The Newness of Spirit Podcast

The revealing of the Son within is not the impartation of secret knowledge or a burst of emotion.  It is a true seeing of Christ as our life.  We now grasp that it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me.  This has a very practical outworking in our daily lives, for the Life of The Son is not subject to the pulls and desires of the flesh.  

In Galatians 1:13-21 Paul gives his personal account of the revealing of the Son and how it changed his life forever.  Before seeing the Son, he lived by the law, excusing himself while accusing others.  After seeing the Son, he was no longer in bondage to the judgments of man; the life of Christ within was his only law.

Flesh will always behave as flesh, and the law will be its default.  The only way for there to be real change is to allow the Spirit of God to reveal the Son.  In seeing the Son, we comprehend the gospel that is completely of God and nothing of man.  

The True Gospel comes only by the grace of God the Father.  He initiated it, He made it so, and He works it in us -- to His glory!  When man adds to it, the flesh and human effort change the gospel into something it was never meant to be.  May the Spirit of God reveal Christ, and so may our flesh be dealt with in His light!  

Studying Law and Grace in the Epistle to the Galatians is theological.  Seeing Jesus and having Him expose the flesh that exploits the Law will change you from the inside out!  He has already delivered us from the age in which sin and the Law are in force.  Let us receive Him for Himself, and we will find more than what we need as we abide in Him.  

This new series will focus on law and grace in Galatians.  More specifically, we will examine how the the flesh is enmeshed with the law in daily relating to others.  Paul shows it clearly in this epistle, and beautifully presents the Crucified Christ who as been raised as the replacement for the flesh and its tendencies.  

We read from this book of Caroline Blackwell's letters about ten months ago.  Here is a little more of her correspondence with others.  As an environment of Christ, she is an influence toward the Lord for all who enter her sphere! 

In this wrap-up, we review what we have learned by looking at the first Scriptures we used in this series.  And looking at what the epistles have to say, we can rest assured that while proving is part of God's process for us, He knows how to bring us into knowing His Son in fullness and in daily living!  He made us to display His Crucified Son, and He knows how to draw that life out of us, His children and vessels.  

Another area where the Lord proves His own is with reference to the condition of the heart.  A tender heart will receive the quiet drawings of the Spirit to the life of Christ within.  A hard heart will go with its own wants and reasonings.  There is no need for fear! For if our heart proves to be wayward, He is able to use even our failings to draw us back to Himself!

Let's zoom out from our in depth look at what is going on in our circumstances.  Let us gather our understanding into the truth as it is in Jesus.  As we abide in Christ and let Him abide in us, proving can be understood in its proper place, and we can focus on the things which are not seen, the things which are eternal.