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Conviction

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-9 and Jude 3-4

If your convictions rest on the sure Word of God, then you have something worth sharing with your neighbor.

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Holy Pride

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 1:1-6

One should not force a way into the divine office. God must call so that the pastor speaks with the "holy pride" of his calling.

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Holy Pride

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 1:1-6

One should not force a way into the divine office. God must call so that the pastor speaks with the "holy pride" of his calling.

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Where Our Hope Rests

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 & 1 Corinthians 15:12-19

Our faith must be fixed on the Who, not the what. Christ alone is our righteousness, hope, and victory.

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Your Final Answer

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 & 1 Corinthians 2:1-15

The Christian's peace is not found in the world but upon the cross. Christ Crucified is our only comfort, glory, and hope.

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I’m Buying!

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 3:23-25

We need the article of justification repeatedly preached to us because the infirmity of our flesh does not allow us to believe it with all our heart.

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The Obedience of Faith

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 1:1-7

"The more a person seeks credit for himself by his own efforts, the deeper he goes into debt. Nothing can take away sin except the grace of God."

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A Pernicious Doctrine

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Ephesians 2:4-14

The world views God's grace as a pernicious doctrine, that our own free will should take hold of life and troubles and fix things ourselves. But we cannot conjure peace.

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The Soul Purpose of God

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Hebrews 12:7-11

"True Christian theology does not inquire into the nature of God, but into God’s purpose and will in Christ." And his purpose is to bring our souls to himself.

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The Arresting Question

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and John 14:1-11

"Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death."

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Faith to Comprehend

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 1:16-17

Augustine said, "Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” The hard stuff is believed through God's grace.

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Very God of Very God

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and 1 Corinthians 1:23-24

"You are established in this belief that Christ is very God because he gives grace and peace, gifts which only God can create and bestow.”

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He Gave Himself

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 3:21-31

"If our sins could be removed by our own efforts, what need was there for the Son of God to be given for them?"

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Peace to Continue

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 5:6-11

God loves you when you are at your worst, so we see that sin cannot harm those who believe in Christ, because he has overcome sin by his death.

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Stubborn Sins

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and 2 Corinthians 12:8-10

It is not your spiritual might that saves you, any more than it is your spiritual weakness that condemns you. It is Christ who saves you in spite of you.

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The Hindrance to Holiness

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Romans 4:22–25

Christ, the Son of God, was not given for the righteous or the holy, but for sinners that they may be holy in the righteousness of Christ alone.

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That Irritating Inner Voice

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and 1 Corinthians 15:1–4

If the devil tells you that you will be damned, tell him. “I will fly to Christ who gave himself for my sins." Remind yourself of the Father's favorable will.

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God Still Loves You

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Ephesians 2:4-10

Tell the devil that Christ Jesus has given himself for our sins, that by his sacrifice he has taken away your sins along with those of the whole world.

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Editing the Gospel

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Hebrews 7:24-27

God loves you, not because of your ability to not sin, but because Christ died for your sin. He loves you for Christ's sake, not for the sake of your piety.

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Captive to Goodness

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and Psalm 53:1-3

There is no one who does good—no, not one. All have fallen short of the glory of God, and their own "goodness" will in no way make up the deficit.

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Favorable Conditions

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and 1 John 4:7-11

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. —1 John 4:10

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The “Follow Me”

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 and John 14:5-7

One becomes rightly related to God by becoming a friend of Jesus. So, when he speaks the “follow me” to your heart ... follow.

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Gracious Patience

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-6 and 2 Corinthians 11:3–4

Paul was astonished that the Galatians were deserting Jesus for the law again, so that the onus for salvation was once again upon themselves.

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Life is Slippery

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6 and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Imitators of God forgive others, even when they sin against them. They give the weak a hand up when they fail and fall.

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Right Devotion

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6 and Acts 2:42-47

Paul and Luther deplored the fact that the happy condition of the church, secured by years of arduous labors, some lunatic might spoil in a moment.

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Backbreaking Labor

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:1-3

There will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them.

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In My Own Image

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Philippians 1:9-11

We are to abound in love with knowledge and discernment so that we may approve what is excellent, and be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.

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Altar Call Christianity

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and 2 Timothy 4:1-8

Christianity is not seasonal. It does not cool off. Faith does not become slack; it is constant. Have you left your faith at the altar or are you following Jesus?

