NORTHAMPTON BIBLE CHURCH

11/08/2026 | Free Indeed | Free to Walk in the Spirit | Galatians 5:16-26

BIG IDEA: The Holy Spirit produces in us what human effort never can.

Jesus set us free so we could love and serve one another. The Spirit of God will never lead us contrary to the Word of God.

How do we walk in the Spirit?

1. Recognize the battle within you (vs 16-18). The presence of a battle does not meant that the Holy Spirit is absent. Which desires do you follow? To say “no” to one is to say “yes” to the other.

2. Pay attention to what your life is producing (vs 19-23). A settled pattern of living under the direction of the flesh is incompatible with the Kingdom of God.

3. Remember who you belong to (v 24). You don’t have to obey every desire you experience.

4. Keep in step with the Spirit every day (vs 25-26). Our daily conduct should reflect what we say we believe. One of the clearest places that spiritual maturity becomes evident is in our relationships.

Who is leading your life?

1. What is your life producing? What is the fruit of your faith in Jesus?

2. Where are you relying on yourself instead of the Holy Spirit? Stop trying harder to please God and start surrendering more to Him.

3. What step of obedience is t he Holy Spirit calling you to take?

11/01/2026 | Free Indeed | Free To Love Others | Galatians 5:1-15

BIG IDEA: Christ sets us free so that we can love and serve others.

What if you could be completely free, and still choose to live like a prisoner? What does it actually mean to be free?

What does it look like to live free?

1. Stand firm in the freedom that Christ gives (vs 1-6). Jesus is sufficient for everything. The Gospel produces people whose lives begin to change.

2. Don’t let anyone steal your freedom (vs 7-12). Small distortions of the Gospel don’t stay small. The loudest voice in your head is too often your own voice.

3. Don’t use your freedom to serve yourself (v13). Freedom isn’t the same as self-indulgence. Freedom in Christ means you can stop making everything about you.

4. Use your freedom to love others (vs 13-15). See Leviticus 19:18.

What are you doing with your freedom?

1. Where are you tempted to go back to slavery?

2. Where are you using your freedom mostly for yourself?

3. Who is one person in your life, that you can use your freedom to love this week?

10/25/2026 | Free Indeed | Free From Self-Reliance | Galatians 4:21-31

BID IDEA: Freedom comes through God’s promise. Not human effort.

What are you trying to accomplish that you don’t have the power to accomplish?

TWO WAYS TO LIVE: SELF-RELIANCE OR GOD’S PROMISE

1. Our effort cannot replace God’s promise (vs 22-23). The fact that something works doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re trusting God.

2. Self-reliance leads back to slavery (vs 24-27). Our freedom comes from God’s promise, not from our performance.

3. God’s children live by His promise (v 28). God is faithful to always keep His promise.

4. Freedom means letting go of self-reliance (vs 29-31). You cannot build your standing with God on two different foundations.

THREE QUESTIONS TO MOVE BEYOND SUNDAY…

1. Where in my life am I trying to control the outcome? Am I being faithful to God, or am I trying to control what only God can control?

2. Where am I tempted to compromise because God seems to be too slow? Waiting can make obedience uncomfortable. We need to learn to wait patiently on God. God always delivers on His promises at the right time.

3. What would it look like for me to let go of the rope? Surrender the outcome to God.

10/18/2026 | Free Indeed | Free To Be God’s Child | Galatians 4:1-20

BIG IDEA: In Christ, you don’t have to earn your place in God’s family, you already belong.

What kind of relationship do you think God wants to have with you? Do you really have a place with God? Are you living as God’s child, or are you still trying to earn your place?

What changes when God Becomes Your Father?

1. Jesus gives us a new place to belong to (vs 3-5). Jesus came to bring us into his family.

2. God gives us a new relationship to enjoy (vs 6-7). Your earthly father may shape your view of God, but he doesn’t define the heart of God.

3. God gives a new freedom to live in (vs 8-11). You are no longer a slave to sin. We don’t obey to become God’s children, we obey because we are God’s children.

4. God gives us a new life to grow into (vs 12-20). Security in Jesus becomes the soil where transformation grows.

Three questions to move beyond Sunday: 

1. What are you still trying to prove to God? He chose you because He loves you!

2. When you fail, do you run to God, or away from Him? (See Hebrews 4:16) You cannot hide from God, so instead approach Him with boldness and humility.

3. Are you living from your place in God’s family? Stop trying to find a way to earn a spot where you already belong.

10/11/2026 | Free Indeed | Free From Misplaced Identity | Galatians 3: 15-29

BIG IDEA: Where are you finding your identity?

Hello, my name is _______, and I am a ______.

1. God’s promise does not depend on your performance (vs 15-18). A promise depends on the faithfulness of the one who made the promise.

