The law shows us all too clearly the fallen nature of man. We cannot keep even the most basic law that is written on every man's conscience. We stand condemned and cursed. But God Thankfully the hero of the story comes to bear the full condemnation and curse on our behalf. He is Jesus, the Christ.
Isaiah fifty three tells us that he would be crushed for our iniquities. We no longer have to be under the law. but can entrust ourselves to our Lord Jesus. living in faith. surrendering to His work of transformation in us.
What a beautiful treasure we've been given Listen as Pastor Rich shares from Galatians three, ten through fourteen. Turn with me in your copy of the scriptures. For the text for our exposition this morning, Galatians chapter 3, verses 7 through 14. Galatians chapter 3. Verses 7-14.
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith. Preach the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, In you shall all the nations be blessed.
So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written: Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law. and do them.
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for the righteous shall live by faith. But the law is not of faith, rather, the one who does them shall live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.
So that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised spirit. Through faith. Let's pray. Father, we thank you. For Your faithfulness.
We thank you as we've read it. Um From Jeremiah in Lamentations, as he has to call to mind in the midst. Of the history of Israel, specifically captivity and destruction. Um He calls to mind your faithfulness and he has hope. God, we confess, we ask for forgiveness that because at times we do have to call that to mind, we need to remind ourselves that you are faithful.
that you are good. But we thank you. That calling that to mind does produce hope. It does give us expectation that you are good, that you are kind. That you care.
Yeah. Would you please help us now? As we listen to your word. Uh Unpacked for us by Pastor Rich. Would you cause it to dwell deeply in us?
And here sounds like we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. It is a joy of mine to worship with you.
And as I'm worshiping, I enjoy looking around. And as I watch some of you and how you worship. It makes me weep. I know that could be taken the wrong way, but... That's not what I mean.
For many of us do make a joyful noise unto the Lord. But I know some of you are struggling with the brokenness of this creation. You've been abused by the blunt end of someone else's Brokenness. We all experience that brokenness in our And as some of you are experiencing great pain and sorrow, even in the moment.
Some of you have been freed. And it's my joy to watch you dance. We're going to look at Galatians chapter 3 today. Versus 10 through 14. Very simple, very common title: Living by Faith.
But it will it will be to a large degree defined for us today. As I've said before, the point that Paul is making in this letter to the Galatians, if you'll remember.
Okay. Paul started this church. He planted this church by the gospel of grace. All that we've sung about this morning, that Christ came and he redeemed us. He lived a perfect life.
He laid down his life. willing to be hung on a cross and experience the wrath of God in our place. Die, be buried, and rise again. And then ascend back to the Father for our redemption so that you and I can be reconciled to God. There is the gospel.
And as we live in faith, as we entrust ourselves to Jesus Christ, we live by faith in who He is and what He has done.
Now that's the gospel that Paul shared with the Galatian churches, many of them that he started. And then other teachers come along and they say, yes, but if you are truly a believer, this law code, you have to follow that, if you're truly a believer. That's what Paul went to war against. We are naturally legalists. We all have a tendency to say, in our walk of faith, just tell me what to do.
What do I have to do and what should I not do? And that, unfortunately, is how most of the unbelieving world sees the faith. any faith including Christianity. You have your list of things that you don't do and your list of things that you do. And that's what defines your faith.
So the point that he's making here in this letter to the Galatian church, and it's a collection of churches, it's not just one, it's just the churches of Galatia. It's a region. Here's his point. To reduce your walk of faith to a moral code is to miss the point and the power of the gospel. Having begun by grace through faith.
Paul outlines the illogic of resorting to a moral code. Is there obedience in the faith? Yes, there is. Is there discipline? Yes, there is.
But what is the point of our walking? in faith. It is our walking with Christ. Because we have been reconciled to him. And the more we walk with him, The more we become like him, It is a work of divine transformation from the inside out.
That's the gospel of grace. There are two kinds of religions in the world. There's the religion of merit, which is by far the majority. The religion of merit, you perform, and God will accept you. Mm.
And then there's the religion of grace. He has done it for you. You need to trust him. You need to entrust yourself to him.
