CAN’T GET TO GOD by way of the LAW...
Today - we’ll see an interesting twist on what Paul has been saying this whole time...
Now if we circle back to the first part of v13, we’ll see (by implication) the 2 paths we’ve been talking about...
Paul has been highlighting the FORK in the ROAD that the Galatians are standing at...
With FREEDOM on one side - and SLAVERY on the other...
When he says - You’ve been called to FREEDOM...
He’s elevating both FREEDOM and SLAVERY....
Saying - You’ve been called to THIS PATH (Freedom) - NOT this PATH (Slavery)...
NOW - What does Slavery refer to?
Remember?
In context with the Galatians - SLAVERY was tied to CIRCUMCISION...
And Paul had said - If you embrace circumcision as a means of salvation - you are then accountable for the WHOLE - - LAW!
So Paul - - essentially - has been saying this...
SLIDE: The Law of God: Not a Vertical Path to God
The Law of God
back to v13
You’ve been called to FREEDOM - not SLAVERY!
Don’t head back under the LAW - as your PATHWAY to God!!
It won’t WORK - Paul says!
We’ve seen this idea - OVER and OVER again from Paul.
He references the LAW - 117 times in all his writings...
51 times in the book of Romans...
28 times in this book of Galatians...
This was THE VITAL issue in the Galatian churches...
And we’ve heard this issue countless times already...
Back in chapter 3 we heard Paul tell the Galatians…that...
BY FAITH (NOT WORKS)
A Godly Life Begins
A Godly Life is Empowered by the Holy Spirit
A Godly Life is Sealed Unto Glorification
Over and Over again - we hear PAUL - CALL the Galatians OUT from UNDER the LAW!
BECAUSE - by WAY of this FALSE teaching in the churches, the Galatians were BEING PERSUADED that it WAS BY THE LAW that...
a godly life begins
a godly life is empowered
a godly life is sealed unto glorification
So PAUL - as we KNOW - has been really GUARDING the Galatians - from - - the LAW as their Savior
OR - another way to put it - Paul was trying to get them to see that the LAW was never meant to be a VERTICAL path to get us to God!
Never meant for that!
NOW - The false teachers would disagree!
And THAT’s why they were - FALSE teachers!
By FAITH ALONE - in Christ ALONE - APART from the LAW - that was Paul’s message!
The LAW - NOT a Vertical path to God!
But then what?
What does Paul say next?
Here’s the twist
Wow - interesting!
Paul goes from saying - NO - NO!!
NOT THE LAW!
Don’t go THAT WAY!!
The LAW can’t GET YOU THERE!!
INSTEAD - LIVE OUT the LAW!
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Let’s read it again...
“You were called to freedom (NOT slavery under the law), Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love, serve one another....
He explains what that means - “For the whole LAW is fulfilled in one word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself”...
So couple of things...
He’s saying -
LIVE in freedom - not ENSLAVED under the LAW…(trying to EARN your way to God)
Live in freedom - living out the LAW
Not ENSLAVED UNDER it…but walking IN IT
SO DO YOU SEE IT?
The LAW is not a VERTICAL PATH to get us to GOD....but instead...
SLIDE: The Law of God: A Horizontal Path to Display Christ to the World
The Law of God
If we were to look at the Law…and just at the 10 commandments...
SLIDE:
1.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall make no idols.
3.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
4. Keep the Sabbath day holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6.
You shall not murder.
7.
You shall not commit adultery.
8.
You shall not steal.
9.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10.
You shall not covet.
We see that the first 4 commandments deal with our relationship with God...
And the last 6 deal with our relationship with man...
We’ll all probably heard that before - maybe even have heard a SERMON on that fact...
I’ve PREACHED that sermon before...
BUT - in light of what Paul said in our text today - to the Galatians...
In light of the Law NOT BEING a vertical path to get us to God...
AND in light of the fact that Paul CALLS the Galatians to LIVE OUT the Law in LOVING SERVICE...
…I would contend that while those first 4 Laws DO pertain to our relationship with God...
I would contend that they are LIVED OUT - in the context of our Horizontal Relationship with Mankind…!
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