Dec2017
Have I now become your enemy by telling the truth?
What has become of the goodwill you felt? For I testify that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? (verses 15, 16) Read Galatians 4:12-20 Paul is talking to the Galatians about the relationship that… Read more
Dec2017
The adopted children of God
It is through faith that all of you are God’s children in union with Christ Jesus. You were baptised into union with Christ, and now you are clothed, so to speak, with the life of Christ himself. So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free people, between men and women;… Read more
Dec2017
Prepare the way of the Lord
This is the Good News about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It began as the prophet Isaiah had written: ‘God said, “I will send my messenger ahead of you to clear the way for you.” Someone is shouting in the desert, “Get the road ready for the Lord; make a straight path for him… Read more
Dec2017
Making ‘lucky’ blessed again
LORD, you have been merciful to your land; you have made Israel prosperous again. You have forgiven your people’s sins and pardoned all their wrongs. (verses 1, 2) Read Psalm 85:1, 2; 8-13 Australia has always been a richly blessed country. Australia felix – Australia the blessed country – Sir Thomas Mitchell the explorer, called… Read more
Dec2017
The revealing law
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. (verses… Read more
Dec2017
Redeemed from the curse of the law
Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. Do you remember the Scripture that says, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”? That is what happened when Jesus was nailed to the cross: He became a curse, and at the same time dissolved the curse. And now, because… Read more
Dec2017
The boarder who changes our lives
I have been put to death with Christ on his cross, so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me. (verses 19b, 20) Read… Read more
Dec2017
Running the race
“I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain.” (verse 2:2) Read: Galatians 1: 18 – 2: 10 Runners… Read more
Dec2017
Servant of Christ
For am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. (verse 10) Read Galatians 1: 1-17 Paul is clearly upset with the Galatians for the life they’ve been living. He… Read more
