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BIBLE
STUDY LESSON
For
the week beginning Sunday February 9, 2020
PAUL’S
FINAL ADVICE TO THE GALATIANS
Galatians
6:11-18
In Paul’s final advice to the Galatians he points out to them that he is
closing out his letter in his own handwriting, not that of his personal scribe.
He again stresses some of the issues that he had previously discussed in this
letter. These final words contain both a summary, and, advice on how to proceed
in the future, as far as their dealings with detractors go.
Detractors and false teachers, for the most part, go along with the
program of man, either because they fear persecution from man for teaching the
truth of GOD’s word (they are cowards), or, because they are more interested in
“glorifying themselves” by influencing people to “follow them”, instead of following
CHRIST (Vs. 11-13).
“True men of GOD” refuse to boast about anything except what JESUS
CHRIST did on the cross, in order that HE might save us from eternal damnation.
Paul says that “it is because of the cross that his interest in the things of
this world died long ago, and the world’s interest in him died along with it
(v.14).
When we choose the Christian Walk, it is the “circumcision of the heart”
that becomes paramount, not the “physical circumcision” of the male’s sexual
organ. If that was the key, then women would be blocked from salvation. What
counts is whether we really have been changed into a new creature because our “heart”,
(“kardia” in the Greek, which means “our thinking” has been changed), to the
thoughts of “the things that are important to GOD”, and away from those “things
that are important to the world” (v.15).
Paul’s body bore the scars that served as evidence that he belonged to
CHRIST JESUS. And if we are to follow JESUS’ example as Paul did, we too, can
only follow that example, by “going through the cross” (suffering for the cause
of CHRIST JESUS). GOD expects us to suffer for the faith we say we hold, until
we can began to believe in our thinking (heart), that we really do hold it, because
GOD, WHO knows all things, knows through HIS infinite wisdom that, if our faith
costs us nothing, then, we are in danger of valuing it at “nothing”.
A
Sunday school lesson by,
Larry
D. Alexander
LARRY D. ALEXANDER-
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