GALATIANS & EPHESIANS: THE FREEDOM AND PURPOSE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST

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• 1: Galatians 1

  Book of Galatians

  • Article - Three Things You Should Know About Galatians (Thomas Schreiner/Ligonier)

  • Article - Summary of the Book of Galatians (Got Questions)

  • Article - Why I Love the Apostle Paul (John Piper, Desiring God)

  • Article/Map - Paul’s Travels in Southern Galatia (Bible Mapper)

  • Video Overview - Summary of the Book of Galatians (Bible Project) (9 min)

  Galatians 1

  • Video Verse-by-Verse Commentary - Galatians 1 (Chuck Smith) (58 min)

  • Commentary/Charts - Galatians 1 (Precept Austin)

  • Sermon - Relapsed: The Sobriety of Grace (Bryan Loritts) (46 min)

  • Sermon - Freed By Grace (David Platt) (1 hour)

  • Song - Galatians 1 (Streetlights) (3 min)

  • Study Guide - Galatians 1 (David Guzik)

  Galatians 1:1-5  Greeting

  • Article - The Sweetest Words We Never Want to Hear (Marshall Segal/Desiring God)

  • Sermon - The Man and His Message (Allistair Begg) (36 min)

  • Sermon - An Astonishing Trade (Matt Chandler) (54 min, begin at time code 13:00)

  • Sermon - Freedom Worth Fighting For (J.D. Greear) (46 min)

  • Sermon - The Rescue (Tim Keller) (34 min)

  • Sermon - Apostolic Greeting (R.C. Sproul) (36 min)

  Galatians 1:6-10  No Other Gospel

  • Article - What is the Definition of “Anathema” (Got Questions)

  • Podcast - How Important is Correct Doctrine?  (J.D. Greear) (11 min)

  • Sermon - No Other Gospel (Tim Keller) (28 min)

  • Sermon - No Other Gospel (John MacArthur) (48 min)

  • Sermon - When Not to Believe an Angel (John Piper) (29 min)

  • Sermon - The Gospel of Grace (Adrian Rogers) (40 min)

  • Sermon - Love Lines and Man Pleasing (R.C. Sproul) (32 min)

  Galatians 1:11-24  Paul Called by God

  • Article - Timeline of Paul’s Life and Missionary Journeys (Ethnos 360 Bible Institute)

  • Article - James, the Brother of Jesus (American Bible Society)

  • Article - The Preparation of Paul (Ligonier)

  • Sermon - No Human Invention (Allistair Begg) (36 min)

  • Sermon - Authority: Where The Good News Came From (Mark Dever) (55 min)

  • Sermon - A Freedom That Could Only Come From God (J.D. Greear) (46 min)

  • Sermon - Why They Glorified God (Tim Keller) (41 min)

  • Sermon - This Is Not Man’s Gospel (John Piper) (35 min)

  • Sermon - The Gospel of God (R.C. Sproul) (30 min)

  • Sermon - Paul in Jerusalem (R.C. Sproul) (24 min)

• 2: Galatians 2

  Galatians - Overall

  • Article - 3 Things You Should Know about Galatians (Ligonier Ministries/T Schreiner)

  Galatians 2

  • Summary - Galatians 1 & 2| Badges of Identity (Spoken Gospel) (5 min) 

  • Commentary - Galatians 2| (Enduring Word/D Guzik)

  • Timeline - Timeline of Paul's Ministry (Berean Bible Society)

  • Podcast - Galatians 2 Explained (Through the Word/K Langham) (9 min)

  • Sermon - Paul's Defense of the Gospel (Enduring Word/D Guzik) (44 min) 

  Galatians 2:1-10 Paul Accepted by the Apostles

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:1-10| The Fellowship of the Gospel (Gospel In Life/T Keller) (34 min) 

  • Podcast - Galatians 2:1-10| Paul & Circumcision (Renewing Your Mind/RC Sproul) (26 min)  

  • Sermon-Galatians 2:1-10| Paul's Visit to Jerusalem & the False Brethren (Enduring Word/D Guzik) (38 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:1-10| The Diagnostic and the Cure (Village Church/M Chandler) (51 min) 

