Amazing Grace – Week 10 (11-12-23)
Amazing Grace
November 12, 2023
That’s How You Win
Contrast
Promise |———| Law
Spirit |———| Flesh
God’s Plan |———| Your Plan
Sin breaks down relationship…
- with God
- with others
Unity Matters!
What if our most powerful witness in the world is a unified body of Christ?
Death & Life
Keep in step with the spirit…
Paul’s aim…
How do we live at peace with who we are, how we relate to God & others?
Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Conceit – kenodoxos – “vain-glorious” or “empty honor”
2 different ways of relating to others:
Povoke – prokaleo – competitive, to challenge to a contest
Envy – phthoneo – to want something that belongs to someone else
Let’s Get Practical…
Galatians 6:1
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
katartizdo – dislocated bone back in socket
Galatians 6:2
2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Messiah’s Law —> Lev. 19:18; Galatians 5:14
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 6:3
3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.
No 2nd Class Citizens in God’s Kingdom!
Galatians 3:28-29
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 6:4-5
4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, 5 for each one should carry their own load.
Galatians 6:6
Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
Galatians 6:8
Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Abraham & Sarah
Isaac (God’s Plan) & Ishmael (Their Plan)
“Sow in the Flesh” —> What did they reap? = Ishmael
Think about the family dynamics Ishmael’s birth caused: hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy
Galatians 6:9-10
9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.