Galatians: 5:13-15 “Freedom To Love & Serve”

Galatians:

“Justification Through Faith in Christ Alone”

Scriptural References

(All References Are From The English Standard Version, (ESV))

Part 15: Chapter 5:13-15 “Freedom To Love & Serve”

Wednesday, February 21st, 2024

Galatians 5:13-15:

[13]  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 

[14]  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 

[15]  But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Four purposes of God’s calling us to freedom: 

1. To fight against our flesh, 
2. To serve others as unto Christ, 
3. To work out God’s moral law, and 
4. To keep from hurting others. 

Relating To Verse 13:

1 Peter 2:16

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

2 Peter 2:18-21For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the…

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