Anyone Can Be Blessed! [Part 1]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright is the three most hopeful words I know a close second is you can change love order writings.

That's Pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good view that will help you see your life will Dino Britt excited for you to hear the teaching today. In this series collection is presented at renewal the church in North Carolina able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It can be yours for your donation this month made to Alan Wright Ministries so as you listen to today's message go deeper.

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More on this later in the program. Now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright ready for some good news. I hear this from Charles Spurgeon who wrote when I thought God was hard. I found it easy to send.

But when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion. I smote upon my breast to think that I could have ever rebelled against one who loved me so and sought my good. Anyone working to learn in Paul's third chapter to the Galatians, anyone can be blessed. Anyone because it is not through your works, but through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ to get a whole new way of thinking okay sobbing a little vacation time and and I'm been able to therefore focus on the really things in life like my putting game now.

I have notice some deterioration in an and how many pipes I was making and I began to think like all middle-aged offers are want to do that. My real need is new equipment and so I began looking for a new putter and I've been looking for months. So with all that in the stores testing them all out and I finally had settled that what I need to do is make the leap get the new belly putter which is a longer link what you can cut a wedge into your belly and it works like a pendulum, and you'll not be able to miss and I settled on the one I want to the tailor-made ghost spider very popular on tour right now. The ghost spider and and found one on eBay good price got it for my anniversary present. The ghost spider. I couldn't wait to get out and start putting with it so went out with with Bennett my sign and my nephew Jake.

We start having some putting contest out I was doing pretty well with it actually. I was loving the spider and then came time to actually play the first real round of golf time with Bennett and my other nephew mine Coble and both good golfers. I said I'll take you guys on spider is ready to bite and housewives out of all handheld writers will be with this new putter and I think or suggest you stroke a whole but anyway I took him on III was missing everything later Bennett use the word hideous to describe my putting was hideous. I was so excited about a piece of golf equipment is this the spider spider was biting me. Instead of anybody else and hold 15 my my beloved son said to me dad your your name and left so we may say putter Zane left the whole point of this putter is that it has a line on it on the base of this putter about 3 inches long and this idea is like you know you have to be blind not a bill to see that this is the line line it up towards the whole and and I so we laughed and and and so we got a putting green.

After this and get this thing fixed. I think that's an okay here I'm lined up. Looks like to me I'm lined up at the putter at the hole and his eyes that payment right of the whole and is an OS left all is in here let me hold the putter for you. Come back here. Look, he held exactly where it was. I came back and look left when he left so you get me as I piggyback a beer. So now you tell me when I got lined up properly.

After naming more more to the right, to the right to the writings that keep going… Come anyway right of the whole is a no no no. Keep going out there now grain to the hole. Are you kidding me like a foot to the right of the whole is a no dad that's that's where it is said, this can't be right, not plotted it and it went all well maybe maybe okay let me do it again. So try the lineup again dream left in the name of the whole right here, here, here, here okay now your anger the whole I coming a foot in the right during the middle whole iPod and it goes in the home. I realize that I have spent the last 20 years, probably putting thinking that I'm aimed at the hole, but I'm actually aimed left of the hole, and therefore my brain has learned to take the pot and push it off-line to the right in order to make it my brains.

So I've got to go out now and plant a million parts and there's what I gotta do draw the line on the ball.

Line up the line on the putter the giant line on the ghost spider line. All of the whole stand over it and it looks like I'm aimed to the right, but I gotta just tell myself I'm not aimed at the right because I just lined it all up and just putting in. After a while I started doing this I start making more of my well maybe I am aimed at the whole might haven't seen it wrong for all these years. It is altogether possible that even right now, today, is there something that you would think that's lined up just exactly right that's the truth. That's what I see it as an it could be afoot offered to be a degree offered to be an inch off the off could be make all the difference in the world. What happens with most of it is that we have grown in a culture in a world surrounded by and filled with a message that is contrary to the gospel in the evening in charge even in our our our attempts is to be religious people and to be good people, we tend to filter the way we even hear the announcement of the gospel or we hear the gospel is announced correctly and it reinforces this idea that that the gospel is yes about the grace of God, but it is also about some mixture of the wall that we are somehow justified somehow made right with God by what Jesus did, but also by what we do what we've been learning in Galatians is Paul. It is most adamant is most consistent his most passionate and in fact is most angry because there were some people who had slept in to the to the Christian churches in Galatia and began teaching that you not only need Jesus to be justified to be saved to be forgiven. To be fully in with God, but you also need to keep the Old Testament sign of inclusion, which was the ritual of circumcision Old Testament law that you also have to keep yes you need Jesus but you also need this little mixture and and while we are discovering is that Paul on this point.

