Galatians Teaches Approval Galatians 1:10 Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the approval of man,...

Galatians Teaches ApprovalGalatians 1:10

Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am

I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would

not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 4:12a Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who

commits sin is a slave to sin.

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit

were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those

things is death. … 23b For the wages of sin is death,

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.”

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

Matthew 23:5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others.

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

Galatians 1:14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own

age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the

traditions of my fathers.

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

Galatians 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we

preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before,

so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be

accursed.

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

Romans 12:18  If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably

with all.

MAN’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SLAVERY

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will

give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am

gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is

light.”

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will

be devoted to the one and despise the other.

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Hebrews 2:7b “you have crowned him with glory and honor,

8 putting everything in subjection under his feet.”

Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we

do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Romans 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will

be saved.

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he

cannot lose.”Jim Elliot

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Galatians 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn

back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want

to be once more?

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

1 Corinthians 7:22 For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave. 23 You were bought at a price; do not become

slaves of men.

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Exodus 21:2  When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free,

for nothing. … 5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go

out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the

doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,

but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved

me and gave himself for me.

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Matthew 6:1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people

in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. … 3 

when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your

Father who sees in secret will reward you. …

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

6  when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.

And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. …

17  when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your

fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in

secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on

earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break

in and steal,

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him!”

John Piper

GOD’S APPROVAL REQUIRES SACRIFICE