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As Paul gets
ready to end his letter, he continues to hit home with respect to truth. The first thing that he tells us is that we
should be careful to know from where our salvation comes. If we are saved by grace through Christ, the
we are not saved by the Law through our works.
If we think that we are saved through the Law, then Christ has done
nothing for us. Paul isn’t saying that
the Law is useless in Christ; he is simply saying that we should be confident
that our salvation comes from Him.
Christ saves us, the Law illustrates how much we need Him.
Paul then
speaks about love. What does it look like when a person is living in Christ? We live in the same kind of love with which
Christ lived. A person who follows
Christ makes sacrifices for the other.
He forgives the other. He is
patient with the other. He makes peace with
the other. He helps the other. He celebrates with the other. The person who follows Christ looks like Christ
is living through him.
People who
are living in Christ do not provoke one another. People who are living in Christ are not
envious. We are not haughty. We bear one another in love.
In the end,
Paul gives us a great perspective.
Circumcision – or not being circumcised – is nothing. What is something is being a new
creation. It doesn’t matter if we are
wine or grape juice for communion people.
It doesn’t matter if we are worship on Sunday or Saturday people. It doesn’t matter if we are King James or
English Standard kind of people. What
matters is that we are a new creation.
What matters is that Christ lives in us and through us. That is what matters. That should be our focus.
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