He doesn't care so much about you. Have your children circumcise or not. It is not the issue. The issue is, if you think that you have to circumcise or keep dietary laws or a new moon or a Sabbath or a certain vessel or any other law. If you think that you by your performance or your righteousness that you are somehow bringing yourself into a better standing with God.

Now you've contaminated the whole of the gospel that even if your 99% right, but 1% off that mixture not only dilutes the power of the gospel, but it poisons it because once you introduce into your thinking. Some law mentality.

This is if I don't perform, then I'm not in right standing with God and therefore I can't be blessed.

You just turn the gospel around backwards and missed the whole point of it and introduced into your life and unlimited capacity for fear, and it is that it makes us the plaything of hell when we think like that. That's why Paul is so mad that's why so adamant he's he says if anybody preaches a different gospel. This is a letter be anathema. Let it be like a curse. Do you have nothing to do with his and even if I preach to different gospel to you. 20 so passionate about in chapter 1 we was he even had to confront the apostle Peter because Peter was observing some dietary walls along with people and it was an imposing your your hypocrite if you're doing this.

This is this is diluting the gospel and he's laying all this out and then he talks about what it really means that were justified and we've learned it to be justified means to be counted righteous, and this has two amazing implications. It means just as if I justified just as if I'd never send it when you accept Christ and his saving work, his grace when you believe accepted by faith God reckons it is if you never sent, but the second thing is that when you trust in that grace you believe in faith. Jesus died for you and you accept that saving work unit. When you believe that he also reckons that not only is if you never send but as if you had lived this incredible obedient life full of all the good works that Jesus had actually performed in a very real way, what it means is the justification that we receive in Christ Jesus in graphs sauce into Christ is no longer alive in Christ lives in me. We are engrafted and that sent into Christ is as though we been crucified with him, and now we live with him and therefore we are the same standing with the father as the sun is. That's how cool the gospel is in policy. We do not want to allow anyone to diminish this because of this gospel is the power of God to salvation.

You start robbing it of its power people to be robbed of the life of God wishes passionate about this now in today's text, what happens is that Paul makes an ingenious brings an ingenious new image in the play in this discussion he brings in the picture of Abraham where in Galatians chapter 3 that's Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series an option for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you my letter for Satan. When you feel cherished.

But what would happen if I'm hundred today that same person. Sad that sugar cut enough for me to measure. I found that I love you anymore when not one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison.

The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introduce unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my heavy rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church, the apostle policy outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Reitz 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free, and empower you with pure grace.

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Today's teaching now continues your once again is Alan writing we pick up reading the verse five where we were previously and then were to have verses six through nine for today pulses does he who supplies the spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law or by hearing with faith, just as Abraham believed God, it was counted to him as righteousness. That's there's our concept of justification verse seven now then now then that it is those of faith sorry know then that it is the those of faith who are the sons of Abraham and the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preach the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying in you shall all the nations be blessed.

So then, those who are faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith is sin. Anyone can be blessed. Anyone who believes in Jesus Christ and his saving grace is a son of Abraham is an air in full and right standing with God and what he says is that through the picture and the story of Abraham. God is setting forth in the Scripture, the gospel beforehand, don't you don't you make a mistake if you think that you wait to the New Testament where the gospel is proclaimed the gospel is proclaimed from the beginning chapter 2 the ending chapter, but the revelation of that gospel doesn't reach its fullness and total revelation of Jesus himself. But what Paul is saying is if you want to understand the essence of faith, which the Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God. If you would understand the essence of what that faith is that so pleases God look at Abraham. If you want to really really know what it means to be a person who is justified and blessed in this world and that a short look at Abraham. If you want to understand. In other words what I'm saying about the gospel turn your attention back to Abraham.

Why this is so ingenious is because the Judaizers who would come into the provinces of Galatia with their false teaching about.

You need to add law into your gospel.

