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Galations | Week 2 | Pastor Luke Isaacson | 06/12/22
This week, Pastor Luke preached the second sermon in our Galatian series with a message titled ‘keeping the main thing the main thing’ out of Chapter 1: 6-10.
Paul opens the book of Galatians very differently than all his other letters. In this book, he opens with shock and astonishment; not pleased with how the Galatians have been keeping hold of the faith. They had not kept the main thing the main thing, and instead were being swayed and influenced by additional and contrary thoughts and ideologies.
Pastor Luke made three primary points:
1. The MAIN thing for Paul is the Gospel.
The Gospel means “good news” and Paul went all over the ancient world talking about this good story. A fundamental part of understanding the Gospel is understanding grace; the free and undeserved gift that God has given to us on the basis of faith, and through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When the reality of grace seeps into our souls, it brings life and utterly transforms us.
2. When grace gets hijacked.
We can tell that our grace is being hijacked when it’s joyless, fruitless, and faithless.
Paul is very passionate about the separation between works and grace, and that is because his main thing is the main thing: for Paul it must be just Jesus, and anything else added to that is wrong and offensive.
How do we know if grace has been hijacked in our lives?
a) Performance is burning you out.
We do not have to earn or prove ourselves to God before He will love us. The Gospel is the Gospel of grace, and we become sons and daughters solely based on the finished work of Jesus in our lives. It has nothing to do with our own efforts.
b) Shame is destroying you.
We do not understand grace if our identity is rooted in shame.
c) You make it about you.
Christianity has one title in it – Christ. It’s about Jesus, and not about us.
3. The expulsive power of a new affection.
In order to separate ourselves from the love of this world; we must take our greatest love and attachment and put it on Jesus: this is the message of the Gospel. Jesus must be the only one at the top of our lives. He must be our Lord and our love, and from that place our obedience becomes an overflow our who we are – and not out of performance or a works-based faith. Our love is both a decision and a feeling, and we need to put it fully, completely, and only on Jesus.
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This week, Pastor Luke preached the second sermon in our Galatian series with a message titled ‘keeping the main thing the main thing’ out of Chapter 1: 6-10.
Paul opens the book of Galatians very differently than all his other letters. In this book, he opens with shock and astonishment; not pleased with how the Galatians have been keeping hold of the faith. They had not kept the main thing the main thing, and instead were being swayed and influenced by additional and contrary thoughts and ideologies.
Pastor Luke made three primary points:
1. The MAIN thing for Paul is the Gospel.
The Gospel means “good news” and Paul went all over the ancient world talking about this good story. A fundamental part of understanding the Gospel is understanding grace; the free and undeserved gift that God has given to us on the basis of faith, and through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When the reality of grace seeps into our souls, it brings life and utterly transforms us.
2. When grace gets hijacked.
We can tell that our grace is being hijacked when it’s joyless, fruitless, and faithless.
Paul is very passionate about the separation between works and grace, and that is because his main thing is the main thing: for Paul it must be just Jesus, and anything else added to that is wrong and offensive.
How do we know if grace has been hijacked in our lives?
a) Performance is burning you out.
We do not have to earn or prove ourselves to God before He will love us. The Gospel is the Gospel of grace, and we become sons and daughters solely based on the finished work of Jesus in our lives. It has nothing to do with our own efforts.
b) Shame is destroying you.
We do not understand grace if our identity is rooted in shame.
c) You make it about you.
Christianity has one title in it – Christ. It’s about Jesus, and not about us.
3. The expulsive power of a new affection.
In order to separate ourselves from the love of this world; we must take our greatest love and attachment and put it on Jesus: this is the message of the Gospel. Jesus must be the only one at the top of our lives. He must be our Lord and our love, and from that place our obedience becomes an overflow our who we are – and not out of performance or a works-based faith. Our love is both a decision and a feeling, and we need to put it fully, completely, and only on Jesus.