The Heart of the Gospel

I just recently heard a sermon by Shai Linne (yeah, the hiphop artist), called The Heart of the Gospel. This was an expository sermon on Galatians 2:15-21 preached at Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia.

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Excerpts:

God by His grace, when we come to him through faith in Jesus Christ, He empowers us to walk uprightly before him. And we praise God for that. But what we have to understand is that our walking upright before him, is not the basis by which he accepts us, even though we are called to walk upright before him. You see the balance – it’s a tricky balance.

Shai continues

We want to walk that fine line between I’m saved by grace, through faith, in Christ. Because I’m saved by grace, through faith, in Christ - I’m now endeavoring to walk uprightly before God, not in a way that would save me, but in a way that would demonstrate that I’m saved. That’s Christianity. That’s what Paul is calling us to. He’s calling us to the freedom of grace. How freeing is it to know that God is not up in Heaven grading us on our performance, because Christ has performed it!

There are so many reasons to obey God; to walk uprightly before him. There is so much joy in obedience!