back to indexBerean Community Church Wednesday Bible Study Galatians 6:11-5
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I feel really like tempo shifts on this song, so. 00:06:40.100 |
♪ Oh God before the mountains were brought forth ♪ 00:06:45.100 |
♪ For days of spring and summer failing more ♪ 00:07:08.020 |
♪ We dwell beneath the stars in ancient skies ♪ 00:07:13.020 |
♪ A thousand years are nothing in your sight ♪ 00:07:32.400 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:08:27.480 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:08:56.560 |
♪ Oh God of light our ways are known to you ♪ 00:09:04.780 |
♪ By your grace you're making all things new ♪ 00:09:35.860 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:10:01.900 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:14:43.640 |
♪ Faith to sight and prayer to faith to sight ♪ 00:14:50.100 |
♪ Faith to sight and prayer to faith to sight ♪ 00:15:10.280 |
- Father, we thank you for bringing us together 00:15:26.240 |
We boast in you and boast in all that you have done. 00:15:58.660 |
And in our devotion, in our intake of your word, 01:04:14.960 |
Heavenly Father, we thank you, God, for your grace, 01:04:18.960 |
and Lord, we continue to just pray and ask of you 01:04:32.960 |
and it's another thing to spiritually feel the conviction, 01:04:35.960 |
to have a vision for sanctification in our lives, 01:04:49.960 |
I pray, God, then, for your Spirit's empowerment, 01:04:52.960 |
Spirit illumination, and conviction of the heart. 01:05:02.960 |
remember, each week, I try to do just like a, 01:05:05.960 |
here's a flow of thought leading into the passage, 01:05:07.960 |
talking about how those who are living in the Spirit, 01:05:11.960 |
we're expected to really be able to care for one another 01:05:21.960 |
to be able to love those who are even burdened by sin, okay? 01:05:34.960 |
and then to know that those who sow into the flesh 01:05:39.960 |
and those who sow into the Spirit will reap from the Spirit. 01:05:45.960 |
where the consequences of our actions are there, right? 01:05:54.960 |
but to make sure we're persevering to do good. 01:06:00.960 |
where he goes back, you know, the whole book, 01:06:04.960 |
there are specific moments when he laid it on thick 01:06:08.960 |
against those who are teaching false doctrine. 01:06:10.960 |
From the very start of the letter, actually, he said, 01:06:21.960 |
and these people are not sowing in the flesh, 01:06:26.960 |
It says here, "See what large letters I am writing," 01:06:30.960 |
thank you, "I am writing to you with my own hand, 01:06:33.960 |
"those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh, 01:06:56.960 |
"except on the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, 01:06:58.960 |
"through which the Lord has been crucified to me 01:07:11.960 |
I'm looking at essentially three movements again. 01:07:24.960 |
Going over here real fast to the highlighter. 01:07:45.960 |
then describing the centrality of salvation in Christ. 01:07:54.960 |
Verse 12 through 13, motivations of the false teachers. 01:08:02.960 |
All right, just by way of this first portion of it, 01:08:06.960 |
you know, when we think about what he's saying here, 01:08:11.960 |
I mean, you could do the inductive questions of like, 01:08:22.960 |
on the fact that certain other letters he dictates 01:08:28.960 |
and assistants, et cetera, be writing for him, et cetera. 01:08:37.960 |
and essentially it's three iterations of the same thing, 01:08:42.960 |
And it reminds us of the tone of the letter, okay? 01:08:51.960 |
In some sense, we can look at the book of Galatians 01:09:03.960 |
then he shows us how it showed up in the scriptures, 01:09:06.960 |
and then he pushes you again, et cetera, et cetera, 01:09:13.960 |
we have to be thinking he is trying to spare people 01:09:24.960 |
which is that of going back to slavery, right? 01:09:45.960 |
so then, of all the things that Apostle Paul is saying, 01:10:49.960 |
that they're trying to make a good impression. 01:10:54.960 |
that's why they're trying to get them circumcised. 01:11:03.960 |
the consequences of actually following Christ. 01:11:10.960 |
do not even keep the law describing their hypocrisy. 01:11:16.960 |
of what happens when your intentions are like this. 01:11:27.960 |
they have three things that they're trying to do. 01:11:32.960 |
and they're trying to boast in your flesh, okay? 01:13:00.960 |
Because it became typically a play for power, 01:13:17.960 |
getting a certain mantra, et cetera, et cetera. 01:14:04.960 |
is not specifically about prayer or the poor. 01:17:43.960 |
the easy way out is to just simply compromise. 01:17:51.960 |
who they don't even actually obey the law themselves, 01:17:54.960 |
my guess is there are plenty of individuals who lied. 01:18:14.960 |
are essentially cowards bullying other cowards, right? 01:18:25.960 |
and that's why when Jesus would ask them the questions, 01:18:32.960 |
"We know he straight up has baptized all these people. 01:19:03.960 |
that they don't get exposed for their own lack of knowledge, 01:19:10.960 |
Moving forward to the next motivation that he highlights, 01:19:13.960 |
