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Section IV
THE FIVEFOLD APPEAL TO BE JUSTIFIED BY
FAITH ALONE
Galatians 4:8–5:12
Study 1: APPEAL ONE: DO NOT TURN BACK
Text: Galatians 4:8-11
Aim:
To forge ahead in our Christian walk: to never turn back.
Memory Verse:
“
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known
of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,
whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?” (Ga.4:9).
SECTION OVERVIEW:
A person is justified by faith and not by law nor by works. It does
not matter how many good works a person does nor how good he may
become; he can never secure perfection. Therefore, a man can never
earn or win the right to live in God’s presence. A man cannot make
God accept him—put God in debt—by being good and doing good.
God is perfect; therefore, if a man is ever going to live in God’s
presence, it will be because God loves man enough to provide some
way for man to become perfect. Glorious news! God has provided the
way through His very own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. When a man
believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, God takes His belief and counts it
as righteousness, as perfection. God accepts the man on the basis of
faith, the kind of faith that says, “Lord God, I believe that your Son
died for me. He took my imperfection, my shame, my sin, my being
short of your glory; and He died for it all. I honor Him. I give my life,
all I am and have
,
to serve Him. Save me—accept me in Him.”
When a man approaches God in such a spirit, he honors God’s
Son, Jesus Christ. And God honors any person who honors His Son.
He honors the person by doing the very thing the man believes or
asks. If a man believes in Jesus Christ for righteousness, then God
counts that man’s belief (commitment to Christ) as righteousness.
This is justification; this is the way a person becomes acceptable to
God.
The Proof That A Man Is Justified By Faith Alone And Not By Works
Study 7 : Galatians 4:8-11 —Teacher’s Outline and Study Bible™
IV. THE FIVEFOLD AP-
PEAL TO BE JUSTI-
FIED BY FAITH
ALONE, 4:8–5:12
A. Appeal One: Do Not
Turn Back, 4:8-11
8
Howbeit then, when ye knew
not God, ye did service unto
them which by nature are no
gods.
9
But now, after that ye have
known God, or rather are
known of God, how turn ye
again to the weak and beggarly
elements, whereunto ye
desire again to be in bondage?
10
Ye observe days, and
months, and times, and years.
11
I am afraid of you, lest I
have bestowed upon you labour
in vain.
1.
Remember your former life
a. You did not know God
b. You served false gods
2.
Look at your present
life:
You know God & are
known by God
3.
Consider your turning back
a. What you turn to:
Weak rituals & worldly
pursuits
b. What the results are:
1)
Bondage
2)
A wasted life