So, to reduce your walk of faith to a moral code is to miss the point and the power of the gospel.
Now, as he points out, the illogic now of resorting back to a moral code, having begun by grace through faith, and then we resort back to a moral code. He makes four points here that show the illogic of going back that way. Number one is the plane condition of man. The plain condition of man. It is evident that no one is justified before God.
He says, it is evident, verse 11, that no one is justified before God by the law. He says, it is evident. Why would he say? It is evident. In verse 10, Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law and do them.
Cursed be everyone. He's quoting Deuteronomy 27. Remember, we just finished studying Deuteronomy not long ago. And we are Grace Bible Church. But why would we be studying Deuteronomy?
It's the law. Because behind every law was a principle that reflected the character of holy God. That's its benefit to us. But one thing the law makes abundantly clear, and that Paul is pointing out, was the necessity of the gospel, was the plain condition of man, and that is this. It is impossible for man to do this.
You take the law, all of the laws, every last one of them, that are delineated in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy. Take all of those laws. It's impossible for anyone to do them. All of them.
Now, let me bring it to here today, because as I've said before, I don't know that there's too many of you in here who are really preoccupied about keeping the law of Moses. You can't. It's not even possible. But many of you do have moral codes for yourselves. And you make those moral codes for yourselves.
You can't even keep that. You say, Rich, how do you know? 'Cause I'm human just like you. And whatever list of do's and don'ts that you make for yourself, you can't even keep that. Aren't you glad our faith doesn't depend on that?
It's the gospel of grace. It is very evident, because of that alone, it is very evident that man is a lawbreaker. Yeah. My father-in-law used to say laws are made to be broken. It was a joke.
He was a law-abiding citizen, I promise. But man is a lawbreaker. Malcolm Mugridge. was a journalist, author. of the 20th century.
Highly respected, came to Christ. He says this: the depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality. but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. Let me translate that for you. It is utterly inescapable that man is sinful.
But at the same time, man works so hard. to try to deny it. Man worked so hard. And the most intellectually resisted fact, man works so hard to just keep that out of his mind, one of two ways: denial of the sinful brokenness. You know, there's a lot of people today here today that believe man is basically good.
World history tells a different story. But people will deny their own sinfulness and brokenness. Or Man will tend to believe Is that? I can redeem myself. And that's the default.
of humanity, isn't it? That's the default. I can redeem myself. I just have to be good enough. I have to do enough good stuff.
That is. intellectually intellectually resisting the fact of human depravity.
Okay. It's the default direction of human thought.
So, the plain condition of man is the first point that the apostle makes: that it is illogical to resort, having begun by faith through grace. By grace through faith, it is illogical to resort back to the law, to a moral code. Here's the second point, a clear statement of the scriptures. A clear statement of the scriptures, and that is, the righteous shall live by faith. And here he's quoting Habakkuk 2, verse 4.
The righteous shall live by faith.
So he says that in verse 11 here in our text today. But also in Deuteronomy chapter 4, verse 4, you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. Remember Moses speaking to the next generation of Israelites who had. Their parents had come out of Egypt. Right?
Crossed the Red Sea to Mount Sinai, received the law, said, All right, God has promised you a land. Go in, take the promised land. They send in spies. Ten come back and say, it's a beautiful land, but we can't do it.
Well, what about we can't do it? Yeah, but what about we can't do it? And God said, okay. If you insist on it, have it your way. God's willing to do that, you know.
It doesn't usually turn out very pretty when you insist on having your way and God steps back and seconds the motion. He will let you. Parents, this is a good parenting tactic, by the way. Step back and second the motion if your child insists on doing something. And then later ask them, how'd that work out for you?
Okay, I'm getting blank stares there. And so, this next generation became, he had to give them the law all over again. That's what Deuteronomy is: second law. You go into the promised land. Your parents disbelieved.
Now you go in, take the land, trusting God. Yes, it's going to take work, it's going to be hard, but trust God because He's fighting for you. He has promised you this land, so take him at his word. And that's why he says in Deuteronomy 4:4, you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. That's faith.
They cast themselves like Abraham. And David. Different times in the Old Testament, they cast themselves upon the faithfulness of God. That's faith. Mm.
