As followers of Christ, we must let go of our perfectionism. How many of us are pursuing that elusive goal of perfection, good enough for others, good enough for ourselves, good enough for God and his heaven? God’s laws demand that we live a perfect life, obeying the laws of God perfectly if we are […]
Sermons
Galatians 3.1-14: Week 7
The big issue Paul is confronting in his letter to the Galatians is salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Followers of Jesus are not saved by the good they do, nor are they condemned by the wrong they do, but they are saved, we are saved by trusting in the good Jesus has […]
Galatians 2.15-21: Week 6
If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you are one of the living dead. At least that’s the way the Apostle Paul sees it in his NT letter to the churches in Galatia. In chapter 2 of the book of Galatians, Paul is explaining the gospel message of salvation in Jesus when he writes: […]
Galatians 2.1-14: Week 5
In Galatians chapter 2, the Apostle Paul tells the Galatians about a visit he made to Jerusalem to meet with the leaders of the Christian church in that city, wanting to make sure that everyone was on the same page when it comes to the message of salvation in Jesus. And while Paul is there, […]
Galatians 1.11-24: Week 4
But now, months after the Galatians received the gospel Paul preached to them, in Paul’s absence false teachers have showed up on the scene, teaching the Galatians a distorted gospel of salvation by works. Their message was that these non-Jewish Galatians really needed to become a Jews first and then maybe they could be saved […]
Galatians 1.1-10: Week 3
The message of Galatians, the message of the Bible is that the freedom we inherently long for, that freedom comes from Jesus, and only from Jesus. Galatians 5.1 says: For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. What is the Apostle Paul talking […]
Galatians 4-6: Week 2
In Galatians 4 followers of Jesus are no longer slaves, they are free sons and heirs of God. We are no longer enslaved to elementary principles of the world. Instead we are free, like the children of the free woman Sarah, the free wife of Abraham. We are not children of slaves, but like it […]
Galatians 1-3: Week 1
In the book of Galatians, the Apostle Paul isn’t playing a game; he’s warning the Galatians not to be fooled by a message of salvation, by a gospel, which is not a really a gospel. On your handout, Paul warns against embracing a distorted gospel, and he begins to define the true gospel. Let’s make […]