Month: October 2019

Leviticus 19:19; Galatians 5:13-24

How do we escape from enslavement to sin and get right with God legally?

Before we are born again, we are enslaved to serving ourselves rather than serving others. We live self pleasing lives in total rebellion towards God.

Now that we are born again, how do we deal practically, as physical creatures, with the practice of sin in our daily lives when our flesh is so weak. Even though our sins have been dealt with, past, present and future, that doesn’t give us free licence to sin and continue to indulge the flesh.

How do we put our new found freedom into practice without gratifying our sinful desires?

Are we relying on the Law to keep us in check or are we walking with and depending on the power of God’s indwelling Spirit to change us?

There is only one way to defeat the flesh and that is through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, so that Gods Spirit will bear fruit in us.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Genesis 21:1-21; Galatians 4:8-3

Paul hung out with the Galatians during a time when he needed medical assistance. They were unbelievers but they gladly received him as an angel of God and even as Jesus Christ even though he was a trial to them.

Paul preached the gospel to the Galatians and they believed. but when he left them, others came in and were suggesting that Paul hadn’t told them the whole story.  They flattered the Galatians and drew them away after themselves.

Paul is now appealing to them by letter to remain faithful and not re-introduce law keeping practices which are weak and worthless principles of the world; a return to a form of slavery.

Law keeping is ineffective in dealing with our sin!

Paul is in anguish over the Galatians and desperate to be with them so that he could labour again (as in giving birth to a child) to help them understand this vital truth.