GALATIANS

1. GALATIANS

2. Galatians Summary Outline Ch 1-2: Defense of Message and Messenger Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works Ch 5-6: New Life in the Spirit

3. Galatians Doctrines The Gospel Justification Grace Law Legalism Liberty Spirituality Sowing & Reaping

4. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Spirituality and Spiritual Growth Key Passages Summary

5. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Spirituality and Spiritual Growth Key Passages Summary

6. What Spirituality Is NOT Moralism Legalism Sentimentalism Emotionalism Stoicism Piety/Religiosity Intellectualism Rationalism Asceticism Gnosticism Mysticism Antinomianism

7. He That Is Spiritual Lewis Sperry Chafer pg 141 “If our kind of spirituality makes Christ unattractive to others, it needs some drastic changes. May God save His children from assuming a holy tone of the voice, a holy somberness of spirit, a holy expression of the face, or a holy garb (if by the garb they wish to appear holy). True spirituality is an inward adorning. It is most simple and natural and should be a delight and attraction to all….Some Christians are disposed to ‘traffic in unlived truth’; repeating pious phrases the truth of which they have never really experienced. This must always grieve the Spirit.”

8. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Spirituality and Spiritual Growth Key Passages Summary

9. Objective Context of Spirituality Creation Christ The Spiritual Realm

10. Objective Context of Spirituality Creation Christ The Spiritual Realm

11. Objective Context of Spirituality Creation Christ The Spiritual Realm

12. Objective Context of Spirituality Creation Christ The Spiritual Realm

13. True Spirituality Francis A. Schaeffer pg 41 “…The supernatural structure of the Scripture carries with it the emphasis that the supernatural is not far away, but near at hand, all about us; the supernatural is not just yesterday and tomorrow, it is today.”

14. True Spirituality Francis A. Schaeffer pg. 38 “If we are not careful, even though we say we are biblical Christians and supernaturalists, nevertheless the naturalism of our generation tends to come in upon us … Surely this is … perhaps the greatest reason for a loss of reality: that while we say we believe one thing, we allow the spirit of the naturalism of the age to creep into our thinking, unrecognized. All too often the reality is lost because the ‘ceiling’ is down too close upon our heads. It is too low. And the ‘ceiling’ which closes us in is the naturalistic type of thinking. “Now the Christian's spirituality…does not stand alone. It is related to the unity of the Bible's view of the universe. This means that we must understand—intellectually, with the windows open—that the universe is not what our generation says it is, seeing only the naturalistic universe.”

15. True Spirituality Francis A. Schaeffer pp. 38-39 “But we saw that on the Mount of Transfiguration we are brought face to face with a supernatural universe. Here we find Moses and Elijah speaking to Christ as he is glorified. And we observed that this supernatural universe is not a far-off universe. Quite the contrary: there is a perfect continuity, as in normal life…. “Now we must remember what we are talking about: the fact that the true Christian life, as we have examined it, is not to be separated from the unity of the full biblical teaching; it is not to be abstracted from the unity of the Bible's emphasis on the supernatural world…. “The true Bible-believing Christian is the one who lives in practice in this supernatural world. … I am not a Bible-believing Christian in the fullest sense simply by believing the right doctrines, but as I live in practice in this supernatural world.”

16. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Spirituality and Spiritual Growth Key Passages Summary

17. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Spirituality and Spiritual Growth Key Passages Summary

18. True Spirituality Francis A. Schaeffer pg. 18 “What is being presented to us here is the question of the Christian's mentality in all of life, and the order stands: rejected, slain, raised. As Christ's rejection and death are the first steps in the order of redemption, so our rejection and death to things and self are the first steps in the order of true and growing spirituality. As there could be no next step in the order of Christ's redemption until the step of death was taken, so in the Christian there can be no further step until these first two steps are faced—not in theory only, but at least in some partial practice.”

