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The Letter to the GalatiansStudy 3 Unity in the gospel

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Unity in the gospel

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Countering the Judaisers

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The Law

Moral Law

Ceremonial Law

Civil Law

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• (ESV) 1 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.

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Time line

Conversion

Preach in Damascus, Jerusalem and escaped to

Tarsus

Arabia

3 years

Jerusalem

15 days with Peter and saw James

Acts 9 Acts 9 Galatians 1-2

Jerusalem

14 years

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Why did he meet with apostles?

• (ESV) 1 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.

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Choice

He was unsure of gospel

He wanted confirmation from Apostles

He wanted to counter Judaisers

He wanted to ensure unity with Apostles in dealing with this issue

Acts 15

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Why is this important?

• (ESV) 3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.

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Gods plan of salvation

Adam and Eve

Fall Flood Noah

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By Grace

Gen 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you

and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth

shall be blessed.

Circumcision-sign of covenant• Gen 17:10-14 Every male

among you shall be circumcised. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,

• both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

Circumcision-sign of covenant

Circumcision-commitment to community

• Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant

Circumcision-Symbolism

• Threshold of manhood--covenant

• Permanent• Intimate• Cut off

Cut off physically socially and spiritually

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Circumcision

• Identity...harder to form relationships with people outside the covenant

• Demonstrate God is holy..to teach we are naturally unclean

• Accountability

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What was the problem with the Judaisers approach to circumcision?

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ProblemGod

Food laws

Circumcision

Ceremonial

• Show we are unclean

• Impossible to make ourselves acceptable on own own

• Point to Jesus who will fulfil them

• We can be clean

• Possible to keep them to make ourselves acceptable to God

• Point to Ourselves

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How do the Judaisers threaten freedom?

• (ESV) 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.

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Problem-Slavery

God

Food laws

Circumcision

Ceremonial

• We can be clean

• Possible to keep them to make ourselves acceptable to God

• Point to Ourselves

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Why was it important not to compromise?

• (ESV) 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.

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Split

Jerusalem church

Gentile church

Christ alone Christ and the Law

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Cultural Psychological and Emotional

Freedom in the gospel

Cultural freedom

Which of these are sinful?

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What about these?

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Psychological and emotional freedom

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The Law

Moral Law

Ceremonial Law

Civil Law

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Jer 31• (ESV) Behold, the days are coming,

declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke

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• (ESV) 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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What is place of law?

System of salvation

Content of holy living

Was it right to circumcise babies?

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• In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead Col 2:11-12

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Seventh Day Adventits

• Along with adequate exercise and rest, we are to adopt the most healthful diet possible and abstain from the unclean foods identified in the Scriptures. Since alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and the irresponsible use of drugs and narcotics are harmful to our bodies, we are to abstain from them as well.

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• There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernacle which the Lord set up and not man. In it Christ ministers on our behalf, making available to believers the benefits of His atoning sacrifice offered once for all on the cross. He was inaugurated as our great High Priest and began His intercessory ministry at the time of His ascension. In 1844, at the end of the prophetic period of 2300 days, He entered the second and last phase of His atoning ministry.

Seventh Day Adventits

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Founders teach

Strive without ceasing

It is finished

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Paul Martin Luther

Simul Justus Et Peccator

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The bible

GospelsA

ctsLetters

Rev

OT

Letters

Paul Peter John JudeHebrews

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1 John 1• (ESV) 5 This is the message we have

heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the

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• (ESV) light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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• In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God" (John 1:1

• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" (Matthew 26:41)

• A law unto themselves" (Romans 2:14)

• "In him we live, move and have our being" (Acts 17:28).

• "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels" (1 Corinthians 13:1)

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William TyndaleMartyred 1536

I defy the Pope and all his laws. . . . If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow, shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.

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The reason Greek RC Tyndale

Presbuteros Priest Elder

Ekklesia Church Congregation

Metaneo Do Penance Repent

Exomologeo Confess Admit

Agape Charity Love

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• (ESV) 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

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What do we learn?

• (ESV) 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.

Unity in the gospelRecognition of different

ministries

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The poor• 10 Only, they asked us

to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.