How can you identify when you are being led by the flesh? Eventually the flesh will lead you to one or more of these practices: Adultery. Unfaithfulness in a number of applications. Maritally, spiritually. Turning from your vows and promises to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How severely does Paul warn the Galatians about the Judaizers? For the first time, after some very severe words, Paul expresses confidence that the Lord is going to finish what He started in the Galatians. He hopes out loud here that they will...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Can a Christian fall from grace? "Fallen from grace" carries many connotations today. Here is its originally intended meaning: To trust anything but the grace of God to save you. "For by grace you have been saved, through faith, [and [even] that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
So, you want to be under Moses. Listen to Moses awhile, what he really said, from Genesis on. Notice Paul calls the entire Pentateuch "the Law" because it was written by the great lawgiver, Moses (4:21). This is well-known history to a Jew and to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
CHRISTIAN MEN! Join us weekly for a ZOOM Bible study and fellowship. That's EVERY Saturday night, 7 pm central time (Chicago). We usually go for a little over an hour. We pray for one another, share our lives, study the Bible. We're studying the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Is our sonship sure? Note the order of events. First you are made an adopted son. Then the Spirit of God comes into your heart and says "Abba" Father through you in prayer. Automatically the word comes out. You just know so much that you are a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Through the ages, or through the first years of our lives, man/mankind has been slowly led to see his wretched condition by comparing his life to the requirements of the law. Honest men will see eventually that there is no way they can be saved by...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Why was Christ cursed? Another passage is brought in to bolster Paul’s case in verse 13 (galatians 3), namely Deuteronomy 21:23. Obviously the Israelites would have been clueless of the ultimate destiny of the words they were hearing ....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In 1987 and 2002, I took a trip to (first) Communist (then) free Romania, ministering the Word and material goods to believers there. My latest book is a reprint of the journals I kept on those trips, as I truly "fell in love" with a nation,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In Galatians 3:2-5, Paul appeals to the manifestations the Galatians had received, and how they had received them. By way of review, here is some of the record of what happened in Galatia when Paul first visited: (Acts 13:52) The true disciples...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
