1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,760 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,720 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,280 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,840 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:15,200 today. And. 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,640 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or to find out 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,600 more about Omega, get to our website or Facebook page through 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:29,200 the links below. So we continue our series on the 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,640 book of Galatians. We are into chapter 5. 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,720 Before I go into the message, I want to give you a story of a 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:41,960 man who was sentenced to 20 years of prison. 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,040 So he finished his 20 years. The warden walks into the cell 13 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,840 one day and says you have finished your sentence. 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:55,120 Now you are free to go. Unlocks the thing, takes away 15 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,400 the chains from his feet and hands, and you're free. 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,720 But this man, what is he doing? He's still walking around with 17 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,000 handcuffs on his hands in his home. 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,560 He has handcuffs, goes to market, he goes with handcuffs. 19 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,360 He still shuffles as if his ankles are chained. 20 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,120 You know, he's feeling his legs all the time. 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,440 He still asks permission before moving. 22 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,800 Can I go to the bathroom? Can I go to do this? 23 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,440 He is asking for permission. Why? 24 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,800 That's what he did for 20 years in the prison. 25 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:32,560 So he is continuing to do the same way. 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,280 He still sleeps on the floor because he is used to it. 27 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,000 Hard floor? Why? 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,360 You got a nice bed? Why did you sleep on the bed? 29 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,400 I am used to it. I like it on the floor. 30 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,000 What's wrong with this man? Is he enjoying his freedom? 31 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:59,920 He is not enjoying his freedom. Some of us are like that, some 32 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,400 of us are like that. A friend finally says to him, 33 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,080 why are you living like a prisoner? 34 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,039 You are free. And he says to him, yes, I know 35 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:10,800 I am free. But the chains feel familiar. 36 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,880 Sometimes we want to have the familiar feeling. 37 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,160 We want to feel nothing with new. 38 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,800 We do not want to enjoy anything new. 39 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,880 We want things to remain the same Before you know Christ, 40 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,960 Whatever you do, you continue to do after you know Christ. 41 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,560 But Jesus did not die on the cross so that you can be a 42 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,680 prisoner to sin, Satan and the devil. 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,840 No, he has come and died upon the cross to set you free. 44 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:50,440 So this chapter 5 was 1 summarizes all that Paul has 45 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,400 been teaching in the last four chapters. 46 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,720 He is summarizing it with one single sentence and is giving a 47 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,160 preview into what is going to talk more later on in the in the 48 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,920 chapter and in chapter 6. So he says it is for freedom 49 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:11,080 that Christ has set us free. The Greek word is Ulotharia. 50 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:16,600 Ulotharia is basically freedom. You are set free. 51 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,480 He bought your freedom basically with a great price. 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,560 So what is this freedom in Christ? 53 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,440 Ulotharia is a freedom or liberty to do or not to do 54 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,360 something. You are free either to do or not 55 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,640 to do. But before you become a 56 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:39,000 Christian, you are doing or most of the time something wrong just 57 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,800 because it feels good. But now you are set free from 58 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,280 the dominion of Satan, dominion of sin. 59 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,520 Over your life. Jesus has come to give you 60 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,440 freedom to do the right thing, not the wrong thing. 61 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,120 So now we have to keep our freedom. 62 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,280 And one of the things about the freedom is we are set free. 63 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,360 We our freedom is to obey, not freedom from obedience. 64 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,760 We are we have a freedom to obey. 65 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:22,120 Before we did not have the freedom to obey. 66 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,400 Even though you know something is right, you do the wrong 67 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:28,600 because you are not free. There was a principle of sin 68 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,760 inside that will drag you down that Paul talks about in Romans 69 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,240 Chapter 7. Not freedom from obedience 70 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,160 because you became a Christian. You don't have to obey God 71 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,120 anymore. Doesn't mean that that doesn't 72 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:49,960 mean that. So the whole world is subjected 73 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,240 to slavery because of sin of Adam and Eve. 74 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,960 When Adam sinned, God walked into the God of Eden asked where 75 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,600 are you guys? They were hiding. 76 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,680 Why are you hiding? Because you are naked. 77 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,160 Who told you are naked? Did you eat the fruit I told you 78 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,080 not to eat? Yeah, we did eat. 79 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,960 So they are now covered with leaves and come before God. 80 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:17,400 Why did you do it? This woman, she deceived me. 81 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,360 So why did you eat this snake? He deceived me. 82 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:29,000 So he begins with the snake, and he curses the snake and puts a 83 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,560 curse upon the earth. Thoughts and things you will 84 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,480 bring forward. So that curse on the earth is 85 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,520 now being lifted. When Jesus died upon the cross, 86 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,360 when he shed that blood on the Golgotha, the hill of Golgotha, 87 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:49,480 He dropped the blood on that earth which was cursed. 