Topic: Christ Doesn’t Need Any Supplements
Speaker: Pete Briscoe
Text: Galatians 3:10-18
What?
- What is the law? Is the law bad?
- Do spiritual disciplines lead to Godliness? Are they a modern form of the law?
- Does the law help you? What four reasons did the speaker give for believing that the law does not help?
So What?
- How difficult is it to keep the law? (James 2:10; Romans 3:10)
- What are the results of depending on the law for your salvation?
- What are the results of depending on the law for your sanctification?
Now What?
- If you have Jesus you have everything you need. (Galatians 3:13-14; 2 Peter 1:3-4; John 6:35) What are the implications of this for your spiritual walk?
- What does practical surrender to Jesus look like in your life?
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Select Notes from the Sermon:
Four reasons why the law does not help:
Galatians 3:10 – The law does not help because it brings a curse with it.
“For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Don’t make your performance the basis of your relationship with God, because there is a curse there.
Galatians 3:11 - The law does not help because committing yourself to the law is not the way to garner God’s acceptance.
“Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
Galatians 3:12 – The law doesn’t help because it introduces an inferior system.
“The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”
Galatians 3: 15-18 - The law doesn’t help because it was added later for a completely different purpose.
“Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”meaning one person, who is Christ. What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.”
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Recommended Reading
Jesus + Nothing = Everything, by Tullian Tchividjian
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