Treasured Truth

As we begin an in depth look at the cross of Christ and how we can embrace it, we’ll learn that Christ’s vicarious death was deficient for none, sufficient for all, and efficient for everybody who believes in Him.Find out more about what this means, when you join us for today’sTreasured Truth.

When we see a brother or sister in need of spiritual correction, we first need to take time to pray and really think about the best, most positive way to speak words of correction or words of rebuke to them.  We need to do it in the right spirit, and not permit ourselves to get upset when we don’t get the response that we think we should get or that the Bible says we should get from them.

As we continue to look at how we should treat our brothers and sisters in Christ, we’re going to take a closer look at meekness.  When someone is meek, it means that they have strength under control.  Pastor Ford will explain that God delights in people who are meek. And God wants to use people in  their meekness to restore the things that are broken around them.

On today’s Treasured Truth, we’ll be reminded that our fellow believers are our brothers and our sisters in Christ—we have been cemented together, sealed by the blood of Jesus Christ—and that ought to mean something.  We should at least treat each other with decency, kindness, and respect.

As we conclude our current study, Pastor Ford wants those who are hurting in his community to know that there truly is hope for them. God is available to them and will take them out of whatever situation they may be in. They don’t have to be hopeless! We’ll discover today how each of us can share hope with those who may be hopeless in our own communities.

Today, Pastor Ford will explain that Paul’s teaching in Galatians makes it clear that the gospel of Jesus Christ doesn’t repudiate the law, but rather, the law is fulfilled in the gospel.  Because the central core and motivation behind what Jesus did for us is the fact that He loves us.  And in return, we should love Him and not squander the liberty He has afforded to us.

As believers, we have so much freedom in Christ.   We’re free from the bondage of sin, for salvation.  We’re free from self.  We’re free from Satan.  And we’re free from the bondage to the law.  So that now we’ve been made free by Christ, we must guard against allowing our liberty to be stolen by license.  Find out more about what this means, when you join us for today’sTreasured Truth.

In Galatians 5, Paul was trying to help the Galatians believers understand that they were relying on the law to save them, then that necessitated obedience to all the law.  They couldn’t just can’t pick and choose! They couldn’t say, ‘We want to obey some of the commandments, not all of the commandments.’  Pastor Ford will help us understand more of what Paul was teaching the Galatians about this important pointon today’s Treasured Truth.

As we continue our study in Galatians, Pastor Ford will remind us about what Paul was trying to teach the Galatian believers—that we as believers need to understand the more human effort we bring to the table when it comes to the process of our salvation, the more we end up nullifying God’s grace.

According to Paul, the Galatians had the clear and simple message of salvation, but they let the Judaizers come along and add stuff to it.  So, they had a salvific message, and they let others add stuff to it that took the truth away from them and made the message of non-effect.