Lay All Your Deadly Doings Down, Down at Jesus Feet

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Paul fought five Roman wars while preserving the gospel truth that still protects you today.

The episode is a sermon from West Cohasset Chapel, delivered by an unnamed pastor. It begins with a reading of Galatians 2:1-10, focusing on Paul's journey to Jerusalem and his defense of the gospel. The pastor immediately highlights Paul's fight for the 'truth of the gospel' against false believers who sought to enslave Christians. He contextualizes this by noting Rome was fighting five wars at the time, yet Paul prioritized preserving gospel truth. The sermon's title, 'Experiencing Life with the Gospel,' is introduced, stressing that the gospel is not just ideas but God's action in history. The pastor argues that all of life as a Christian must be built on Jesus Christ and his gospel, referencing 1 Corinthians 3:11. He uses C.S. Lewis and Spurgeon's map analogy to explain theology as a guide to a person, not the destination itself. The pastor then outlines three main points: what the gospel is, what our problem is, and what God's solution is. He defines the gospel as 'Jesus plus nothing,' citing Galatians 2:6 where God does not show favoritism based on external appearances. The universal problem is identified as guilt, with references to D.A. Carson and Dr. Carl Menninger linking guilt to mental health. The pastor discusses ceremonial laws in the Old Testament, noting they were insufficient to cleanse conscience and pointed to Christ. He describes false teachers in Galatia who demanded circumcision and adherence to Mosaic law, creating a 'Christ and' gospel. The purpose of ceremonial laws is explained as showing humanity's inability to make themselves clean before God. The pastor cites Hebrews and Colossians to show Christ's sacrifice makes believers holy and free from accusation. He warns that adding anything to Christ, even good deeds, destroys freedom and leads to bondage, using George Whitfield's sermon and Sue Lutz's quote about slavery to approval. The sermon concludes with a prayer emphasizing holding to the one gospel of Jesus Christ for liberation.

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A Galatians 2 sermon on guilt, ceremonial law, and the cleansing work attributed to Christ.

West Cohasset Chapel's Galatians 2 message follows Paul's account of Titus into a focused question: what can clear a guilty conscience? It links circumcision and ceremonial law to the idea that those practices were not bad in themselves, but could not make a person clean before…

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