Here is a practical summary of the book of Galatians:
1. True calling to God's work comes from God and not from man.
2. There is only one gospel and that is Christ crucified as the sole action securing my salvation.
3. Many are not happy with a simple gospel which brings liberty and try to add to it.
4. Each of us should realize that we have been entrusted with the gospel and that it is God who effectually works through us to bring about results.
5. It is impossible to be made right with God by following rules and laws.
6. The only way to be made right with God is by faith
7. It is hypocricy to consider ourselves more righteous than other believers because of outward practices.
8. Each one of us who is in Christ died with him on the cross so that we are no longer alive.
9. Each of of us who is in Christ rose with him from the grave so that now Christ lives through the new us.
10. You cannot receive the Holy Spirit by doing any kind of work.
11. The reception of the Holy Spirit and miracles among us come about because of faith alone.
12. To seek salvation by following rules or the law is to put ourselves under a curse.
13. Jesus became a curse for us to free us from the curse of the law and rules.
14. Jesus is the seed of Abraham promised in Genesis 22, through whom blessings come.
15. The purpose of the law is to imprison everyone in sin as a tutor which leads us to Christ.
16. All who are in Christ through faith are Abraham's descendants, Jew or Gentile.
17. Rules enslave so why do we run back to them? It is not even necessary to observe days and months and seasons and years as if these gained us anything.
18. Many teachers and others will seek to bring you under the bondage of rules.
19. Christian leaders are in labor until Christ is formed in their flock.
20. The descendants of Hagar and Ishmael persecute those who are from Isaac, children of promise.
21. Christ set us free to have freedom and what matters most is faith working through love.
22. Though we may be running well there is a danger of slipping back into a performance based religion which equals a fall from grace.
23. The danger of being so free is to use this liberty to indulge the sins of the flesh.
24. The Holy Spirit and the flesh are at war within us so that we will not do as we want.
25. Since we live by the Spirit we should also walk by the Spirit and be led by the Spirit, so that the deeds of the flesh are crucified with our old selves and the fruits of the Spirit rise up active within us.
26. We should seek to restore to fellowship those caught in sins with an attitude of humility.
27. We are to bear one another's burdens in love. At the same time, each of us has their own load to bear.
28. We should share good things with those who teach us.
29. If you sow to the flesh you will reap corruption, to the Spirit and you will reap eternal life.
30. It is tempting to quit doing good but we should do good while we have the chance, especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
31. Let all our boasting be only in the cross of Jesus Christ.
32. New creation is what matters.
33. The Israel of God is now Jew and Gentile together in one body.
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