Rhapsody Of Realities TeeVo
Tuesday, 3rd January 2017
IT’S ALL BY FAITH
(Salvation Is Based On Your Faith, Not The Law)
TO THE BIBLE; Galatians 3:1-3
“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”
LET’S TALK
As you study the entire book of Galatians, you’ll understand why Paul scolded the Galatian Christians so sharply. They had drifted from the Gospel, which is the Word of faith, which they had received. Some false teachers came, telling them that they had to also obey the Law of Moses to be justified, and they accepted this deception. When Paul heard all this, he asked them, “Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”
He wanted them to remember how they received the Holy Spirit; it wasn’t through obedience to the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ alone. The salvation they had received didn’t happen by keeping the Law: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Your righteousness and right-standing with God aren’t the results of your good works; they’re by the faith of Christ, the result of what He did.
Galatians 2:16 says, “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.” God’s righteousness was credited to you and imparted to your spirit by your faith in the God that justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5). It was by faith that you received eternal life and the Holy Spirit to live in you. Therefore, keep hearing the Word of faith, and don’t be swayed from the truth of this glorious Gospel you’ve received.
GO DEEPER
John 6:63
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,
SPEAK
I thank you Lord for the righteousness I’ve received; the righteousness which is by the faith of Jesus Christ, to stand in your presence confidently without fear, inferiority, guilt or condemnation. I have no confidence in the flesh because you are my justifier. Hallelujah!
DAILY BIBLE READING
ONE YEAR
Matthew 3, Genesis 6-8
TWO YEAR
Acts 6:9-15, Nehemiah 6
ACT
Meditate on the scriptures Romans 3:23-28 and Galatians 2:16.