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You knew better. You meant it. And you lost again. You've tried harder. You've made promises. And the same fight keeps winning. In Galatians 5:16–26, Paul says the answer isn't more willpower, and it isn't giving up. It's following the Spirit so close that the flesh can't keep up. Part of "Turned Loose," our series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee. Follow the fire, and the flesh falls behind. — Northview Church exists to help people grow in their faith with the mission to... Love God. Love People. Make Disciples.

Paul looks at a church that's getting more serious about God and tells them they're walking backward. Not sideways. Backward — toward the same slavery they came out of. In Galatians 4:8–5:1, he flattens a distinction we assume is obvious. Rules and ruin end up in the same column, because both of them are the flesh trying to manage what only God can produce. And the charge against religious performance isn't that it's arrogant. It's that it's weak. It cannot do what you're asking it to do. If you've been a Christian for years and you're not further along than you were, this message is for you. You didn't stall out because you needed more effort. The effort was the stall. The work for you is finished. The work in you is not. Don't go back. Christ isn't done. — TURNED LOOSE | Week 6 Galatians 4:8-5:1 Pastor Greg Rains Turned Loose is an 8-week series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee. — Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.

You're doing everything right and it still feels like a job. Serving. Giving. Showing up. And somewhere around 3 a.m. there's a quiet tally running — am I up or down with God this week. Paul has a word for that, and it isn't "faithful." It's "minor." In Galatians 3:15–4:7, Paul says the law was a guardian with an expiration date. Not a failure. A finished job. And when the date came, you didn't get demoted out of the house — you got the papers. Slaves obey to earn. Sons obey to be near. Same rules. Completely different engine. — TURNED LOOSE | Week 5 Galatians 3:15–4:7 (NLT) Pastor Greg Rains Turned Loose is an 8-week series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee. — Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.

You've been paying a debt that was already cleared. Paul asks the Galatians a question that lands just as hard today: if you didn't start this by your own effort, why are you trying to finish it that way? In week 4 of Turned Loose, Pastor Greg Rains walks through Galatians 3:1-14 — the sign nobody's looking at anymore, the number every one of us secretly checks, and the curse that was read out loud over a nation standing between two mountains. Then Paul says something our translations soften: Christ didn't just endure something cursed. He became the curse. The verdict was read, it had a name on it, and it wasn't yours. It was finished before you started. Turned Loose is an 8-week series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee. Scripture: Galatians 3:1-14 (NLT) — Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.

Peter got it wrong. Paul told him to his face. One of the most respected leaders in the early church stopped walking in step with the gospel — not because he stopped believing it, but because he was afraid of what people would think. And it took a friend with enough grit to say something. In week 3 of Turned Loose, Pastor Greg Rains walks through Galatians 2:11-21 and asks a question most of us have never really answered: who in your life actually has permission to tell you the truth? We look at what fear costs, why "iron sharpens iron" doesn't mean what most people think it means, and what Paul says changes everything — that we're made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by anything we can perform. Turned Loose is an 8-week series through Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee. Scripture: Galatians 2:11-21 (NLT) — Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.