1For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1 (CSB)
7 You were running well. Who prevented you from being persuaded regarding the truth?
Galatians 5:7 (CSB)
5 For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
Galatians 5:5-6 (CSB)
1. The right path is to live through the Spirit.
10 If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
John 15:10-11 (CSB)
3 For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden.
1 John 5:3 (CSB)
13 For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
Galatians 5:13 (CSB)
2. The right path is to live by faith.
2 Take note! I, Paul, am telling you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.
Galatians 5:2 (CSB)
3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to do the entire law.
Galatians 5:3 (CSB)
4 You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
Galatians 5:4 (CSB)
5 For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness.
Galatians 5:5 (CSB)
3. The right path is to live in hope.
5 For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness.
Galatians 5:5 (CSB)
4. The right path is to live with love.
6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
Galatians 4:6 (CSB)
13 For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
Galatians 5:13 (CSB)
45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mark 10:45 (ESV)
14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Galatians 5:14 (CSB)
17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit, that is increasing to your account.
Philippians 4:17 (CSB)
22 “Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields. 23 You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of the Lord your God at the place where he chooses to have his name dwell, so that you will always learn to fear the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 14:22-23 (CSB)