Clinging to the Cross

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Clinging to the Cross

• Listening to the Essence of
• The Book of Galatians

2
Apostolic Seal

• Galatians 611
• See with what large letters I am writing to you
  with my own hand.

3
Boasting in the Cross

• Galatians 612-14
• Those who desire to make a good showing in the
  flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply
  that they may not be persecuted for the cross of
  Christ. For those who are circumcised do not even
  keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have
  you circumcised, that they may boast in your
  flesh. But may it never be that I should boast,
  except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  through which the world has been crucified to me,
  and I to the world.

4
The New Creation

• Galatians 615-16 For neither is circumcision
  anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  And those who will walk by this rule, peace and
  mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

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Grace - The Bottom Line

• Galatians 617-18
• From now on let no one cause trouble for me, for
  I bear on my body the brand-marks of Jesus. The
  grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
  spirit, brethren. Amen.

6
Listening to the Essence of Galatians

• Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not
  listen to the law? (Galatians 421)
• Slaves or Free?

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Galatians 1 Realize there is No Other Gospel

• Galatians 19 As we have said before, so I say
  again now, if any man is preaching to you a
  gospel contrary to that which you received, let
  him be accursed.

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The One True Gospel

• Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel
  which I preached to you, which also you received,
  in which also you stand, by which also you are
  saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached
  to you, unless you believed in vain. For I
  delivered to you as of first importance what I
  also received, that Christ died for our sins
  according to the Scriptures, and that He was
  buried, and that He was raised on the third day
  according to the Scriptures . . . (1 Corinthians
  151-4)

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The One True Gospel

• . . . and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the
  twelve. After that He appeared to more than five
  hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain
  until now, but some have fallen asleep then He
  appeared to James, then to all the apostles and
  last of all, as it were to one untimely born, He
  appeared to me also. (1 Corinthians 155-8)

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Galatians 2 Cling to the Cross

• Galatians 220 I have been crucified with
  Christ and it is no longer I who live, but
  Christ lives in me and the life which I now live
  in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,
  who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

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Galatians 3 Do the Deeds of Abaraham

• Galatians 37 Therefore, be sure that it is
  those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.
• John 839 They answered and said to Him, "Abraham
  is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you are
  Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.

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Galatians 4 Establish the Law inIts Proper Place

• Galatians 324-25 Therefore the Law has become
  our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be
  justified by faith. But now that faith has come,
  we are no longer under a tutor.
• Galatians 44-5 But when the fullness of the time
  came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman,
  born under the Law, so that He might redeem those
  who were under the Law, that we might receive the
  adoption as sons.

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Galatians 5 Walk by the Spirit

• Galatians 525
• If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by
  the Spirit.

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Behold and Honor Your King

• REV 117 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet
  as a dead man. And He laid His right hand upon
  me, saying, "Do not be afraid I am the first and
  the last, and the living One and I was dead, and
  behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the
  keys of death and of Hades.