The Glory of the False Teachers
and the Glory of Paul
Galatians 6:13-15
For not even those who are circumcised keep
the law, but they desire to have you
circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
anything, but a new creation.
The Glory of the False Teachers
and the Glory of Paul
Galatians 6:13-15
For not even those who are circumcised keep
the law, but they desire to have you
circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
anything, but a new creation.
The Glory of the False Teachers
and the Glory of Paul
Galatians 6:13-15
For not even those who are circumcised keep
the law, but they desire to have you
circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
anything, but a new creation.
The Glory of the False Teachers
and the Glory of Paul
Galatians 6:13-15
For not even those who are circumcised keep
the law, but they desire to have you
circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
anything, but a new creation.
The Teaching of Paul
1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among
you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
The Reaction of the World
1 Corinthians 1:23
We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a
stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness.
Why was the cross so offensive?
1. Pride of the Jews
2. Pride of the Gentiles
The Reaction of the World
“Christianity is a mental illness because it
does not build pride in people. It destroys
the ego and teaches humility.”
The Humanist Magazine, Nov. – Dec., 1987
Why Was Jesus Hated?
Acts 10:37-3
You know… how God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power,
who went about doing good and healing all who
were oppressed by the devil, for God was with
Him.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me
because I testify of it that its works are evil.
Galatians 4:16
Have I therefore become your enemy
Why Was Jesus Hated?
The truth
Romans 3:22-23
…There is no difference; for all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God.
The Pride of the Christian
Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I
should boast except
in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom the world has
been crucified to me,
and I
to the world.
The Wondrous Cross
When I survey the wondrous Cross,
On which the prince of glory died
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No one comes to the Father except
through Me.
Acts 3:14-15
But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and
asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and
killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from
the dead, of which we are witnesses.
The Wondrous Cross
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
Philippians 3:7-8
But what things were gain to me, these I have
counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also
count all things loss for the excellence of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I
have suffered the loss of all things, and count
them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
The Wondrous Cross
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you differ from another? And
what do you have that you did not receive? Now
if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as
if you had not received it?
The Wondrous Cross
Forbid it Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my Lord.
Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should boast except in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the
world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world.
The Wondrous Cross
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood
1 Peter 1:18-19
Forasmuch as you know that you were not
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by
tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot.
The Wondrous Cross
See from his head, his hands, his feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I
have given it to you upon the altar to make
atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that
makes atonement for the soul.
The Wondrous Cross
See from his head, his hands, his feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid,
as it were, our faces from Him; He was
despised, and we did not esteem Him.
The Wondrous Cross
See from his head, his hands, his feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Matthew 26:37-38
And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of
Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and
deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, “My
soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.
Stay here and watch with Me.”
The Wondrous Cross
See from his head, his hands, his feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Ephesians 5:1-2
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us
and given Himself for us, an offering and a
sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
The Wondrous Cross
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown.
Genesis 3:17-18
Then to Adam He said, “Because you… have
eaten from the tree… “Cursed is the ground for
your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days
of your life. 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall
bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of
the field.
Galatians 3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the
law, having become a curse for us (for it is
The Wondrous Cross
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were a present far too small;
Micah 6:7
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of
rams, ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my
firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my
body for the sin of my soul?
Isaiah 40:16
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its
beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
The Wondrous Cross
Love so amazing, so divine,
Romans 5:6-8
For when we were still without strength, in due
time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely
for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for
a good man someone would even dare to die. 8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
for us.
The Wondrous Cross
Love so amazing, so divine,
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer
I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life
which
I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
The Wondrous Cross
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
John 12:32
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw
all peoples to Myself.
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of His goodness,
forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing
that the goodness of God leads you to
repentance?
The Wondrous Cross
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
1 John 4:10, 19
10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that
He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.
19 We love him because he first loved us.
The Wondrous Cross
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
Luke 14:26-27, 33
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his
father and mother, wife and children, brothers
and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he
cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not
bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My
disciple.
33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake
all that he has cannot be My disciple.