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March 1, 2026 A Time of Blessing – Redeemed from the Curse of the Law · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 1: This Time of Blessing is a special encore from Revival
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Speaker 1: Crusade featuring the late Reverend Glenn Matthews. We air these
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Speaker 1: messages in his honor and to remind you that the
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Speaker 1: Revival Crusade Ministry continues to shine God's light. Today.
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Speaker 2: Good Dallas, sept for a time of blessing. Good morning.
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Speaker 2: This is the Lord's Day, the last Sunday of the
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Speaker 2: month of February twenty sixteen. February twenty eighth, Broadcast number
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Speaker 2: two thousand, eight hundred thirty six. My name is Glenn Matthews,
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Speaker 2: and this broadcast is called a Time of Blessing. That's
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Speaker 2: what we pray that it will be to you, and
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Speaker 2: it's part of the ministries of Revival Crusade Incorporated. I'm
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Speaker 2: glad you're on the listening in. We have some things
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Speaker 2: that I really want to share with you today from
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Speaker 2: the Word of God. Galatians chapter three, one of the
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Speaker 2: earliest letters of Paul. Some say even predates first Thessalonians,
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Speaker 2: which I have always thought of and was taught that
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Speaker 2: the first of Paul's letters was first Thessalonians. But now
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Speaker 2: people are saying perhaps Galatians even predates that if it
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Speaker 2: isn't the first, it's one of the first and exceedingly
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Speaker 2: rich book. If your circumstances permit, sit down with us,
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Speaker 2: open the Word of God, the Book of Galicians, chapter three,
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Speaker 2: and we will be there very shortly. The mailing address
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Speaker 2: for this ministry and the it gives our tax deductible,
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Speaker 2: just as if you were giving to your local congregation,
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Speaker 2: is Post Office Box one four five, Charleston, West Virginia,
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Speaker 2: two five three to one. I will give you the
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Speaker 2: address again at the end of the broadcast. Would love
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Speaker 2: to hear from you. If the broadcast, the preaching, the
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Speaker 2: teaching of the Word of God is a blessing to you,
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Speaker 2: Let's pray and then we will be looking into this
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Speaker 2: exceedingly rich chapter. You join us. Now we approach together,
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Speaker 2: We approach the throne of Grace, Heavenly Father. We just
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Speaker 2: bow in your presence. And it's not as though we
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Speaker 2: come into your presence, because we're always in your presence,
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Speaker 2: but it is that we come rec recognizing your presence
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Speaker 2: in our situations, whatever their situations are. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: your faithfulness, your grace, even the gift that you give
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Speaker 2: us of faith. We pray that your blessings will be
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Speaker 2: upon those who listen today. Enable me to preach, to
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Speaker 2: teach the word of God. Speak to the hearts of people,
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Speaker 2: many of whom are in the faith of the faith,
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Speaker 2: have the faith. But there are some listening today who
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Speaker 2: are strangers to the faith. They are thus cursed under
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Speaker 2: the law. Oh Lord, help me to make it plain
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Speaker 2: today or the passage is teaching. Bless those who hear.
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Speaker 2: Strengthen the people, meet the needs of this ministry, help
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Speaker 2: us meet the needs of others. Will give you praise
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Speaker 2: to Christ, our Lord, Amen, Galatians Chapter three. Now, the
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Speaker 2: Book of Galicians is the only book that Paul wrote
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Speaker 2: to more than one person or one church. He wrote
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Speaker 2: to persons like Fahlehman, Titus, Timothy. He wrote to churches
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Speaker 2: like the Church at Ephesus, and the Church at Philippi,
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Speaker 2: and the Church at Corinth, the Church at Rome. But
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Speaker 2: the Book of Galicians is written to the churches plural
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Speaker 2: of Galicia. It's a region of what is now Turkey,
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Speaker 2: and Paul ministered greatly in that area. Even and Tioch
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Speaker 2: was where the Christians, for the Disciples of Christ, the
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Speaker 2: followers of Christ, were first called Christians. That's part of
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Speaker 2: the region of Galicia, and phenomenal thing happened these Galicians,
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Speaker 2: these well we would say Turks, Gentiles had under the
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Speaker 2: preaching of Paul and his Apostolic party, his evangelistic band,
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Speaker 2: had turned to faith in Christ. They were growing thriving.
