October 2, 2022
(Galatians 1:6-7 NIV) I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.”
(Matthew 9:11-13 NIV) When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
(Luke 12:1 MSG) He said to them, “Watch yourselves carefully so you don’t get contaminated with Pharisee yeast, Pharisee phoniness.
Forms of Toxic Religion
___________ focus.
(Galatians 2:6 NIV) As for those who seemed to be important–whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance.
Spiritual ______________.
(Revelations 2:4-5 NLT) But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen from your first love! Turn back to me again and work as you did at first. If you don’t, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.
______________ upon God.
(Jeremiah 6:14 NIV) They offer superficial treatments for my people’s mortal wound.
Extreme ______________.
(Romans 14:1-4 NIV) Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Addiction to ___________________.
(Romans 10:2-4 NIV) For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
How to Have a Life-Giving Faith
(Galatians 4:15 NIV) What has happened to all your joy?
Walk in _________ not in _________.
(Galatians 5:1 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.
___________: Jesus makes us right with God.
Operate by ___________ not _________.
(Galatians 5:6 NIV) The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself in love.
___________: Jesus restores relationship with God.
Put ________ before _________.
(Galatians 5:13-14 NIV) You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Relate to God as a _______ not a _________.
(Galatians 4:6-7 NIV) Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “”Abba”, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
_________: Jesus made us part of God’s family.