Over the past couple of weeks, we have learned a few important points. 1) That salvation is by God’s grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone. 2) But that works have an important role to play in the life of a believer as they are evidence, fruit if you will, of a healthy faith. 3) We learned last week that the law did not supersede the promise that God made to Abraham some 430 years before the law was given. Yet through all this, the question has remained, “what is the purpose of the law? Why was it even given?
Please understand that everything that God does has a purpose. God “wastes” nothing. Not a moment. We waste moments all the time. I know I do. God does not. He is perfect in Purpose.
Galatians 11
The Purpose of the Law
July 12, 2020 • Pastor Christopher Thompson • Galatians 3:19–25
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September 13, 2020 • Pastor Christopher Thompson • Galatians 6:11–18
Over the past four months, we have walked through the book of Galatians and seen that what these first centuries Christians struggled with was not so different from the struggles of today. We struggle in our world with false teachers twisting the truth to suit their own desires. We see believers enslaved to works of the law rather than living in the freedom purchased by Christ, and we struggled to be known by the Fruit of the Spirit rather than the that of the flesh. This week we close out the book of Galatians as we have reached, the conclusion.
Galatians 16
August 30, 2020 • Pastor Christopher Thompson • Galatians 5:16–26
Paul had just reminded us that with great freedom comes great responsibility. That Jesus did indeed die to set us free from the law of sin and death, but that this freedom was not given that we might spend it on our own pleasures, rather it was given that we might be able to fulfill the greatest commandments of “Loving God and Loving people.” Now, I do not know about you but when I hear such things, I can become concerned, concerned that I do not know enough, that I cannot accomplish such a thing. I mean, what does it even look like to be free in this way? Thankfully, we are not left wonder as Paul now shows us what it is (and is not) to be free as we…Walk in the Spirit