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Speaker 2: The gospel was going out from Antioch other cities such
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Speaker 2: as Ephesis, Pergamus, Thyra, Tara, Smyrna, Leoticea, Philadelphia. The gospel
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Speaker 2: was just rushing out into parts of Asia Minor and
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Speaker 2: eventually into parts of Europe, with Paul and his party
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Speaker 2: going into northern Greece which was called Macedonia. But there
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Speaker 2: were a there was a group of people who were
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Speaker 2: quote Judeazers, they were Jews, and those people followed Paul
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Speaker 2: attempting to make merchandise of the gospel. They came in
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Speaker 2: telling these gentiles that and I'm really really just glossing
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Speaker 2: over the depth of the teaching, but here's basically what
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Speaker 2: they were saying. They were saying that, Okay, it's good
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Speaker 2: that you gentiles have put your faith in our Messiah,
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. However, in order for you gentiles to be
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Speaker 2: quote fully right with God, to be saved, you have
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Speaker 2: to men. You gentile men have to be circumcised. That
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Speaker 2: was the external ritual of the covenant God had made
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Speaker 2: to Abraham and to his descendants. You have to be circumcised.
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Speaker 2: And then all of you men, women, you have to
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Speaker 2: keep the law. You have to keep the moral law,
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Speaker 2: the civil law, the religious law, the dietary laws. You
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Speaker 2: have to keep the law in order for you to
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Speaker 2: be saved. And wherever Paul went, those Judaizers came in
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Speaker 2: after him to disrupt the teaching that Paul had given them.
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Speaker 2: And that is what the situation was that prompted Paul
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Speaker 2: to write the Book of Galicia to the Galicians. So
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Speaker 2: the whole book, six chapters. The overarching theme is is
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Speaker 2: a person right with God by keeping the law or
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Speaker 2: by faith which is given to people as a result
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Speaker 2: of the grace of God. So the issue becomes law
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Speaker 2: or grace. The issue becomes doing or faith. The whole
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Speaker 2: book deals with law versus grace. And when you get
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Speaker 2: into the third chapter, Paul's writing to these people, many
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Speaker 2: of whom, if not most of whom, were brought to
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Speaker 2: faith by his own preaching and teaching. And he starts
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Speaker 2: this third chapter by saying, since these Judaizers have come
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Speaker 2: in and have sought to corrupt the faith and tell
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Speaker 2: you that you gentiles have to be converted to Judaism
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Speaker 2: and then embrace Christ as a segment or a part
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Speaker 2: of Judaism. You see this extent of this fallacy, this
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Speaker 2: false teaching. And some people had begun to turn to that.
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Speaker 2: And so Paul writes the Church's plural of Galicia. And
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Speaker 2: in the opening line of the third chapter, Paul says, oh,
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Speaker 2: foolish Galicians. Really one man translated you idiots, and now
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Speaker 2: let's break heart. But you are being foolish. It's like
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Speaker 2: you are under a spell. Somebody has put a hex
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Speaker 2: on you, he says, old, foolish Galatians, who have bewitched you,
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Speaker 2: that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you.
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Speaker 2: I preach Jesus Christ, death, burned the Resurrection. You know that.
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Speaker 2: And now it's though somebody has come along and bewitched you,
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Speaker 2: that you should not obey the truth Verse two. This
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Speaker 2: only would I learn of you. Did you receive the spirit,
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, by the works of the law, or
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Speaker 2: did you receive the spirit by the hearing of faith.
