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Galatians chapter 3. Let us pray.
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Oh God Almighty, thank you God for another day.
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I thank you, God, for waking us up, Father, for putting us on
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our feet, Lord, for giving us food and clean drinking water
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and shelter and love. God, I thank you for all the
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blessings that you have poured out and lavished upon us today,
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God, even those things that we're not even aware of, God,
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all of our internal organs working together, all of the
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breath and the capillaries, Lord, that are firing off all of
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our synapses, Father, every single cell, every molecule, God
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in Symphony impulsating towards you.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will be magnified and
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glorified today, exalted above every name and entity and
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principality. Father, God Almighty, the God of
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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Israel's God, the God of David,
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and the God who created everything seen and unseen, the
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God of the universe. Lord, we attach ourselves to
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you. We acknowledge your supremacy.
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We acknowledge your deity. We acknowledge you, Father, as
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the only uncreated. We thank you, God, for the
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sustaining life. We thank you, God, for our
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salvation. We thank you, God, for the love
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that we have and that we share with each other.
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We thank you, God, that we are known by you and that we can
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know you through the reading of your Word, Lord.
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We thank you for the Word of God, the Rhema, the spoken word
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that you were well pleased to give us.
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Lord, the authority over all generations, over all people
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groups, over all continents. God, we trust and believe and
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receive to day You and the blood of Jesus Christ covering us.
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Lord, we desire a greater measure of who you are.
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We desire to know you more intimately, God.
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We desire to know you in the secret places, God, and in the
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public squares. We desire to proclaim your name
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throughout all generations, all people groups.
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God Almighty, help us not to shrink back today.
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Help us to be emboldened and zealous for your word.
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God Almighty. We thank you Lord, for the
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Church that called out ones, the ecclesia.
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God, we pray for those who are being persecuted all over this
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world, all over. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus for a supernatural filling.
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I pray in the name of Jesus for healing from on high.
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God, heal our broken bodies, heal our broken minds.
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Heal us, God from all of our infirmities.
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Lord, heal us from mental illness and heal us, God from
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cancer and diabetes. Father, heal us from Alzheimer's
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and dementia. Heal us God, from all of the
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things that plague us, Lord on this side of heaven and Lord
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lead us home, God from glory to glory.
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God we know to live is Christ and to die is game.
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And God, we do not hold on to our lives.
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We lay down our lives for your gospel and for the name of Jesus
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Christ, which is the name above all names.
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Lord Jesus, we love you. We love everything about you,
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Holy Spirit. Come and teach us and guide us
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through these scriptures. These holy scriptures.
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Yes, Holy Spirit, give us discernment for this hour.
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Help us to know what to do and when to do it and how to do it.
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Help us not to get confounded and confused.
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Help us to not grow weary and despair.
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Help us not to slip into depression.
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God help us not to be anxious for tomorrow, but God help us to
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lock in for today. Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, I
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decrease as you increase. Guide us, mark us, fill us, Holy
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Spirit, and we know that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
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today and forever. And the Spirit and the bride
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says, come Maranatha, come send Jesus Christ holy and lovely and
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worthy name that I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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Oh, foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you that you should
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not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been
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evidently set forth crucified among you?
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So Paul is genuinely perplexed at how they would go back to
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their lawful ways that these Judaizers has.
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They have crept into the churches there in Galatia, and
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they are teaching that they must come under the law of Moses in
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order to obtain salvation. And Paul, when he was with them
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in the first part, when he was evangelizing that area, he was
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very adamant about preaching Jesus Christ and the grace of
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Jesus Christ and the unmerited free gift of salvation.
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That was one for us on the cross.
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And it is nothing that we do, but it is everything that he
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did, friends. And you cannot work your way
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into heaven. You cannot behave your way into
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heaven. You cannot give enough money to
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get into heaven. You can't be good enough to get
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into heaven, and you cannot obey the law to the very last letter
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and get into heaven. It will never work that way
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because man inherently is sinful from our conception.
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We are sinful beings because of what Adam did when he sold us
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out to sin and to slavery. Friends.
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And so Jesus Christ bought us back, and we can have Jesus
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Christ holiness and righteousness.
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We can have Jesus Christ perfect life attached to us and covering
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us so that when we stand before Almighty God one day He will not
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see any of the sins that we have ever done, our doing, or will
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ever do. He will only see the perfect,
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spotless, blameless blood of Jesus Christ covering us from
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the very tops of our scalps to the very soles of our feet, our
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palms, our back, Friends, our face, our chest, friends, our
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legs, our entire body will be covered in the blood of Jesus
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Christ, and He will welcome us into eternity.
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And that is the only way that we'll ever get there, Friends.
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It has nothing to do with trying to work your way into heaven,
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being a wonderful volunteer, or giving all of your money away to
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charity. Being a philanthropist, friends,
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Being a humanitarian, friends, all of that is nothing but
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filthy rags in the sight of Jesus Christ.
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Holy, imperfect, spotless blood covering us.
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And Paul here is saying, who has turned you around?
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Who has gotten there and worked and weaseled their way into your
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camp? And they've got you believing
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that you must obtain salvation through the law of Moses.
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Far be it from us to ever regress.
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We need to progress, we need to charge the hill, we need to take
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the whole word to the whole world.
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But it's ignorance of the word of God that gets people into all
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kinds of trouble. And they start believing all of
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the lies and the deceptiveness of the enemy, friends.
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And we know that there's always a Judas in the camp.
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And we know that the problem with deception is that you do
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not realize you're being deceived.
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And Satan twists God's word. And there's just enough truth
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wrapped up in the lie that you buy it hook, line and sinker,
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friends. And he has led many astray, and
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he's led many off into bondage, friends.
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And he's put the ring in their nose and LED them off into
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slavery to works and slavery to self and slavery to send
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friends. And it leads to death.
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Verse 2. This only would I learn of you.
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Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by
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hearing of faith? And here we're going to get into
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a whole section about faith, and we're going to see how Abraham,
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it was accredited to him because of his faith.
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And faith is just believing in the things that are not yet as
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if they have already happened. Friends, it's believing God's
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promises that are in this book. It's believing all of the
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prophecies that are contained in this book that have not
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happened. And we believe them all as if
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they already are. And that is our inheritance.
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And we stand upon all of the revealed word of God for our
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lives. Are you so foolish?
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Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the
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flesh? He's saying how ignorant are we
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to receive our salvation by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?
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But then to think that we obtain some kind of super St. status by
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observing all of the Jewish roots and all of the laws of the
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Old Testament, he's saying that all of that is just the
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groundwork that we walk upon. We're not under it, we're above
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it. For have you suffered so many
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things in vain, if it yet be in vain?
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So of course, we know that this region here in Galatia is where
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Paul was stoned almost to death, but miraculously was revived
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from that incident. And there's no doubt that these
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Galatians have suffered some kind of persecution.
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And he's saying, have you suffered all that in vain just
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to go back to works and not to walk your salvation out in the
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Spirit of God being indwelled by the Holy Spirit, which enables
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us to not only uphold the law, but we are actually justified.
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We are actually made at one with God.
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And we do not need to have to worry about where we stand with
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God. We can know that, we know that
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we know that. We know that when we die, we're
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going to bust heaven wide open. Friends, We do not need to
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scratch our heads and have a hope.
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So maybe so kind of faith we can have a no so kind of faith by
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the blood of the Lamb, friends, and that is the only way that
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will ever make it into heaven. 5 He therefore that ministers to
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you, the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he it
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by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?
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So that's what Paul wants these Galatians to know, that all of
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the things that they see happening around them is not
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because of their works, but it is because of the manifest
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presence of the Holy Ghost within that camp. 6 Even as
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Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for
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righteousness. So we're going to get into this
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whole little section here about how hundreds of years before the
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law was ever given through Moses on Mount Sinai, that Abraham,
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who was a Gentile, called out of his land and that God was well
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pleased to pick this man out of all of the population of the
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world to bless and to bless the whole world through.
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And so we can see here that before the law ever came, Moses
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was not even born yet, not even able to lead the people out of
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bondage. But God chose Abraham and gave
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Abraham his righteousness. It was accounted to him because
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of what? Because of his faith.
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And here we are on the other side of the law.
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And guess what it is that saves us?
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It's faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And it is the grace of God that allows us to have that faith and
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to place that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and to confess with
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our mouth and to believe in our heart.
