doing god’s will god’s way galatians 4. the “world system” rules! more rules!
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Doing God’s Will God’s Way
Galatians 4
The “World System”
Rules! Rules! MORE Rules!
The “World System”How To LEGISLATE THIS?
Gal. 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Two Ways to Deal With God:
Plan A
Legal, Impersonal, Ritualistic, Remote
Plan B
Relational, Accessible
Grace Affects Everything!•Plan A: Earned by Good Works•Plan B: Given by Christ’s Death
Acceptance With God
•Plan A: Legal, Impersonal Ritual (4:1f)•Plan B: Personal, Intimate (4:5.6)
Ongoing Relationship With
God
•Plan A: Effort, Hard Work•Plan B: Empowered by God.
Doing God’s Will(Tonight)
Grace Affects Everything!•Plan A: Earned by Good Works•Plan B: Given by Christ’s Death
Acceptance With God
•Plan A: Legal, Impersonal Ritual (4:1f)•Plan B: Personal, Intimate (4:5.6)
Ongoing Relationship With
God
•Plan A: Effort, Hard Work•Plan B: Empowered by God.
Doing God’s Will(Tonight)
Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, [12] instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age
Abraham: a Model of Grace
Read Gal. 4:21-31
‘Bond-Woman’• Flesh• Mount Sinai• Old
Testament
‘Free-Woman’• Promise• ‘Jerusalem
Above’• US HERE
PEOPLE
Ishmael
Sarah: “God helps those who…”
A son through Hagar
Plan A: Human Strength
Isaac
25 Years Later…
Plan B: WAITING
See Rom.4:18-21
Abraham: a Model of Grace
Single
“I’m SO LONELY!Gonna DIE!!”
Plan A:GRAB Someone
Plan B: Grow UP!
Married
“I’m SO Unhappy!Gonna DIE!
Plan A:YELL!
Plan B: Grow Up!
Examples
The VOW Trap REJECT (4:30)
Treadmill of Sin
“Children who are to be slaves” 4:24b
The VOW Trap REJECT (4:30)
Treadmill of
Singles
“Children who are to be slaves” 4:24b
The VOW Trap REJECT (4:30)
Treadmill of the
Married
“Children who are to be slaves” 4:24b
Ezekiel 11:19 (NASB) “And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
FREEDOM!
Plan B
Plan B: Relational Approach
Exciting B.O.C.
“And everyone kept feeling a sense of
awe…”(Acts 2:43)
Love-Motivation
“My children, with whom I am again in labor…”
“Have I become your enemy by telling you the
truth?”
Plan B: The Theme of Galatians Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with
Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”
Galatians 3:3 Have you lost your senses? After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?
Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
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