Paul? Here in chapter 2 in verse 20. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
So That clear statement of scripture that the just shall live by faith. is something that we have to remember. It does not say the just will live by keeping a good moral code. The just will live by faith. Here's the third point in Paul's argument in the illogic of resorting back to a moral code.
And point number three is the condemning nature of the law. The condemning nature of the law. What he says in verse 12: but the law is not of faith. Rather, the one who does them shall live by them. He talks about being under the curse of the law.
Here's the truth. The law is based on Doing. The law is based on performance. Here's the stark reality. You break the law, you get the penalty of the law.
How many of you have received A traffic ticket. Don't raise your hands. 'Cause then we'd have to gossip, right? Yeah. Some of you have broken the law.
Some of you have, if you break the law, the whole point is you pay the penalty for breaking the law. That's how the law works. You see, there's no grace in that. Here's a key point to understand here, all right? God gave the law.
And it's a reflection of his, of the righteous requirement of God's holy character. Here's why it's impossible for you and me. Only perfect performance could win divine approval. No. Only perfect performance could win divine approval.
How many of you can do that? Didn't think I'd see any hands. You see, we know we're imperfect. It says, the one who does them shall live by them. That's quoting Leviticus chapter 18, verse 5.
And it's also mentioned numerous times in the book of Ezekiel. Right? But in other words, here's the point that he's saying, and this is borne out in Deuteronomy chapter 28. When Moses is, he's finally given them the whole second law, right? And he says, listen.
You are blessed if you do these things, all of them. You are cursed if you don't. Every last one of them. Every one of them. Yeah.
Here's how James puts it: James 2:10. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of what? Every bit of it. Every bit of it. You know what that is?
Hmm. In the law. It's an ongoing requirement. Under the law, it's an ongoing requirement every day. All day.
You have to keep. every last one of the laws. Every day. all day. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 3 says that's why the law required sacrifices, because what did the sacrifices do?
They were a reminder of sin. You've broken the law. And it's a given. It's what everyone does. This is the condemning nature of the law.
And this is why, here in this paragraph, he refers to: you ready for this? The curse of the law. The curse of the law is just simply this. You break the law, you get the penalty of the law. The curse of the law.
The curse of the law is the weight of God's holiness and justice. His holiness and his justice.
Now, let me illustrate this for you.
Okay, here you are, and up above you, all right, God says, All right, here is the righteous requirement because I am holy, and I expect you to be holy. Here is how you behave in holy fashion. Because I am holy. And it's like this chain that is above you. And the chain has many links, right?
Every single link. represents one law. And at the end of that chain, Are two massive weights. Number one, the holiness of God. Number two, the justice of God.
And here they are hanging right over your head. And every link in that chain represents one law. And God says you need to keep every one of those laws. Here's what happens. This massive weight of the holiness and the justice of God is over your head.
You break one law. What happens? You break one link in that chain, what happens? The full weight of God's holiness and justice comes crashing down on you. That leads us right into the fourth point that Paul argues for the illogic.
Mm-hmm. resorting back to a moral code. And that is the redeeming work of Christ. The redeeming work of Christ. Verse 13.
Look at it. Verse 13. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. By becoming a curse for us. We sang about that this morning.
Cursed is everyone who's hanged on a tree, the mercy tree. Cursed is everyone who's hanged on a tree. He became a curse for us. In other words, the weight of the holiness and the justice of God, he was crushed under the weight of God's holiness and justice that we deserve. Why?
Because we broke the chain. Look at Isaiah chapter fifty-three, verses five and six. He was crushed. He was crushed for our iniquities. The Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Behold the gospel of grace. You look at any other faith system in the world and ask them this question: Does your God do this? Jesus Christ perfectly carries. The weight Of God's holiness and justice. And when you entrust yourself to Him, you are on His shoulders.
When you entrust yourself to him. Mm-hmm. And that is what it is meant by. In Christ. In Christ.
Jesus, verse 14, so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles. That's us. In Christ Jesus. When you entrust yourself to Him, you are in the grip of His grace. And he Having received the full blow of God's holiness and justice.
now carries you and protects you From the curse of the law. He has satisfied the curse of the law. Why would we go back to it? Doesn't make sense. That's what Paul argues.
