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Galatians 5:13, if you are free from the law and you are saved only by grace, why not just sin as much as you want, if God’s job is to forgive and my job is to have fun, let us get to it, this is the most common objection to the message of grace. People are terrified that freedom will lead to...

Humans don’t have the power to create a state of blessedness in each other’s lives. How fortunate are those who or how good is life for you, essentially is in the eye of the beholder, a description of a state of happiness on someone that’s being observed by another, by a bystander who isn’t the...

Galatians 5:6, real faith is not static, it moves, it acts, but the motivation is different. Under the law, you loved your neighbor, because you were afraid of being punished if you didn’t. Under grace, you love your neighbor, because you are so overwhelmed by God’s love for you, that it...

Matthew 25:14-30, the reward the master offers, deserves more attention than it usually gets, enter into the joy of your master. The key word is the Greek preposition, “eis,” into, not toward, the joy is not handed to the servant like a bonus, the servant is invited to step inside it. The joy...

Matthew 4:17, from that time Jesus is announcing, to turn around. In Hebrew, the word “repent” is literally “to turn around,” there’s something happening that requires you to go in a different direction, the Kingdom of Heaven has come near. The Kingdom of Heaven has touched down right here...

To be alienated from Jesus Christ means, you have cut off the flow of power, when you operate by rules, you are on your own, when you operate by faith, you are connected to the power source of Jesus. So, if you do not follow the law for salvation, does that mean you just do nothing? Does faith...

Grace, on the other hand, demands faith in the one who was perfect, Paul is forcing the Galatians to make a choice, do you want to be judged by a system where one mistake destroys you or do you want to be saved by a system where all your mistakes are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, you...

Galatians 5:2, today, most of us are not tempted by circumcision, we look at the Galatians and think their problem was silly, but we have our own modern versions of this trap. People fall for the Jesus plus lie all the time, they think it is Jesus plus their financial success, they think it is...

Galatians 5:2, you insist on giving God your pocket change to help pay for it, that might seem like a nice gesture, but it is actually a deep insult. By trying to pay, you are turning a loving gift into a business transaction, you are saying his gift was not sufficient, you are degrading his...

Galatians 5:2, this is one of the most frightening statements in the New Testament, how could doing something religious make Jesus Christ have no value? The Galatians thought they were just adding a little extra obedience to their faith, they believed in Jesus, but they also wanted to be serious...

Matthew 11:28, the modern world constantly tells you that the key to strength is absolute independence, you are taught from a young age to pull yourself up, to never ask for help and to carry your own weight, you believe that if you just push a little harder and work a little longer, you can...

Matthew 11:2, John was a powerful bold man of God, he was the one who baptized Jesus in the river and when he baptized Jesus, John saw the heavens literally open up, he saw the Holy Spirit descend like a dove, he heard the actual voice of God the Father speak from heaven. John had the ultimate...

Matthew 25:14-30, not talent versus no talent, not productivity versus laziness, trust versus suspicion, the first two servants looked at what the master gave them and saw an invitation, the third servant looked at the same master and saw a threat. Same master, same generosity, opposite...

Not talent versus no talent, not productivity versus laziness, trust versus suspicion, the first two servants looked at what the master gave them and saw an invitation, the third servant looked at the same master and saw a threat. Same master, same generosity, opposite conclusions and the...

Matthew 25:14-30, verses 24-25, that is the master, this servant claims to serve and look at the specific accusation, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter seed, the servant is saying that the master profits from labor, he did not perform, he takes the harvest...

Matthew 22:14, the parable is not a lottery, it is a sequence, the garment is offered, the garment is declined, the Judas word falls, the muzzle lands, the binding follows, the direction reverses from inward to outward and at the end, one line, many invited, few refined, many heard the call, few...

Matthew 25:14-30, five talents earned, two talents earned, same words from the master’s mouth, the metric was not volume, it was trust, that reframes everything about the third servant. The third servant goes and digs a hole in ground and buries the talent, in the ancient world, burying...