Sermons on Galatians - FROM PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION TO THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE (II)

Ch4-1_We Are the Ones Who Shall Never Taste Death，Enjoying Everlasting Life (Galatians 4:1-11)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:57:00 +0000

The Apostle Paul said in Galatians 4:1, “Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all.” It is written that if we are indeed God’s sons, then we are heirs to His inheritance. That we are heirs of God means that God has allowed us to attain true life by giving us the everlasting remission of our sins. We should all grasp the profound significance of what the Apostle Paul is saying here and believe in it with our hearts.

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Ch4-2_Do You and I Have the Same Kind of Faith That Abraham Had？ (Galatians 4:12-31)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:56:00 +0000

Terms such as “indigenization of Christianity” or “indigenized church” seem to have become quite popular, especially among the Third World Christian communities. They try to change the Westernized Christianity into one that is more consistent with their own culture. They lay great emphasis on the second clause of the traditional aphorism: “Unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials and charity in all things.” But the most unfortunate thing is that they don’t even know what the essentials are.

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Ch4-4_We Are Heirs of God (Galatians 4:1-11)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:55:00 +0000

The Apostle Paul said that although all the saints and ministers are God’s heirs who will inherit His Kingdom, while living on this earth, they are no different from a slave and are under stewards temporarily, and that they suffer under the elements of the world for a short while. He said, “Although you are living as slaves in this world for a short while, you must not forget that you are God’s sons who will inherit all the wealth of God the Father.” This message was spoken not only to God’s servants and all His people at that time, but it is also spoken to us now.

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Ch4-3_Do Not Turn Again to the Weak and Beggarly Elements of the World (Galatians 4:1-11)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:55:00 +0000

Paul wrote this letter about 2,000 years ago. The “elements” here refer to the basic principles of the Law to lead a legalistic life of faith according to the Law. The Jews used to learn everything in a yeshiva. The Apostle Paul himself was also trained under a famous teacher called Gamaliel and taught to fear God through the Law. That is why the Apostle Paul called it ‘elements’ to be still bound by the Law, learn the Law, and practice the Law even after the coming of Jesus.

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Ch5-1_Abide in Christ Trusting in the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit (Galatians 5:1-16)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:54:00 +0000

The Apostle Paul said in Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” If we believe in this Word, that we have been crucified with Christ and He now lives in us, then we have already died in Him, and our Lord already abides and lives in us. Christ shouldered all the sins we commit on this earth, from our past sins to our present and future sins, through the baptism He received from John the Baptist, and He died on the Cross and rose from the dead again. Now, as our Lord lives in us, He has thereby enabled us to always do His bidding and pleasure. Our Lord is already living in our hearts as the Holy Spirit, and He is leading all of us.

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Ch5-2_Effect of Faith Working through Love (Galatians 5:1-6)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:50:00 +0000

In Galatians chapter 5 verse 1, it is said, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” This passage is telling us not to receive the circumcision of the flesh that turns us back into a sinner because Jesus Christ came to free us from sins. Our Lord has made us God’s children by saving us from the sins of this world with the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The Lord has in fact given us true salvation and true liberty to those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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Ch5-3_Live by the Desires of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:7-26)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:49:00 +0000

There are so many Christians in this age who still have not been remitted from their sins, as they have not found the gospel of the remission of sin that has come by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and they remain seized by fallacious Christian doctrines. So, through this Book of Galatians, I would like to admonish them for they are facing spiritual destruction because of the doctrine of prayers of repentance that they have been adhering to. I feel that unless I take this opportunity to make this point clear, there will be no other opportunity to correct their mistaken faith.

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Ch5-4_The Desires of the Holy Spirit and Those of the Flesh (Galatians 5:13-26)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:48:00 +0000

In today’s Scripture passage, the Apostle Paul said, “Walk in the Spirit.” What, then, does it mean for us the born-again to truly follow the desires of the Spirit before God? It is to live the kind of life that pleases God—that is, to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to other souls so that they may also receive the remission of their sins. What arouses the desires of the Spirit in us and makes us live according to these desires is the very faith placed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
To attain this faith, everyone must listen to the gospel of the water and the Spirit. If we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit into our hearts, we will be awakened to the desires of the Holy Spirit. Once the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts, He arouses His desires in us so that we can follow the will of God.

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Ch5-6_The Fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:15-26)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:47:00 +0000

In today’s Scripture passage, the Apostle Paul spoke about the life that follows the Holy Spirit, and the life that seeks the flesh. We have both these tendencies, right? However, as the righteous, what we yearn for and desire the most is to bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit in our lives. It is written, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law” (Galatians 5:22-23). There are nine fruits of the Spirit listed here, and the Lord told us to always bear these fruits of the Spirit in our lives.