And so he says, those who are in Christ might receive the blessing of Abraham. It'll come to the Gentiles so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
So the blessing and the promise. He's laid out those four points: the illogic of having begun by grace through faith, and then the illogic of going back to a moral code, the curse of the law. Put yourself back under the curse of the law. Why would you go back to the law knowing you can't even keep the law? It's why Jesus had to come in the first place.
The blessing and the promise. First of all, the blessing of Abraham. What is the blessing of Abraham? Here it is. You ready for this?
Credited righteousness. Credited righteousness. My son Corey and his wife Manu just had an anniversary, their fifth anniversary. I know, it blows my mind too. They had their fifth.
They just moved to Greenville, South Carolina. Right fifth anniversary.
So what did I do? Gave them a gift. How did I do that? I credited their bank account from my bank account. We have credited righteousness.
It's the old English hugely theological word imputation. Credited righteousness. That's why it requires faith. What is faith? When I entrust myself to Jesus Christ.
Why? Because he is the one who's taken the blow of the righteous requirement of the law. And now I rest in him. And he gives me his righteousness. He took my sin.
and the wrath that I deserve. And now he gives me his righteousness. Isn't that awesome? That's the gospel of grace. Why on earth would anyone feel the need to go back to the law?
Because the law says you're guilty. Grace says Hear God saying. You're free. Thank you, Father. You're mine.
I see the righteousness of Jesus covering you. That's what Grace says. Credited righteousness. In him we become the righteousness of God. That is, listen, that is the only way, that is the only way to become acceptable to God.
Unless you think you can perfectly keep The law. Good luck with that. It's pretty clear I can't. God is perfect in holiness. And if we are to enjoy him, we must be too.
And therefore, it's not a righteousness or goodness, a righteousness that we can achieve. We can't do that. It is a righteousness which we must receive, credited righteousness. And it's done so by faith. When I entrust myself to Jesus, I take God at His word and I entrust myself to Him.
And when I do that, he says it's even more, you know, you're not just forgiven. You are forgiven. Maybe you're not just for you then. You received the promised Holy Spirit. He says here at the end of verse 14, that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
What is the promised Holy Spirit? Very briefly, it is God's continual presence. and his transforming power. The promised Holy Spirit is God's continual presence and his transforming power. That's why God gives us His Spirit.
God residing in us. Very well put in the song.
Well sing out my soul very well put in that song. You become The household of God. The temple of God. The temple of God today does not exist in a brick-and-mortar fashion. The Temple of God today exists in flesh and blood fashion.
in our lives. I am the temple of the Spirit of God myself. We are, as God's people, corporate, we are the temple, the household of God. And that represents God's continual presence. and his transforming power.
To what end? to become like Jesus Christ. who lived a perfect life for us.
So we become like him, perfect in his humanity. And just in case you're wondering, you have not arrived yet. Yeah. Just ask me, I know. If you still think, I will ask your spouse.
Okay. And if they're convinced, then I will ask your kids. No one has arrived. Not even the man who wrote this letter, he says, I don't believe I have arrived. I'm not that deluded.
But I forget what's behind and I what? Press forward. I press forward. In other words, it's a process and it's a daily journey every day becoming more and more like Jesus Christ. Not because I'm fulfilling a list of everything I'm supposed to do and not doing everything I'm not supposed to do.
That's not why. No, because I'm walking with Christ. And the more I walk with him, the more I become like him. That's how grace works. Through faith, he says, receive the promised spirit through faith.
What is faith? Taking God at his word and entrusting myself to him. As it was said of John Stott, John Stott said of Abraham the other day, Abraham cast himself upon the faithfulness of God.
So God has come to us and he said, Look, my son Jesus, he has taken the blow of my wrath that you deserve. And when you trust him. And entrust yourself to him, you cast yourself upon him, you get his righteousness, the blessing of Abraham, credited righteousness. And that way we can live in the outflow of it. Not trying harder to be better.
But making it our life's ambition. to know God and to walk with Him. and thereby becoming more like him. The statement that he makes here. Those who do them, at the end of verse 12, the one who does them shall live by them.