  • Article - Galatians 2:3-5| False Brothers in Jerusalem (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Video Commentary - Galatians 2:3-5| The Gospel of Freedom Imperiled (Look at the Book/J Piper) (11 min) 

  • Article - Galatians 2:4| For the Love of Slavery (Ligonier Ministries/J Sartelle)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:6-14| The Centrality of the Gospel (Gospel In Life/T Keller) (38 min)

  Galatians 2:11-14 Paul Opposes Peter

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:1-14 (Queensland Theological College Chapel/G Millar) (44 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:1-16| Justified by Faith (Apostles Church Uptown/JR Vassar) (44 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:11-14| When Paul Rebuked Peter (Enduring Word/D Guzik) (39 min) 

  • Video Commentary-Galatians 2:11-14| An Apostle’s Failure to Live the Gospel (Look at the Book/J Piper) (15 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:11-14| The Gospel and Licentiousness (Village Church/M Chandler) (45 min) 

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:11-16| The Heart of the Gospel (Gospel In Life/T Keller) (32 min)

  • Podcast - Galatians 2:11-16| Paul Versus Peter (Renewing Your Mind/RC Sproul) (26 min)

  Galatians 2:15-21 Justified By Faith

  • Worship - Life Defined (Kingdom Kids/Shane and Shane) (5 min)

  • Worship - Yet Not I, But Through Christ In Me (CityAlight) (6 min) 

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:14-21| I No Longer Live the Life I Live (Gospel In Life/T Keller) (31 min) 

  • Article - Galatians 2:15-16| Not by Works of the Law (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:15-21| By What We Do or By What Jesus Has Done? (Enduring Word/D Guzik) (30 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:15-21| Living to God (Village Church/M Chandler) (33 min) 

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:15-21| Union With Christ (Apostles Church Uptown/JR Vassar) (47 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 2:17-21| Justified Sinners (Gospel In Life/T Keller) (30 min)

  • Article - Galatians 2:20| Jesus Loves Me This I Know (Ligonier Ministries/E Raymond)

  • Podcast - Galatians 2:20| Sanctification Summarized (Things Unseen/S Ferguson) (7 min)

  • Article - Galatians 2:20| Personal Faith (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Q&A - Galatians 2:20| How Does 'Christ Live In Me?' (Ask Pastor John/J Piper) (11 min)

• 3: Galatians 3

  Galatians 3

  • Video - Book of Galatians Summary (Bible Project) (9 min)

  • Song - Galatians 3 by Streetlights

  • Map - Galatians Timeline & Map 

  • Commentary - Blue Letter Bible

  Galatians 3:1-14 - Faith or Works of the Law

  • Article - Obscene, yet Beautiful (R.C. Sproul/Ligonier Ministries)

  • Sermon - Bewitched: The Foolishness of Trying to Earn Your Salvation (R. Britt/Eleven 22) (45 min)

  • Sermon - Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit (J. Piper/Desiring God) (47 min)

  • Podcast - The Bible is For Everyone (D. Platt/Radical.net) (5 min)

  Galatians 3:15-22 - The Law and the Promise

  • Sermon - Our Need for Control (J. Turner/Eleven 22 Church) (51 min)

  • Video - The Law Did Not Teach Life Comes Through Law: Galatians 3:15–18, Part 1 (J. Piper) (12 min)

  • Video - Not Seeds, but Seed, Namely, Christ: Galatians 3:15–18, Part 2 (J. Piper)(17 min)

  • Commentary - Galatians (Enduring Word) 

  Galatians 3:23-29 - Children of God

  • Sermon - If You Are Christ's, You Are Heirs of the Promise (J. Piper/Desiring God) (26 min)

  • Podcast - One People in Christ (D. Platt/Radical.net) (7 min)

  • Commentary - Galatians (Working Preacher)

  • Sermon - Deliverance from Bondage to the Law (J. MacArthur) (46 min)

• 4: Galatians 4

  Galatians Chapter 4

  • Commentary - Heirs and Slaves, Grace and Law (Enduring Word)

