Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 11/02/2014

Galatians 3:1-6 - Freedom in Forgiveness: Believe and Receive

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 3:1)

God will never lead you to do something unbiblical.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 3:4)

When we don't learn from an experience, the time, the pain and the lesson is wasted. When we learn from an experience it becomes valued.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 3:5)

The Holy Spirit, like salvation, is given by grace.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 3:6)

God promised to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel.

Gal 3:1 KJV

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Gal 3:1 NASU

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Gal 3:1 CJB

You stupid Galatians! Who has put you under a spell? Before your very eyes Yeshua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as having been put to death as a criminal!

Gal 3:1 AMP

O YOU poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom — right before your very eyes — Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified?

Eph 5:27 NLT

He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

Jude 24 NKJV

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

Jude 24 NLT

Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault.

Gal 5:11-12 NKJV

11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 12 I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

Gal 3:2 NLT

Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ.

Rom 10:17 NKJV

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Mark 9:23 NKJV

Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

Gal 3:4 NLT

Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely it was not in vain, was it?

Gal 3:5 NLT

I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ.

Luke 11:13 NKJV

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

Gen 12:1-3 NKJV

1 Now the Lord had said to Abram:
"Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father's house,
To a land that I will show you. (1)
2 I will make you a great nation; (2)
I will bless you (3)
And make your name great; (4)
And you shall be a blessing. (5)
3 I will bless those who bless you, (6)
And I will curse him who curses you; (7)
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (8)

Gen 22:4-5 NKJV

4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."

Gen 22:2 NKJV

Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

2 Chron 3:1 NKJV

Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

John 3:16 NKJV

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Heb 11:17-19 NLT

17 It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God's promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, 18 even though God had told him, "Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted." 19 Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.

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