{"id":1066221,"date":"2024-06-21T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awmi2.wpenginepowered.com\/?post_type=browse-teaching&p=1066221"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:22:34","slug":"galatians","status":"publish","type":"browse-teaching","link":"https:\/\/www.awmi.net\/browse-teaching\/galatians\/","title":{"rendered":"Galatians"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Paul\u2019s Strongest Teaching on Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n

The book of Romans is Paul\u2019s masterpiece on the study of grace, but the book of Galatians is his strongest teaching on the subject. Paul takes off the gloves and gets brutal in his teaching about the grace of God. I believe that a study on the grace of God from the book of Galatians combined with the teaching from Romans could be a one-two punch that knocks out condemnation in your life. Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Paul wasted no time making his point in his letter to the Galatian Christians. In chapter 1, verse 6, Paul said, \u201cI marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.\u201d Paul used the terms \u201cGospel\u201d and \u201cgrace\u201d interchangeably. The heart of the Gospel is grace. Any deviation from that is a perversion of the Gospel.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Not Jesus + Your Actions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Galatian Christians hadn\u2019t renounced Jesus as being their Messiah, but legalistic Jews had convinced them that they couldn\u2019t be right with God by believing in only what Jesus had done. They were being told they also had to keep the Old Testament Law in order for God to accept them. The same lie is being propagated today, except now it\u2019s said we have to be holy. We have to be holy, or the Lord won\u2019t accept us or answer our prayers, etc. That\u2019s not the Gospel.<\/p>\n

In Paul\u2019s day, the issue was circumcision. Today, the same legalistic message is being preached using things like prayer, Bible study, church attendance, and other actions of holiness as necessary actions for God to love and accept us. Faith in what Christ did for us is enough. It is not what Jesus did for us plus our actions of holiness. Jesus plus anything equals nothing. Jesus plus nothing equals everything.<\/p>\n

Adding to the Gospel of Grace Leads to Condemnation<\/strong><\/p>\n

No one argues that we shouldn\u2019t pray, study the Word, go to church, etc., but any time it\u2019s proclaimed that God is angry with us if we fail to do these things, it\u2019s not the true Gospel. That type of teaching puts the burden of salvation on us and opens us to the condemnation of the devil. This is what Paul called a perversion of the Gospel in Galatians 1:7. Then in verse 8, Paul made one of the strongest statements he ever made,<\/p>\n

\u201cBut though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Galatians must\u2019ve been shocked! How could Paul say such a thing? He must not have meant what it looks like he meant. Therefore, just in case anyone missed it the first time, Paul repeats his radical statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed\u201d<\/em> (verse 9).<\/p>\n

In our politically correct world today, you don\u2019t hear many absolute statements like these. How could anyone be so sure of themselves? Paul goes on to explain in the rest of the first chapter that he didn\u2019t get his revelation of the Gospel from any man but directly from God. That\u2019s why he was so adamant. There was no room for compromise in the Gospel.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll Never Perform Perfectly<\/strong><\/p>\n

In chapter 3, Paul calls the Galatians foolish for leaving the grace of Christ and going back to relating to God based on their performance. He also said they had been bewitched (Gal. 3:1). He reminds them how they had originally put faith in Christ alone and received all that God had for them through faith. Why had they gone back into legalism? That\u2019s a good question.<\/p>\n

Paul then shows them the real purpose of the Law. It wasn\u2019t to help us live a holier life; it was to point out our sin to us and bring condemnation so we would never come into the deception that we could relate to God based on our own performance. Amazingly, the average Christian has totally missed this fact and, instead, embraces the Law as a good thing. The Law would be good if we could keep it, but Paul reveals that a failure to do the tiniest detail of the Law makes us guilty of all of it. Instead of receiving the blessing for obedience, one small failure brings the curse instead. The only way out of the curse is through faith in Christ alone. Christ bore our curse (Gal. 3:13).<\/p>\n

Stand Firm in the Freedom of Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul begins to summarize in chapter 5. He starts by saying, \u201cStand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.\u201d The yoke of bondage he is speaking of is the Law. He\u2019s saying don\u2019t go back to trying to please God by adhering to rules and regulations. The thing that pleases God is faith (Heb. 11:6).<\/p>\n

Paul says in verse 2, \u201cBehold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.\u201d What a radical statement! That\u2019s saying that if our trust is in something that we do to make us accepted with God, then what Christ has done for us will profit us nothing. This is exactly what is happening in the lives of many people. They know about Christ and believe that He purchased their forgiveness of sins, but they think they have to obtain that forgiveness through some merit of their own. That voids what Christ has done for them. They get what they deserve instead of what Christ did for them. What a shame! They have fallen from grace back into trusting in themselves.<\/p>\n

Grace Doesn\u2019t Give Us a License to Sin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does all this grace mean we can just live in sin? It means that God loves us the same even if we live in sin, but Paul made it clear in Galatians 5:13 that holy living is still the right way to live: \u201cFor, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.\u201d Grace doesn\u2019t cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.<\/p>\n

What happens if a Christian does take God\u2019s grace for granted and lives in sin? Paul addressed that in verse 15: \u201cBut if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.\u201d He is saying that there are still consequences to sin, but those consequences don\u2019t come from God. Living in sin opens the door to the devil, and he will eat your lunch and pop the bag. We don\u2019t want that.<\/p>\n

Holy Living Is Important, But It Doesn\u2019t Earn God\u2019s Love<\/strong><\/p>\n

As much as possible, we live holy, but we never do so in order to earn anything from God. That all comes by grace. When we do sin, we don\u2019t come under condemnation about it and let the devil separate us from the love of God. We simply repent, which means we turn around and head in the right direction again, all the while enjoying the unbroken love of God.<\/p>\n

I have a six-part album that teaches verse by verse through the book of Galatians. It\u2019s a powerful teaching. There are so many more Gospel nuggets in the book of Galatians than what I\u2019ve been able to expound here. There is also a 69-page booklet in the slip cover of this album that has 470 footnotes that I\u2019ve written as well as hundreds of references and the actual King James Version text of Galatians. It\u2019s a powerful resource tool for getting the revelation of God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n

I encourage you to get this Galatians album and book, and if you haven\u2019t yet ordered the Romans materials, please do so today. I believe these are some of the most important resources we have ever offered. They could literally change your life.<\/p>\n

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