Welcome to DELIGHT IN GRACE, The teaching ministry of Rich Powell. Pastor of Grace Bible Church in Winston-Salem. Imagine a prisoner released from his sentence and its legal demands. who chooses to live out that free life carrying the heavy chains of former bondage. In today's passage Paul confronts the Church of Galatia, for putting themselves under the bondage of the law.
basing their favor with God on their performance, instead of the work of Jesus.
So what does it look like to live for Christ through his power and not our own. Let's listen in as Pastor Rich unpacks Galatians 3. One through six. I'll be reading from Galatians Chapter 3, verses 1 through 6, ESB If you want to turn there, I think that Dwight would want me to Remind you that, or point out that there's a maybe a Bible in front of you, in the seat in front of you, and that that's a. The church's gift to you if you don't have one.
Galatians 3, verses 1 through 6. O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law? or by hearing with faith.
Are you so foolish? having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected By the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain? If indeed it was in vain, Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law? or by hearing with faith, just as Abraham, Believed God.
And it was counted to him. as righteousness. Let's pray now to prepare our hearts. Dear Father, Thank you that there is one gospel. And that the gospel is precisely that we get to call you Father as one of your children.
because Jesus has made this possible. And that you desire for us to joyfully and boldly approach your throne in His name. We who approach your throne empty-handed get to leave filled with the Spirit of your Son, who stays with us and in us. Please continue to increase the power of your spirit within us so that we might better realize the working out of your plans. which are indeed that we would witness to these facts about you, and your relationship to us.
Thank you for your word and the preparation that Pastor Rich has undertaken to help us understand it more fully. Please give us ears to hear all that you intend for us in Christ's name. Amen. Galatians chapter 3. The title of today's message is Spiritual Reverse.
You are missing the point and the power of the gospel. If your walk of faith in Christ. Or Living the Christian life. as it is often put. is reduced to simply keeping a moral code.
We have a tendency to do that. Everyone has their code, their idea of what this is what a Christian is supposed to do, this is what a Christian is not supposed to do. It's an unwritten list, but. Everybody's list is different. That's a problem.
The New Testament Makes it clear. I think, for example, when Jesus was speaking with the woman at the well, he says, the time is coming. When the Father is speaking, is seeking those who will worship Him in spirit. and in truth. Because they were talking about the woman, was introducing the idea of the Jews having to worship at a particular place, and the Samaritans worked at a different particular place.
And as we sang this morning, Jesus perfectly fulfilled the law for us. And so Paul is addressing an issue here, and this was so critical. At the beginning of the church, The gospel of grace in Jesus Christ. When there were these people who came and they were Jews and they were of the Gentile believers, they said, no, if you are truly a believer in Christ, you have to follow the law. If you're truly a believer.
What did Paul say? Mm-hmm. I don't think there's anybody here today that has really been trying hard to actually follow the Mosaic law.
So how does this relate to us today? That moral code. And for most of us, it's unwritten. But the Galatians were struggling with this. Because now they were told by people that they looked up to and respected and said, no, you have to follow the moral code of the law if indeed you are truly.
in Christ.
Now Paul addresses that head on here. And look how he begins. Chapter 3, O foolish Galatians.
Now that's not necessarily how you win friends and influence people. But he is speaking with apostolic authority, and these are churches that he had planted. He loves these people dearly. He's not being cruel here. Not at all.
The word here is ad noetos. Nuetas is the idea to devote one's mind to a subject and you put an A in front of it, and what does that do? It negates it. It vacates it. He says, who has bewitched you?
It's like somebody has cast a spell on you. Probably the idea of hypnosis or something like that. And what he's saying is you've been influenced outside of your God-given capacity to reason. Essentially, what Paul is saying this is you're not thinking through this. You're not thinking through this.
And we can see it so many times, and I've seen it in all my years of being a Christian, growing up. Christian missionary kid. You just don't get any better than I do. Amen. Got somebody fooled, huh?
But I've seen it. I've seen so much of it. You make this decision to become a Christian. And we rejoice about being saved by grace. But that's where grace ends.
And for the rest of your life, you have this notion that you have to work hard to try to live the Christian life. Please listen to me. That is not the gospel of grace. Not at all. This is what Paul is really emphasizing here today.