  • Commentary - Galatians 4 (Martin Luther)

  • Commentary - Galatians 4 (Matthew Henry)

  • Commentary (Audio) - Galatians 4 (Chuck Smith)(39:49)  Commentary (Videos) - Labs on Galatians 4 (Desiring God)

  • Sermon (Audio) - The purpose of the law (Raul Ries) (40:27)

  Sons and Heirs - 4:1-7

  • Sermon - The Privilege of Calling God “Daddy” (David Guzik) (34:59) 

  • Sermon - Adopted Heirs (RC Sproul) (23:15) 

  • Article - What is an heir in the Bible? (Got Questions)

  • Article - Jesus at the Right Time (Galatians 4:1-7) (Dash House)

  • Article - Live Like Sons and Daughters of the King (Desiring God)

  Paul’s Concern for the Galatians - 4:8-20

  • Sermon Audio - Appealing From the Heart of an Apostle (David Guzik) (33:55) 

  • Sermon Audio - Days & Seasons (RC Sproul) (25:59)

  • Sermon - Free to Grow (David Platt) (55:20)

  • Sermon - Truth: A Necessary Foundation for Ministry (Richard Belcher) (26:58)  

  • Article - What Physical Infirmity is Galatians 4:13 Referring to? (Got Questions)

  • Article - Until Christ is Formed in You (Got Questions) 

  • Article - Receiving the Word (Ligionier)

  Examples of Hagar and Sarah - 4:21-31

  • Sermon Audio - Isaac or Ishmael (David Guzik) (31:55)

  • Sermon Audio - Hagar & Sarah (RC Sproul) (22:54) 

  • Sermon - True Sons of Abraham (Dick Lucas) (38:59) 

  • Sermon - Citizens of a Free City (Thomas Schriener) (32:24) 

  • Article - What does “the mother of us all” mean? (Got Questions)

  • Article - Children of Promise (Ligionier)

• 5: Galatians 5-6

  Galatians 5 

  • Sermon - The Link Between God’s Love for Us and Ours for Others (DesiringGod) (36 min)

  • Article - Freedom in Christ (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Article: The Art of Standing Firm (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Sermon - Free to Run (Radical.net) (55 min)

  • Study Guide - Standing Fast In the Liberty of Jesus - David Guzik (Blue Letter Bible)

  • Commentary - Galatians Chapter 5 (Blue Letter Bible)

  • Article - Galatians 5 - Martin Luther (Blue Letter Bible)

  • Commentary - Galatians 5 – Standing Fast In the Liberty of Jesus (Enduring Word)

  • Sermon - Standing Firm in Your Liberty (Charles Stanley) (19 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 5 - Dr. J. Vernon McGee (Blue Letter Bible) (80 min)

  Christ Has Set Us Free - 5:1-6

  • Sermon - What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’? (DesiringGod) - (37 min)

  • Study Session - Don’t Turn Back to Slavery - Part 1 (DesiringGod) (10 min)

  • Study Session - What Is Christian Freedom? - Part 2 (DesiringGod) (15 min)

  • Study Session -  How to Cancel Every Blessing of Christ (DesiringGod) (11 min)

  • Study Session - Justification by Law Requires Perfection (DesiringGod) (15 min)

  • Study Session - Severed from Christ (DesiringGod) (14 min)

  • Study Session - Can You Lose Your Salvation? (DesiringGod) (15 min)

  • Study Session - Waiting for the Hope of Righteousness (DesiringGod) (14 min)

  • Study Session - The Faith That Counts Produces Fruit (DesiringGod) (14 min) 

  • Sermon - Love Is the Fruit of the Spirit (DesiringGod) (27 min)

  • Article - What Really Counts (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Podcast - Free in Christ (Radical.net) (4 min) 

  • Sermon - Liberated Living (Adrian Rogers) (34 min)

  A Little Leaven Leavens the Whole Lump - 5:7-15

  • Sermon - Saving Faith Produces Love (DesiringGod) (33 min)

  • Study Session - A Little Leaven Is Devastating (DesiringGod) (15 min) 

  • Study Session - Why Such Confidence for the Galatians? (DesiringGod) (12 min)

