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Adult Bible Study Guide
Oct • Nov • Dec 2011
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The Gospel in Galatians
Contents
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Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles
Paul’s Authority and Gospel
The Unity of the Gospel
Justification by Faith Alone
Old Testament Faith
The Priority of the Promise
The Road to Faith
From Slaves to Heirs
Paul’s Pastoral Appeal
The Two Covenants
Freedom in Christ
Living by the Spirit
The Gospel and the Church
Boasting in the Cross
Background
1; 5:12
2:1-14
2:15-21
3:1-14
3:15-20
3:21-25
3:26-4:20
4:12-20
4:21-31
5:1-15
5:16-25
6:1-10
6:11-18
The Gospel in Galatians
Our Goal {167}
To reflect on our own understanding
of the gospel.
Allow God’s Spirit to spark a spiritual
revival in our hearts as we rediscover
what God has done for us in Christ.
The Gospel in Galatians
Lesson 11, December 10
Freedom in Christ
Freedom in Christ
Key Text
Galatians 5:13 ESV
For you were called to freedom,
brothers. Only do not use your
freedom as an opportunity for the
flesh, but through love serve one
another.”
Freedom in Christ
Initial Words {289}
Paul warn the Galatians of two
dangers.
The first
is legalism. The
forms
of slavery
second is licentiousness.
Both legalism and licentiousness are
opposed to freedom, because they
equally keep their adherents in a
form of slavery. Paul’s appeal is to
stand firm in the true freedom that is
their rightful possession in Christ.
Freedom in Christ
Quick Look
1. The Christian Liberty
(Galatians 5:1)
2. Liberty Not Legalism
(Galatians 5:2-12)
3. Liberty Not Licentiousness
(Galatians 5:13)
Freedom in Christ
1. The Christian Liberty
Galatians 5:1 NKJV
Stand fast
therefore in the
liberty by which
Christ has made us
free, and not to be
entangled with a
yoke of bondage.”
1. The Christian Liberty
“Christ Has Set Us Free” {290}
The wording is similar to
the formula used in the sacred
freeing ofBecause
slaves. slaves had no
legal rights, it was supposed that a
deity could purchase their freedom,
and in return, the slave, though
really free, would legally belong to
the god. In actual practice it was
the slave who paid the money.
1. The Christian Liberty
“Christ Has Set Us Free” {290}
In Paul’s metaphor, we did not
provide the purchase price ourselves.
The price was far too high for us.
We were powerless to save ourselves,
but Jesus stepped in and did for us
what we could not do.
He paid the penalty for our sins, thus
freeing us from condemnation.
1. The Christian Liberty
The Nature of Christian Freedom {292}
It does not refer to political freedom,
economic
freedom, or the freedom
to
in relationship
to
live any way we might please.
Jesus
Christ
It is a freedom that is grounded in our
relationship to Jesus Christ.
It is freedom from the bondage and
condemnation of a law-driven
Christianity. It includes freedom from
sin, eternal death, and the devil.
Freedom in Christ
2. Liberty Not Legalism
Galatians 5:4, 6 NKJV
You have become estranged from
Christ, you who attempt to be
justified by law; you have fallen
from grace.
For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision
avails anything, but faith working
through love.”
2. Liberty Not Legalism
Four Dangers {294}
1. It obligates the person to keep the
entire law. If a person wants to live
according to the law, he or she
cannot just choose the precepts to
follow. It is all or nothing.
2. They will be “cut off” from Christ.
A decision to be justified by works
involves at the same time a rejection
of God’s way of justification in Christ.
2. Liberty Not Legalism
Four Dangers {294}
3. It hinders spiritual growth. His
analogy is of a runner whose
progress toward the finish line has
been deliberately sabotaged.
4. Circumcision removes the offense
of the Cross. Circumcision implies
that you can save yourself; as such,
it is flattering to human pride.
Freedom in Christ
3. Liberty Not Licentiousness
Galatians 5:13 NKJV
For you, brethren, have been called
to liberty; only do not use liberty as
an opportunity for the flesh;
but through love serve one another.”
3. Liberty Not Licentiousness
Issue of Christian Behavior {296}
The problem is the human tendency
for self-indulgence.
Paul wants them to “through love
serve one another.”
This is something that can be done
only through death to self, death to
the flesh. Those who indulge their
own flesh are not the ones who tend
to serve others.
3. Liberty Not Licentiousness
Issue of Christian Behavior {296}
The Greek language indicates that
the love that motivates this type of
service is not ordinary human love—
that would be impossible; human
love is far too conditional.
The article (the) before the word
love in Greek indicates he is referring
to “the” divine love that we receive
only through the Spirit.
3. Liberty Not Licentiousness
Issue of Christian Behavior {296}
The real surprise lies in the fact that
the word translated as “serve” is the
Greek word for “to be enslaved.”
Our freedom is not for selfautonomy but for mutual
enslavement to one another based
on God’s love.
Freedom in Christ
Final Words {298}
Many see the contrast between
Paul’s negative comments about
“doing the whole law” and his
positive assertions about “fulfilling
the whole law” as paradoxical.
Paul uses each phrase to make an
important distinction between two
different ways of defining Christian
behavior in relation to the law.
Freedom in Christ
Final Words {298}
When Paul refers positively to
Christian observance of the law, he
never describes it as “doing the law.”
He reserves that phrase to refer
solely to the misguided behavior of
those who are living under the law
and are trying to earn God’s
approval by “doing” what the law
commands.
Freedom in Christ
Final Words {298}
True Christian behavior “fulfills” the
rooted
law. It goesin
farJesus
beyond just “doing.”
This type of obedience is rooted in
Jesus. It is not an abandonment of
the law, nor a reduction of the law
only to love, but it is the way
through which the believer can
experience the true intent and
meaning of the whole law!