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FaithfulFin Talk | Ep 51: Unlawful Salvation – Grace Over Guilt (Galatians 3)

• Juantrell Lovette • Season 2 • Episode 51

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After a powerful return in Episode 50, Juantrell Lovette dives deep into Galatians Chapter 3—exploring why salvation can’t be earned by following rules, and why God’s grace is greater than guilt or legalism. Juantrell shares her own real-life struggles with self-worth, religion, and the pressure to “measure up,” revealing how faith—not law—transforms the soul.

In this episode:
• The backstory of Paul’s letter to Galatia
• Why rules alone can’t save us
• How “grace over guilt” is the real breakthrough
• Juantrell’s personal stories of spiritual setbacks and second chances
• Encouragement for anyone rebuilding faith, family, or legacy

Scripture focus: Galatians 3
Theme: Grace over guilt. Faith over perfection.
Real Stories. Real Scripture. Real Growth.

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Speaker 1:

Breaking the chain, feeling the gain. Now I'm rising. Open the gate, never too late. No hiding Wings open wide, trusting my God, ready to take off, Ready to take off, Ah, someday. I know I'm moving in the right way.

Speaker 2:

Hey y'all, welcome back to Faithful Fin Talk. This is episode 51 and our title for today is Unlawful Salvation Grace Over Guilt. We're going to focus on Galatians and it's going to be in chapter 3. This is real stories, real scripture and real growth. So welcome back to Faithful Fintalk. I'm your host, wontrell LeVette, and let me tell you I'm still on fire from episode 50. It's still burning. But this is our second stop on the comeback journey and today we're diving into something that's been pressing on my spirit grace, not hustle, not rules, not shame, but grace. And that's where Galatians 3 coming at.

Speaker 2:

I studied, I went over it. I was in an NIV version, the NLT version even went over to the message version just so I can understand and get the history of what Galatians was even talking about and what is with even talking about to me. So it's not just Paul's letter to the church, it's a divine clap back to legalism, guilt and the mindset that says I have to be perfect to be saved. How many people you know go around acting as if they're perfect and saved by God or they have to do something or have to be a certain type of way just to get God's grace they have to show up at church every day, they have to be a certain type of way, they have to dress a certain way. They can't have this, they can't have that, just to get God's grace. We hear it all the time, all the time.

Speaker 2:

I grew up in a Baptist church and that's the whole reason why I started to dive into the Bible and started to go scripture to scripture and verse to verse and chapter to chapter is because I hate it when people just threw scriptures at me. Do not do that. Have a relationship with God. That's something that I focus on mainly in this podcast, and I'm able to do that, which is being myself going, diving into the Bible, getting a relationship with Christ, making sure that I understand scripture from my own knowledge.

Speaker 2:

Galatians 3 opened that up for me, because it was kind of hard for me to even grasp what Paul was talking about, who he was talking to and what was the whole thing about Galatians 3. So if you are in your Bible, the thing I'm going to focus on with Galatians 3 is the first one to three verse, when he was like oh, foolish Galatians, you know who has cast an evil spell on you, basically, who has bewitched you, who has told you what it is and what it's not For the meaning of Jesus Christ's death was it made clear to you, as if you had seen a picture of his death on the cross. Let me ask you this one question Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not. You received the Spirit because you believe the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses. Of course not. You received the spirit because you believe the message you heard about Christ.

Speaker 2:

Now, grace, christ and law was two totally different things, and so grace versus law is something that struck out to me, something that struck out to me. So Paul was not playing and he calls out the people with love and truth, because somewhere along the way, the Galatians started to adding to the grace, like saying you have to believe this, but I also got to do this, and I got to do that and keep all these rules. And Paul was saying absolutely not, you didn't get saved because you were good. You got saved because God is good. And that hit me because I used to live like grace was earned. I used to check off spiritual boxes, thinking God loved me more on the days I performed better. But grace doesn't work like that, and a backstory on saying I used to work as if I could earn grace is I would do stuff for people just to feel like, oh well, maybe if I did this they will like me better, or maybe if I adjusted to how they thought of me, well, maybe they can extend their grace to me. But that's not how it worked, and I had to go through that just to realize that. I even had to deal with some situations where I'm extending my grace to people and people is taking it, but nobody's extending that grace back to me. So we have to kind of be careful between law and grace.

Speaker 2:

There is no wrong or right way you can receive God's love Like it's available for everybody. You don't have to do a certain thing besides believe that you're supposed to receive it, and that's where Galatians 3 hit me at. So grace doesn't work like a tit for tat. Great grace doesn't measure your worth by your output. Okay, and so my journey with guilt. Like I said, for years I thought I had to earn peace, I had to earn grace, I thought I had to do certain things just to receive what God was already promised me, what God already gave me. But when you're not walking in relationship with God, when you're not hand in hand with God, you don't know those things. So you're open to allowing people to put what they believe on you. You are open to allowing people put their grace on you where they're saying, oh well, you got to be like this to get God's grace, or you can't do this you can't smoke, you can't drink, you can't party to get God's grace and that's not true.