The one who does them shall live by them. In other words, he's reinforcing here: if you choose to make your faith about keeping the law, keeping a moral code, then you do it, but you have to do it perfectly because that's how you will stay alive. If you don't do it perfectly, the full weight of that penalty comes down crashing on you. The one who does them shall live by them. So there was a lawyer in Jesus' day.
You say, well great, here comes a lawyer qu uh Joke is it is not a joke. This is one of the one of the best known parables in all of scripture. Luke chapter 10: There was a lawyer who came to Jesus, and what did the lawyer want to do? He wanted to test Jesus with figures.
Okay. He wanted to test him. Lord, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus, in good Jewish fashion, right, Eric, he answers with a. question Mm-hmm.
What is written in the law? How do you read it? And he answers well: You shall love the Lord your God with all your whole heart, with all your soul. with all your strength and all your mind. And love your neighbor as yourself.
And what was Jesus' answer? You answer correctly, and then he says, What? Do this, and you will live. Every bit of it. You have to do every bit of it because if you have one infraction of doing, do you ever have a moment where you are not particularly happy with your neighbor?
I gather by your giggles that that is true. Whoever that neighbor is. Do you ever have moments where you're not fully loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength? Jesus said, Do that and do this and you will live. None of us does it perfectly.
You break one, you break them all.
So the lawyer. Typical lawyer fashion, sorry, Nathan. Um It gets down to the nitty-gritties. You know the specifics, 'cause lawyers read everything. Right.
He's into the fine print now. And so he has another question. Wanting to justify himself. He has another question.
Okay, but who's my neighbor? Wow, you see what he did there? There are certain times it's okay to hate somebody, but you know, if my neighbor is really my neighbor, then I have to love them as I love myself. And so Jesus embarks on one of the best-known parables of all of his ministry: the parable of the Good Samaritan.
So he tells the story of this man who is on a journey and he gets robbed. He gets robbed, stripped of everything he has, and he's beaten. And he's left by the side of the road for dead. This man's in a world of hurt. And as he's laying there, The perpetrators of Aria are they're long gone.
As he's laying there in a world of pain, A Levite comes by. A priest comes by. Priest sees him, and what does he do? Goes the other side of the road and keeps going. A Levite does the same thing.
So, in today's equivalent, the priest would be: let's say the priest is a pastor.
Okay? Godly man. Everybody looks up to him. Um Then a Levite comes by, and what is the equivalent of a Levite today, a seminary student? Mm.
Because they know everything. Don't tell them, you'll shatter their worlds.
Okay. What does he do? He does the same thing as the priest. Godly men, they were the picture of holiness and goodness and righteousness and moral living. and keeping the law.
And then a Samaritan comes by, and who are the Samaritans to the Jews? They're hated. They're filthy people. But Jesus says a Samaritan comes by, and what does the Samaritan do? The Samaritan reflects the compassion and the grace of God.
How he invests in the man who's hurting. What does he invest? He invests time. He stops his journey. He takes care of the man.
He bandages him up. He puts him on his beast of burden and he carries him to the next town, to the inn in that town. He cares for him. And apparently, according to Jesus' parable, he stays overnight there taking care of this man who's in a world of hurt. And then he says to the innkeeper, he said, Here's two days.
Wages. Two days' wages to take care of this man. I need to go on my journey. When I come back, if it costs you more than this, two days' wage, okay, in North Carolina, the average salary, if you will, if you put it down to an hourly wage, the average salary is about $34 an hour. It's average.
So let's say it's about $540, two days wages, $540. The Samaritan pulls out $540 and says to the innkeeper, take care of him, minister to his needs, make sure he feels better, give him food and water, change his dressings, all of that stuff. And when I come back, if it costs more money, then I will take care of that.
So not only is he investing time and care and money now, he says, and later, later on, I will still keep investing in this person. How's that for commitment by this? filthy individual. Which one was the neighbor? That's the question that Jesus asked the lawyer, and the lawyer asked correctly: I suppose the one who showed him care.