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Speaker 2: We are accustomed to talk about the seeing of faith,
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Speaker 2: So he's talking here about the hearing of faith, completely different,
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Speaker 2: said as sight to hearing. What he's talking about is
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Speaker 2: you heard the gospel of the grace of God that
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Speaker 2: is appropriated by faith, And so you could even set
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Speaker 2: the thche before the faith where it says did you
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Speaker 2: receive this the I want to learn you Did you
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Speaker 2: receive the spirit by the keeping of the law or
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Speaker 2: by the hearing of about the faith? Are you so
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Speaker 2: foolish that, having begun in the spirit, you should now
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Speaker 2: be made perfect by the flesh. You are saved by
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Speaker 2: the grace of God. You put your faith in that.
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Speaker 2: And now are you being made complete by the works
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Speaker 2: of the law? Have you suffered so many things in vain?
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Speaker 2: If it were yet be yet in vain? He goes
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Speaker 2: on again and again in the first nine verses, showing
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Speaker 2: that you were saved by grace through faith, and you're
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Speaker 2: not required to even attempt to keep the law because
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Speaker 2: you can't. And he's going to expand on that. And
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Speaker 2: now I began reading in verse ten, and I had
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Speaker 2: to give all of that introduction so you get the
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Speaker 2: impact of what he's saying verse ten as because four
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Speaker 2: for because as many as are of the works of
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Speaker 2: the Law are under the curse, under the curse. For
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Speaker 2: it is written, cursed is everyone that continueth not in
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Speaker 2: all things which are written in the book of the Law,
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Speaker 2: to do them, but that no man is justified by
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Speaker 2: the law. In the sight of God. It is evident,
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Speaker 2: for the just shall live by faith, and the law
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Speaker 2: is not a faith. But the man that doeth them
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Speaker 2: shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the
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Speaker 2: curse of the Law, being made a curse for us.
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Speaker 2: For it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth upon
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Speaker 2: a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on
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Speaker 2: the gentiles through Jesus Christ, that you might receive the
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Speaker 2: promise of the Spirit through faith. I'm going to stop reading.
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Speaker 2: There far more than we can cover in this one broadcast.
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Speaker 2: If you have your Bible open, note the fact that
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Speaker 2: five times in verse ten and verse thirteen is the
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Speaker 2: word cursed. It is five times cursed, cursed, curse under
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Speaker 2: the curse, two times in verse ten and three times
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Speaker 2: in verse thirteen. Important word. It's such a powerful word,
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Speaker 2: this matter of curse. The first person or first creature
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Speaker 2: who is affected and cursed was Satan himself. When in
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Speaker 2: Genesis three tempted Eve, she sins gave to her husband
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Speaker 2: he ate. And then it said to this God said
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Speaker 2: to the serpent, you're cursed. You crawl on your belly
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Speaker 2: all the days of your life. Yeat the dust to
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Speaker 2: your curse. The next quote creation that was cursed was
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Speaker 2: the ground. The earth itself was cursed because of Adam,
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Speaker 2: who was king of the creation of the earth, who
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Speaker 2: was king over the earth, had dominion. Because of his sin,
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Speaker 2: the earth was cursed. All upheavals of nature, from the weeds,
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Speaker 2: the thorns, to the tornadoes and floods and famines and earthquake,
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Speaker 2: all of the upheavals of nature are evidence that the
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Speaker 2: world is under the curse. But in this passage he's
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Speaker 2: talking about a curse. It has the idea of judgment
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Speaker 2: of punishment, It has the idea of abominable. And he
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Speaker 2: says in verse nine, verse ten, as many as are
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Speaker 2: of the works of the law, they're under the curse,
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Speaker 2: under the curse. Five times he talks about curse in
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Speaker 2: these verse ten and verse thirteen, that you are under
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Speaker 2: the curse. He says in verse eight. The scripture for
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Speaker 2: seeing that God would justify the heathen, that's gentiles through
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Speaker 2: faith preached before the Gospel of Abraham the good News, saying,
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Speaker 2: in these shallow nations be blessed. So then they which
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Speaker 2: are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. Now you
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Speaker 2: have the jew ethnic Jew, which is a descendant of Abraham.
