Simple Grace Radio

There are a lot of people who think that you can actually sow one thing and get another thing. They think that it’s possible to sow to the flesh – and reap something other than corruption. The gospel is actually the incredibly good news that, at the most fundamental level, in Christ, we don’t reap what we sow – we reap what He’s sown! The message of the gospel is that God does not treat us as our...

What does it look like to live a “Spirit-filled” life? For the Apostle Paul, the primary evidence of a Spirit-filled life isn’t private but public. It isn’t about how well you do devotions but how well you love people, in actions and in truth.

One of the most enjoyable experiences of the Christian life is the experience of growing in faith and love by the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul has just reminded us that the freedom we have in Christ is the liberty to love and serve others. It’s a glorious thing to be freed from your bondage to self, your bondage to pride and envy and lust and greed.  It is important to know that to be a Christia...

There is something deep within man that yearns for freedom. The problem is we don’t understand the nature of true freedom. The first lie ever told in this world was a lie concerning freedom. The Devil deceived Eve into believing that her fullest liberty would be found in disobedience. And all humanity have believed the same lie: that freedom is found in going your own way. In our text, Paul contin...

Paul has been waging war against the false teachers who brought false gospel into the church. Paul reminds us of the threat of false teachers. They always trouble the saints and undermine the gospel witness of the church. This is a relevant text for the church today. If a man is charismatic, if his message seems culturally “relevant”, and sounds Biblical, most people will be happy to receive it. C...

Fake religion can kill you. Eternally. And that’s what Paul is dealing with in Galatians. They were believing a false gospel preached by false teachers. Paul has been showing that any attempt to add law to the gospel destroys the gospel. He then moves to teach that faith working through love is the definitive mark of a real Christian.

Christ has set us free. Past tense. Accomplished action. He isn’t in the process of setting us free. He fully accomplished our liberty when he gave His life on that Roman cross. This is the freedom we have received in Christ. “If the Son sets you free you will be free indeed."

We live in a world full of people who are profoundly lost – not only in a spiritual sense, but in a psychic sense. They don’t know who they are. They have no sense of why they are here. This is, in part, what makes the gospel such glorious good news! It gives us an identity. It gives us a Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. He provides for us and protects us and explains exactly who we are and w...

Have you ever felt a deep anxiety and longing to see Christ formed in someone you love? Maybe one of your children, or a family member.  This is how Paul felt writing to the church in Galatia. He expresses his deep concern for them. To help them grasp the astounding folly of their actions, Paul reminds them of their former life, and of their newfound life in Christ. 

There are many people in our world today, and even in the church who assume that they are part of God's family, that God is their Father, and they are his children – but they’re not. They might go to church. They may believe in God; believe the Bible stories. And on the last day Jesus will say to them, “Who are you? Depart from me, I never knew you.” If you are a son – then you are blessed ab...

Do you know what the experience of finding out that you’ve been adopted looks like? It looks like initial disbelief when you don’t dare believe it could be true. And then overwhelming joy - usually expressed in tears. The central idea of our text is that God sent Jesus into this world to accomplish our adoption. To bring us into the family of God. Let yourself believe it. In the fullness of time,...

Jesus is on his way to the cross. A crowd is following him. Women are weeping. Jesus turns and speaks his final words to the people of Israel. Jesus wants these weeping women to understand that the tragedy of this moment, is not Jesus on his way to the cross, but Israel on its way to unrelenting divine judgement.  They were a people that sinned and would face the unflinching, unrelenting, terrifyi...

The gospel story is not about you being worthy, it is about God and his glory. It tells us that God saved you when you were thoroughly unworthy. There is far more joy in being loved than feeling yourself to be worthy. The cross does not exist to attest to how valuable you are, but how loved you are. The gospel is about the glory of God, the most magnificent thing in all the universe. The gospel is...

The promise of God is given – not earned. It’s a free gift of eternal life to those who believe. That promise is meant to define your life. This promise is intended to be your joy and your peace. No matter what circumstances you are facing in your life today – if you have cast yourself upon the mercy of God in Jesus and believed in His Name – then the promise is for you. 

Imagine knowing for certain and forever that your sin had all been pardoned and that God, in all his glory and might – the God whom you so deeply and profoundly have offended with your sin – that very God, so loved you, that he gave his only begotten Son to die for you – so that you might receive the blessing of Abraham.  That assurance is yours for the having by faith. Will you believe Gods’ prom...

Paul is distressed with the Galatians as they are abandoning the true essence of the gospel. He is in anguish because their salvation is compromised. He preaches that Christ was crucified, using the past tense “crucified” to show that Christ's death didn't simply happen in the past – but it is something that happened with dynamic relevance and power for the present. The single requiremen...

 The cross of Christ stands as the greatest display love in all the world in all the ages of time and eternity. “Greater love has no man than this, that he lays down his life for his friends.” Every person who trusts in Jesus can have these certain assurances. This is what Jesus has done for you. He gave himself for you. He gave himself to rescue you from the penalty of the law. He gave himself to...

God has found a way to save sinners by sending us a substitute - someone who would be able to stand in our place as man. Someone who would be able to obey the law perfectly in our place, suffer the penalty of the law for us, and achieve , for us, the verdict of "righteous before God", all while we still struggle with sin. 

The core truth of the gospel, the exact thing that makes the gospel good news is the declaration that sinners who deserve only judgment can be justified - declared legally righteous and innocent before the court of God in heaven – NOT by works of the law, but simply by faith in Christ Jesus. That’s the good news of the gospel.

Paul was commissioned directly by the Lord Jesus to preach the pure Gospel of grace. There is a connection between trusting the Bible's authority, and resting in the grace of the Gospel. Listen as Pastor Dale unpacks the freedom we find in listening to Christ, as we read the text of Galatians. 

True freedom comes believing a Gospel that saves us all by grace! Paul is astonished that the Galatians have drifted from relying on this Gospel and his holy anger burns because he wants them to come back. We need to hear this simple and straightforward reminder not to abandon the Father who called us in grace.