There is not a person who can live the Christian life. And, furthermore, God never asked you to live the Christian life. You can’t show me a passage where God asks you to live it. What God did ask is for the permission of living it through you by the power of the Holy Spirit. You and I cannot live the Christian life, but the Holy Spirit of God can. our Lord said, “Ye must be born again … that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” And when a child of God is born again and becomes a child of God, he’s given the indwelling Holy Spirit. And it’s by the power of the Holy Spirit that he is to live.
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.