Nov 20, 2016
Because He's referred to as the Spirit we may not have an accurate picture of who He is. The Holy Spirit is the third person of our triune God - God the Father, Jesus the Son, the Holy Spirit. Like the Father and Son, the Spirit is a person Who thinks, speaks, acts and feels.
The moment you placed faith in the death,...
Nov 13, 2016
We have a tug-a-war in our souls. It's between living for ourselves and living for God. In this passage its described as a tug-a-war between our fleshly desires and the desires of the Holy Spirit Who lives in us. When we live for our fleshly desires, we do all kinds of bad things. The Judaizers (legalists) would say...
Oct 30, 2016
Legalism shorts out the power for spiritual transformation.
A few weeks ago I was informed the toaster wasn’t working. Mom (and Willie, the dog) have toast every morning for breakfast. Not simple, straight ahead wheat toast but sweet, gooey cinnamon toast. This was a mini crisis. I took the toaster apart and found...
Oct 23, 2016
In the latter half of Galatians 3, the Apostle Paul explained that one of the reasons the Law of Moses was given was to chase us to Christ in the sense that the Law of Moses makes it abundantly clear that we are transgressors, we cannot live up to God’s perfect and holy standard nor can we make up for all the ways we...
Oct 16, 2016
In our study of Galatians so far we have clearly seen that there is no way for the law to bring about justification. The only way to be justified and have a right relationship with God is through faith in Jesus Christ. This has always been the way, and will always be the way! The sign that we are justified and part of...