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Jan 28, 2018

Free Life

Passage: Galatians 2:11-21

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Galatians

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: change, hope, new creation

We aren’t who were were, or who we will be. We live in the freedom of “already and not yet”. All who are in Christ were on the cross with Jesus, the absolutely full payment of our debts paid for through Jesus’ sacrifice. Likewise, we were with him on the cross so that our old self has died and our new self brought to life, but a new self that is in progress, to be finally finished and made fully whole when we are with Jesus face to face. Until then, our old slave-masters of sin, fear and death have been replaced with God himself, His Spirit inside our hearts. Originally Sin has power and presence in our lives; not Sin has no power, but still has presence; One day Sin will have neither power nor presence, and we wait in longing expectation for our New Selves to live unfettered.

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Order of Worship

Call To Worship: Hebrews 12:1-2;28

Prayer: Mission of the Church (from The Book of Common Prayer)

ALL: Everliving God, whose will it is that all should come to you through your Son Jesus Christ: Inspire our witness to Him, that all may know the power of his forgiveness and the hope of his resurrection, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.   

Central Text: Galatians 2:11-21

11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 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?” 15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. 17   But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Benediction: 2 Corinthians 5:17,21 & Galatians 2:20 ESV

Related Scriptures

Psalm 49:7

Act 13:38-39

1 Timothy 3:16

Romans 5:21-25

Romans 6:17-23

Docs & Quotes

  • We’ll never be free until we are dead to the whole business of justifying ourselves.  Robert Farrar Capon
  • The Law of God, the most salutary doctrine of life, cannot advance humans on their way to righteousness, but rather hinders them. Martin Luther
  • Fame is sort of a mess. You get treated differently, but it doesn’t have anything to do with who you actually are. Val Kilmer

Sermons

3 Galatians Sermons by Sinclair Ferguson

Galatians 2:11-21

I No Longer Live the Life I Live by Timothy J. Keller

Galatians 2:14-21

Songs

Prelude: By the Mark (Gillian Welch)

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Come Thou Fount
Thy Mercy My God

You Have Redeemed My Soul

Media

1.28.18 Album