Love, Liberty & The Cross July 16

Galatians 6:17

From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

I think at this point; Apostle Paul has had enough. Jewish teachers, known as Judiazers, were following Paul. He would establish a church and build them up with the sound doctrine of the New Covenant in Jesus Christ; then, Jewish teachers would show up and try to legalize everyone.

They would teach that you had to be circumcised and you had to follow the teachings of Moses to be a good Christian. Sadly they were wrong. Paul is so fed-up with this legalism that he lays all the law out in this one crucial verse:

Galatians 5:14

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this; Thou shalt Love thy neighbor as thyself.

But how is the law fulfilled in this verse? This verse explains it:

Romans 13:10

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

Here’s the irony Paul is preaching on Love and Liberty. He received 195 lashes to his back, three times he was beaten with Rods on his back, under Mosaic law this would have been 117 hits, but the Romans were under no such rule so that it could have been, even more, three shipwrecks, in countless perils for his very survival.

Love did not invoke the beatings; it was Liberty.

II Corinthians 3:17

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.

The enemy would send legalism to quench the Spirit of Liberty, and Paul said, I have the marks to prove my gospel is genuine, I have the experience all they have is an argument. A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Now you know why dictators always want to destroy Christianity because it brings Liberty, it sets us free from the bondage of sin, and Satan can’t stand that.

Love, Liberty & The Cross it’s amazing how all three tie together for your salvation.

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