No Longer Slaves | Pt. 12 - What Chains Do You Go Back To? | Galatians 5:1-12

Pastor John Murphy teaches from the Epistle to the Galatians that, like Israel after the Exodus, people often return to “chains” even after being set free. In Galatians 5, Paul warns believers not to fall back into a yoke of slavery by trying to earn God’s favor through performance. We do this because we crave control, struggle to trust grace, and are influenced by voices that tell us we are not enough. Yet the gospel is offensive because it declares we cannot fix ourselves, but it is also freeing because it means Jesus has already done everything. True freedom is not about earning God’s love but living in it, where faith works through love and obedience flows not from fear or obligation but from gratitude for grace already given.