UNPACKING JUSTIFICATION (6)
Scripture: Galatians 2:15-21
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Unpacking Justification (6)
Series: Galatians
Robert Dawson
Galatians 2:15-21
I'm sure most of you have seen those vacuum storage bags advertised on TV or at the store. They are these thick plastic bags that you stuff clothes, quilts, comforters and pillows in and then hook up the vacuum cleaner to a valve and it sucks the air out of the bag causing it to compress to a much smaller size. The result is that you end up with more stuff in a smaller space. If you did not know everything that was in the bag to start with you might be surprised when it is unpacked.
That is true of our Scripture passage today. Paul crams a lot of truth in a few verses. One Bible teacher said this passage is filled with ''some of the most compressed language found anywhere in his letters.'' (In teaching us how to construct a sermon, my professor always made us write, in one complete sentence, what he called the Heart of the Text, the H.O.T. It was the sermon in a nutshell. It contained the essence of the entire sermon.). What we have in these few verses, especially 15 and 16, is the heart of Paul's letter. He has introduced us to his subject and laid out its importance and now he gives us the message in a nutshell and will spent the next 4 chapters unpacking the message for us in greater detail.
What we find in this passage, in this letter, are the realities upon which our life is based. We find the foundation for and summary of the Christian life. It teaches us what Christ has done, is doing and is going to do.
Galatians 2.15-21 - ''We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles; 16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. 17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, ...
Series: Galatians
Robert Dawson
Galatians 2:15-21
I'm sure most of you have seen those vacuum storage bags advertised on TV or at the store. They are these thick plastic bags that you stuff clothes, quilts, comforters and pillows in and then hook up the vacuum cleaner to a valve and it sucks the air out of the bag causing it to compress to a much smaller size. The result is that you end up with more stuff in a smaller space. If you did not know everything that was in the bag to start with you might be surprised when it is unpacked.
That is true of our Scripture passage today. Paul crams a lot of truth in a few verses. One Bible teacher said this passage is filled with ''some of the most compressed language found anywhere in his letters.'' (In teaching us how to construct a sermon, my professor always made us write, in one complete sentence, what he called the Heart of the Text, the H.O.T. It was the sermon in a nutshell. It contained the essence of the entire sermon.). What we have in these few verses, especially 15 and 16, is the heart of Paul's letter. He has introduced us to his subject and laid out its importance and now he gives us the message in a nutshell and will spent the next 4 chapters unpacking the message for us in greater detail.
What we find in this passage, in this letter, are the realities upon which our life is based. We find the foundation for and summary of the Christian life. It teaches us what Christ has done, is doing and is going to do.
Galatians 2.15-21 - ''We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles; 16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. 17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, ...
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