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Galatians 2:17
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
Watch for it. Don’t miss this. Peter who had been enjoying his liberty and freedom among the Gentiles quickly moved away from them and deferred back to the Law when he feared certain others who had not moved into the liberty he was experiencing in Christ. The Bible calls this being found IN SIN, and that Christ was not leading Peter in this direction. Christ is leading no one to any object of faith other than what He did by faith at the cross for ALL. God forbids that we think that just because we have been justified through faith in the blood of Christ, that now trusting in anything other than His atoning work will allow us to WALK as justified before Him.
Paul uses the word, “Found” because our daily experience is of utmost importance to the Lord. He again uses it in Philippians 3:9 as he says he desires to “Be Found” in Christ, not having his own righteousness, but rather the Righteousness which is of God by faith. Peter remained justified, but his works were not found proper before God, and again I remind us that our works cannot be found perfect before our Lord (Revelation 3:2-5) when our faith is not in the Perfect Savior and His Perfect Sacrifice. The danger is of having one’s name blotted out of the Book of Life (Revelation 3:5). We better cling to the Word of God over what some preacher or grandmother tells us. Peter and the Jews with him had to choose again that in which they would trust, and thank the Lord, they turned and trusted in Christ again. Will we?
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7/7/2020
Dealing with fear is an uncomfortable situation and a common ailment of being human. Whenever the unexpected happens, when the thing most dreaded becomes a reality, or when the unthinkable and unimaginable event occurs, we will experience fear. It may last for just a moment or it may linger uncomfortably around the door of our heart, trying to force its way into our beings. It desires to remain there as a permanent irritating resident. The true dilemma we face is not, “Will fear show up?” The real question is “What do we do with the fear we encounter? The Bible assures believers that God is always in attendance and His promised presence should be the blanket that covers and smothers every “breath” of fear. He has promised that all who trust in Him will not be ashamed. I am so grateful that I have a God I can lean on in difficult times. His promises secure my heart and settle my mind with peace, especially in the event of a fearful situation. Truly, He is the God of all peace and He enables His people to face adversity with strength and assurance of victory! Those who rest in Him will not be put to shame!
Philippians 4:7 - And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Galatians 2:18
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
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Please notice the context of the words, “If I build again” as words that are referring to the way in which we live. We live the way we do because we think the way we do, and we think the way we do because we believe the way we do. Paul is saying here that what Peter and the others who had followed him into hypocrisy had done, was to attempt to rebuild that which God had done away with in Christ. Christ had become the end of the Law for Righteousness (Romans 10:4), and now God had begun working according to a new Law and a new Priesthood (Romans 8:2, Hebrews 7:12).
No one can please God in the flesh, much less be justified by Him, for all that attempt to please Him in the flesh are actually at enmity with Him, even if it is done in ignorance (Romans 8:8). Living with our faith in anything other than Christ and His work at the cross makes us live AS transgressors, all the while thinking our actions are right with God because of all the things we are doing that are obviously right things. When we move away from faith in the cross, we move away from God’s Grace (Galatians 1:6, 5:1-4, Revelation 3:1-6). Does AA, Celebrate Recovery, The Purpose Driven, The Government of 12 and the many other things men have come up with in an attempt to help God help us really work? Simply put, FAITH WORKS, and only FAITH in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. While we are trusting in anything else that may seem right, and may even cause many to follow along with us, it will only be that of flesh and form but with no power. Let us be FOUND once again today denying ourself, taking up our cross, and following our faithful Lord Jesus!
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7/8/2020
Choosing to walk with Christ is an internal choice and an eternal decision. Faith rises up in the inner man in response to truth that has been proclaimed to us. Faith may come by means of a sermon, it may travel to one through a song, or may arrive by way of the reading of God’s Word. When a person senses faith to believe that Christ died for our sins and then acknowledges themselves as a sinner, they should immediately respond and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. The moment that they do, the miracle of regeneration takes place. They are transformed into a new creation in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit takes up residence within them. The soul and the spirit of that person is wondrously equipped to carry out an ongoing relationship with the living God. The power of sin is broken. Past sins are forgiven and cast as far away as the East is from the West. And one day when the journey on this earth is over, they will enter into the presence of God to live forever and ever. So the choice that you make concerning Christ is an internal choice that will continue to bring benefits into your life for all eternity.