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It is faith, friends, and so we can see here that Paul's going
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to paint this beautiful picture about how important faith not
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only was, but how important faith is today and not works,
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friends. Seven, know you therefore, that
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they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham.
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So that is our lineage and our heritage.
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And the Jews at this time would have thought that there was no
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person attached to father Abraham that could ever go to
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hell. And that is the reason that they
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acted and behaved in the ways that they did, because they
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thought that they just automatically immediately were
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ushered into heaven because of their lineage to Abraham.
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And here Paul is showing the Galatians and God is showing
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that if we will have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we will
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be the heirs of heaven, friends. We will be the heirs of all the
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promises, friends, to Israel. And it does not move the ethnic
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Jews and the ethnic land there in Israel does not marginalized
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and replace them friends. They are a peculiar people group
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in a peculiar nation unto God, His chosen people, which He
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chooses to reveal His power and His glory through because they
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are so incredibly small and so seemingly meaningless, and God
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is so glorified through using that little bitty nation even
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today. And His promises for the Jews
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still stand. He will not only regather them
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as He did in 1948, but He will send His salvation unto them.
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After all, the Gentiles come in that God has ordained friends
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before that seven-year tribulation, and the whole
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purpose of the whole seven-year tribulation is so that the Jews
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will finally admit that they murdered their Messiah, and come
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to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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Eight in the Scripture for seeing that God would justify
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the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto
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Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.
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And that is what we are seeing today.
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Friends, it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that
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goes out into the entire world and it is the only thing, It is
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the only religion that has any power because it is only one
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true living God who was pleased to reveal himself to Abraham.
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And it is through Abraham's obedience and his faith that the
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nation was born, Friends, and it's still around today and the
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people are still around today. They have not been eradicated,
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friends. They have not been exterminated.
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They are still here today and they will stand the test of time
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because God is fighting their battles.
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And we are eternally blessed by not only Abraham, but by Moses
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and David friends, by John the Baptist, and we could see the
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seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ, who is our Savior, and the only
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way that we can get unto God Almighty, the Maker of heaven
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and earth. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with
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faithful Abraham. So we know that Abraham was the
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father of faith. And whenever we place our faith
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in the Lord Jesus Christ, we get interwoven into all the
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promises, friends, and we are blessed because of Abraham's
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faith. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under
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the curse, for it is written curse is everyone that
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continues, not in all things which are written in the book of
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the law to do them. So that is what Paul wants the
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Galatians to know, and it's what God wants us to know, that if
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you cannot perform every single jot and title of the law, if you
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cannot obtain every single bit of it, if you have ever sinned
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in your entire life, even one time, you're guilty of the
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entire law and you are under a curse.
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And the curse will send you to hell and damn you to a eternity
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apart from God Almighty. And that is the dire need for us
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to be covered in the righteous, perfect, holy blood of Jesus
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Christ. We could never work our way into
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heaven, friends. And that is what is referenced
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here in this verse. 11:00 but that no man is justified by the
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law in the sight of God. It is evident for that just
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shall live by faith. It is faith, friends, and that
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is what you need to understand is the entire point of the
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entire law that was given to Moses was to point us to our
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desperate need for a Savior. It was to show us how ridiculous
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it would ever be for us to try to find right standing with God
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through all the works that we could perform.
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It could never happen, friends. You sin consciously and you sin
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subconsciously. You commit sins and you actually
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commit sins of omission and Commission.
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Friends, sometimes by not saying anything or doing anything is a
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sin and sometimes by doing things and thinking things is a
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sin. And so that is what you need to
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understand. We are all guilty.
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Every single person on planet earth who has ever been born, is
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living, or will be born is guilty as charged, and our
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punishment is death and it is eternal separation away from God
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Almighty. When we reject the work of the
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Holy Spirit, when we reject the work of the cross with Jesus
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Christ, dying a criminal's death, friends, and spilling out
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His blood and water from His side, when we do not come to the
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Lord Jesus Christ by faith, we are guilty as charged. 12 And
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the law is not a faith, but the man that does them shall live in
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them. So he's saying, you have to
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choose. Are you going to try to work
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your way into heaven? Are you going to stand before an
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almighty holy God and say, well, I don't believe that God sends
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good people to hell? Are you approaching God from a
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moralistic way, saying that I'm a good person?
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A loving God would never, and that is where we heir to our own
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demise. You need to understand your
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depravity and your sinfulness. You need to understand that
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there is no good thing in you, no not one, that all of your
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righteousness is nothing but filthy rags before a holy God.
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You need to see the chasm between God's holiness and your
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sinfulness, and it is what will bring you to your knees, and it
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will cause you to cry out and plead to Jesus Christ to save
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you and to cover you and to mark you and to give you the Holy
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Spirit. Friends, 13 Christ has redeemed
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us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us.
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For it is written cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree.
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So here we know that Christ was sinless, and even in the whole
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exchange, the beautiful divine exchange upon the cross, when
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God placed all of the sins of humanity upon Christ, He
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remained perfect. And we can see here that all of
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our sinfulness was placed upon Christ, and all of His
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righteousness was placed upon us. 14 that the blessing of
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Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ,
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that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
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faith. It is by faith that we received
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the Holy Spirit. Friends, you have to have faith
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that God is, and He rewards those who diligently seek Him.
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You have to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and
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that God raised him from the dead on the third day.
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You have to believe, friends, and it is through this believing
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in something that we cannot see yet.
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And we place our faith in it and we trust in it so much that
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we're willing to die for it. We trust in it so much that we
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are willing to lay down our selfish motives, our selfish
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vanity, our selfish self seeking self preservation, friends, and
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we take up our cross and follow him into the darkest places.
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And it is by faith that we received the Holy Ghost. 15
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Brothers, I speak after the manner of men.
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Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed
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no man disannuls or adds to it. So here Paul wants them to
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understand that the completed authority of God's Word should
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not be added to or anything taken from it.
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That is where you see so many cults rise up.
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That is where you see so many false religions rise up.
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So whenever they try to take things out of the Bible or
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whenever you try to add things to the Bible, it is the Word of
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God only friends from Genesis to Revelation.
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And that is what you need to memorize.
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You need to hide it in your hearts, friends, so that you
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might not sin against him. And here Paul wants the
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Galatians to know that it is not the revelation that they
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received from Paul. Plus these Judaizers that have
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come into the camp to try to get them under the bondage of the
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Law. We are above the Law, friends.
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16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made, he says,
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not into seeds, plural as of many, but as of 1 and 2 your
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seed, which is Christ. So here we can see that the seed
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that God was talking about to Abraham was Christ.
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And we can see that there have been many more Christians in the
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entire world than there ever has been Jews born out of the
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genealogy of Abraham. And when he told Abraham that he
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would have more descendants than the stars in the sky and the
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grains of sand on the seashore, he was talking about you and he
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was talking about me. The wild branches grafted in.
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But we cannot discount and discredit.
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We cannot persecute and try to get rid of the ethnic Jews.
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Romans Chapter 11 in Romans chapter 13, they are clear
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indicators and all of God's word confirms that God is not done
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with the ethnic Jews even today. They will stand the test of
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time, friends, and they will be there with us forevermore.
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They are God's chosen people, whether you agree with it or
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not, and you cannot try to marginalized them and to get rid
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of them. That is satanic at its core.
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It always has been since the beginning of time until now.
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There have been so many Satanic attacks upon the ethnic Jews,
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and it is because Satan knows that his time is short and God
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told him all the way back in the garden that he will have his
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head crushed. He's trying and he's writhing to
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get away from the promise of God that his head is going to get
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crushed. And he knows that his time is
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short and he is writhing in agony.
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Friends. He's grasping at straws today,
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friends, and you see it all around us.
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But do not give in to fear. Fear is the tactic of the enemy.
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He is defamed and he is declawed and he only has a roar and
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that's it. But we do not listen to the
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roar. We bring the Lion of Judah with
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us everywhere that we go, who roars louder.
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We speak a better word, and we plead the blood over the lentil.
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Friends, we will be passed over, and He will keep us from the
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hour that is coming to test all the inhabitants of the earth.
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Pray watch, so that you may be counted worthy to escape and to
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stand before the Son of God. 11:00 But that no man is
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justified by the law, and the sight of God it is evident, For
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the just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith, but
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the man that does them shall live in them. 13 Christ has
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redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
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us. For it is written, Cursed is
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everyone that hangs on a tree, 14 that the blessing of Abraham
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might come to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we
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might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 15.
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Brothers, I speak after the manner of men, though it be but
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a man's covenant, yet it be confirmed no man disannuls or
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adds to 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were
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the promises made, He says not. And to seeds as of many, but as
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of, 1. And to your seed, which is of
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Christ, 17. And this I say that the covenant
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that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was 4,
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130 years after, cannot disall that it should make the promise
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no effect. So we can see here that the law
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did not add a new condition to the Abrahamic covenant of faith.
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We can see here, friends, that when the law came, it's not as
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if faith was swallowed up by the works.
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And that's what Paul wants these Galatians to know. 18 For in if
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the inheritance be of the law, it is no more promise, but God
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gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Wherefore then serves the
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law? It was added because of
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transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise
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was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a
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mediator. So Paul is asking the question,
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What is the whole point of the law?
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And it was to preserve the nation Israel.
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So they did not eat foods that were going to Riddle their
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bodies with diseases and waste away, and they would not make it
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into this blessed, glorious state of knowing Christ and God
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knew how to preserve his people. But he also wanted to point to
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the Savior in the fact that they could never save themselves. 20
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Now a mediator is not a mediator of 1, but God is 1.
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So we can see here the angels had to come and to give Moses
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the law written on tablets, and then we can see here that we
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actually get to go straight to the source.
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We did not need a mediator of angels.
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We have the Son of God, we have God the Son, we have the Trinity
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3:00 and 1:00 and we are housed with the Holy Ghost, and we need
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not a mediator other than Christ himself, which is God. 21 Is the
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law then against the promises of God?
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God forbid. For if there had been a law
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given which could have given life, truly righteousness should
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have been by the law. So he's saying if we could have
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been made right by the law, then we would have, but we could not.
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And it pointed us to Christ. And now we can see that the law
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is not against God. We can, we can walk upon the
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law. We can do the things required by
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the law, but we are not under that bondage and slavery.
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We're not under it and slaves to it.
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We do it because we choose to do it.
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And that is a great difference that you need to comprehend.
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You need to grasp this, friends. You really need to own this,
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friends that we do the things that we do because we get to,
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not because we have to. We read the Word of God, we
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pray, we go to church, not because we have to, because we
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get to. And it should be one of the
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highlights of our day. We should walk in the Spirit
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daily, friends, not just Sunday to Sunday 22 but the scripture
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has concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus
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Christ might be given to them that believe.
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That's what it takes friends. It takes receiving and
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believing. It does not take doing and
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working, it's receiving and believing is how we received the
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Holy Ghost of how we're made right with God through his Son
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Jesus Christ, by the perfect, spotless, innocent blood that
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was shed on Calvary for you and for me. 23 But before faith
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came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith,
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which should afterwards be revealed.
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So for the time, from Moses all the way to Jesus Christ, they
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tried so hard to keep all of the law, and they had actually built
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rules on top of the law to keep them from ever penetrating into
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the inner circle of the commandments that were given to
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them. And they tried desperately, but
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they could never ever perform it to the last letter.
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And it was frustrating to them, but it was all pointing and
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still points today for their need for their Messiah, King
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Jesus, Yeshua. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to
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bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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We can see through the law that it was keeping them, it was
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disciplining them, it was getting them to understand their
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need for Jesus Christ, that we can be justified, never done it,
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if we will place our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And we could stand before a holy God, holy because he is holy. 25
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But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a
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schoolmaster. So we can see that we need not a
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tutor, we need not a headmaster, we need not a principal to come
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and to lecture us and to beat us into submission.
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We discipline ourselves by the revealed will of God, and we
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need not be under the law who keeps us in bondage.
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We have freedom and whom the sun sets.
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Free is free indeed, friends. And now we go out and we have
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the mind of Christ, and we can know that we are in right
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standing with God. And that produces all of the
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activity that produces our right standing with God, produces the
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works that we do for Him. And we do it out of love and out
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of joy, and we do it because we want to and not because we have
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to. 26 For you are all the children of God by faith in
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Christ Jesus. Are you a child of God?
