A Look At Galatians 3 And More – Audio

Galatians 3 continues Paul the apostle’s correction of the churches of Galatia who were being infected by Jewish-Christian teachers errantly saying they must keep the law of Moses to be justified by God.

This recording also gets into all sorts of side topics.

Lord bless you!

Supplemental scriptures on works

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive the deeds done in the body, whether good or bad. – 2 Cor. 5:10

[God] will repay every man according to his works. To those who seek after glory, honor, and immortality by patiently continuing to do good, [he will repay] eternal life. – Rom 2:6,7

He that sows to the Spirit shall reap everlasting life from the Spirit. Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap [eternal life], if we do not faint. – Gal 6:8-9

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. – 1 Cor. 9:27

Early Christian quotes read

Tertullian (c. 203), 3.661 Ante-Nicene Fathers
“Some think that God is under a necessity of bestowing even on the unworthy what He has promised [to give]. So they turn His liberality into His slavery. . . . For do not many afterward fall out of [grace]? Is not the gift taken away from many? These, no doubt, are they who, . . . after approaching to the faith of repentance, build on the sands a house doomed to ruin.”

Clement of Alexandria (c. 195), 2.602 Ante-Nicene Fathers
“God gives forgiveness of past sins. However, as to future sins, each one procures this for himself. He does this by repenting, by condemning the past deeds, and by begging the Father to blot them out. For only the Father is the one who is able to undo what is done. . . . So even in the case of one who has done the greatest good deeds in his life, but at the end has run headlong into wickedness, all his former pains are profitless to him. For at the climax of the drama, he has given up his part.”

Epistle of Barnabas – (c. 70-130), 1.138, 139 Ante-Nicene Fathers
“We ought therefore, brethren, carefully to inquire concerning our salvation. Otherwise, the wicked one, having made his entrance by deceit, may hurl us forth from our life. . . . The whole past time of your faith will profit you nothing, unless now in this wicked time we also withstand coming sources of danger. . . . Take heed, lest resting at our ease, as those who are the called, we fall asleep in our sins. For then, the wicked prince, acquiring power over us, will thrust us away from the kingdom of the Lord. . . . And you should pay attention to this all the more, my brothers, when you reflect on and see that even after such great signs and wonders had been performed in Israel, they were still abandoned. Let us beware lest we be found to be, as it is written, the ‘many who are called,’ but not the ‘few who are chosen.’”

Tertullian (c. 197), 3.244 Ante-Nicene Fathers
“No one is a Christian but he who perseveres even to the end.”