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Ch5-5_Walk by the Desire of the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-26)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:47:00 +0000

In today’s Scripture passage, the Apostle Paul is explaining the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Holy Spirit by contrasting them against each other. First of all, Paul points out that the works of the flesh are evident, and he then goes on to list them as the following: “Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like.” Paul then explains the fruit of the Spirit, saying, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.”

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Ch5-7_Do Not Live for Vain Glory but Seek for the Glory of the Kingdom of God (Galatians 5:16-26)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:46:00 +0000

Once we look at Galatians, we can see that there were certain areas with which the Apostle Paul especially struggled. Influenced by the faith of circumcisionists, there were many in the Galatian churches who were deceived by the false teaching that one had to believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and to receive circumcision to be saved. He suffered troubles because the gospel of the water and the Spirit could have been perverted by the circumcisionists who had been teaching that receiving physical circumcision was the right thing to do. The Apostle Paul put forth his efforts exhaustively to correct the faith of those misled. So, he warned the circumcisionists by saying, “Do not teach them as such. You will be cursed by God if you believe and witness thus.”

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Ch6-1_Share in All the Good Works of God (Galatians 6:1-10)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:45:00 +0000

Did you have a good dinner? This is the first time that we haven’t held any sporting events while holding our revival meetings. Our ministers and I were so tired and exhausted that as soon as we went into our rooms, we collapsed and fell asleep. Perhaps we are all too stressed out and feel very tired in both body and spirit these days from having labored so hard to serve the gospel.

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Ch6-2_We Ourselves Must Throw Away the Faith of Prayers of Repentance Realizing That It Is Wrong (Galatians 6:1-10)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:44:00 +0000

I have dealt with some issues in Galatians so far, but to address the Book of Galatians more in-depth, I still need to give more sermons. It’s because the Word in Galatians is that much abundant with spiritual lessons that must be dealt with.
The background that made the Apostle Paul inevitably write the Epistle to the Galatians was as follows: As there were some circumcisionists in the churches of Galatia who had come in from Judaism, they were confusing the faith of the believers in the true gospel of the water and the Spirit. That is why the Apostle Paul said, “The gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ” (Galatians 1:11-12), and he also described himself as “an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead)” (Galatians 1:1). The Apostle Paul made it clear that neither the gospel he had nor his apostleship came from man, but from God.

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Ch6-3_Let Us Serve God Bearing One Another’s Burden (Galatians 6:1-10)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:43:00 +0000

Today’s Scripture passage says that if a brother’s trespass is revealed, we should restore such people in a spirit of gentleness, and examine ourselves. We must first examine our own faith.
In the Christian churches without the gospel of the water and the Spirit, there usually is a set of rules called “Church Discipline.” At such churches, when a member or an officer commits a sin, a tribunal is opened and disciplinary reprimands are issued. So according to the gravity of the offense, in the case of church officers, reprimands such as suspension from office, dismissal, deposition, and expulsion are issued, and in the case of laymen, such censures as admonition, rebuke, suspension from Communion, and expulsion are issued.

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Ch6-4_The Lord Has Saved Us Not Just through His Blood on the Cross，but through the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit (Galatians 6:11-18)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:42:00 +0000

This evening, in the Word of God from Galatians 6:11-18, I would like share the Lord’s grace with you. As we have seen so far in the Word, as well as in this passage, we can once again see how the circumcisionists had thrown God’s Church into great spiritual confusion, and how the Apostle Paul suffered great travail at the hands of the circumcisionists that had come into these churches of Galatia. That’s why Paul was angry.
The Apostle Paul first pointed out the circumcisionist’s hidden motives. The reason they advocated physical circumcision was three-fold: First, to be approved by the Jews; second, to avoid being persecuted by their own people; and third, to boast of their faith. That’s why Paul said in Galatians 6:12-13, “As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.”

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Ch6-5_Let Us Preach the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit with a Proper Understanding (Galatians 6:17-18)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:38:00 +0000

In the last part of Galatians, the Apostle Paul said especially, “From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus” (Galatians 6:17). What Paul meant here is that people shouldn’t try to receive the remission of sin through their legalistic faith, nor claim to be sinless. He said that no one should trouble him anymore, particularly since he explained sufficiently how it was a mistaken belief for the circumcisionists to try to become God’s people by receiving physical circumcision. In other words, Paul told them not to weigh him down or exhaust him with such wrong beliefs.

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