CONTENDING FOR FREEDOM IN CHRIST (13)
Scripture: Galatians 5:1-15
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Contending for Freedom in Christ (13)
Series: Galatians
Robert Dawson
Galatians 5:1-15
Do you remember those long days of school? Hours and hours of lectures, reading, quizzes, tests and prison block walls. Do you remember the last class of the day, especially the last class before a weekend, holiday or summer vacation? You sat there staring at the clock on the wall in the front of the classroom trying to will it to go faster. You were antsy as you waited on the last bell so you could rush out, breath fresh air, experience the sun on your face and bask in the glow of freedom. You felt free to run, scream, jump, play or just enjoy doing nothing. No more homework, no more books and no more teacher's dirty looks. It was freedom.
Freedom is one of the key themes in Galatians. As we've focused on Paul's arguments against salvation by effort and religious ritual and his cries against legalism you may have missed the fact that Paul, in attacking those things was ultimately contending for freedom, freedom in Christ.
Today, I want us to look more closely at our freedom so that we can better understand what it means to be free in Christ. We need to ask, what kind of freedom do we have in Christ? Is this a freedom that is unconstrained and without limits?
These are some of the issues that Paul touches on in this 5th and next to the last chapter in Galatians.
Let's read Galatians 5.1-15
The Galatian's struggle did not just center around a developing distortion of the Gospel. They were not only confused on how to begin but how to end. They did not understand how to live the Christian life and were inadvertently trading in their new-found freedom in Christ for slavery to religious rites, the law and man-made traditions.
This passage encourages us to...
Understand Our Freedom
The first verse of this chapter is of great importance to what follows. It serves as the thesis statement for the last two chapters of Paul's letter to the Galatians. It doe ...
Series: Galatians
Robert Dawson
Galatians 5:1-15
Do you remember those long days of school? Hours and hours of lectures, reading, quizzes, tests and prison block walls. Do you remember the last class of the day, especially the last class before a weekend, holiday or summer vacation? You sat there staring at the clock on the wall in the front of the classroom trying to will it to go faster. You were antsy as you waited on the last bell so you could rush out, breath fresh air, experience the sun on your face and bask in the glow of freedom. You felt free to run, scream, jump, play or just enjoy doing nothing. No more homework, no more books and no more teacher's dirty looks. It was freedom.
Freedom is one of the key themes in Galatians. As we've focused on Paul's arguments against salvation by effort and religious ritual and his cries against legalism you may have missed the fact that Paul, in attacking those things was ultimately contending for freedom, freedom in Christ.
Today, I want us to look more closely at our freedom so that we can better understand what it means to be free in Christ. We need to ask, what kind of freedom do we have in Christ? Is this a freedom that is unconstrained and without limits?
These are some of the issues that Paul touches on in this 5th and next to the last chapter in Galatians.
Let's read Galatians 5.1-15
The Galatian's struggle did not just center around a developing distortion of the Gospel. They were not only confused on how to begin but how to end. They did not understand how to live the Christian life and were inadvertently trading in their new-found freedom in Christ for slavery to religious rites, the law and man-made traditions.
This passage encourages us to...
Understand Our Freedom
The first verse of this chapter is of great importance to what follows. It serves as the thesis statement for the last two chapters of Paul's letter to the Galatians. It doe ...
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