Letters by Paul
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Grace Practice 은혜 연습
When we hear that he has ‘apportioned’ it, it kind of removes the overwhelming emotion of gratitude and makes us suddenly go cold, saying, ‘I knew it’ in slight bitterness. But don’t worry. God’s grace is infinite… Continue reading
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My Suffering Your Glory 나의 환난 너희의 영광
It is not said to make them feel guilty, intimidate them, or patronise them. But to let them know who they are. Glory, as said before, is the visible form of who you are—who the Ephesians really are now—the children and the heirs of God, who because of our Lord Jesus Christ can approach God… Continue reading
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Galatians 6.11–18 The Marks of Christ
If anyone tries to trick you with an expired document of ownership, that person should go to prison. The passage explains that the reason such a person cannot put the old and expired ways behind him is because he cannot be bothered with the new. He does not want the real trouble and fuss of… Continue reading
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Galatians 6.6–10 Let’s do it
Therefore, you do not judge people for what they used to be. You do not even judge yourself for what you used to be. If you sow your judgement, you will only get what springs up from it. But be changed in how you make your judgement because the Lord has changed the course already! Continue reading
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Galatians 6.1–5 Give me your bag
Then, who would dare carry someone else’s burden when you have enough of your own? – Under the old law, nobody. They were busy loading others while they themselves carried nothing (cf. Matt. 23:4; Luke 11:46). Continue reading
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Galatians 5.14–26 Born of the Spirit at last
The only way out is to walk by the Spirit. He is the one who makes Sarah ‘born of Sarah’—and can even transform Hagar into ‘born of Sarah’, for that matter. He is all about love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Nothing could hinder this One from freely coming by and… Continue reading
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Galatians 5.7–13 Slave again
it is Christ and his work that have freed you and continue to do so to be his, no matter what history or destiny you had. This might be a stumbling block to them, but not for us because it is the cornerstone, the foundation stone, of our faith’s hearing (that Christ transforms us completely… Continue reading
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Galatians 5.1–6 No Matter…
The only thing that matters is ‘faith’s hearing’. It hears that Christ came to you to free you from whatever hindered and captured you—even the status of being born of the slave woman! In Christ, it works, and only in Christ. Continue reading
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Galatians 4:21–31 Of Woman but Free
Such ‘predestination’ and ‘foreknowledge’ only became valid for us and known to us in Christ, who took the trouble of transforming us from ‘of Hagar’ to ‘of Sarah’—still a woman, but whose name now represents the Spirit who freely gives birth to Abraham’s true, legitimate descendants through Christ. What grace that brings laughter! Continue reading
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Galatians 4.1–7 What the hearing of the faith brings
Until his father’s announcement to the household that this is a son of his he found again, and probably until after several days and weeks of actually living in that household as a son again, the gospel of grace, the acceptance, and the nullifying of what has been do not hit him—but his sonship had… Continue reading
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