Thanks for listening to this Suszi Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully

inspire you in your faith walk, the deep in your understanding of God's word and that

heightens your awareness

of his very real presence in your life. So glad you tuned in today. In fact, I pray that God

the Father gives you grace and peace multiplied. You know, Jesus gave his life for our sins,

just as God the Father planned in order to rescue us from the evil world in which we live.

Does that salutation sound familiar?

That's from Paul's letter in Galatians. It's from chapter one. They say Paul's letter to the

southern churches in Galatia are a character, I'm sorry, a charter of Christian freedom. They

characterize the freedom that Jesus won for us. So what does it mean to walk and live in the freedom

that Jesus purchased for us? What does it mean to walk and live in the freedom that Jesus purchased for us?

What does it mean to be crucified with Christ and to live by faith? You know, they say we've never

had so much access to the Word of God and study tools that we have today that help us understand

scripture and the times in which we live. And yet they also say there's never been such a biblically

illiterate society than the one

we live in today. People just aren't reading the word. They're constructing an image of God that

suits them, which is not the God of the Bible. They're living by feelings, more often than by faith.

But we need to show up our faith for the times we're in. We need to know the word. And so we're excited about a series that we're

starting. Bible scholar Dr. Nijey Gupta joins me today and for the next few months to walk our

way through the book of Galatians. Today we're going to dig into the first two chapters of Paul's

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