I Love My Shepherd 24 – Chasing Freedom 2: Freedom from the pendulum swing of self

What is the pendulum swing?

I’m a good person, I’m pretty great = self love

I’m terrible, I can’t do anything= self hate

 

Both are destructive, what can Galatians 2:19-21 teach us:

God walks us through a path that might seem uncomfortable first, but it opens up to freedom.

 

Law/Gospel –

The law bears down.

1 Timothy 1:15 – worst of sinners

• facing the law, dying to the law v. ignoring it, running from it
• facing the law is different from living in the law

 

Gospel –

God is doing something in us with all that junk.

We died to the law to live to God. (Galatians 2:19)

• Christ carried our sins and our not enough
• When I see all the messiness all my inadequacy, I think of Him now

 

I died to me, so I can remember who I am in Him.

 

1 Timothy 1:16

 

Freedom to look at the law, so that I can see the mercy.

 

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