Galatians 5:1-12

1. Hope of
Righteousness
Galatians 5:5

2. What’s happening in the world?

3. Disaster Work

4. How good do I have to be…?

5. Galatia in Paul’s day

6. Galatians 5:1-6
For through the Spirit, we
eagerly await by faith, the
righteousness for
which we hop

7. Righteousness by Good Works
• Righteousness by Our Own Effort
–based on obeying the Law
–...doing good ...abstaining from bad deeds
–common to all other religions
in the world

8. Legalism
• giving up freedom in Christ
• ...entangling oneself in a yoke of
bondage
• ...become estranged from
Christ, ...
• ... fallen from grace.

9. you won’t get in that way..
• Matthew 5:20
• For I tell you that unless your
righteousness surpasses that of
the Pharisees and the teachers of the law,
you will certainly not enter the kingdom of
heaven

10. Parable of the Pharisee
& Tax Collector
• Luke 18:9f
•I..... I..... I..... I........I
• --> self-righteousness &
pride

11. Another Righteousness
• Romans 3:21
• But now the righteousness of God
apart from the
lawis revealed, being witnessed by
the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the
righteousness of God, through faith in
Jesus Christ

12. Yeshua

13. A Strange Verse
• Hebrews 10:14
• For by one sacrifice he has
made perfect for ever
those who are being made
holy

14. Salvation involves...
•Justification +
Sanctification
•Imputed + Imparted
Righteousness
•Forgiveness + Holiness

15. Difference
–Justification - wholly God’s work
–Sanctification - we work with God
• Philippians 2:12-13
–continue to work out
your salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is Godwho worksin
you to will and to act in order to fulfill his
good purpose.

16. Repent of our ‘good deeds’
• Philippians 3:8-9
• I consider them garbage, that I
may gain Christ and be found in him, not
having a righteousness of my
ownthat comes from the law, but that
which is through faith in Christ – the
righteousness that comes from God on the
basis of faith

17. A Crownof Righteousness
• 2 Timothy 4:7-8
• I have fought the good fight, I have finished
the race, I have kept the faith.Now there is
in store for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will
award to me on that day – and not only to
me, but also to all who have longed
for his appearing.

18. A New Earth
• 2 Peter 3:13
• Nevertheless we, according to His
promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth in which
righteousness
dwells

19. Applications
• STOP trying to be good enough for heaven..
• LOOK to Jesus for God’s righteousness
• GOon walking with the Spirit day by day
• …hoping for the crown of righteousness God will
give us