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Sermon on Galatians 1:4, The Great Rescue

3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be

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Galatians 6:11-18, Concluding Remarks

You mince food by chopping it up into smaller pieces. You mince words by chopping them up into pieces that do not cross the bounds of politeness or, to use a popular phrase today, political correctness.

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Galatians 5:19-26, Works of the Flesh Versus Fruit of the Spirit

Jean-Michel Basquiat (born 1960, died 1988), an American artist who focused on dichotomies in his painting, particularly in Flesh and Spirit, made up of two horizontal panels hinged to create four quadrants.

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Galatians 6:1-10, Practicing Life in the Spirit

Paul has defended his gospel and challenged his readers to not defect from it, but to embrace it and the freedom it affords, freedom from the burden of keeping the law perfectly. He has warned against

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Galatians 5:13-18, The Freedom and Responsibility of the Spirit

Paul’s call for the Galatians to choose the freedom that Christ set them free for, is not without recognition that the false teachers claim that pulling out from serving the Law leads one to unlawful

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Galatians 5:1-12, Don’t Submit to Circumcision

“Paul has already reached two important goals in his appeal to the Galatians. He has defended his apostleship, including a defense of his right to preach the Gospel with or without the support of

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Galatians 4:21-31, The Analogy From Hagar and Sarah

When Sarah failed to have a child by Abraham, she cajoled him into taking her slave girl, Hagar, as wife, and the child born to her, Ishmael, belonged to Sarah and Abraham, according to the custom of that

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Galatians 4:8-20, Paul’s Genuine Concern

Paul’s defense of his gospel against the false teachers has been the testimony that he received his gospel by revelation from Christ, that he had little contact with the Jerusalem apostles but that

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Galatians 4:1-7, Sonship in Christ Means No Longer Slaves

People are often asked whether they would relive their lives again if they could, knowing what they know now. But even if we were able to go back while retaining the knowledge we have gained, would we

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Galatians 3:19-29, The Purpose of the Law

Paul has used the Scriptures to explain that everyone who is keeping the law in order to be justified (declared righteous before God) is under a curse, because no one can keep the law perfectly. The Law

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Galatians 3:15-18, Promise, Not Law

If I promised you in a contract that I would cover all your mortgage payments every month, but then later established rules for how you treated your home and refused to pay when you didn’t keep the

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Galatians 3:10-14, Christ a Curse in Our Place

Deuteronomy 21:22,23 says: 22 If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, 23 you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it

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Galatians 3:1-9, Foolish Galatians

Grove and Grotto, a marketer of “enchantment” items, shares how to know if someone is using witchcraft on you. “Here are some tell-tale signs that you may indeed be crossed, jinxed, hexed,

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Galatians 2:15-21, The Truth of the Gospel

Paul has been defending to the Galatian churches how he got the truth of the gospel, that it was not of human origin: He received the gospel directly from Jesus (1:11,12) Only God’s commission could

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Galatians 2:11-14, Peter’s Hypocrisy

Is it surprising to us that a trusted spiritual leader could experience a deep failing? We’ve seen it many times, have we not. But could an Apostle, particularly the Apostle Peter, mess up royally?

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