There are many people today who call themselves Christians who believe that they are being saved by their good works. They see themselves as basically good people. They go to church, they take the sacraments; sometimes they pray. They do not however, like to think of themselves as sinners needing a Savior. O they may have a few things in their character and their behavior which they think that they may need to work on, but all in all, they try hard to be a good person, and they go to church, because they want other people to understand that they are trying to do the right thing, and they want to help other people in a humanistic sense. This is what they believe it means to be a Christian. The only problem with this kind of approach to being a Christian is that they are trying to please God according to their own thoughts of how God should accept them, and not according to how He has revealed Himself in the Bible. Here in these verses which we are looking at tonight, we find the Apostle telling the people in the Galatian churches that if they are trusting in anything or anyone besides Jesus Christ in order to be saved from their sins and justified in the sight of God, that they are fallen from grace. This evening we want to open up this subject by asking 3 questions: 1st – What does it mean to attempt to be justified by law? And 2nd – What does it mean to wait for the hope of righteousness? I hope that this will help each of see just how much our salvation and peace of mind in living the Christian life, depends on our trusting in Christ alone for our salvation.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
