1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,500 Well, good morning. Everyone is a wonderful day to 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:07,800 be here together to worship God. And I believe 100%, he has been 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,000 worshipped. He has been glorified in our 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,900 hearts individually and collectively. 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,900 It's a good day, we are individuals and perfect. 6 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:18,300 And when we come together, I know in many ways, we may be 7 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:22,900 imperfect as a body. And so I'm hopeful as a as a 8 00:00:22,900 --> 00:00:24,300 congregation we can grow together. 9 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:26,700 I think every teacher that comes up and gives a lesson. 10 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:30,100 Our goal is to help us grow as a congregation both individually 11 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,299 and collectively. So I'm looking forward to see 12 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,000 what we can learn from Galatians chapter 4 today. 13 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:39,100 So Chris alternated, Chris and I have an alternating. 14 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:42,700 He had chapter 3 last week and I'm going to try to do the same 15 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:43,700 thing. I'm going to try to take that 16 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:47,900 whole T-Bone down today and chapter 4 so do your best to get 17 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,300 through it. And we're going to start off 18 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:52,300 just with an outline going back over. 19 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,400 What is the outline where we've been where we going? 20 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,100 And kind of the keynote verse to me of this whole book, I'm going 21 00:00:57,100 --> 00:01:00,600 to keep stating it was is what it's coming soon, where he says 22 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,700 Stand Fast therefore in the Liberty by which Christ has made 23 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:08,600 us free and do not be entangled again with the Yoke of bondage. 24 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,900 So this is kind of the theme of our whole letter. 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,600 Remember, this is Paul writing to the Galatians churches in the 26 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,200 region of galatia and we started off in chapter 1, Paul. 27 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:22,100 His apostleship, he was reminding them of the divine 28 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,300 origin of his gospel. He got it from God, he got it 29 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:29,700 from the Savior and his relationship to the apostles to 30 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:32,400 prove that he was legitimate in his early years. 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,900 As a Christian, we talked about the Jerusalem Council, we talked 32 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:38,200 about how James cephas and John kind of gave him. 33 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,300 The go-ahead, they confirmed you're doing. 34 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,600 Keep doing what you're doing. We learned about Peters rebuke 35 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,700 last time. I taught and how we started to 36 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:49,100 get into that lesson on justification by faith. 37 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,000 With this is a huge theme of the book of Galatians. 38 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:56,500 Chris really got deep into that last week in chapter 3 and he's 39 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:58,900 going to continue that argument through chapter 4 that I'm 40 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:01,700 covering today. And in Chris's chapter, we 41 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:05,700 coupled the cover, the personal argument things like, how did 42 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:07,500 were you really justified in the first place? 43 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:10,500 Did you start out by faith? And then all of a sudden? 44 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:12,600 Okay, now we're going, we don't need Faith anymore. 45 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,600 Now, we can just beyond our own work stand, on our own two feet. 46 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,600 No, the personal argument doesn't work and he's Arguing 47 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,000 the day on a personal basis, should know that they need Faith 48 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,500 as their justification. There, that we're justification, 49 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:30,700 remember, meaning to be made a right to be made justified in 50 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:35,400 God's sight and so even in their personal argument, they know 51 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,600 that's true. The scriptural argument, Chris 52 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,800 talked about those themes from the Old Testament, took us a 53 00:02:39,808 --> 00:02:44,300 long way through the Old Testament to show us why they 54 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:47,700 should know that it was through a seed of Faith through Abraham 55 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:49,600 that we are safe. Saved. 56 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,500 And today we're going to get into the Practical argument and 57 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:57,200 the sentimental argument and the symbolic argument within this 58 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,100 practical argument a couple of the main ideas he's going to say 59 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:04,100 here is that in Christ? They are one as children of God, 60 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,200 which are Abraham's seed and Heirs of the promise. 61 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,200 The second main point is that they are redeemed from the law 62 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,300 in adopted as Sons. They are no longer slaves but 63 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:17,500 heirs and after that we're going to continue on in chapter 4. 64 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:19,100 It's going to cover the sentiment. 65 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,700 All argument or their relationship argument, he's 66 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:26,400 going to be. Prying on the relationship he 67 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,900 has had with him in the past to help convince them. 68 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:33,800 He's going to talk about his fears, Paul's personal fears 69 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,200 over there returning to some kind of bondage and we're going 70 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,100 to talk about what that bondage is. 71 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:41,100 We've already had a lot of hints of it in the past and we're 72 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:43,900 going to talk about their past and present relationship to 73 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:46,400 Paul. Finally, this symbolic argument, 74 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,700 he's going to use some symbols from the Old Testament. 75 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:50,900 Not unlike what was covered last week. 76 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,200 Okay. And in chapter 5, after what I 77 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,100 cover today, it's going to be kind of an application because 78 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,400 of all this, he's going to, he's gonna call them to stand strong, 79 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,800 in the liberty of Christ, and that's going to be a liberty 80 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,200 that excludes circumcision keynote. 81 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,200 That's that's Old Testament, Liberty? 82 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,300 That fulfills the Old Law. It's a liberty in which one is 83 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:14,300 led by the spirit. We're going to see what that 84 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:18,100 means and Liberty with a sense of responsibility. 85 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:21,200 So that's what's coming. And we're going to get a little 86 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,200 Up to speed. Now with Galatians chapter 3, 87 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,200 the ending versus there, to kind of run into chapter 4. 88 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,400 Because it's all based on what he just said in chapter 3, Paul 89 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:36,000 says is the law then against the promises of God, certainly not 90 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,000 for there. Had been a law given which could 91 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,300 have given life, truly righteousness, would have been 92 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:45,100 by the law, so he's trying to convince them like Chris taught 93 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:47,300 last week. That the law didn't do it. 94 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,900 If it would have worked great, it would have been done. 95 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:51,400 We've already tried that. It didn't. 96 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,800 Work and they should know that, but the scripture is confined 97 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,000 all under sin. They're stuck under sin that the 98 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,200 Promise by faith. In Jesus Christ. 