A curated series inside Dove Creek Bible Church's Podcast.
Oct 28, 2019 7:16 AM America/Chicago
Here at the end of this great epistle Paul sums up what he has been saying with reference to the errors of legalism and the enlightenment of grace. What counts now is the new creation responding to grace by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
Oct 21, 2019 8:51 AM America/Chicago
Gal 6:6-10 concerns the principle of sowing and reaping. What does where I sow reveal about my priorities? Why must I reap what I sow? These and other questions are addressed in this text.
Oct 14, 2019 9:09 AM America/Chicago
In this text Paul gives us some counsel with reference to those caught up in sin. and the proper role of church discipline.
Oct 7, 2019 8:09 AM America/Chicago
When the flesh is in charge it is obvious. The production of the flesh includes the sins listed here but this list is by no means exhaustive.It is also obvious when the Spirit is in charge for when the Spirit is in charge we will bear the fruit of the Spi
Sep 23, 2019 7:23 AM America/Chicago
If I am a new creation in Christ then why do I still sin? Is my old sin nature fighting with my new creation nature? Do my old self and new self co-exist? Or is something else going on? Is there some other explanation? Today's text explains why you still
Sep 16, 2019 8:38 AM America/Chicago
In Galatians 5:13-15, Paul addresses those who might misunderstand and misuse their freedom in Christ under grace as an excuse to indulge the self. He asserts that the freedom we have been granted is not a freedom to serve self, but to serve others. From
Sep 10, 2019 9:46 AM America/Chicago
The introduction to chapter 5 is a summary of chapter 4. Paul declared that Christ was the great emancipator who set believers free from bondage to the slave market. Note that Christ did not just set us free…He set us free for freedom! Therefore, the st
Sep 3, 2019 10:00 AM America/Chicago
This text seems like an allegorical interpretation…or is it? And if it is, then is Paul saying that allegory a good way to approach biblical interpretation? Or is he merely arguing with the Judaizers on their terms since they preferred allegorical inter
Aug 26, 2019 7:15 AM America/Chicago
Have you ever noticed that often the people who are most passionately against something are people who used to be participants in that very thing? For example, an ex-smoker who is vehemently against smoking or person who used to be a member of some organi
Aug 19, 2019 5:08 PM America/Chicago
Thus far in our study of Galatians Paul has said that returning to the law was like a free man deciding he would return to prison and like a man insisting he be treated as a boy. Today Paul seeks to illustrate and apply this truth in yet another way by tu
Aug 1, 2019 1:35 PM America/Chicago
In the preceding verses, Paul has focused the reader’s attention on some crucial distinctions: law is different from grace, faith is different from works, and the Mosaic Covenant is different from the Abrahamic Covenant. In our text today Paul says bein
Aug 1, 2019 1:28 PM America/Chicago
In Galatians 3:15-22, Paul explains the superiority of the promise and the inferiority of the law. The Judaizers’ view was whatever God was doing before the law He was only doing until the law was given. Once the law was given it replaced the covenant b
Aug 1, 2019 1:23 PM America/Chicago
In Galatians 3:6-14, Paul uses the Old Testament case of Abraham to drive home his point that salvation has always been by grace through faith. Afterwards he argues that those who rely on legalistic obedience to the law are under a curse and seeking comme
May 27, 2019 9:55 AM America/Chicago
In Galatians 3:1-5, Paul ask the Galatians specific questions about how God has worked in their midst. He is trying to get them to rethink so they will react differently
May 20, 2019 8:23 AM America/Chicago
In Galatians 2:15-21, Paul explains we are dead to the law through the law, when this occurred, and why we are free from the law
May 13, 2019 8:08 AM America/Chicago
In Galatians 2:11-16, Paul explains why he had to publicly confront Peter. There are several applications in this passage about the gentle art of confrontation.
May 6, 2019 8:45 AM America/Chicago
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Apr 29, 2019 9:12 AM America/Chicago
The Apostle Paul explains his journey from legalistic Pharisee to Apostle of Grace.
Apr 15, 2019 10:47 AM America/Chicago
In Acts 15, men come down from Judea to Antioch and state "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." If the men from Judea had prevailed circumcision would have become a precondition to salvation and trying