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Speaker 2: But you have the spiritual descendants of Abraham, who by
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Speaker 2: faith trust the Lord, and Abraham, whom Jesus said saw
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Speaker 2: my day and was glad. Abraham was justified by faith.
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Speaker 2: In fact, Abraham was justified by faith over four hundred
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Speaker 2: years before the giving of the Law at Sinai. You
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Speaker 2: foolish relations. Do you really think that you can turn
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Speaker 2: away from Christ and go back to keep the law? Men,
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Speaker 2: be circumcised. Everyone, come under the confines of the curse
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Speaker 2: of the law. You got to keep every part of
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Speaker 2: the law. In fact, the scripture says that you are
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Speaker 2: obligated to keep the whole law. Verse ten curses everyone
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Speaker 2: that continueth not in all things which are written in
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Speaker 2: the book of the Law to do them. And you
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Speaker 2: know you can't do all the law. Ask any Jew,
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Speaker 2: any religious Jew, and he will tell you, it is
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Speaker 2: impossible to keep all the law perfectly. Every one of
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Speaker 2: them would tell you that they had, by the time
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Speaker 2: of Jesus compounded the law into six hundred and thirteen commandments,
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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five of which were thou shalt not.
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Speaker 2: Nobody can keep them all. In fact, they are parts
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Speaker 2: of the law now that no Jew can keep. For example,
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Speaker 2: there is no temple, there is no priesthood. Therefore there
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Speaker 2: is no annual yam Kapoor, day of Atonement and the
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Speaker 2: sacrificing of a goat the scape goat. They can't fully
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Speaker 2: keep the law, and yet they're obligated. The man who
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Speaker 2: tries to get right with God by keeping the law
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Speaker 2: is under a curse. The law becomes a curse. That
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Speaker 2: law is perfect, so Psalm says, converting the soul it
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Speaker 2: has in it. The law is perfect, it's from God.
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Speaker 2: But it becomes a curse to you. You become a
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Speaker 2: curse when you try to get right with God by
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Speaker 2: doing what the law says. When you can't do it.
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Speaker 2: This is making sense, It's it's logical. You the law.
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Speaker 2: What is the law? The law then is to show
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Speaker 2: you your imperfections. In fact, in this Church Chat third chapter,
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Speaker 2: Paul will say that the law was the school master
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Speaker 2: to the time of Christ, so that we could be
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Speaker 2: justified by faith. But after faith has come, you're no
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Speaker 2: longer under that school master. That the law teaches you
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Speaker 2: about God and his holiness is justice, is righteousness. But
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Speaker 2: the law teaches you about your immability. The law con
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Speaker 2: fix you, the law finds you guilty of sin. And
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Speaker 2: how foolish it is for these galicians who have put
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Speaker 2: faith in the Lord to be. Turning back to the
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Speaker 2: quote elements of the Law. The first time curse is
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Speaker 2: used in verse ten, it is of the law. You
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Speaker 2: are under the curse. You are obligated to keep all
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Speaker 2: of the law, all of the time, and you can't
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Speaker 2: do it. Thank God, for verse thirteen, Christ hath redeemed
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Speaker 2: us from the curse of the law being made a
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Speaker 2: curse for us. So in verse ten, we are under
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Speaker 2: the curse. Because curse is everybody who cannot continue in
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Speaker 2: all things which are written, and that's everybody. Nobody's going
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Speaker 2: to keep the whole law, So we're all under the curse.
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Speaker 2: Every man is a sinner. We have all like sheep,
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Speaker 2: gone astray. Having turned everyone astray. We have each of
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Speaker 2: us turned to our own way as Isaiah fifty three. Success.
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Speaker 2: But the verse continues, but the Lord hath laid upon
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Speaker 2: him Christ, the iniquity, the sin of us all, thank God.
