Like Oil and Water
Galatians: Set Free to Live Free
November 3, 2019
In case you’ve been living under a rock the past week or so, Kanye West has recently publicly proclaimed his faith in Jesus. If you’ve been under a rock for so long that you don’t know who Kanye is, well…you have a problem only Google can solve. The response to Kanye’s declaration of faith has been mixed, to put it nicely. There are those who are celebrating his surrender to Jesus, but there are also some who are scoffing at it. And some of the loudest scoffers? They’re people who claim to follow Christ. Somewhere along the way, I think they’ve missed the point. No one is beyond the reach of God’s love and grace.
As we continue our study in Galatians this Sunday, the apostle Paul uses an Old Testament story to explain and emphasize his point: There can be no fluctuating between law and faith, no combining them together in our approach to God. Like oil and water, the two don’t mix. We must understand what legalism is, what it looks like in our world and our own lives, and stand firmly against it.
- Pastor Chris Voigt