I don’t care who you are, you’re going to stand before God. Now if you’re a child of God, He’ll judge you for your sin. You won’t lose your salvation, but He’ll take you to the woodshed. Now if you’re a lost man, you’ve got no claim on God at all. He doesn’t say He won’t hear the prayer of the wicked. He just says He hears the prayers of the righteous, and He’s not obligated to hear the others. But if that wicked man would cry out to Him, God would deliver him. When you hear people today say, “Why does God let this happen?” and they’re unsaved—well, my friend, you have no claim on God. God’s righteous, and we forget that this happens to be His world.
Get ready to fight the good fight against legalism in Galatians. When this letter was written, it defended the gospel of Christ from people who wanted to reduce it to rules. Not surprising, Galatians has provided the backbone for several great spiritual revivals around the world. Freedom, we learn, is a serious fight. Allow grace to revolutionize your own life through these seven lessons from Dr. J. Vernon McGee.