Galatians, Authentic Gospel vs. False Teaching: “Can I save myself?”

Authentic Gospel vs. False Teaching

“Can I save myself?”

Galatians 2:11-21

1. Old die hard. Vs. 11-14
2. The old life is by the Gospel of Jesus. (Vs. 16-19)

• You are by Jesus’ work on the cross. (V. 16)

“If you try to deal with sin in your conscience, let it remain there, and continue to look at it in your heart, your sins will become too strong for you. They will seem to live forever. But when you think of your sins as being on Christ and boldly believe that he conquered them through his resurrection, then they are dead and gone. Sin can’t remain on Christ. His resurrection swallowed up sin.”
 Martin Luther, Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional

• You this gift through faith. (v.16)

3. You find your life when you it. (vs. 20-21)

“If anybody insists that justification is by works, and that he can earn his salvation by his own efforts, he is undermining the foundations of the Christian religion. He is nullifying the grace of God (because if salvation is by works, it is not by grace) and he is making Christ’s death superfluous (because if salvation is our own work, then Christ’s work is unnecessary)” Jon Stott

Read for next week: Galatians 3:1-14