Gal 5
Are you standing free?
Your freedom in Christ is a costly thing.
It cost Jesus His life.
In Him you stand free.
The yoke of the Law has been removed.
Are you falling?
The fall from grace does not mean to lose one's salvation.
It means to move out of the sphere of grace into the sphere of law.
It means to substitute regulations for a personal relationship with the Lord.
Are you running on course?
Or false teaching has got you on a detour of some kind?
Are you being leavened?
Jesus used leaven to picture sin.
Like yeast, false teaching is introduced quietly.
It grows secretly, and soon it affects every part of your life.
Are you serving others?
Freedom brings with it the responsibility to serve.
Love motivates us to fulfill the law of God.
Are you walking in the Spirit?
Life, not law, changes behaviour.
As you yield to the Spirit, Christ's life is manifested in the fruit of the Spirit.
Law works by compulsion from without, but grace works by compassion from within.
Gal 6
We'll be able to see others humbly.
You know, your response to another's fall reveals your own walk - whether it's spiritual or not.
Pride will make it impossible for you to help the fallen.
But humility will bring blessing to you and them.
You'll see yourself honestly in this passage of Scripture.
Do you use somebody's fall to make yourself look better?
Or do you know yourself, accept yourself, and seek to please God alone?
You'll be able to see leaders appreciatively.
When you give to others whose ministry blesses you, you're sowing seed that will bear fruit.
When you use your resources for sinful purposes you sow to the flesh and will reap a sad harvest.
You'll see the cross clearly.
The false teachers wanted the world's praise, so they avoided the cross.
But the true believer will glory in the cross, even if it means suffering the world's enmity.
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