Daily Scripture Threshing for Sunday, March 8 , 2020
Today’s Text: Galatians 5:1-12
Key Verses: Galatians 5:1 (ESV): ”For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
Whereas the yoke of bondage that the apostle Paul was referring to in context was the Judaising legalistic restraints and restrictions which many new Christians at Galatia was brought into by force; many of them are also brought under other material, sensual and genealogical entanglements. We must be free from the yoke of Judaising bondage because it is not necessary to salvation. We are saved by grace and by faith in Jesus Christ alone. And we must be free from al sensual entanglements because they hinder salvation.
Therefore, it calls for a sure standing in biblical truth that sets free rather than religious superstitious. The law was given, not to justify us, but to restrain us from sin, but grace and truth come from Jesus Christ. To be sure we do not slip into these bondages, the apostles call on believers to stand deliberately, and be not entangled. Like the Galatians’, our generation too is full of various levels of entanglements programmed by the devil to force the yokes from which we are already saved back upon us. But we must maintain our stand.
Quote for the Day: "“It is not incorrect that our past explains why we're in some yokes; but it is incomplete. There is a more complete, greater and better past in Christ — our freedom by His truth if only we walk and stand in it.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help us hold fast to your ever living truth. It is your truth that sets us free. This is my earnest plea in your most precious name. Amen.
With all my love and prayer,
Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD
The Darling Bishop (DaBishop),
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