INTRO
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Review week #1
Wrap up of Galatians
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God Calls Paul
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Read 1:11-24
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(KEY) 1:12 For I did not receive it from any
man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus
Christ.
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Man’s Revelation v. God’s Revelation
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Peter’s revelation at the Great Confession (The
Rock).
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James appeared to after Christ’s death (1Corinthians
15).
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Paul and the gospel
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God did the work.
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God did it by grace.
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God did it through Christ.
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God did it for the sake of others.
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God did it for His glory.
Parallel Passages in Galatians
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Galatians 2:2, 2:5, 2:7, 2:14, 3:8, 4:1
Galatians 2
JUSTIFIED: Faith v. Works
Council of Jerusalem
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Acts 15
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It is important to start here in order to
understand what the church leaders had decided before the writing of this
letter.
Gospel of Grace to the Gentiles
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Read 2:1-10
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KEY VERSES
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2:4 Yet because of false brothers secretly
brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus,
so that they might bring us into slavery— 5 to them we did not yield in
submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be
preserved for you.
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2:9 and when James and Cephas and John, who
seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the
right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles
and they to the circumcised.
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What is this gospel of grace going to the
Gentiles?
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Gift from God.
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The true Christian has experienced an inner
circumcision of the heart (Colossians 2:10-11) and does not need to submit to
any physical operation (Philippians 3:1-3).
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We all come to Jesus through faith alone.
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Reminder of “gospel” from week 1.
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Grace is the same Hebrew word as “Favor” and in
both OT & NT denotes a gift given from a supreme being to one who cannot
return the favor back… so in human terms: it can only be received and never
earned.
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Ephesians 2:1-10 And you were dead in the
trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this
world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at
work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the
passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and
were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being
rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we
were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you
have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the
immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For
by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it
is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For
we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
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The enemies of the gospel of grace tell us that
man is saved by faith in Christ PLUS something:
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Good works
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10 commandments
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baptism
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church membership
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religious ritual
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Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working
through love.
Peter and Paul
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Read 2:11-14
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Not unlike what Paul was experiencing with the
Judaizers, he begins to encounter among the leadership that first supported
him.
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Peter begins to act like the “older brother.”
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(KEY) 2: 14 But when I saw that their conduct
was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all,
“If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you
force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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Colossians 3:11 – in Christ, there are NO
racial, social or economic barriers
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Paul’s rebuke
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Peter was denying the unity of the church.
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Peter was denying that faith was enough for
acceptance.
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Peter was denying freedom from the law, the truth
of the gospel and even grace itself.
NEXT WEEKEND
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Justification
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And Righteousness!
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