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Galatians chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Galatians chapter 4, let us pray our God, you are higher than any
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  other our God. We worship you in spirit and
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  truth today. God Almighty, we love you.
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  We're asking for a greater measure of your love and your
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  mercy and your joy today. Lord, lead us through these
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  words. Teach us your eternal paths.
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  I decrease as you increase. It's all about you, King Jesus.
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  It's not about me, me, God. Hide me and hide my words and
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  hide my thoughts, God. I just want whatever it is that
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  you want for us, God. So Lord, I pray that you'll be
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  well pleased with the reading of the text today.
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  God, I pray that your spoken word will go out into all
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  continents, all people groups, God, and it will rain down your
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  righteousness, Lord, and your mercy and your grace.
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  God, I pray that love abounds and covers a multitude of sins
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  today. Lord, I pray that our broken
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  bodies will be healed and marriage is restored.
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  God, I pray for prodigals to come home and addictions to fall
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  off. God, I pray for mental illness
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  to break off God and for sound minds today, the minds of Christ
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  today upon those believers, Lord, who trust you and who are
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  called by your name. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus for and for the called out ones.
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  God, I pray for strength, for the battle for today.
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  Give us a zealous heart for your word.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us to be your
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  hands and feet today and to wash the feet of the disciples.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus for sound doctrine and sound
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  theology. God, I pray that you, Lord, will
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  speak today. Speak a better word God, and
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  plead the blood of Jesus Christ over our lives and houses and
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  cars and families. Lord, you are worthy to be
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  praised. You are forever praised and
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  exalted. God, you are the Most High.
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  God, you are everything. The very next breath in our
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  lungs, Lord, we know that it comes from you.
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  Lord, you are closer than the skin on our bodies.
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  Lord, come and envelope us, and Holy Spirit, fill us overflowing
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  fill us. Holy Ghost.
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  Today, Lord, we only want what you want, so we get out of the
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  way. Father, give you center stage.
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  We give you the whole room. We give you the whole world,
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  God. We lay down all of our own
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  preconceived ideas and notions, Father, about who you are, God,
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  and we just come to learn from you.
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  Lord, continue opening up doors that no man can shut and shut
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  the doors that no man can open, and shut the mouths of the lions
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  and silence the accusations of the accuser of the brethren.
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  Father, I pray, Lord, for a confident spirit.
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  God, I pray, Lord, that you will help us to rise up and to be the
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  warriors that you have called us to be while we put on the full
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  armor of God and living the fruits of the Spirit today.
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  Lord, we love you God, and it's all about you, King Jesus.
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  Holy Spirit, guide us and it's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious and worthy and lovely and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, he differs
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  nothing from a servant, though he be Lord of all.
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  So we can see here in the real quick application that a child
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  who is not yet to reach the age of maturity would seem as if he
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  even has less rights than the slave who is teaching and who is
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  lording over the little child. But we can see here that the
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  little child will one day rule and reign over the whole Kingdom
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  too, but is under tutors and governors until the time
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  appointed of the Father. 3 Even so, we when we were children
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  were in bondage under the elements of the world.
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  So he's saying here that the law at one point in time was over
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  us, but when Grace came into the picture, friends, we became over
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  the law. But when the fullness of the
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  time was come, God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made
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  under the law. So we know that Jesus, when he
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  was talking to John the Baptist disciples, said there was no one
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  greater born of woman than John the Baptist, but the least in
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  the Kingdom of God is greater than John the Baptist.
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  So you can see here when Jesus came born and he was born of a
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  virgin, we know that God was his Father and we know that he
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  flipped the script on the law. And now as we are indwelled with
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  the third part of the triune nature of God, with the Holy
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  Ghost, we dance upon the law. Friends, we're above it five to
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  redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the
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  adoptions of sons. Think about that friends.
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  We are ruling and reigning. We are the priests and we are
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  royal nation, royal priesthood, friends, and we are the sons of
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  Almighty God and that is what you need to understand.
