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Transcript of Kris Hale 3 rd Service Galatians: Starting Over {Yet Again} The Wanderer.
Kris Hale
3rd Service
Galatians:Starting Over {Yet Again}
The Wanderer
Relationships don't start this way:
If he would just stop…!Why can't she give it a rest?!?He needs to quit…She'd better start…
Bringing flowers
Sending notes or texts
Flirting, smiling and eye contact
Dates and holding doorsMovies and dinnersTalking non-stop all night
Something changed…
No one enters The Faith:
- I don't feel like God loves me- I've screwed up too much
- If I could just start/stop- At least I'm not like those…
Fresh, new, real!
Eyes opened, heart changed
Joy, peace…I wanna share it! Gimme more!
So what changes?
God designed the GospelTo apply to the whole of
A Disciple's life(Changes everything)
Last week
When I walk closely with GodWhat grieves my heart is a
Reflection of what grieves his
I confronted Peter…
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose
Yeah- way to go!You tell him…
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?
Wait…what just happened?
They are on verge ofMaking choices that will end
The joy of Knowing Jesus
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?
It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works
of the law or by hearing with faith?
"God won't accept you unless…?"- Judaizers
"God won't accept you unless…?"- Judaizers
Then how do you explainGod's Spirit at work in you?
Mission Drift:We came to know GodBy grace through faith
Now it's time to change it allAnd please these people
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now
being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in
vain-if indeed it was in vain?
How did you come to Christ?Great…
How did you come to Christ?Great…
How do you live the Faith?Same way…
God designed the GospelTo apply to the whole of
A Disciple's life(Changes everything)
I walked down the aisle…I prayed over my oatmeal…
A friend led me to Christ…I was at a church camp…
Changed my life!
So now I need to be very seriousAnd not laugh
And follow lots of rulesAnd dress like everyone elseAnd be a clone…to please God
"You had all these experiencesWith God…
Was that in vain?"
When God gives us an experience of his love, his Spirit, his power and direction in our lives…
When God gives us an experience of his love, his Spirit, his power and direction in our lives…It should produce a desire to know this God even more
What they experiencedIs the validation of what
God's Word had promisedAnd Paul had preached
Instead:"Great!
Now do these thingsAnd God will accept you"
Mission Drift
Government agency started byEmployees who want to helpPeople in need…
Mission Drift
All about keeping jobs, getting benefits and building
nice officesPeople aren't treated well…
"You had all these experiences with God. You have his Spirit. The goal is to know him more, not to gain the favor of Judaizers
Or to earn his love and grace"
The moment I make my Walk with God
About something more thanKnowing him and glorifying him
I lose the point of The Faith
Mission:Know Christ and
Glorify him
Drift:Do things to get blessingsTo gain the favor of menTo look good for others
To look down on everyone else
Destroys the simply joyOf knowing and being accepted
By the God of the universe
Based on the cross of Christ
The answer is The Gospel(Not just for salvation)CreationFallRedemptionRestoration
There's something I need:
There's something I need:
- Ignore it
There's something I need:
- Drown it
There's something I need:
- Distract from it
There's something I need:
- Intellectualize it
The Gospel saysIt's a need for RedemptionAnd Restoration
Mine. And my world's need.Jesus solves the equation
My marriageHow I do business
How I treat people
So much more…
Not just salvation
I'm angry and bitter
- Try harder to be at peace- Seek alternative paths- Medicate it- Ignore. Or embrace it
Doesn't solve a thing
Gospel:What do I not have
That I really think I need?
Do I believe Jesus is enoughWhen people fail me?
RedemptionRestoration
The Gospel is for all of life:
- Overspending
The Gospel is for all of life:
- Addiction
The Gospel is for all of life:
- Self-centeredness
The Gospel is for all of life:
- Being nice & moral to be liked
The Gospel is for all of life:
Adding rules to the FaithAnd judging people by them- the Legalists and Judaizers
Everything else isTrying to meet a need Jesus has already met
When Jesus aloneSolves the equation
God designed the GospelTo apply to the whole of
A Disciple's life(Changes everything)
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles
among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing
with faith…Present Tense
Judaizers: "God won't accept you unless
You follow Jewish Law
Listen to us! Abraham and Moses are our Fathers"
…just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of
Abraham
Not the Judaizers
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed”
Blessed:"Not counting men's trespasses against them"- 2 Cor. 5Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness
Us: By grace through Faith because Christ died
Abraham: By grace through Faith in God
BECAUSE Christ would die
So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith
Why didn't AbrahamFollow the Law?
Why didn't AbrahamFollow the Law?
So how was he righteous?
Mission Drift:- The goal is to know GodAnd honor him, glorify him
- The goal is to do things: Makes me righteous & God blesses
God designed the GospelTo apply to the whole of
A Disciple's life(Changes everything)
So the point is made:You don't have to do things
To be accepted by God
And then…
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them”
We're not underThe Mosaic Law
In any wayIf we're in Christ
By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear- Hebrews 8:13
Mosaic Law: Blessing and CursingTied to Land for Israelites
All who rely on works of the law613…1 Mistake= curse
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a
curse for us- for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is
hanged on a tree…”
…so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith
Christ became a curse for usSo that in him we might inherit
The blessing of righteousnessAnd the Presence of his Spirit
Judaizers were sayingJesus isn't enough
The goal is to do for GodIn order to get from God
In this Faith, we finishExactly how we started:
By grace through faith:Knowing and glorifying ChristBecause he is enough
Relationship:Started with showing love
Because you wanted her to Know how much you loved her
Relationship Mission Drift:When it became about"Getting my needs met"
Or Comparison to a guy I knowIt went south…quickly
Gospel:Jesus is enough
And I'll serve the other personRegardless of what I get back
Because Jesus served me first
The Faith was new and freshI was forgiven and clean
Then I became guilty andContinued to fall into sinAnd it became dry and…
The Faith Mission Drift:
I have to stay forgiven and cleanBy doing things that win
God's love
The Gospel:
Jesus has done it allGod is pleased with his SonAnd I am in Christ by graceHe's pleased with me now
What do I needThat Jesus hasn't done
Or won't do as I follow him?
Am I trying to earn whatJesus has already given?
Am I trying to earn whatJesus has already given?
Am I making people earnMy love and favor?
Let's Pray…
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