Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 05/10/2015

Galatians 5 - How Great is the Grace of our God

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 5:6)

Real faith produces real agape (supernatural, unconditional, long suffering) love.

Gal 5:4 AMP

If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God's gracious favor and unmerited blessing).

Gal 5:5 AMP

For we, [not relying on the Law but] through the [Holy] Spirit's [help], by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God [our conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action, causes us] to hope.

Gal 5:6 NLT

For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.

Gal 5:6 (partial) KJV

faith which worketh by love.

Gal 5:6 (partial) NASU

faith working through love.

Gal 5:6 (partial) CJB

faithfulness expressing itself through love.

Gal 5:6 CJB

When we are united with the Messiah Yeshua, neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is trusting faithfulness expressing itself through love.

Gal 5:6 AMP

For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

John 15:12 NKJV

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:11 NKJV

"These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

John 15:13 NKJV

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

John 15:17 NKJV

These things I command you, that you love one another.

John 17:20-23 NKJV

20 "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;  21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.  22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:  23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

Ezek 9:4 NKJV

and the Lord said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it."

Col 1:17 NLT

He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.

Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.