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Letting Go of Grace

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Hebrews 13:20-21

Sometimes people want grace but then let go of it because they do not want Christ. They want to have the benefits of grace without being a follower of Jesus.

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The Constant Battle

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9, Ephesians 6:10-20, and Revelation 17:14

Under the devil's direction the world persecutes the gospel and would nail again Christ, the Son of God, to the cross although he gave himself for the world.

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Lawmen and Freeman

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6–9 and Psalm 119:33–40

Why would put God to the test by placing the yoke of the law on the neck of disciples that neither our predecessors nor we have been able to bear?

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That’s It?

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Acts 15:1-11

A person is saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ's work on the cross, not by adding their own works to his.

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Christian Atheists

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Ephesians 6:10-18

The devil wants to do away with Christ's church but with the inability to accomplish that goal, he wishes to water down the Word the church proclaims.

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Troublemakers

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and 2 Timothy 2:14-19

Those who teach false doctrines in the Church of Christ are "troublemakers," as Luther termed them, and must be corrected.

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The Conscience of Christ

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Hebrews 8:12-13

The old covenant of law and blessing has been fulfilled by Christ Jesus. The new covenant is is one of faith and blessing through God's grace to sinners.

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Embrace Grace

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Romans 11:5-6

Embrace the grace that God has freely given you. Embrace it through faith, not by then trying to pay for it with religious works.

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The Jerk

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Luke 8:9-15

God does not love us because we are beautiful or brilliant or talented or wealthy. He just loves us—even without all of the religious stuff.

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Standing Alone

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-9 and Hebrews 4:12-13

Don't trust your subjective feelings. The true and objective way to know God's will and ways is by hearing and reading the Sacred Scriptures.

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Hear the Cross

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:6-10 and Revelation 1:3

Truth offends. It is meant to do so, as it exposes sin. Since the inclination of the heart is to sin, then of course, truth will offend human nature.

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Hearing Things

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:11-12 and Romans 10:17

Are you hearing things? I hope so, and that what you're hearing is the very Word of God because you're listening there, in the volume of the Book.

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The Latest Thing

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:11-12 and Ephesians 2:1-10

God loved you before you had the slightest care for him. He does not need your works in order to love you; he requires your continued faith.

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A Slippery Slope

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:11-12 and 1 Corinthians 10:12-13

If you think you stand justified before God because your works are good enough, that you are pious, take heed for you are slipping and about to fall.

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At War

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:11-12 and Galatians 5:16-26

As Luther said, "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it," we must read the Word and pray daily.

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Glory to God!

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:11-12 and Luke 2:8-14

One can never ascribe too much glory, goodness, and mercy unto God. But it sure is easy to give man too much glory. This ruins man and insults God.

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People Are Stupid

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:11-12 and Acts 17:10-15

No one is to be trusted at face-value — neither pastor, professor, pope, or bishop. Examine the Scriptures daily to see if what they say is true.

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Walking Away to God

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:13-14 and Revelation 2:25–29

Religion, what man thinks he is doing for a god, can trip your up, making you a hater of God and neighbor. Walk away. Walk away to God.

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Don’t Hold Back

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:13-14 and Romans 12:1-2

How much are you required to give to the one who has already given you everything, who wholly loves you? Then again, how much do you want to give?

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Immediate Response

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Romans 3:9-18

What deserves your immediate attention today? God's will? What is God calling you to do today? Something of benefit to your neighbor, your vocation?

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So, You Think You’re a Christian

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Jeremiah 9:23-26

Religion never equals righteousness. The wise and faithful friend of God understands that she must trust in the Lord’s righteousness and never her own.

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You’ve Got to Believe Me

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and John 14:1-7

What is truth? Whose authority should be trusted? Whose words believed. The only reliable source for truth is judging by the standard of The Book.

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Well, Scratch It!

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

You had better be careful; scratching that itch will damage your spiritual ears, leading to the inability to hear or endure the truth of the gospel.

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God Has a Plan for Your Life

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Jeremiah 1:4-5

God not only has a plan for your life, he has inserted himself into the center of your life, sanctifying and preparing you for who you are to be for him.

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How a Nobody is a Somebody

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Philippians 3:3-8

Luther asked about God, "What prompted Him to call me?" The answer was, "His grace alone.” And so, we see that God makes somebodies out of nobodies.