19. True Spirituality Francis A. Schaeffer pg. 27 “Paul is not speaking here of the future millennium or eternity; that is a different thing altogether. It is now: ‘May walk in newness of life.’ ‘Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, in order that the body of sin might be made powerless, that henceforth we should not serve sin’ (Romans 6:6). How? By faith: ‘Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord’ (Romans 6:11). “When? Right now! This is the basic consideration of the Christian life. First, Christ died in history. Second, Christ rose in history. Third, we died with Christ in history, when we accepted him as our Savior. Fourth, we will be raised in history, when he comes again. Fifth, we are to live by faith now as though we were now dead, already have died. And sixth, we are to live now by faith as though we have now already been raised from the dead. “Now what does this mean in practice, so that it will not be just words going over our heads? First of all it certainly means this: that in our thoughts and lives now we are to live as though we had already died, been to heaven, and come back again as risen.”

20. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Spirituality and Spiritual Growth Key Passages Summary

21. The Three Categories of Men 1 Cor 2:14 The Natural Man 1 Cor 215, 3:1 The Spiritual Man 1 Cor 3:1, 3 The Carnal Man

22. The Three Categories of Men 1 Cor 2:14 The Natural (PSUCHIKOS) Man 1 Cor 215, 3:1 The Spiritual Man 1 Cor 3:1, 3 The Carnal Man

23. The Three Categories of Men 1 Cor 2:14 The Natural (PSUCHIKOS) Man 1 Cor 215, 3:1 The Spiritual (PNEUMATIKOS) Man 1 Cor 3:1, 3 The Carnal Man

24. The Three Categories of Men 1 Cor 2:14 The Natural (PSUCHIKOS) Man 1 Cor 215, 3:1 The Spiritual (PNEUMATIKOS) Man 1 Cor 3:1, 3 The Carnal (SARKIKOS) Man

25. The Three Categories of Men Unregenerate (Unbeliever) “natural” yuciko,j “of physical” Regenerate (Believer) “spiritual” pneumatiko,j “of spirit” “carnal” sarkiko,j “of flesh”

26. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Spirituality and Spiritual Growth Key Passages Summary

27. The Three Conditions of Spirituality Yieldedness “Do not quench the Spirit” 1 Th 5:19 Confession “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit” Eph 4:30 Walking in the Spirit “…walk in the Spirit” Gal 5:16

28. Yieldedness The foundation of true spirituality.

29. He That is Spiritual Lewis Sperry Chafer pp. 86-87 “The Spirit is ‘quenched’ by any unyieldness to the revealed will of God. It is simply saying ‘no’ to God, and so is closely related to matters of the divine appointments for service; though the Spirit may be ‘quenched,’ as well, by any resistance of the providence of God in the life…. “According to the Scriptures, the believer’s responsibility in realizing true spirituality is again crystallized into one crucial word, ‘yield.’” “…To be yielded to Him is to allow Him to design and execute the position and effectiveness of our life. He alone can do this. Of all the numberless paths in which we might walk, He alone knows which is best. “… What greater evidence of the fall do we need than that we must struggle to be yielded to Him? How much we feel we have gained when we can say, ‘Thy will, not mine be done’! It is because our daily life will be helpless and a failure apart from the leading of the Spirit, and because the Spirit has come to do this very work, that we cannot be rightly adjusted to Him, or be spiritual, until we are yielded to the mind and will of God.”

30. True Spirituality Francis Schaeffer pp. 7, 9 “I am to love God enough to be contented, because otherwise even our natural and proper desires bring us into revolt against God. God has made us with proper desires, but if there is not a proper contentment on my part, to this extent I am in revolt against God, and of course revolt is the whole central problem of sin. When I lack proper contentment, either I have forgotten that God is God, or I have ceased to be submissive to him…. “If the contentment goes and the giving of thanks goes, we are not loving God as we should, and proper desire has become coveting against God. This inward area is the first place of loss of true spirituality. The outward is always just a result of it.”