Bible Reading Challenge Week 18 Day 2

Our reading challenge for the day is Galatians 1-6. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant? Galatians 1 - The Gospel is a supernatural message, given to Paul by revelation from Jesus, confirmed in Scripture and by the apostolic witness. The Gospel is not our idea, but God’s power. Galatians 2 - The controversy emerges - do Christians have to live under the law as Jews? We cannot be saved by the law. Galatians 3 - If we rely on the works of the law for salvation we claim salvation by our own work. If we do that, Jesus died for nothing and no longer saves us. We must save ourselves. Galatians 4 - The Christian life is the life of an heir of God. To depart from the faith ensnares us as slaves. Christ calls us to adoption in his kingdom, not to slavery. Galatians 5 - To be circumcised, to accept the yoke of the law, is to fall away from grace. It obligates us to the whole law. We should rather cling to freedom, the grace of Christ for us. Galatians 6 - Even as we trust only in Jesus for us, we do good works and bear one another’s burdens. This is for the good of our neighbor.