00:00 Introduction

01:58 Galatians 4: Sons and Heirs

04:00 Modern-Day Elementary Principles

06:37 Paul's Concern for the Galatians

07:44 Allegory of Hagar and Sarah

08:53 Freedom and the Flesh

09:34 Antinomianism Explained

12:07 Practical Admonitions and Church Discipline

13:25 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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What's happening folks ESM

Monday, November 25th, pastor.

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I got some news that I think, I

think you'll be excited about.

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Maybe you already know this.

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Okay.

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Um, but flame broiler is coming.

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Oh, I knew about that north, Texas.

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Oh yeah.

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I was stoked.

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Yeah.

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There.

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There are a few things.

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That has made me more happy.

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And I think it's shows that

God's a God who answers prayer.

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And as is.

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I mean, I'm pumped.

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I can't, I don't want to drive

on three 80 ever, but for.

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I would, I would, I would do it.

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Yeah.

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I, I'm not a huge flame.

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Broiler fan.

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I think I had a bad

experience with it early on.

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I think their sauce is good

in good than understatement.

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Yeah, it's good.

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Their spicy sauce.

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It'll punch you in the.

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In the face it's it's it'll kick you out.

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So good.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Rice meat.

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If you're wondering what is flame

broiler, that's basically what

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it comes down to rice and meat.

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Veggies and veggies.

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Yeah.

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And it, and it's not super

expensive, which is also helpful too.

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Um, yeah, I guess I know my community

group is super excited about that.

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That if, if Del taco came to north

Texas, they would find there was

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no reason to ever to leave anymore.

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Del taco already came and left.

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Did it come here?

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Uh, I'm pretty sure there was a Del taco.

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That was closed down.

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I think we had this conversation.

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Yeah, they were here and they, they closed

down, I guess, no one cared about them.

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Well, I can just say good to that.

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Cause I'm not a big Del taco fan, but

my community group, they love, they will

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drive up to Oklahoma to get Del taco.

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That's how much they love it.

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And that's unusual.

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Yeah, it is, it is for sure.

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But yeah, flame probably like

there's a lot coming, man.

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There's a new cava.

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That's opening up, up by the new Costco.

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That's going into HEB.

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It.

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At frontier and the toll road is.

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Right now.

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Yeah, I saw the structure.

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Uh, show up recently and

I was surprised by that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's a it's rapidly growing.

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Yep.

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So, uh, there you go.

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And in a lot of people are leaving

the country because Trump won.

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So maybe Costco will be a

little bit less crowded.

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A lot of people, I don't

know if that's true.

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I, I know like two.

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Maybe.

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Yeah.

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So maybe not a lot.

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That's.

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That's two.

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That's that's all we know so far.

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Do.

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Yeah.

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Well, we're not we're we're here.

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He and a flame broiler

is coming to join us.

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Thank you Lord.

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Yep.

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Hey, uh, let's jump in

Galatians four, five, and six.

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We'll finish up the book today.

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Galatians four, five and six.

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He opens up in verses one through

seven here, again, building on

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this notion that we are now.

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Uh, sons of Abraham along with the Jews,

because it's by faith and not by works.

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And he says, Hey, you know what,

there's been a status change for us.

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And that is before Christ, Jew and

Gentile alike were enslaved to the

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elementary principles of the world.

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Um, and so he compares.

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An air and a son.

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And he says an heir, as long as he's

still a child is, is just like a slave.

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In other words, he

doesn't have the rights.

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He doesn't have the access that,

uh, that he will eventually

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have, but once he's grown up and.

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Steps into the fullness

of his inheritance.

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Then he has that full identity as a son

in the sense of being an heir in, in the,

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in realizing the inheritance that he has.

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And so we sing before Christ, we Jew

and Gentile, like we're enslaved to

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the elementary principles of the world.

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Now the elementary principles of

the world is, is really anything

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else that we're putting our

confidence in aside from Jesus.

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Um, and so for the Jew that might've

been the law for the Gentile.

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That could have been religious principles

that they're living by the false gods

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that they're worshiping and serving.

