Really? [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright is would need to be justified is just as if I'd never soon. Secondly this is important is just as if I live a perfectly meritorious life like Jesus himself.

That's faster Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life will Daniel Britt excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series Galatians 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 as we send you today special offer. Contact us Pastor Alan.org at Pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860. More on this later in the program. Now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright this is by faith. But we we tender thing that we somehow motivate or motivate other people by giving them little bit afraid that maybe they had quite done enough in the know they'll try harder.

But in fact a matter is true that when you really when you get afraid it whatever it is that you're trying to do you can do it as well and in fact if your sabotage, I got I got stuck watching the weather channel this past week I will. I wanted to check the weather the weather Channel done report the weather anymore, they just as I say send documentaries about whether but anyway I got stuck watching about flash floods and and when they milked the story for too long and I didn't see the end of it, but the story was a flash flood that have been a woman's car got swept in his flash flood.

You can't drive through water is water starts to move and I've seen is the weather Channel I get get out of the car and then then don't try to drive the water started tearing her car and carried into a tunnel in a big city and then the tunnel started filling up with water. I mean really filling up with water and the woman couldn't swim.

Her car was sinking, submerging the telling. This whole story really dramatically and re-creating all of it and the woman is up on the top of her car. That's mostly submerged and the waters rising in the tunnel and pretty soon is going to fill her head getting closer to the top of the tunnel and she can't swim as the providence of God would have it, and is the weather Channel was glad to report there was a firefighter off duty in the area who had in his military service been a rescue swimmer and diver and this was good news because he was confident to go and save the woman but he had no flotation device with him and so he had to swim against the heavy current of the rising waters go next to this the sinking vehicle and tread water as she is sitting on top hysterical and I just loved what he did. First, the first thing that he did as he shouted out to the woman, and he said you are not going to die today and I thought about that that's there that's gospel, that's good. That's like he says what she needed to hear. Right at that moment because I've never I've never tried to rescue a drowning person but I've read that it is very hard to do because the main obstacle in in rescuing a person is drowning his brother the person you're rescuing to let you rescue them because if you're drowning in it and I and a person comes out there that you just begin to attack them and and climbed on top of them and push them on the water and cloth them in, and there been stories of lifeguards just have to just knock you out just have absolutely no queuing ahead or something to achieve our other above-noted drought. I've tried to rescue you, but you're trying so hard to save yourself.

I can't rescue you. And so the story went on, you're not going to die today and the fact the matter is the best thing that she could do to make progress in her life so let herself rest in the arms of a rescuer support what polls try to say so you receive the Holy Spirit when you became Christians Paulson you began the spirit you think that now you can make progress by thrashing about trying to save yourselves in some new way.

Some miracles in your Mets to really see those miracles come about because you practice rituals of circumcision are dietary laws, no, there is a rest in the Lord's Sabbath rest in Jesus. He presents it is for today, CA in the in the a is not time to go into this in great detail, but God on the but I will anyway. God, after six days of creation. He rested from his labor. He said it is complete is very good. He rested because he finished his work and it is no mention of Sabbath until until God gives the law of Moses, and he says tell the people on the seventh day need a rest from all your labor for work because God rested want to be in the same rest, that is God's rest onto the experience that was just a shadow. It was just, is this a shadow of what would find this reality in Christ and the old covenant is described by the new shadows of that which is to come like a shadow. It gives you a very good idea of what a person is a person there and you may see movements in my seat, but as a no comparison to when you have the person himself to Jesus is the person himself and and what we find in Hebrews is looking back to this idea of Sabbath St. this never really was about just this one day a week or about you being pharisaic Lee keeping this 24 hour period and not do any work on a shadow was pointing to the way that God really have always wanted you to be able to live your life resting from your labor to try to save yourself and instead, every moment every day, not just one day a week in Jesus Christ we have set why does he did for us what we can do for ourselves and the people that learn to walk in the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit. Every Christian has a Holy Spirit and those that learn to live a life that is increasingly empowered by the Holy Spirit is not really because they have more of the Holy Spirit is really because they have yielded an rested more in the promises and assurances of God's work in Jesus Christ, so that they can rest in his arms and received the empowerment through what Paul is saying in other words, is it you might be lured into thinking that there are things Galatians that you could do that would somehow make you more sanctified, or you more spirit filled, but the fact of the matter is those very things you want to mix into the gospel.

