September 21, 2025
“Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted” (Galatians 6:1 ESV). Paul reminded the Galatians that the church should be more like a hospital than a courtroom. He described the one “caught in any
September 18, 2025
“My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!” (Galatians 4:19 ESV). Paul had already brought the Galatians to faith in Christ, but now he saw them drifting into religious legalism. With parental tenderness, he described himself as a mother in labor, groaning until Christ
September 15, 2025
“And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised” (Galatians 2:9 ESV). This meeting in Jerusalem was pivotal in church history.
September 14, 2025
“And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ” (Galatians 1:22 ESV). Paul reminded the Galatians that even after his dramatic conversion, he did not immediately step into public ministry. For years, he was “unknown” to the churches in Judea. Galatians 1 provides one of the clearest autobiographical
September 21, 2024
“But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14 ESV). Paul said that the Judaizers, those who insisted that believers must adhere to the Mosaic ceremonial law and be circumcised, “boasted”
September 20, 2024
“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another” (Galatians 5:13 ESV). Our liberty in Christ is not license to sin. Receiving His righteousness we have been set free from the external law written on stone tablets and received
September 16, 2024
“I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose” (Galatians 2:21 ESV). God’s grace is that which saves and sustains the one trusting in Christ’s finished work of salvation. Grace is about God’s mercy, while working to keep the law is about our
September 14, 2024
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel” (Galatians 1:6 ESV). The apostle Paul wrote to correct those in Galatia who had fallen prey to the false “gospel” of the Judaizers, who insisted that new believers had to
September 21, 2023
“So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up” (Galatians 6:9 NLT). The apostle Paul told the believers in Galatia, not to “get tired” in their good work. Perhaps they were feeling the fatigue that comes from
September 20, 2023
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there” (Galatians 5:24 NLT). The apostle Paul wrote to the believers in Galatia instructing them to be like executioners, dealing cruelly with their own sin. Our human tendency however, is to deal cruelly