he says they have this desire to boast in your flesh, 01:19:24.960 |
he says that they're going to boast in your flesh, right? 01:19:29.960 |
Not that they're going to boast in their own flesh, 01:19:34.960 |
My guess is, kind of deducing from this fact is, 01:19:44.960 |
but then he also was now converting other Christians 01:20:02.960 |
It'd be like me saying, dude, I'd go out to the spectrum, 01:20:08.960 |
and what's more, I disciple like 500 guys at church, 01:20:20.960 |
Now, I want to take a moment just to talk to us 01:20:26.960 |
So right now, so far, in thinking about this passage, 01:20:31.960 |
I've kind of pushed it like, don't be like this. 01:20:39.960 |
Don't be all haughty about your ministry accomplishments, 01:20:43.960 |
how successful you are at evangelism, et cetera, et cetera. 01:20:56.960 |
Why are you allowing yourself to be pushed by this? 01:21:04.960 |
and yes, you're supposed to be submissive to each other, 01:21:18.960 |
where not only are you not sufficient in Jesus, 01:21:36.960 |
because he's sitting there going, "Look at them. 01:22:02.960 |
and then when he's pleased, he's not going to care, right? 01:22:06.960 |
And then, Apostle Paul has the job of saying, like, 01:22:13.960 |
"But I think he really cares about me," right? 01:22:21.960 |
"Look, look at their heart and intention," right? 01:22:26.960 |
So then now, as a point of application for you, 01:22:37.960 |
If you have any bit of that fleshliness in your heart 01:22:41.960 |
where you love the attention, you crave attention, 01:22:46.960 |
If you have elements in your heart where you like leadership, 01:22:49.960 |
you're, like, given to this generation's infatuation 01:22:56.960 |
you're going to compete, and you're going to grow, 01:22:58.960 |
you're going to succeed, and you're going to be a leader. 01:23:00.960 |
And that's in you, then you're going to succumb to this. 01:23:08.960 |
Apostle Paul is going to declare that to him, 01:23:15.960 |
It's very condemning towards the heart of the false teachers. 01:23:18.960 |
It's because the gospel to him is everything. 01:23:23.960 |
And anything that takes away from the necessity 01:23:26.960 |
and the sufficiency of Christ is an absolute enemy, right? 01:23:39.960 |
"except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, 01:23:42.960 |
"through which the world has been crucified to me 01:23:55.960 |
So when we think about this, just what a powerful statement, 01:24:01.960 |
that there is going to be nothing to his credit, 01:24:04.960 |
nothing he glories in, and nothing he magnifies, right? 01:24:08.960 |
Nothing he boasts about, nothing he proclaims and tells, 01:24:15.960 |
And then he says that the world is crucified to him 01:24:31.960 |
me and my enslavement previously to the world, done. 01:24:38.960 |
But let's ask the question, is there any difference 01:24:42.960 |
versus me being crucified to the world, right? 01:24:46.960 |
And the only thing I just want to take a brief moment 01:24:49.960 |
to describe is I do realize that the relationship 01:24:54.960 |
Or there are a couple ways in which the relationship 01:25:02.960 |
One way is if I looked at the world with such affection 01:25:17.960 |
And the things that are products of this time generation 01:25:21.960 |
and the hands of men became so enticing to me, 01:25:32.960 |
But on the flip side, I realized part of the reason 01:25:37.960 |
is because we long to be desired by the world. 01:25:49.960 |
And in that way, it was like a two-way street. 01:25:55.960 |
there was a sermon I gave about partiality and I said, 01:26:04.960 |
"Certain people with money and certain people with prestige, 01:26:14.960 |
"because you made that distinction with evil motive," right? 01:26:21.960 |
there was a sense in which I thought I was safe 01:26:25.960 |
"I don't treat rich people better just 'cause they're rich," right? 01:26:41.960 |
I live in a nice home. I drive a nice Toyota. 01:26:45.960 |
I have just about everything I can want, right? 01:26:49.960 |
And then I said, "But is there any way where I could be compromised?" 01:27:14.960 |
I want him to have, essentially, some of the best things of the world, 01:27:19.960 |
and I want the world to see him as the best in the world. 01:27:32.960 |
My kid's height, his education, how well he swims, 01:27:39.960 |
The only thing valuable is becoming a new creation in Christ, amen? 01:27:44.960 |
Salvation in Christ means we have everything. 01:27:47.960 |
The great blessedness of the gospel is we have every single thing in Christ. 01:27:52.960 |
And so personally, as we start wrapping this up, 01:27:55.960 |
man, we had so many huge themes running through the book of Galatians, 01:28:10.960 |
why the Apostle Paul says with such conviction, 01:28:13.960 |
"I will boast in nothing but Christ, and through the cross of the Lord, 01:28:17.960 |
the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." 01:28:20.960 |
I want to experience that kind of power and conviction to a new degree. 01:28:25.960 |
I want to conclude by saying I think sometimes when I read it, 01:28:32.960 |
because I've made decisions in the past, right? 01:28:42.960 |
