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Paul says that the law is fulfilled in the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.” But how does such love fulfill the whole law?
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What does it mean to love your neighbors as yourself? It means you seek their good with the same passion with which you seek your own, and you find your joy in theirs.
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What prevents us from using our freedom in Christ as an opportunity to indulge the flesh? A life of faith is the opposite of a life in the flesh.
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When God sovereignly calls us, he opens our eyes to see and embrace the beauty of Jesus. And that call grants freedom from obeying the law as a means of being justified.
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Why does Paul use such shocking language against the false teachers in Galatia — and how should his rebuke inform the way we speak?
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Why is the cross so offensive to fallen man? Because the cross declares that no amount of human effort or law-keeping can make us right with God.
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More than once, how Paul feels toward certain Christians increases his confidence in their salvation. How does that kind of confidence work?
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A little leaven, even just a little, leavens the whole lump. Mix a little law with the gospel, and you surrender the ground of grace.
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What kind of faith unites us to Christ so that we are counted righteous before God? The faith that bears the fruit of love.
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The church may be mocked, accused, and slandered now. But a day is coming when God will silence any doubt about his people’s righteousness.
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When Paul talks about being severed from Christ, does he imply that true Christians can lose their salvation?
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Those who seek to be justified by the law sever themselves from Christ, fall away from grace, and commit eternal suicide.
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The law cannot be divided — break but the smallest commandment, and you are guilty of all. We cannot be right with God through the law.
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If you claim works as part of the basis of being right with God, you trade grace for law, and you cancel every blessing of Christ from your life.
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If you try to be justified under the law, you will remain under the curse. But if you stand firm in the grace of the gospel, you will enjoy true freedom.
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Through the gospel of grace, Jesus Christ sets Christians free in order that they may remain free. Don’t turn back to slavery.
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Christians are not slaves, but free. We are right with God not by works of the law, but by faith. We are born not of the flesh, but of the Spirit.
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Children of promise are children born as the answer to a promise. Every Christian is a child spoken of beforehand, a fulfillment of God’s promise.
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Abraham’s wife, Sarah, spent her childbearing years barren — but God fulfilled his promise to her. What can this experience teach us about Jesus’s work on the cross?
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According to Paul, the Christian’s true home is the Jerusalem above — a heavenly city whose citizens are born of God and utterly free.
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