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Legalism vs. The Gospel

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Legalism vs. The Gospel

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  2. Legalism vs. The Gospel Colossians 2:16-23

  3. Legalism vs. The Gospel • 16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— 17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

  4. Legalism vs. The Gospel • 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. 20 If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”

  5. Legalism vs. The Gospel • 22 (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? 23 These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence. (Colossians 2:16-23)

  6. Old Testament Ceremonies • Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— (Colossians 2:16) • But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. (1 Corinthians 8:8)

  7. Old Testament Ceremonies • 16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— 17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. (Colossians 2:16-17)

  8. The Sabbath • 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain. (Galatians 4:9-11)

  9. The Law • 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the Law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:23-26)

  10. Reveals, but Can’t Fix • … by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:20)

  11. Reveals, but Can’t Fix • 7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “YOU SHALL NOT COVET.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. (Romans 7:7-8)

  12. Reveals, but Can’t Fix

  13. Reveals, but Can’t Fix

  14. Reveals, but Can’t Fix • 19 “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.” (Galatians 2:19-21)

  15. The Spirit, Not the Law • 1 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? (Galatians 3:1-3)

  16. The Spirit, Not the Law • Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— (Colossians 2:16) • And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. (Galatians 5:3)

  17. The Old and New Covenant • 21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results. 22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.” (Mark 2:21-22)

  18. The Old and New Covenant • Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. (Colossians 2:16-17) • For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

  19. Free from the Law • Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. (Romans 7:4) • But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. (Romans 7:6)

  20. Free from the Law • But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. (Galatians 5:18) • But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace. (Romans 11:6) • Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3)

  21. Set Free to Be Free • It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1)

  22. Legalism • Age-segregated ministry • Alcohol • No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments. (1 Timothy 5:23) • And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, (Ephesians 5:18)

  23. Legalism • Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise. (Proverbs 20:1) • But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. (1 Corinthians 8:9)

  24. Legalism • Musicals • Hymns vs. Choruses

  25. The Solution to Legalism • 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:17-18)

  26. The Solution to Legalism • Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1)

  27. The Solution to Legalism • It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1)

  28. The Solution to Legalism • 28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30)

  29. Legalism vs. The Gospel Colossians 2:16-23

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