SERMON NOTES
Defending the Gospel of Grace
Galatians 1:9-24
1. Legalism; saved by works.
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
2. Antinomianism; “against the law.”
Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
James 2:17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
3. Galatianism; saved by Grace, kept by Law?
Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Paul’s Warning About False Teachers vv8-9
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
Galatians 3:11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
Ephesians 4:14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men...
The Divine Source of the Gospel vv10-11
The True gospel is centered On what He’s done, not on what we can do.
Paul’s Direct Revelation From God vv12-17
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Acts 9
Galatians 1:9-24
1. Legalism; saved by works.
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
2. Antinomianism; “against the law.”
Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
James 2:17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
3. Galatianism; saved by Grace, kept by Law?
Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Paul’s Warning About False Teachers vv8-9
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
Galatians 3:11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
Ephesians 4:14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men...
The Divine Source of the Gospel vv10-11
The True gospel is centered On what He’s done, not on what we can do.
Paul’s Direct Revelation From God vv12-17
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Acts 9