IDENTITY: RIGHTEOUS v. CURSED
BACKGROUND
§ Who is Abraham?
o
His
promise
o
Father of
faith
§ Covenant Talk
o
Abramic
Covenant
o
Mosaic
covenant
o
What does
Jesus say?
o
What did
Jesus do?
WHAT HAPPENED to YOU?!
§ Galatians 3:1-9
o
Foolish
Galatians!
§ Foolish – without thinking.
·
Paul does
NOT accuse them of lacking intelligence but of an inability or a refusal to
recognize the real situation.
§ Bewitched – to cast a magic spell.
·
Their new
behavior was so strange that it appeared as if someone had put a spell on them.
§ Understanding how strongly Paul is
attacking?
·
Mixing
grace and law.
·
Created
some weird/false gospel.
·
Trying to
become justified by works.
·
NOT
living as one who is righteous.
·
So crazy
that it appears as if a magic spell has been cast upon your church.
o
The Holy
Spirit is NOT enough!!
§ HE convicts us.
§ HE rebirths us.
§ HE baptizes us.
§ HE is our guarantee/seal.
§ HE lives in us.
§ HE walks with us.
§ HE abides with us.
DEFINING RIGHTEOUSNESS
§ Right standing.
§ Declaration by God that we have the same
identity as Jesus.
§ Righteousness of God conveys the thought
of God’s active help of man in the miracle of HIS grace.
§ This righteousness is proclaimed by
Jesus as a gift of the Kingdom.
§ By faith in Jesus and His work on the cross, we are
given a brand new relationship with the Father.
§ NOT only are we forgiven but we
are given a new moral standing with God because HE dealt with the sin problem on the
cross and HE maintains the order in which we can have fellowship through
grace.
THE LAW
§ Cannot justify the sinner.
§ Cannot give us righteousness.
§ Cannot give the Spirit.
§ Cannot make us God’s kids.
§ Cannot give life.
§ Cannot give liberty/freedom.
RIGHTEOUS HAVE LIFE DUE to THEIR FAITH
§ Galatians 3:10-14
o
Apple/Fruit: Story of sin put back on the tree
§ Works righteousness
can never save the sinner; ONLY faith righteousness can do that.
§ Salvation
o
Is NOT
exchanging one form of bondage for another.
o
It is
being set free from the bondage of sin and the law into liberty of God’s grace
through Christ
CHRIST FULFILLS BOTH the PROMISE and the LAW
§ Galatians 3:15-29
§ The Law cannot change the promise.
o
God made
the covenant with Abraham NOT the other way around.
§ The Law is NOT greater than the promise.
o
Galatians
2:21
o
The
covenant was – NOT conditional nor temporary.
o
The law
was – conditional and temporary.
o
The covenant
was – personal.
o
The law –
required mediators.
§ The Law is NOT contrary to the promise.
o
Law
cooperates with the promise to fulfill the purpose of
God.
o
Use of
the Law is to reveal sin and cause men to see their
need of a savior.
o
Misuse of
the Law is to try to achieve salvation by keeping
it.
§ The Law cannot do what the promise can
do.
o
There is
greater glory in the gracious salvation of God found in Jesus.
o
If we are
“in Christ” by faith, then we too are “Abraham’s seed ”.
o
Your
Christian life ought to take on new wonder and meaning as you realize all that
you have in Jesus.
SCRIPTURES
§ Genesis 12
§ Genesis 15
§ John 16
§ John 3
§ 1 Corinthians 12
§ Ephesians 1
§ 1 Corinthians 6
§ Galatians 5
§ John 14
§ Romans 1:17
§ Habakkuk 2:4
§ Matthew 6:33
§ Hebrews 6:13-18
§ Hebrews 6:18-20
§ Romans 4
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1.
Why is the Holy Spirit able to change a person,
while the Law of Moses is not?
2.
How do law and grace complement each other?
3.
What does all this discussion of the Jewish Law
have to do with you?
4.
In light of what Paul says about the law, what should
be our attitude toward the Ten Commandments?
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