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  We are not slaves to sin and self and greed and to the world.
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  Friends, that is not what God has called us to.
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  He has called us to dominion. He has called us to rule and
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  reign with him. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth
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  the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying ABBA, Father, we
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  cry out, Daddy, because we are indwelled with the Holy Ghost
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  and we can come to know him and be known by him.
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  And it is intimacy, friends. And I pray that you have
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  experienced that. I pray that you're not still
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  stuck on a scholastic academia approach and you're not just
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  banking upon all of the degrees that you put on the wall.
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  I pray that you have seen, you have tasted, you have seen in
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  part in darkly and dimly, but you cry out because you desire
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  more, you want to see the fullness. 7 Wherefore you are no
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  more servant, but a sun, and if a sun than an air of God through
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  Christ, all of the riches available to Jesus Christ are
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  available to anyone who comes and attaches themselves to Jesus
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  Christ and makes him Lord over their life. 8 How be it then,
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  when you knew not God, you did service unto them, which by
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  nature are no gods? So we can see how legalism,
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  friends, it is the elementary school.
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  And God desires for us to come up into His shekinah glory, to
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  come up into the holiest of holy places.
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  He desires for us to come up to where He is, where the seraphim
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  cover their eyes because He is so holy, and they cover His
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  mouth. And all we can do is bask in
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  glory in the presence of Him. We are not under this legalism
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  any longer. 9 But now after that you have known God, or rather
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  are known of God, how do you turn again to the weak beggarly
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  elements, where until you desire again to be in bondage?
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  So he's saying that it is not enough to know Him, we must be
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  known by Him. And that is a call for us,
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  friends. You cannot bank on your church
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  attendance. You cannot bank on the fact that
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  your parents and grandparents and great grandparents belong to
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  a certain denomination. You cannot bank on the fact that
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  you were born in a peculiar particular place.
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  You cannot bank upon how many Bibles you own or how many
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  hymnals you sing. It is by being known by Him that
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  he reveals himself to you. And what is he saying?
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  Why do you want to go back into bondage?
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  Why are you going back into the begging?
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  Why are you going back into the weak things when God has called
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  you to power and to glory? 10 You observe days, months and
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  times and years. This is for all those who are
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  stuck in the Jewish roots movements.
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  And they think by observing the Sabbath and they think by
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  observing all of the festivals, that they are somehow made a
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  super St. of God. And God breaks down all of those
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  preconceived ideas that you have been sold and you are back into
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  bondage and it is back into elementary school.
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  And God desires for us to break out of academia, to break out of
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  all of the garbage that we are being sold by man.
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  And this is a call for wisdom. We are called into freedom and
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  not into bondage, into days in the observance of all of the
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  festivals. Those are wonderful in the
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  context of history, and they are great for the Jews to point them
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  towards Christ. But those of us who are marked
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  by Christ and are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, we are free and
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  we are free indeed. And we are not in bondage to all
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  of the celebrations of all of the festivals.
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  Friends, 11 I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you
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  labor in vain. He's saying, I'm afraid that I
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  came to you and preached a simple gospel, and now you are
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  turning back and trying to work for your salvation. 12 Brothers,
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  I beg you, be as I am, for I am as you are.
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  You have not injured me at all. Paul was a Pharisee of the
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  Pharisees. A Jew in the strictest order
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  could trace his lineage, and he's saying, I've become like
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  you Barbarians, the Gauls in Galatia, and now you're trying
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  to become like the Jews, and he's saying, how ridiculous is
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  that? 13 You know how through
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  infirmity of the flesh I preach the gospel unto you at the
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  first. So we know that Paul had to
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  suffer whenever he was stoned almost to death. 14 And my
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  temptation, which was in my flesh, you despise not nor
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  rejected, but received me as an Angel of God, even as Christ
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  Jesus. So Paul had some infirmities
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  that we can all speculate, and whether it was malaria or
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  whether it was eyesight or whether it was something that we
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  can all try to sit around and speculate over, the Bible is
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  clear to not mention. And it is for our edification
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  that it was not mentioned because we can attach whatever
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  infirmity we're going through. We can attach it to these words
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  and to know and to have a great sense of encouragement because
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  Paul wrote that he had gone through so much affliction
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  through these infirmities, and we in our infirmity can be
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  greatly encouraged. And so he's saying that these
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  Galatians did not turn their backs on him even though he was
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  suffering, but instead it actually caused in Paul's
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  weakness, It caused God to be glorified.