  • Sermon - Works of the Flesh (Ligonier Ministries) (33 min)

  • Sermon - Chapter 5:13-17 (Ligonier Ministries) (30 min)

  • Study Session - What Is the Offense of the Cross? (DesiringGod) (14 min)

  • Study Session - Let Them Emasculate Themselves! (DesiringGod) (11 min)

  • Song - Freedom Is to Be Like Him — Shane & Shane

  • Article - Freedom Is To Be Like Him (DesiringGod)

  • Sermon - Freed to Love (DesiringGod) (33 min) 

  • Sermon - Stand Firm (Gospel Coalition) 37 min)

  • Study Session - How Were We Called to Freedom? (DesiringGod) (12 min) 

  • Study Session - Freed from Flesh to Love (DesiringGod) (16 min

  • Study Session - Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself (DesiringGod) (15 min)

  • Study Session - How Does Love Fulfill the Law? (DesiringGod) (17 min)

  • Study Session - Don't Devour One Another (DesiringGod) (11 min)

  • Sermon - Works of the Flesh (Ligonier Ministries) (34 min)

  Keep In Step With The Spirit - 5:16-21

  • Sermon - Jesus Walked The Selfless Pace of Christian L ove (DesiringGod) (43  (min)

  • Sermon - The War Within (DesiringGod) (39 min)

  • Study Session - Does the Spirit Make Me a Robot? (DesiringGod) (13 min)

  • Study Session - How Do I Receive the Spirit? (DesiringGod) (13 min)

  • Study Session - How Do We Love in the Power of Another? (DesiringGod) (14 min)

  • Study Session - The War in the Christian Soul (DesiringGod) (12 min)

  • Study Session - Practicing Sin Destroys the Soul (DesiringGod) (11 min)

  • Study Session - How Do We Inherit the Kingdom? (DesiringGod) (13 min)

  • Sermon - Walk by the Spirit! (DesiringGod) (32 min)

  • Study Session - Keep in Step with the Spirit (DesiringGod) (11 min)

  • Podcast - We Experience the Spirit Through Faith (DesiringGod) (4 min)

  • Sermon - In Step with the Spirit (Gospel Coalition) (27 min)

  • Sermon - Free to Live (Radical.net) (4 min)

  • Podcast - Walking by the Spirit - Conversation with Francis Chan (Family Life) (30 min)

  • Article - The Land of Fruit and Nots (David Jeremiah)

  • Sermon - Galatians 5:16-21 (J. Vernon McGee) (26 min)

  • Podcast - Walking by the Spirit (Charles Stanley) (3 min)

  • Article - Bearing Spiritual Fruit (Gospel Coalition)

  • Podcast - The Fruit of the Spirit (Ray Comfort) (44 min)

  • Sermon -  The Works of the Flesh (David Guzik) (37 min)

  The Fruit Of The Spirit - 5:22-26

  • Article - How to Recognize the Holy Spirit (DesiringGod)

  • Study Session - The Fruit of the Spirit Is the Fruit of Faith (DesiringGod) (16 min)

  • Study Session - If We Have the Spirit, Why Commands? (DesiringGod) (15 min)

  • Sermon - Let Us Walk by the Spirit (DesiringGod) (38 min)

  • Article - 10 Things You Should Know About the Fruit of the Spirit (Gospel Coalition)

  • Article - Spiritual Fruit vs. Self-Righteous Works (Gospel Coalition)

  • Sermon - Overcoming the Works of the Flesh: Embracing the Fruit of the Spirit (Gospel Coalition) (41 min)

  • Article - The Fruit of the Spirit (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Sermon - Faith & Fruit (Ligonier Ministries) (23 min)

  • Podcast - Living by the Spirit (Radical.net) (3 min)

  • Podcast - The Fruit of the Spirit (Radical.net) (7 min)

  • Article - The Fruit of the Spirit (Blue Letter Bible)

  • Article - The Fruit of the Spirit - H.B. Charles, Jr. (Blue Letter Bible)

  • Podcast - Give Thanks for the Holy Spirit (Greg Laurie) (4 min)

