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Galatians 2:20 NLT My old self has been crucified with Christ.  It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.  So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God,  who loved me  and gave himself for me.  Galatians 2:20 NLT Paul has just explained about how just keeping all the rules, just thinking that was what God wanted, did not lead to Life. Trusting in the rules, in his own ability to keep them, has been abandoned for trusting in Jesus, trusting in His Love that leads to Life, that trusting in our God who Loves Us changes everything and we get to discover, little by little, the way that we have lived to please others, to meet our culture or society expectations, even our church's expectations, does not always lead to Life. Paul acknowledges too our embodiedness. That we are an embodied soul, that our physicalness is an intrinsic part of who we are (no less important than our mind, or spirit). What is the freedom in Jesus that this letter migh...

Sunday Psalms; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... Psalms 119:77 NLT When the world seems empty; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... When all seems lost; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... When it seems I'm at the end of my resources; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... When I can't see a way; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... When it makes no sense; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... When things are good; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... When there is plenty; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... When I am loved; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... Whatever is behind me; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... Whatever today holds; Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... Whatever is in front of me...surround me with your tender mercies so I may live... #sunday #worship #psalms #psalm11...

Galatians 2:15-16 NLT "You and I are Jews by birth, not 'sinners' like the Gentiles. Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law.  And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law.  For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law." Galatians 2:15-16 NLT Paul is telling the readers of his letter who are hearing from false teachers just what he told Peter when he was off track too: Our religious heritage won't make us right with God. Obeying all the rules won't make us right with God. These things are attractive and can seem attainable.  It's faith in Jesus that makes us right with God. Not which church we go to, how often we go, how we were baptised, what we give, how we serve, whether we've made good choices or terrible ones, it's faith in Jesus that makes us right with God. Faith in Je...