What is your attitude today toward the Word of God? My beloved, do you tremble at His Word? Does it have any affect upon you? Does it grip your heart and grip your life? I close now. Action from the Word of God—I come back to our verse. Will you listen to Ezra? “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it." And his point was not only to study it, not only to read it, but to do it. The greatest proof of the Bible, my beloved, is to start putting it in action. James, in his practical manner, says, “Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only.”
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.