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• Illustration: May begins with a lengthy, humorous look at church billboards, ending with a sign that quotes this sermon’s primary text: “O foolish Galatians.”
• Galatians 3:1-3
• Paul called the Galatians “foolish” because instead of continuing to live in God’s grace, they were trying to move forward in the Christian life through their own human effort.
• The blessings of God are not something you will ever earn.
• Big Idea: Faith opens the window to God’s blessings in your life.

• Galatians 3:24
• The law shows us how sinful we are.
• Galatians 3:21-22
• If you want to stay right with God, there is only way to do it—put your faith in Jesus Christ.
• Galatians 3:25
• You began the Christian life by placing your faith in Jesus, the only way to continue to grow in the Christian life is through faith in Jesus.

• Galatians 3:5
• God is willing to work miracles in our lives if we’re willing to put our faith in him.
• Expect to see miracles mostly in other people’s lives.
• Look for opportunities to be the miracle in other people’s lives.
• Illustration: May tells the story of a family that was generous to a single mother to illustrate how walking faith gives us opportunities to be generous, to be kind, and to be a miracle in other people’s lives.

• Galatians 3:8-9,29
• If we have the same faith-based righteousness as Abraham, then we are like children of Abraham, and we share the same blessing that was given to Abraham.
• Genesis 12:3
• Genesis 18:18
• God wants to bless you so that you can bless others—this is our heritage.
• Whatever blessing God has put in your life, realize that it has been given to you so that you can bless others.

• The reason Paul said, “Oh foolish Galatians,” was because they were trying to earn, through their own goodness, that which God is willing to give only by faith.
• Faith opens the window to God’s blessings in your life.