Season 1
Don't Indulge The Flesh
Faith Works Through Love
Living By Faith
There's A Problem
Go Free
What is going on with me? I love God’s law, I want to be righteous, I love God's people, but sometimes you wouldn’t think it to look at me. The problem is the flesh, and Paul says I mustn't use my freedom as an opportunity to indulge it.
Rule keeping is not the way to godliness: it's faith working through love, that's the way. But how does faith work through love?
“We through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.” (Galatians 5:5) But what does that look like? Hebrews 11 will help us work that out.
I have a problem with the idea of being free from having to keep God’s law. I'm free from the law but I’ll be blowed if I don't still want to keep it anyway. I just love God’s law, don’t you? I love God’s law — all of it. Let me tell you why.
So you want to be a godly person. The first thing you should understand is that Jesus died to set you free. Do you know what that means?
Occasionally someone crosses your path. There's something about him or her that's very attractive. It's hard to describe but there are some remarkable qualities that you notice right away: inner joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, strong calm easy confidence in the Lord. They make an impression but the impression is not of themselves, they radiate the presence of Jesus. Yes, there's something very attractive about people like that. They possess the quality we call godliness. Wouldn't it be good to be one of those people? Over the next few weeks godliness will be our theme. We'll think about what it is and why it's so rare, but mostly we'll think about how you can become more godly,