You're not thinking this through, he says. He says right after that, it was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed and crucified. And this is where he might be using a play on words here, right? Because you know, who has cast a spell on you? You know, and he says, it's before your eyes that we gave eyewitness report.
of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ was vividly described by them. Which is an important point here because He's bearing out, this is historical reality. This is not just myth. This is not just a spiritual truth.
This is real stuff that happened with real people in real time. Christianity is anchored in history.
So think through this with me. He's inviting them in a very pointed way, think through this with me. And what he does is he takes them through four realities of those who are in Christ. Particularly in that day, four realities of the regenerate, I'm calling it. And his question is this, were they achieved by effort?
Or are these realities received by the hearing of faith? It's an important statement right there, the hearing of faith. Because there's a lot of people who hear. The gospel. But do you hear it?
with faith. Is there a surrendered trust? the one that the gospel points you to. That makes a difference.
So these four realities of the regenerate, were they achieved? Did you achieve these things by keeping the law, by doing what you're supposed to do? It's a rhetorical question. The obvious answer is no. But he's walking through this with them.
logically, reasonably.
Okay. Here's the point he's making. The requirement to keep a moral code is a repudiation of the gospel. The requirement to keep a moral code is a repudiation of the gospel. Go back to the last verse of chapter 2.
I do not nullify the grace of God. I do not repudiate the grace of God. For if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. And he is talking positionally as well as progressively. It is God's purpose for each of us to become like Christ.
It is not God's purpose to become perfect law keepers. We're not just More moral people. That's not the point of the gospel. The point is transformation. of becoming like Christ.
This is what he's arguing.
So the four realities, and these are questions. He says, just this one thing, just this, let me ask you only this, and then he goes rapid fire with five questions. Very Pauline, right? He says, number one, have you. Did you receive the Spirit?
Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
So, every believer in Christ, every follower of Jesus is indwelt with the Spirit of God. Stop and think about that for just a moment right now, okay? A lot of churches today that invite the Holy Spirit to come. We do not do that. You know why?
You, we, are the temple of the Holy Spirit. period. If you understand it, when you understand that, that will radically alter your understanding of worship. and the very presence of God. And the resource that you have in Christ.
to become who he designed you to become.
So we do not invite the Holy Spirit to come because he is here. We do not repudiate the gospel that way. You receive the Spirit and we see an example of that in Acts chapter 10 where Cornelius, a Roman centurion, has a vision and then Peter has a vision and Peter sends men down and Cornelius comes up to, or Peter comes up to Cornelius's house. And these Gentiles Not Jews, Gentiles. Are converted, they believe the gospel, and they receive the Holy Spirit, and they start speaking in the same tongues that the apostles and all the converts did on that day of Pentecost, recorded back in Acts chapter 2.
Same gospel, same spirit, same Lord. That's the whole point of that. But now these are Gentiles.
So there is that history there, and the Spirit now is indwelling all who are followers of Christ. It is the mark. of the believer, the follower of Christ, the presence of the Spirit. is the mark of the believer. the Spirit of Christ living in me.
As Paul said, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. How so? Because His Spirit indwells me. And the Spirit, listen, the Spirit is not an it. The Spirit is He.
He is the third person of the Trinity. You are the temple of God. Think about that. You are the temple of God. He is our seal.
He is our guarantee. And yes, I am forgiven in Christ, having placed my faith in Jesus Christ. I am forgiven. But listen, I am not. Just forgiven.
I'm not just the forgiven same old Rich Powell. I'm a new creation. I am a partaker of the divine nature, Peter says, 2 Peter 1:4. This is powerful stuff. And so, Paul is making the point here.
Did this happen? By you doing good good things and keeping the law? Is this how this came about? Obvious answer, no. It's not.
It came through faith. It's something that only God can do. And that's why we need to trust him. And the second is this. Verse 3, are you so foolish?
Again. Really, let's think through this, okay? Think through this. That's what he's inviting him to do. Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
So here's reality number two for the regenerate. You are being perfected. Christians, listen to me. You are being perfected. I am being perfected.
And the church said, Thank you. Let's all say it together now. Ready? I am being perfected. God is doing a work in you.
