This little phrase shows that Christian ministry includes helping at a rehabilitation home just as much as explaining to someone how to give your life to Christ.

Of course, we share the gospel and evangelize, but only as a means to the end of loving them. (We don’t love them as a means to the end of converting them!) But the word “doing” means that we must not

When we feel conceited—superior or inferior—we need to root our glory, our sense of worth, in who we are in and through Christ. We need to think to ourselves, and ask the Spirit to help us apply to our emotions, the truth of 3:26, that: I am a son of God—I can be confident—through faith in Christ Jesus—I am humble.

Practically speaking, you have to use the gospel by preaching it to yourself right in the midst of the situations where you are trying to act in newness of life.

The gospel frees us from the law, for the law. It does away with our old, selfishly motivated and unloving law-obedience.

We owe it to Him as our Creator, since He designed us and owns us, and so He has both the wisdom to know how we are to live and the right to demand that we live that way.

So Christians are freed from the law as a way to win merit from God, but we are not freed from the law as a way to please God. Rather, that obligation is increased. For the law is an expression of God’s

Paul is saying that the gospel frees us from both the guilt and slavery of sin, from both the condemnation of sin and the motivation to sin.

Third, gospel ministry looks for opportunities in hardship.