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How Do We Inherit the Kingdom? Galatians 5:19–21, Part 2
How do Christians inherit the kingdom of God? Not by our work or merit, but by our union with the Son of God and offspring of Abraham.
Practicing Sin Destroys the Soul: Galatians 5:19–21, Part 1
If you live in sin, practice sin, and die in sin, you won’t go to heaven. You won’t be happy with God forever.
The War in the Christian Soul: Galatians 5:16–18, Part 4
How does God give us victory over the desires of the flesh? He reshapes and reorients our desires by his Spirit.
How Do We Love in the Power of Another? Galatians 5:16–18, Part 3
Competing desires war within every Christian — desires of the flesh and of the Spirit. How can we refuse to gratify what our flesh wants?
Does the Spirit Make Me a Robot? Galatians 5:16–18, Part 2
If Christians are indwelt by the Spirit of God, and if he guides and controls us, are we simply spiritual robots?
How Do I Receive the Spirit? Galatians 5:16–18, Part 1
All Christians should walk by the Spirit. But how? How do we experience the powerful, omnipotent, merciful, all-wise leading of the Spirit of God?
How Does Love Fulfill the Law? Galatians 5:13–15, Part 4
Paul says that the law is fulfilled in the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.” But how does such love fulfill the whole law?
Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself: Galatians 5:13–15, Part 3
What does it mean to love your neighbors as yourself? It means you seek their good with the same passion with which you seek your own, and you find your joy in theirs.
Freed from Flesh to Love: Galatians 5:13–15, Part 2
What prevents us from using our freedom in Christ as an opportunity to indulge the flesh? A life of faith is the opposite of a life in the flesh.
How Were We Called to Freedom? Galatians 5:13–15, Part 1
When God sovereignly calls us, he opens our eyes to see and embrace the beauty of Jesus. And that call grants freedom from obeying the law as a means of being justified.
Let Them Emasculate Themselves! Galatians 5:11–12, Part 2
Why does Paul use such shocking language against the false teachers in Galatia — and how should his rebuke inform the way we speak?
What Is the Offense of the Cross? Galatians 5:11–12, Part 1
Why is the cross so offensive to fallen man? Because the cross declares that no amount of human effort or law-keeping can make us right with God.
Why Such Confidence for the Galatians? Galatians 5:7–10, Part 2
More than once, how Paul feels toward certain Christians increases his confidence in their salvation. How does that kind of confidence work?
A Little Leaven Is Devastating: Galatians 5:7–10, Part 1
A little leaven, even just a little, leavens the whole lump. Mix a little law with the gospel, and you surrender the ground of grace.
The Faith That Counts Produces Fruit: Galatians 5:1–6, Part 8
What kind of faith unites us to Christ so that we are counted righteous before God? The faith that bears the fruit of love.
Waiting for the Hope of Righteousness: Galatians 5:1–6, Part 7
The church may be mocked, accused, and slandered now. But a day is coming when God will silence any doubt about his people’s righteousness.
Can You Lose Your Salvation? Galatians 5:1–6, Part 6
When Paul talks about being severed from Christ, does he imply that true Christians can lose their salvation?
Severed from Christ: Galatians 5:1–6, Part 5
Those who seek to be justified by the law sever themselves from Christ, fall away from grace, and commit eternal suicide.
Justification by Law Requires Perfection: Galatians 5:1–6, Part 4
The law cannot be divided — break but the smallest commandment, and you are guilty of all. We cannot be right with God through the law.
How to Cancel Every Blessing of Christ: Galatians 5:1–6, Part 3
If you claim works as part of the basis of being right with God, you trade grace for law, and you cancel every blessing of Christ from your life.
What Is Christian Freedom? Galatians 5:1–6, Part 2
If you try to be justified under the law, you will remain under the curse. But if you stand firm in the grace of the gospel, you will enjoy true freedom.
Don’t Turn Back to Slavery: Galatians 5:1–6, Part 1
Through the gospel of grace, Jesus Christ sets Christians free in order that they may remain free. Don’t turn back to slavery.
You Are a Child of the Free Woman: Galatians 4:21–31, Part 8
Christians are not slaves, but free. We are right with God not by works of the law, but by faith. We are born not of the flesh, but of the Spirit.
Persecuted for Being a Child of Promise: Galatians 4:21–31, Part 7
Children of promise are children born as the answer to a promise. Every Christian is a child spoken of beforehand, a fulfillment of God’s promise.
Rejoice, O Barren One! Galatians 4:21–31, Part 6
Abraham’s wife, Sarah, spent her childbearing years barren — but God fulfilled his promise to her. What can this experience teach us about Jesus’s work on the cross?
