New Life with Christ

Galatians 2:15-21 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.

Why does justification lead to holiness and not to

?

1. Do you still think you can earn it? ^{(vv. 15-16)}
a. “

”: anything done in obedience to God’s commands.
b. Justification will not seem like a big deal unless you

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sin.
c. Faith requires trusting Jesus to do what we cannot.
d.

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hope in yourself.

2. Justification and sin ^{(vv. 17-18)}
a. Justification may appear to make Christians

.
b. Trying to make ourselves right with God will only

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our sinfulness.
c. Justification does not make sin less

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.
d. Justification does not make sin more

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.

3. Death to self and life in Christ ^{(vv. 19-21)}
a. To believe in Jesus is to be

and His work
b. To believe in Jesus is to

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and receive

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.
c. With new life, Christians receive new

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.
d. Christ’s death is a

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act of love and sacrifice for every Christian.
e. Trusting in our works

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the gospel.

“We know that our old self was

with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.” - Romans 6:6-7