GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   It must have been a dramatic moment. The Galatian church had gathered for the public reading of a letter from none other than Paul. As the letter ende...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Do you remember the first time you observed a seed sprouting in a glass jar? It is a fascinating law of creation, governed by God's providence. God ha...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   We learn by example; we copy things that we see. This is also true for developing spiritually. We call this biblical principle, modelling. Paul often ...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   The Holy Spirit does not produce fruit in the Christian life without our cooperation. There are two things every Christian must do to remain fruitful....

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   What is spirituality? Who is spiritual? Is it accomplished by legalistic conformity to the Mosaic law? What part does the Holy Spirit have? The self? ...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Just as justification is not possible through the efforts of self, so sanctification cannot be achieved through one's own energy either. Both come fro...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   The Judaizers charged that Paul’s teaching would lead the Galatians into lawlessness. Paul countered that the false teachers wanted to replace one exp...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   The Judaizers charged that Paul’s teaching would lead the Galatians into lawlessness. Paul countered that the false teachers wanted to replace one exp...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Paul effectively used a double approach to warn the Galatians about the dangers of Judaizing legalism. The first was personal and subjective (4:12-20)...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   In this section Paul effectively used a double approach to warn the Galatians about the dangers of Judaizing legalism. The first was personal and subj...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Although regeneration changed the spiritual position of a slave, it did not eliminate his social status. He was still a slave. Many NT epistles provid...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES    In cultures that practiced slavery, there were obvious differences between the one who served and the master, between the son of a slave and the son ...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   This major section begins with the rhetorical question: Why then was the law given? (3:19). In verse 19-25, Paul explained the purpose of God giving t...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Paul has clearly demonstrated that the law could not give the Holy Spirit (3:1-5), could not give the righteousness of God (3:6-9), could not give the...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Since salvation is a matter of God's free grace, we do not earn it by working to obtain it. It is a gift, not something owed to us. We receive our inh...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Throughout this chapter Paul has been proving that justification and the Holy Spirit come by faith and not by works. First, he argued from experience—...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   If the law cannot bless us, then how can we receive God's blessing? This is the question Paul has been wrestling with throughout this letter. How do I...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Imagine the scene: An entire nation gathers on the sides of two mountains to worship. Half the people stand on one side, half on the other. They worsh...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith (Gal. 3:8). The OT had the foresight to predict the coming of Jesus Christ, the...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Undoubtedly the reason Paul has so much to say about Abraham in Galatians 3 and 4 is that the Judaizers made such a fuss over him. They claimed that F...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   Deep down, the Galatians knew that they were justified by faith alone, for this is how they had come to Christ in the first place. To stop them from g...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   How can God accept me? Only if I trust in Jesus Christ. This is the biblical doctrine of justification by faith that Paul taught the Galatians. I cann...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   The only way to get what Christ has to offer is to be united to him by faith. John Calvin said, "We must understand that as long as Christ remains out...

GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES   In today’s study, Dr. Gonzalez will begin his exposition of Galatians 2:17-21. What Paul said in Gal. 2:16 bears repeating: "We know that a person is ...