What kind of friend does the gospel create? These verses give us a profile of Christian friendship, showing us both the work to be done and the tools we'll need for the job.

The key to enjoying rather than abusing the freedom of the gospel is walking by the Spirit. How do we do that?

When you don't have to spend your life justifying yourself, you're free to spend your life for others, as Christ did for you.

In Christ we are set free from the suffocating pressure to justify our lives, and set free to wait for the righteousness he promised us while we spend our lives in love for others.

In this text Paul uses a surprising argument to make a familiar and life-giving point: the freedom of the gospel comes only as a gift, never an achievement.

When the gospel delivers us from fear and pride, it sets us free to pour out our lives for one another.

In this text John is caught up into worship by the beauty of the gospel, and calls us to join him. How can we? By looking to an astonishing love, and liberating relationship, and a transformative hope.

When God sent his Son, he gave us redemption from the curse of the law, he gave us adoption as sons and daughters of God, and he gave us his Spirit to convince us that it's all true.

When you're in Christ, he is more important for who you are than anything else about you. This has huge implications for our relationships with one another.

In this passage Paul explains how the law prepares us for a savior. Obeying the law cannot save us. Instead, the law is God?s holy standard that reveals to us our sinfulness. Apart from Christ, our situation is desperate. But in Christ we are saved by grace through faith, and faith alone.