Who's doing the work? God is. He's doing the work. You can't perfect. yourself.
So, righteousness not coming by the law includes this reality. That you becoming like Christ The perfecting work that God designed and desires for you and is accomplishing for you does not come by keeping a moral code. Because that's not transformation. You are being perfected. It is his purpose for you, whom he foreknew he predestined to be what?
Conformed to the image of Christ. The image of his son. He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ. Colossians 1, 28. Paul the Apostle says, we are teaching you, admonishing you.
Instructing you that we may present everyone mature in Christ. Same word, mature, perfected.
Okay, mature in Christ. What is that maturity? Paul says in Ephesians 2, the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That's what God is doing in every one of our lives. That's His work.
In us.
So, justify, the idea of justified or being justified. includes being made holy. It is the outward working of the inward reality. In our lives.
So, missing the gospel would be just simply relegating my walk of faith to establishing some kind of written or assumed moral code and say, well, if I do this and I don't do this, then I'm becoming more like Christ. Listen to me. No. That's not how it works. Because conformity is not the same thing as transformation.
It is not. It would be like saying, Christ accomplished your redemption and your reconciliation. But the rest is all up to you. And it's not. The rest is not all up to you.
God is doing the work. If he accomplishes your redemption and reconciliation, but you have to accomplish your regeneration and your sanctification. Whatever happened to Romans 8, 29, whom he foreknew, he predestined to be conformed. Because it's his work. It's his work.
So, becoming like Christ is not up to your efforts. That doesn't mean we don't have a part in it. Are you listening to me? All right, because some of you are asking questions. And like I say, questions are okay here.
Some of you have come to me and say, Rich, I'm struggling with this. That's okay. We're taking our time through the book of Galatians, but there is so much that has been taught us over the years. We've simply been taught the imperatives of Scripture. Do this, do that.
And there are imperatives, there are commands in Scripture, but listen to me: unless, until you come to grips with the indicatives of Scripture. you will not be able to do the imperatives of scripture. You have to know what is true about God, what is true about you, what is true about who you are in Christ and what you have and the resources that you have. And you have to know and comprehend those before you are able to. Follow all the imperatives.
of scripture. Very important that we teach that way. It's so clear in the New Testament. Because we are indeed in the New Testament. And indeed, what he was accusing these teachers, these Judaizers, the legalists and the Galatians now, he says it's like you're chopping up the gospel.
It's only part true. Christ does some of it, but then you have to do the rest. That's chopping up the gospel. And that makes it not the gospel. It makes it another gospel.
When he said clearly there is no other gospel.
So, you're not being perfected in the flesh. Your flesh cannot, you cannot perfect yourself. It's not about you. Trying your dead-level best. Hunkering down in true grit, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
I'm just going to be a better person today. That's not transformation. He goes on to say here: look at verse 4: Did you suffer so many things in vain, if indeed it was vain? Verse 4, what is he talking about there? The things that they suffer, these things that they experienced.
Why are they experiencing this suffering? Because in Christ you manifest distinction. In Christ, you manifest to see. I'm reading a fascinating book right now. It's called Strange Religion.
It's about what the Greco-Roman world thought about Christians. in the first century. They were weird, confusing, and dangerous. Because they didn't have a temple, and the Greco-Roman world worship was all about a place. They didn't have a temple, they didn't have blood, they didn't have smoke and sacrifices.
They claim to be the temple of God. They called each other brother and sister and greeted each other that way. These people are strange. And they were threatened by it. Because they did not understand it.
And the unbelieving world is not going to understand the transformation that happens in your life. How many of you when you came to Christ, you lost some friends because of it? It happens because they don't understand. And so the suffering that these Christians have experienced, he said, are you suffering that because you've been keeping the law? Oh, clearly not.
Clearly not. Transformed people live the gospel, and when they live the gospel, they stand out. And unregenerate people don't understand it. And so they're misunderstood and reviled, as Paul said to Timothy, all who desire to live the gospel. All those who live, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ will be persecuted.
It's a striking verse, isn't it?
Now we don't know, we here in the West, we don't know persecution like many of our brothers and sisters around the world do, but you can count on probably this reality that somebody has said something about you behind your back because of your faith.
