Grace Through Faith vs. The Law

Today, we um honestly surprisingly get to go back to Galatians chapter five.

We talked about this Fast Friday, and when I was reading, I'm like, this feels familiar.

Like, dog, Richie, you talked about it last Friday.

Last week we talked about the top half.

This this week we'll go to the bottom half of Galatians chapter five.

Once again, praying for the local church.

Um we reminded the FCC is hosting all night prayer tonight.

So not only did you pray for, you can pray with the local church there.

So um, those that are able to make it out, it'll be an amazing experience.

Not only that, but just to stretch yourself, it's like uh all night, yeah, yeah.

And you you can do it at supernatural grace with your press.

So we'll be praying um not all night, so we're supporting you all in prayer.

Um, but yeah, that's cool.

That's really cool.

Galatians chapter five, once again, Paul is talking about the difference between the gospel of grace and the law.

Paul, once again, he was facing this conflict, let's put like, to where he taught a certain message, and people were accepting that particular message and growing.

But some other people came, um, do this and that or this end, this end, not what Paul was teaching.

And so in chapter five, we we see Paul's like, man, I really, really wish they would leave us alone, and really stop trying to say you have to follow the law in order to experience the fullness of the grace of God, grace through faith.

Okay, so we we pick up verse 13.

He he compares living by grace through faith as freedom, and it's interesting on the philosophical side of Christendom, what happens is you you got some, you got people who are grace people, and the question that they get a lot is if you teach the grace of God, are you excusing people from lives of holiness?

And so Paul is like um Galatians 5, verse 13, you've been called a liberty or freedom, but not use your freedom to satisfy your fleshly desires.

Galatians 5:13

He literally says that, but use your freedom in love and service to other people, so it's free from and free to.

So he equates faith and love.

So you'll so it's interesting.

I I really, really, I should probably take an hour and you can walk in this one.

This one's fun, particularly the historical background of it.

Because Paul is literally saying, hey, you have been bought with a price.

He wrote that as well, 1 Corinthians, chapter 6.

1 Corinthians 6 · chapter mention

So, with that price, you are no longer bound to the dictates of your flesh.

You're because the biggest problem with the law, if there was the big problem, is focusing on the law made you think about what you could not do on your own.

Self-righteousness.

So Grace said, I can do all things through Cristos, through the anointing, which strengthens me.

So Grace won the definition of grace is divine enablement.

Paul is literally saying, Hey, don't focus on what you cannot do, don't be limited by what you can do in your own flesh.

Focus on the freedom God has empowered you to live by or walk by faith and not by sight.

So, God, once you take time to check in with the Father, particularly and you read his Logos word while we hear for the voice, the Rhema word, once he gives you a rhema word that gives you divine enablement, divine empowerment.

What that does, what that produces, is whatever the word says you can do, you can do it.

You can do it.

Told you last time or this week.

Do not tell yours, do not disqualify yourself from what God qualifies you for.

Because too many times what happens is He will give us one once one of the ways to outpour the Holy Spirit is vision, dreams.

He will give you a vision, give you a dream.

It will be beyond your above all you can actually think.

Do not disqualify yourself by telling you what you cannot do.

Do not limit yourself based on your present situation because please understand that when God called you, when he released that rhema, the revelation to you, he factored in your present situation.

He factored in the fact that I got four kids and a wife.

Okay, cool.

I'm still calling Reggie to do this.

Because too many times we look at what we we we try to find more reasons why we cannot.

When God gives you the only reason that matters, Christ.

My son gives you strength.

So as we pray, you're free from the works of the flesh.

Galatians 5.

As you grow into spirit, you're free from the works of the flesh.

Galatians chapter 5, verse 20, 19, 20, 21, you're free from that.

Galatians 5:20

Free to walk in love, walk in joy, walk in peace.

You're free to do just that.

That's critical.

So as we walk, as we go throughout this day, what is God bringing you to do on this day?

Once again, we gotta take time and pause.

Alright, God, you're you brought me from this.

No, me and Tony.

You heal them, set me free of debt, doubt, worry, stress, and fear.

By grace through faith.

To do what?

What you divinely aid me to do.

On a deeper level, what spiritual guilt, spiritual graces are you empowering me to do?

Because those are expression of your love to and through me.

Free from the works of the flesh.

Free towards lives determined by love.

What is God empowering you to do?

Reggie, what does that do to the local church?

Everything.

The local church is a place where we get to identify, develop, and sharpen our spiritual gifts.

And honestly, there are natural gifts that you have, I believe, based on your spiritual gifts that can be mutually beneficial.

You can serve in the church in your capacity as well, as well outside the church.

I'm actually a huge believer in that.

And I believe as a church, we got to get more creative in how we mobilize our people.

Because I do believe in the three Ts: time, talent, treasure.

That's what we give to the church our time, our talent, and our treasure.

I believe you tithe all three.

Tithe your time, tithe your talent, tithe your treasure to the local church.

And so as we're praying, as we're teaching the gospel, as the Holy Spirit is healing and seven people free, free from the works of the flesh.

Okay, now what do I do?

Because you're called to do something.

Even Adam in the garden was called to do something.

He had a job in the garden.

He didn't just sit down and do nothing.

No.

Work the field, work the land, expand this thing.

A lot of us, it might be simply expanding the kingdom through sharing your testimony at first.

Some of us hadn't done that recently.

Some of us we haven't witnessed as much as we needed to.

Some of us we we're not even looking for that.

Talk.

Use your words.

Some of us is step further.

Okay, cool.

You're decent at that.

Alright, how are you taking arm in arm discipling somebody?

Reggie, I got mine.

Okay.

With all due respect, babies are me, myself, and mine.

As you grow older, you consider other people.

Now there is a season where you can focus on you, yourself, and yours as God is healing, delivering, and taking care of you.

Yes, a season for that.

But as God has brought you from, from, where is he leading you to?

The healed, healed, delivered, delivered, the free, free.

Isaiah 61.

Restores of breaches.

Who is God leading you to?

Who is he placed in your area to where it's like, okay, you can reach them.

Yo, you can deliver in a colorful enough way.

Like Monkey said, you put your hot sauce on the word of God, and as a result, he can use your words to touch that person.

Not only can you touch them, honestly, you're gonna walk beside them until they Christ be falling in them as well.

You uh Reggie, I don't know what to say.

That's the local church's job.

That's our job to equip you do the work in the ministry.

Yes.

But we're all doing this thing together.

Free from free tours.

Make sense?

Free from freedom tours.

We will go into room.