God Fights for UsPerhaps the most dramatic and famous scene in the life of Moses and the Israelites is the parting of the Red Sea.In Exodus 14, the Israelites have fled from Egypt.  God has hardened Pharaoh’s heart and Pharaoh pursued the Israelites.  When the Egyptian army draws near, the Israelites “were terrified and cried out to the Lord for help” (v. 10).The joyous deliverance of the Israelit...  Read More

AccountabilityAs humble and submissive as Moses was to God’s commandments, he was still human and bound to commit mistakes.  One of the biggest mistakes of Moses was his rebellious act against God in Kadesh.God gave a very specific and easy instruction to Moses.  God commanded Moses to simply take the rod, gather the people, and speak to the rock and I will provide water from the rock for the peop...  Read More

HumilityNumbers 12:3 tells us, “Moses was a very humble man, more so than anyone on the face of the earth.”  Most people in our culture view humility as weakness.  When we think of humility, we think of someone lowering themselves.  God chose Moses to be the leader of the Israelites because of his humility.  Through God’s working, Moses was adopted into Pharaoh’s family and raised as a wealthy pri...  Read More

RelationshipMoses had a very close relationship with God.  There are at least two verses that testify to the relationship between them:“The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend.”                                                                                                             Exodus 33:11“No prophet has arisen again in Israel like Moses, whom the L...  Read More

RighteousGalatians 3:11 (NIV) - Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."Scripture teaches that every person is a sinner. In other words, we are unrighteous.The question then is how an unrighteous sinner can become righteous in God’s sight.The answer is only through our faith in Christ.As Paul said, “the righteous will live by faith.”There is n...  Read More

SpiritGalatians 5:16 (NIV) - So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.Paul instructed the Galatian Christians to “live by the Spirit.”  This applies to Christians today.To live by the Spirit means to continually depend on the power of the Holy Spirit who enables holy living.Billy Graham wrote in his book, The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power in You...  Read More

FreedomGalatians 5:1 (NIV) - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.Each of us enjoys the freedom of living in the United States of America.Each believer also enjoys the spiritual freedom we have received through our faith in Christ.As Paul wrote, we are to stand fast in our spiritual freedom so that we do n...  Read More

RedeemGalatians 3:13-14 (NIV)- 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.The word “redeem” means to set free after the payment of a ...  Read More

HeirsGalatians 3:29 - If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.Have you ever wondered what it would be like to receive a call saying that you were an heir to a fortune?I confess I have wondered what it would be like. I also confess that I have not received that call!Every follower of Christ is heir to a spiritual fortune.The best part of our inherita...  Read More

EqualGalatians 3:28 (NIV) - There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Through faith in Christ we are all equal before God.John Stott, in his commentary on Galatians, wrote, “In Christ we belong not only to God (as His sons) but to each other (as brothers and sisters). And we belong to each other in such a way as to render of no account thi...  Read More

JustifyGalatians 2:15-16 (NIV) - 15  "We who are Jews by birth and not ’Gentile sinners’ 16  know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.Scripture teaches us that we are sinners and th...  Read More

HeartGalatians 2:6 (NIV) - As for those who seemed to be important--whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance--those men added nothing to my message.God does not judge us on our external appearance.We do not judge others on their external appearance.Paul described a meeting with Peter, James, and John. This meeting resulted in these leaders realizing G...  Read More