The sincere child of God wants to please the Father. And he walks along with that in mind, as the Psalmist expressed it in Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts.” And every child of God wants, therefore, to please the Father. And thank God we have propitiation. Now that means Christ is really our mercy seat. He is the One. Friends, you see, Christianity today is not a ritual, it’s not a ceremony, it’s not a system, and it’s not even the church. Christianity is a Person, and that Person is Christ. He is our mercy seat. Now He’s a mercy seat for the whole 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.