Be Free (Galatians) Quotes

“Prayer is to the spiritual life what breathing is to the physical life, and if you stop breathing, you will faint.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Salvation is not exchanging one form of bondage for another. Salvation is being set free from the bondage of sin and the law into the liberty of God’s grace through Christ.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Justification is not simply “forgiveness,” because a person could be forgiven and then go out and sin and become guilty. Once you have been “justified by faith” you can never be held guilty before God. Justification is also different from “pardon,” because a pardoned criminal still has a record. When the sinner is justified by faith, his past sins are remembered against him no more, and God no longer puts his sins on record (see Ps. 32:1–2; Rom. 4:1–8). Finally, God justifies sinners, not “good people.” Paul declared that God justifies “the ungodly” (Rom. 4:5). The reason most sinners are not justified is because they will not admit they are sinners! And sinners are the only kind of people Jesus Christ can save (Matt. 9:9–13; Luke 18:9–14). When Peter separated himself from the Gentiles, he was denying the truth of justification by faith, because he was saying, “We Jews are different from—and better than—the Gentiles.” Yet both Jews and Gentiles are sinners (Rom. 3:22–23) and can be saved only by faith in Christ.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Have you experienced so many things in vain?” The argument from Christian experience was a wise one with which to begin, because Paul had been with them when they had trusted Christ.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Paul used six different arguments to prove that God saves sinners through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law. He began with the personal argument (Gal. 3:1–5), in which he asked the Galatians to recall their personal experience with Christ when they were saved. Then he moved into the scriptural argument”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Believers should be filled with the Spirit (Eph. 5:18–21), which simply means “controlled by the Spirit.” This is a continuous experience, like drinking water from a fresh stream (John 7:37–39).”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Some people today still imagine that salvation is inherited. Because mother and father were godly people, the children are automatically saved. But this is not true. It has well been said, “God has no grandchildren.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“we must be careful what we do with this gospel, for it is not the invention of men, but the very truth of God.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Millions of believers think they are “spiritual” because of what they don’t do—or because of the leader they follow—or because of the group they belong to. The Lord shows us in Galatians how wrong we are—and how right we can be if only we would let the Holy Spirit take over.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“True salvation is free of works and totally dependent upon God’s grace.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“God’s love is unconditional, and salvation is a free gift from God that can only be received by faith and responded to with love.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality

“Paul was not a politician; he was an ambassador. His task was not to “play politics” but to proclaim a message.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Free (Galatians): Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality