Truth for Life

Week 2 "Shackled By Your Past" (a study in Galatians) THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Have you wept over your past and been, in a sense, tormented in your thoughts because you didn’t come to know Jesus earlier? Rest, beloved child of God, for God saved you when it pleased Him. His promise is there to comfort and assure you that the Sovereign God—the God of all flesh—is able to cause all things, even your “before Christ” days, to work together for good. He will use them to make you like Jesus.  So, like Paul, take God at His Word. He does not lie. He stands by His Word to perform it. Forget those things which are past and press on toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:7-14). You are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God has foreordained for you to walk in (Ephesians 2:10). Go forward in faith. DAY ONE This week we want to take a good look at Paul, the one who wrote the epistle to the Galatians. Not on...

BOOKMARK orange = recipients               G race = grace               = gospel                                 Galatians 1 :1–10   Introduction       1 Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),       2 and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia :       3 G race to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,       4 who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,       5 to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen. Perversion of the Gospel       6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel ;       7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.       8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel ...

  BOOKMARK orange = recipients               = law G race = grace               = Spirit = gospel                                 Galatians 6 Galatians 6 Bear One Another's Burdens       1Brethren , even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself , so that you too will not be tempted.       2 Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.       3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself .       4 But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone , and not in regard to another.       5 For each one will bear his own load.       6 The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him .       7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.       8 For the one who sows to his own f...

  BOOKMARK orange = recipients               = law G race = grace               = Spirit = gospel                                 Galatians 5 Galatians 5 Walk by the Spirit       1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.       2 Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you .       3 And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law .       4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law ; you have fallen from grace .       5 For we through the Spirit , by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.       6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.       7 You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?       8 This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you ...