They are not only nonessential. They are poisonous to the gospel because once you start taking a self-improvement plan of your own. That's where you forget what it means to rest in the Lord and the spiritual battle is at this point. Never thought it was so interesting that the promised land that the people of God fault to take their battle to go into the promised land which God called the place of rest was like a picture of the. The real battle is whether we will live in the rest in the Sabbath of the gospel whether we can live with the fear and the angst that comes with a mixed gospel of grace and law becomes with a sense of of of guilt and curse with it. Okay, that's the real point of the spiritual battle, so much so that the Hebrews says interesting paradox. If you go to labor labor to enter into the rest because the spiritual battle is really at this point and this is why Paul says, who has bewitched you when he says who he uses the pronoun in the singular form is not really talking about the Judaizers here is really talking about the spiritual enemy is really talk about the accuser. One is called Satan.

He's talking about the essence of the spiritual battle is to bewitch us and cause us to think that we need to strive in order to get God to bless us God fills us with his Holy Spirit.

But because of the guarantee of his love that we receive by his grace through faith alone, and nothing else. Anything other than that gospel actually doesn't lead to life. It leads to death. We had a precious opportunity do some ministry about the Bethesda center.

One of the places in town that has ministry for the homeless and good ministry and long with the letter rev's ministries in our outreach ministry. We just have simple time and people were feeding revealing hot dogs and I had the medical screening we just had a couple tent set up just to pray with people is just a beautiful time and I dropped by and I got opportunity to to meet a man, his fiancée and I hope that sometime will come to church at invited him and I'll just: Jimmy and I he just began to talk to little bit and then Jimmy began to cry as it was really confused. There a lot of different preachers you want different things and then in the story begin to tell me that his mother died of cancer and heard some people say that God will take away the things that are most precious from you need and understand that, and even he was. He was living for 10 years with this haunting sense that God God give my mother cancer take away because of sin in my life. This is a this is, what is living with us and he says so confuse us… A balance talk I thought him. Thought is is is fiancée is a sweet man. This is a story told me he said that he was working on a car body shop had a good job and he said I just thought I could never be enough for my dad. My father never told me, love me is is is is way and is always wanted him to. He said that the said his father's always comparing this is so in compare salaries will I would make enough money. He said that after doing good in the body shop lectures I was making more money and he was there for a period of time and we always comparing and then they got to where he got a promotion in his company and so he was making more and I was not could make anymore in the body shop and and we are still comparing and is it so that's why just decide I start making money illegally. That's where the trouble began to lead down a path where he said, and now a website I'm homeless and almost. He said that 10 years ago. Sit on his on his birthday. Jimmy said it is dabbled in the garage and said the sun brace yourself like a man that knows your birthdays and I got to your mother got cancer. Happy birthday, and walked down Thorson my birthday present a challenge right 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 site when you feel cherished. But what would happen if I'm hundreds that same person. Sad that Shayna got enough for me to measure. I found 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 Miami 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 Wright's 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free and probably scare 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 ministry said I will send you Pastor Alan's messages in an attractive CD album with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership, six 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor Alan.like today's teaching now continues here once again is Alan Wright with her dad, thinking that is thinking really will not sign to be something better than I am. I need to point out how low he is.

So the hill be afraid that he is not measuring up. And then he'll try harder in order to to measure that. That's what the dancing. This was a stop for a moment justices think about the logic of that you you think your son is going to be a more prosperous person by you pointing out how much of a failure. He is really bewitched you who has bewitched you into thinking it you're going to produce character and faith by instilling fear through lack of acceptance who can convince you that really saying is the gospel is a sensitive one is that the gospel is the power of salvation and the gospel is an announcement got additional the way that God enables you to change in the grout is my assuring you of his love is love understand the way the juice measure of your father and your dad is God is exactly the opposite of that is love for you does not about whether you are not loved what you are in your worst said he loves you just as much today.

