At different times in our lives, we all have spiritual insecurities. Maybe you’ve had this experience. . . . You talk with someone who’s very confident spiritually. That person describes a life-changing seminar or book about parenting, finances, marriage, or seeking God. Instead of learning what you can and being happy for them, you think, “I’ve never experienced anything like that. Maybe my whole Christian life to date has been a waste. I wonder if I’ve missed the whole point of the Christian life.” If you’re spiritually insecure you can begin to think that there’s some “key” to the Christian life that you’re missing.
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The Galatians were being spiritually foolish. They had begun jumping the fence into the pool of legalism. They were turning from the gospel of grace. And as we will see in to- day’s passage, Paul will strongly confront their foolishness. Today we are looking at Galatians 3:1-5. In this passage, Paul asks a series of rhetorical questions about the Galatians’ experience to argue his point that all of the Christian life is all about living by faith, not the works of the law. Through his questions, he reminds us that our Christian life started by faith.
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One reason we’re spending so much time understanding Paul’s argument in Galatians is because we too are tempted to put our confidence in something other than Jesus’ death and resurrection.
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Jewish Christians in the first century to be pressured by fellow Jews to maintain their Jewish identity and Jewish customs. There were some not-so-subtle pressures for Jewish Christians to continue keeping the Jewish Law and to separate themselves from those who didn’t keep the Law (i.e. Gentiles).
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