“The Gospel of Grace, Part 16”
Galatians 5:1-12
Stand firm in the freedom we have in Christ from the law. (vs.1)
- H. Spurgeon “You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subject yourselves, therefore, to legal principles. Do not live as if you were working for wages and were earning your own salvation. Do not submit yourselves to the ritual and commandments of men, which would rob you of your liberty in many ways. But having once become free men, never again wear the chain of a slave: ‘Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free.’ Because you are the seed of Isaac, who was born according to the promise, you are not the children of the bondwoman; you are not Ishmaelites. Therefore, as you were born free, as Christ has made you free by virtue of your new birth, stand fast in that glorious liberty.”—[1]
Stand firm in the faith we have in Christ alone. (vs.2-6)
Stand firm in truth. (vs.7-12)
[1] Charles Spurgeon, Galatians, ed. Elliot Ritzema, Spurgeon Commentary Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2013), Ga 5:1.
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