Is Jesus Enough?Galatians: Set Free to Live FreeNovember 10, 2019
Arthur Schiff was an ingenious salesman and a businessman who ran his own marketing company for 23 years. He sold everything, and he sold it by the trainload: pots and pans, pantyhose, wrinkle cream, teeth whiteners, windshield wipers, scratch removers and weed whackers. There wasn’t anything that man couldn’t sell. Anyone who ever watched late-night television in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s knows Schiff's work, even if they don’t know his name. For more than 30 years, Schiff created more than 1,800 television infomercials with some very memorable catchphrases. His most famous originated in a commercial for the popular Ginsu knives: “But wait, there’s more!”
TV pitchmen like Ron Popeil and Billy Mays have used Schiff’s famous exclamation since then to convince countless more consumers to buy products that they don’t really need. As our continuation of our study of Galatians, we see that the same thing was happening in the churches of Galatia. The legalistic Judaizers had been selling a sketchy bill of goods to these young-in-faith believers…insisting that their Jesus-only belief system could be enhanced by, or was in need of, "more." But Paul would not stand for their attempts to convince or confuse these young churches into compromising their by-grace-alone, through-Christ-alone, faith. His bottom line question for both the Gentile believers, and for us: Is Jesus enough? Not Jesus plus rules, not Jesus plus religious traditions, not Jesus plus cultural ceremonies…Just Jesus. In order to really live in the freedom that God has given us, we must be confident of our answer to that question.
- Pastor Chris Voigt