Leroy Community Chapel Sermons
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Total Amens: 7
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Set Free...To Selflessly Love Others
So Ive loved our study in the book of Galatians up to this point, but maybe not all of you have. Doctrine, theology, law, Hagar … maybe not your cup of tea? Well, now is the time to wake-up, it only gets better. Our belief must rightly influence our behavior, our creeds must shape our conduct, and these final two chapters do just that for us. So lest you think freedom from the penalty of sin and the guilt of sin means freedom to do whatever your little heart desires … wrong! When you have been set free by the wondrous grace of God, you are now free to turn away from self and radically serve others. This is where turn-the-world-upside-down type living starts – worshippers of God who love the cross, live in grace, say no to the flesh, and say yes to loving others with the love with which you yourself have been loved. Let’s show em Leroy Chapel … lets show the world how much we love God by loving others selflessly.
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Set Free..To Live Free
Okay, dont freak about this crazy passage of Scripture, lets take it a step at a time. Its actually a great argument Paul uses against those who take pride in their keeping of the law … and the legalists of our day. They (Law-relying Jews) think Hagar is the enemy and that they are on the right team (Sarah). But Paul shows them how by relying on the works of the law over the promise by faith, they actually are the sons of the slave-woman Hagar. They boast in their own destruction, find their identity in slavery, and mock those who really are free. How sad, how tragically sad. Here is the great application of this passage: Dont let deluded people steal your freedom and rest in the promise that God blesses the barren one!
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Set Free...To Have True Relationships
This life in Christ thing is never just about you. Christ has set you free from the guardianship of the law and the wrath of the curse so you might freely love others and labor to see them live free in Christ. Such a grand and glorious doctrine as justification by faith always has a partner to it, and that partner is called true relationships. When someone really recognizing who they were in the darkness and what they have become through the Gospel, love for others will be the fruit of that faith. Selfish living is fought against and building a Gospel-saturated, truth-speaking, grace-flowing community that invites true relationship is the goal of life.
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Set Free...And Adopted as Sons
Being set free through faith to be in Christ means that we are not just slaves in His mansion, but sons in His home entitled to the full privileges of sonship. The law kept guard over the child telling him what to do and where to go, withholding the inheritance and essentially treating him as a slave. But God … in His perfect timing sent His Son and His Spirit to change all of that. Through Christ, God lavishes the riches of the family on those He adopted as His own kids and they rejoice in the freedom of being His sons. Are you rejoicing in that this morning? Are you inheriting the riches of the family?
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Set Free...And United With Christ
What grown up plays with childrens toys? Obviously only one who hasnt yet discovered that grown up toys are far more fun. The law is children’s play, the promise, real life. The law was the babysitter keeping the kids in check until the fullness of time came and faith in Jesus Christ was on the scene. The real blessing is not found in been guarded or imprisoned by the law, but by being united with Christ. Jesus is the offspring of Abraham to whom all the blessings of the promise come to fruition. And when we are united to Christ, we become the recipients of that blessing. You’ll love what being united with Jesus brings about in your life, just listen …
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Set Free...By the Promise
Good news is easily forgotten when bad news is absent. A cure for cancer is a nice idea for the one who is healthy, but for the one dying of cancer with only a few weeks to live, the cure is absolute bliss. How is it that so many can pass by the claims of Christ, smile at a nice man who liked children, but reject His offer of salvation? Theyve missed the bad news. In this section of Galatians, Paul is making crystal clear that justification comes by faith alone, apart from the works of the law. So why the Law? Paul’s simple answer: To make the bad news really bad. Men and women will only run to Jesus for salvation when they feel the weight of the Law revealing sin and offering only condemnation. Is the Gospel good news to you? Maybe you need to hear some bad news.
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Set Free...From Relying on Works
I dont think you wake up every morning determined to perform the works of the law. You and I dont have church leaders invading us with calls to become more Jewish. But I know without a doubt there is a battle that goes on in you between believing that faith in God is enough and relying on what youll accomplish today to gain blessing and acceptance. How do I know this? Its a human condition. You feel good if you “do good” and guilty when you “do bad”. You think you deserve blessing when you make “good choices” and hope disaster doesn’t come when you make “bad choices”. This is the problem of your heart the book of Galatians seeks to set you free from. Over the next few weeks we dive into some deep Biblical waters, so put on your thinking cap, expose the honest condition of your heart, and cherish the blessing of God that comes through faith.
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Who's My Neighbor? Developing A Heart of Compassion
Empathy is when we are aware, understand and are sensitive to the needs of another. When we are empathetic we feel what someone else feels. But this is different than compassion. Compassion is when we see another in need, we feel the need deeply and we have the desire and resources to meet the need. When you see someone beat up by the world or jacked up in their own choices are you stirred in your soul to help? Or do you just get kind of sick in your stomach and turn the channel, thinking it just a guilt trip. Compassion is not a guilt trip. The fact is, as Christians, we have been shown the fruit of the greatest compassion of all…the grace and mercy of God found in the gospel of Jesus Christ. No, compassion is not a guilt trip, its a reasonable response to people in need.
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