Sermon Text: Galatians 4:8-11 (Romans 1:18-23 for context) Theme: A church that renounces the saving knowledge of God converts back to the spiritual slavery that Christ rescued them from. Structure/points: Since Gal. 2:15 and onward, Paul has explained the salvation and justification that Christians have from God through Christ. Yet the Galatians were on the very cusp of renouncing their faith in…
Confessing Historic Reformation Christianity: Salvation by Grace Alone, Through Faith Alone, in Christ Alone, Founded on Scripture Alone, for the Glory of God Alone.
Confessing Historic Reformation Christianity: Salvation by Grace Alone, Through Faith Alone, in Christ Alone, Founded on Scripture Alone, for the Glory of God Alone.
Sermons by Jonathan Key
Sermon Text: Galatians 4:1-7 Theme: When the time came for the Church to be redeemed from their bondage to the law, the Father sent His Son to redeem and adopt those He would make His sons and heirs by grace. Structure/points: If the Old Testament fathers and mothers were saved in the same way as New Testament people are, why then were…
Sermon Text: Galatians 3:23-29 Theme: The cessation of the law’s power equips the Church to believe that all who are justified by faith have equally received Christ and share in His inheritance. Structure/points: Paul has insisted that God’s promise to save people by faith was not invalidated when He gave the law to Moses. The law was never intended to save people…
Sermon Text: Galatians 3:19-22 Theme: The law of God accomplishes its purpose not by justifying sinners from its curse, but by showing them their need for Christ to deliver them. Structure/points: Paul has been arguing that the law of God is incapable of saving sinners; only by faith in Jesus is anyone justified. But why then did God give the law? What…
Sermon Text: Galatians 3:15-18 Theme: The promise of God to bless Abraham’s offspring remains unaltered by the introduction of the law, so that everyone with faith like Abraham’s shall receive the promised inheritance. Structure/points: As we’ve seen in the last few weeks, Paul has been reminding the Galatian churches of their justification. Since Christ had been crucified, they’d been forgiven of their…
Sermon Text: Galatians 3:10-14 Theme: The law’s curse rests upon all who have failed to keep it perfectly, but Christ became a curse to redeem all whose faith rests upon Him so that they could receive the blessing of Abraham. Structure/points: Why is Paul still hammering home that we are only justified by faith and not works of the law? And why…
Sermon Text: Galatians 3:1-9 Theme: When Christians neglect the truth of their salvation in Christ, they must remember that it is only those who hear the gospel with faith who receive the blessings promised to the sons of Abraham, apart from the works of the law. Structure/points: Over the last few weeks, we’ve been blessed to read Paul’s declaration of the gospel…
Sermon Text: Galatians 2:17-21 Theme: The Christian’s unity to Jesus in His crucifixion means that by faith he must consider himself dead to the law and alive to God only through Christ, lest he nullify God’s grace by trusting in his own righteousness. Structure/points: It should have been a tremendous encouragement for Paul to write to the Galatians about their justification in…
Sermon Text: Galatians 2:15-16 Theme: The gospel reveals the grace of God by proclaiming that, whether Jew or Gentile, Christians are justified, only by believing in Christ, who died to take away their sins, not by any works of the law Structure/points: Galatians 2:15-16 serves as the thesis of the letter to the Galatians. If you understand Paul’s teaching here, you’ll understand…
Sermon Text: Galatians 2:11-14 Theme: The gospel which Christ gave Paul possesses authority to rebuke even the pillars of the Church when they undermine the truth of the gospel through hypocritical behavior. Structure/points: The events of Galatians 2:11-14 are troubling to consider. How could it be that one of Christ’s apostles found it necessary to oppose another apostle in public? When Paul…