GALATIANS
Galatians Summary Outline
I.
II.
III.
Ch 1-2: Defense of Message and Messenger
Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works
Ch 5-6: New Life in the Spirit
Galatians Doctrines
The Gospel
 Justification
 Grace
 Law
 Legalism
 Liberty
 Spirituality
 Sowing & Reaping
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True Spirituality
I.
Introduction
II.
Background (Objective Context of Spirituality)
III.
Technical Development
A.
Three Considerations of True Spirituality
(Rejected-Slain-Raised)
B.
Three Spiritual Categories of Men
C.
Three Conditions of True Spirituality
IV.
Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
V.
Key Passages
VI.
Summary
True Spirituality
I.
Introduction
II.
Background (Objective Context of Spirituality)
III.
Technical Development
A.
Three Considerations of True Spirituality
(Rejected-Slain-Raised)
B.
Three Spiritual Categories of Men
C.
Three Conditions of True Spirituality
IV.
Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
V.
Key Passages
VI.
Summary
What Spirituality Is NOT
1)
Moralism
2)
Legalism
3)
Sentimentalism
4)
Emotionalism
5)
Stoicism
6)
Piety/Religiosity
7)
Intellectualism
8)
Rationalism
9)
Asceticism
10)
Gnosticism
11)
Mysticism
12)
Antinomianism
He That Is Spiritual
Lewis Sperry Chafer
pg 141
“If our kind of spirituality makes Christ unattractive to others, it
needs some drastic changes. May God save His children from
assuming a holy tone of the voice, a holy somberness of spirit, a holy
expression of the face, or a holy garb (if by the garb they wish to
appear holy). True spirituality is an inward adorning. It is most
simple and natural and should be a delight and attraction to
all….Some Christians are disposed to ‘traffic in unlived truth’;
repeating pious phrases the truth of which they have never really
experienced. This must always grieve the Spirit.”
True Spirituality
I.
Introduction
II.
Background (Objective Context of Spirituality)
III.
Technical Development
A.
Three Considerations of True Spirituality
(Rejected-Slain-Raised)
B.
Three Spiritual Categories of Men
C.
Three Conditions of True Spirituality
IV.
Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
V.
Key Passages
VI.
Summary
Objective Context of Spirituality
1)
Creation
2)
Christ
3)
The Spiritual Realm
Objective Context of Spirituality
1)
Creation
2)
Christ
3)
The Spiritual Realm
Objective Context of Spirituality
1)
Creation
2)
Christ
3)
The Spiritual Realm
Objective Context of Spirituality
1)
Creation
2)
Christ
3)
The Spiritual Realm
True Spirituality
Francis A. Schaeffer
pg 41
“…The supernatural structure of the Scripture carries with it
the emphasis that the supernatural is not far away, but near
at hand, all about us; the supernatural is not just yesterday
and tomorrow, it is today.”
True Spirituality
Francis A. Schaeffer
pg. 38
“If we are not careful, even though we say we are biblical Christians
and supernaturalists, nevertheless the naturalism of our generation
tends to come in upon us … Surely this is … perhaps the greatest
reason for a loss of reality: that while we say we believe one thing, we
allow the spirit of the naturalism of the age to creep into our thinking,
unrecognized. All too often the reality is lost because the ‘ceiling’ is
down too close upon our heads. It is too low. And the ‘ceiling’ which
closes us in is the naturalistic type of thinking.
“Now the Christian's spirituality…does not stand alone. It is related
to the unity of the Bible's view of the universe. This means that we
must understand—intellectually, with the windows open—that the
universe is not what our generation says it is, seeing only the
naturalistic universe.”
True Spirituality
Francis A. Schaeffer
pp. 38-39
“But we saw that on the Mount of Transfiguration we are brought face
to face with a supernatural universe. Here we find Moses and Elijah
speaking to Christ as he is glorified. And we observed that this
supernatural universe is not a far-off universe. Quite the contrary:
there is a perfect continuity, as in normal life….
“Now we must remember what we are talking about: the fact that the
true Christian life, as we have examined it, is not to be separated from
the unity of the full biblical teaching; it is not to be abstracted from
the unity of the Bible's emphasis on the supernatural world….
“The true Bible-believing Christian is the one who lives in practice in
this supernatural world. … I am not a Bible-believing Christian in
the fullest sense simply by believing the right doctrines, but as I live in
practice in this supernatural world.”
True Spirituality
I.
Introduction
II.
Background (Objective Context of Spirituality)
III.
Technical Development
A.
Three Considerations of True Spirituality
(Rejected-Slain-Raised)
B.
Three Spiritual Categories of Men
C.
Three Conditions of True Spirituality
IV.
Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
V.
Key Passages
VI.
Summary
True Spirituality
I.
Introduction
II.
Background (Objective Context of Spirituality)
III.
Technical Development
A.
Three Considerations of True Spirituality
(Rejected-Slain-Raised)
B.
Three Spiritual Categories of Men
C.
Three Conditions of True Spirituality
IV.
Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
V.
Key Passages
VI.
Summary
True Spirituality
Francis A. Schaeffer
pg. 18
“What is being presented to us here is the question of the Christian's
mentality in all of life, and the order stands: rejected, slain, raised. As
Christ's rejection and death are the first steps in the order of
redemption, so our rejection and death to things and self are the first
steps in the order of true and growing spirituality. As there could be
no next step in the order of Christ's redemption until the step of death
was taken, so in the Christian there can be no further step until these
first two steps are faced—not in theory only, but at least in some
partial practice.”
True Spirituality
Francis A. Schaeffer
pg. 27
“Paul is not speaking here of the future millennium or eternity; that is a
different thing altogether. It is now: ‘May walk in newness of life.’ ‘Knowing
this, that our old man was crucified with him, in order that the body of sin
might be made powerless, that henceforth we should not serve sin’ (Romans
6:6). How? By faith: ‘Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed
unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord’ (Romans 6:11).
“When? Right now! This is the basic consideration of the Christian life.
First, Christ died in history. Second, Christ rose in history. Third, we died
with Christ in history, when we accepted him as our Savior. Fourth, we will
be raised in history, when he comes again. Fifth, we are to live by faith now
as though we were now dead, already have died. And sixth, we are to live
now by faith as though we have now already been raised from the dead.
“Now what does this mean in practice, so that it will not be just words going
over our heads? First of all it certainly means this: that in our thoughts and
lives now we are to live as though we had already died, been to heaven, and come back
again as risen.”
True Spirituality
I.
Introduction
II.
Background (Objective Context of Spirituality)
III.
Technical Development
A.
Three Considerations of True Spirituality
(Rejected-Slain-Raised)
B.
Three Spiritual Categories of Men
C.
Three Conditions of True Spirituality
IV.
Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
V.
Key Passages
VI.
Summary
The Three Categories of Men
1 Cor 2:14
The Natural Man
1 Cor 215, 3:1 The Spiritual Man
1 Cor 3:1, 3
The Carnal Man
The Three Categories of Men
1 Cor 2:14
1 Cor 215, 3:1
1 Cor 3:1, 3
The Natural (PSUCHIKOS) Man
The Spiritual Man
The Carnal Man
The Three Categories of Men
1 Cor 2:14
1 Cor 215, 3:1
1 Cor 3:1, 3
The Natural (PSUCHIKOS) Man
The Spiritual (PNEUMATIKOS) Man
The Carnal Man
The Three Categories of Men
1 Cor 2:14
1 Cor 215, 3:1
1 Cor 3:1, 3
The Natural (PSUCHIKOS) Man
The Spiritual (PNEUMATIKOS) Man
The Carnal (SARKIKOS) Man
The Three Categories of Men
Unregenerate (Unbeliever)
“natural”
yuciko,j
“of physical”
Regenerate (Believer)
“spiritual”
pneumatiko,j
“carnal”
sarkiko,j
“of spirit”
“of flesh”
True Spirituality
I.
Introduction
II.
Background (Objective Context of Spirituality)
III.
Technical Development
A.
Three Considerations of True Spirituality
(Rejected-Slain-Raised)
B.
Three Spiritual Categories of Men
C.
Three Conditions of True Spirituality
IV.
Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
V.
Key Passages
VI.
Summary
The Three Conditions of Spirituality
Yieldedness “Do not quench the Spirit”
1 Th 5:19
2. Confession
“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit” Eph 4:30
3. Walking in the Spirit
“…walk in the Spirit” Gal 5:16
1.
Yieldedness
The foundation of true spirituality.
He That is Spiritual
Lewis Sperry Chafer
pp. 86-87
“The Spirit is ‘quenched’ by any unyieldness to the revealed will of God. It
is simply saying ‘no’ to God, and so is closely related to matters of the
divine appointments for service; though the Spirit may be ‘quenched,’ as
well, by any resistance of the providence of God in the life….
“According to the Scriptures, the believer’s responsibility in realizing true
spirituality is again crystallized into one crucial word, ‘yield.’”
“…To be yielded to Him is to allow Him to design and execute the
position and effectiveness of our life. He alone can do this. Of all the
numberless paths in which we might walk, He alone knows which is best.
“… What greater evidence of the fall do we need than that we must
struggle to be yielded to Him? How much we feel we have gained when
we can say, ‘Thy will, not mine be done’! It is because our daily life will be
helpless and a failure apart from the leading of the Spirit, and because the
Spirit has come to do this very work, that we cannot be rightly adjusted to
Him, or be spiritual, until we are yielded to the mind and will of God.”
True Spirituality
Francis Schaeffer
pp. 7, 9
“I am to love God enough to be contented, because otherwise even our
natural and proper desires bring us into revolt against God. God has
made us with proper desires, but if there is not a proper contentment
on my part, to this extent I am in revolt against God, and of course
revolt is the whole central problem of sin. When I lack proper
contentment, either I have forgotten that God is God, or I have ceased
to be submissive to him….
“If the contentment goes and the giving of thanks goes, we are not
loving God as we should, and proper desire has become coveting
against God. This inward area is the first place of loss of true
spirituality. The outward is always just a result of it.”