  • Sermon - The Fruit (Tony Evans) (27 min)

  • Sermon - The Battle for Self-Control (Charles Stanley)

  Galatians 6

  • Commentary - Study Guide for Galatians 6 - David Guzik (Blue Letter Bible)

  • Sermon - Boasting in Nothing Except the Cross (Tim Keller) (52 min)

  • Sermon - Free to Love (Radical.net) (60 min)

  • Commentary - Galatians 6 – Final Instructions (Enduring Word)

  • Commentary - Commentary on Galatians 6 (Blue Letter Bible)

  Bear One Another’s Burdens - 6:1-5

  • Sermon - The Law of Christ (Desiring God) (36 min)

  • Sermon - Burdens (Adrian Rogers) (37 min)

  • Sermon - Galatians 6:1-5 ( J. Vernon McGee) (26 min)

  • Study Session - How to Restore a Sinning Saint (Desiring God) (14 min)

  • Study Session - What Is the Law of Christ? (Desiring God) (14 min)

  • Study Session - Don’t Be Energized by Comparison (Desiring God) (14 min)

  • Article - What does it mean to bear one another’s burdens (GotQuestions)

  • Podcast - When a Fellow Christian Stumbles (InTouch Ministries) (3 min)

  • Study Session - Is Boasting Good or Bad? (Desiring God) (18 min)

  • Commentary - Examine Yourselves (Blue Letter Bible)

  • Sermon - Love and the Practical Graces (Timothy Keller) (47 min)

  • Article - Your Main Problem Is Not Other People (Gospel Coalition)

  • Sermon - The Household of Faith (Ligonier Ministries) (36 min)

  • Article - A Call to Self-Examination (Ligonier Ministries)

  • Podcast - Law of Love (Radical.net) (4 min)

  • Podcast - The Power in Accountability (Radical.net) (4 min)

  • Sermon - Redemptive Community (Radical.net) (59 min)

  Do Not Be Deceived: God is not Mocked - 6:6-10

  • Sermon - Do Not Grow Weary in Well-Doing (Desiring God) (32 min)

  • Study Session - Hell and Heaven Are at Stake with Money (Desiring God) (13 min)

  • Study Session - Don’t Lose Heart in Doing Good (Desiring God) (14 min)

  • Podcast - What Moves You to Minister? (Desiring God) (3 min)

  • Sermon - Mocking God (Ligonier Ministries) (31 min)

  • Article - The Law of Sowing and Reaping (Greg Laurie)

  • Sermon - The Principle of Sowing and Reaping (Charles Stanley) (45 min)

  Requiring Circumcision and Breaking the Law - 6:11-13

  • Sermon - Requiring Circumcision and Breaking the Law (Desiring God) (12 min)

  • Sermon - Only a New Creation Counts (Desiring God) (35 min)

  • Sermon - A Life Defined by the Cross: Insights (Gospel Coalition) (19 min)

  • Sermon - Big Letters (Ligonier Ministries) (23 min)

  Final Warnings and Benediction - 6-14-18

  • Sermon - The Gospel in All Caps (Desiring God) (39 min)

  • Sermon - Christ Crucified, Our Boast (Desiring God) (39 min)

  • Study Session - Crucified to the World (Desiring God)

  • Study Session - Law-Keeping Cannot Save You (Desiring God) (12 min)

  • Study Session - The World Crucified to Me and I to the World (Desiring God) (15 min)

  • Study Session - What Is the New Creation? (Desiring God) (16 min) 

  • Study Session - Did Paul Really Boast Only in the Cross? (Desiring God) (12 min)

  • Study Session - Walk by Faith, Not Works (Desiring God) (14 min)

  • Study Session - Paul’s Authenticating Scars (Desiring God) (13 min)

  • Sermon - One Life with a Global Gospel (Radical.net) (54 min)

  • Sermon - Free to Boast (Radical.net) (55 min)

  • Sermon - Dead to the World (David Guzik) (41 min)

• 6: Ephesians 1

• 7: Ephesians 2-3

• 8: Ephesians 4

• 9: Ephesians 5

• 10: Ephesians 6