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But it's it's anything other than,

uh, than, than faith in Christ.

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And we're enslaved to that until Christ

comes now because of Christ verse

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five, things are different because he

came to redeem those under the loss

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that we might receive adoption as.

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Sons and that's, that's

stepping into that full fledged.

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We, we have the, the reality of.

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Our inheritance with us now.

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And we have that.

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And because of that, we have this intimacy

with the father Galatians four, six, that

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we can now approach him, even with that.

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That familial term of ABA.

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And approach him as that, that

full fledged member of his family.

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And so our status has

changed now because of faith.

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And yet Paul's concern from here in verses

eight through 11 for the Galatians is

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why would you go back to where we were?

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And that's kind of where he goes.

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Why would you go back to legalism?

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Verse nine.

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Now that you've come to know God

or rather to be known by God,

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how can you turn back again?

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To the weak and worthless elementary

principles of the world whose

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slaves you want to be once more.

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We're in a different context.

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Um, We don't have the law in front of us.

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We're not necessarily tempted to go

back to the principles of the Jewish

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law, but what might be some threats

to the church today that might be

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some elementary principles that we

might be tempted to turn back to.

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Uh, that, that we should be on

guard against is as Christians.

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There's probably so many, it

would be hard to, to narrow down.

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But most readily, I can think of the ways

that people put their hope in their money.

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I think that's probably the biggest one.

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People put hope in money

to be their security.

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So if I just have enough money in my

401k, if I just have enough in my.

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Whatever retirement fund it is.

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If I just get the crypto, the

right crypto currency, if I

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would get the right presidency.

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Uh, if I look good enough, I know that.

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Uh, having the right exterior can be

something that people put their hope.

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And if I'm just healthy enough,

if I have the right essential

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oils, if I have the right holistic

medicine practice, if I have.

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The right physician, who is

a naturopathic physician.

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If I, if I live in the right environment

with the right climate, if I live.

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Can I drive with the right car,

with the, with the right safety.

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Um, measurements and the right safety,

uh, con considerations, you know,

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the Volvos or the Uh, what else is

known as being a really safe car?

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The Tesla, the Teslas.

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But those aren't safe.

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I don't know if they're safe, mark.

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Sorry about that.

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I don't know if they are.

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But there's so many things that

are subtle and yet powerful.

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Uh, Power powerful.

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And they're in their sense to

draw us to say, wouldn't it be

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good for you to just trust this?

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Even a doctor?

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You can go to the doctor.

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You should see the doctor if you're sick,

but don't put your trust in the doctor.

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And I'll put your trust in what

he or she prescribes for you.

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Don't put your trust in the medicine,

take the medicine, but trust in the Lord.

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So the elementary principles

may look different to us

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today in 21st century America.

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I mean, I mean, think about this.

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If there was an EMP blew out,

our electricity blew out our

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ability to do Amazon prime.

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I think a lot of us would feel really

threatened by that you would lose

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electricity fast, that would misspell

your food in the refrigerator.

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Near at your heating would, would not be

able to work your, your air conditioning.

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I mean, that would be seriously

threatening and terrifying.

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But maybe that exposes something that

you should not be putting your trust in.

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Those niceties are nice, but

ultimately our trust is in the Lord.

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So no matter what happens to us,

no matter what happens to our

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country, our trust is in the Lord.

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And that's where it should be.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just sitting here convicted because

it's easy to, I think, say that and.

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And we need to own that and we

need it to have that, that mindset.

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And yet just thinking about what

if that's the reality that some of

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us face at some point in our life.

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Yeah, I think that's a real possibility.

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I'm not a, I'm not a, you know, And of

course, Jesus says in the last days,

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wars, rumors of wars, and that's always

going to be the case until he returns.

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But, I mean, as long as I've

been alive, this is probably.

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It seems like, oh no,

we're headed to direction.

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And this is it.

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This is seriously threatening.

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Now I could have been not

paying attention as a kid.

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That's a very strong possibility.

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Uh, but it seems like now things

are ramping up and they don't

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seem like they're deescalating.

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And even though I appreciate

who's going to be an office soon.

