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Study 8A WHAT WENT WRONG?
Key Verse: “”You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?”” (Galatians 5:7)
What a wonderful thing it is when someone is converted! A truly converted person is born again (1 Peter 1:23); saved (Romans 10:9); justified (Romans 5:1); and is made a partaker of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). Do you recall the day of your conversion, or if you do not remember the day, are you sure you have been converted? But it is inexpressibly sad when one who has been truly converted turns back (Acts 7:39); backslides (Proverbs 14:14); becomes lukewarm (Revelation 3:16); loses his first love (Revelation 2:4). What a tragedy – to be out-and-out for Christ, a soul-winner, an earnest worker, and then to turn away from the Lord! There were those in the Galatian Church in AD 56 (when Paul wrote his letter), who had been turned aside by false teachers who had succeeded in getting them into bondage again to the Law.
The thought conveyed in our key verse is that the Christian life is a race. Paul used this metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9:24 –- and compare Hebrews 12:1-2. But our key verse tells us that we may be hindered in the race. Weymouth translates Galatians 5:7 as follows: ““Who has got in the way of your obeying?”” And a literal translation might well be, ““Who has jostled you?””

What hindered you? Was it the inconsistency of professing Christians?
Then you need to take heed to 1 Peter 2:21. Did you look to other Christians and seek to follow their example, and even put them on a pedestal? Then, when you discovered that they were not as perfect as you had thought, were you disappointed and discouraged? There is only One whom we can set up as our example, and that is our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Look up Hebrews 12:1-2. It is most essential to look off , away from oneself, one’s circumstances and from other Christians, to Jesus Himself.In the next part we shall continue on the hindrances,before then give a thorough thought to what you just read and reflect it to your daily living.God bless you.

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