Some of you have been limited in your career or your work environment because of your faith.
Some of you have been looked down on. I know there's a lot of people in science and academia and things like that that, you know, if you come out and say you believe in this and you're just looked on as, we can't trust you anymore. Because you're a person of faith.
So it happens at many different degrees and levels. But Paul makes it clear when he's writing to the Philippians: this persecution, he says, it is a clear sign of your salvation. Clear sign of your salvation. The implication here that he makes In this point, you're not experiencing persecution for keeping a moral code. The Jews weren't persecuted because they acted Jewishly.
But the Christians were you doing a put-on. That's God making a change in your life. And then the fourth point. He says, look at verse 5 with me. Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Miracles. They happened in the first century church. probably in a way that we're not used to experiencing. How so? The point he's making here is: you, as God's people, you are beneficiaries of God's power.
You see God's power at work in manifest ways. among you as the church. God doing things among us that only God can do.
Now we can give testimony to that. God doing things among us that only God can do.
If indeed, if we as a church only see happening among us things that we can do, We're kind of missing out on something, aren't we? What did they experience? They experienced healings. God providing in miraculous ways. They experience God protecting people in miraculous ways.
And these are, all of these can be attesting signs for the gospel of grace. That's what the writer of Hebrews calls them. 2 Corinthians 12, 12, Paul says, the signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. It was the apostolic era. God was still giving truth to the church.
And the apostles were establishing truth, and the miracles were attesting signs that this indeed is a word from God. Hebrews 2, 4, God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. All of this happening in the church, the congregation of the church. And so Paul is asking them, so let me ask you, is this done simply because you're keeping a moral code? Or is there something far greater going on here?
Well, the answer is obvious. And he goes back to the idea of transformed lives, God's miracle. 2 Corinthians 3:2, you yourselves are our letter of recommendation written on our hearts to be known and read by all.
Somebody asked for Paul's references. Paul, what are your references? Never mind the fact that he had two PhDs in Judaism and Old Testament, had the whole Old Testament memorized, right? And he had three years of walking personally with Christ in the Jesus Christ seminary. Three years of that.
Paul, what are your credentials? Do you know what Paul said? Look at these people whose lives are transformed. He says, those are my credentials. Because it's not about me and what I can do, it's about the gospel of grace in Jesus Christ.
God is in the business of transforming lives. That's what God does. Let me ask you a question. Does God do that by you keeping the law, or is there something far greater going on here? Like the work of the spirit.
That's what he's talking about. He says, All this that I have, these four points that I talk about. Your transformation. the suffering that you're enduring. Receiving the Spirit.
The mighty works of God that you've experienced, is all of this by your effort, or is it by grace through faith in Jesus Christ?
So he challenges, he challenges their regress. to the law. Because these teachers have come in and said, no, you need to keep the law. If you're truly believers, you need to keep the law. He says, have you forgotten all of this awesome stuff that God has done?
without you even keeping the law. The moral, here's an important thing that we need to remember, and this is what Paul teaches us, and he does so well. And we're going to be getting into this in a little more detail as we move on. But the moral code in that day was the law of Moses. The moral code was a trainer to lead us to Christ.
A trainer to lead us to, like a tutor, okay? A trainer to lead us to Christ. It was a foreshadowing of the reality. When the reality came, the reality came in Christ who perfectly fulfilled the law for us. And now that I am in Christ, Christ has perfectly fulfilled the law for me.
Why? Because he paid my debt. to the righteousness of God and his perfect life. His history becomes mine. And he has fulfilled the law for me.
Yeah.
So, why would I go back to that? Why would I, now that the reality has come, why would I now go back to trusting the shadow? I used this illustration before. I'm standing around the corner of a building right here. And I know my wife is coming, and the sun is behind her, and I see her shadow coming.
It's like, there she is, there's my wife. And I get excited because the shadow is telling me she's coming. And I look forward to hugging her. And then she comes around the corner. Yeah.
And then I keep chasing after the shadow.
Now tell me that makes sense. It doesn't. It doesn't. This is the point that Paul is making. Here's the fallacy for us today, in a very practical way of understanding it.