The Jerusalem Above Is Free: Galatians 4:21–31, Part 5
According to Paul, the Christian’s true home is the Jerusalem above — a heavenly city whose citizens are born of God and utterly free.
Hagar, the Mother of Slavery: Galatians 4:21–31, Part 4
Hagar represents the effort to be right with God by keeping the law. But human effort can never bring forth the children of God. Hagar only begets slaves.
Born by Flesh, Born by Promise: Galatians 4:21–31, Part 3
The children of God are not the product of human effort. Like Isaac, they are brought forth by divine promise based on divine prerogative.
A Tale of Two Mothers: Galatians 4:21–31, Part 2
When Paul read his Old Testament, what implicit meaning did he see in the characters of Hagar and Sarah?
The Purpose of Allegory: Galatians 4:21–31, Part 1
What is Paul’s main point in the allegory of Sarah and Hagar? What truth does he want his readers to see from this Old Testament story?
Paul the Matchmaker and the Mother: Galatians 4:17–20
Children of God come into being when Christ is formed in them through faith. Paul compares his whole ministry to a matchmaker and a mother.
Why Would They Gouge Out Their Eyes? Galatians 4:12–16
If you leave the gospel for the law, you are under an enchantment. To break the spell, remember the blessings that the gospel brings.
What Does It Mean to Be Known by God? Galatians 4:8–11, Part 3
If God knows everything and everyone, what does Paul mean when he describes Christians as those who are known by God?
Do Unbelievers Know God? Galatians 4:8–11, Part 2
Even though people can know about God through creation, hard hearts suppress that knowledge. Thus, sinners do not know God.
The Incomprehensibility of Turning to Law: Galatians 4:8–11, Part 1
For Paul, pagan idolatry and reliance on the law to get right with God amount to the same thing. Neither can offer any help to save our souls.
The Spirit in Us Cries ‘Abba Father’: Galatians 4:1–7, Part 5
When Paul describes the Spirit’s witness in the heart of believers, he says the Spirit cries, “Abba!” Why is that name so significant?
Christ Redeems Sinners for Adoption: Galatians 4:1–7, Part 4
Why did Jesus need to be born of a woman as a human being in order to redeem those under the curse of the law?
Does God Have a Son? Galatians 4:1–7, Part 3
God sent his Son into the world, born of a woman and under the law. Few statements hold more import, wonder, and mystery.
What Is the Fullness of Time? Galatians 4:1–7, Part 2
Paul says that the law was given by God to act as a guardian until “the fullness of time” had come to pass. When is the fullness of time?
Slavery to Law Is Like Pagan Religion: Galatians 4:1–7, Part 1
God intended the law to act as a guardian, pointing us to our need for a redeemer. However, when we put our faith in the law, it’s no better than the rules of pagan religions.
You Are All Sons of God Through Faith: Galatians 3:23–29, Part 3
How do people become sons of God and heirs to his promises? They must put on Jesus Christ, God’s true Son, by faith and not by law-keeping.
The Law as a Guardian unto Christ: Galatians 3:23–29, Part 2
Paul calls the law “a guardian” meant to lead us to Christ. What does that mean? How does the law guard us and guide us to Jesus?
Centuries of Prison Before Christ: Galatians 3:23–29, Part 1
Paul reveals that God gave the law to pave the way to faith in Jesus, who fulfills the law completely.
The Law Came Through Angels: Galatians 3:19–22, Part 2
The New Testament authors insist that the law was given to Moses by angels. Why would they repeat that?
The Law Imprisoned People Under Sin: Galatians 3:19–22, Part 1
If God made the promise of life to Abraham based on faith, then does the law contradict that grace? Does the law present a different way of life?
Not Seeds, but Seed, Namely, Christ: Galatians 3:15–18, Part 2
Why does Paul insist that the promises made to Abraham were made to his singular seed? That nuance is vital to our salvation.
The Law Did Not Teach Life Comes Through Law: Galatians 3:15–18, Part 1
Does the law given through Moses somehow contradict the covenant of faith made with Abraham? Why does that matter to us?
Christ Became a Curse for Us: Galatians 3:10–14, Part 3
The only result of attempting to be justified by works will be curse, but Christ took our curse on the cross. How does that exchange work?
The Law Is Not of Faith? Galatians 3:10–14, Part 2
Obedience to the law can never make a person right before God, but the faith that saves produces works that conform to the law.
The Law-Path to God Is Cursed: Galatians 3:10–14, Part 1
Trying to be right with God through works is an all-or-nothing enterprise. If you do not keep the whole law, you have violated the whole law.