JCDisciple

Responsibility for my conducts

Galatians 6:5 (NLT)
For we are each responsible for our own conduct.

Life fulfillment is at my reach not some else

Galatians 6:4 (NLT)
Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else.

Do I think I'm too IMPORTANT?

Galatians 6:3 (NLT)
If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important.

Lesson about empowering other

Galatians 5:14-15 (NLT)
For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Baptism as a union with Christ rather than obedience to law

Galatians 3:27 (NLT)
And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes.

Descendants vs Seed!

Galatians 3:16 (NLT)
God gave the promises to Abraham and his child. And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children,” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ.

Descendants vs Seed...

Genesis 13:15 (NLT)
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.

Descendants vs Seed...

Genesis 12:7 (NLT)
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” And Abram built an altar there and dedicated it to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Christ cursed !

Deuteronomy 21:23 (NLT)
the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.

References to old testament about law

Galatians 3:10-11 (NLT)
But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.”

Righteousness by faith

Habakkuk 2:4 (NLT)
“Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.

Cursed if law not obeyed.

Deuteronomy 27:26 (NLT)
‘Cursed is anyone who does not affirm and obey the terms of these instructions.’ And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’

Faith is to Abraham as Faith is to disciples

Galatians 3:6-7 (NLT)
In the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”

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Galatians 2:17 (NLT)
But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the law. Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not!

Value of grace. Value of Christ death over law

Galatians 2:21 (NLT)
I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.

Old, Jews were of God while Gentiles were sinners

Galatians 2:15 (NLT)
“You and I are Jews by birth, not ‘sinners’ like the Gentiles.

Impact of fear

Galatians 2:12 (NLT)
When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile Christians, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some friends of James came, Peter wouldn’t eat with the Gentiles anymore. He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision.

Encouragement to help the poor

Galatians 2:10 (NLT)
Their only suggestion was that we keep on helping the poor, which I have always been eager to do.

No favorite great leader!

Galatians 2:6 (NLT)
And the leaders of the church had nothing to add to what I was preaching. (By the way, their reputation as great leaders made no difference to me, for God has no favorites.)

False so-called Christians

Galatians 2:4 (NLT)
Even that question came up only because of some so-called Christians there—false ones, really—who were secretly brought in. They sneaked in to spy on us and take away the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to enslave us and force us to follow their Jewish regulations.

14years later!

Galatians 2:1 (NLT)
Then fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas; and Titus came along, too.

Compartmentalism vs every aspect of life

Galatians 5:25 (NLT)
Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.

Being Christlike.. Amen!

Ephesians 5:1-2 (NKJV)
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

God's Will

Deuteronomy 30:6 (NLT)
“The LORD your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live!

Deuteronomy 30:9 (NLT)
“The LORD your God will then make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and he will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests, for the LORD will again delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 30:11 (NLT)
“This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand, and it is not beyond your reach.

Deuteronomy 30:14 (NLT)
No, the message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it.

Mind, eyes

Deuteronomy 29:4 (NLT)
But to this day the LORD has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!