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Galatians 1:1-10 No Other Gospel • If you’ve never been to one or it’s your first time here this Galatians 1:1-10 morning I would encourage you to try one out- we’re actually about to launch 3 more this month so stay tuned… No other Gospel Image Church // Galatians #1 And then we want to live on mission together- recognizing that Jesus MPS: Do not drift to a distorted gospel that’s contingent on you, stand firm on the has placed each of us where we are to be a missionary for His promises of the true gospel completed by Jesus. message… • In addition, we want to serve and love our community, and our city in a way that displays and distributes the gospel to others. And we want to mobilize people to take the gospel all Introduction Well Happy New Year Image Family, I can’t believe that 2019 is over the country and all over the world for the sake of Gods already here! I want to give big welcome all of our FTG’s that are here Kingdom! with us today…We’re excited that you’re joining us this morning! You say “wow, that’s a big vision for a 1-year-old church,” well we We’re a new church that’s about to celebrate our 1 year birthday serve a big God who uses people like a little boy with 5 loves and 2 here at the end of January, which is hard to believe, so let me just fish to feed thousands, so we believe that God can use us… say, if you’re looking for a church family, now is a great time to jump in with us as we enter into a new year together… We believe what Psalms 20:7 says: Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. One of the things that we hold up all the time here is that we exist as to make disciples that live out what Jesus says in Matthew 22:37-38… And we gather here on Sundays, not as an event, but as a group of which is: to love the Lord with all of your heart, soul, mind, and to love people, coming together to be reminded of who God is, and to your neighbor as yourself… celebrate what He’s done! We summarize that by saying that want to be a church that Loves And the way that we do that is by holding up the Word of God and God, Loves each other, and lives on mission together… working through it together… We tend to go line-by-line and verse by verse as we letting the text to inform the topic and not the topic We want to love for God by learning more about who He is and what being projected over the text… He’s done by looking at His Word and allowing that to impact how we live… And this morning we’re kicking off a brand-new series in the book of Galatians walking through it from beginning to end over the next 8 We want to love each other by being in gospel community weeks … • We do this through location-based community groups that meet during the week all around the city… Where we do life By the way, if you’ve never experienced a sermon series through a together, dive into God’s Word and live intentionally… book- hang with us…I promise you that you’re gonna love it and in the end be amazed at how everything fits together and is so applicable. Alright, if you have your Bibles, go ahead and turn to the book of I can kinda make it on my own, if I can just reorganize my life here, Galatians… and do some things there, follow these few principals, then I’ll be • If you don’t have a bible, we have one as our gift to you on pretty set… your way out… What happens is, when you first came to Christ you understood that As you’re turning there I want to set up the book of Galatians for you you had no ability, you had nothing and Christ had everything … But really quick… after you’ve been a Christian for a while you start to think: You know what, if I could just get: You may or may not know this, but in our society there’s 2 kinds of • 3 points on how to improve my marriage Bankruptcy- I hope that you haven’t had to experience either, but • 4 points on how to be a better employee there’s 2 basic types of Bankruptcy: Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 and • 6 points on how to be a batter parent1 they are both very different... • Chapter 11 bankruptcy is basically a reorganization- you’re Then I’ll be good to go… There’s some of you that have drifted there moving some assists around, dealing with some debts and this morning… flaws, fixing some problems, with the goal of turning things around and moving back into the profit margins… For some of you, your whole life has been about that, follow the rules, be religious and do the religious rituals, do the right thing, be a • Chapter 7 bankruptcy is much more serious, chapter 11 is good person… temporary, chapter 7 is permanent… You are broke, literally completely bankrupt, there’s no money left, no back up plan, Then there’s of you, that just think Christianity’s a set of rules that no getting your act together, or reorganizing, there’s no other you follow… And if you’re honest you’ve never really known how to options to fix things, the debt’s too big and there is no way for interact with Christianity, because if you look to much into it you start you to overcome it… feeling guilty, or it starts to feel cumbersome because you feel like you have all these things that you need to do for God… Here’s the parallel I want you to see… When you come to Christ, you • So, for you, it’s more something you’ve just kinda affiliated had to spiritually declare chapter 7 bankruptcy… the debt is too big, with, but you’ve never really understood it… there’s nothing I can do, there is no way I can clean up my act, or reorganize my life on my own, there is no other options to fix who I For some of you, you’re coming into the new year and you’re lacking am, I declare total and complete bankruptcy. God you have to pay the motivation spiritually… Or you’re looking for change, you want a fresh debt for me- you have to reset my life… start, or you want to turn over a new leaf… But here’s the pull, here’s the drift that can happen… What happens What we’re going to see in the book of Galatians is that it speaks to is we started chapter 7 (the debt is too big, God has to pay it for me) all of this by holding up the centrality of the gospel… And that the but then we begin to drift toward chapter 11 bankruptcy… gospel’s not just the start of the Christian life, but it is the Christian life… 1 “Bankruptcy” intro adapted from Bruce Frank, sermon. Galatians: Jesus+nothing=everything. Tim Keller puts it like this: The Gospel isn’t the ABC’s of Christianity, it The book of Galatians is written by Paul to the churches in Galatia- is the A to Z of the Christian life, it’s the way that you go into the Galatia was a religion- it’s where modern-day Turkey is… Christian life and the way that you live out the Christian life… So, Paul’s writing to a region of churches… Some people mistakenly And here’s the thing, when you understand that, it fundamentally refer to the book of Galatians as Paul’s letter to the the church of changes everything… See, for many of you, you know about the Galatia… But he’s writing to the churches of Galatia… gospel, but you don’t understand the implications of the gospel on your life… That’s important for us to understand because what we need to see is that what Paul’s going to address here in Galatians is a major issue Which is why you’re always looking for a list of things to do, or why that’s spread to an entire region… you don’t feel spiritually motivated, or why you kinda ride the fence, • This isn’t about one person, or even one church… What’s with one foot in, and one foot out when it comes to Christianity… happening here is pervasive to the point where it’s effecting an entire region… A little over 500 years ago, a guy named Martin Luther initiated what was called the Protestant Reformation because for centuries religion Here’s the other thing that you need to see in these first two verses… and man-made traditions had covered up the gospel… Look at how Paul identifies himself… He says that he is an apostle. • The word apostle means one who is sent… Who was Paul sent And in all he considered Galatians to be the most important book of by?? the Bible… Well, he says he’s an apostle (which means sent)—not from men or by Because he said that Galatians explains what the gospel is not.2 man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised [Jesus] from the dead… And when we understand what it’s not it helps us more clearly see what it is! … So, you ready?? Here we go, we’re going to dive in from Paul is speaking with the authority of the one who sent him! This I the beginning and walk through this first section together… huge, next week we’re going to walk through Paul’s defense of this significance of it all, but what you need to understand today as we jump in is that When we read Galatians, we are hearing the Words Galatians 1:1-10 of Christ.
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