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Free in Christ: The Message of Galatians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s epistle to the Galatians can be summarized by one simple question: What is the gospel? What is the real gospel, as opposed to false gospels, or (to use Paul's own terminology) perverted gospels? One recent commentator has written, “Historically, Galatians has been foundation for many forms of Christian doctrine, proclamation, and practice. And it remains true today to say that how one...

Having listed the works of the flesh, Paul turns to the evidences and manifestations of the indwelling Spirit: ‘The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control’ (5:22). These things, he declares, fulfil all the requirements of the law and characterize the true followers of Christ. Notice that the fruits of the Spirit are attitudes that control and dictate actions, rather
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