Who has bewitched you? That was the first question. The blindness to the power of the cross. Knowing the cross is there but being blind to its true impact is a spell over the spiritual eyes of the Galatians. There’s more questions and they’re important for us today.
“I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?” (Galatians 3 v 2)
Go back to the first time you responded to the Salvation message that Jesus died for you and rose again. Was that response from you something of your achievement or did you see it as a gift?
I remember further sermons in church of the full assurance that I was indeed saved by the blood of Jesus. You will remember them too. Did that seem conditional based on your lifestyle or did it not sound more like a guarantee by the Spirit?
When you received outpouring after outpouring of the Spirit was that because you were good enough?
When the gifts of the Spirit were given to you were they actually that? Were they gifts?
Remember that day when you heard that call of God, the pull of the Spirit, it might have felt like a push as well, but you knew that God wanted you to do something and go somewhere for He was going to use you: was that because you had passed some kind of test? When you look in the mirror do you think ‘yes I can see why God picked me, I would have done the same?!’
It’s never been about you has it? It has always been a gift undeserved. There has never been a time when you can honestly say you deserve what God has given you. It is all of Him!
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