99 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,500 Might be given to those who believe it. 100 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:04,500 Can find all understand a show us. 101 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:09,200 That it was the only way out to have Jesus, our savior verse 23. 102 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,600 But before Faith came before that, we were kept under guard 103 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,300 by the law kept for the faith, which would afterward be 104 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:21,000 revealed. Therefore, the law was our tutor 105 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:25,400 to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith K. 106 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,400 There we go. There's a huge key point. 107 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,600 He's going to talk a lot about the law and this previous being 108 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,700 kept and trained. And a lot of people try to make 109 00:05:35,707 --> 00:05:37,400 this all about just law in general. 110 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,100 But this is a very specific law that was training them. 111 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:45,300 So he's talking about the Old Testament, the Old Testament law 112 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:51,200 was what taught us and prepared us for Christ, so that we might 113 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,600 be justified. Justified by faith so that we 114 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,400 could see it wasn't by our own works that we can ever never 115 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,700 save ourselves. But after faith has come, we are 116 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:04,600 no longer under a tutor notice. He doesn't say, we no longer 117 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,800 have any need for a law there, there are some general 118 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,300 principles of law in general that yes, by following works of 119 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:18,400 a law, we cannot earn our salvation But the law this 120 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,600 tutor, this Old Testament law. We're not under any more because 121 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,300 the it's sir its purpose was served but he's not saying we 122 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:30,300 have no need for any law. We're going to learn more in 123 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:32,800 other in other chapters about this. 124 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,400 But the law of Christ is a long Liberty. 125 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,100 It's a lot of freedom that guides us and he's talking about 126 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:44,000 the Old Testament here. Verse 26, for you are all sons 127 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,800 of God through phases. And faith in Christ Jesus. 128 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,300 For as many of you are baptized into Christ. 129 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:52,200 Have put on Christ, there's neither Jew, nor Greek, neither 130 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,700 slave nor free. There is neither male nor female 131 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:56,900 for you are all one in Christ, Jesus. 132 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:00,100 Okay, so this is, this is directly linking to the next 133 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:05,800 chapter and if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and 134 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,000 heirs, according to the promise. We're going to talk about these 135 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,200 errors in the beginning of chapter 4, but I love that 136 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,100 picture of the mustard seed in the parable. 137 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:18,300 Jesus teaches about how the the, the church and God's plan 138 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:22,400 started out as a small tiny seed, but grew into a tree that 139 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,400 would that would Nest all the birds of the air and provide 140 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,700 shelter. This is this great see that 141 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:32,200 started with Abraham as now continuing with us today and 142 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:38,400 Faith chapter 4 verse 1. Now I say that the heir as long 143 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,100 as he is a child does not differ at all from a slave, okay? 144 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:46,500 So he's gonna get into like a little realistic if you were an 145 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:50,400 air of an estate or an air of an inheritance and you had maybe 146 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,900 servants working in the household he's going to say that 147 00:07:53,900 --> 00:07:57,500 are as long as he's a child did. He doesn't differ at all from a 148 00:07:57,508 --> 00:08:01,000 slave, he doesn't have any responsibility. 149 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,400 He doesn't have any Authority, doesn't really have much Freedom 150 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:07,900 if you're a little kid and you're That is this great you 151 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:10,400 know, Financial Mogul. He is a lot of money, a lot of 152 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,000 real estate as a child. You have none of that, you're 153 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,600 just your kind of powerless Though he is master of all 154 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,000 because that child is going to inherit all things one day. 155 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,400 But when they're young, they don't have any of it. 156 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:28,700 But he is under Guardians and stewards until the time 157 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:32,799 appointed by the father. So this is setting up the whole 158 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:39,100 discussion of being a slave and how that child is like a slave 159 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,200 even under the Old Testament. We might think only, you know, 160 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,600 sin is slavery. Well, it's true. 161 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,000 But the Old Testament can find them under sin so that they 162 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,200 didn't have a way out because it didn't have a savior yet. 163 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,900 So we, so he's talking about they as Jews were slaves, as 164 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,600 children under the Old Law because they were under 165 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,000 Guardians and Steward. Speaking of the Old Testament, 166 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,500 until the time appointed by the father and realistically 167 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:11,300 speaking, the father has the right to decide when his child 168 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:14,400 gets the inheritance, just like the father decided when it was 169 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,600 time for Jesus, and this is kind of an analogy. 170 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,600 These kids right here, have absolutely no Authority. 171 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,900 These are like Like the Jews in the Old Testament had no 172 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:29,600 Authority. They had no Real power until 173 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:32,600 things were granted to them through their through the Savior 174 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,100 Jesus Christ. And just like, they had a great 175 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:37,000 inheritance. They might be master of all 176 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,600 Kings of England, and queens of England right now. 177 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,000 They don't have any power like that. 178 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:45,200 And Paul's drawing a comparison here to the Old Law. 179 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,700 He says, even so we under the Old Testament when we were 180 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:54,200 children were in bondage under the elements of the world. 181 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,100 But when the fullness of the time had come God sent forth his 182 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:00,900 son. So the question I asked is I was 183 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:04,300 first going through this what what are these elements? 184 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,700 What are the young bondage to? And there's a clue right here at 185 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:11,600 the end of this verse 4, when the fullness of the time had 186 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,300 come, there was a change, the change happened when God sent 187 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:17,900 forth his son. So the elements of the world 188 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:21,400 isn't just sin itself. The elements of the world is 189 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:28,400 some kind of early form of God's plan and figure defines elements 190 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:34,000 as the first principles, or any first thing from which others 191 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,700 belonging to the same series, or composite whole take their rise. 192 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:42,900 And he compared to in his description to an alphabet to 193 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:46,100 someone who's going to be a seasoned Rider or do anything 194 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:50,200 with language or reading or writing the elementary 195 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,500 principles, the elements of a writer. 