Church notes - 12th May 2019
'King of My Soul': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ5GBgyMDQU
'Do It Again': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B_lnQIITxU
Galatians 2:11 - 21
Hearing from God:
Romans 10:17
Main way of hearing from God.
'Cornerstone': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HH__-1Zbs
'How Marvelous, How Wonderful': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVyeV5irvqc
Galatians 2:11 - 21
Pick your battles, be strategic (e.g. a parent of wayward teenagers...)
Why did Paul pick a battle with Peter? There was a big issue!
Dangers of Syncretism (No adding things from Buddhism, Islam or the New Age Movement, or anything else to our faith. That leads to disaster!)
Jewish history (throughout the Old Testament) provides abundant proof of why that is a bad idea.
So, Jews had a strong value of being separate from others.
Peter had overcome his Jewish scrupples (see Acts 10).
But... Acts 15:1
But he was in the wrong. Paul called him a hypocrite.
What is the truth of the Gospel?
'It is the good news that we sinners, guilty and under the judgement of God, may be pardoned and accepted by His sheer grace, His free and unmerited favour, on the ground of His Son's death and not for any works or merits of our own.' - John Stott.
Psalm 32
Pilgrim's Progress - Pilgrim sees Jesus at the cross - the burden drops off his back and rolls off, never to be seen again.
vs 15 - 16
A simple truth
We need to have a daily working understanding of justification
He has aquitted us.
God is righteous
We are not.
There's friction between us.
Two ways
The Law (all the commands in the Old Testament)
- That's the postion of the Judaisers
- Fundamental position of every religion in the world
- The biggest lie.
- No one can keep the Law perfectly.
Only Jesus could
vs 16
The alternative
- Justification through faith
- Acknowledge our sinfulness and put faith into Jesus
- Having confidence in Him.
- Jesus is the core of the Gospel
vs 21
The focus should be on Jesus.
vs 20
Romans 6:1 - 8
Romans 8:9, 10
No Longer the burden of the Law, but the freedom of the Spirit.
'Who Do You Say I Am': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKw6uqtGFfo