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  And they received him as the go between.
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  They received him as if they were receiving Christ himself.
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  15 Where is then the blessedness that you spoke of?
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  For I bear you record that if it had been possible, you would
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  have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.
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  So here Paul is wanting the Galatians to know that they have
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  lost the blessing of following after God wholeheartedly, and
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  now they have turned back to their legalistic approach.
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  And he's saying that they were so zealous over God and received
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  Paul and they received Jesus Christ as their Savior.
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  They were willing to pluck out their own eyes because they
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  counted the cost and counted this world as nothing, and all
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  they wanted was Christ. And now they're going back into
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  bondage. 16 AM I therefore become your enemy because I tell
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  you the truth? Every good minister and pastor,
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  every good leader will tell the truth in love.
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  They do not sugarcoat. It is hateful for us to Co sign
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  on other people's sinful behaviors.
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  That is what is hateful Friends 17.
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  They zealously affect you, but not well, yeah, they would
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  exclude you that you might affect them.
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  So Paul here saying they're coming in cunningly, they're
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  coming in and they are deceitfully, deceptively trying
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  to lure you away from the grace of God, the free gift of
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  salvation. And what they want to do is put
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  you back into bondage so that you will serve them.
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  And this is where cults rise up. False religions and false
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  doctrines in the apostate church rises out of this, which will
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  ultimately become the religion of the Antichrist friends.
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  Because Satan wants to be worshipped.
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  He wants to be higher than God, and he wants to be worshipped
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  like God, which is why he sets himself in the temple in
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  Jerusalem and demands to be worshipped as God.
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  And you can see it all playing out in our day and our hour.
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  And it proves the infallibility and the inerrancy of God's
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  spoken written word, all of it congruent and perfect, and all
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  of it a great tapestry that shows us the reliance and the
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  truthfulness on God's Word. And all the prophecies that have
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  not come in into fruition, we can bank and build our lives
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  upon in the same way that they have come to fruition before.
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  They will come into fruition as time continues on.
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  And all we need to do is watch that nation Israel.
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  For the nation Israel is God's time peace.
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  And if you want to know where we are on the prophetic line and on
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  the prophetic timetable, just watch little nation Israel, and
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  you will find out how God is moving in heaven, friends on
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  earth. 18 But it is good to be zealously affected, always in a
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  good thing, and not only when I'm present with you.
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  So he's saying you need to be zealous over the things that
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  were taught to you, not zealous over the law that leads you into
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  bondage. 19 My little children, of whom I travail and birth
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  again, until Christ be formed in you, so he's going to show them
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  that law and grace cannot cohabitate.
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  They do not share the same space. 20 I desire to be present
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  with you now and to change my voice, for I stand in doubt of
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  you. 21 Tell me you the desire to be under the law.
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  Do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that
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  Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond maid and the other by a
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  free woman. So if it wasn't enough but for
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  Paul to paint the picture of Abraham whenever he came by
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  faith and God accounted it to him as righteousness because of
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  his faith, now Paul is going to give them another lesson.
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  All these Judaizers who were steeped in the Law, steeped in
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  the written word of God and the things of the Jews, Paul here is
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  going to show them the error of their way by pointing again back
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  to the times before the Law, and to show them that they need not
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  try to trust in the Law to be saved.
