Boast in Nothing But the Cross — Galatians 6:6–18 | Season 1, Episode 14

How do you know you'll finish well? Not just start well — but endure all the way to the end?In this final episode of Season 1, host Matt Dawson brings the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast's walk through Galatians to a close. And Paul ends the way he began — with urgency, clarity, and his eyes fixed on one thing alone: the cross of Jesus Christ.Picking up in Galatians 6:6–18, Paul makes his closing arguments. You reap what you sow — no exceptions, no shortcuts, no mocking God's justice. If you sow to the flesh, decay and death follow. If you sow to the Spirit, everlasting life follows. It's not complicated. But it does require endurance. So don't give up doing good. Don't get tired. At just the right time, the harvest comes.And then Paul picks up the pen himself — in large, unmistakable letters — and says it one final time: the Judaizers just want followers. They want to look good. But as for me? I will boast in nothing except the cross. Everything else has been crucified. What matters is not circumcision or uncircumcision. What matters is transformation — becoming a new creation in Christ.Using the SOAP method (Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer), Matt reflects on all fourteen episodes, what the book of Galatians has built, and what it looks like to finish the race in the freedom Christ has called us to — not because we believed all the right things, but because we were transformed by the only One worth boasting in.This Galatians Bible study is for anyone who wants to finish well — not just start well.In this episode:The sowing and reaping principle — and why you can't mock God's justiceWhy Paul writes the closing words himself in large lettersThe Judaizers' real motive — and why Paul is done with the argumentWhat it means to be a new creation in ChristA final prayer of gratitude for the freedom found only in the cross📖 Passage: Galatians 6:6–18 (New Living Translation)🔍 Keywords: Galatians Bible study, Bible study podcast, SOAP method Bible study, Christian Bible study, Scripture-first Bible study, Set Free Stay Free, Matt Dawson, walking through the Bible, Christian discipleship podcast