Freedom in Christ, Part 1 (Galatians 1:1–5)

• today on grace to you this is why Christians talk about joy and peace and love and satisfaction because they have been set free from the bondage which dominates all people the bondage of a sinful nature what in the world makes us so embarrassed about the gospel for I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Jus Christ and him [Music] [Music] crucified open your Bible to Galatians it shows up right after 1 and 2 Corinthians in case you were wondering the book of G ations has been called the Magna Carta of spiritual
• Freedom it has been called the Christian Declaration of Independence it has been identified as the battlecry of the reformation and of course this is the year that we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation which liberated the gospel from Roman Catholicism and gave birth to protestantism as we know it and of course the um the key figure in that Reformation as we look back at history was a man named Martin Luther who was a Catholic monk when he came to the study of the book of Galatians discovered the true
• gospel the gospel of salvation by grace through faith and he says the epistle to the gala is my epistle that’s a quote from Luther Luther then also said to it I am as it were married Galatians is my cathine you remember if you know his history that he married Katherine Von Bora whom he called Katie and he said spiritually speaking Galatians is my Catherine Luther’s commentary came out of his teaching on Galatians came out of his salvation experience he was saved while he was teaching Galatians but Luther’s commentary on Galatians became
• the manifesto of the Protestant Reformation and the Protestant Reformation found its message from the book of Galatians and then of course as well from The Book of Romans Galatians deals with the important issues law Grace works the gospel Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit our Lord’s death his resurrection salvation sanctification all of these critical gospel related realities are part and parcel of the book of Galatians but the primary message of the book of Galatians is freedom freedom freedom from sin freedom from judgment
• Freedom From Hell freedom from all forms of spiritual bondage and Liberation into the Glorious purposes and grace of God about 20 times in this short Epistle of six chapters we will come across some form of the word bondage or freedom it is a book about spiritual Freedom it is so relevant it was it was critical in the Reformation to set people free not only of the bondage of sin but the bondage of false religion which had held the Western World captive for about a thousand years just to talk about freedom is to