S15 Ep8: Why You Struggle to Measure Up

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jennie dives into Galatians 2:19-21, verses that reveal a significant shift in a believer's approach to life. Historically burdened by many laws and regulations, individuals strived to attain righteousness through stringent adherence to rules. But we see a transformative revelation here, emphasizing that trying to achieve righteousness through the law is futile. Through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the subsequent exchange of His righteousness for our shortcomings, a new way of life is unveiled—a life lived for God, guided by faith and a deep connection with Him.

MAIN POINTS:

0:10 Jennie reads from Galatians
2:19-211:42 The Old Laws and how to love God
3:30 A new way to love God
4:24 Why you aren’t measuring up
7:25 The things that happen at the moment of salvation
14:08 What you can say to Jesus if you are done trying to measure up
15:54 Jennie reads a passage from her favorite devotional

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0:00.0	This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.
0:03.6	Why would he go to the trouble of being born in a manger and growing up as a child and suffering loss and pain throughout his life and ultimately losing his life for us?
0:20.4	Why would he go to all that trouble if we could have just obeyed the law and made it work
0:24.8	ourselves?
0:25.8	Jenny's new book, Untangle Your Emotions, is available now for pre-order. So go to any retailer
0:36.6	and search Untangle Your Emotions by Jenny Allen. And we will also put the link in the show
0:41.3	notes. You can go to untangle your emotions.
0:43.6	And pre-order from your favorite retailer. Galatians 2, 19 through 21.
0:56.2	For through the law, I died to the law,
1:01.9	so that I might live for God.
1:03.4	I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live,
1:06.1	but Christ lives in me.
1:07.8	The life I now live in the body,
1:09.7	I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the
1:15.9	grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law Christ died for nothing.
1:29.0	These are some of the most important verses in the Bible, because it sets a whole different category of a way to live for a believer. Up until this point in the
1:36.3	Jewish religion, there had been hundreds and added to it thousands of laws that to be a strong Jew, to be a religious zealot,
1:49.4	you had to obey all these laws, you had to obey all these rules, and there were so many of them and that is what many
1:56.4	people spent most of their life thinking about and trying to do because they
2:00.5	believed that God was real and they loved God and the way to please God was this set apart holy life that the Old Testament had laid out in clarity with small laws about how to take care of their dishes and big laws about not sleeping with your neighbor's wife.
2:21.0	All of that equaled a little bit of panic because you never really knew if you'd kept enough
2:26.8	laws. I think there were some that would be described as Pharisees or Sadducees that when
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