Title: We Belong
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00:00 The Ache of Not Belonging
06:21 Reading Galatians 3:23-29
07:08 Who Is the Law?
07:49 The Law is an Enforcer
08:50 The Law is a Jailer
09:43 The Law is a Guardian
11:06 The Law is Temporary
13:48 What Does "Now That Faith Has Come" Mean?
16:52 Who Are We?
16:58 We Are Sons of God Through Faith
20:37 God's Greatness, Not Ours
22:04 We Get to Imitate God
23:59 In God, We Belong
26:28 What Does "Baptized in Christ" Mean?
29:43 We Have Put On Christ
35:08 Are We United?
38:57 The "Bad News" of the Gospel
40:31 The Good News of the Gospel
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Galatians 3:23–29
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. (ESV)
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This sermon shows how the ache of not belonging is answered in Christ. Paul pictures the law as an enforcer and jailer that kept sinners at a distance and as a guardian that trained God’s people for a time. With “the faith” revealed in Jesus, the law’s temporary role gives way to grace. We are justified by faith, made sons of God in Christ, and clothed with him so our identity and imitation flow from union with him rather than performance. Baptized into Christ, we “put on” Christ. The gospel also forms a new community where old markers lose their power to divide: Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female are one in Jesus. If we belong to Christ, we are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
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