By Alberto Valdivia
Sunday Sermon
Text: Galatians 2:11-21
The law is the set of commandments, moral standards and ceremonies given by God to the people of Israel for the purpose of that may be fulfilled, and thereby achieve salvation. However, this objective is not fulfilled in man, for the following reasons: Trying
law enforcement can produce hypocrisy (v.11-14). Peter and other disciples tried to please those who sought to save himself fulfilling the law. Paul shows his mistake, he makes it look like when trying to enforce the law the only thing they produce is hypocrisy, and being unable to fulfill end up creating an appearance of purity that is not genuine
The law can not save or transform ( v.15-16). The law is perfect but the man is a sinner, unable to comply and do good, so the law can not save the man, not because I can not do it because we can not comply. Jesus is the one who fulfilled the law completely, demonstrating that the law is effective when there is holiness
The law makes it is evidence of our sin (v. 17). law makes us aware of what is wrong and trying to flee from evil and do not do so, we ended up realizing how sinful we are, but at the same time, the law declares the condemnation that works against those who do evil, and unable to avoid evil in us, condemning the law ends.
The law does not free us from sin, the grace that comes only through Jesus (18-21). Jesus to enforce the law, not only left us an example, but transferred his righteousness to us when we believed and we join him (2 Corinthians 5:21), and thanks to that justice, God shed his grace on us, which we forgive and release. Also dying on the cross, Jesus bore the curse of the law that corresponded to carry, free from condemnation (Galatians 3:13). Salvation comes to unite us to Christ by faith, to die to sin and the law, and to give our lives to him. Back
law system is to build what they destroyed and reject Christ's grace.
This does not mean that we live as we see fit, without meeting any standard, the law now meets the Christian is the law of love (Galatians 6:2), which is the expression of our faith.
The commandments of the Old Testament are valid to the extent they are consistent with the gospel of grace revealed in the New Testament, but do not fulfill these commandments and who is serving a rule, but by love and with love, which is new law and commandment that Christ left us (John 13:34), also abide by them as an expression of our faith and devotion to God, not as a means of salvation.
Christians are not under the system of law, but under grace, but the expression of that grace that acts in us to please consiete God in our lives show that this behavior according to his commandments. We fulfill the commandments because we have God in our lives, and the love he has poured into us that drives us to love and to love others, and that always shows up in a behavior consistent with their mandates.
