S15 Ep11: Stay Close to God

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jennie continues the deep dive into Galatians and how Paul is trying to change the beliefs of new Christians about how to follow God. Paul argues that it's not through following the law but by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. You’ll see the power of the Holy Spirit is essential in living out the Christian faith and that it's not about striving or relying solely on human knowledge and effort. Instead, it's about being close to God and allowing Him to work through believers. The episode encourages a faith-centered, grace-driven approach to living out one's Christian walk.

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MAIN POINTS:

0:13 Jennie recaps the study of the book of Galatians so far this season
1:59 Why would Christ have even died if we could do this on our own?
3:23 The recurring phrase, "It is by grace through faith."
6:48 How the law makes us aware of our need for a Savior
7:37 The role of Jesus in raising the standards of the law
8:57 Jennie shares a personal experience to help us understand that faith is more about trusting in God's ability than personal qualifications
13:29 Jennie’s perspective on living life as a series of opportunities to say "yes" to God.

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0:00.0	This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.
0:03.6	We trust in the Holy Spirit to let him use us in any moment that we're given rather than to
0:16.8	instantly start to say, but this, but that we rely on the power of the Holy Spirit
0:22.2	to use us and to cause good to happen and thriving to happen. We are working through the Book of Galatians right now and if you're just
0:44.3	joining us we're so glad you're here and I just want to encourage everybody that I'm
0:48.8	going to pull out throughout this season versus from a book that is loaded with theology.
0:55.5	I mean all the books are right but this one is a theological gymnastics course
1:00.5	with Paul trying to change the way that these new Christians, many of them were
1:06.2	Jewish Christians, believed the way to follow God looked.
1:10.8	It's a undertaking.
1:12.1	He is theologically trying to help them see by looking back to
1:15.8	the Old Testament by explaining what Jesus did, by showing them the reasonable argument that he is making.
1:24.2	He's doing it with reason and Bible and circumstance.
1:28.8	He's taking everything in his disposal
1:31.0	in a few chapters of a book to take a people group who only knew
1:36.4	God by obeying thousands of loss. That was the way to follow God by taking that
1:42.2	mindset and turning it on its head and saying no longer
1:45.5	is it by the law.
1:47.5	I want to begin by reading just a few verses out of chapter 3.
1:52.0	And what he's done now in chapter 3 we talked a little bit
1:54.6	about last week where there is this idea that why would Christ have even died
1:59.8	if we could do this on our own that was was his argument last week and then he goes on and sets up and he looks back even specifically at Abraham and he talks about the covenant with Abraham he talks about the promises that
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