Week 3
Are You In or Out
(Galatians 2:1-9)
Galatians 2:1-9
Summary of 2:1-9
| Conference in Jerusalem
| Titus - a Gentile convert
| Paul wanting affirmation of the
gospel he was preaching to the
Gentiles
| Paul forcing the church leadership
to address the issue of circumsion
The Sign of
Circumcision
Genesis 17:9-14
| “…it will be the sign of the covenant
between me and you.”
|Why Circumcision?
|Symbolic Sign
- Obedience
- Male seed required to give life.
Circumcision of the
Heart
Colossians 2:11-12
“When you came to Christ, you were
“circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure.
Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the
cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you
were buried with Christ when you were
baptized. And with him you were raised to new
life because you trusted the mighty power of
God, who raised Christ from the dead.
Ezekiel 11:19
I will give them an undivided heart and
put a new spirit in them; I will remove
from them their heart of stone and give
them a heart of flesh.
The Real McCoy
Colossians 3:1-10
| Paul is being ‘Descriptive’ – not
‘Prescriptive’
Before Christ
= Virtue
Colossians 3:1-10
| Vs 1-2 “Set Your Hearts – Set Your
Minds” - Both actions require looking up!
Hebrews 4:12 – Word of God is alive and
active
Luke 10:27 – Love the Lord with all your
mind
Colossians 3:1-10
| Vs 5 “Put to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature;”
“To slay with continual stroke”
Romans 6:6 – For we know that our old
self was crucified with him so that the
body ruled by sin might be done away
with, that we should no longer be slaves
to sin.
The Flesh
The flesh
|A life lived before God without
dependence on the Spirit
|Flesh naturally aligns itself with the law
because the one who wants to be governed
by the law doesn’t live with dependence on
Christ and in the Spirit
The Stop Sign
| I Thessalonians 5:19 – Do not quench
the Holy Spirit
Sanctification
Halted
Receive
the Holy
Spirit
Sanctification
The unrealized life of power, change, overcoming,
growing, freedom & usefulness for God
| God has called us to a life of radical change and
growth that requires us to stretch our comfort zones
and to stop playing it safe: to yield to the process of
Sanctification!
The Problem
|We love OUR life more than God’s plans for
our life!
|We don’t like the convictions of the Holy Spirit
therefore we shut Him out so we won’t have to
be accountable for what God is trying to saying
– we settle for mediocrity.
|This leads to us rarely hearing from the Holy
Spirit at all.
|Can ultimately lead to falling away
What is Our Response?
|Conviction
|Repentance
|Re-Commitment
|Action