{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"NL-Day127 Judges 6-7; Psalm 81; Galatians 2:17\u20133:29","description":"JUDGES 6-7:Yesterday we heard the story of Deborah and Barak. (Say, that name sounds familiar!) Barak doesn't get the glory for his notable defeat of Israel's enemy, Sisera. Instead the crowning glory goes to a woman named Jael, who happened to see a new use for a tent peg. The poem in chapter 5 includes taunts to Israel's tribes who \u2018sat on their hands\u2019 and didn't get involved in the war. PSALM 81:This poem has a mysterious part in verse 5, where an unknown voice (or perhaps \u2018language\u2019) speaks to us. But immediately afterward the unknown voice clearly belongs God, who speaks in the first person to us. GALATIANS 3:Review 2:17-21 in the PET: 17 But there are Jews who believe in Christ who still don\u2019t understand the way we are made right in God\u2019s sight\u2014 which is only through union with Christ. For them, if we no longer depend on the Law to become right in God\u2019s sight, we\u2019ve become \u2018sinners\u2019. That\u2019s definitely wrong! Becoming a follower of Christ definitely doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019ve become \u2018sinners\u2019! 18 For we in the past taught, \u201cLet\u2019s become right in God\u2019s sight by depending on Christ.\u201d If we now teach, \u201cTurn away from Christ and depend on the Law again,\u201d it becomes very evident that we really are \u2018sinners\u2019! 19 And this is what I\u2019ve experienced: When I tried in my own strength to obey the whole Law, I finally realized that I\u2019m not able to do it, and would die in my sin. But it was in that despair that I realized the gift of God through Christ\u2014 which is eternal life. Now I consider that I\u2019ve been crucified with Christ. 20 That means that I no longer control my life, but Christ is the One who is living in and through me. Now I live my whole life in this worldly body only through believing in the Son of God, who loved me so much that He gave Himself to redeem me. 21 So I reject turning away from the kindness of God which we receive through our union with Christ in order to go back to working to be made right in God's sight based on the Law. For if we suppose that mankind can be made right by obeying the Law, then it was useless for Christ to die for us! NLT Translation notes:Gal. 3:1 Oh, foolish Galatians! Who has cast [this\/an] evil spell on you? For the meaning of Jesus Christ\u2019s death was made as clear to you as if you had seen a picture of his death on the cross. 3 How foolish can you be? After starting your Christian lives [with the power of\/\/in] the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?6 In the same way, \u201cAbraham [fully] believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his [believing\/faith].\u201d[Here is a good example showing the reason for why I change NLT\u2019s noun \u2018faith\u2019 to the verb \u2018fully believe\u2019. Faith has come to have too many un-biblical meanings in our culture! One could easily think\u2014 given the text before, that \u2018faith\u2019 was something different (or mystical) than the verb \u2018believe\u2019 just above in the same sentence. They are NOT different. In Greek the two are simply the verb and noun form of the same verb. Compare verse 14.]7 The real [sons\/\/children] of Abraham, then, are those who [fully believe\/\/put their faith] in God.[Similarly for \u2018faith\u2019 in 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 23, 24, and 26. We will see in chapter 4 that Paul uses the legal Roman law term for the adoption of sons. Even women get adopted and have rights equal to sons.]14 Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through [fully believing\/\/faith].[Here is another place where both the verb and noun form (believe\/faith) occur in the same verse. We don\u2019t receive the Holy Spirit by some vague and mystical faith, but by believing in clear content.] 26 For you are all [sons\/\/children] of God through [believing\/\/faith] in Christ Jesus.27 And all who have been [joined\/united] with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes.   Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright \u00a9 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. ","author_name":"Daily Bible Reading Phil Fields","author_url":"http:\/\/dailybiblereading.info","html":"