196 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,500 Or a reader is the ABCs. It is the first thing the ABCs 197 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:02,100 would be the first thing from which all the other things would 198 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:07,600 come from. Now for them, this is not what 199 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,400 they're doing, this is Christianity. 200 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,000 This is taking the elements, the elementary principles of 201 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,300 something and learning it so that you can become something 202 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:18,400 later. This is a picture of 203 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,900 Christianity. If the alphabet is the elements 204 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:26,300 And what he says they're doing is they're like an adult kind of 205 00:11:26,300 --> 00:11:28,600 just reciting the alphabet over and over. 206 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:31,400 It's like getting through all your schooling, getting a 207 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,200 college degree, and then going and just using the alphabet and 208 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,400 going back and practicing your alphabet over and over. 209 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,700 He's like, what was the point of learning the elements, you learn 210 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:43,900 the elementary principles for a purpose to be later. 211 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:50,000 Gone into and it's both immature and it defeats the purpose of 212 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,200 the alphabet itself. If you're just going to use the 213 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:57,400 alphabet later in life, He says even so we when we were children 214 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,900 were in bondage under the elements, the elementary 215 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:05,100 principles of the judaic, the judaic faith of all of the plan. 216 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:09,900 God setup But when the fullness of the time had come God sent 217 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:14,000 forth his son born of a woman born under the law. 218 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,700 This under the law is marking the transition point. 219 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,400 He's trying to show us that this is a hinge point where 220 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,900 everything changes to redeem those who were under the law 221 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:28,500 that we might receive the adoption as Sons. 222 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,800 We're told here that God redeemed us that is to purchase 223 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,300 something that was maybe owned by another We were under slaves 224 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:43,100 to sin and God redeemed us or purchased us from under the law 225 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:48,600 so that we would be adopted and receive adoption as Sons. 226 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:53,400 Now, since my aunt and uncle adopted their youngest daughter, 227 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:59,500 Addison, it has been really cool to see that full blending of the 228 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:02,300 family. They she was adopted at such a 229 00:13:02,308 --> 00:13:05,000 young age that it doesn't even feel like she was adopted. 230 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,400 It feels like she's just normally part of the family, 231 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:10,200 there was no other adoption happen. 232 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:12,600 And that's the beauty of God's plan to is. 233 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:16,400 That's the intention, is that as an adopted son or daughter, you 234 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:21,500 should feel just as much a part of God's family as Jesus 235 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:23,400 himself. Even that we're told that we are 236 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,800 joint heirs with Christ. We are adopted as sons and 237 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,600 because you are Sons. Now, if I read this phrase, if 238 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,000 I'm going to, because I'm a son of the creator of this universe, 239 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,100 because I am an heir of everything from God. 240 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,500 I probably want to listen to what comes after because if I 241 00:13:44,508 --> 00:13:47,700 were to tell you, if you were to tell me that you had an air that 242 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:51,800 was going to leave you a large estate and because of that, you 243 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,100 know, you're going to get x y. Z, I would be listening very 244 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:57,000 clear closely to hear what's going to come of this. 245 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:02,600 He says, because you are Sons. God has sent forth the spirit of 246 00:14:02,608 --> 00:14:06,600 his son into your hearts. Crying out. 247 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:11,000 Abba Father. The great inheritance that we 248 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 can enjoy. Now, is the spirit of his son 249 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,100 into our hearts, that would cry out to God from a place of 250 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:22,100 closeness and Trust to where we would use terms, like, like we 251 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:26,400 do and talk to our own parent. God has many names in the Bible, 252 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,300 he has various ways of being addressed and they have their 253 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:34,200 own purpose, but this is, this is one of the best of all the 254 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,200 Bible to me. He's called Almighty. 255 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,400 He's called Prince of Peace. He's called The Savior. 256 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:45,300 He's called so many things. But we can call him Abba Father. 257 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:51,700 God has sent forth the spirit of his son so that we could claim 258 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:54,900 that for ourselves so that we could have how Jesus is able to 259 00:14:54,900 --> 00:14:58,300 call. God, father We can do that too 260 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,600 this word, Abba. Father, we can take from this, 261 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:05,100 the key ideas are intimacy and loving Authority. 262 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,700 There's a lot of people that I had men in researching. 263 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:10,400 This, there's a million things people want to explain from this 264 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,200 and go into and then you can do that on your own time, but the 265 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,200 the simple simplest way to explain it. 266 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:24,300 Is we have that kind of love an authority figure and intimacy 267 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:28,100 with our God and every single guy Thing that we could think 268 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:31,800 about from a good father, we should attach to God. 269 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:35,900 Every single good connotation because God is the perfect. 270 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:39,200 Father, every good connotation of a father, we should take from 271 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,700 this. We should take that. 272 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:44,100 He's a caregiver, he's a protector, a comforter, he 273 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:47,300 teaches the ways of life. He gives a caring mentorship 274 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:51,200 quality time, he loves to spend with his children, understanding 275 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,400 with us, he has Authority. That gives us Clarity and 276 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,100 purpose when there's not a authority figure in the home of 277 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:00,100 the father. There's a lack of clarity and 278 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:03,000 purpose and drive God provides that as a loving. 279 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,200 Father. He takes care of physical needs, 280 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,200 he is emotional support encouragement in the list would 281 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:15,000 go on and on and as we talked about this, I know the reality 282 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,100 is not everyone can hear that phrase of us calling Godfather 283 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:22,800 and feel it the same way because you may think about your father 284 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:30,100 in a experience to what you related to And you can know that 285 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:34,600 it's not your father, good or bad that you are answering to 286 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,400 that you are coming to and prayer. 287 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,900 It is the perfect father. It is the complete father who 288 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:44,900 does do all the right things who does handle situations all the 289 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:48,600 right way. And for some people you you 290 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,000 don't, you have to learn that, you have to learn that view of 291 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,400 God, but I think in reality, part of the reason people are 292 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,600 frustrated with their own examples because they know what 293 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,400 it's supposed to look like. If you didn't have that, great 294 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,200 example, you know, intuitively what you should see in a father, 295 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:10,300 what you should be comforted by and strengthened by And that's a 296 00:17:10,308 --> 00:17:13,200 beautiful thing to learn. I encourage you search the 297 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,200 scriptures and see what it really means for God, to be the 298 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,099 father. And to appreciate that in your 299 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:22,599 own life, in your own way to understand what that might mean 300 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:24,700 for you. And what you might have to learn 301 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:31,300 about a good father. And the other thing it says, 302 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:35,400 here is that the spirit of his son into our hearts should lead 303 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,700 us to cry out when got when the spirit of his son, through what 304 00:17:39,700 --> 00:17:42,200 we learn in. Through our great saving should 305 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,500 happen as we should cry out to the Lord, we should cry out to 306 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:49,500 our Abba. Father, not with uncertainty. 307 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,500 You don't cry out when you're uncertain, you cry out and 308 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:57,000 that's not like a - cry out. It's a it's a rejoicing. 309 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,800 It's a, it's a full Certainty. And for coming to the throne 310 00:18:02,900 --> 00:18:05,400 don't praise God. Timidly or half-heartedly as one 311 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:09,400 of the lessons from this may we cry out with confidence when we 312 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:14,900 sing May our Spirits cry out to a father wholeheartedly and I 313 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:19,400 encourage, especially the men, the the challenges in life and 314 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,000 the responsibilities that can kind of Harden the heart and 315 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,900 make us need to step up and handle things and just kind of 316 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,500 deal with it. Can make us a little calloused. 317 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,200 Can make us hardened by our challenges to our. 318 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,800 Maybe it's harder for a lot of men to cry out to a loving 319 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,500 father. I encourage the men. 320 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:44,600 Cry out to the Lord. Because that's what the Bible 321 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,900 says should happen in our heart, with the spirit of his son 322 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:51,600 within us. Verse 7. 323 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:59,300 Therefore you are no longer a Slave. but a son, and if a son, 324 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:06,600 then an heir of God through Christ, Now this this section 325 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,500 this discussion of what we could have been in slavery, whether it 326 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:13,400 was slaves to sin, whether it was slaves to the Old Testament 327 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,600 in their own attempt to be justified by the by the law. 328 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,400 We read of a, we can understand in very serious progression. 329 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,600 It was, would have been wonderful of God, to not punish 330 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,800 us to the full extent of what we deserved. 331 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:31,600 We deserved the plan and the system of punishment. 332 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,700 God design is to be separate from him. 333 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,100 And what that means to be separate from God is punishment 334 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:39,900 in an everlasting. Hell, we deserve that but just 335 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:42,300 to not be punished to the full extent, would have been 336 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:45,800 gracious. Not only that but he reduced our 337 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,900 sentence God, took our sentence and reduced it. 338 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:51,900 He didn't just reduce it a little bit, he completely wiped 339 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:54,500 it out. Not only did, he completely wipe 340 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:58,200 it out our sentence, but we were set free completely. 341 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,700 We are not on house arrest, so to speak. 342 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,300 We are set free from sin and from bondage, and not only are 343 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:07,700 we set free and just kicked out to be on our own. 344 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,200 We are given support for a whole new life to go into. 345 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:18,700 That all would have been plenty. But to be named as a 346 00:20:18,708 --> 00:20:25,600 beneficiary, in his own house, to be named a son and an heir of 347 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,200 God through Christ. Is so far beyond what we 348 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:35,500 deserved that is. That is Grace and that is Mercy 349 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,700 fully fleshed out. And I think we can understand 350 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:43,100 and appreciate that Airship maybe in different ways as a 351 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:45,900 young person as I think about what that would mean to have a 352 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:50,200 great inheritance, I think about being set up for your future. 353 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,500 There's a lot of things as a young person you're trying to 354 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:56,800 get in order and try to like set up a path and set things up 355 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,800 early so that you get the benefits in the long term, maybe 356 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,600 getting a house, getting your investment started the right 357 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,700 way. I think about his young person, 358 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,900 we want to set ourselves up for the future, and that is 359 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,400 definitely true in the Airship from God. 360 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,200 We are set for the future. We don't have to worry about 361 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:17,500 what's going to come of our future. 362 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:21,400 We have a sure plan and ensure inheritance coming beyond what 363 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,200 we may ever be able to achieve on her own for the middle aged 364 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,400 people. As I was talking to my dad, he 365 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,800 he was saying as he's getting closer to retirement, one of the 366 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,500 things he's really Wanting to do is make sure he leaves us. 367 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:40,400 Something that is valuable and he said, you know, I don't have 368 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,800 like you know every parent would want to give their child 369 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,800 everything as inheritance you know you want to set them up for 370 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,200 forever so they don't never have a financial worry or whatever it 371 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,000 might be. And he said, you know, I don't 372 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,200 have that massive inheritance to just give to you guys. 373 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:59,800 And so the Mind tries to think, what can I leave behind will be 374 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:05,100 valuable to you. and for the middle-aged, the value you can 375 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:11,400 give is in spiritual things. The value you have left to give 376 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,200 that's going to be worthwhile because money is going to fade. 377 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,300 Every parent wants to give what they can and there's a true 378 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:22,900 sincere desire there but that's not going to really take care of 379 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:25,000 anyone who's left as your beneficiary. 380 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,000 For middle-aged people, your value to give isn't spiritual 381 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,900 things. Your value to provide and mentor 382 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:37,800 and strengthen. And ultimately to lead others to 383 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,900 is the Airship of God. That's where the true value is. 384 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,000 And for older folks, for many people, a lot of times, the, the 385 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,900 sentiment is, there is nothing left for me to see. 386 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,600 I've seen it all. I've been experienced, the joys 387 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,500 of life. I've experienced the highs, I've 388 00:22:51,508 --> 00:22:54,500 experienced the lows, I've had the successes from the low to 389 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,000 the high. I've, I'm enjoyed the blessings 390 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,700 of having stability and maybe an even, well, that maybe this 391 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:03,700 point for a lot of people, maybe that's the peak of your earnings 392 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:07,600 or your Your savings is all there, maybe that's for you. 393 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,600 I don't know your case, but for many older people, there's 394 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,600 nothing left to see nothing left to maybe do your Limited in many 395 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,300 ways. And what an awesome thing that 396 00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:21,300 it doesn't end right there. Nothing left to see that. 397 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:25,100 Ye The Best Is Yet To Come that in all of these things that the 398 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:28,300 Airship that you are set to receive why you might be 399 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:31,700 thinking about your heirs, you are about to be an eternal are 400 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:35,400 of an eternal reward in heaven with God. 401 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,200 Everything is ahead of you. There are things left to see, 402 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,100 it's just not Earthly we have great value in our Airship as 403 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:47,600 children of God. Verse 8, but then indeed when 404 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,400 you did not know God you serve those by which nature are not 405 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,700 Gods. So he's already been appealing 406 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:57,600 to the elementary principles of the world, which I believe are 407 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,400 the basics of God's plan for the world and the Jewish religion. 408 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,900 And I think he's also here referring to the people who did 409 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:09,100 not know God and who were worshipping false gods idolatry. 410 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:13,200 He says, when you did not know God, you serve those which by 411 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,500 Nature are not gods. Romans tells us that they would 412 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:19,400 turn to the birds and the rocks and the trees and say, you we 413 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:24,600 came from you, they were not, they by Nature are not gods and 414 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,800 it is mind-blowing to think about how people serve these 415 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,000 things in world religions. If you look back at through 416 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,300 time, the way people turn to the greater elements of the world, 417 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:40,500 the, the wind planets, all these things, they turn to those 418 00:24:40,500 --> 00:24:43,700 things. And they weren't going intending 419 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:48,400 to be Heirs of that. They were maybe taking their 420 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:52,200 heart, that desire to worship. A god, they were taking that 421 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,800 desire to what they could see around them, but they didn't, 422 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,500 they didn't have an Airship with their creator or there a greater 423 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:07,900 being So, if you compare Christianity to many world 424 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:11,600 religions, the fact that some people serve what they claimed 425 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,000 to be a God, not intending to be an air of him. 426 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,300 It's mind-blowing that we serve a God that we are going to be an 427 00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:24,500 air of But now, after you have known, God, or rather are known 428 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:28,900 by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly 429 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:31,700 elements to which you desire again, to be in bondage. 430 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:33,600 This could be any of the elements, whether it's the 431 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,900 elementary principles of the of Judaism that they were not 432 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:39,700 supposed to stay in or whether it was the elements of the 433 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:42,400 natural war that they might have been worshipping as Idols. 434 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:48,000 He said, why in the world after you've known God and all of his 435 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,600 goodness and his inheritance and his saving How in the world are 436 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,700 you going to turn to the weak and beggarly elements? 437 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:57,600 I love. It's almost hilarious. 438 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,300 That he's like, that's that's, that's week in there. 439 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,300 Broke those Gods, you're trying to turn back to the things 440 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:06,000 you're trying to serve. That's their broke compared to 441 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:12,400 your God, beggarly week Elements, which you desire again 442 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,500 to be in bondage to And I believe that especially the Old 443 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:19,200 Testament can be called bondage Benny Cryer says it. 444 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,300 Well in his commentary, he says Old Testament was bondage 445 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:25,300 because it was the law without the Savior. 446 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:29,400 There was no Plan of Salvation. There was no savior in that law. 447 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,300 And so it's bonded. You're stuck there. 448 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:39,500 If you're these Jews, And I like how you just point out a little 449 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,100 side note after you've known, God or rather are known by God, 450 00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:46,500 this is where the true blessings are Jesus says, many will say to 451 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:50,700 me, you know, I knew you, I did all these things for you, but 452 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:54,200 Jesus said, I never knew you and there's a, there's kind of an 453 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:55,600 allusion to this idea right here. 454 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,200 God must know us to does, God, know us. 455 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,700 Not only do we think we know God, we people say a lot of 456 00:27:03,708 --> 00:27:06,400 times I have I know my relationship with God. 457 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,000 Okay. That's great. 458 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,800 But does God know you. You and for God to know you, we 459 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,200 have to know. What does it mean? 460 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:18,200 What does God want from me? He says You observe days and 461 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,800 months and seasons and years. Now this I believe is 462 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,900 specifically talking about the Old Testament, but it could 463 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:28,400 probably also mean their idolatrous observances of Feasts 464 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,600 and special times of the year solstices. 465 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,700 Maybe all those things he says, I'm afraid for you. 466 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,600 Les. I have labored for you in vain. 467 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,400 This is about a sincere as it can get in a plea. 468 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:43,800 He's deep into the sentimental argument right now, I'm afraid 469 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,000 for you. Out of all the arguments, he can 470 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,200 make out of all the things he could tread plead with them. 471 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,600 It's a very powerful argument to say do I'm just afraid and what 472 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,700 you're getting into. I don't want you to go down this 473 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:00,700 path because I know what it leads to less. 474 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:04,300 I have labored for you. In vain now, many times when 475 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:11,100 people start to slip away from truth, they don't see how How 476 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:13,600 dangerous it is, how serious it is. 477 00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:23,600 And he's saying he's making a An intensifier here by saying that 478 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,200 I'm concerned. It's all for nothing. 479 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:29,000 Now, maybe they would have expected to say it's just not a 480 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,200 good thing it's going to hold you back but it's not really 481 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,700 going to affect you that much. Maybe they would think that way, 482 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:38,100 but he's intensifying it and saying it is worthless. 483 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:42,200 All the work I've done for you, it is in vain the whole thing, 484 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,700 all this stuff is just useless. If you go back to where you came 485 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:50,100 from and go back to the Old Law, it's as serious intensifier 486 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:51,500 here, this is a wake-up call. Call. 487 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,300 This isn't just a small thing where you should really try to 488 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:56,900 improve in this area. He's like no it's all pointless. 489 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:03,200 If you if you don't listen to me right now, He says Brethren, I 490 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:08,000 urge you to become like me for. I became like you now. 491 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,300 We hear that like whoa. Whoa, become like me. 492 00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:11,300 What are you trying to say, Paul? 493 00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:12,900 I thought it was supposed to be like Christ. 494 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:18,000 Well, when he's talking about, is the context of he became like 495 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:23,100 them and he left Judaism and became like a gentile to these 496 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,300 people. Many of the many of the Jews 497 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:28,400 considered Paul will be leaving the faith. 498 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:33,700 And Gentile, he became like the Gentiles By becoming all things 499 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:36,600 to all men and leaving behind the Old Law. 500 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,100 He became like them to teach them the word to bring them into 501 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:44,500 gods family. And now he went out of his way 502 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:48,000 to leave that to come to them. And they're about to go back to 503 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,800 what he just left. He said, I did this already. 504 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,800 I left that don't do when I left, I left the Old Testament. 505 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:02,000 I became like you so be like me and that I left and I became 506 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,300 like you He says you have not injured me at all. 507 00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:08,800 Now it doesn't mean that they didn't do anything wrong. 508 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,400 He's making a personal appeal, basically. 509 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,500 He's going to talk about how they've always been good to him. 510 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,300 They've always been so kind and taking care of him in different 511 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:19,700 ways. And so he says, you know, you 512 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:23,100 have an injured me at all, you've been good to me this 513 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:27,200 whole time but really, they're, they're in danger of strongly 514 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,700 injuring him if they don't turn around. verse 13, you know, that 515 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:35,300 because of physical infirmity, I preach the gospel to you at the 516 00:30:35,308 --> 00:30:40,000 first He says there was something he doesn't tell us 517 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,800 what it is. There's a lot of commentators to 518 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,200 say it was his eyes because of what he's about to say. 519 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,800 I you would have plucked out your own eyes and give him to 520 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,400 me. Some people say it was his eyes 521 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,500 but then there's some clues that make it seem like, it might have 522 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:52,900 been something else. We don't know, he had some kind 523 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:56,000 of physical issue. Some kind of sickness that made 524 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,900 him stay there and galatia for an extended amount of time and 525 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,700 preach the gospel to you at the first, we learned in Acts 526 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:06,100 chapter 14 and 16, he took different trips to galatia. 527 00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:11,000 This was likely First trip in Acts chapter 14 and he stayed 528 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,500 there for an extended amount of time. 529 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,800 And I've just think it's awesome that you know, many people have 530 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,200 had and physical infirmity. That would be an excuse to not 531 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,400 do the work for Paul. That was an excuse to do the 532 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,800 work just in a specific way and how he was limited may, we not 533 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,300 use our infirmities as a way to get out of doing the work of 534 00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:33,300 God, but maybe it just changes what we do. 535 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,900 Maybe it refines our focus in different way. 536 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,500 I'm going to read this next verse out of the ESV because I 537 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:44,200 think it makes the wording more clear and actually more accurate 538 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,100 from what many of the commentators were saying. 539 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:50,400 So in verse 14 says, and though my condition was a trial to you, 540 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,700 you did not scorn or despise me but receive me as an angel of 541 00:31:54,700 --> 00:32:01,200 God as Christ Jesus. So somehow his trial was a trial 542 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,900 to them. Also so his infirmity or 543 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:07,100 something about his illness was a trial to Them. 544 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:11,600 But they they received him as an angel of God, throughout the 545 00:32:11,608 --> 00:32:14,500 Bible, angels of God are messengers and they took him and 546 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:17,700 honor him took care of him and didn't just toss them out. 547 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:20,000 On the curb, they were so good to him and he appreciates that 548 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,200 he's reminding them of how they've always had such a good 549 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,600 relationship verse 15. What then has become of your 550 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,000 blessedness? You started so good. 551 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,200 What's happened to that? Now, back in the new King James 552 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,900 for, I bear you witness that if possible you would have plucked 553 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:38,400 out your own eyes. Eyes and giving them to me. 554 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,000 Now this is why many people say yeah, issued his eyes, Okay? 555 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000 So that not made so much sense to me. 556 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:48,000 But then when you read somehow, that condition was a trial to 557 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,800 them, some people will say that it was he had some kind of 558 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,600 disease that he was like hard to look at or hard to listen to 559 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,100 speak. I don't know. 560 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,800 It makes still makes more sense to me that it's his eyes. 561 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,600 Maybe they had to help him out in some way. 562 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,300 I don't know. Whatever the case is he says you 563 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:05,400 would have plucked out your own eyes and give them to me. 564 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:09,400 Whether that means It's a it's a hyperbole saying you'd have done 565 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,000 anything for me. You would have given up anything 566 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,200 to take care of my needs. Whether it's that or whether it 567 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,000 was his eyes that were the problem and they would have 568 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:22,000 given them their own eyes to him, who knows, for sure. 569 00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:25,800 But the whole point is the same. These people, these Galatians 570 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,900 were so good to Paul and the past and had a great 571 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:31,000 relationship, they would have done anything for him. 572 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,500 Have I? Therefore become your enemy 573 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:38,000 because I tell you the truth after all this I'm teaching you, 574 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,100 what's right? And am I going to become your 575 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:44,400 enemy because of that? These Ellis Lee Court, you they 576 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,100 speaking of the Judy izing teachers so the people are 577 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:50,600 trying to pull them back to the Old Testament to circumcision 578 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,000 the Old Law. He says, they zealously Court 579 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,300 you they're really, really trying to get you and show 580 00:33:56,300 --> 00:34:00,200 interest in you but for no good. It's not a good reason. 581 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,500 Yes they want to exclude you that you may be zealous for 582 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:05,900 them. It's interesting. 583 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:08,300 The word exclude doesn't seem to fit here. 584 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:13,500 They want to exclude them. From all the promises of God. 585 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:18,000 Paul is saying that if they get what they're doing for their 586 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,800 going to be, excluding you from God's blessings, from God, 587 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,900 saving family and from the promise of Jesus Christ. 588 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:29,900 Is there a good reason for that? No, it's also you may be zealous 589 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:31,199 for them. It's about them. 590 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,500 It's not about your own interest, he says, but it is 591 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:36,000 good to be zealous in a good thing. 592 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:41,100 Always and not only when I am present with you Let me ask the 593 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,800 question, you know, how were they when Paul was there? 594 00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:48,300 It can be easy to know when certain people around act, a 595 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:50,199 certain way. Like we talked about before, 596 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:55,800 putting on a mask, Could be easy to put on a Christian mask or to 597 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,600 act a certain way or to be a certain level of it of his Ellis 598 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,500 when the situation is, right. But what if Paul were literally 599 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:10,600 standing here today? What if Paul were here, would 600 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,100 you step up your game? What, I step up my game and my 601 00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:19,000 personal life, in my fleeing from sin, and my running to 602 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,700 what's right and filling my life with good things and taking on 603 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:24,900 the evangelic will work of the Lord. 604 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:29,300 How would I act if Paul were here? 605 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,300 Because it sounds like they acted a little bit different and 606 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:36,100 kind of started to regress when Paul wasn't there. 607 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:39,600 What if Jesus were here? I changed that sentence. 608 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:40,800 Not what? If we were just, we're here 609 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,600 because Jesus sees every he's seasonal, God is among us. 610 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,400 We just don't see him. What if we could see him? 611 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,700 Would that change the way we act that changed the motivations the 612 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:59,500 zealousness for good things? Or we or would we be the same 613 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:04,200 way we are right now. Will we be more zealous, will we 614 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,700 be more focused on things that God says matters? 615 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,100 We could see Jesus. Verse 19. 616 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:18,200 My little children for whom I labor and birth again until 617 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,100 Christ is formed in you. I would like to be present with 618 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:24,300 you now and to change my tone. For I have doubts about you. 619 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,400 So, Paul's feels a very parental care over them. 620 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:30,600 He talks about, you know, different people are sons in the 621 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,300 faith, it's a parental, you feel responsible, and you feel like 622 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,500 you want to help someone so deeply when you have people who 623 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,100 you're responsible for spiritually. 624 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:41,800 But he calls them little children. 625 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:43,700 He doesn't just call them children. 626 00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:46,800 He has that modifier. It's like the immaturity is 627 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:51,100 still there that that lack of spiritual maturity to move on. 628 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:54,900 For the Old Law, they're going back to be children under the 629 00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:57,900 Old Testament. But it shows his concern. 630 00:36:57,900 --> 00:36:59,900 He says, for whom I labor and birth. 631 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:04,500 Again, that's some serious language for a man to try to use 632 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:06,800 that kind of terminology as get. He's got to be both. 633 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,800 He's got to know what he's talking about because I've heard 634 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,100 men's feel like make comments about. 635 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:13,400 They might know what it feels like for a woman to go through 636 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,400 birth and those women give them a death stare because you don't 637 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,300 know what it's like to go through childbirth and Paul is 638 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:22,800 pretty serious here. It pains him. 639 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,500 And he is going through the process of trying to teach them 640 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:31,300 all over again. It's painful but it's worth it. 641 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,900 That's the beauty of childbirth. It is all worth it in the end, 642 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:38,000 something beautiful comes of it and it is a process for Paul 643 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,300 here to work through them again. No, the the first time it was to 644 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:46,400 teach them and convert them. This again is to kind of reteach 645 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,300 and go back over and and re get them back on the right track 646 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:53,400 until Christ is formed in you and I know many of you are 647 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:56,600 Remember that lesson, Frank time until Christ is formed in you 648 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:01,700 this implies that it's understood by someone who 649 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:05,400 teaches the word to others and tries to strengthen others and 650 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,400 so understood by God himself that people will take time 651 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:12,900 people, take patients to continually be teaching. 652 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,100 That's why the blood of Christ must continually cleanse us and 653 00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:19,200 must continue to work on us. And let's continue on to work on 654 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,600 the people we're working on teaching. 655 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:27,200 And it's a process of Christ becoming formed within us, but 656 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,500 it doesn't take away from the urgency, as Frank mentions in 657 00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:32,900 his lesson. The urgency, that's required 658 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:37,000 because this is serious enough to be like, childbirth. 659 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:39,800 Verse 20. I would like to be present with 660 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,500 you now and to change my tone. So remember this is a letter. 661 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:44,500 It's not Paul standing in front of them. 662 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:47,400 This is a letter. I wish I could be there because 663 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,400 I have doubts about you to change my tone. 664 00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:51,300 Okay? Now he's going to get into this 665 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:55,900 symbolic argument. Tell me you who desire to be 666 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,500 under the law. So remember he's still talking 667 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:02,700 about the Old Law because he says, do not hear the law, do 668 00:39:02,707 --> 00:39:04,300 you not hear what the Old Testament saying? 669 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:06,000 Are you not even listening to the thing? 670 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:09,700 You are trying to go back to for it is written that Abraham had 671 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:15,800 two sons, Isaac and Ishmael two sons, one by a Bond woman, Hagar 672 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:21,100 the other by a freewoman, Sarah and Hagar was there was there? 673 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:25,100 Gentile servant. But he, who was of the bondwoman 674 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,600 Ishmael was born according to the flesh, according to the 675 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,400 flesh. Meaning number one, it wasn't 676 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,500 with faith. Because God, God told Abraham, 677 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:38,300 he's got a kid and he didn't follow the promised way through 678 00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:40,700 Sarah. He went and did the natural 679 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:42,600 thing. And just got a servant and that 680 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,900 was the normal way it gets done, but was born according to the 681 00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:48,900 flesh. That's how Ishmael was born. 682 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:55,100 And he of the freewoman, which is Isaac, through promise, which 683 00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:58,700 things are symbolic. So, you have the two kind of big 684 00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:03,500 Nations, the to diversions of faith and flesh. 685 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:08,400 And Isaac came through Sarah which was a child of promise. 686 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,100 We talked about that a lot in Hebrews already for. 687 00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:15,100 These are the two covenants, the one from Mount Sinai which gives 688 00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:18,600 birth to bondage which is agar. So Mount Sinai, that was the Old 689 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,500 Law. God gave Moses the Old Law on 690 00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:26,900 Mount Sinai, and Hagar symbolizes that. 691 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,300 Now you might say that's a little interesting because 692 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:34,000 that's the old law, but Hagar was a slave. 693 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000 So she wasn't really like A priest or anything. 694 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,100 Okay. What we'll come back to that. 695 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:42,200 Verse 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds 696 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,800 to Jerusalem, which now is and is in bondage with her children. 697 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,800 So the great irony here, the bondman was supposed to be. 698 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,400 The Bond woman was supposed to be kind of anti-jewish, she 699 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:59,400 wasn't of the faith but now that Bond woman, is a representation 700 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,700 of the Jews who are staying And Judaism. 701 00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:08,000 It's kind of a great irony here that she represents what they 702 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,400 are supposed to be leaving behind. 703 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,100 But the Jerusalem above is free which is the mother of us. 704 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:17,000 All Sarah is referring. Who that mother of us all? 705 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Is that Jerusalem above is free and that's the freedom in Christ 706 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:23,900 that we have. It's not a physical Jerusalem, 707 00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:26,900 it's not the Jews trying to stay in Judaism. 708 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,200 It's the Jerusalem that's above. It's God's plan through faith 709 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:33,800 for it is written Rejoice, O Barren. 710 00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:37,300 You do not heat. Rejoice O Barren, you who do not 711 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:40,900 bear? Break Forth and Shout you who 712 00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:43,000 are not in labor for the desolate. 713 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,300 This is speaking of Sarah or the one who had to have faith has 714 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:50,100 many more children than she who has a husband. 715 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:57,000 Now we Brethren as Isaac was, are children of Promise that's 716 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,200 us? We are symbolized, not by 717 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,700 Ishmael, but by Isaac, we're children of promise, but as he, 718 00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:07,900 who was born, according to the flesh, then persecuted him, who 719 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:10,700 was born, according to the spirit even. 720 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:15,600 So it is now So Ishmael persecuted and kind of picked on 721 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,400 Isaac. And so that's why The scripture 722 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,300 says nevertheless, what the scriptures say, cast out the 723 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:25,700 bondwoman, and her son for the son of the bondwoman, shall not 724 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:27,500 be Heir with the son of the free woman. 725 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:32,000 Sarah said this and had Ishmael, cast out, send them out in the 726 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,100 wilderness, that's whole discussion on its own, but he's 727 00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:41,200 saying even now the Jews, who should be living, according to 728 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,100 Faith are living according to the flesh. 729 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,500 And they are persecuting you who are trying to be of Faith. 730 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,800 It's like a role reversal. The Jews are supposed to be a 731 00:42:50,808 --> 00:42:55,200 faith are doing the persecuting. That has been repeated through 732 00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:02,100 centuries ago. So then brethren we are not 733 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:06,600 children of the bondwoman but children of the free this is the 734 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,500 freedom in Christ is kind of the whole point of Paul's point he's 735 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:14,100 making and this is going to bring us to the end of chapter 4 736 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,400 weird Children of the free woman. 737 00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:20,400 We are free in Christ. Yes we are free from having to 738 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,000 justify ourselves through works. We are would have been 739 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,400 responsible under the Old Law to do it perfectly. 740 00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:32,500 Otherwise you're stuck in sin. But today we can also be stuck 741 00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:36,500 in sin and so we can be free any account. 742 00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:39,500 We have freedom through Christ through faith in him. 743 00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:45,600 They're what he brings us in Salvation promise ages ago, even 744 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,100 back to Abraham and Isaac, I hope we can take something from 745 00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:52,300 this and I hope we can cry out to the father with love and 746 00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:56,000 appreciation because we are his heirs because of this and have 747 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,800 today, you're not one of those errors. 748 00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:01,900 As was said earlier basically how could you not? 749 00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:05,000 He said, how could you go back but how could you not want to be 750 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,500 an air of his? Do not serve the weak and 751 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:11,700 beggarly things, the all the riches and the things that are 752 00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:13,800 empty in this life? How could you not want to move 753 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,000 on to serve God to come believing in him, from 754 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,400 understanding his plan to repent and change your life to become 755 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,500 walking by the spirit, not walking, according to just what 756 00:44:24,500 --> 00:44:27,600 we want, but to change our lives, to follow him to confess 757 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,600 that Jesus Christ is Has the Son of God and that we are saved 758 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,000 through him and be baptized for the remission of your sins. 759 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,100 To be added to his church as Chris read. 760 00:44:36,100 --> 00:44:39,700 Last week, when we are baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. 761 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,500 If you've already done this, and you already a member of gods 762 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,100 family, but you want to make something, right? 763 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,400 And if you need support of the Brethren, we're happy to take 764 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:48,500 care of that. 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