In this passage of Galatians Paul defines a spiritual person as someone who manifests the fruit of the spirit. The church is urged to live in the Spirit with humility, desiring the good of other people and avoid strife, division and pride.
Gerald exhorts Christians to live a spiritual life – a life where the focus is living more like Jesus. He makes three points: the need for the Christian to crucify the sinful nature, the need of the Christian to live in step with the spirit and the need to not live conceited lives.
In the Old Testament the Israelites were set free out of Egypt but wanted to go back into slavery. When God frees us from the slavery of sin we often want to go back to our sin. However, God has made us and set us free for a purpose. What is our purpose and what […]
This thought should cause us all to feel uncomfortable. If legalism lurks amongst the religious, then it lurks in me and you and we need to keep a good look out for it and recognise it when we see it. This lurking legalism should cause us all to examine our own hearts. We can ask […]
When we live with a belief in justification by faith alone, we can live with joy. As soon as we slip and move towards works as a failed means of being right with God we end up moving towards formalism and the repercussions of that are a lack of joy and a judgmental attitude.
Paul can’t believe the Galatian Christians are turning back to the Law, as a means of being right with God. Paul explains how the law increases the trespass and urges them to hold on to the Gospel as the only means of being right with God.
In this service Gerald looks at a number of passages that lead up to Christmas, with the theme of sacrifice.
Christmas Day 2022. In this sermon we spend time thinking about Simeon’s response to the coming of the Lord Jesus and we too get a sense of excitement as we contemplate the magnitude of God’s love to us.