2. The Law shows our need for Jesus (vs 19-24). The Law can only show us that we fall short. Only Jesus can make it right.

3. Faith in Christ gives us a new identity (vs 25-29). A lot of things describe you. Only Jesus gets to define you.

Your worth is not determined by what you achieve, but by whose you are.

10/04/2026 | Free Indeed | Free From Earning God’s Favor | Galatians 3: 1-14

BIG IDEA: The Gospel frees us from living like we have to earn salvation.

THE GOPEL FREES US FROM EARNING

1. We begin by faith, not by performance (vs 1-5). Effort is not the enemy, earning is.

2. Faith has always been God’ way (vs 6-9). We are justified by faith, not by works.

3. Performance can never make us right with God (vs 10-12). Our faith is counted as righteousness.

4. Jesus accomplished what we can never do. (vs 13-14). Our debt is paid in full. You cannot earn what Jesus has already secured | “It is finished”.

Three questions to move beyond Sunday:

1. Are you still trying to make payments on God’s grace? You cannot pay for a gift.

2. What is motivating your obedience? Obey out of love, not out of obligation.

3. Where do I need to depend on the Spirit instead of yourself? Examine yourself daily, learn to be transparent before God.

09/27/2026 | Free Indeed | Free From People-pleasing | Galatians 2: 11-21

BIG IDEA: When Christ defines who you are, other people no longer have to.

THE GOSPEL FREES US FROM LIVING FOR APPROVAL

1. People pleasing makes us live inconsistently (vs 11-14). The Gospel is supposed to reshape how we live right now. In Jesus, we have nothing left to prove.

2. The Gospel removes our need to prove ourselves (vs 15-16). We are not accepted by God because we performed well enough, we are accepted by faith in Jesus.

3. The Gospel ends the performance (vs 17-19).

4.Our identity is now found in Jesus (vs 20-21). When Christ defines who we are, no one else has to.

Three questions to move beyond Sunday…

1. Whose approval has too much power in your life?

2. Where are you tempted to pretend?

3. Who gets the final say as to who you are?

09/20/2026 | Free Indeed | Free To Defend The Gospel | Galatians 2:1-10

BIG IDEA: The Gospel is worth protecting because adding anything to Jesus takes away the freedom Jesus gives us.

Jesus is enough. 

Hold the Gospel tightly.

Hold convictions carefully.

Hold preferences loosely.

When the Gospel is at stake:

1. Protect the Gospel (vs 1-5). Not every disagreement deserves a fight, but the Gospel is always worth protecting.

2. Hold truth with humility (vs 6-9). Biblical unity is being centered together around Jesus and His Gospel.

3. Let the Gospel unite (vs 7-9). One Gospel, one mission.

4. Let the Gospel produce love (v10). Gospel truth should produce Gospel love. Stand firm against those who try to change the Gospel.

Three questions to move beyond Sunday:

1. Have you turned a preference into a Gospel issue?

2. Have you treated a Gospel issue into a preference? Doctrine matters.

3. Why are you taking that particular stand?

09/13/2026 | Free Indeed | Free From Your Past | Galatians 1:11-24

BIG IDEA: Grace forgives our past and gives us an entirely new story.

When Grace changes your story:

1. Grace meets you where you are (vs 13-14). Grace allows us to tell the truth about our past, without continuing to live under its control.

2. Grace changes your direction ( vs 15-16). We are taken from a life of separation from God to a life with God as our destination.

3. Grace gives you a new center. (Vs 16-20). Christianity is about being made new in Christ. It’s about receiving god’s gift of grace.

4. Grace points your story to God. (vs 21-24). How we go through the hard times proves the authenticity of our faith.

Who gets the final word on our story?

1. What part of your resume are you still letting define you?

2. Let grace reframe your past.

3. Let your story point you to Jesus. You can’t change your past, but Jesus can change the place your past occupies in your future.

09/06/2026 | Free Indeed | Free From False Gospels | Galatians 1: 1-10

BIG IDEA: The Gospel is too important to change

Jesus has done for us what we could never do for ourselves.

THE GOSPEL WE CANNOT CHANGE:

1. The Gospel is something we receive, not something we create (vs 1-5). 

The Gospel frees us from trying to earn God’s favor. The Gospel is the Good News about what Jesus has done, not what we do. Salvation is God’s work.

2. Adding to the Gospel changes the Gospel (vs 6-9). Jesus plus anything equals nothing. Jesus plus nothing equals everything.

3. The Gospel must matter more than the approval of people (v 10). Jesus gave Himself for our sins to rescue us, and salvation is received by grace through faith in Him.

MAKING IT PERSONAL:

1. What are you actually trusting in? “God accepts me because…”

2. Identify your ‘Jesus plus’. I know Jesus is enough, but sometimes I live as though I also need …

3. Trust in Christ alone. He is sufficient for everything.