Lesson 28: Resist the Yoke of the Law as the Son Has Set You Free
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Marco Polo of Mike’s teaching: Monday 19th July 2021
“At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 4:29-31 NIV
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
Galatians 5:1 NIV
“You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.”
Galatians 5:4 NIV
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
Romans 10:4 ESV
“The passage tells us clearly that when you put yourself under law, you are separate from Christ, you are severed or cut off from Christ, and you have fallen from grace. That’s in Galatians 5:4…The Law can be summarized by three words: burden, yoke, slavery.
Pauls calls us here to remember that Jesus’ body was nailed to a tree to free you from the curse and the penalty of the law and the power of sin. Christ has set you free. It is for freedom that Christ has set you free. He is saying that Jesus freed you from guilt under the law. He freed you from all condemnation. Look to the cross to see that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness (Romans 10:4). It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Think about this for a moment: you are free from judgment, you are free from all condemnation, you are free from sin’s power and penalty because Christ became sin for you and broke sin’s power and took the punishment for it. You are free from guilt….Jesus assumed all your guilt and made it His own. You are free from striving to be accepted by keeping some standard of God. Do you know why? Jesus kept the standard! And you are accepted in Him.
This is how Christ has made you free. Look at the perfect life of Jesus, which is credited now to you as if you had lived it perfectly. Look at the substitutionary death of Jesus, and see Him making you free by His suffering, by His death.
So what’s the conclusion that you and I are to draw? Don’t let yourself be burdened, weighed down, placed under the heavyweight of the law. Don’t let yourself be yoked, joined together with the law. Don’t let yourself be enslaved…Jesus calls us to live like gospel Christians, not like Old Covenant Jews.”
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