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March 2013

Section III

THE PROOF THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH

ALONE AND NOT BY WORKS

Galatians 3:1-4:7

Study 5: THE PROOF OF WHAT FAITH DOES FOR US

Text: Galatians 3:23-29

Aim: To grasp the great benefits of faith.

Memory Verse:

“And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and

heirs according to the promise” (Ga.3:29).

INTRODUCTION:

How many times have you begun a journey, only to realize that

you made a wrong turn along the way? You wanted to go south, but

you were actually heading west. Sincere as you were about wanting

to go south, your destination was westward bound.

Many of us have turned down the wrong road in life, trusting in

our works and the law to save us. We have been sincere, but we

have been sincerely wrong. How can we make a mid-course

correction? By faith, we must begin to trust the Lord to show us the

way.

Some people in the churches of Galatia were spreading a false

teaching. They were saying that a person is justified by works and

law; that is, that a person becomes acceptable to God by subjecting

himself to Christ, but he must also subject himself to the law and do

The Proof That A Man Is Justified By Faith Alone And Not By Works

Study 5: Galatians 3:23-29 —Teacher’s Outline and Study Bible™

E. The Proof of What Faith

Does for Us, 3:23–29

23

But before faith came, we

were kept under the law, shut up

unto the faith which should after-

wards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our

schoolmaster to bring us unto

Christ, that we might be justified

by faith.

25 But after that faith is come,

we are no longer under a school-

master.

26 For ye are all the children of

God by faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For as many of you as have

been

baptized into Christ have

put on Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor

Greek, there is neither bond nor

free, there is neither male nor

female: for ye are all one in

Christ Jesus.

29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are

ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs

according to

the promise.

1. Faith in Christ frees us from

the supervision of the law

a. The law was a prison for

man

b. The law was a guardian or

teacher for man

c. The power of faith in

Christ frees us from the

bondage of the law

2. Faith in Christ makes us

children of God

a. By causing us to focus

upon Christ Jesus

b. By clothing us with the

righteousness of Christ

3. Faith in Christ makes us

one: Eliminates all distinc-

tions & prejudices

4. Faith in Christ makes us

heirs of the promise