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End in the Spirit You Started!

Galatians #7


“You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?  This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?  Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?  Did you suffer so many things in vain-- if indeed it was in vain?  Does He then, who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?”   - Galatians 3:1 - 5

Legalism has a bewitching quality.  It’s trick is to get you to try harder and harder. 

Instead of working from approval, we try to work for approval.  Instead of working from righteousness, we work for righteousness.  It’s a carrot in front of the donkey. 

To walk in the power of the Spirit requires faith.  Faith – not our works – connects us to the Holy Spirit. 

Faith – a confidence in God and His word – opens the door for the Spirit to move in power in relation to His word. 

Is there anything in your life that was born of God but now you are striving in the flesh to finish?  That is bewitching power of legalism.  It will tie you in knots, it will get you striving, it will ruin your relationship with God. It will burn you out.

This is the walk of faith – depending on the Holy Spirit, and knowing that God is in the process.

“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”  
– Romans 10:17

A hearing ear is essential to walking with the Holy Spirit. 

“Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.”   – Hebrews 5:11

God wants to bring us into new things, but we have to have the capacity to hear what He’s saying.

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith.”   – 1 John 5:4

How a thing is born is vital, but how a thing continues is just as vital.