No Shave November – Week 1

No Shave November Week 1 Teaching

In this teaching, we hear from Pastor Mike as he talks about how we should not focus on the approval of people but on the approval of God. The idea of winning the approval of God is tricky though because our salvation is not contingent on our works. There is nothing we can do to be saved by Jesus.

When we start to believe that we can sanctify ourselves by being good enough, we end up like the Pharisees trying to earn the approval of religious people. So let’s remind ourselves “God Saved you by his grace when you believed.” Ephesians 2:8. God did it. You can’t do it. The Israelites tried it for millennia and now we’re trying. We Can’t. The gospel is called good news because God can and He did. Jesus was perfect for us? His righteousness saves us. Not ours.

No Shave November Week 1 Teaching Text

Galatians 1:10-12

¹⁰ Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.

¹¹ Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. ¹² I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.

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