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Living By Faith Series
Contributed by Rick Boyne on Apr 27, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: The righteous shall live by faith.
Living by Faith
February 16, 2025, Morning Service
Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK
Rick Boyne
Message Point: The righteous shall live by faith.
Focus Passage: Galatians 2:11-21
Supplemental Passage: For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9 NASB)
Introduction: Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not.[1] The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness".[2] Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice. However, the term can also refer to other forms of pretense, such as engaging in pious or moral behaviors out of a desire for praise rather than out of genuinely pious or moral motivations. [Wikipedia]
I. Confronting Hypocrisy
a. Peter, though once eating with Gentiles, withdrew when certain Jews arrived, fearing their judgment.
b. Paul publicly rebukes Peter for his hypocrisy –
c. There is danger in compromising the gospel for the approval of others.
d. We must stand for the integrity of the gospel even when it's uncomfortable
II. Justified by Faith, Not Works
a. No one is justified by the works of the law, but only through faith in Jesus Christ
b. Righteousness is not achieved by religious efforts but through faith
c. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9 NASB)
III. Crucified with Christ, Living by Faith
a. I have been crucified with Christ.
b. My old life is dead; I live a new life now.
c. I live this new life by faith in Jesus.
Application/Call to Obedience: that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. (Romans 10:9-10 NASB)
