Shalom,

Today we read Galations 3 in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan and I LOVE this! Look at verses 1-7!

1 O you poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom—right before your very eyes—Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified?
2 Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the [Holy] Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing its works, or was it by hearing [the message of the Gospel] and believing [it]? [Was it from observing a law of rituals or from a message of faith?]
3 Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun [your new life spiritually] with the [Holy] Spirit, are you now reaching perfection [by dependence] on the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things and experienced so much all for nothing (to no purpose)—if it really is to no purpose and in vain?
5 Then does He Who supplies you with His marvelous [Holy] Spirit and works powerfully and miraculously among you do so on [the grounds of your doing] what the Law demands, or because of your believing in and adhering to and trusting in and relying on the message that you heard?
6 Thus Abraham believed in and adhered to and trusted in and relied on God, and it was reckoned and placed to his account and credited as righteousness (as conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action).
7 Know and understand that it is [really] the people [who live] by faith who are [the true] sons of Abraham.

Paul didn't 'pull any punches' in this chapter!Look at those a adjectives!  Poor, silly, thoughtless, unreflecting and senseless! Tell us what you REALLY think, Paul! I understand Paul! He was AMAZED that having received the FREE GIFT of SALVATION by receiving JESUS as LORD and SAVIOUR, these Galatians were trying to impress GOD with their piety, as if THAT had a thing to do with thier NEW BIRTH! It is past tie for the Body of Christ to STOP judging each other over natural things and to DARE to believe that we ARE exactly who JESUS says we arre! Here is Hillsong with "Who You Say I Am":

Shalom in Him!