May 2nd, 2022
How to Grow Good Spiritual Fruit (Gal. 5:24-26)
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....
May 2nd, 2022
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....
Apr 18th, 2022
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? ...
Feb 28th, 2022
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...
Feb 14th, 2022
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...
Jan 31st, 2022
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...
Jan 17th, 2022
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)...
Jan 3rd, 2022
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 ...
Nov 22nd, 2021
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...
Oct 25th, 2021
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...
Oct 11th, 2021
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—...
Sep 30th, 2021
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...
Sep 6th, 2021
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...
Aug 23rd, 2021
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...
Aug 9th, 2021
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...
Jul 26th, 2021
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...
Jul 12th, 2021
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...
Jun 28th, 2021
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...
Jun 14th, 2021
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 ...
Jun 7th, 2021
GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES In today’s study, Dr. Gonzalez will conclude his exposition of Galatians 2:11-16. He will point out that: Paul’s concern was the Gospel. Even when it ...
May 28th, 2021
GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES It must have been an awkward moment when Paul and Peter, two pillars of the Church, had a confrontation during a church potluck. The confrontation was...
Apr 12th, 2021
GALATIANS EXPOSITORY SERIES In today’s study, part two of Galatians 2:1-10, Dr. Gonzalez’s discusses the two positive results of Paul’s visit to Jerusalem: Titus, Paul’s Gentile ...