2. Be Free
Galatians written to address a false gospel preached by Jewish Christians to Gentile Christians
False gospel = Jesus plus your obedience to the law saves
True gospel = Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus alone

3. Be Free
Galatians 1:6,7 - I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

4. Be Free
Galatians 2:15, 16 - We are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners,” and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.

5. Be Free
Galatians 3:5, 6 – So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law? Or is it by believing what you heard— just like Abraham who believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness?

6. Be Free
Main Point: God’s promise fulfilled in Jesus, not our performance of the law, makes us His children

7. Be Free THE LAW AND THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM (13-18)
The covenant promises given to Abraham were not changed or set aside by the law
The covenant promises given to Abraham were ultimately fulfilled in Jesus and all people becoming God’s children through faith in Jesus

8. Be Free THE LAW AND THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM (13-18)
The tiniest details of Scripture matter and communicate truth (vs 16)

9. Be Free THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW(19-26) The law as prison (22,23)
We are imprisoned under sin’s power
We are unable to meet standard of God’s holiness
We are unable to free ourselves

10. Be Free THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW(19-26) The law as prison (22,23)
The law as guardian (24)
Gives us protection
Shows us the right path to flourish as the people of God
Is temporary

11. Be Free THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW(19-26)
Matthew 5: “Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all things are accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven.

12. Be Free THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW(19-26) The law is temporary?
Jesus is the fulfillment of the law
The coming of Christ changed how we worship, but not how we live –Timothy Keller-
Read the Bible with your Jesus glasses on

13. Be Free THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW(19-26)
The law points to the reality of our sin
The law shows our inability to fix our sin problem
The law shows our need to look outside ourselves for salvation
The law shows our need of a Savior!
Main Point: God’s promise fulfilled in Jesus, not our performance of the law, makes us His children.

14. Be Free THE PROMISED CHILDREN OF GOD (26-29) Our identity in Christ
“Sons of God”, “heirs of God” (26, 29)
“Baptized into Christ” (27)
“Clothed with Christ” (27)
“All one in Christ Jesus” (28)
“belong to Christ” & “Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise” (29)

15. Be Free THE PROMISED CHILDREN OF GOD (26-29) Our identity in Christ
1 Peter 2:9 - But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

16. Be Free
Main Point: God’s promise fulfilled in Jesus, not our performance of the law makes us His children.
The law does not set aside God’s promises it shows us our need for a Savior
Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone
God’s promise is that anyone can be His child by grace through faith in Jesus