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• Do not live under the law or in legalism since that leads to prideful-self righteousness alienating us from Christ

• Nor use our freedom bought by Christ’s payment to indulge our flesh leading to an immoral lifestyle and forfeiting our inheritance

• Rather we are called to live in faith through the Holy Spirit shown by expressing itself through love.

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Because we are God’s children, God sent the Holy Spirit into our hearts, the Spirit gives us faith in the redemption of Jesus’ fulfilling work. 

• By the Spirit we are made heirs with Jesus

The Law was given to lead to awareness of the need of a redeeming Savior.

• Now that we are born of the Spirit we do not need to regress to works of the Mosaic law.

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Abraham was saved before becoming a Jew and before the Law was given

• Justification comes from grace/ belief, not following the law

• Purpose of the law, Why was the law given if not for salvation?

• The law is perfect and shows us our transgression against God

• The Law is God’s answer to pride

• The law was given to keep Jews separate from the world, until the Messiah

• The Law was never given to Gentiles

• The Law reveals sin

• The Law kept Israel separate until the seed promised Messiah came with the Holy Spirit

• The Law prophetically describes the Messiah

• The Law can help give guides for sanctification

• By faith we are children of God: Meaning our identity comes from God and not from our flesh.

• By adoption we share in King Jesus’ inheritance of eternal life

• We are lead by the Holy Spirit in Spiritual adulthood and not a slave to the law

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Main point of Galatians 3 is 

• Salvation is by faith/trust/belief in God’s Promise. 

• Salvation is not by the Law. Salvation is not by earning righteousness for ourselves.

• Salvation for all time has only been by faith, by trusting, by believing in God’s promise.

  What is the Gospel? Good News

  Salvation from eternal punishment/Hell/wrath is divided in three parts:

  1. Justification-Past tense:We have been saved: Separation from the penalty of sin 

  1. New Spiritual Birth-Holy Spirit

  2. Sanctification-Present-We are being saved: Separation from the power of sin 

  1. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, incrementally (Galatians 5, 6, Romans 6)

  3. Glorification-Future-We shall be saved: Separation from the presence of sin 

  1. Resurrection/sinless body/ “the redemption of our body” (Rom 8:23)

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Bible Commentary on Galatians 2

The focus of the letter to the Galatians can be broken into 4 parts.

• 1 Paul defends his authority as apostle. 

• 2 Unity of the Jewish and Gentile Church-One body of Christ-Christ is the head not Paul or Peter

• 3 Do not give an opportunity for false teachers to say salvation is the Gospel plus anything (The law, Jewish customs, Ten commandments).

• 4 Defending salvation by Grace through faith alone. Salvation is by faith in Jesus alone.

  Galatians 2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

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Galatians 1

1 Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— 2 and all the brothers and sisters[a] with me,

To the churches in Galatia:

3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

11 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. 12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. 14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. 17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.

18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas[b] and stayed with him fifteen days. 19 I saw none of the other apostles—only James, the Lord’s brother. 20 I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.

21 Then I went to Syria and Cilicia. 22 I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 23 They only heard the report: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.” 24 And they praised God because of me.

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