Have Been and Still Am Crucified With Christ

Galatians 2:19-21

Paster Peter Chung

Part of Sunday Sermons: Topical

January 28, 2024

Galatians 2:19–21 (NASB95)
19 “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. 20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. 21 “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB95)
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Overview

The Purpose of the Transformation (Galatians 2:19)
The Process of the Transformation (Galatians 2:20-21a)
The Product of the Transformation (Galatians 2:21b)

1. The Purpose of the Transformation (Galatians 2:19)

Galatians 2:19 (NASB95)
19 “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that (hina) I might live to God.

Galatians 2:20-21a (NASB95)
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. 21 “I do not nullify the grace of God…

Romans 8:30 (NASB95)
30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

2. The Process of the Transformation (Galatians 2:20-21a)

1 Thessalonians 4:3 (NASB95)
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Hebrews 12:14 (NASB95)
14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

Hebrews 10:14 (NASB95)
14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Galatians 6:14 (NASB95)
14 But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

1 John 2:15 (NASB95)
15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Proverbs 8:13 (NASB95)
13 “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverted mouth, I hate.

3. The Product of the Transformation (Galatians 2:21b)

Galatians 2:21 (NASB95)
21 “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”

Psalm 11:7 (NASB95)
7 For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face.

1 John 3:2–3 (NASB95)
2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.