Law and Gospel: God's Demands and God's Promises

Sunday, October 23, 2011
Ben Janssen
Galatians: The Guilt of Legalism vs. The Gospel of Liberty
Galatians 3:15-22

If we are justified before God apart from the law, then what purpose does the law serve in our salvation? The answer to this question is seen as we understand God’s intentions to grant his inheritance by promise rather than through performance. That’s not to say that God does not care about his law or that the law contradicts his promise. Rather, he himself meets every condition of the law on our behalf through Abraham’s promised offspring, making the promise of justification unconditional for his heirs.

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Galatians 3:15-22
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covenant
heir
inheritance
justification
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promise

Series Info

Galatians: The Guilt of Legalism vs. The Gospel of Liberty

Series Description

Not long after the Apostle Paul had planted churches in the Roman province of Galatia, he heard that the Christians there had begun to drift away from the gospel. In his letter to the Galatian churches, Paul confronts the distorted gospel that they were starting to embrace, and rebukes those who were responsible for leading the church away from the gospel upon which those churches were founded. By studying Galatians we discover that the only alternative to the gospel of liberty is a “gospel” of legalism, which still tempts Christians today.

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