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[1010.38 --> 1011.20] He knew why it mattered.
[1011.42 --> 1013.86] But his question is, can the law save you?
[1014.80 --> 1020.42] Can the law liberate you from the power of sin, the enticing temptation of Satan, and from
[1020.42 --> 1021.44] the finality of death?
[1021.48 --> 1022.34] Can the law do that?
[1022.34 --> 1024.46] No, it cannot.
[1025.36 --> 1029.92] There is only one Savior, one liberator, one King, and that is Jesus Christ.
[1030.12 --> 1035.66] And he is the only one who has dealt with the problems of sin and death and Satan.
[1035.92 --> 1038.00] And we cannot go back to some other Savior.
[1038.22 --> 1040.42] We cannot put something alongside the Savior.
[1040.56 --> 1042.56] It is Jesus or it is not Jesus.
[1042.68 --> 1045.04] It's the gospel or it is a false gospel.
[1045.62 --> 1050.76] And going beyond Jesus to accepting the law as sort of the big thing is a false gospel.
[1050.76 --> 1054.48] That's the first thing that's got Paul all fired up.
[1054.98 --> 1059.94] The second thing that got Paul really upset is the identity of the church.
[1060.88 --> 1062.66] And this is very related to the first one.
[1063.28 --> 1067.78] There are people in the church saying what makes us distinct in the world is the law,
[1068.06 --> 1071.86] the Old Testament teachings, the Old Testament practices, the Old Testament Jewish ceremonies.
[1071.86 --> 1074.86] That's what separates us from the outside world.
[1075.30 --> 1077.96] And Paul's saying, no, it isn't.
[1078.54 --> 1081.94] There was a day when that was true and that has now changed.
[1082.34 --> 1087.62] What distinguishes everyone in the church from the rest of the world is Jesus.
[1087.62 --> 1095.24] It is Jesus who breaks down the social boundaries and brings Jewish people and Gentile people into the same family.
[1095.50 --> 1098.20] It's Jesus who binds together the slave and the free.
[1098.52 --> 1100.76] It's Jesus who sets the church apart.
[1101.12 --> 1101.94] Nothing else.
[1102.82 --> 1106.42] Let me read for you probably one of the most famous passages from Galatians.
[1106.68 --> 1109.24] This is Galatians 3.28 and he just nails this point.
[1109.24 --> 1113.50] There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free.
[1113.82 --> 1117.60] There is male and female for you are all one in the law.
[1117.84 --> 1120.54] No, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.
[1121.12 --> 1122.94] He is the one who binds the church together.
[1123.08 --> 1125.30] He is the one who marks you as separate from the world.
[1125.50 --> 1129.20] And he is the only thing that holds the church together.
[1129.26 --> 1130.12] He's the head of the body.
[1132.44 --> 1137.00] And now we get to the third thing that had Paul all upset at why he wrote this letter.
[1137.00 --> 1147.18] And that is because the Jewish believers and the Gentile converts were choosing the safety of the law rather than boldly declaring that Jesus is Lord.
[1147.68 --> 1147.84] Right?
[1148.10 --> 1159.40] Paul is saying, you're not being persecuted and I am because I have the guts to say to friends, neighbors, people in the streets, people in the public square, Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.
[1159.40 --> 1168.78] And that Caesar that you go on a weekly basis to worship and pay homage to, the feasts that all celebrate his accomplishments for the world, that is a false Messiah.
[1169.26 --> 1171.00] There is only one king and that is King Jesus.
[1171.56 --> 1173.16] And Paul got persecuted for it.
[1173.16 --> 1177.24] I've shared this before, but I want to repeat it.
[1177.84 --> 1181.38] When early believers had to decide what to call themselves.
[1181.58 --> 1186.94] Remember, they were just this ragtag group of people who were converting from Jewish faith and from the Gentile world.
[1187.14 --> 1188.92] And they said, okay, what do we call ourselves?
[1189.06 --> 1191.96] Initially, they were called followers of the way, the way of Jesus.
[1192.38 --> 1194.18] And then there were categories they had to choose.
[1194.30 --> 1200.24] And two options on the table were theosos, Greek word, and heranos, also a Greek word.
