Bewitched By Good Works

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Bewitched By Good Works

Confession: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 2, QA 3-5

Scripture: Galatians 3:1-14 (Read from ESV)

Preacher: Rev. Gary Findley

Sermon Outline:

• Introduction
• 1. A Mindless Capitulation
  2. A Mundane Course
  3. A Mortal Curse
• Conclusion

Sermon Video:

https://youtu.be/sQzYIb9vRwk

The Heidelberg Catechism:

Lord’s Day 2

Q.3 How do you come to know your misery?

A. The law of God tells me.

Q.4 What does God’s law require of us?

A. Christ teaches us this in summary in Matthew 22:37–40: “You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Q.5 Can you live up to all this perfectly?

A. No. I am inclined by nature to hate God and my neighbor.

Scripture Reading:

Galatians 3:1-14 (King James Version)

1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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