A Real View of the Grace Life Previous Episodes

Paul wrote Galatians to combat teaching by false brethren who teaching the people that Jesus alone wasn’t enough for salvation. Paul rebuked the Galatians for falling back into law because if righteousness could be obtained through our rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily. May it never be!

The Father has qualified us to be co-inheritors with Jesus because we have been made as righteous as Jesus is. There is no way that we could have qualified ourselves through our performance. We simply believe in the Lord, and His righteousness is given to us as a free gift!

The New Covenant is an unbreakable covenant because it’s based in God’s eternal faithfulness and love. The question is do we trust Him? Do we trust in His grace, or do we trust in our self-efforts?

The law is like a veil that keeps us from seeing the face of Jesus and knowing that we are righteous in Him. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ! And when the veil is removed, we behold Jesus and we are transformed into His image from glory to glory.

Paul referred to the Old Testament law as the “letter that kills.” The “letter that kills” for us today is the system of religion where we serve God and work to please Him in order to earn His favor and His love. God’s desire for us is that we receive His love based on His…

Is there any sweeter truth than “there is therefore now no condemnation”? God doesn’t assess us based on what we’ve done, He assesses us based on what He’s done for us. Now nothing can separate us from God’s love.

Every believer is joined to Jesus, and able to access the riches of His grace. Every demand of this life is supplied through Him. As awesome as it is to be free from the law, that’s not the good part. The good part is being joined to Jesus who is our endless well of supply.…

When our eyes are opened to Jesus and His amazing grace, we will no longer be in held captive to performance-based religion, and the mentality of “do good, get good; do bad, get bad.” We will live in the freedom of grace which says, “where sin increased, grace increased beyond measure!”

Adam and Eve fell for the greatest deception against mankind: trying to be like God independently of Him. The first picture of self-righteousness was the fig leaves with which they covered themselves in order to hide from God because of their shame. Jesus came to bring us His own eternal righteousness which removes all shame…

God displayed that He loves us with all His heart, soul, strength, and mind when He sent His Son to die for us. The more we receive the love of God, the more we will love others. He who knows he is forgiven much, loves much.