ONLY THOSE OF Lesson Text: Galatians 3:1-9

Maud church of Christby Jim Bradshaw

Sunday Evening, August 4, 2013

What is Heb 11:1 ESV Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.1. Faith is being sure of things you cannot see.2. Faith is being sure of things hoped for (eternal life).3. Faith is based upon a conviction of the evidences.

Read Romans 1:19-25

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Obey the Truth

Gal 3:1 NKJV O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?Bewitched – baskaino here it means to charm or bewitch, to lead astray by charms or spells.“Should not obey the truth” is not found in what is considered the best manuscripts. Therefore, most of the newer translations do not include.The greater question becomes, is the statement consistent with biblical truth; John 8:32; 17:17

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Obey the Truth

Joh 3:36 ESV Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.Rom 2:6-10 NKJV who "WILL RENDER TO EACH ONE ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS": (7) eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; (8) but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, (9) tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; (10) but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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Obey the Truth

Rom 6:16-17 NKJV Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? (17) But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.Heb 3:17-19 NKJV Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? (18) And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? (19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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Obey the Truth

2Th 1:7-9 NKJV and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, (8) in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. (9) These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

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are Spirit led

Gal 3:2-5 NKJV This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— (3) Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (4) Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? (5) Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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are Spirit led

Gal 5:16 NKJV I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.Gal 5:18 NKJV But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.Gal 5:25 NKJV If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

But How are we led by the Spirit?

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are Spirit led

Gal 3:2-5 NKJV This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— (3) Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (4) Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? (5) Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

“Hearing of faith” – We are led by the Spirit by a “hearing of faith”

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are Spirit led

Rom 10:14-17 NKJV How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? (15) And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE, WHO BRING GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGS!" (16) But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?" (17) So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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are Blessed

Gal 3:7-9 NKJV Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. (8) And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed." (9) So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.Gal 3:9 ESV So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

What does it mean to be a man of faith?

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are Blessed

Heb 11:8 NKJV By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.Heb 11:17 NKJV By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,Heb 11:13 NKJV These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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are Blessed

Read Galatians 3:13,14, 18, 22,-25Gal 3:26-29 NKJV For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. (27) For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (29) And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.