Psalm 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
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Through any attempt to keep laws or regulations to live for God produces death because faith in anything other than Christ and His work at Calvary is a sin and the wages of sin is death. The Law of the Old Covenant had to be done away with because it could not do what needed to be done in, to, for and through man (Romans 8:3). Christ was the end of the Law for Righteousness (Romans 10:4), therefore faith in anything other than Christ and what He did at the cross can produce nothing but death. It is so sad to watch many today, and I speak of my own personal past experience, attempting to live for God through trusting in their own works.
The curse of the Law is death to all who attempt to live according to it, and let’s make sure we understand that Law is ANYTHING that I think I can do to work my way into heaven, or to produce Righteous fruit even after I’m saved. We can do NOTHING without Christ (John 15:5), meaning there can be NO fruit without Him. This means trusting In Him, referring to who He is AND what He did at the cross for ALL. The Law held us ALL captive in death (Ephesians 2:1, Colossians 2:13), and separated us from the Lord, for even the Believing Jews couldn’t go to heaven when they died, but only Paradise which was a temporary holding place as they awaited Christ. We must believe upon Christ to be FORGIVEN and DELIVERED from the Law, its curse and death. He alone paid the price for us ALL at the cross, and awaits everyone to believe upon Him today! The cross was enough, so don’t add to it!
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7/9/2020
One of the works of the Holy Spirit, who resides in the heart of every truly Born-again believer, is to bring assurance of salvation. The scriptures teach us that the third person of the triune God-head moves inside every believer upon conversion. As we soon discover, the adversary of our soul, Satan, will try to confuse us with his lies. But one of the works of the indwelling Holy Spirit is to lead believers into... all truth. One of Satan’s most poignant lies is to try to convince the believer that he or she is not saved. These lies are most effective right after the Christian stumbles, they fail God, or when they sin. Then, coupled with the sense of guilt that arrives with failure, comes an all out effort to eliminate the security we have in Christ. I am not a believer in unconditional eternal security. I am a believer in eternal security, that which is maintained by faith. As long as the believer continues to believe, he or she is secure. We do not lose our salvation over an act, we lose our salvation by losing our faith. The Holy Spirit is there to assure us at all times that we are secured in Christ through the agency of faith alone.
Romans 8:16 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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Paul here reveals that it is no longer the Law he is attempting to live up to, but rather that he is identified with and trusting in Christ and His great atoning sacrifice at the cross. He does not say, “I was crucified”, but rather, “I am crucified”, because Jesus taught a daily denial of self, and a daily taking up of our cross, which is faith in what He did there for us, to be able to follow Him (Luke 9:23). Paul says that he IS crucified with Christ, the last Adam, who is the last representative of ALL men. Nevertheless Paul claims that he is also alive, because the Resurrected Christ lives in Him.
We learn through this one verse of scripture that the Children of God live exclusively by the faith of Jesus, which led Him to Calvary for ALL of humanity. Jesus lived and died by Grace (Hebrews 2:9) through faith perfectly, His Righteous work at Calvary (Isaiah 32:17, Colossians 1:20), becoming the ONLY avenue through which God will impart ALL Grace and Righteousness to those who will believe upon Him. The measure of faith we have obtained (Romans 12:3, 2 Peter 1:1) was given to us as we believed in what He did by Grace through faith for us on the cross. THAT faith and THAT faith alone works by love (Galatians 5:6), therefore let us make sure today THAT is what we are trusting in, for there we will find the promised GRACE we need each and every day!
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7/10/2020
Jesus told His disciples that He planned on making them “fishers of men.” This meant that Jesus’ ministry was all about saving to the uttermost those who would accept Him as Messiah and Savior. For those who would believe in Him, they could expect His provision, His help, His guidance, as well as His loving correction. There is never any indication that Jesus ever intended to ”throw back” any of those whom He would “cat...ch” with His gospel net. I am glad that He looks at me as a “keeper,” one He has future plans for. Any good fisherman understands that the joy of catching is always followed by the responsibility of cleaning. Jesus did not just come to catch me and save me from my sin but it was always His intention to continually sanctify me of all filthiness of flesh and spirit. So continue to believe today that even though we might not understand everything that is going on around us, our relationship with Christ is secure. As we cling to Him by faith and trust exclusively in His finished work on Calvary, He promises to make us what we need to become. He will not quit until the total cleansing that is needed in our lives is accomplished by grace through faith!
