Book Of Galatians
Galatians, more than any other single book, became the manifesto of freedom and revival of Biblical truth of the Reformation era: “the Magna Carta of spiritual emancipation.” Few books have had a more profound influence on the history of mankind than has this small tract, for such it should be called. Christianity might have been just one more Jewish sect, and the thought of the Western world might have been entirely pagan had it never been written. Galatians embodies the germinal teaching on Christian freedom which separated Christianity from Judaism, and which launched it upon a career of missionary conquest. It was the cornerstone of the Protestant Reformation, because its teaching of salvation by grace alone became the dominant theme of the preaching of the Reformers. — Merrill Tenney
Galatians, more than any other single book, became the manifesto of freedom and revival of Biblical truth of the Reformation era: “the Magna Carta of spiritual emancipation.”
Few books have had a more profound influence on the history of mankind than has this small tract, for such it should be called. Christianity might have been just one more Jewish sect, and the thought of the Western world might have been entirely pagan had it never been written. Galatians embodies the germinal teaching on Christian freedom which separated Christianity from Judaism, and which launched it upon a career of missionary conquest. It was the cornerstone of the Protestant Reformation, because its teaching of salvation by grace alone became the dominant theme of the preaching of
the Reformers.
— Merrill Tenney
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· God is demonstrating infinite Love!
· If you want to see infinite power go look through a telescope, try to understand the
sweep of the heavens, try to understand the power and the extent of the universe, it’s
mind boggling, no way can you grasp it.
· Infinite knowledge, you can’t really embrace it, but intellectually we can get a sense of
the idea that God knows everything! God can’t learn.
· God is demonstrating infinite Love!
· If you are trying to add to His grace, it is no longer grace, it’s wages!
– Grace excludes all human effort
(2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in
Christ Jesus before the world began,).
· That’s tough to relate to, because we are in a time domain, a time dimension.
– Hannah, the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 2:6-9 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he
bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.) 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh
rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and]
lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them
inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath
set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be
silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
– Grace + nothing
(Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace:
otherwise work is no more work.).
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