Week 29: Redeemer GC Lesson

Main Focus: How does true freedom in Christ shape how we obey God now?

True freedom in Christ removes our guilt and binds us to the risen Lord, so that by His Spirit we gladly keep God’s commands, bearing fruit that honors Him.

  • We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

    But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

    Focus on how our union with Christ frees us from the curse of the Law and empowers us to live unto God by faith.

  • What do we learn from Jesus here?

  • How does this passage convict us to trust and love Jesus more deeply?

  • What immediate step of obedience is Jesus calling us to?

  • Is the Lord instructing us to adopt any new or renewed habits from this text?