Galatians Sermon Series Now Up!
Very pleased to announced that we now have all the audio from our series on Galatians available for you to listen to online, itunes, or download and subscribe through other means and podcasts.
When Sovereign Joy first started as a church Galatians was the first book of the Bible that Pastor Emilio went through on Sundays (from March 2008 to May 2009). It is a very important book and great for a new church because it roots us in the gospel and warns us to not turn aside to any false gospels.
(Pastor Emilio explains in this two minute clip below taken from the first sermon in this series):
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If you have not heard our series through Galatians or need a refresher, I would encourage you to listen as Galatians can serve you in the following ways as described in the clip above:
- Galatians serves us by…
- Freeing us from the bondage of a works based righteousness.
- Rooting us in a solid doctrine of justification by grace through faith.
- Helping us to stabilize our lives as we struggle between the flesh and the spirit in sanctification.
- Maturing us in our life as a body together by exhorting us bear with one another as a church
Pastor Emilio wrote the following overview of the book of Galatians:
“Paul’s letter to the churches of Galatia has impacted the world in incalculable ways. Endless theologians have bought and sold out of the market of the truths contained in this powerful little
epistle. Paul’s attitude in the letter makes the letter uniquely earnest.
Paul considers the issues under consideration in Galatians so essential and serious that he goes so far as to say that detractors to these doctrinal issues are worthy of ‘anathema’;
making Galatians unique among the letters in the Pauline corpus.
The central concern of this letter has to do with the issue of justification by faith apart from the works of the law.
This central theme in Galatians is further developed in Paul’s letter to the Romans (his magnum opus). Some have called the book of Galatians a ‘mini Romans’ because of parallel concerns dealing with this subject of justification without which, there could be no gospel at all.
There is no good news apart from God justifying the ungodly not based upon what we have done, but based upon what God alone could do in the work of His Son at Calvary. The cross work of Christ could not be added to in any sense.
The book of Galatians looks at the nature of the gospel. Galatians demonstrates the sufficiency of the gospel apart from the works of the law. Paul sees the audience of the Galatians as opening themselves up to the attacks of heretical and false teachers, those of the circumcision party (the Judaizers), who desire to hinder their liberty and freedom in Christ by bringing them once again to a yoke of bondage consisting of the works of the law. Paul gives argument after argument proving that nothing can dilute the purity of the Gospel message which is based upon grace through faith and not works of the law or man’s works at all.
The banner of the book of Galatians could properly be ‘by Grace alone through Faith Alone in Christ Alone.”
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