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  But it is by grace, friends, that we are saved. 23 But he who
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  was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of the
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  free woman was by promise. So we know he's talking about
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  Ishmael and Isaac. And you could see today that
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  these two brothers, one who was made a warring nation who would
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  always be in conflict with their brother, and the other one who
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  was the heir of the promises of God, friends.
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  And we can see them still at war today.
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  But just know that just because you're part of that camp does
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  not mean that you cannot place your faith in the Lord Jesus
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  Christ and be saved and become an heir of the promises of God.
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  And that's what he was talking about in the last chapter of
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  breaking down all the boundary lines that we set up and that
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  anyone who has breath in their lungs can come to the Lord Jesus
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  Christ and be saved. 24 Which things are an allegory for?
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  These are the two covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai which
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  genders to bondage, which is Hagar 25.
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  For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answers to Jerusalem,
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  which now is and is in bondage with her children.
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  He's talking about the Muslims, friends, who trace their lineage
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  back to Abraham, but it is through Ishmael and Hagar that
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  they find their lineage, and it is into bondage, Friends 26 But
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  Jerusalem, which is above is free, which is the mother of us
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  all. He's talking about Christ.
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  He's talking about when we come to Christ and we receive grace
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  and we receive our salvation. All the promises of Abraham and
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  Isaac are available to us, and that's available to anyone,
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  friends, and we are just the wild branches grafted in. 27 For
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  it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bears not break
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  forth and cry that you travailed not.
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  For the desolate has many more children than she which has a
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  husband. So we can see through Sarah, who
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  was barren, was above 80 years old and should not have been
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  able to have a child. God calls her descendants more
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  blessed than those of Hagar and Ishmael.
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  And that is what you need to understand, that it is written
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  here and it was promised well before, and you can see the
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  conflict still stirred up till this day. 28 Now we brothers, as
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  Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then he was,
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  he that was born after the flesh persecuted him, that was born
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  after the Spirit, Even so it is now.
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  Is that not true today? Friends, when you think about
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  all the conflict in the Middle East, if you think about it,
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  friends, it all stems back to Ishmael and the disobedience of
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  Abraham whenever he took Hagar to be the surrogate mother of
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  the seed of rebellion and the seed of the warring and
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  persecution of the seed of promise.
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  Isaac and Jacob, the Israel, the 12 tribes, friends, and the 12
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  disciples, friends, and even our Lord Messiah.
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  You can see that even today it is even still so now 30.
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  Nevertheless, what says the Scripture cast out the bondwoman
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  and her son? For the son of the bondwoman
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  shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.
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  We'll end on 31. So then, brothers, we are not
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  children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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  And you can see God's grace and provision all over Hagar and
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  Ishmael when they're in the water and she's crying when
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  they're in the wilderness and she's crying because they have
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  no water. And Elroy comes and he shows
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  them the water and he promises to make Ishmael a great nation,
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  but he will always be at war. And you can see it all today.
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  And God is so gracious, and it's all pointing friends to the
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  finish line. But we need to finish well.
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  And we need not live in fear. We need to know that greater is
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  he living in us than he who is in the world.
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  And you also need to know that those that are in the Muslim
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  faith are coming in droves to faith in the Messiah.
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  And Jesus is revealing himself in dreams and visions and
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  visitations, friends. And you need to understand,
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  understand that it is not the law, friends, that we are under.
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  We are above the law and we are in grace, friends.
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  And we have the righteousness of Christ accounted and attributed
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  to us. And we wear it everywhere we go,
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  this blood of Christ. And we're not just dipped in
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  water, but we're bathed in the blood.
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  How amazing is this little epistle of Paul's Galatians?
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  We can learn so much about what's going on all around us.
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  You can spend a lifetime studying this little book,
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  picking it apart and looking at all of it.
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  And it is beautiful. But it all points to Christ and
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  our desperate need for Christ. Today is the day of salvation.
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  Work out your salvation with fear and trembling and return
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  back to your first love. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  chapter. I know I sure have.
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  I love you, so does God. God bless you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.