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Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Romans 2:12-16

The law terrorizes the conscience, revealing the wrath and judgment of God. The gospel announces that Christ is come to forgive the sins of the world.

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The Revealing God

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Luke 24:44–45

The Spirit of Jesus opens our minds to understand the Scriptures so that we may receive the grace of God promised throughout the Old and New Testaments.

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Modern Day Pharisees

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Matthew 23:13–14

Woe to those whose religious demands and pious pretense shut off the kingdom of heaven from people, for they too will not enter the kingdom.

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Seeing the Light

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:16 and John 1:1-5

In Jesus is life, and this life is the light of all people. The light, Christ Jesus, shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not, nor ever will, overcome it.

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A New Thing

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:15-17 and Acts 10:9-43

God accepts all peoples, all nationalities, all cultures, all races, women and men, old and young, so long as they fear him and do what is right.

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The Cross

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:18-19 and Ephesians 2:13-18

All nations — Jews and Gentiles alike — are united in Christ as new man, making peace, reconciling us and our dogmas under his cross.

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Telling the Truth

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:18-20 and Ephesians 4:11-16

We are no longer to be children ... but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him who is the head, even Christ ...

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Practicing Faith

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Scripture Text: Galatians 1:21-24 and Romans 3:21-31

Lutherans, like the Apostle Paul, confess and hold that one is justified by faith alone, apart from works of the law, even of those deeds are religious.

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The Real Difference

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:1 and 2 Timothy 1:8-14

Paul preaching justification with God by faith in Christ Jesus through the power at work in the Holy Spirit in the Word, without the deeds of the law.

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We’ve Never Done it That Way

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:1 and Mark 7:1-8

Unlike those who opposed Paul, asserting that the law ought to be kept and that the Gentiles be circumcised to be saved, we must insist on God's grace.

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Whom Do You Proclaim?

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:1 and 2 Corinthians 4:1-6

“Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

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I Don’t Feel too Good Today

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:2 and Matthew 5:17-20

That we are Christian is based on faith in what Christ Jesus accomplished, not in what we do, and certainly not in how we feel on a given day.

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It Goes to Motive

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:2 and Hebrews 11:1-6

Be careful with religious works, that you do something from the right motive, from the faith motive, so that good works flow from faith.

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Is It About Jesus?

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:2 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

It is easy to get distracted when people start talking about religious rules — unless your faith is about Christ Jesus instead of traditions and rules.

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Compulsory Religion

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:3 and Ephesians 2:8-9

The fathers were not justified by circumcision. To them, it was a sign and seal of righteousness, and viewed as a confession of their faith.

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A Little Better than Bad

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:3 and Romans 3:9-20

Be careful that you do not hold over the head of someone else your own brand of Christianity, your dogma, instead of offering the free grace of God.

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Get to Work

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:4-5 and James 2:14-26

Let us get to work, but not depend upon our works or hold them conditionally over the lives of others. Faith — in Christ alone — saves.

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This He Has Done

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:4-5 and Romans 7:21-25

Faith looks to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, not to the works one has done, whether they are religious in nature or civil, nor to works left undone.

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What Are You Really Looking For?

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:4-5 and Matthew 13:45-46

True faith lays hold of Christ and trusts in him alone, something that the spiritually blind cannot see, that the unbelieving considers foolishness.

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Don’t Give an Inch

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:4-5 and Galatians 5:1-6

We refuse to have our consciences bound by any work or law that says by doing this or that we are righteous, or leaving this or that undone we are damned.

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The Truth that Sets You Free

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:4-5 and Romans 8:15-17

If we do not believe that faith in Christ is the only thing that can justify us, the death and resurrection of Jesus are without meaning, and a Savior is relegated to myth.

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An Unfair Verdict

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:4-5 and Matthew 5:17-20

Christians strive to live by God's rules but do not depend upon them for salvation, but on the grace of the one who rules over the rules.

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The Things We Do for Love

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:4-5 and 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

When Jesus is not lifted up and glorified by a religious work, but instead, the so-called righteous deed is honored, then the deed is beyond suspect.

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He Said What?

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:6 and John 8:31-38

What does the Scripture say? Always appeal to the Word of God and be careful you are not using the Word to defend a personal viewpoint.