Here's the fallacy. Of thinking that my righteousness, my growing in righteousness, is relegated to a moral code. Here's the fallacy: if I do what I'm supposed to do, Then God will owe me. That's where you'll end up. Remember the parable of a prodigal son?
It's about the prodigal son, yeah. It's about the father, yeah, but it's also about the older brother. And when the prodigal came home and dad threw a party for him, how did the prodigal respond? I've done all this for you all these years, and you've never once thrown me a party. What's he saying?
I've done all I'm supposed to do. You owe me. That's what following a moral code will do to you. And to your faith. It be You will expect God to do something for you that he never promised he would do.
If you think your walk of faith is not a faith is simply keeping a moral code. Paul says in Romans chapter 4. Verse 4. To the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift. but as his due.
If you've earned righteousness, God owes righteousness to you. That's what he's saying. That listen, that's not the gospel. There is no grace in that. No grace at all.
Quid pro quo is ungrace. If you do this, then I'll do this.
So we say to God, God, if I do this, if. If I do this, you owe me this. Listen, quid pro quo is not grace. There's no grace in that at all. And so he's challenging the Galatian believers here.
He says, listen, you've come to Christ. You are now indwelt with the Spirit. You've seen the mighty works of God. People are pushing against the transformation they're seeing in your lives. And all these mighty works of God that are being done among you in the church, the miraculous things that you're seeing, this is all God's doing.
He says, now why do you want to put it in reverse and go backwards? Because the whole gospel of grace is about God doing something that only God can do. God does things that we cannot do, and the law made that very clear to us. We cannot be good enough. To meet the righteousness of God.
Even as regenerate. people. Probably never heard that before, have you? Even as a regenerate person, you cannot be good enough. This is a work that only God can do.
So let me give you an illustration here. Um And this is about the advantage of trusting Christ and not trusting my efforts. This is the point that Paul is making. Your trust needs to be in Christ because if your walk of faith is keeping a moral code, I do these things and I don't do these things, then what you're doing is you're trusting your efforts. To gain the righteousness of Christ.
That's not how the gospel works. And he uses Abraham as an illustration. Abraham was long before the law. And he says, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. How did he believe God?
He didn't have any children yet. And God says to Abraham, look up at the stars. He says, Abraham, one day your children will be as numerous as the stars. And Abraham believed God. Here's the point: he believed God and he acted accordingly.
And it was counted to him as righteousness. And that was long before the law. He believed God. And he walked in that trust. And he believed God to do what?
Things way beyond what Abraham could do. Abraham and Sarah well beyond childbearing years. And yet God has promised them that you will have as many descendants as the stars in the sky. Abraham and Sarah couldn't do that. But God can.
Okay. This is the point that Paul's making. That's what he says in verse 6.
So let me put this in a practical illustration today for us. We have machines and tools that get work done. And a person that I love to watch work. because he really gets stuff done is Nate Carmichael. And he has a little son.
Look at that. That's Aiden. Do you think that boy loves tractors? I'm talking about Aiden. He does.
And he gets out there and he's working with his daddy. Why? Because his dad can get the job done. His dad operates that skid steer. And the sun just absolutely loves it.
Right. Does Aiden have the ability to operate that tractor and do all the work that his daddy does? And so half an hour into this Aiden says, all right, daddy, good enough. You go, I'm going to take over from here. Doesn't make sense, does it?
And this is what Paul is saying to the Galatians. You think you can take over.
Something that only God can do. It doesn't work. It won't work that way. I mean, how will he feel? Supposing daddy does step back and say, okay, Aiden, you take over the controls.
Let's see how things go. How's it going to go? It won't be pretty, will it? Yeah.
Listen to me, Christians. Listen to me. You can't. Can't. Do the righteousness of Christ on your own.
You can't. You can't do it just simply by trying to. Your motives might be there, but you can't do it simply by trying to. If Aiden's going to get the work done, where does he need to be? Sitting on daddy's lap.
Do that. Do that. Because if Aiden, if Nate steps aside and says, okay, son, you're on your own. He's going to get tired of it real quick and then where is he going to go? Back to the trainers.
He's gonna get off of that and go back to the toys, and those toys were just trainers. that were foreshadows of the reality. Let's remember this. To remember this. Paul said.