2 Corinthians 7:1 - Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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This is a PARAMOUNT Scripture in the Word of God, as it reveals the importance of one’s faith being exclusively in the Cross of Jesus Christ (His death) to be able to receive Saving Grace as the declaration of Righteous before the Lord. Note here that Paul is speaking of what he is refusing to do to the Grace of God now that he is born again. He says that he refuses to frustrate God’s Grace, and the word, “Frustrate” literally means to deny or to set aside. He was dealing with those who were being tempted to resort back to Law/Works, which would be a denial and a setting aside of the Grace of God.
The focus here is the AVENUE through which Righteousness comes, whether it be the initial status as Saved and Righteous before God, or if it be the status of our daily fruit before God. If we are trusting in Christ’s death for us, which is what He did by Grace (Hebrews 2:9) at the cross, our fruit will be that which God is also looking for, but if we are trusting in anything other, we are in fact telling the Lord that His Sacrifice wasn’t enough. Remember Israel of old attempted to manipulate God by building an altar right beside the golden calf (Idol) they had built (Exodus 32), but God would have no part of it, and today it remains the same. This is the reason for the letter to the Galatians, so that they would not be carried away into that which is not of God while thinking they were walking with Him. Most in the Church today are denying God’s Grace while thinking they are walking with Him. Come back to the Cross!
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7/11/2020
The Bible plainly states that God will not reveal Himself to the proud, the arrogant, the wise, or those who deem themselves prudent. In fact, not only will God not reveal Himself to a prideful individual but God will go even further and firmly conceal things from this kind of person. Often times, the moment of revelation comes after a time of great hurt, desperation, or loneliness. God always knows what we need and how to bring it to us. But God will hold back the information we need until we humble ourselves before Him. Jesus said that God revealed Himself only to ”babes.” This has nothing to do with age and much more to do with the attitude of our heart. Those who are humble, those who are small in their own eyes, those who have no faith in self, are far more likely to receive insight and illumination relative to their situation. God will sometimes have to take us through the fire or nearly drown us in the water before we embrace a proper attitude. Would it not be better if we simply lived with a low opinion of ourselves? Then we would always be ready to receive from God exactly what we need at any given time on any given day.
Matthew 11:25 - At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
If God would move an entire sea to protect his people, imagine what he will do for you and I if we just believe him! Yes, this situation is impossible, but only for man, definitely not for God!!
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
The Galatians were now being tempted to follow after those who claimed Christ and His Atonement was not their answer for Salvation, but rather circumcision was that through which God would save (Acts 15:1). Any Christian who is carried away through the lust of their own flesh with the thought that they can work their way into Eternal Life, will live as do the foolish (Ephesians 5:15). Faith in anything other than Christ and His atoning work at the cross eliminates us from the Grace of God (Galatians 1:6, 2:21, 5:1-4). Paul here relates their initial saving faith as that of obeying the Truth, which was their faith in Christ and what He did at the cross. He preached the gospel to them, and their hearts had believed unto THAT Righteousness, and it had been as if Christ had been crucified even among them.
When one moves their object of faith from the cross to anything other, even if done in ignorance, they are no longer obeying the Truth, which is simply trusting in the Truth of Jesus Christ and His work of Righteousness carried out for them at the cross. Believing the message of the Cross is Obeying the Truth in God’s eyes (Romans 6:17-18). The Galatians were being corrected by the Lord through the Apostle Paul, and I’m thankful that I have heeded the same words of correction. The Lord is today bringing many out of that which causes them to be only foolish in His eyes and back to the place of serving Righteousness (Romans 6:17-18), and bringing forth fruit for His glory! Can you hear the call out of that which only has form, but no power? The preaching of the cross is the power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18). Will you believe Him today?
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7/12/2020