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Following Men

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:6 and 1 Corinthians 3:1-11

If one takes the sum of the apostles, including Paul, then too, Martin Luther, Billy Graham, and the Pope, the gospel is still more excellent and true.

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Get Over Yourself

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:6 and Revelation 19:11-16

We are to esteem the Word of God, not people, whether presidents or preachers, authors or musicians, persons or personalities. The Word!

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It Takes Two to Tango

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:6 and 2 Samuel 11:1–27

Be careful to not attach so much importance to any person — be she mother, doctor, president, pastor — that she is remembered and God forgotten.

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Be Resolved

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:6 and Revelation 2:8-11

We may suffer the loss of our good name, of life itself, but we must not lose the gospel and our faith in Jesus Christ, nor stand for those who would rob us of faith.

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Who Says?

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:7-8 and Titus 2:11-15

God has stepped into the world bringing his grace to all who believe through the preached word that God saves through faith in Jesus Christ.

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Determination

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:7-8 and Acts 1:6-11

When family and friends refuse to hear the message of the gospel, like Paul, we must turn to others, even the whole world, with the good news of Jesus.

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Different Gospels

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:7-8 and Ephesians 4:4-6

Peter is not the chief Apostle, as all of the apostles were equals, having the same charge and the identical gospel of Christ Jesus to proclaim to the world.

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Get in the Game

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:7-8 and John 14:1-13

Paul and Peter received their powerful authority from God, who gave of the same Spirit to Luther, and today gives to you in whatever vocation is yours.

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Ministry on the Move

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:7-8 and 2 Timothy 4:1-5

Those who are called to ministry will often enough have to patiently endure adversity in order to fulfill their ministries of preaching the Word preach .

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Get Out of the Way

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:7-9 and Mark 9:38-41

When you hear that people receive the Christ through the simple preaching of faith, do you glorify God for his grace in the ministries of others?

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Gospel Fellowship

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:9 and 1 John 1:1-4

Differences in whom we preach the gospel to ought not to hinder our fellowship and Christian friendship, since we preach the same gospel.

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Speaking of Money

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:10 and 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12

Where the Church is, there will also be the poor, for the world and the devil persecute the church and end up impoverishing many faithful Christians.

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Stand Up for Jesus

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:11 and 1 Corinthians 2:1-4

We must be as determined as the Apostle Paul to stand up with the simple but powerful gospel message of nothing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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Stand Firmly

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:11 and Luke 12:8-12

We are not called to defend Peter’s cause, or the cause of our parents, or that of the government, or that of the world, but unyieldingly, the cause of God.

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The Sainted Sinner

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:11 and Romans 8:1-11

You are far from perfect but you are holy because Christ Jesus has assigned his perfect holiness to imperfect you through your faith in his promises.

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Two Temptations

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:11 and 1 Corinthians 10:1-13

No one has fallen so far that he cannot rise, just as no one stands so well that he might not fall. If Peter fell, I may fall. If he rose again, I too may rise.

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Without Rules but With Christ

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:12 and Matthew 28:18-20

When it becomes about the rules instead of about Jesus, then the church, at best, goes into the world making rule followers, not Christ followers.

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The Work that Saves

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:12 and Romans 11:1-6

To do certain things, or not do them, is immaterial; what is of utmost importance is Christ, and him crucified and risen for your salvation.

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Who is On the Throne?

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:12 and Revelation 4:2–11

We can sometimes seem like we worship our ways, so we must remind ourselves that Christ is on the throne and not the ways we worship him.

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No Offense

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:12 and Ephesians 6:10-20

It should not seem odd to us that some insist on the church sliding back into law-keeping, while they also seem to find it so difficult to be gracious.

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Focus

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:12 and 2 Corinthians 7:8-11

There can be great danger in the keeping of rituals and customs and ceremonies, as they so easily tend to the error of works righteousness.

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Take a Stand

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:13 and Acts 7:55–60

It is marvelous how God preserves the church by a single person, sometimes one person doing more than the whole assembly.

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The All of Salvation

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:13 and Philippians 2:9-12

The law is good to remind us of areas for moral improvement in life but have no place in our salvation which is accomplished through Christ alone.

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All the Difference

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Scripture Text: Galatians 2:13 and 2 Timothy 4:1-4

Let us search the Scriptures with humility, praying that we never lose the light of the gospel by trusting ourselves for justification instead of God.

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