The Marks of Freedom

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The Marks of Freedom

• Galatians 6 11-18
• Chapter 12

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• The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you (II
  Thess 528, II Thess 317-18)
• Look at the large letters I write with my own
  hands
• Reason for large font to show the contrast
  between legalists and Spirit-led believers
• Eye problem? Pauls thorn in the flesh
• (II Cor 12 7-10)
• 4th contrast Living for the praise of men or the
  glory of God
• Dealing with motives the why even though we
  know what we are doing

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• Marked men
• The Legalist
• They are braggarts (12a, 13b)
• Main purpose to win more converts so they can
  brag rather than winning them to Christ or
  helping the believers to grow
• They are compromisers (12b)
• They preached and practiced circumcision to
  escape persecution by legalists for the
  identification with the cross and its effect on
  the law
• Legalists emphasized circumcision rather than
  crucifixion
• Popular religion for it avoided the shame of the
  cross
• They are persuaders (12a)
• Constrain

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• Paul was an ambassador, not politician
• 214 to compel or force
• Sales talk
• Paul in sincerity and truth no oratorical trick
• They are hypocrites (13)
• They submit to the law, but they themselves do
  not obey the laws like Pharisees
• They say and do not Matt 233
• Jesus Christ
• Marked man due to wounds
• Judaizers boasted in circumcision, but Paul
  boasted in the cross and a crucified risen
  Savior.
• He knew the Person of the cross
• Jesus Christ 45 times in book of Galatians 1/3
  

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• He knew the power of the cross
• Cursed cross means weakness shame
• Saul experienced the power of the cross and
  became the apostle Paul
• Cross mean liberty from self (220), flesh
  (524), the world (614)
• Christ lives in and through us
• No power in the law over self, flesh, world
• Law appeals to the human ego encourage the
  flesh to work
• The world approves religion apart from the gospel
• He knew the purpose of the cross
• Main purpose New people of God new creation
  (615)
• Doctrines of two Adams Adam Christ (Rom
  512-21 I Cor 15 45)
• Another purpose new nation of God (v16)

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• Family of God But ye are a chosen generation, a
  royal priesthood, a holy nation I Peter 2 9
• Church is the family of God
• Believers Abrahams seed by faith in Jesus
  Christ (Gal 428-29)
• Circumcision of heart more effective than
  physical circumcision (Rom 229 Phil 33Col
  211)
• Apostle Paul (617-18)
• Marked man
• He gloried in scars sufferings he endured in
  serving Jesus Christ
• Paul not claiming that he bore the wounds, but
  affirming he had suffered that legalists didnt
  had scars to prove it
• He suffered repeatedly to become a marked man for
  Christ permanently

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• Sin brands a person his mind, personality, his
  body
• Fellowship of his (Christs) sufferings Phil
  310
• Paul closed the letter the grace of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, not the law of Moses