They were always referring to the Mosaic law that Abraham was on the face of the earth somewhere around 2000 years before Jesus and Moses was on the earth sometime around 1500 years before Christ. Just roughly speaking in fact a good way to come remember your time. I'm Abraham 2000 BC. Moses 1500 BC, David thousand BC so there's 500 years between Abraham and Moses there referring to the Mosaic law.

If you want to really really be a Christian normally have be pleasing to God.

If you really want to be in if you want to look back to the to the Mosaic law back to circumcision. So what what what Paul does, as he says let's let's look at Abraham.

Abraham came 500 years before the law and he was reckoned as righteous as the father of the nation, the father of the nation came before the law and he came for circumcision. It was called before there's any notion of circumcision is night. Abraham was it because of the law was a because of circumcision that he was in any way blessed. No, why was he blessed because the announcement of blessing over his life and he believed it. It was reckoned as righteousness under him is is is a a beautiful kind of strategic way of making this point because the people of God understood themselves to be the sons of Abraham. This one man is called and I nation is formed out of this one man and their sense of inclusion in the family of God was built upon the fact of their physical genealogical lineage from Abraham. In other words, they had a sense of false assurance. The Jewish people that because we are sons of Abraham. Therefore, we are the blessed ones and what Paul is making here is a point that is so huge and has such unbelievable ramifications that the Jews became absolutely furious at Jesus about this and were embroiled in this battle with Paul Abraham is mentioned in in Matthew's gospel in this very simple way. It opens with this, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, the son of Abraham.

So Matthew starts to save one understand who Jesus is. He's a son of David is a son of Abraham.

Jesus is the son.

The son of Abraham in Luke chapter 19 Jesus equates being a son of Abraham would being a Christian would being saved. Jesus said to Zach, he is today salvation has come to this house since he is also a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.

In John chapter 8, there's an really intriguing dialogue between Jewish leaders and Jesus that revolves around Jesus and Abraham Reidel portion of this sometime later spent some time studying. This is important.

Important text and in John eight the Jews said to Jesus, are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon they were calling Jesus a demonized Samaritan was the lowest thing that they could think of to say to him because the Jews despised the Samaritans, considering them a halfbreed and heretics, and in addition were saying that you're not motivated by heavenly purposes by God which you're motivated and you're the instrument of hell so they couldn't say anything more disrespectful than you are a demonized Samaritan and Jesus answered, I do not have a demon but I honor my father and you dishonor me. When Jesus said that by the way he is appealing to what is potentially the most powerful societal force in ancient and still in Eastern cultures and that is honor and dishonor, and he said you are dishonoring, making a huge statement yet I do not seek my own glory. There is one who seeks it and he is the judge truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word he will never see death in the Jews said to him, now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, if anyone keeps my word he will never taste death and this is what they say are you greater than our father Abraham, who died who do you make yourself out to be reading this text so that you understand that the Jewish mentality was it when when they were up against Jesus and he said those that follow me believe me and whose lives reflect that they are not going to taste death and he's speaking spiritually, but when they hear this and they could choose their their only way of refuting a business is to make their appeal to what they considered the greatest person there father Abraham. They couldn't think of anyone greater to whom to compare Jesus. Are you greater than our father Abraham. This is the way they thought see and Jesus answered if I glorify myself. Glory is nothing is my father who glorifies me, of whom you say he is our God, but you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know about be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word alone right that's today's teaching anyone can be blessed in our series on the study of Galatians say with this. Alan is back in a boat with additional insight on this for your life. In today's final word of blessing your life, discover God's grace filled vision for your life by signing rights, free daily press fill your heart with grace and encouragement. Alan writes a daily blessing. It's free. Just a click away. Pastor Alan got away an option for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you I'll never forsake when you feel cherished. But what would happen if I'm hundred today that same person.

Sad that sugar get enough for me to measure up on the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison. The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my daddy rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church, the apostle policy outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan writes 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with care grace.

It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God. When you make your gift to Alan Wright Ministries today will send you Pastor Alan's messages in an attractive CD album through digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website. Pastor Alan.org hello I love this is like the gates open wide your anyone can be blessed take away today. If if you think that there's something that's disqualified you. If you think that someone else can be blessed but you can't then Paul's message to the Galatians has extraordinary news for you. If all of the merit that God is honoring is not yours but Christ, then the only question is does Christ have merit and so you turn your attention towards Jesus and that way and no that God is a God of blessing in anyone anyone, regardless of your past or your abilities or your merits can be blessed. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries