#Galatians 1:3

[s-o-a-p-ing]

GALATIANS S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 1

Wednesday, 2/5/25

SCRIPTURE:

He gave Himself for our sins, so He could deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father. ~ Galatians 1:4 Am I trying to win over human beings or God?  Or am I trying to please people?  If I were still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be Christ’s slave. ~ Galatians 1:10

OBSERVATION:

Personalizing verse 4:

He gave Himself for my sins...

...so He could deliver me from this present evil age...

...according to the will our God and Father...

That said...

I can't "win over" God...

He's already "on my side..."

The proof is Jesus!

Am I trying to win folks over to God?

...or trying to please them?

Can't always do both...

When push comes to shove - in love - Jesus!

APPLICATION:

Be Christ's slave...

Win folks over through Jesus... pleasing them if/when I can...

PRAYER:

Verse 5: To God be the glory forever and always! Amen.

Closing with verse 3:

Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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[tom4jc]

April 28, 2023 Memory Verse

[walkswithmyfather]

Chosen by God

John 1:12 (NLT). “But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. ”

Galatians 4:7 (NIV). “So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”

1 John 3:1a (NIV). “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!”

Matthew 5:9 (ESV). “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Romans 8:16 (NASB). “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.”

Galatians 3:26 (NLT). “For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”

John 15:16 (NIV). “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”

Jeremiah 1:5 (NET). “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you.Before you were born I set you apart.I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

[drshermaines-wisdomnuggets]

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[aressida]

Feminists, I want to express how I feel when I see all of you (as someone who once held feminist views and disliked men a decade ago, but now that I have gained understanding): Enough with the sabotage!

Be the duty of a woman. -> Genesis 2:18

-> Galatians 3:28 -> 1 Timothy 2:9-15 -> 1 Corinthians 11:3 -> Titus 2:3-5 -> 1 Timothy 2:11-12 -> Ephesians 5:22-24 -> Proverbs 31:11–12 -> Genesis 3:16

[jesusislovej]

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

-Galatians 1:3-4

[just-bible-musings]

I wonder if OP realizes just how close they were to what the Bible says.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: Romans 3:10

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 1 John 2:9

Here's the clincher:

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. 1 John 2:29

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 ("Kindness" may not be on the list, but there's several fruits of the Spirit that fill the same role.)

It's not about an "attempt." Altruism can ONLY come from God. Any kindness man tries to do on his own is still selfish. How many "kind" people do acts of kindness only because it makes them feel good?

Jesus didn't feel good about going to the cross- in fact, he was so torn up about it that he literally sweat blood- but He did it anyway, out of: a) devotion and obedience to His Father; and b) love for us. Sometimes love and obedience feel like pain and sorrow and fear and death. But if you love Jesus and The Father and have the Holy Spirit inside you, you'll do it anyway, because you can't not do it.

this has been said before but I feel like it is very important to view being kind as something you do rather than something that you are because all people have the capacity for meanness and cruelty and often use it inadvertently but the point is to change your behavior and your attitude and practice paying attention and being selfless and sincere and vulnerable and putting kindness and warmth into your actions and words instead of being like oh I value kindness and thus I am such a good person. like it’s about the attempt

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[fardell24b]

Church notes - 1st September 2024

1st Galatians 3

1 Corinthians 2 The Holy Spirit Instructing God's people.

The giving of the Holy Spirit follows the Resurrection.

vs 13 Human wisdom vs God's wisdom.

Demonstration of the Spirit's power. vs 14 Paul wanted them to be convinced by something that couldn't be refuted.

People being born again; a demonstration of God's Spirit.

Revelation of God's wisdom.

vs 7 - in first person.

It's not a mystery. There is no mysticism.

The point of the Spirit is to give us understanding of what God has given us. Don't miss the fullness of God's wisdom.

The Spiritual Person. Someone who realises that God has blessed them in order that they might be a blessing to others. We have the mind of Christ. Being about the Father's business.

To have the mind of Christ is essentially a corporate experience.

[drshermaines-wisdomnuggets]

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[touchofgoddotworld]

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