Pagan Christianity

Galatians 4:1-20 ESV

Series Main Idea: Salvation comes through repentance and faith alone in Jesus Christ, not by works.
Justification: The “guilty” are declared “not guilty,” and Christ’s perfect righteousness is credited as our own.

Do you

you believe the gospel, but live like you do not?

1. Sons or slaves? ^{(vv. 1-7)}
a. Guardians were

assigned to watch over wealthy children.
b. The Law acted as a guardian by showing God’s people their need for a

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.
c. Out of total grace, God

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those whom He redeems.
d. God planned, purchased, sealed, and now promises to fulfill our

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.

2. Don’t be a pagan Christian ^{(vv. 8-11)}
a. Everyone worships, and most things you worship will

rather than give life.
b. Legalistic “

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” and pagan worship are no different.
c. Trying to make yourself right with God makes Jesus

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.

3. Astonished, afraid, and perplexed ^{(vv. 11-20)}
a. It is

to understand the gospel and then try to earn God’s love.
b.

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motivates Paul to challenge the Galatians to believe the gospel.

“The sense of his great love should engage a man forever to

his surety, and to bless that hand that has paid the debt, and cancelled the books. But to sit down discouraged when the debt is

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, is a sin which bespeaks repentance.”
- Thomas Brooks