Jesus said, Bingo. That's a rich power translation. Fixated on They're hustled to keep the law. The priest and the Levite hated their neighbor. See, Richard doesn't say he hated.
Yes, it does. Because you know what hate is? Hate is indifference. It doesn't it's not like they were like Oh, he deserves it. I hate that man.
I hope he dies. That's not what they did. It doesn't say that was what they did. But in in biblical language and nuance to hate is to be indifferent towards someone. indifferent towards their need and their plight.
The law. Yeah. Fixed It keeps us fixated on specifics. The specifics of behavior. and the labels of others.
It's what the law does. Grace through faith prompts the actions from the heart that reflect God. It's a practical look at what it means to live by faith. Becoming like Christ. Why?
Because we're walking with him. Not because Christ says, do this, this, this, and this, and don't do this, this, and this, and this. No, that's not why. I mean, he does say some of that. But the whole point is that I am walking with him and the more I walk with him, the more I study him, the more I commune with him.
The more I follow in his steps, the more I become like him. Listen, folks, that's why there's four Gospels. We need to study Christ. Beginning in the Old Testament. through the Gospels and all the way through the New Testament.
Study him, know him, walk with him. This is the gospel of grace. It does not take us back to the law. And I know there are some teachers today who will say something like that. I disagree with them on that point.
Jesus does not take us back to the law. Jesus fulfilled the law. Jesus takes us to God. He takes us to the Father. as we walk with him.
The gospel of grace liberates us. from the burden of conformity. and empowers us to demonstrate God's character. Please know that. The gospel of grace liberates us from the burden of conformity and empowers us to demonstrate.
God's character.
Okay. It empowers us. That's the Holy Spirit in us.
Okay. It's not following a code, it's following Christ and His Spirit transforming us at the core of our being so that our goodness is an outflow. of the reality that exists within. in day-to-day life. Because as Paul said very clearly, But now you are released.
Now we are released from the law. which held us captive. We have died to the law. having been released to that which held us captive. Those are Paul's words, the same one who wrote this letter.
Now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive. Does that sound like we need to go back to the law? It does not. Not in any bit. We are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive.
To what end? To serve in the new way of the Spirit, not in the old way of the written code. Romans 7, 6. Know that verse. Know that verse.
It is such a hopeful and empowering and liberating verse. And that's why Paul writes this letter to the Galatian churches. This is what it looks like to live by faith. It doesn't take you back to keeping a moral code. Not even one you create for yourself.
Because the chances there are that if you create a moral code for yourself, you're going to work the best you can to keep it, and then you're going to congratulate yourself about how well you keep that, even though you've broken some of it. Doesn't work. Jesus says, Cast yourself upon me. The way he said it was, take my yoke upon you. And you will find what?
Rest. Unto your souls. for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. That's not what Paul says about the law. Mm-hmm.
Okay. Meditate, contemplate these things, please, loved ones. What does it look like to live by faith? It's not about keeping a moral code. Yeah.
That's not good either. Let's entrust ourselves to Jesus. Study him. Walk in his steps. Commune with him.
And the more you walk with him, the more you become like him. Stand with me, please. Father, I pray that as We have unpacked the treasures of your truth this morning. That, in spite of the messenger, Father, that you would take your word. and plant it deep in us and shape and fashion us.
in the likeness of your Son, the Lord Jesus. May your Spirit have free reign to work within us, Father. To conform us to his image, to the image of Jesus. May we freely give him that, Father, as we walk with Jesus. Commune with him.
Study him. and follow in his steps. Thank you, Father. for the grace that you have lavished upon us. and the freedom that comes with it.
Thank you for your forgiveness. Thank you for your transforming power. Thank you for your Holy Spirit to indwell us. Lord, help us to contemplate these things, meditate upon them. Through the course of the week, in our discussions, our conversations with each other.
in care group around the dinner table. With our friends, relatives, associates, and neighbors, even. Father, may we indeed live as people who are free. We thank you for that. In Jesus' name and for his sake.
Amen. This was living by faith. A message first preached on May 18, 2025 at Grace Bible Church in Winston-Salem. The series from Galatians, Our Freedom in Christ, continues here next Monday at delightingrace.com.