Periodically, from season to season in your Christian life, 01:28:45.960 |
as you mature, the true Christian is going to experience greater depth of that. 01:28:50.960 |
Why? Because his love for Christ is supposed to grow 01:28:53.960 |
to such a degree where indirectly the solution was always more love for Jesus, 01:29:00.960 |
more satisfaction in Christ, more completeness in the Lord, 01:29:05.960 |
so that I can experience what it means to be free from the world, amen? 01:29:14.960 |
Heavenly Father, we thank you for your challenging word. 01:29:18.960 |
We thank you, God, for this letter where we see the contrast. 01:29:25.960 |
We see the operation, the silly games and the system of the world 01:29:30.960 |
constantly wanting to level up and promote self, 01:29:34.960 |
constantly wanting to be able to say, "Look at me. 01:29:40.960 |
But Lord, help us to see the complete joy of our lives when Christ is all, 01:29:50.960 |
and help us to live by that conviction in such a powerful way. 01:29:56.960 |
Okay, I do want to take a moment to highlight some things for next week 01:30:00.960 |
because next week is our review and final paragraph in Galatians 16 through 18. 01:30:10.960 |
I want to challenge you because even though it's just three short verses, 01:30:14.960 |
there are so many questions you can ask, especially a big one. 01:30:19.960 |
So you can sit there and say, "Those who will walk by this road," 01:30:23.960 |
who are those? What rule are we talking about? 01:30:33.960 |
Through the book of Galatians, I'm sure you guys probably, 01:30:36.960 |
certain key moments, especially chapter three, 01:30:39.960 |
asked the question of what is the relationship between the New Testament church 01:30:48.960 |
but this is one of those passages that come up a lot in the debate, 01:30:52.960 |
and so I'm going to actually kind of present on it, 01:30:55.960 |
giving you guys some considerations and conclusions to think about, okay? 01:30:59.960 |
So make sure that you guys are actually studying this passage 01:31:02.960 |
and not thinking of it as he's just saying, like, "Goodbye," 01:31:10.960 |
So you could ask everything from, "Dude, how does the brand marks of Jesus 01:31:20.960 |
And, "What is his attitude of, like, 'Let nobody trouble me'? 01:31:23.960 |
"Is he actually saying, 'Don't talk to me about this anymore'?" et cetera. 01:31:31.960 |
that you do an actual review of chapter four through six? 01:31:35.960 |
So read through the letter so you get the flow. 01:31:43.960 |
From chapter four through six, what were the major movements? 01:31:49.960 |
And then if you can think of, since we've hit three chapters, 01:31:52.960 |
three key verses to memorize, that would be awesome. 01:31:56.960 |
And then what are the most important applications from chapter four to six, okay? 01:32:00.960 |
The only announcement that I will highlight for you guys 01:32:03.960 |
is that our outreach team is preparing a summer seekers group. 01:32:08.960 |
As you know, we have no Bible study through the months of June, July, 01:32:14.960 |
So there's going to be a seeker group that will meet four times. 01:32:18.960 |
If you have any unbelieving friends or family, 01:32:26.960 |
so that you can just shoot it over to them, right? 01:32:29.960 |
But we will cover a book called "What is the Gospel?" 01:32:35.960 |
And it just goes over the foundational elements of what is salvation 01:32:40.960 |
and how does one come to true faith in Christ, okay? 01:32:43.960 |
If you have any questions, please contact me or Joseph Su. 01:32:49.960 |
Pastor Peter, we'll come up and do some extra now. 01:33:00.960 |
All right, as you guys know, this coming Saturday, 01:33:03.960 |
we have a fundraiser softball tournament that we host. 01:33:07.960 |
And so if you guys can come and cheer, if you're not participating already, 01:33:14.960 |
Our teams are going to get there around 7 a.m. 01:33:16.960 |
And hopefully the championship, which is at 4 p.m., our teams are in it. 01:33:23.960 |
And then the 19th, that Sunday, between third service to 3.30, 01:33:29.960 |
all the family ministry people are invited out to a picnic at Bill Barber Park. 01:33:35.960 |
If you are a couple that's been married after 2022, you're in the FAM 245, 01:33:48.960 |
And then women's softball, it's not a tournament, 01:33:50.960 |
but it is an opportunity for the ladies to play softball together. 01:33:56.960 |
We actually have a very competitive ladies team, 01:33:59.960 |
but all the other churches, they don't have ladies. 01:34:13.960 |
But the week after that, we don't have Bible study, 01:34:16.960 |
but we have an all-church praise and prayer at 7.30. 01:34:21.960 |
So the most important thing, just to kind of remember from this, 01:34:31.960 |
But if you can, go ahead and sign up for the fall Bible study now 01:34:37.960 |
so that we can figure out how many small group tables 01:34:41.960 |
and home groups and stuff like that that we need. 01:34:48.960 |
but there are people who sign up like the week before. 01:34:55.960 |
And then here are some discussion questions that Pastor Mark prepared for you,