hope of righteousness
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Hope of Righteousness
Galatians 5:5
What’s happening in the world?
Disaster Work
How good do I have to be…?
Galatia in Paul’s day
Galatians 5:1-6
For through the Spirit, we eagerly await by faith, the
righteousness for which we hop
Righteousness by Good Works• Righteousness by Our Own Effort–based on obeying the Law– ...doing good ...abstaining from bad deeds
–common to all other religions in the world
Legalism• giving up freedom in Christ • ...entangling oneself in a yoke of
bondage• ...become estranged from
Christ, ... • ... fallen from grace.
you won’t get in that way..
• Matthew 5:20
• For I tell you that unless your
righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Parable of the Pharisee & Tax Collector
• Luke 18:9f
•I..... I..... I..... I........I
• --> self-righteousness & pride
Another Righteousness
• Romans 3:21
• But now the righteousness of God
apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ
Yeshua
A Strange Verse
• Hebrews 10:14• For by one sacrifice he has
made perfect for ever those who are being
made holy
Salvation involves...
• Justification + Sanctification• Imputed + Imparted
Righteousness• Forgiveness + Holiness
Difference–Justification - wholly God’s work–Sanctification - we work with God• Philippians 2:12-13
–continue to work out your salvation with fear and
trembling, 13 for it is God who
works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
Repent of our ‘good deeds’
• Philippians 3:8-9
• I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having
a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith
A Crown of Righteousness
• 2 Timothy 4:7-8
• I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day – and not only to me, but also
to all who have longed for his
appearing.
A New Earth
• 2 Peter 3:13• Nevertheless we, according to His
promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth in which righteousness dwells
Applications
• STOP trying to be good enough for heaven..
• LOOK to Jesus for God’s righteousness
• GO on walking with the Spirit day by day
• …hoping for the crown of righteousness God will give us