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Sermons on Works Righteousness

Do Not Accept Circumcision!

Sermon Text: Galatians 5:1-6 Theme:  Paul exhorts believers not to add circumcision to Christ’s completed work and thereby lose all.  Instead, they are to stand firm in hope and faith that Christ has done everything needed to justify them Structure/points: Prior to Galatians 5, Paul hasn’t directly mentioned the Galatians undergoing circumcision or even being tempted to.  But circumcision has been on…

Hagar the Slave Woman and Sarah the Free Woman

Sermon Text: Galatians 4:21-31 Theme: The parentage of Isaac and Ishmael teaches the Church a spiritual lesson: only those who trust in God’s grace for salvation, apart from reliance on human effort, will inherit eternal blessing. Structure/points: The Judaizing heretics had nearly convinced the Galatians that the law of Moses requires them to keep it in order to be saved.  But Paul…

By Works?  Or By Faith?

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…

The Very Heart of the Gospel

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…