“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.” My, we like to get in our little corner down here and fix it up and think it’s going to be permanent. And we get our little blanket, and we get our little false security down here. May I say to you, the best we are—we’re a pilgrim and a stranger down here. And that’s the way we ought to live this life, friend. And we’re journeying—we seek a city “whose builder and maker is God.”
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.