[1200.24 --> 1202.00] They both basically mean the same thing.
[1202.06 --> 1202.68] You know what it is?
[1203.76 --> 1205.94] Private religious community.
[1207.40 --> 1208.68] And that was a common option.
[1208.78 --> 1211.84] There were lots of private religious communities at the time.
[1212.48 --> 1215.80] And Caesar was not particularly threatened by them because people had their, like, temples.
[1216.00 --> 1216.90] They would do their feasts.
[1217.08 --> 1219.42] And then they would also pay homage to Caesar and worship him.
[1219.52 --> 1220.28] It all worked fine.
[1220.34 --> 1222.26] There was no risk in that.
[1222.88 --> 1225.86] But the churches, the early believers said, is this what we are?
[1225.92 --> 1227.54] Are we a private religious community?
[1228.76 --> 1229.76] No, we are not.
[1229.76 --> 1231.84] And you know what word they chose to describe themselves?
[1233.02 --> 1233.50] Ecclesia.
[1234.26 --> 1235.86] Which brings together a few things.
[1235.96 --> 1242.20] But it's basically saying, we are the ecclesia, which means we have been called out by God into the public sphere
[1242.20 --> 1247.22] to make a public declaration that Jesus Christ is the Lord of the world.
[1247.84 --> 1249.84] Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.
[1249.94 --> 1251.64] And we are being renewed in Him.
[1251.86 --> 1255.82] And we invite the whole world into His renewal and His salvation.
[1255.82 --> 1260.24] Caesar all the way down to the person being born in the corner of the city.
[1260.24 --> 1263.76] Everyone must acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord.
[1264.72 --> 1269.40] And I tell you what, by choosing the word ecclesia, the church suffered.
[1269.40 --> 1275.94] By choosing to be the called out ones in the public sphere, the church chose to be persecuted.
[1276.50 --> 1282.12] And many gave up their lives because they refused to say, we're just a private religious community.
[1282.26 --> 1284.98] Doing a private religious thing over here on the side.
[1285.44 --> 1287.84] We are the ecclesia.
[1287.84 --> 1293.26] Ecclesia, and we believe that He's in Caesar himself, has to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord.
[1294.86 --> 1296.44] You're starting to feel the challenge of Galatians?
[1297.84 --> 1300.92] You've got these people who are saying, oh, let's just stay safely under the law.
[1301.06 --> 1304.18] Let's have this religious exemption to sort of keep to ourselves.
[1304.28 --> 1305.38] And Paul's like, no way.
[1306.42 --> 1308.04] If Jesus is Lord, He's Lord of all.
[1308.70 --> 1311.34] If Jesus defines the church, we can't go back to the law.
[1311.34 --> 1317.18] And we cannot hide under its safety when the world needs to know that the tomb is empty and salvation has come.
[1319.36 --> 1323.04] Now, we're going to tease out these three reasons Paul was upset over the next number of weeks.
[1323.12 --> 1326.24] But I want to focus for just a few minutes on that first one.
[1327.18 --> 1330.04] Paul is upset because the gospel is at stake.
[1330.76 --> 1336.10] I mean, he speaks so strongly about the centrality of Jesus.
[1337.14 --> 1340.40] And I want to suggest that we live in a very different time, as you know.
[1340.40 --> 1349.18] And we don't have people who are coming into our church saying, hey, Dave, Greg, Cindy, you've got to embrace the law as the final piece of your coming to Jesus.
[1349.30 --> 1351.42] That's the most important piece of our Christian faith.
[1351.56 --> 1352.46] People aren't doing that.
[1353.42 --> 1361.16] But in every single church, there is a profound temptation to have some other thing be more important than Jesus.
[1361.98 --> 1368.20] There are some things we add to the gospel that actually distort and then become another gospel, just like Paul says.
[1368.20 --> 1371.68] It's Jesus plus something else.
[1373.28 --> 1374.40] And there's a lot of options.
[1374.48 --> 1377.34] Let me just put a few out before you and see how they fit.
[1378.52 --> 1381.06] One is Jesus plus religious experience.
[1382.74 --> 1386.04] Especially this, I think this one is more in tune with the younger generation.