Week 3 “Breaking Free from the Establishment”

From Galatians 1-2

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It’s NOT Ford V. Ferrari. It’s V . 

1. Establishments are and .

2. God people from the of .

📖 Galatians 1:11-12 (ESV) For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 

The Establishment in Paul’s day: : Salvation by

📖 Galatians 1:13 (ESV) For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. 14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. 

📖 Galatians 1:15 (ESV) But when He who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by His grace, 16 was pleased to reveal His Son to me, in order that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. 

📖 Genesis 3:7 (NLT) At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

3. We often into the of   .

📖 Galatians 2:11 (ESV) But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

📖 Galatians 2:12-16 (ESV) For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 

📖 Matthew 5:48 (ESV) “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.“

4. We truly break free from when we get a of what Jesus Christ has done for us.

📖 Galatians 2:15-16 (ESV) We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. 

📖 Acts 20:22-24 (ESV) And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. 24 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

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