Galatians 3:1-14
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Today's Passage: Galatians 3:1-14
Your salvation is a gift of grace alone that you receive by faith alone. Paul is confronting the Galatian church, which seems to have understood that.
However, the church has become confused. Paul goes so far as to call them foolish and ask if they were bewitched. Though they once initially believed, their view of the true gospel has been clouded.
They have fallen into the trap of believing, even though they were saved by faith alone, that they would grow in maturity by fulfilling the law.
To this misconception, Paul gives the Galatians Abraham as an example. Abraham did not just believe IN or ABOUT God: he believed God. It was solely because of Abraham’s trust in God that he was considered righteous.
1 Peter 3:18 says, ”For Christ also suffered[b] once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit”
Christ redeemed us by taking on the curse, the punishment that the law required, the punishment that we deserved.
When we believe God we are completely changed, and we are made alive in the Spirit to live out a life of faith. We grow in maturity as disciples of Christ in the same way that we initially became disciples of Christ: through believing God.
Through daily choosing to pursue God, not out of obligation, but as an act of worship in response to all that He has already done for us!
Written By: Paulette Carwile
Today's Passage: Galatians 3:1-14
Your salvation is a gift of grace alone that you receive by faith alone. Paul is confronting the Galatian church, which seems to have understood that.
However, the church has become confused. Paul goes so far as to call them foolish and ask if they were bewitched. Though they once initially believed, their view of the true gospel has been clouded.
They have fallen into the trap of believing, even though they were saved by faith alone, that they would grow in maturity by fulfilling the law.
To this misconception, Paul gives the Galatians Abraham as an example. Abraham did not just believe IN or ABOUT God: he believed God. It was solely because of Abraham’s trust in God that he was considered righteous.
1 Peter 3:18 says, ”For Christ also suffered[b] once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit”
Christ redeemed us by taking on the curse, the punishment that the law required, the punishment that we deserved.
When we believe God we are completely changed, and we are made alive in the Spirit to live out a life of faith. We grow in maturity as disciples of Christ in the same way that we initially became disciples of Christ: through believing God.
Through daily choosing to pursue God, not out of obligation, but as an act of worship in response to all that He has already done for us!
Written By: Paulette Carwile
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Sorry to hear that Jump Start will cease after Galatians. I have read it daily since we started coming to CPC. Thanks to all who have contributed.