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The sermon teaches that God’s law requires complete and continual obedience, leaving every sinner guilty and under the curse apart from grace. This condemnation is both present and future, culminating in death, final judgment, and eternal punishment. Christ, crucified and risen, bears the curse deserved by sinners and provides deliverance. The required response is personal repentance and faith in Christ alone, without reliance on moral effort, prayer, or self-righteousness.
Theological center: Human beings are condemned under God’s law, but Jesus Christ bears the curse of sin through His death and saves those who believe in Him.
Applications: Examine Your Spiritual Standing · Repent of Sin · Escape the Coming Judgment · Trust Christ Alone
Primary texts: Galatians 3:10 · Galatians 3:13
“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.” Galatians 3:10 MY hearer, are you a believer, or no? According to your answer to that question must be the style in which I shall address you tonight. I would ask you as a great favor to your own soul this evening to divest yourself of the thought that you are sitting in a chapel and hearing a minister who is preaching to a large congregation. Imagine you are sitting in your own house, in your own chair, and think that I am standing by you, with your hand in mine, and am speaking personally to you and to you alone. For that is how I desire to preach this night to each of my hearers—one by one. I want you, then, in the sight of God, to answer me this all-important and solemn question before I begin—are you in Christ or are you not? Have you fled for refuge to Him who is the only hope for sinners? or are you yet a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel, ignorant of God and of His holy Gospel? Come—be honest with your own heart and let your conscience say yes or no—for one of these two things you are tonight—you are either under the wrath of God or you are delivered from it. You are tonight either an heir of wrath or an inheritor of the kingdom of grace. Which of these two? Make no “ifs” or “ahs” in your answer. Answer straight forward to your own soul. And if there be any doubt whatever about it, I beseech you rest not till that doubt is resolved. Do not take advantage of that doubt to yourself, but rather take a disadvantage from it. Depend upon it— you are more likely to be wrong than you are to be right. And now put yourself in the scale and if you do not kick the beam entirely, but if you hang between the two and you say, “I know not which”—better that you should decide for the worst, though it should grieve yourself, than that you should decide for the better, and be deceived, and so go on presumptuously until the pit of hell shall wake you from your self-deception. Can you, then, with one hand upon God’s Holy Word and the other upon your own heart, lift your eye to heaven and say, “One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see. I know that I have passed from death unto life. I am not now what I once was—‘I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.’ And if I am not awfully deceived, I am this night, ‘A sinner saved by blood, a monument of divine grace.’” My brother, God speed you. The blessing of the Most High be with you. My text has no thunders i…