Living in the Freedom of Justification by Faith

"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 I do not nullify the grace of God for if righteousness were through the law then Christ died to no purpose." [00:34:36]

"I said last time that I would do one thing by way of catchup before we focus on this that when Paul says I have been crucified with Christ or I died to the law what is our actual experience of this I died or I have been crucified or if you were listening to this or watching this you said I don't know if that's happened to me I I want to walk in that kind of death to law and Life to God what can I do here's Paul's answer in Colossians 2 little bit complicated but not when you think slowly and carefully in him you were circumcised." [02:00:72]

"Having been buried with him in baptism so that's how this cutting away of the old self happens having been buried with him in baptism in which you were also raised with him so there's being a a death and burial and there's been a resurrection signified by the act of being immersed under the water and being raised up out of the water and then he says raised with him through faith so the way this burial happens and the way this Resurrection happens is through faith." [03:30:40]

"The reality of the death of the old person the burial and death of the old man the being raised up to walk in newness of life and a new creature coming into being happens through Faith so the answer to the question what do I do what is my part in what's my experience of being crucified with Christ dying to the law the answer is trust him trust him when he says I died to the law that I might live to God and then he further explains it here I live by faith in the Son of God that living by faith that living to God are the same and so our experience erience is Faith God's work is to put us to death with Christ to regard us as unified or United with Christ in his dying." [04:14:88]

"Three propositions I do not nullify the grace of God second because if righteousness were through law or through lawke keeping if I could be righteous before God by lawke keeping if the whole law were given in such a way that people got right with God through the law then Christ died in vain he died pointlessly he died to no purpose so let's turn it around and read it backwards the way Paul intends for us to conclude we should conclude he did not not die in vain right he did not he loved me not in vain he gave himself not in vain it was for me not in vain when he died I was crucified not in vain I died to the law not in vain I live to God because he died for me this is not in vain." [05:17:52]

"Christ gave himself for our sins to Deliver Us from this present evil age according to the will of God our father he gave himself for our sins he was punished for our sins he bore the penalty for our sins and therefore this death was not in vain our sins were covered so that we could be Vindicated acquitted at the last day and stand righteous before God because of the death of Christ not because of our l keeping Christ is the foundation of our standing righteous before God not our lawke keeping so that's the first counter statement of the three propositions Christ did not die to no purpose therefore righteousness is not through the law that's the way the logic works when you're reading backward." [06:46:44]

"I count everything as lost because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I might gain Christ and be found in him not having a righteousness of that comes from the law but that which comes through faith in Christ the righteousness from God that depends on faith so it's not my own righteousness it doesn't come from lawke keeping it is a gift from God that depends on faith." [08:00:40]

"Brothers my heart's desire and prayer to God for them my Jewish Kinsmen is that they may be saved for I bear them witness that they have a Zeal for God but not according to knowledge for being ignorant of the righteousness of God the the free gift of righteousness that comes from God through faith being ignorant of that and seeking to establish their own righteousness which can't be done it can't be done not to the degree that will be accepted by God they did not submit to God's righteousness for the goal of the law is Christ for righteousness to everyone who believes that's why we said that it is through the law I died to the law the goal of the law was to put to death lawke keeping as a hope of righteousness righteousness is not through law it's through Christ." [08:42:80]

"Therefore since did Christ did not die in vain and since righteousness is therefore not through lawke keeping I absolutely will not nullify the grace of God by building up what I tore down he's still talking to Peter here Peter you and I we stand together on justification by faith not by circumcision and lawke keeping therefore oh do not rebuild what you tore down namely you tore down the wall that separated Jew and Gentile you tore down circumcision as a requirement for justification don't nullify the grace of God by building it up again." [09:53:20]

"Peter you and I we ourselves are Jews that's true by birth we're not Gentile Sinners we're not in the category of those who neglect the law yet we know that even as Jews a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ so that we have believed in Jesus Christ in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law because by works of the law no one will be justified that's the point so far in this letter and therefore we're not going to nullify Grace which is what the false teachers in this book are doing which is why I am so upset I'm astonished that you Galatians are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ Jesus and are turning to a different gospel namely justification through Works." [10:51:44]

"Peter you and I will not not I will not join me I know you do we will not nullify the grace of God." [12:00:48]