Law or Promise? Slave or Free?...

In the name of all things good (like finishing strong what's been started and doing so in the Word), we continue in Galatians 3. We last considered the cross of Jesus--v1b "Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified." Having passed through the remembrance of the Passion and the celebration of the Resurrection, we walk in freedom.

This is Paul's message to them...to us.

WE WALK IN FREEDOM.

Consider prayerfully what it means to walk in freedom. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal areas of bondage in your life (you know, the stuff that keeps dragging you down). Consider prayerfully what you are doing in your own strength in an effort to gain God's favor (you know, "o.k. God, if I do this, then you'll give me this or make me feel like this").

Consider prayerfully v26-28 NIV
"You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

Baptized into Christ?...let's discuss
Clothed yourselves with Christ?...let's discuss
All one in Christ Jesus?...let's discuss

Read and be blessed.

"...so is my word that goes out from my mouth;
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and will achieve the purpose for which
I sent it."

--Isaiah 55:11

Money.

"Don't hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or -- worse! --stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where its safe from moth and rust and burglars. It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.

Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in the wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have.

You can't worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you'll end up hating the other. Adoration of one feeds contempt for the other. You can't worship God and Money both.

If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds......."

Think about it. Keep reading.

Matthew 6.