The core theme is the call to stand firm in the freedom Christ has provided, warning against returning to a "yoke of slavery" through legalistic practices, particularly circumcision, as a means of justification.
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this is our first session on Galatians
51-6 we'll focus on verse one in fact
we'll probably be on verse one for at
least two
sessions let's read the whole
thing for Freedom Christ has set us free
stand firm therefore and do not submit
again to a yoke of
slavery look
I Paul say to you that if you are
circumcised that is if you yield to the
false teachers who are telling you that
you must uh keep the law of circumcision
in order to be
justified Christ will be of no advantage to
you I testify again to every man who is
being circumcised that he is a debtor to
keep the whole
law you are Ed from Christ you who would
be justified by the
law you have fallen from
grace for through the Spirit by
faith we ourselves eagerly wait for the
hope of
righteousness for in Christ Jesus
neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
counts for
anything but only
Faith working through
love oh
Father we want to live in this Freedom
we want to stand firm and not submit to
a yoke of slavery so Grant I pray that
we would both understand what Paul's
talking about here and that we would
experience this kind of freedom for the
glory of Christ for the good of our own
souls for the advancement of his cause
amen
notice for
freedom is called the the
goal of being set
free so he's got these two stages this is
is
conversion I presume we would all
agree and then this is ongoing life of
freedom in
Christ or as he says here
here this
this
conversion is to be
maintained by standing
firm stand firm in this Freedom right
stand firm don't here's the that's the
positive the negative is don't
W submit again to yoke of
slavery so stand in this
freedom and don't go back see that word
again submit again to the Yoke of
slavery now what I want to do mainly in
this session is just use this
structure of an event that happens
followed by a life of maintained Freedom
or a warning that we are to stand firm
in that freedom and not go backward to
the slavery from which we have been
rescued and I want to take that
structure and show you that's been the
case all the way through this letter
this is just by way of review but it
helps me and I thought it might help you
as well so let's just go back and walk
through the letter where this structure
of starting well and going
bad is uh focused on so here's chapter
1: 6 I'm
astonished that you are so quickly
deserting him who called you in the
grace of Christ and are turning to a
different gospel so you see they were
going well now they've turned
back that's the problem in this letter
it looks as if he's not sure he's
perplexed about them that they are
abandoning the gospel in which they'
made such a good beginning here's
chapter 2 veres 4 and 5 because of false
Brethren secretly brought in who slipped
in to spy out our freedom so Paul had
gone up to Jerusalem with Titus a
gentile and he didn't have Titus
circumcised so they're going to Snoop in
there to see whether or not he had
obeyed the law and had Titus circumcised
he came in to to spy out our freedom
that we have in Christ namely we're not
under the law as a means of
justification so that they might bring
us into slavery in other words turn us
back we were we're walking in our
freedom and they want to take us back to
slavery under lawkeepers a way of
justification to them we did not yield
that's the same as saying stand firm
don't do this don't go back don't do
what they are trying to make you do do
we did not
yield in submission even for a moment so
that the truth of the Gospel might be
preserved for you or here's chapter 2:
12 before certain men came from James
James
Peter was eating with the Gentiles in
other words he was standing firm in
Liberty he was a Jew and yet he had the
freedom to go against the Customs that
were expected from Jews as good
lawkeepers and he was eating whatever
they put before him kosher or unkosher
but when they came he drew back he was
going this way standing in Freedom and
then he started to forsake his freedom
he drew back and separated himself
fearing the circumcision party so again
he didn't stand firm he had been set
free it seems but he wasn't living in
the freedom that Christ called him to he
was submitting again to a yoke of of
slavery here's Galatians 3 oh foolish
Galatians who has Bewitched
you it was before your eyes that Christ
Jesus or Jesus Christ was publicly
portrayed as crucified let me ask you
only this did you receive the Spirit by
works of
law no or by hearing of Faith yes faith
not works of law are you so foolish
having begun by the spirit are you now
being perfected are you Ending by the
Flesh in other words did you experience
this event of Glorious Liberation in
being converted through justification by
faith and now you are ready to throw
away this Freedom you're not standing
firm at least he's asking are you he's
not sure where they are are you going to
go back and submit again to a yoke of
slavery here chapter 4 verse 9 but now
that you have come to know
God or rather be known by God how can
you turn back there it is again they're
so they're going well walking in Freedom
and now the false teachers have somehow
Bewitched them so that they're turning
back to the weak and worthless
Elementary principles of the world and
remember we talked about these is
probably the a b c's of the law
basic circumcision Feast keeping you've
turned back because they persuaded you
that you can't be a Bonafide Christian
unless you follow these rules whose
slaves you want to be once more
then maybe one more Galatians
5:7 you were running well they were
running who hindered you from obeying
the truth so now you're starting to go
back so throughout this entire
letter the issue is not mainly how did
you get started they had embraced Paul's
Gospel of
justification not by law
but by
faith for in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision counts
for anything but only
Faith working through love Faith was the
means by which you were set
free and now you're not standing firm it
appears you are turning back again and
submitting to a yoke of slavery name
they have
evidently Bewitched you into thinking
that you really don't have a perfect
pure glorious standing with Christ by
faith and must become justified by lawke
keeping so that's the big issue in
Galatians and now the big question for
us next time becomes what's the nature
of this Freedom what what's the nature
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