a few key points about living by grace.... false teaching about grace leads to faulty thinking....
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A few key points about living by grace...
False teaching about grace leads to faulty thinking.
Faulty thinking leads a loss of daily freedom and future inheritance.
Galatians 5:1
Walking by grace through faith is the only path of freedom in life.
Galatians 5:1
A return to the Law, to other religious systems, even to no religious system,
leads to enslavement.
Galatians 5:2-4
Embracing the Law (works) = departing from growth in grace
Acts 15:1-5; Gal. 3:7-12; Rom. 11:6
Galatians 5:2-4
v. 2 - "profit you nothing" = for growth and reward
v. 4 - "estranged from Christ" = His grace and power to grow
"fallen from grace" = fallen from the grace way of life
Galatians 5:5
The Spirit works through our faith to help us grow and build a better
inheritance in the Kingdom
Galatians 5:6
Circumcision is a non-issue now.
Love energizes faith.
God's love motivates us to love God which motivates us to love others.
Galatians 5:6
Because of our love for God and others, we pray, we seek to meet the needs of
others, we serve.2 Cor. 5:14; Jas. 2:14-17
Love is the motivation behind faith.
Galatians 5:7-15
Even a little false teaching can ruin your walk and impact your future,
both here and in eternity
Galatians 5:7
What happened?They were on track to rule with Christ
1 Cor. 9:24-27; Gal. 3:1
Galatians 5:8-9
False teachers/teaching had ruined their view of grace and therefore,
their walk.
Galatians 5:10
The false teachers would answer for it.
Galatians 5:11
Biblical grace offends people
Galatians 5:12
Paul wished those who distort grace were unable to spiritually reproduce
(Paul wanted to shock his readers into understanding the seriousness of the
issue)
Galatians 5:13
We've been positionally set free - 5:1We need to work to maintain and
experience that.
Living by faith produces service to others.
Galatians 5:14
If we want to please God we must love others.
Legalism doesn't produce this.
Galatians 5:15
Legalistic living produces a judgmental, critical spirit.
It tears fellowships apart.
Legalistic thinking produces a form a spiritual cannibalism.
Grace is the only path to a genuinely spiritual life
individually and corporately.