Hill Country Bible Church Dripping Springs Sermons

The devil's main strategy against you is lies. Spiritual Warfare is first and foremost about the war to believe truth over lies.

In the first century, the cross represented shameful, torturous death. Yet Paul points to Jesus’ redeeming work on the cross as the only source of confidence in a Christian’s life.

A life led by the Holy Spirit produces personal fruit (Galatians 5:22-23a). However, His influence does not end there. He leads us in Christian community as well.

While grace seems “stunningly free”, we do not have the option to walk our own path. We are called to be led by the Holy Spirit. We follow His lead in the spiritual war for believers that continues between our flesh (human nature) and His desires.

Gospel transformation is different from moral reformation. Gospel transformation is centered on Jesus’ redeeming work. Moral reformation depends on individual effort. One leads to a motivation from freedom and the other is motivated by fear.

Scripture teaches us that we keep our freedom in Christ through faith in the Gospel. Reverting to reliance on our own means leads to slavery, not salvation.

It is easy to replace one for of slavery for another or to desire to go back to what was once familiar and "safe". Paul reminds us to push forward in grace.

We cannot over-emphasize the importance of the doctrine of justification, for every follower of Christ needs a strong understanding of this biblical teaching. But justification is not the end of the gospel. In fact, it may not even be the greatest truth in the gospel. The doctrine of justification makes us right before God the judge, but in the doctrine of adoption we are loved by God the Father.

Salvation comes through a promise from God and therefore cannot come from keeping the law. Then why the law? Paul explains promise and law in this passage.