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Galatians 2:11-18 Freedom in Forgiveness: Grace, It's What's Been Done Not What You Do - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: September 21, 2014

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Galatians 2:13)

Both faith and fear are contagious. Which one are you spreading to others?

Life Lesson (Galatians 2:15)

Anytime your interpretation (or someone else's interpretation) of one scripture violates another scripture, you must find another interpretation that does not violate scripture.

Life Lesson (Galatians 2:16)

No one will ever be justified by their works. (By something they have done)

Life Lesson (Galatians 2:16)

Justification only comes through what Jesus did on the cross.

Life Lesson (Galatians 2:16)

No one is so good that he cannot fall.

Life Lesson (Galatians 2:16)

No one has ever sunk so low that he could not rise again.

Life Lesson (Galatians 2:18)

The sin here is turning back to any system of justification by law when Jesus has shed His blood to make us free.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Gal 2:13 NLT

As a result, other Jewish Christians followed Peter's hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

Rom 1:16 NKJV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Mark 6:7 NKJV

And He called the twelve to Himself, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits.

Luke 10:1-2 NKJV

1 After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. 2 Then He said to them, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

Gal 2:15 NLT

"You and I are Jews by birth, not 'sinners' like the Gentiles.

Gal 2:15 CJB

We are Jews by birth, not so-called ‘Goyishe sinners’;

Rom 3:10 NKJV

As it is written:"There is none righteous, no, not one;

Rom 3:23 NKJV

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Lev 17:11 NKJV

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.'

Isa 64:6 KJV

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Heb 9:22 NKJV

And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

Eph 2:8-10 NKJV

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Rom 5:1 NKJV

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Rom 8:33 NKJV

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Rom 8:31-34 NLT

31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us.

Matt 26:33-35 NLT

33 Peter declared, "Even if everyone else deserts you, I will never desert you."
34 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, Peter—this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me." 35 "No!" Peter insisted. "Even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you!" And all the other disciples vowed the same.

John 18:10-11 NKJV

10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. 11 So Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?"

John 21:3 NKJV

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing."
They said to him, "We are going with you also." They went out and immediately got into the boat, and that night they caught nothing.

John 21:15-19 NKJV

15 So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?"(Bold) He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Feed My lambs." 16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You."He said to him, "Tend My sheep." 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep. 18 Most assuredly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish." 19 This He spoke, signifying by what death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, "Follow Me."

John 21:22 NKJV

Jesus said to him, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me."

Gal 2:18 NLT

Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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