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Speaker 2: And that brings us then to verse thirteen of Galatians three.
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Speaker 2: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
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Speaker 2: There it is again in verse ten, we were under
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Speaker 2: the curse. But now in verse thirteen it's the curse
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Speaker 2: of the law, and Christ has redeemed us from the curse.
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Speaker 2: Under the curse verse ten, from the curse verse thirteen,
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Speaker 2: Christ has redeemed us from that curse. Our inability to
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Speaker 2: fulfill the law necessitated somebody else quote redeeming us from
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Speaker 2: under that curse. It's a beautiful word to regieme. In fact,
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Speaker 2: in the New Testament, there are three different Greek words
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Speaker 2: that are translated in our Bible redeem. The first is agodzo.
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Speaker 2: That's a market you were crossword puzzles, you know the
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Speaker 2: word a gora a g u r e, and that's
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Speaker 2: the Greek market place, the word gora out of He
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Speaker 2: has come into the market place and bought us. If
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Speaker 2: you were going to the market place, that's an outdoor store.
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Speaker 2: You're going to the market good place to buy, and
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Speaker 2: you buy everything there, from carrots to cloth or a coughin.
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Speaker 2: I mean you can everything is sold in the marketplace,
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Speaker 2: and you go into the market place to buy. And
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Speaker 2: that's what he did. But the second word is out
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Speaker 2: of the marketplace. The prefix ex algorazzo is the verb
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Speaker 2: to buy in the marketplace. The second word is buy
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Speaker 2: it to bring it out. We're not talking about buying clothes.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about buying souls. The Lord went into the
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Speaker 2: marketplace of sin where we were held as slaves, and
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Speaker 2: he has bought us, paid for our redemption, and brought
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Speaker 2: us out from under the curse of the law. Praise God.
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Speaker 2: And the third word for redeeming the New Testament little
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Speaker 2: word loutro l ut r oh. It means to be
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Speaker 2: free and in using in the New Testament with regard
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Speaker 2: to the redemption of souls, it is appah luto it
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Speaker 2: is to set free from Here's the picture. You are
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Speaker 2: slaves to sin under the curse of the law, unable
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Speaker 2: to fulfill the demands of the law. The law can't
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Speaker 2: keep save you. The law can only condemn you. The
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Speaker 2: law can show you your sinfulness. But you have to
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Speaker 2: look away in faith to God who gave Christ, and
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Speaker 2: put your faith in Jesus Christ. And that is he
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Speaker 2: who has come into the marketplace of sin where we
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Speaker 2: were enslaved, unable to get out from under the curse.
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Speaker 2: And he comes in and buy his own blood. Glory
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Speaker 2: to God. He pays the sime debt that we owe
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Speaker 2: in the marketplace and then brings us out of the
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Speaker 2: marketplace and sets us free free from the law. Oh,
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Speaker 2: happy condition Jesus's blood, and there is redemption cursed by
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Speaker 2: the law. Bruise Mother, fall Christ to three deemed Us
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Speaker 2: once for all, Praise the name. Do you see that
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Speaker 2: you cannot be saved by any so called mixture of
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Speaker 2: grace and works. You can't. It's that grace and works
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Speaker 2: do not mix. The grace that saves is is by faith,
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Speaker 2: grace God's part, faith man's part. Man is saved by
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Speaker 2: faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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Speaker 2: That's an old adage from Bible scholars, even of the
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Speaker 2: fifteen hundreds. Man is saved by faith alone, but the
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Speaker 2: faith that saves is never alone. You are not saved
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Speaker 2: by works, but you are saved by grace unto good works,
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Speaker 2: not in order to be saved or to be kept saved,
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Speaker 2: but because you are saved under the curse. Verse ten,
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Speaker 2: from the curse thirteen. I'll have to stop. Three more
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Speaker 2: to go. Let's do it on next week. Can you
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Speaker 2: just contemplate the thought Christ became a curse for us.
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Speaker 2: God help you to trust Him. Today you've been listening
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