EPISODE · Oct 31, 2022 · 42 MIN
Galatians 3:26-4:7 What Salvation Brings Us
from RUF at UNCW · host Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
In this week's message from our series in Galatians, Paul continues his defense of the Gospel. He demonstrates that because Jesus died the death you should’ve died, you can enjoy the rights and privileges that he alone deserves. On the cross, Jesus was treated the way we deserved to be treated, so that all those who believe in Him could be treated as Jesus deserved to be treated: as beloved sons of God. Since God is, before all things, a Father, and not primarily Creator or Ruler, all his ways are beautifully fatherly. It is not that this God ‘does’ being Father as a day-job, only to kick back in the evenings as plain old ‘God’. It is not that he has a nice blob of fatherly icing on top. He is Father. All the way down. Thus all that he does he does as Father. That is who he is. He creates as a Father and he rules as a Father; and that means the way he rules over creation is most unlike the way any other God would rule over creation" —Michael Reeves. "If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all " —J.I. Packer DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: John Wesley, looking back on his life before his conversion (growing up in a Christian home) said, “I had even then the faith of a servant, though not that of a son.” How might having “the faith of a son” change your thoughts & habits? (v. 27) In which area of life do you struggle to remember you are clothed/covered by Christ Jesus? (v. 28-29) What barriers divide people on campus? How should the Church model a different way of living? What can you do to help model this? (v. 5-6) Where can you ask the Spirit to develop your affections toward God ? (v.7) What do you think will be most enjoyable about inheriting a renewed cosmos? What are you worried about missing out on in this life that you hope to enjoy in the next?
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In this week's message from our series in Galatians, Paul continues his defense of the Gospel. He demonstrates that because Jesus died the death you should’ve died, you can enjoy the rights and privileges that he alone deserves. On the cross, Jesus was treated the way we deserved to be treated, so that all those who believe in Him could be treated as Jesus deserved to be treated: as beloved sons of God. Since God is, before all things, a Father, and not primarily Creator or Ruler, all his ways are beautifully fatherly. It is not that this God ‘does’ being Father as a day-job, only to kick back in the evenings as plain old ‘God’. It is not that he has a nice blob of fatherly icing on top. He is Father. All the way down. Thus all that he does he does as Father. That is who he is. He creates as a Father and he rules as a Father; and that means the way he rules over creation is most unlike the way any other God would rule over creation" —Michael Reeves. "If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all " —J.I. Packer DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: John Wesley, looking back on his life before his conversion (growing up in a Christian home) said, “I had even then the faith of a servant, though not that of a son.” How might having “the faith of a son” change your thoughts & habits? (v. 27) In which area of life do you struggle to remember you are clothed/covered by Christ Jesus? (v. 28-29) What barriers divide people on campus? How should the Church model a different way of living? What can you do to help model this? (v. 5-6) Where can you ask the Spirit to develop your affections toward God ? (v.7) What do you think will be most enjoyable about inheriting a renewed cosmos? What are you worried about missing out on in this life that you hope to enjoy in the next?
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