Beautiful Freedom

Galatians 5:1-12

1) Christian freedom looks different than what the

calls freedom

Free from

(Galatians 4:4-5, 7)

Free to be how God

us

Faith is the root that, when placed in soil of

, produces the fruit of love

Matthew 22:37–40

Romans 6:16-18

“Modern people like to see freedom as the complete absence of any constraints. …Freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones, those that fit with the realities of our own nature and those of the world.” Timothy Keller

2) Everyone has a works-based system that they must

to the grace-based Gospel

Circumcision was their

of living by a works-based system (Genesis 17)

The point is not that circumcision in itself is wrong, but that

act is wrong that we do to bribe God

The law of [your name here]
If I do x, then God must do y
If I do x, then I am z

The law of grace
Since I believe God did, I can be free eternally

3) The

of living by the law is great, but the

Reveal Answer

of obeying by grace is greater

Paul loved

metaphors (1 Corinthians 9:27, Acts 20:24, 2 Timothy 4:7)

Trusting anything but grace alone is

in God’s eyes

Luke 17:1-2

Titus 2:11-14

The

of Christ sets us free to live godly, pure lives

John 8:34-36