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Uh, I feel like he might, his mouth

might get us into a couple of fights

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that we don't want to get into.

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We'll see.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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One verses 12 through 20, then

at Paul, his deep concern for the

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colation people comes out here, um,

even just appealing to his personal

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relationship with these Christians,

pleading with them to remember.

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How eagerly they accepted the

gospel when he first came to them.

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And now that he's writing against

some of the teaching that they've got

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some of the false teaching, the other

gospels remember back from yesterday.

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Uh, these anathema gospels, he's

writing against these things and he

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wants them to remember their affection.

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They had for him at first and

in his affection for them.

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And basically he saying to

them, why would they think now

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that he's after harming them?

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Uh, in what he's writing to them

here in the letter instead know

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his intense desire and longing

was to see Christ formed in them.

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And that only comes by faith.

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And so he's, he's telling them, look.

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Remember our first encounter with

each other when I was with you and

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understand that I'm writing to you

under that same pastoral concern and

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burden that I had for you at that point.

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So.

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As the Judaizers are creeping

in the people saying, Hey, you

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need to have faith, but also

you need to do X, Y, and Z.

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They're going to be trying

to undermine Paul at will.

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Paul didn't have the full gospel.

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Paul didn't understand it fully.

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Paul wasn't fully after.

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You're good here in, Paul's

trying to combat that.

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In this personal section here in

verses 12 through 20 of chapter four.

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I think, no, no, no.

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Remember when I was first with you here.

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Versus 21 through 31,

then we get into here.

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Uh, something that is what's defined

for us helpfully as a portion of

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scripture would interpret allegorically.

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Um, allegorically meaning the

one thing means another thing.

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And so he does this by appealing to the

allegory of the two sons of Abraham,

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one by a slave woman and one by a free

woman, the son of Hagar, the slave woman.

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Represents here in this allegory, the law.

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The son of Sarah, which would have been

Isaac would have represented the promise.

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And that would have been the

freedom that the promise.

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Of of hate through you will all the

offspring of the earth be blessed, right.

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That that's the promise.

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And so there's the son of the

slave and the son of the free one.

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And Paul is basically saying,

Hey, we are sons, not of the

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slaves, but sons of the free we.

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We are sons of the promise.

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We are sons of Isaac, the offspring of

Isaac, and he is the one that through him

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and through his offspring falling all the

way to Jesus is realized this need for

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the one that would be able to perfectly

fulfill what we couldn't on our own.

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And so remember that, so

uses this allegory here.

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It's helpful that he defines it.

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This is allegorical here.

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Again, one thing, meaning another thing.

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And that's what he's doing here

in the end of chapter four.

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With something that would have

been familiar to them with the

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story of Hagar and Sarah here.

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Chapter five then, um, he gets into

some more practical admonitions

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and expectations to them saying,

Hey, yes, we have been set

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free, but Hey, you know what?

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Don't use your freedom as an

opportunity for the flesh.

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He's going to talk about here.

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Be aware of submitting to the log-in.

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And again, here, he's going to

say, if you want part of the law,

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you have to have the whole thing.

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And if you have the whole thing, you're

going to quickly realize you can't do it.

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And if you're going to trust

in the law, verse four, you're

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going to be severed from Christ.

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You.

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You want the law instead of

Jesus, you can't have both.

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Jesus came to say, I've

fulfilled the law for you.

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And if you're going to reject

his righteousness and try to have

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your own righteousness there,

you're going to forfeit it all.

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And so, uh, verses seven through 15, he

says, remember your called to freedom.

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Use your freedom to love one another.

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Use your freedom for good things.

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Not antinomianism.

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Uh, PetSmart, let's talk about

antinomianism for a second.

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Um, antinomianism, antibio,

antithetical it's negative.

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And then no mechanism

coming from Namaste or law.

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And so talk about antinomianism.

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How might this, the epistle of

Galatians lend itself towards that and

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how Paul kind of combats that idea?

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It's one of the things that

we feel as preachers so often

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where it's that concept.

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We want to preach grace.

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God's grace is a bounding

it's full it's free.

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Covers all of your sin

past, present, and future.

