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Jan 21, 2018

Free Family

Passage: Galatians 2:1-10

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Galatians

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: essentials, hope, inclusive, open, unity

Our relationship with God and status from God is based entirely on love, grace and faith, upon the perfect performance of Jesus and not upon my performance in any way. His performance accredited to me motivates and even, through the Spirit, equips me to love Him and others as an act of worship, being a fruit of the gift of life that’s been given to me, not a sacrifice in order to receive it. Given this outrageous gift and the freedom that comes with it, the body of Christ, the Church Universal, will be made up of the widest diversity of people from every corner of the Earth. We are called to be unified by nothing but the person, sacrifice and love of Jesus, which then propels us to love Him, love one another in The Church and to love the world around us.

 

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Order of Worship 

Call To Worship: Romans 1:16-17 ESV

Prayer:  Regeneration (adapted from The Valley of Vision)

LEADER: O God of the Highest Heaven, occupy the throne of our hearts, lay low every rebel lust, manifest Your great power and make us Yours forever.

ALL: You have loved us, espoused us, received us, and adorned us.

LEADER: We were dead in iniquities but Your Spirit has quickened us to the work of Your Son; opening us to Thy Word as light, guide, solace, and joy.

ALL: Help us to walk in Your great mercy and love. Keep us for we cannot keep ourselves. Let us lay aside all that steals, kills, and destroys. Your presence alone is an unending treasure.

LEADER: Make us a blessing to our neighbors. Salt of the earth. A light to all.

ALL: In Christ.  

Central Text:  Galatians 2:1-10 ESV

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain. 3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 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. 6 And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me. 7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised 8 (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), 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. 10 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Response: Communion

Benediction: Ephesians 2:13,19-21 ESV

Related Scriptures:

Romans 6:15-18

Genesis 12:1 

Genesis 15:17-18

Genesis 17:10

Sermons / Articles:

That the Truth of the Gospel Be Preserved In You by John Piper

Galatians 2:1-10

A New Humanity by Timothy J. Keller

Ephesians 2:11-18

You Do Who You Are by Jeff Vanderstelt

(Article - Gospel Coalition)

Books

Galatians For You by Timothy J. Keller

Simple Church by Thom Rainer

Quotes:

“In Essentials, Unity. In Non-Essentials, Liberty. In All Things, Charity” - Augustine

Songs:

Song of Moses

All Creatures

Inside Out

O Come the Altar

Your Name

Media

1.21.18 Album