Laws to Love

Sometimes when we think of what’s “legal” in living by the law, it can feel stifling. But walking in God’s laws gives us joy, purpose, and wings. In Galatians Chapter 6, God’s Word tells us about certain laws of faith.

Read that chapter in Scripture and then the application below.

Galatians Ch. 6: Walk in these “laws” of faith.

v.1-2  Restore rather than condemn.

v.3-5  Express your spirituality in (good) works, not pride.

v.6-10  Sow what is good to all, without growing weary or losing heart.

v.11-13  Don’t submit to practicing legalism.

v.14-17  Walk as a new creation in Christ, whose union and fellowship with this world has been crucified.

v.18  Closing: Brethren, may the grace of Christ be with your spirit.

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Other Application:

Ch. 6  Keep your life straight (morally upright) by practicing the works of these laws:

v.1     Restore others in a spirit of gentleness.

v.2     Bear one another’s burdens.

v.3     Be humble.

v.4-5  Examine your own work.

v.6-10  Do good to all.

v.8       Sow to the Spirit (following His influence; letting Him produce Godly fruit in you), not to the flesh.

v.14     Boast only in the cross of Christ.

v.14     Live as being crucified to the world.

v.15-16  Walk as a new creation in Christ Jesus.

Other Application:

v.4  Examine your own work, whether you have done your share and your responsibility.

v.6  Let the word continue to be taught and learned.

v.7  This law is still in effect: you reap what you sow.

v.9  Don’t grow weary in doing good because the harvest will come.

v.12-13  Understand why some people want you to practice legalism—they look to surface level things, and they want you to make them look good (that is, right).

v.14  By faith in Christ, the world has been crucified to us, and we to the world.

v.15  What counts with God, is that in Christ we are a new creation.

v.16  Walk according to the realities that the cross of Christ brings into our lives—we are a new creation, with no union or fellowship with worldliness.

Ch. 6 – Don’t walk in these things: falling into temptation in the process of restoring someone, being indifferent to one another’s burdens, thinking too highly of yourself, not supporting those who teach us, sowing to the flesh, giving up, accepting error, and boasting in anything but the cross of Christ.

*This adapted excerpt comes from Beebe Kauffman, A Whole Lot of Wonderful—Application of the New Testament for Today (Buford, Georgia: Lighthouse Bible Studies, 2018), 422-424.