Scripture
This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Observation
The issue that Paul is trying to deal with here is whether the true Christian life is based on works or is it based on faith. What started out as a faith based experience in these believers was being threatened by becoming an experience based on works.
Paul asks a simple question; did you receive the Holy Spirit by keeping the law or when you heard about the Gospel of grace?
Application
In the experience of every believer should be a dramatic change in their life when they receive the Spirit of God; the Galatians were no exception. Paul is simply pointing them back to this experience that should have easily delineated their life of works and their life of faith.
The Spirit of God is never something that can be worked for or manufactured in our life. It is a gift that God gives in response to exercising true faith in Christ.
Prayer
Father, thank you for the great gift of your spirit that is mine as I accept Christ by faith and faith alone.
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