Speaker 2:

So Paul was in the church of the Galatians. He was actually talking to the Galatian people because these were new Christians and as a new Christian and as a new believer, you really don't know which way to go. You don't know what kind of relationship you're trying to aim for for God. So for me and this whole podcast thing is that's why I started it I didn't know how to get my relationship with God, because you're so used to hearing what the church or the preacher or this person telling you what to do and honestly, it's not like that. If you take out the time to walk in relationship with Christ, god is going to show you who. He's going to show you to the book of knowledge, where he's going to point you, to the people he's going to point you to and even remove from you as you constantly walk with grace.

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Okay, so I thought God's favor only flow when I got it right. Like I said, if I did this, if I took care of these people, if I gave this, oh well, god will give it back in return, or I can get, I will be peaceful. But in honesty, I was hurt, I was depressed, I was miserable, and every time I extended myself to do something that God didn't tell me to do, I always got the back end of it, like I always felt guilty of doing things that I thought was right and that's just not like how you supposed to go about it, right? So during my two year pause, he showed me that. The opposite, he showed me that I didn't have to be guilty for being the person that I was, for being a giver, for being a person who experienced trauma, a person that was coming from poverty to create legacy. He actually showed me that I don't have to feel guilty of being this person that I am, that he was extending the grace to me past my knowledge. Even what's so crazy is because I was talking to my friend and we were talking about grace and we were talking about extending the grace to our past selves.

Speaker 2:

When you're in a relationship and you're dealing with somebody that you shouldn't be dealing with, or a situation that you shouldn't be dealing with, at that time you don't know, like, how you're going to feel or how the situation is going to end up. So I was telling my friend that we should give ourselves grace for the young girls that we were when we set up and dealt with situations that we shouldn't have dealt with or extended ourselves too much when we didn't get the return back. You know, give that person grace. And time after time after time, year after year after year, through my whole eight year spiritual walk, I had to learn to give myself grace. I felt guilty for walking away from my family. I felt guilty for dancing in the club. I felt guilty for making a certain amount of money. I felt guilty when I wanted to transition into another life. I felt guilty over and over and over again, and the whole time God was just extending his grace, extending his grace, extending his grace, and I never was receiving it because I was allowing my guilt to override God's grace. So there were days I didn't feel worthy, days.

Speaker 2:

I still wrestle with the old habits, heavy shame of, like I said, working and leaving my family for me to financially stabilize myself, working in a club so I can transition into real estate. All of those things was guilt, guilt, guilt. Oh, you need to do this. You can't be doing this. If you walking with God, you can't say this. If you walk, you can't share this. And all of that is guilt. Oh, you need to do this. You can't be doing this. If you walking with God, you can't say this. If you walk, you can't share this. And all of that is guilt. And God does not work like that.

Speaker 2:

And I had to learn that on my own and that's why I studied Galatians three. And when I say I studied Galatians three up and down, up and down, I'm like what is this whole argument about? But if you had to set it up, you can think of it like a courtroom and Paul is basically defending himself. And he defended himself because, when it comes to Christ, everybody tried to put their notion on how Christ should be in your life or what you should be doing to receive Christ. But it says it in the Bible that as long as you believe that Christ died for you, as long as you believe that Christ died for you, then you shall receive Christ. And having Christ, you shall receive faith, you shall receive grace, you shall receive peace.

Speaker 2:

But not everybody walks with Christ. I do. I walk with Christ, I honor God. But I walk with Christ because I'm mirroring who Christ was. I'm not always perfect, I don't know everything and I really don't know nothing, but I go off of what Christ did and who Christ is to help me understand who I am and how I can get through it.

Speaker 2:

So Galatians 3 reminded me that the law was never the plan for salvation. It was only a mirror to show us our need for grace. And Galatians 3, 3, 11, it says so. It is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the scripture says it is through faith that a righteous person has life. That part right there. It is through faith that a righteous person has life, not through hustle, not through religion, not through legalism, not through pressure, but just through faith.

Speaker 2:

So, from poverty to promise, that hit differently for me, because I've known what it feels like to be stuck. I've long, I've known what it felt like to grow up in survival as the only strategy. And reading Galatians 3 says the promise didn't come by law, so it came by inheritance. And I am a child of God, which means I've inherited the promise that God already gave. So legacy is a reserve for the elite. It belongs to those who believe, and that's what LeVette Legacy is about.

