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We all want to “run the race” of life with Christ well. But sometimes our efforts get hindered by outside influences.
The first thing to do, to get back on course, may be to cut the carbs—that is, to remove the influence in our lives of those who advise us to rely on anything but what Christ did for us.
Series: Paul's Letter to the Galatians: The Only Thing That Counts
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Are you free, in Christ? Do you feel free? The truth is, you are absolutely free in Christ.
But there are a lot of people trying to put us back into slavery.
Series: Paul's Letter to the Galatians: The Only Thing That Counts
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Why would anyone want to go back to slavery? What could possibly make that look better?
Only if they do not see where they are, who they are, what they have. This is what Paul continues to try to solve as the letter to the Galatian church proceeds: our Abba is God, and Jesus gives us everything.
Series: Paul's Letter to the Galatians: The Only Thing That Counts
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Today we push beyond Psalm 22, the Lenten series this sermon is adjacent to, and we look at What’s Next, Next. That is, after Christ is Risen and God does His work in our hearts, where does that grace go next? Where does He lead us?
Series: Jesus Believed Psalm 22 On the Cross
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Psalm 22 reports a remarkable shift: the psalmist describes being broken and beaten, but then something happens. And what happens is so extraordinary that the psalmist bursts into song and has to tell people.
Today, the Sunday after Easter, we look at what we do, after what God did.
Series: Jesus Believed Psalm 22 On the Cross
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Psalm 22 reports a remarkable shift: the psalmist describes being broken and beaten, but then something happens. And what happens is so extraordinary that the psalmist bursts into song and has to tell people.
What did God do? That’s the question that the story of Jesus finally answers.
Series: Jesus Believed Psalm 22 On the Cross
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The conversation Jesus was having with the Jewish leaders throughout His ministry continued on the Cross.
There Jesus reveals what was strengthening Him, helping Him understand His story: Psalm 22.
To begin with, Psalm 22 reveals that God delivers the defeated. That’s where Jesus, then, had to go.
Series: Jesus Believed Psalm 22 On the Cross
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Our identity is defined by Jesus and our relationship with Him.
The “Social Order” offers us alternate sources of identity, alternate sources of righteousness and significance. These sources are often presented to us as either-or’s: Jew or Greek, Slave or Free, Male or Female, are some examples from the 1st century world.
In this sermon, we look at the categories of “male and female,” and the subject of New Creation-flourishing.
Series: Paul's Letter to the Galatians: The Only Thing That Counts
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Our identity is defined by Jesus and our relationship with Him.
The “Social Order” offers us alternate sources of identity, alternate sources of righteousness and significance. These sources are often presented to us as either-or’s: Jew or Greek, Slave or Free, Male or Female, are some examples from the 1st century world.
In this sermon, we look at the categories of “slave and free,” or the subject of Class Divisions.
Series: Paul's Letter to the Galatians: The Only Thing That Counts
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Our identity is defined by Jesus and our relationship with Him.
The “Social Order” offers us alternate sources of identity, alternate sources of righteousness and significance. These sources are often presented to us as either-or’s: Jew or Greek, Slave or Free, Male or Female, are some examples from the 1st century world.
What are the “Social Order binaries” that compete with Christ for the Christians’ identity today? What’s our version of “Jew or Greek”?
So today we talk about Nationalism.
Series: Paul's Letter to the Galatians: The Only Thing That Counts
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