I. EXORDIUM:
Are you under the Law?
No. I'm saved by grace.
Galatians 5:4 (Amplified Bible)
If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God’s gracious favor and unmerited blessing).
Ephesians 2:8-9 (Amplified Bible)
For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that GOD never meant to save us by Law but He meant to save us by His Grace through faith.
IV. TEXT:
Galatians 3:19 (Amplified Bible)
What then was the purpose of the Law? It was added [later on, after the promise, to disclose and expose to men their guilt] because of transgressions and [to make men more conscious of the sinfulness] of sin; and it was intended to be in effect until the Seed (the Descendant, the Heir) should come, to and concerning Whom the promise had been made. And it [the Law] was arranged and ordained and appointed through the instrumentality of angels [and was given] by the hand (in the person) of a go-between [Moses, an intermediary person between God and man].
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for I was saved by grace through faith and not because of the works of the Law, my salvation came not because of my striving but it is a gift of GOD.
Ephesians 2:8 (Amplified Bible)
For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
VI. TITLE:
Purpose of the Law
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Apostle Paul
B. Date written: 55 A.D. to 60 A.D.
C. Purpose: To defend doctrine of justification by faith, warn against reversion to Judaism, and vindicate Paul's own apostolic authority
D. To whom written: Galatia church
E. Main theme: Magna charta of the church
F. Keywords: faith, grace, liberty, the cross
VIII. MAIN BODY:
Galatians 3:19 (Amplified Bible)
What then was the purpose of the Law? It was added [later on, after the promise, to disclose and expose to men their guilt] because of transgressions and [to make men more conscious of the sinfulness] of sin; and it was intended to be in effect until the Seed (the Descendant, the Heir) should come, to and concerning Whom the promise had been made. And it [the Law] was arranged and ordained and appointed through the instrumentality of angels [and was given] by the hand (in the person) of a go-between [Moses, an intermediary person between God and man].
Galatians 3:19 (King James Version)
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
A. To disclose the transgressions of men and make them guilty of sin
"Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions,"
The Law was just an additive not the central theme of our salvation which is by grace through faith.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (Amplified Bible)
For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]
Our GOD is ever since the GOD of Grace and Truth and He never changed, when seeing Adam and Eve fell in sin, He made a promise to them that He will made Himself into a man, coming from Eternal GOD and He will be born from a virgin and that promise was fulfilled.
Genesis 3:15 (Amplified Bible)
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.
Matthew 1:23 (Amplified Bible)
Behold, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel—which, when translated, means, God with us.
Isaiah 7:14 (Amplified Bible)
Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, the young woman who is unmarried and a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us].
That's the sign of His Grace and Truth for all of us. There's a great debate over the years regarding this which is first, GOD'S Grace or Law. And the answer was clear, the Promise was given first before the Law, that's the promise of Grace. That even in our sinful and rebellious state GOD will always redeemed us while we're still alive.
Men are calous in heart they want only the benefits but they don't want to come to the Giver of benefits, they only want the healing but they don't want to come to the Healer, they only want the blessing but they don't want to come to the Blessor Himself.
Romans 3:1-2 (Amplified Bible)
THEN WHAT advantage remains to the Jew? [How is he favored?] Or what is the value or benefit of circumcision?
Much in every way. To begin with, to the Jews were entrusted the oracles (the brief communications, the intentions, the utterances) of God.
Romans 7:7-13 (Amplified Bible)
What then do we conclude? Is the Law identical with sin? Certainly not! Nevertheless, if it had not been for the Law, I should not have recognized sin or have known its meaning. [For instance] I would not have known about covetousness [would have had no consciousness of sin or sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, You shall not covet and have an evil desire [for one thing and another].
But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment [to express itself], got a hold on me and aroused and stimulated all kinds of forbidden desires (lust, covetousness). For without the Law sin is dead [the sense of it is inactive and a lifeless thing].
Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death).
And the very legal ordinance which was designed and intended to bring life actually proved [to mean to me] death.
For sin, seizing the opportunity and getting a hold on me [by taking its incentive] from the commandment, beguiled and entrapped and cheated me, and using it [as a weapon], killed me.
The Law therefore is holy, and [each] commandment is holy and just and good.
Did that which is good then prove fatal [bringing death] to me? Certainly not! It was sin, working death in me by using this good thing [as a weapon], in order that through the commandment sin might be shown up clearly to be sin, that the extreme malignity and immeasurable sinfulness of sin might plainly appear.
B. Until the SEED of Abraham who is to come delivered by Moses
"till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator"
This was further summarized in: John 1:17 differentiating the Law coming from Moses but Grace and Truth is JESUS. We call our time the time of grace, the new testament of grace as opposed to the time of the old testament which is a time for the Law.
John 1:17 (Amplified Bible)
For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Acts 7:38 (Amplified Bible)
This is he who in the assembly in the wilderness (desert) was the go-between for the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and he received living oracles (words that still live) to be handed down to us.
Deuteronomy 9:13-20 (Amplified Bible)
Furthermore the Lord said to me, I have seen this people, and behold, they are stubborn and hard.
Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.
I took the two tables, cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
Then I fell down before the Lord as before, for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the Lord held against you, enough to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.
And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, angry enough to have destroyed him, and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
The LORD JESUS saw from afar the future our days, last days that we are stubborn and hard. I tried this at work, and I explained to them the WORD OF GOD but to my dismay they only want to ask questions but they don't want to learn the bible, to me I am an entertainer than entertains them.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for I was saved by grace through faith and not because of the works of the Law, my salvation came not because of my striving but it is a gift of GOD.