Speaker 2:

We don't just chase wealth. I didn't just chase wealth to change my life. I chased God, and God established wealth over me and removed poverty from my identity, because I was never born, I was supposed to be born into poverty. It just so happens to be my circumstances. But I'm a child of God, which means I inherit all things of the kingdom. I'm already rich, I'm already wealthy. But how can I get there, how can I shift there, if I'm living in guilt? I cannot, and that's why I created LaBette Legacy, and it took years to establish what I'm doing, and it took time too. It didn't just happen overnight. So I have to give myself grace and get out of that guilt mode, because I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.

Speaker 2:

Faith isn't just about heaven. It's about healing your history while building your future. And so let me speak to somebody right now. You're doing everything right and it still don't feel free. You're praying, you're tithing. You're probably going to church. You're probably not going to church. You're probably hiding from God. You're probably not hiding from God.

Speaker 2:

Well, this episode is for you, because salvation isn't available by obeying the law. It's only available through the open doors of faith. And the beauty of that is that it's already done. You don't need to earn it, you just need to receive it. It's so funny because I've tried to receive faith over and over and over again and I was like, oh, look at their faith. They have stronger faith than me. I must be doing something wrong.

Speaker 2:

And God constantly told me.

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It was like you don't have faith. Because you don't believe you have faith. You don't get hand in hand with me to talk to me why you should have faith. You don't believe that you should be out of that situation. You don't believe that you deserve a million dollar house. You don't believe that you deserve a million dollar house. You don't believe that you got a hundred thousand dollars in your bank account. You don't believe that your kids are stars. Like he's just hitting me back to back.

Speaker 2:

Like you don't believe that you come from me and I was like whoa, crying boohoo. Like yes, I do. I do believe it, um, but I didn't. I really didn't, because I didn't see it. I couldn't identify it. I didn't know what it looked like, until I start walking hand in hand and start reading my Bible and I start telling God clean me out, show me what I need to do. Even in the places that I am, talk to me like, use me. I don't care for her if it breaks me up, if it tears me into pieces. Do what you got to do with me. And so that's why I'm here in front of you guys. But that's a story for another time.

Speaker 2:

So trying to earn grace is like recharging your phone by holding up to the sun. Baby, it's not going to work like that. You got to plug it in, you got to get plugged in, you got to get with God, and I've been doing that. I've been getting with God on a daily, and so Faithful Fin Talk is that I connect my faith with my finance. I cannot be financially stable if I don't believe and have the faith that I can be financially stable, and today I'm actually financially stable. I'm just not in that wealthy space that I would love to be. But I see it, I believe it, like I know it's there. So where do we go from here in Galatians 3?

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Galatians 3 literally shook my understanding of salvation. It reminded me that the same way I started this journey with faith is the same way I must continue. That means, even when I fall short, even when I don't think I can do it, I'm still covered. Even when I don't feel holy, the Holy Spirit is still with me. Even though I don't feel love, I'm still love. And even when I mess up, I'm still marked. I'm still marked to be the greatest thing that I should be walking in my purpose and being all that I should be. So if this episode fed, you, don't just scroll. Go ahead and subscribe, support and share. Visit faithfulfin talkcom to join me in my email list. Stay tapped in on this full journey.

Speaker 2:

If you're building a legacy, this is not just for the average listener. This is for somebody that actually wants to build a legacy, somebody that know that they are meant for greatness. Somebody that know that they are here to change their generation. Somebody that know that they are here to change their generation. Somebody that know that they're here to change their family, their walk, their self, their future. This podcast is for you, so you can tag us, you can talk to us, you can walk with us.

Speaker 2:

This is not just a podcast. This is people. This is all of us. This is everybody, doesn't matter where you come from, what background you come from, you know. So thank you for growing with me, thank you for walking with me and thank you for praying for me and praying with me as we continue this journey on Faithful Fin Talk, and I'd like to welcome everybody. You can send this message to somebody who you feel like really need this your mom, your dad, your uncle, your brother, anybody.

Speaker 2:

Open your Bibles, dive into your Bibles. Everybody needs to go into their spiritual journey. It's not about what can come from you. It's about who you come from. And since we all come from God all of us, no matter what you want to call your God it's just only right that you get with your creator and you open up those doors to get that healing and get those things. Because, trust me, this has been one journey for me and I have so much to unfold. But until next time, you guys, I can't wait to share more with you. On the next episode. I'm your host, wanchella Vette. Until next time, you guys. I can't wait to share more with you on the next episode. I'm your host, wanchola Vette, until next time.

Speaker 1:

Bye, Breaking the chain, feeling the game. Now I'm rising. Open the gate, never too late. No hiding Wings open wide, trusting my God, ready to take off, Ready to take off?

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