High School | If You Belong To Christ (Galatians 3:26-29) | Joel Pickett

Main message: The sermon teaches that faith in Christ gives believers a new identity and status: they belong to Christ, are counted as God’s children, are clothed with Christ, are united with other believers, and become heirs of God’s promise. It also urges listeners to examine whether they truly belong to Christ or merely claim to know him.

Key points:

• Belonging to Christ means being sons/children of God through faith, not through keeping the law.
• The law was a temporary tutor leading people to Christ; once faith comes, the tutor is no longer needed.
• Being baptized into Christ and “putting on Christ” describes spiritual immersion and identity in him, not water baptism as a requirement for salvation.
• In Christ, ethnic, social, and gender distinctions do not determine salvation; all are one in Christ.
• If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and an heir according to the promise.
• The sermon closes with a call for certainty of salvation: it matters not just that you know God, but that you are known by him.

Scriptures mentioned: Galatians 3:26-29, Galatians 5:24, Romans 14:8, 2 Corinthians 10:7, Matthew 5:9, Romans 8:14, John 1:12, 1 John 3:1, 1 Corinthians 12:13, Romans 6:3-4, Isaiah 61:10, Colossians 3:11, Ephesians 2:14, Ephesians 4:4-6, Galatians 4:9, John 10