| Teacher: Rusty Kennedy Series: Galatians |
Rusty's Notes
I hope you get this right:
- In the Gospels, what did Jesus teach?
- How did Jesus model His life?
- Did Jesus obey God’s Law?
- How many times did Jesus die on the cross?
- What did His blood do?
- Hebrews 10:14 – For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
- Hebrews 10:4 – It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.
- What were Jesus’ last words?
- As believers, what do you have to do now?
- Are you now a “child of God”?
Galatians 3:1-9
1 You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?
- It would be like asking our country, “Have you gone mad?”
- Is it mental incompetence or just lack of wisdom?
- But I focus on the part of the question, “Who has hypnotized you?”
- “Who told you that you were naked?” – Genesis 3:11
- The scheme of the evil one is to confuse the truth. To make it seem like something it is not.
2 I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
- Did we not teach you that as Jews, you are no longer subject to circumcision, food restrictions and calendar observances? As a Gentile, you never were?
- Gentiles didn’t even start with the Law. Why would you bring that into your beliefs?
- What saved you? Your works or your faith?
3 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so much for nothing—if in fact it was for nothing?
- Did you not learn your lesson enough in the flesh that you want to give up on the Spirit already?
- “flesh” being things done in your own strength… whether bad or good.
5 So then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
- This is what the Spirit does:
- John 16:8-11 – The Spirit convicts the world of its unbelief.
- Acts 7:51 - 51 “You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.[1]
- Genesis 15:6 - 6 Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.
- Genesis 17:9-12 - 9 God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep My covenant. 10 This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised. 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12 Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised.
Exodus 20 – The Ten Commandments.
7 then understand that those who have faith are Abraham’s sons. 8 Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and told the good news ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed through you.
- Genesis 18:18 - 18 Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
9 So those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith.[3]
- The logic here is evident: if God promised to save the Gentiles by faith, then the Judaizers are wrong in wanting to take the Gentile believers back into Law.
- The true “children of Abraham” are not the Jews by physical descent, but Jews and Gentiles who have believed in Jesus Christ. All those who are “of faith” (believers) are blessed with “believing Abraham.”[4]
[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 7:51). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Eph 1:13–14). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ga 3:1–9). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 699). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
- In the Gospels, what did Jesus teach?
- How did Jesus model His life?
- Did Jesus obey God’s Law?
- How many times did Jesus die on the cross?
- What did His blood do?
- Hebrews 10:14 – For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
- Hebrews 10:4 – It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.
- What were Jesus’ last words?
- As believers, what do you have to do now?
- Are you now a “child of God”?
Galatians 3:1-9
1 You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?
- It would be like asking our country, “Have you gone mad?”
- Is it mental incompetence or just lack of wisdom?
- But I focus on the part of the question, “Who has hypnotized you?”
- “Who told you that you were naked?” – Genesis 3:11
- The scheme of the evil one is to confuse the truth. To make it seem like something it is not.
2 I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
- Did we not teach you that as Jews, you are no longer subject to circumcision, food restrictions and calendar observances? As a Gentile, you never were?
- Gentiles didn’t even start with the Law. Why would you bring that into your beliefs?
- What saved you? Your works or your faith?
3 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so much for nothing—if in fact it was for nothing?
- Did you not learn your lesson enough in the flesh that you want to give up on the Spirit already?
- “flesh” being things done in your own strength… whether bad or good.
5 So then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
- This is what the Spirit does:
- John 16:8-11 – The Spirit convicts the world of its unbelief.
- Acts 7:51 - 51 “You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.[1]
- Ephesians 1:13-14 - 13 When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. 14 He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.[2]
- Genesis 15:6 - 6 Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.
- Genesis 17:9-12 - 9 God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep My covenant. 10 This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised. 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12 Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised.
Exodus 20 – The Ten Commandments.
7 then understand that those who have faith are Abraham’s sons. 8 Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and told the good news ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed through you.
- Genesis 18:18 - 18 Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
9 So those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith.[3]
- The logic here is evident: if God promised to save the Gentiles by faith, then the Judaizers are wrong in wanting to take the Gentile believers back into Law.
- The true “children of Abraham” are not the Jews by physical descent, but Jews and Gentiles who have believed in Jesus Christ. All those who are “of faith” (believers) are blessed with “believing Abraham.”[4]
[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 7:51). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Eph 1:13–14). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ga 3:1–9). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 699). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
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