Foolish Galatians

"O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing for faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain - if indeed it was in vain?"
Galatians 3:1-4

One of the greatest dangers that we Christians face, is that after a tremendous move of God, we try to put our hands on it and tweak it and make it "better." Pastor Chuck Smith says it this way: "Every genuine revival and move of God, it seems, ends up with man trying to perfect it by the flesh." It seems that the tendency is that for us to start out well, beginning to walk in the Spirit, and by the Spirit, but then, for some reason, we want to take hold of our walk ourselves, and continue to "tweak" it, laying hold of it in the flesh, and walking, not according to the Spirit, not according to the Scriptures, but according to what makes us "feel good" and then we call that our Christian walk. I know some "believers" that are deceived and are calling themselves believers when they are acting worse than any pagan I know. They are "foolish Galatians." They had begun in the Spirit, but are now walking according to the flesh, and then calling what they do and how they act Christian. It truly amazes me. It is definitely a sign of the times, the end times, in which we live. Even some of the elect are deceived.

Beloved, continue to stay in the Word. Continue to go to church, where you can worship and fellowship with other true believers. Be kind to your pastor. Pray for him, because he is under attack from the enemy constantly. And sometimes the enemy uses other "Christians" to hurt him. But know this beloved, that the enemy wants to take out your pastor more than he wants to take out you. Why? Because "Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter." If the enemy can take out a pastor, it hurts the fellowship of believers, and the cause of Christ takes a hit. Don't let Satan use you or that seemingly innocent thing that you are doing, to hurt your pastor.

We begin our walk in the Spirit. Let us be careful then, to continue to walk according to the Spirit, and not of the flesh. As we began our walk, so let us continue to trust the Lord, and His Word, to lead and guide us in everything we do. We don't need anyone else's opinion, or input into our lives save the Spirit of the Living God. If we are faithful to Him, and focus on Him, then we will walk according to the Spirit. Be careful not to listen to the message of the world, that tells us that we don't need anyone but ourselves and our own strength, to make it through the day. Be careful not to get so comfortable in where we are, that we lose that utter dependence upon the sufficiency of Christ for our daily bread. Be careful not to become self-sufficient. Beloved, don't become a foolish Galatian, who began in the Spirit, but then, got off track and began walking according to their own strength. Let us not lose our dependence upon Christ. It is He who sustains us. Amen.