Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
November 07, 2023: SOAP #5087: Job 31, 32; Galatians 5,6

SCRIPTURE:  Galatians (NIV) 6:14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation.

OBSERVATION:  Major issues seemed to divide the early church.  Each side had their own interpretation of God’s word.  Paul stepped into the middle and said the issues are unimportant!   What is important is that we are born again with the life of Christ living inside. 

Paul deals with similar issues in Romans 14:5-9.  Neither Saturday or Sunday, neither eating meat or being a vegetarian.  Today we could add neither people who read this version (NIV) or that version (KJV) or other versions; and we could add, neither people who like one style of music or another; and neither people who gather in a beautiful building or people who gather under a tree.  “What counts is a new creation!” 

APPLICATION:  I must be careful not to get side-tracked onto issues that can pull me away from the heart of the gospel!   At the heart of the gospel is the cross (verse 14 above).  There is a cross that I must bear, but it is HIS cross in which I boast!  In celebrating His death I die to myself; in celebrating His resurrected life I become a new creation…a new living being!  He is living in me!     

PRAYER:  Heavenly Father, what a great plan you put into action through the cross.  It was a sacrifice that covers sin and the resurrected life that makes me a new creation!  Holy Spirit, may Jesus be glorified in my life and may the Father be pleased.  In The Wonderful Name of Jesus,  Amen

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