WHAT WE BELIEVE AND WHY, PT 2

“A Life You Can Live”

Galatians 2:16-20

Review

This journey into what we believe and why began with four main points of doctrine upon which this entire study is based. The four points of doctrine are:

·A Gospel You Can Believe

·A Life You Can Live

·Bible Study You Can Understand

·A Book (Bible) You Can Trust

Part 1, Clarity of the gospel we believe:

·Romans 4:5

·I Corinthians 15:1-4

Introduction

This study, “A Life You Can Live” will examine the following about the grace life:

·Our relationship to the Law and guilt

·Our relationship to the flesh and the world

·Our relationship to Christ – how we truly live

I. My Life and Relationship to the Law

A. No flesh justified by the law

1. Galatians 2:19

2. Romans 3:28

3. Romans 6:14

4. Galatians 3:10-12, 18-26

5. Galatians 4:9-11

6. Galatians 5:4

7. Colossians 2:14-23

B. Why can’t we be justified by the law?

1. Romans 3:20

2. Romans 5:20

C. Guilt free living

1. Our death to the law

2. Romans 7:1-25 (1-4)

II. My Life and Relationship to the Flesh and the World

A. The life we live . . .

1. Galatians 2:20

2. Galatians 6:14

B. The flesh and the world are dead

1. Romans 6:6-7, 11-13

2. Colossians 3:1-4

3. Galatians 5:16-26

4. I Corinthians 6:9-11

C. Can’t please God in the flesh

1. Present possession

2. Romans 8:5-8

III. My Life and Relationship to Christ

A. What we have in Christ

1. Galatians 2:20

2. II Corinthians 5:17

3. Galatians 3:27-29

4. Galatians 5:1

5. Colossians 2:10-13

B. We can’t ask for more

1. Romans 8:9-17

2. Ephesians 1:3, 6-7; 2:6

Conclusion:

·Because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross, we are dead to the law; it can’t make us righteous.

·Because of the cross, we are crucified to the world and to the flesh. We are not debtors to the flesh.

·Now that I am a “new creature,” I have everything I need in Christ. There is no more to ask for – and

                        no more to expect; we have it all, now.