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. You do not become like Christ. by simply keeping a moral code. You do not become like Christ. by simply keeping a moral code.
Aiden has to sit with dad.
So what does it mean? What does it mean to sit with dad in this analogy? in the Galatians. That's why chapter 5 is in this book. And we're going to get there.
But we need to work up to that, okay? We're gonna get there. But it means to study Christ. It means to follow him. It means to pursue him.
And here's the point. You're pursuing a person. You're not pursuing the performance of a code. You're pursuing a person. And this is all the difference that Paul is bringing out in this.
Because pursuing the person is where the transformation happens. because that changes you at the level of your affections. and your attitudes. To abide in Christ. Why?
Because he, he can do things that I cannot do. Yeah.
Change my heart. He can do that. I cannot. He alone can accomplish reconciliation and regeneration. and scientification.
That's his work. I'm sitting on his lap. Probably many of you are asking the question here now, how do I abide in Christ in all my day-to-day choices and functions? Nate outside there on the skid steer in the woods, tearing things up, like he loves to do. and building things.
How does he abide in Christ while he's doing that? In your work, if you're at the hospital, if you're teaching in a classroom, working in a cubicle, working in the factory. How do you abide in Christ? in all of your day-to-day choices and functions. That's what we need to think about.
We're gonna get there. Yeah.
Christ lives in me. And I live Through faith. In the Son of God. Listen, that's not just something that happened in the past. That's Today, right now.
Tomorrow at 3 o'clock, I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Christ lives through me. How does that happen? It doesn't happen by me just simply trying to be better. Accurate.
So you might be asking, what about discipline? What about obedience? and the spiritual disciplines. It's a good question. And we'll start looking into the promise of God.
This promise of God as Sons. We are now Children of God. And what that means, the word that he uses, what that means is, I'm just giving you a little preview here, but the whole idea that the nature of the parent is handed down to the child. Years ago. walking downstairs, one of the youth came up to me and says, Rich, Ben acts just like you.
Like... Thank you. Yeah.
But so it is for us in Christ. As children of God, we are partakers of the divine nature. And my prayer for you, loved ones, is that we will know. What that means and how that works in the day to day.
So that It's not up to me. to operate this huge task. that I can't even do. What I have to do is sit in daddy's lap. and watch him work.
That's what we'll be talking about when we get further into chapter three and then chapter four. And then Paul brings it. to a beautiful practical head in chapter 5. that hopefully we will understand then The role of the Holy Spirit in my life. the fact, the reality that Christ lives.
Himlet me. And because he lives in me, he lives for me. Roomy. And that is radical transformation.
Okay. In the day today.
So I ask you to pray with me on these matters, that the Lord will open his word to us. This is not new. This is not a new doctrine. We're just simply going through the ancient scriptures. that have been there for millennia.
But pray that the Lord will open his word to us through his Spirit. And rescue us from being the natural legalists that we are. Yeah.
Because every one of us has a tendency when it comes to faith, every one of us has a tendency to think, just tell me what to do. That's not transformation. God Good job. Is after your heart. And your mind.
And it is primarily with the heart and the mind. That we obey God. Think on these things. Stand with me, please. Yeah.
Okay. Father, thank you that you are. Uh sovereign Infinite God. You are gracious, you are good. You are holy.
And you have done everything necessary to accomplish in us the holiness that you desire. Father, I pray that you would rescue us in this room today, rescue us. from all attempts at self-righteousness. From all attempts of just simply trying harder to be better. Father, draw us to yourself.
As you have pursued us and are pursuing us, Father, as we walk with you. As we commune with you, as we delight in you, Father. Find us. sitting in Daddy's lap.
So that you can't get the work done. Father, there are so many testimonies in this room this morning of work that you have done. to draw people to yourself. and to change their lives. To reflect Jesus, we thank you.
that you are so good and gracious in this way. Continue to mold us, Father. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. This message titled Spiritual Reversal was first preached on April 27, 2025.
at Grace Bible Church in Winston-Salem. We're so glad you joined us today for another message in the series from Galatians. titled Our Freedom in Christ. You can find the next message every Monday here at delightingrace.com.