88 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:55,040 In the book of Genesis. He has put his blood and says I 89 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,360 redeem you today by my blood I am buying you back. 90 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,120 And still people are not yet reached with the gospel. 91 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,480 Not everyone, everyone believes in Jesus. 92 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,360 When everyone believes in Jesus Christ, when he comes back, then 93 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,520 the whole creation which is under curse, is going to be set 94 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,640 free into the freedom. Your freedom is linked to the 95 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,000 freedom of the universe, the creation. 96 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,400 When you are free, the world goes free, the earth grows free, 97 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,440 the mountain goes free, the trees go free, the animals go 98 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,080 free because Jesus is setting you free. 99 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,400 So don't think what happens if I believe and don't believe if you 100 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,080 believe it's going to impact the creation. 101 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,600 Romans 821 says the creation itself also will be set free 102 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:53,360 from its slavery to corruption, into the freedom of the glory of 103 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,240 the children of God, into the glory of the children of God. 104 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:01,880 Those words are powerful words, glory of the children of God. 105 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,080 You do not have a glory when you are in sin, but when you believe 106 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,160 in Jesus, God puts His righteousness upon you. 107 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,320 And when the righteous robe comes upon you, you are covered 108 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:17,360 with the glory, the glory that Adam and you had before they sin 109 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,320 when they did not need the clothes. 110 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,640 That glory covers you now, it doesn't mean you walk without 111 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,400 clothes. Now I am not saying that the 112 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,560 point I am trying to make is that glory covers you. 113 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,120 That glory covers you. Is there anybody who wants to 114 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:41,960 shout Hallelujah for that? Freedom should edify others. 115 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,000 You are not free just to please yourself, to work for your 116 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,680 benefit, to live for your pleasure, to live for your own 117 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,280 comfort. No, this freedom that Jesus is 118 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:59,640 giving you is to edify other people, to help other people, to 119 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,240 lift them up. Those who are burdened, you go 120 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,760 and give them a shoulder and put a hand under their arm and pull 121 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,520 them up, those who are going down. 122 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,880 Because that is the heart of God. 123 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,240 That is the heart of God. The world is pursuing its own 124 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,920 pleasure, its own comfort, its own profit. 125 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,560 But Christians are called to live for others, and that is how 126 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,480 they know the love of God through your life. 127 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,240 But the world doesn't know the love of God. 128 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,559 But when they look at you and when they reach out and help, 129 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:41,480 they see God's love. Somebody is waiting to be helped 130 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,880 by you. Somebody is waiting to be 131 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,240 comforted by you. Somebody is waiting to hear the 132 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,160 words of the good news through your lips. 133 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,400 Somebody is waiting for the change to be shattered. 134 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:55,200 Somebody is waiting to be let out of their prison. 135 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:02,560 Why you who have believed in Jesus has the power to help, to 136 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:05,440 power to set people free to share the gospel. 137 00:09:11,750 --> 00:09:14,870 So you see the same thing is repeated twice in verse 1. 138 00:09:14,870 --> 00:09:17,910 He says it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. 139 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:21,710 Stand form then and do not let yourself be burdened. 140 00:09:21,830 --> 00:09:25,430 Again the same thing he talks about in verse 13 and verse 13. 141 00:09:25,430 --> 00:09:28,870 He says you, my brothers, were called to be free. 142 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,840 You are called to be free. Tell somebody you are free. 143 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,600 Give them a high five who is sitting next to you. 144 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:43,320 Say you are free, shout it. You have to be excited about the 145 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:44,880 word of God. I am telling you, you must get 146 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,320 excited about the word of God. So verse 13 says you are called 147 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,440 to be free. But again, that freedom is not 148 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,840 to use freedom to indulge in sinful nature, rather serve one 149 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,200 another in love, so one another in love. 150 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,640 That is the purpose of being set free. 151 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,840 Before you know Christ, you live for yourself. 152 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,880 After after you know Christ, you live for others. 153 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,000 It's very, very simple. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are 154 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,880 given to serve other people, not yourself. 155 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,840 If you have a gift of healing, you don't go every day put your 156 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,000 hand on your head and pray for healing for yourself. 157 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,760 You go lay hand that hand on somebody and say be healed. 158 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,560 You don't talk to yourself and say every demon come out, it's 159 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,280 good. You can self deliver yourself, 160 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,520 but how long you do it? That authority is to set other 161 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,520 people free. Say in the name of Jesus be 162 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,120 loose, be set free. So every gift of the Holy Spirit 163 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:48,640 is given so that we will be set free from our selfishness and so 164 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,560 other people. That is the heart of God. 165 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:56,960 Purpose of God in everything he does is outward from inside out, 166 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,880 not from outside in. Like we are not like sponge 167 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:08,160 receiving and receiving and receiving always In India, you 168 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,200 know we are very selfish people. So when somebody comes home, you 169 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,600 ask the question, what have you brought to give me? 170 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,160 What do you want to give me? Any gift you brought sweet 171 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,480 packet. You know, some people don't go 172 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,680 just like that, visit somebody and that's our culture. 173 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:27,240 You know, you take some fruits or sweets or something like 174 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,360 that. So it's just the way of doing 175 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,240 things, you know, culture sometimes, but we are not born 176 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,440 by any culture. So we don't we go without 177 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,800 anything in our hands now. Just joking. 178 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,080 So anyway, so that is what we have to, we shouldn't be always 179 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,200 receiving, but should be giving. Giving, What can I give you? 180 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,320 How can I help you? Word of comfort, word of 181 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,080 encouragement. Let's just do it liberally, 182 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,600 generously because we have been set free. 183 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,840 You are not under obligation, but you have that inward power 184 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 to love people as they they should be loved basically. 185 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,000 So this is all about the freedom. 186 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 There is so much we see. Let's not walk around with 187 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,040 handcuffs, let's not sleep on the hard ground. 188 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:20,840 Let's not ask for question. No. 189 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,680 Am I free? Can I go to market now? 190 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,880 Can I go to this mall now? Can I buy this? 191 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:27,840 Can I? No, no, no. 192 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:32,360 We, you have been set free. We have to know that we are free 193 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:37,280 and that is a very big issue because many Christians don't 194 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:42,160 think they are free. Ask yourself when did you feel 195 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,720 free in your mind? When did you feel free in your 196 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,880 spirit? Do you feel it always? 197 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:54,080 If you don't feel it always, it is time to say I want to remind 198 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,120 myself I am free. I don't want to forget it. 199 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,920 I want to remind myself every day I am set free, I am free. 200 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,040 I am free, I am free. This is very important. 201 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,200 Why it is important? When you know that you are free, 202 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:13,880 only then you can help somebody. If you are not free, you cannot 203 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,760 help anybody. We cannot help anybody. 204 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,800 That's the thing. So genuine freedom expresses 205 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,800 itself in spirit directed worship. 206 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,920 This is another benefit of we, we have been worshipping God, 207 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,560 praising God. You know one of the things is 208 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:36,600 when you are set free, the freedom will bubble from inside 209 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,040 and bring a spirit directed worship. 210 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,880 You will worship God in spirit and truth because you are set 211 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,760 free. Human nature is not to worship 212 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,320 God. Human nature now is not to bow 213 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,160 to God. Human nature is in rebellion 214 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,560 against God. But when you are set free, the 215 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,200 that miracle happens and you bow to the Lord. 216 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,160 You worship him. You ascribe dominion, authority, 217 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:04,960 power, glory to Him. He's worthy. 218 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,880 He's worthy, He's worthy. He's holy. 219 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,480 He's holy, He's holy. To say that you need to be set 220 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,360 free. If you are free, you will 221 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:22,200 worship Him. So what is Paul fighting in his 222 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:27,160 time is that there were a group of people who are Judaizers who 223 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,800 are trying to pull these Christians and tell them you had 224 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,400 to obey the Mosaic Law. You cannot forget the Torah. 225 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,360 You cannot forget the the seven festivals. 226 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,320 You have to do it. You have to do it. 227 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,880 You should go through circumcision. 228 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,680 This is again and again and again. 229 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,720 They were fishing for people in the Christian community. 230 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,480 The Gentiles are coming to know God. 231 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,240 They're trying to impose Torah, impose the festivals, impose 232 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,560 circumcision, and Paul was fighting it. 233 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:58,480 That's why he says you have been called for freedom and stand 234 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,320 firm. He says stand firm in your 235 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,280 freedom, stand firm, say stand firm. 236 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,880 You need to know you're free and you have to stand firm in it so 237 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,520 that nobody will come and push you to make do something other 238 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:16,400 than be free and submit yourself to don't let yourself be 239 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:22,600 burdened again by yoke of slavery is comparing life under 240 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:27,320 the Old Testament, the Mosaic law as slavery and the life in 241 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,280 Christ is freedom. Am I clear here? 242 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:39,720 So recently I came across somebody who is a Messianic Jew, 243 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,720 Messianic Jew. Previously I thought Messianic 244 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:47,040 Jews are nice bunch of people. I do not think differently now. 245 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,320 But I found that different kinds of Messianic Jews, not just one 246 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:56,520 kind, several kinds. The first kind they agree with 247 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,400 Paul. They say we are set free by the 248 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,440 death of Jesus, by his resurrection, by his burial and 249 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,960 resurrection. We are set free and we believe 250 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,920 in Jesus. We have no problem with the the 251 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,280 set of Messianic Jews. They continue to follow their 252 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:16,880 culture, like follow the festivals, do other kinds of 253 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,040 things together as a fellowship. We have no problem with this 254 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:26,400 Messianic Jews who believe the Bible, basically the New 255 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,200 Testament. They were living just with the 256 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,160 Old Testament. Now they accept both old and new 257 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,440 number problem. There is another bunch of 258 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:43,240 Messianic Jews who believe that Paul is mistaken, his gospel is 259 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:47,160 not correct, it is not true. They think that he has preached 260 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:51,360 the wrong gospel. I feel sorry for that bunch of 261 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,360 people. And there is 1/3 category which 262 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:58,280 is in between these two. And there are many other shades 263 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,920 of all these three you have. If you meet 10 different 264 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,800 Messianic Jews, they may have something common, something 265 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:09,560 different. But what I want to say is in 266 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,920 whatever way you want to go back to the law, you are going back 267 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:18,920 into slavery. Are we clear here? 268 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,359 Jesus has set us free and He has poured out Holy Spirit so that 269 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,119 we can obey the law joyfully from inside. 270 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,120 Because you are free, you are not forcing yourself to do it. 271 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,480 I have to tell the truth. I have to tell the truth. 272 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,320 Oh no, no, no. I have to do, it is so difficult 273 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,400 for me. It is not like that You have the 274 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,920 Holy Spirit who who is inside you, who helps you to tell the 275 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:50,840 truth, always joyfully, freely. But they, those people, they are 276 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:52,960 still under the law, they place themselves. 277 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,800 It is just like walking around with handcuffs. 278 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,120 Basically. The example I gave you is the 279 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,000 messianic juice. Most of them, except the first 280 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,360 group, they impose the law on themselves. 281 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:09,080 Even though Christ is the fulfillment of the law, Jesus 282 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,280 was not against the law. You read his words in the 283 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,000 Matthew, in the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 284 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,040 His words when you read he is not against. 285 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,840 He said I came to fulfill the law. 286 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,840 Every dot, every jot, whatever it is, I have come to fulfill it 287 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,920 because He fulfilled it on your behalf and my behalf on behalf 288 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:36,160 of the Jewish people. We no longer are bound by it. 289 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,600 We are no longer going to be justified because we obey the 290 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,400 law. We are justified because we 291 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,800 believe Him who fulfilled the law for you and me. 292 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,320 So these people, I mean, do not want to say too much about them, 293 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,160 referring to them, but we are set free from the law. 294 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,840 Basically, we are not going into slavery again. 295 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,040 That's why Paul says don't submit yourself, stand up, stand 296 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,640 firm, don't be burned again by yoke of slavery that is going 297 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,160 back to the Old Testament. Cool. 298 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,800 And now he is not done with just saying that. 299 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,200 He said it once. Now second time he's saying what 300 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,360 is he saying? Mark my words, I, Paul, tell you 301 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,760 that Christ will be of no value to you at all if you let 302 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,400 yourself be circumcised. Second time. 303 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,360 Third time, verse 3. Again. 304 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:35,240 I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he 305 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,200 is obligated to obey the whole law. 306 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,080 Same thing he is saying three times. 307 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:51,120 Why is he, Why is he doing it? There is a tendency in every man 308 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:58,760 to win the favour of God by doing something good, by doing 309 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,440 something good. It can be a simple thing like 310 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:05,680 coming to church for some people can be to win the favour of God, 311 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,320 or you want to pray, or you want to read Bible, or you want to 312 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,120 give or you want to do anything just to win the favour of God. 313 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,920 There are lots of people. If you say you pay $100 today, 314 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,200 tomorrow God will give you $1000, you will have 1000 people 315 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,400 come rushing to the front and give you $100. 316 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,000 Why? Because the human nature wants 317 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,040 to be dominated and He wants to win the favour. 318 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,320 Am I communicating here? That is the fallen nature. 319 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,800 It is not a redeemed nature, it is a fallen nature. 320 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,360 Because of that fallen nature, the prosperity gospel people 321 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,400 have a field day. They are becoming billionaires 322 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,640 because they know how to get the money. 323 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:55,160 They appeal to the fallen nature and say, hey guys, do you want 324 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,080 more money? Give some. 325 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,760 By the way, that is not what I prepare to speak. 326 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,920 It is just flowing with the teaching. 327 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:11,880 So cool. And again you see I declare to 328 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,000 every man, OK, so there is a slide there in the in the drive 329 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:22,720 for the 1st 6 verses. So when I read through the 330 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,280 passage, I said I need to make sense out of it, I need to 331 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,240 grapple with it. I have to make it simple. 332 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,880 I should have some way of understanding what all this is 333 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,560 all about. See, why do we need a story in 334 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,560 the beginning? That story is going to nail 335 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,560 everything so that you can hang a coat on it and you can hang 336 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,520 anything you want on it. So that is we that is why we 337 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,680 need a story. So here is again a picture of 338 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,280 trying to understand what Paul is saying. 339 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,000 Worst one, he says freedom. Christ has set us free for 340 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,240 freedom. Christ has set us free. 341 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,480 And then on the right side you see, do not be burned again by 342 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,680 yoke of slavery. So that is antithesis. 343 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,440 This is thesis. That is antithesis. 344 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,760 This is a statement. The opposite of it is if you 345 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,360 are, if you do not have this experience, you are going to 346 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:11,000 have that experience. You will be slave. 347 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,840 You will be in slavery because you are set free. 348 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:19,000 Do not go go back into slavery. Verse 2 If you let yourself be 349 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,560 circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 350 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:28,360 Jesus died in vain for you. So powerful. 351 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:35,720 So, as I mentioned, is another set of people who want to obey 352 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:41,120 the law in every form of it. Are those people who make the 353 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,560 death of Christ of no value to them. 354 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,440 If you value the death of Christ, if you value his life 355 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,840 for you on the cross, you will not go back to the law anymore 356 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,040 because he came and fulfilled it on your behalf and my behalf. 357 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:04,280 Are we together here Cool. Let's go forward in verse three. 358 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,560 If you let yourself be circumcised, you will be 359 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:12,520 obligated to obey the whole law. It's not just one thing is 100 360 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:18,040 things or they say if you take the whole book of all the five 361 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,920 books of Moses Genesis to Deuteronomy. 362 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,560 There are about 616 commandments, something like 363 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,760 that. Circumcision is only one. 364 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:33,040 And these people who want impose the Jewish system, they say you 365 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,280 must be circumcised. They are telling the Gentiles, 366 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,240 they are telling anybody for that matter, you must be 367 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,840 circumcised. But Paul is saying if you get 368 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,280 circumcised, you have to fulfill not just the 10 commandments, 369 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:49,320 all the 616 commandments. Am I here together? 370 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:55,240 So God has set us free. Why do you want to go back into 371 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,720 your slavery? That's his, that's his argument. 372 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,120 Basically, again, trying to be justified by law. 373 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,000 Verse 4, you are being alienated from Christ. 374 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,160 You are separated from Christ. Christ death has no meaning to 375 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,120 you. You will not be justified by 376 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:11,360 works. You will be justified by faith. 377 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,520 So he says, OK, you will be alienated from Christ. 378 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,280 Don't do it, my friends. But these people are saying 379 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:24,000 Paul's gospel is wrong and they want to keep doing the law. 380 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:29,120 Am I here together? So when you come across somebody 381 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,680 who says Messianic Jew, you have to make sure what kind of 382 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,960 Messianic Jew there? If they don't agree with Paul, 383 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:42,640 give them a salute, say goodbye. If they agree with Paul, good, 384 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:48,520 we have fellowship. Next I put the do there again. 385 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,080 He repeats himself, trying to be justified by law. 386 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,880 You are falling away from grace. These are incompatible things. 387 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,960 Justification by faith and practicing the law incompatible. 388 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,640 You do 1. The other one you cannot do at 389 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:07,080 the same time. I was looking at the word is 390 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,320 truth exclusive? It is exclusive. 391 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,240 Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. 392 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,720 That is where he stop. He is the way, the truth and the 393 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,760 life. What he says that is final and 394 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,160 anything else, what he does not say is false. 395 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,320 What he says is truth. It is exclusive. 396 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,320 And when you say Jesus is the Saviour, you are saying all 397 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,760 other philosophies, all other religions are false. 398 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,360 That is why people, some people do not like Christianity, 399 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,920 because it claims to be an exclusive faith. 400 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,800 It excludes everybody, and that is what it is. 401 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:54,400 You cannot have in the Old Testament you have the 402 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,320 Philistines captured the ark and put it to the temple of Dagon. 403 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,280 And when they came in the morning, the Dagon's idol was 404 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:05,720 fallen down. They put it back again, put some 405 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,760 more nails and next day they come again. 406 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,720 Its fallen on this time, neck is broken off, it is rolled and is 407 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,080 come on the threshold. Hands were cut off. 408 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:22,600 These two are incompatible. Yahweh Ishwa cannot coexist with 409 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,160 any other God, any other philosophy, any other system. 410 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,160 He is an exclusive God. You have to worship Him as an 411 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,680 exclusive God. He is the truth, He is the 412 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,880 light, He is the way, He is the bread. 413 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:40,440 He is everything to us. You can't be a Christian and be 414 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,800 going to meditation. You can't be a Christian and go 415 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,840 into yoga. You can't be a Christian and go 416 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,440 into sacrifice of our offer to idols. 417 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,640 You cannot do these things because it is an exclusive claim 418 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,880 on your life. When you believe in Jesus, you 419 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,520 belong to Him. He belongs to you. 420 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,480 That's a bond. There's a covenant there. 421 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,400 There is a relationship there. There is a truth there. 422 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,600 There is freedom there and you move out of it. 423 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:15,200 You move into slavery was fine by faith. 424 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:20,920 We we eagerly await through the Spirit for the righteousness for 425 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,760 which we hope. There is a righteousness you 426 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,360 receive now, but there is a complete righteousness. 427 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:33,280 When he appears, we are going to be like Him, we are going to be 428 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,960 like Jesus when you see him face to face. 429 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,960 So we have already and not yet. I am telling my friends this 430 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,640 phrase. I learnt it long time ago, 30-40 431 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,680 years ago already and not yet and it is not going to change. 432 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,600 I have gone through so much of theology and discussion in my 433 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,360 mind with other people. These words are not going to 434 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,680 change. There is an aspect of Christian 435 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,760 life which is already done in Christ. 436 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,040 There is an aspect which is going to unfold in the future. 437 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,560 You have the Holy Spirit already now, but there will be a time 438 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,440 when you will be in the Spirit always. 439 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,800 You are. They should be a set free from 440 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:24,000 sin now, from dominina sin now, but not the presence of sin but 441 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,880 in the future. We are going to be set free from 442 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,800 the presence of sin. Sin will not be there where you 443 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,200 are going in the future, right now. 444 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,880 It can be in the community, it can be in the family, it can be 445 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,480 the society anywhere. Presence of sin may be there, 446 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,840 but you will be saved, delivered, set free, that 447 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:46,040 dominion broken over your life. But the future, even the 448 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,160 presence of sin will not be there where you are going. 449 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,760 So these are already and then not yet. 450 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,800 Are we here agreeing? Let us say already and not yet. 451 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,680 Powerful statement. You will remember after 30 more 452 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,200 years you will say this man preached 30 years ago. 453 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:10,080 It is true. I am telling you now in Christ, 454 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,640 neither circumcision or uncircumcision has any value. 455 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,440 It has no value at all, Paul says. 456 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,400 But why are you talking about if it has no value? 457 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,360 Why would you let people do whatever they like? 458 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,480 Because when they do whatever they like, they are going into 459 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:30,400 slavery again. But in itself it does not mean 460 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,800 anything. Circumcision has no value. 461 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,240 Uncircumcision has no value. What matters is that love 462 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:43,720 expressed through faith. If you have faith, you must 463 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,240 express it through love and that's what is all important. 464 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,360 Only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. 465 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:59,280 One more slide please. I just put them in red to 466 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,640 distinguish, that's all. No other purpose. 467 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,800 I wanted one in my notes. I wanted to see differently, so 468 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,520 I put in a different color. So verse 7, you are running a 469 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,480 good race. Who cut in on you kept you from 470 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,240 obeying the truth. He is Paul is giving you an 471 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,440 athletic figure of speech here. Say you're running fast. 472 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,120 You you may be noticing that when you when you see them 473 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,160 running on the track, the everybody is going but it 474 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,640 somebody will try to overtake and come in front of them. 475 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,160 That's what is Paul is saying. Who is cutting in on you? 476 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,480 Sometimes it happens. You know, once I was going on my 477 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,200 cycle bicycle and somebody cut in before me and I was thrown. 478 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,080 Boom. I was flying like a bird in the 479 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,520 next moment and hit some rocks. So it is going to be an 480 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,760 accident. So what Paul is saying is you're 481 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,120 running a race quite well. Who cut in on you? 482 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,520 Who has stopped you? Who has obstructed you? 483 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,320 Who has tried to do harm to you? That's what he's asking. 484 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,960 Disobedience to the truth does not come from the one who calls 485 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,160 you. When you move away from this 486 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:13,040 freedom and go back to keeping the law until you do the law, 487 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,680 you are going, you are not going to be justified. 488 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,840 You are not going to be accepted by God, then you are you are, 489 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,080 you are going back into slavery and this is not what is 490 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:22,960 happening. This is this does not come from 491 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,840 the one who calls you the God who called. 492 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,320 He made a clear cut. Demos, I mean a distinction 493 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,360 between the Old Testament is the Old Covenant and a New 494 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,320 Testament, a new covenant. You cannot be belonging to the 495 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,440 new covenant and be doing things of the old covenant. 496 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,160 To make this truth very powerful, Jesus has talked about 497 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,440 two different analysis parables he gave. 498 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:51,400 Who will sow a old cloth on in? Who will sow a new cloth and a 499 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,120 old patch? If you have some tear in your 500 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:58,080 shirt those days you do not just throw away because it is a small 501 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,600 tear. You put some cloth on it, patch, 502 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,840 and then keep wearing it. One more tear, you put one more 503 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,520 patch. But what the whole problem is 504 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,920 when you put a new cloth on an old garment and stitch it up, 505 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,680 and you wash it, the new garment will shrink, new patch will 506 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,080 shrink, and the tear becomes worse. 507 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,800 So if you want to patch up a old shirt, if you tears up, you have 508 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,640 to find something that's already used, a piece of another shirt. 509 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,600 That's not no good anymore. Take a piece of it and stitch it 510 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,840 there. It will stay intact. 511 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,680 I do not know whether it makes sense to most of us because we 512 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,880 do not do these things these days, but do it. 513 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,880 We do not do it. We just throw the shirt, go back 514 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,120 and buy something. So that is that is those days. 515 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:52,000 It was not that easy. Clothes were not so coming so 516 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,840 easily. So people have to use it. 517 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,800 So Jesus is saying if you have a tear in your garment, you do not 518 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,240 put a new cloth as a patch because it is going to destroy 519 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,120 your clothes. Same way he says who will put a 520 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,240 new wine in a old wine skin when you have a wine skin made of a 521 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,360 leather and you put the new one into it. 522 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,480 If it is a old wine skin because the new one is bubbling, 523 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,040 effervescent fermentation, gas are built up, it is going to 524 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,760 burst open the skin. You will lose the skin and the 525 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:29,040 wine. So he says new wine has been put 526 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,120 into new wine skin. Why? 527 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:36,080 It is strong enough to hold it. So you have both preserved the 528 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,400 New Testament faith in Jesus Christ is the new wine. 529 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,240 Jesus is the new wine. He is the new wine and you 530 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,400 cannot put your body belongs to old old covenant. 531 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,440 You are trying to do things according to the old covenant. 532 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,560 You are hanging on for acceptance by God. 533 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,440 By doing something good, you are putting the new one into the old 534 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:56,920 wine skin. It will destroy you. 535 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,360 So this well meaning friends of ours Besanic Jews, we have to be 536 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,480 a little careful with them and we need to be gentle with them 537 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,480 because God loves them. They are under blindness. 538 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,920 They are under blindness. We you can talk to them. 539 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,920 They won't listen to they will stop talking to you. 540 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,360 The moment you say, hey, that's not right. 541 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,840 They say you are wrong. Paul is wrong. 542 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,880 I don't believe in it and don't want to have any fellowship with 543 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,280 you. So goodbye, let's part in peace. 544 00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:32,080 You have done your job. We cannot convert everybody. 545 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:37,239 Those, particularly those who are blinded required a light, a 546 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,199 revelation. And until the Holy Spirit gives 547 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,600 a revelation, we cannot bring them out. 548 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,960 So that is where we leave the matter there. 549 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,679 So let's go again back into He gives another example of a East 550 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,840 Again, this is not something we do these days. 551 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,520 Olden days. You want to make bread with 552 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,960 yeast. You will have some dough in the 553 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,720 house that ferments and you keep a little of the dough aside. 554 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,160 When you make a fresh batch, you add the dough to the fresh 555 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:10,080 batch. Why? 556 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,280 By next day it becomes completely sour sourdough. 557 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,640 So that is how they were, they were making bread. 558 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:23,320 So he says if you put hide a little yeast in the dough, it 559 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,520 makes a whole dough sour, it makes the yeast walks through 560 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,720 it. So sin is like that. 561 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:34,000 You allow little sin, little lie, little of this, little of 562 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,640 that, little of lust, it is going to make ferment and spoil 563 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,360 the whole dough, whole batch is going to. 564 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,000 So Paul is saying, hey guys, you know when you go we want to go 565 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,240 back to the old law again. You are basically hiding the 566 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:51,600 East in the whole new batch of dough, which is going to ruin 567 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,080 the whole dough, is going to spoil the whole dough. 568 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,000 Sin is like that. So he is giving one more example 569 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,920 of that and then he goes back again. 570 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,840 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. 571 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,760 He is encouraging the Galatians. Please agree with me. 572 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,640 Let us have the same kind of a view. 573 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,520 Don't have any other view. Let's agree together. 574 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,440 He is saying the one throwing into confusion will pay the 575 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,440 penalty. Whoever he may be, whoever is 576 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,160 teaching the wrong thing, whoever is trying to spoil your 577 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,360 mind, God will judge that person. 578 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:31,200 Is it a kind word, very nice word that Paul is saying? 579 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:39,080 No, because truth is exclusive. It cannot coexist with untruth, 580 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,960 with lie. So that is the reason why he 581 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,000 talks about it. And then I am still preaching. 582 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,120 If I am still preaching and some people said no, no Paul, you are 583 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,960 still preaching circumcision. He says if I am still preaching 584 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,640 circumcision, why am I being persecuted? 585 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,760 Why is the offence of the cross? If I am preaching persecution, 586 00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,680 the offence of the cross is abolished. 587 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,080 No one will be offended by the cross. 588 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:13,120 So if we are going back to the law, we are making Christ's 589 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:17,160 death of no value to us. We are out of grace, we are not 590 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,160 in the covenant, we are playing with sin, and we are going into 591 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,680 slavery. So many images in one little 592 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,840 passage just to tell us that we ought to be very clear in our 593 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,520 mind that Jesus is our Savior and we have nothing to do with 594 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:37,520 the law. The old wine you can't put into 595 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,280 new wine skin. A Gentile who is becoming 596 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,400 believer is a new wine skin. You put the old wine, it is not 597 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,960 going to work. Same way you put new wine into 598 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,400 the old wine skin. It does not work. 599 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,120 You need new wine skin. New wine. 600 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,880 Jesus is the wine and we are the new wine skin. 601 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,880 He comes in, everything is beautiful. 602 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,800 The agitators who promote circumcision, Paul wishes that 603 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,320 they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves. 604 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,360 Why a little did of the whole thing that is, I added those 605 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,000 words circumcision is a little skin is cut off. 606 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,560 But he says why you want to cut a little portion, take the whole 607 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:23,040 out, emasculate yourself, become a eunuch, because they will 608 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,440 become unprofitable, will not be accepted in the in the community 609 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:31,440 and they will be of no value. Basically he says just do not be 610 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,840 satisfied with the little cut, get rid of the whole thing, 611 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,640 become a eunuch. It is just he is angry. 612 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:42,720 I see that that Paul is very angry towards these people who 613 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:44,960 are promoting the law, obedience to the law. 614 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,440 But we do we not obey the law? We do obey the law. 615 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,400 Why? Because we have a new nature, 616 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,240 the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in US, who helps us to do 617 00:38:56,240 --> 00:39:01,360 it right all the time, not because we ought to, but it is 618 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,960 His nature. Our nature is change. 619 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,280 We have a new power, we have a new energy, we have a new 620 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,120 strength, we have a new vision, we have new purpose. 621 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:15,360 And that energizes us, motivates us and pushes, propels us to do 622 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,200 what the Holy Spirit wants us to do. 623 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:23,360 That is why he says you have to show love, love, love. 624 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,600 And that is how you, you, you approve these things. 625 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,080 So let us conclude it. Verse 13. 626 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:35,640 What does he say in verse 13? But you and my brothers were 627 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,080 called to be free. But do not use your freedom to 628 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,840 indulge the sinful nature. Rather, serve one another in 629 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,040 love. Serve one another in love. 630 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:50,800 This is very, very important. When we don't serve people, we 631 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,640 become selfish. It's like a pond that doesn't 632 00:39:54,640 --> 00:40:01,200 have a fresh water coming in. You'll become stale and useless. 633 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:07,400 God designed us to give out, share the gospel, do good 634 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,720 things, help somebody who is in need, visit somebody who is 635 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:14,800 grieving, send a meal to somebody who cannot make a meal. 636 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:18,000 Whatever way. Show that love, Demonstrate that 637 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:18,600 love. Why? 638 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:24,040 The moment you keep doing that, you are a fresh pawn and when 639 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,200 you don't serve others, you become a stale pawn. 640 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,840 Mass will grow. It will be of no use. 641 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,360 Shall we pray? Father, we thank you for this 642 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,680 morning. We thank you for the price you 643 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,800 paid to set us free. Infinite price. 644 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:49,360 Because our problem was too big. Man cannot fix it himself. 645 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:53,280 That's why you came into the world, died on the cross. 646 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,880 We worship, we honor you, we thank you, Jesus. 647 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,000 You are the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the whole 648 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,640 world. We praise you, we praise you, we 649 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,680 praise you for you. Cry out from the cross, it is 650 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,520 finished. Every drop you shed on the cross 651 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,800 is to set us free and help us to stand in freedom by faith in 652 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,800 you, doing good things to other people to the glory of your 653 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,000 name. In Jesus name we ask, Amen. 654 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,000 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 655 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,920 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 656 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,280 our website or Facebook page in the links below.