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I pray that you are. I pray that you are not the
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child of the devil, and that you are not giving in to all the
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lies and the schemes and the trickery and the deceitfulness
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of the Father of lies. And we have to choose our
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Father. But we cry out ABBA, Yahweh, El
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Shaddai, El Elyon, Jehovah Rapha, Jehovah Nisi, Jehovah
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Jireh Elroy. We cry out faithful and true in
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King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We cry out wonderful counselor,
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We cry out the Alpha, the Omega. He is our Father.
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27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have
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put on Christ. That is what we put on, friends.
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And you can see all the way back in the garden after sin entered
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in, God made them a coat of skin.
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And here we can see that we were walking around in that sinful
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clothing. And we have to put on the
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righteousness of Jesus Christ by getting covered in his blood,
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friends. And that is how we are in Christ
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and Christ in us. We put on Christ.
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When we're baptized into Christ, we lay the dead man down in the
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water, and we raise up to life. It is death and it is
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resurrection, and we are born again and we are regenerated,
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and we are a new creation in Christ. 28 There is neither Jew
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nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male
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nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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We'll end on 29 And if you be Christ, then you are Abraham's
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seed and heirs according to the promise.
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What's he talking about here? All boundary lines are removed
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in Christ Jesus, and it does not mean, as some are in the habit
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of saying, that God has done away with all of the relational
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ties that are beneficial to families, are beneficial to
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society, are beneficial in relation to how we interact here
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on this earth. And he is saying that.
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He removes all the boundary lines that we try to allow to
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keep us from Him. He has removed every stumbling
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block and every rock of a fence, and we could come boldly into
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the throne room. And we can see here that those
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that are in Christ, it does not matter their social status if
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they are rich or if they are poor.
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It does not matter if they are an employer or an employee.
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You can come to Christ if you are male or if you are female.
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This is not just a patriarchal society only for men.
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He revealed His resurrected body to women who had no credibility
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in that time frame. When Jesus was raised to life,
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it was to a woman that He revealed His deity to with the
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woman at the well in Samaria. You can see here that God loves
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the women and it is not that he rips down genders and that we
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are free from a gender role. That is heresy and apostasy at
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large, and it is being propagated in the worst possible
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way in this day and this age. And those people have erred
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grievously by trying to twist Scripture.
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But it is no surprise because our enemy, Satan deceives people
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as an Angel of light. And you need to have the
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context, friends, that this is not ripping down gender roles.
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This is not ripping down the beneficial roles that we play
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within this society, friends, and it is the judeo-christian
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values that are of the highest order and the highest law of
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every single land throughout this entire world.
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And we will either have to find that out the hard way, or we can
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choose the easy way and we can come under the submissiveness,
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friends, of how God has orchestrated the family and has
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orchestrated society. And when we buck that, we become
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reprobate in the fullest manner, and we choose evil over God, and
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we call God into the courtroom, and we try to attach to God the
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wrong ideologies in the wrong theology by trying to twist
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scripture as Satan did many times in the wilderness with
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Jesus and in the garden with Adam.
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We could see it. It is as old as time, friends.
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We need not try to break down what God has said and it is the
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entirety of God's revealed word that gives us the context.
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You cannot cherry pick verses and manipulate and twist them
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for your own selfish vanity and trying to explain away and
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trying to get rid of the fear of what your friends and what your
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constituents and what your workplace and what your nation
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and what your government says about these gender roles.
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Friends. And we can see here that God
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desires for us to remove all of the boundary lines so that we
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can come to Him wholeheartedly. And He receives us
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wholeheartedly when we come to Him by faith in our Lord Jesus
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Christ. Regardless of your social
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status, regardless of your gender, regardless of your
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nationality, God accepts anyone who will come to Him by faith.
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I hope that you've been blessed by this chapter here.
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What an amazing chapter in God's Word.
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And there's a lot more to be said, but suffice to say that we
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place our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and we are made
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perfect and holy and at one with God.
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I hope that that makes your heart leap today.
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You don't have to worry about your church attendance, your
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attire. You do not have to worry about
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what version of the Bible is being read or taught or which
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one you own. You do not have to worry about
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this fundamental legalistic approach to God that we come to
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Him like little children, and unless you have the faith of a
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little child, you shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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I'm praying for you. I love you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.