2025-09-14 Sermon Notes - Daniel Lyons' Notes

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  - "[[Sermon Notes|Sermon Notes]]"
speaker: "[[Archibald Allison]]"
date: 2025-09-14
location: "[[Emmaus Orthodox Presbyterian Church]]"
passage: Galatians 1:15-16
sermon series: "[[Allison on Galatians]]"
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subjects:
title: God Reveals His Son In Me
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Series	Location	Subjects	Takeaways	Sermon Link
Allison on Galatians	Emmaus Orthodox Presbyterian Church	-	-	-

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Galatians 1:15-16

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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The religion of Christ is not a science but the revelation of Christ to us.
- Christ is the greatest mystery. It cannot be found on our own. It must be revealed to us.
  - There is the mystery of the Trinity
  - There is also the mystery of the eternal generation of The Son from The Father.
    - Isaiah 53.8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
    - Proverbs 8:24-25 When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
  - There is mystery in the incarnation.
    - 1 Timothy 3.16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
Here in our text, Paul is speaking of his own experience when he says it was the good pleasure of God to reveal His Son in me.
- Paul starts verse 15 talking about the good pleasure of God. This is Paul talking about the doctrine of predestination.
  - Ephesians 1.5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
  - This work is associated with God's work of regeneration, that is the new birth.
  - Romans 9:10-13 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger." Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
  - Paul was called by God to the ministry, just like Jeremiah was. This calling was chosen by God before Paul was even born.
    - Jeremiah 1.5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."
    - This was also the case for Peter.
      - Matthew 16:13-17 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. When Jesus asked Peter But, who do you say that I am?
    - John 6.44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
    - Matthew 11.27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
the Bible is the revelation of God to us. When we look at the Bible we should see not only the characters and events. We ought to see ourself and our state before God.
- We cannot see this by ourselves. God must reveal Himself to us. Miraculously, not just in words on pages, but in the Holy Spirit directly teaching to our hearts through the Word.
  - Ephesians 4:17-21 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you didn't learn Christ that way, if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
- Scripture does not merely change our minds. It changes our hearts. Our character. Our spirit.
  - 1 Corinthians 2:10-12 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit. But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
- Yes, scripture is the words of men, but it is truly the Word of God given to us through mere men.
  - It is not as though God simply dictated the words that men were to write down. It is that God Himself revealed HImself to them. They truly had an encounter with the One True God. And the Holy Spirit inspired them to write down these words.
  - Ephesians 1:16-19 don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
  - John 15.26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
this Gospel is a saving revelation.
- 1. It is the revelation of a Person, the Savior of sinners
  - What is the revelation of the Gospel? He is the revelation.
    - Hebrews 12:18-21 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned". So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
      - Our God is a consuming fire when we who are sinners stand before Him.
      - People across the world were shocked at the wickedness of the evil person who killed Charlie Kirk this past week. How much more is God Himself shocked at the wickedness of sinful man?
- 1. All the promises of the Gospel speak of God's grace to sinners.
  - Romans 7:12-14 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
    - This is what sin does. It reveals to us our state of death before God as sinners.
    - But in the Gospel, Christ reveals to us His mercy, grace, and love.
  - You need His grace.
    - Either you have his abundant grace of you have your own insufficient self-righteousness.
    - Galatians 3:1-3 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
    - Ephesians 2:8-9 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.
    - Zechariah 4.7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to it!'"
      - Every last stone in the temple cries out "Grace! Grace!"
      - This is our salvation!

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