How did Abraham, the “father of our faith,” get such faith? Therefore it [righteousness] is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham,…

Do you want to be strengthened in your faith? Abraham knew the key… And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was…

Romans 4:20 says that Abraham “did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief.” That word “waver” is the Greek word “diakrino,” and it is often translated “doubt.” Abraham did not “doubt” the promise of God. We see this same word used in a famous quote of Jesus: “Have faith in God. For assuredly,…

What does God remember? Does He keep a record of all the times we didn’t believe Him? What about the times we waited on Him – perhaps for years – and He didn’t deliver so we gave up and took matters in out own hands, making a mess of things? Does He say, “I told…

There is a powerful story in the book of Luke which recounts the story of Jesus performing a miracle of healing and deliverance on a descendant of Abraham, a woman who had been bent over for eighteen years because of a demonic spirit. This miracle makes it so clear that the seed of Abraham is…

The book of Galatians is an amazing letter of encouragement to all of us who have been ambushed by grace and have been so gloriously undone by grace that we simply can’t go back to the mixture of grace and law. Grace isn’t a doctrine. Grace is Jesus. When you try to add to grace,…

Did you know that Paul pronounced a double curse on anyone who would preach any other gospel than the Gospel of grace? He even included himself: “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are…

In Galatians 2, Paul said something that might seem shocking to those of us who believe there should never be open confrontation in the church. Paul wrote of his public rebuke of the apostle Peter for compromising the Gospel. “Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was…

If God has cleansed someone and taken away his sins, then he is holy – whether Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. We are all one in Christ. In Galatians 2, the apostle Paul tells of his rebuke of the apostle Peter for compromising the Gospel by succumbing to pressure from the…

In Galatians 2, the Apostle Paul rebuked the Apostle Peter in a very passionate and direct manner. Through the Apostle Peter the Lord began to break down some of the barriers between the Jews and Gentiles. Peter ate shrimp, lobster, and bacon with the Gentiles in his new-found freedom! However, when the Judaizers showed up,…

In Galatians 2:17, the apostle Paul made a bold statement. He said that anyone who believed that right standing with God could be achieved by performance was actually in agreement with the enemies of Jesus who had accused Him of being promoter and encourager of sin! “But if, while we seek to be justified by…

The word Greek word for grace is used one hundred forty-seven times in the New testament.1 Do you know where “grace” occurs the most often? It’s used twenty-six times in Paul’s letters to the Corinthians – the church that apparently was the most immoral! To the Philippians he only used the word “grace” three times.…