Love you, loves to and you can earn his love, and you don't have to try to earn his love sapped his love is the gospel you see a man matter is the CEO of a prosperous company is man mistreated, every man is the same longing the same need to know God loves me and I can change the love came first show is the three most hopeful words I know a close second is you can change but beloved people order rights. The truth of the gospel. You can change you can grow and become more and more righteous in your living become more and more for you to do you have a designated God is is is using you. You can be continually filled with the Holy Spirit.

You can have more and more abundant fruit of love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control be filled with the Holy Spirit being used of God you can grow you can change you can impact the world button that will ever add to or take away from the love of God.

Such is the good news of the gospel and in fact the matter what Paul's saying is stop and think about it, the miracles that you have seen, whether they be the miracles of transformation in your life or whether it be miracles of healing that you've seen through the body of Christ, any of the glorious things whatever you've seen. He says in verse five. Does he who supplies the spirit you and working miracles among you do so by works along about hearing with faith and the answer is the power of God moves in your life, not because of your obedience, but because of the goodness of God saying the good things that God does in your life. He does because God is good. Therefore, yield your life, surrender yourself to let him continually fill you with his presence. Don't fight against him by your own self improvement plan.

He'll never add never add a single blessing to your life and be assured for Jimmy and Sadie, Jimmy, God did not give your mother cancer and take away from you because your sinful we are all sinful and fallen short of the glory of God.

We live in a world that has trouble we don't understand everything is happened. God want you to be free of that guilt is the haunting guilt and its associated fears that keep us from coming boldly to the throne of grace. Alec Holden received $50,000 on the day he turned 100 British man. I think the reason he received it because when he was 90 and found out of a betting company that would take wagers because the odds they have place with 250 to 1 that he would live to be 100, and so Alec put down $200 believing that he lived to be 100, and what it turned out it a collectivist 50,000. I really liked the quote. The paper had said that Alex said, I do have to confess that on the last days before my birthday I was living rather cautiously, and even better line is that and regularly reminding myself to breathe, say, the tell you that it is not the people who think that their Kirsten are going to die that are the ones that live their life to the full.

It is those that are convinced that they are going to live in beloved. The good news of the gospel is that in Jesus Christ, you are going to live forever more. Therefore, you can count on it and live your life boldly, courageously and obediently really, really, and that's the gospel.

Alan Wright in today's teaching, breaking the spell of legalism embracing the power of the Spirit it's from our series on deletions. Alan is in the studio back here in a moment with additional insight on this for your life, and a final word. Please stay with us blessing your life God's grace filled vision for signing rights free to leave last your heart with grace and encouragement. Allen writes a daily blessing. It's free. Just a click away. Pastor I got away an option for 99 days in a row.

Someone tells you, I love you my letter for St. when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundred seen person sad. Not sure you get enough for me to measure up on think I love you 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 blocking 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 Allen writes 12 message I series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free, and power you share 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 ministry said I will send you Pastor Alan's messages in an attractive CD album with your 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.work swelling of someone's listening right now and what they really feel like they have been living. Maybe a life for part of their life under legalism. I don't think anybody sets out to say okay I am a legalist. I'm going to be legalistic about these things, but it creeps the business does. I was talking to somebody. Just yesterday, Daniel, who grew up in a whole lot of legalism and now has come out seen it in you is there maybe some listeners that have grown up in in or been taught in such a legalistic shame based kind of atmosphere that it really would be amazing the kinds of restrictions in real feeling of slavery that it it can almost feel like you were caught up in some sort of fall almost coal like environment, but I think for most of us is more of this mixture of okay we know what we hear about grace but then we also, the message ends up saying yeah but yeah, here's what you ought to do and here's what you ought to be.

And so it because the Rob the gospel of its power and when you when you begin to hear this message. There is a breaking free. That takes place in this will encourage every listener.

Just let it be like the dawning of the light that just because a shinier heart and it will expose. I think more more those places where well. Paul use the word but which dislike you can be under a spell and we go in the later you look back a while without even why would we attracted to that kind of message but sometimes because we are, our hearts are tainted with sin were broken. We know that we's we sent we gravitate I think sometimes to the message of the law and it seems like it should be right. It seems like the that it should be right but it's just that the gospel so so good and so wonderful that sometimes it seems too good to be true, but it is true, and God loves you and God has done the extraordinary in Christ Jesus. He's paid the whole price. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries