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  Speaker 1: Hello, I'm James. Thanks for joining me tonight for sleep
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  Speaker 1: scriptures as we hear the Book of Galatians in the
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  Speaker 1: new International version. The book was written by Paul as
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  Speaker 1: a letter to a number of churches in Galicia, where
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  Speaker 1: he had traveled doing missionary work. Paul was deeply concerned,
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  Speaker 1: even frustrated, about the state of the church in Galicia,
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  Speaker 1: where Jewish Christians in the region were pushing for strict
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  Speaker 1: adherents to the laws and practices commanded in the Torah.
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  Speaker 1: He is bewildered by the fact that the Galatians have
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  Speaker 1: embraced a version of the Gospel that denies Jesus free
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  Speaker 1: gift of grace. He believed strongly that holding Gentiles to
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  Speaker 1: the old laws would portray the message of the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: that we are justified and declared righteous only by jesus
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice and our acceptance of Him as Messiah, not by
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  Speaker 1: our own works or observance of law. It's only through
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  Speaker 1: our belief in Jesus that his resurrection power can transform
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  Speaker 1: us so we can belong to His family. The whole
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  Speaker 1: message of the Book of Galatians is grace. What a freeing,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful message for us today. Galatians Chapter two, Verse twenty says,
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  Speaker 1: I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer
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  Speaker 1: live what Christ lives in me. The life I now
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  Speaker 1: live in the body. I live by faith in the
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  Speaker 1: Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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  Speaker 1: And then verse twenty one gives the gospel message even
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  Speaker 1: more strength. I do not nullify the grace of God,
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  Speaker 1: for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died
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  Speaker 1: for no purpose. That's unthinkable that our Lord would have
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  Speaker 1: died for no purpose. We are free from the law
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  Speaker 1: because we now live under the law of grace. It's
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  Speaker 1: a mystery that we cannot fully understand, but that will
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  Speaker 1: lead you into deep, peaceful sleep tonight. So breathe deeply
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  Speaker 1: and accept God's free gift. Now, allow all your concerns
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  Speaker 1: to drift away in the light of the amazing truth
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  Speaker 1: Paul shares with the Galatians. Let the tension of the
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  Speaker 1: day's strivings melt away. Hand over to God any moments
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  Speaker 1: you try to earn his love or favor, and freely
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  Speaker 1: accept his gift of salvation. Breathe in Christ's salvation and
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  Speaker 1: breathe out the stress of trying to earn that salvation
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  Speaker 1: on your own. God. We come to you now as
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  Speaker 1: imperfect people. Much like the Galatians, we try to earn
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  Speaker 1: our salvation. Forgive us for neglecting the message of the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel that Jesus is the Messiah, and that through Jesus
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  Speaker 1: you've created a new family, and you are our new father.
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  Speaker 1: When we accept the gift of your Son, we are
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  Speaker 1: transformed by the power of your spirit. Let us never
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  Speaker 1: forget that this is what the Bible is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Help this beloved child of yours to soak in these
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  Speaker 1: scriptures as they fall asleep to the reading of your word.
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  Speaker 1: Let Your peace fill their heart as they place their
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  Speaker 1: faith in You alone in Jesus name, Amen. Galatians, Chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: Paul an apostle sent not from men nor by a man,
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  Speaker 1: but by Jesus Christ and God, the Father who raised
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  Speaker 1: him from the dead. And all the brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: with me to the churches in Glacia. Grace in peace
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  Speaker 1: to you from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from
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  Speaker 1: the present evil age, according to the will of our
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  Speaker 1: God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I am astonish that you are so quickly deserting the
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  Speaker 1: one who called you to live in the grace of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: and are turning to a different gospel, which is really
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  Speaker 1: no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you
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  Speaker 1: into confusion and are trying to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: But even if we or an angel from heaven should
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  Speaker 1: preach a gospel other than the one we preach to you,
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  Speaker 1: let them be under God's curse. As we have already said,
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  Speaker 1: so now I say again, if anybody is preaching to
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  Speaker 1: you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them
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  Speaker 1: be under God's curse. Am I now trying to win
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  Speaker 1: the approval of human beings or of God? Or am
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  Speaker 1: I trying to please people? If I were still trying
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  Speaker 1: to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the
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  Speaker 1: gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did
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  Speaker 1: not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. For you
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  Speaker 1: have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism.
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  Speaker 1: How intensely I persecuted the Church of God and tried
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  Speaker 1: to destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many
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  Speaker 1: of my own age among my people, and was extremely
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  Speaker 1: zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when God,
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  Speaker 1: who set me apart from my mother's womb and called
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  Speaker 1: me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his son
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  Speaker 1: in me so that I might preach him among the gentiles,
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  Speaker 1: my immediate response was not to consult any human being.
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  Speaker 1: I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those
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  Speaker 1: who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia.
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  Speaker 1: Later I returned to Damascus. Then, after three years, I
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  Speaker 1: went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephus and
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  Speaker 1: stayed with him fifteen days. I saw none of the
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  Speaker 1: other apostles, only James, the Lord's brother. I assure you
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  Speaker 1: before God that what I am writing you is no lie.
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  Speaker 1: Then I went to Syria and Cilicia. I was personally
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  Speaker 1: unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: They only heard the report the man who formerly persecuted
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  Speaker 1: us as now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy,
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  Speaker 1: and they praised God because of me Galatians Chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also. I
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  Speaker 1: went in response to a revelation, and meeting privately with
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  Speaker 1: those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel
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  Speaker 1: that I preach among the gentiles. I wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: sure I was not running, and had not been running
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  Speaker 1: my race in vain. Yet not even Titus, who was
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  Speaker 1: with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he
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  Speaker 1: was a Greek. This matter arose because some false believers
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  Speaker 1: had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we
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  Speaker 1: have in Christ Jesus, and to make us slaves. We
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  Speaker 1: did not give into them for a moment, so that
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  Speaker 1: the truth of the Gospel might be preserved for you.
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  Speaker 1: As for those who were held in high esteem, whatever
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  Speaker 1: they were, makes no difference to me. God does not
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  Speaker 1: show favoritism. They added nothing to my message. On the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task
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  Speaker 1: of preaching the Gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter
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  Speaker 1: had been to the circumcised, For God who was at
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  Speaker 1: work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised was
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  Speaker 1: also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. James, Cephus,
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  Speaker 1: and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas
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  Speaker 1: the right hand of fellowship. When they recognized the grace
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  Speaker 1: given to me, they agreed that we should go to
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  Speaker 1: the gentiles, and they to the circumcised. All they asked
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  Speaker 1: was that we should continue to remember the poor, the
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  Speaker 1: very thing I had been eager to do all along.
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  Speaker 1: When Cephis came to Antioch, I opposed him to his
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  Speaker 1: face because he stood condemned. For before certain men came
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  Speaker 1: from James, he used to eat with the gentiles, But
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  Speaker 1: when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate
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  Speaker 1: himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those
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  Speaker 1: who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined
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  Speaker 1: him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even
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  Speaker 1: Barnabas was led astray. When I saw that they were
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  Speaker 1: not acting in line with the truth of the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: I said to Cephis in front of them all. You
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  Speaker 1: are a Jew, yet you live like a gentile and
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  Speaker 1: not like a Jew. How is it then that you
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  Speaker 1: forced gentiles to follow Jewish customs. We who are Jews
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  Speaker 1: by birth and not sinful gentiles, know that a person
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  Speaker 1: is not justified by the works of the law, but
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  Speaker 1: by faith in Jesus Christ Christ. So we too have
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  Speaker 1: put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we may be
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  Speaker 1: justified by faith in Christ and not by the works
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  Speaker 1: of the law. Because by the works of the law,
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  Speaker 1: no one will be justified. But if in seeking to
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  Speaker 1: be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among
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  Speaker 1: the sinners, doesn't that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would
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  Speaker 1: be a lawbreaker. For through the law I died to
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  Speaker 1: the law so that I might live for God. I
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  Speaker 1: have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live,
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  Speaker 1: but Christ lives in me the life I now live
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  Speaker 1: in the body. I live by faith in the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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  Speaker 1: I do not set aside the grace of God. For
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  Speaker 1: if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died
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  Speaker 1: for nothing. Galatians chapter three, You foolish Galatians, who has
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  Speaker 1: bewitched you before your very eyes? Jesus Christ was clearly
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  Speaker 1: portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one
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  Speaker 1: thing from you. Did you receive the spirit by the
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  Speaker 1: works of the law or by believing what you heard?
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  Speaker 1: Are you so foolish after beginning by means of the spirit?
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  Speaker 1: Are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?
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  Speaker 1: Have you experienced so much in vain? If it really
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  Speaker 1: was in vain? So again I ask, does God give
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  Speaker 1: you His spirit and work miracles among you by the
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  Speaker 1: works of the law or by your believing what you heard?
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  Speaker 1: So also Abraham believed God, and it was credited to
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  Speaker 1: him as righteousness. Understand then, that those who have faith
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  Speaker 1: are children of Abraham. Scripture foresaw that God would justify
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  Speaker 1: the gentiles by faith and announce the Gospel in advance
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  Speaker 1: to Abraham, all nations will be blessed through you. So
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  Speaker 1: those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: the man of faith. For all who rely on the
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  Speaker 1: works of the law are under a curse. As it
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  Speaker 1: is written, cursed is everyone who does not continue to
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  Speaker 1: do everything written in the book of the Law. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: no one who relies on the law is justified before God,
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  Speaker 1: because the righteous will live by faith. The law is
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  Speaker 1: not based on faith. On the contrary, it says, the
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  Speaker 1: person who does these things will live by them. Christ
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  Speaker 1: redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming
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  Speaker 1: a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is
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  Speaker 1: everyone who was hung on a pole. He redeemed us
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  Speaker 1: in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come
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  Speaker 1: to the gentiles through crist Us Jesus, so that by
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  Speaker 1: faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. Brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life.
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  Speaker 1: Just as no one can set aside or add to
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  Speaker 1: a human covenant that has been duly established, so it
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  Speaker 1: is in this case the promises were spoken to Abraham
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  Speaker 1: and to his seed. Scripture does not say and to
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  Speaker 1: seeds meaning many people, but and to your seed, meaning
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  Speaker 1: one person who is Christ. What I mean is this
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  Speaker 1: The law introduced four hundred and thirty years later does
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  Speaker 1: not set aside the covenant previously established by God and
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  Speaker 1: thus do away with the promise. For if the inheritance
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  Speaker 1: depends on the law, then it no longer depends on
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  Speaker 1: the promise. But God and his grace gave it to
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  Speaker 1: Abraham through a promise why then, was the law given
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  Speaker 1: at all? It was added because of transgressions until the
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  Speaker 1: seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law
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  Speaker 1: was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator. A mediator, however,
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  Speaker 1: implies more than one party. But God is one. Is
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  Speaker 1: the law therefore opposed to the promises of God absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: For if a law had been given that could impart life,
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  Speaker 1: then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But
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  Speaker 1: Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin,
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  Speaker 1: so that what was promised being given through faith in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe. Before
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  Speaker 1: the coming of this faith, we were held in custody
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  Speaker 1: under the law, locked up until the faith that was
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  Speaker 1: to come would be revealed. So the law was our
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  Speaker 1: guardian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Now that this faith has come, we are no longer
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  Speaker 1: under a guardian. So in Christ Jesus you are all
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  Speaker 1: children of God through faith. For all of you who
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  Speaker 1: are baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There
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  Speaker 1: is neither jew nor gentile, neither slave nor free, nor
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  Speaker 1: is there male and female, For you are all one
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you
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  Speaker 1: are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the Promise Galatians
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  Speaker 1: chapter four. What I am saying is that as long
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  Speaker 1: as an heir is under age, he is no different
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  Speaker 1: from a slave. Although he owns the whole estate, the
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  Speaker 1: heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time
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  Speaker 1: set by his father. So also, when we were under age,
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  Speaker 1: we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of
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  Speaker 1: the world. But when the said time had fully come,
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  Speaker 1: God sent his son, born of a woman, born under
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  Speaker 1: the law, to redeem those under the law, that we
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  Speaker 1: might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are His sons,
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  Speaker 1: God sent the spirit of his son into our hearts,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit who calls out Abbah, Father. So you are
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  Speaker 1: no longer a slave but God's child. And since you
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  Speaker 1: are his child, God has made you also an error. Formerly,
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  Speaker 1: when you did not know God, you were slaves did
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  Speaker 1: those who by nature are not God's. But now that
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  Speaker 1: you know God, or rather are known by God, how
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  Speaker 1: is it that you are turning back to those weak
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  Speaker 1: and miserable forces. Do you wish to be enslaved by
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  Speaker 1: them all over again? You are observing special days and months,
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  Speaker 1: and seasons and years. I fear for you that somehow
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  Speaker 1: I have wasted my efforts on you. I plead with you,
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, become like me, For I became like you.
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  Speaker 1: You did me no wrong. As you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: because of an illness that I first preached the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: to you. And even though my illness was a trial
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  Speaker 1: to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God,
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  Speaker 1: as if I were Christ Jesus himself. Where then is
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  Speaker 1: your blessing of me? Now? I can testify that if
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  Speaker 1: you could have done so, you would have torn out
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  Speaker 1: your eyes and given them to me. Have I now
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  Speaker 1: become your enemy by telling you the truth? Those people
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  Speaker 1: are zealous to win you over, but for no good.
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  Speaker 1: What they want is to alienate you from us, so
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  Speaker 1: that you may have zeal for them. It is fine
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  Speaker 1: to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to
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  Speaker 1: be so always, not just when I am with you,
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  Speaker 1: my dear children, for whom I am again in the
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  Speaker 1: pains of childbirth, until Christ is formed in you. How
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could be with you now and change
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  Speaker 1: my tone, because I am perplexed about you. Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: you who want to be under the law, are you
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  Speaker 1: not aware of what the law says? For it is
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  Speaker 1: written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave
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  Speaker 1: woman and the other by the free woman. His son
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  Speaker 1: by the slave woman was born according to the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: but his son by the free woman was born as
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  Speaker 1: a result of a divine promise. These things are being
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  Speaker 1: taken figuratively. The women represent two covenants. One covenant is
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  Speaker 1: from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves.
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  Speaker 1: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands from Mount Sinai in
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  Speaker 1: Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because
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  Speaker 1: she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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  Speaker 1: For it is written, be glad, barren women, you who
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  Speaker 1: never bore a child. Shout for joy and cry aloud,
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  Speaker 1: you who were never in labor, Because more are the
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  Speaker 1: children of the desolate woman than of her who has
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  Speaker 1: a husband. Now, you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are
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  Speaker 1: children of promise. At that time, the son born according
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  Speaker 1: to the flesh persecuted. The son born by the power
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit. It is the same now. But what
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  Speaker 1: does scriptures say, get rid of the slave woman and
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  Speaker 1: her son. For the slave woman's son will never share
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  Speaker 1: in the inheritance with the free woman son. Therefore, brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman,
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  Speaker 1: but of the free woman. Galatians chapter five. It is
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  Speaker 1: for freedom that Christ to set us free. Stand firm, then,
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  Speaker 1: and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a
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  Speaker 1: yoke of slavery. Mark my words, I, Paul tell you
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  Speaker 1: that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be
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  Speaker 1: of no value to you at all. Again, I declare
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  Speaker 1: to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he
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  Speaker 1: is obligated to obey the whole law. You, who are
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  Speaker 1: trying to be justified by the law, have been alienated
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  Speaker 1: from Christ. You have fallen away from grace. For through
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness from
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  Speaker 1: which we hope for in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor
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  Speaker 1: uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is
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  Speaker 1: faith expressing itself through love. You are running a good race.
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  Speaker 1: Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying
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  Speaker 1: the truth. That kind of persuasion does not come from
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  Speaker 1: the one who calls you a little yeast works through
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  Speaker 1: the whole batch of dough. I am confident in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord that you will take no other view. The one
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  Speaker 1: who was throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be,
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  Speaker 1: will have to pay the penalty. Brothers and sisters, If
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  Speaker 1: I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted?
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  Speaker 1: In that case, the offense of the cross has been abolished.
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  Speaker 1: As for those agitators, I wish they would go the
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  Speaker 1: whole way and emasculate themselves. You, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: were called to be free. But do not use your
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  Speaker 1: freedom to indulge the flesh. Rather serve one another humbly
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  Speaker 1: in love, For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping
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  Speaker 1: this one command. Love your neighbor as yourself. If you
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  Speaker 1: bite and devour each other, watch out, or you will
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed by each other. So I say, walk by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of
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  Speaker 1: the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, and the spirit what is contrary to the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: They are in conflict with each other, so that you
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  Speaker 1: are not to do whatever you want. But if you
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  Speaker 1: are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
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  Speaker 1: The acts of the flesh are obvious, sexual immorality, impurity
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  Speaker 1: and debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage,
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  Speaker 1: selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like.
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  Speaker 1: I warn you, as I did before, that those who
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  Speaker 1: live like this will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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  Speaker 1: and self control. Against such things, there is no law.
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  Speaker 1: Those who belong to Christ. Jesus have crucified the flesh
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  Speaker 1: with its passions and desires. Since we live by the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: let us keep in step with the spirit. Let us
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  Speaker 1: not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Galatians chapter six.
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  Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin,
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  Speaker 1: you who live by the spirit, should restore that person gently.
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  Speaker 1: But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted carry
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  Speaker 1: each other's burdens. And in this way you will fulfill
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  Speaker 1: the law of Christ. If anyone thinks they are something
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  Speaker 1: when they are not, they deceived themselves. Each one should
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  Speaker 1: test their own actions. Then they can take pride in
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  Speaker 1: themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else. For each
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  Speaker 1: one should care their own load. Nevertheless, the one who
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  Speaker 1: receives instruction and the word should share all good things
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  Speaker 1: with their instructor. Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked.
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  Speaker 1: A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please
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  Speaker 1: their flesh from the flesh will reap destruction. Whoever sows
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  Speaker 1: to please the spirit, from the spirit will reap eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: Let us not become weary in doing good, for at
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  Speaker 1: the proper time we will reap a harvest if we
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  Speaker 1: do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let
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  Speaker 1: us do good to all people, especially to those who
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  Speaker 1: belong to the family of believers. See what large letters
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  Speaker 1: I use as I write to you with my own hand.
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  Speaker 1: Those who want to impress people by means of the
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  Speaker 1: flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The
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  Speaker 1: only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted
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  Speaker 1: for the Cross of Christ. Not even those who are
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  Speaker 1: circumcised keep the law. Yet they want you to be circumcised,
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  Speaker 1: that they may boast about your circumcision and the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: May I never boast except in the cross of our
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified.
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  Speaker 1: To me and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor
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  Speaker 1: uncircumcision means anything. What counts is the New Creation, Peace
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  Speaker 1: and mercy to all who follow this rule, to the
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  Speaker 1: Israel of God. From now on, let no one cause
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  Speaker 1: me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Be
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  Speaker 1: with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen, Father God, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for this gift of grace, of salvation, the promise
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  Speaker 1: of eternity. With you as your child sleeps tonight, give
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  Speaker 1: them dreams that remind them of your great love for them.
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  Speaker 1: Let them be enfolded into Your grace, so that no
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  Speaker 1: matter which way they turn, that's all they see all
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  Speaker 1: around them. They are saved by grace, They are rooted
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  Speaker 1: in grace, they grow in grace. May that be something
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  Speaker 1: that they never ever forget. We ask this in the
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  Speaker 1: precious powerful name of Jesus. Amen. Breathe deeply and accept
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  Speaker 1: God's free gift. Now as we dive into the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: of Galatians again Galatians Chapter one, Paul an apostle sent
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  Speaker 1: not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ and God, the Father who raised him from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: and all the brothers and sisters with me to the
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  Speaker 1: churches in Glacia. Grace and peace to you from God,
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  Speaker 1: our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself
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  Speaker 1: for our sins, to rescue us from the present evil age,
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  Speaker 1: according to the will of our God and Father, to
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  Speaker 1: whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. I am astonished
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  Speaker 1: that you are so quickly deserting the one who called
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  Speaker 1: you to live in the grace of Christ, and are
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  Speaker 1: turning to a different gospel, which is really no gospel
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  Speaker 1: at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion
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  Speaker 1: and are trying to pervert the Gospel of Christ. But
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  Speaker 1: even if we or an angel from heaven should preach
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  Speaker 1: a gospel other than the one we preach to you,
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  Speaker 1: let them be under God's curse. As we have already said,
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  Speaker 1: so now I say again, if anybody is preaching to
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  Speaker 1: you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them
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  Speaker 1: be under God's curse. Am I now trying to win
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  Speaker 1: the approval of human beings or of God? Or am
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  Speaker 1: I trying to please people? If I were still trying
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  Speaker 1: to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the
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  Speaker 1: gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did
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  Speaker 1: not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. For you
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  Speaker 1: have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism,
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  Speaker 1: how intensely I persecuted the Church of God and tried
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  Speaker 1: to destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many
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  Speaker 1: of my own age among my people, and was extremely
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  Speaker 1: zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when God,
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  Speaker 1: who set me apart from my mother's womb and called
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  Speaker 1: me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his son
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  Speaker 1: in me so that I might preach him among the gentiles,
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  Speaker 1: my immediate response was not to consult any human being.
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  Speaker 1: I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those
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  Speaker 1: who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia.
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  Speaker 1: Later I returned to Damascus. Then after three years I
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  Speaker 1: went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephus, and
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  Speaker 1: stayed with him fifteen days. I saw none of the
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  Speaker 1: other apostles, only James, the Lord's brother. I assure you
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  Speaker 1: before God that what I am writing you is no lie.
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  Speaker 1: Then I went to Syria and Cilicia. I was personally
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  Speaker 1: unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: They only heard the report the man who formerly persecuted
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  Speaker 1: us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy,
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  Speaker 1: and they praised God because of me Galatians chapter two. Then,
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  Speaker 1: after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this
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  Speaker 1: time with Barney. I took Titus along also. I went
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  Speaker 1: in response to a revelation, and meeting privately with those
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  Speaker 1: esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that
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  Speaker 1: I preach among the gentiles. I wanted to be sure
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  Speaker 1: I was not running, and had not been running my
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  Speaker 1: race in vain. Yet not even Titus, who was with me,
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  Speaker 1: was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
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  Speaker 1: This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our
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  Speaker 1: ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and to make us slaves We did not give in
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  Speaker 1: to them for a moment, so that the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel might be preserved for you. As for those
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  Speaker 1: who were held in high esteem, whatever they were, makes
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  Speaker 1: no difference to me. God does not show favoritism. They
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  Speaker 1: added nothing to my message. On the contrary, they recognized
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  Speaker 1: that I had been entrusted with the tests of preaching
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been
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  Speaker 1: to the circumcised. Before God, who was at work in
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  Speaker 1: Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at
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  Speaker 1: work in me as an apostle to the gentiles. James, Cephus,
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  Speaker 1: and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas
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  Speaker 1: the right hand of fellowship. When they recognized the grace
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  Speaker 1: given to me, they agreed that we should go to
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  Speaker 1: the gentiles, and they to the circumcised. All they asked
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  Speaker 1: was that we should continue to remember the poor, the
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  Speaker 1: very thing I had been eager to do all along.
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  Speaker 1: When Cephus came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face,
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  Speaker 1: because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James,
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  Speaker 1: he used to eat with the gentiles. But when they
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  Speaker 1: arrived he began to draw back and separate himself from
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belong
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  Speaker 1: to the circumcision