Sunday Talks

Will you trust in Christ alone for your salvation? Or will you trust something else?

This message from the Bible is for you if you wish you knew how it would feel to be free. As we come to one of the most famous lines in the letter, listen to how Galatians explains and declares that Jesus Christ sets free all those who come to trust in him.

The emotion in the Apostle Paul's voice in this paragraph drives you and me to ask the kind of questions every Christian needs to be asking. Listen in to this message from Galatians 4:12-20.

Studying this letter must raise an awareness of what it means to come to liberating faith in Christ and at the same time warn Christians about the dreadful possibility of turning back to a life of slavery.

Paul explains that everyone who has faith in Jesus Christ alone gets the inheritance God first promised to Abraham. And to prove it, he sets out what is really a short course in biblical history. Listen in.

The questions in Galatians 3 are Paul’s way of shocking his deluded friends back to reality. Who or what has bewitched you? Reading Galatians, take the opportunity to move away from any distortions of the gospel that could have some kind a hold on you – and then move back towards the cross of Jesus Christ.

The Gospel is momentous. Like the original recipients, we need to listen as Paul warns against the watering-down of the gospel and highlights the truth of the gospel. That’s where we are headed. A warning and a highlight. Listen in.

Paul describes three stages of his personal testimony in this autobiographical part of the letter. He wants the Christians in Galatia to know that what they had responded to was God's Gospel. Any distortion of this would have tragic consequences.

What has in any way convinced you to drop back or drop out in your Christian living? There are so many different feels-like-gospels calling on you, so which ones are you in-conversation with? Just asking that question underscores the relevance of this NT letter for Christians. Listen here.

Can you see that here in 1 Timothy 4 we have a message to a Christian leader that really sets out a vision for all Christians in our local churches?