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And some would even take that so far

as to say, man, God's grace is so.

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Uh, so, so generous and so full and so

free that I could send with impunity.

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And it's really not that big a deal

because God's grace forgives us.

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In fact, Paul anticipates that response

in Romans chapter six, and he says, shall

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we continue to sin that Grace May abound?

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And he says, Megan Noida, the

strongest negation available at,

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at the time in his language to say

by no means no way, not a chance.

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Uh, no way Jose as

little house used to say.

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Or, uh, all that, to say that

antinomianism is a real threat to

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a church that preaches the gospel.

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Rightly.

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Antinomianism is that as a concept?

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Well then if, if God's grace is really

as good as it sounds, and it is then

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certainly what that must mean is I

could do whatever I want as a Christian.

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And it's, it's a, it's a

free, it's a free ride.

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And that's where people

get upset with Christians.

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Like, are you telling me if

Hitler became a Christian in

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his ninth hour before he died?

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He could go to heaven.

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And the short answer is yes.

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Uh, but he, he wouldn't be

able to continue the life

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that he lived before that.

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Uh, but yes, God's, grace is full

and free enough to forgive even that.

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Uh, antinomianism though, doesn't fit

at all within the Christian framework.

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Doesn't make you right with God, but

it does demonstrate your rightness

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with God to showcase the works and

the fruits that God calls us to.

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Yeah.

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And that's, that's why he goes in the

rest of chapter five to talk about

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here's how to, to, to use your freedom,

use your freedom to grow and holiness.

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He he's, he's going to talk about some of

the good works that we should have some of

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the fruit that we should see in our life.

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In fact, the fruit of the

spirit comes from this passage

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as our men's Bible study.

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And women's Bible study

looked at over the last year.

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That's coming here in this

context of him saying, Hey.

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Remember your righteousness is by

faith alone, but then he's, he's

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going to agree with James here.

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Hey, faith alone.

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Doesn't stay alone.

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It produces things because we're going

to walk by the spirit the Spirit's

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been given to us, and now we're

going to grow in Christ likeness.

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And so rather than being antinomian, he's

saying it's now about the law of Christ.

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It's about producing things that are

good and not things that are evil.

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And so the rest of chapter

five, he says, here's the.

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The fruit of the flesh or the

rotten fruit of the flesh here.

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It's.

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It's all these things that are bad.

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And then here's the good,

the fruit of the spirit.

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This is the stuff against

which there is no law.

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Pursue as much of this

as you possibly want.

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And it's going to be good for you.

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It's right.

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To do these things.

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And, and to please the Lord in

this way, don't use your freedom

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as an opportunity for the flesh,

but grow in Christ likeness.

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In other words, And a lot of that comes

down to our relationship with each other.

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And that's where Galatians

six goes from this point.

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And I love.

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This book more and more because it

answers so many of our questions.

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Okay.

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But, but what about the Christian

that I see, that's not doing this.

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What about the person that I see?

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That's professing faith.

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That's not growing in Christ's

likeness that is walking by the flesh.

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What do I do then?

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And he answers that in

verses one through five.

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This is a, basically the first

steps of church discipline

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of the Matthew 18 process.

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If you see somebody in

a sin go to that person.

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And Hey.

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Love that person enough to, to

seek, to restore them in a spirit of

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gentleness, but, but also be humble

enough to watch out yourself last year,

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you to fall prey to the same thing.

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And so I'm going to care about you enough.

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I'm going to love about

love you enough to, to.

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Like he's done with Peter

earlier in the book.

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I'm gonna confront you when you need to

be confronted and say, Hey, I'm concerned

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because what you're doing is out of step

with what we are called to be doing here.

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So he's really cutting the legs out

from under any sort of antinomianism

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here in the rest of the book, is he

saying, this is what we're to do.

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And in, instead of that, Verses

six through 10, so good things

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rather than fleshly things.

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God's not mocked.

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If you're going to sow to the flesh.

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You're going to reap corruption,

but if you sow to the spirit,

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you're going to reap eternal life.

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Don't grow weary in doing good.

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He says.

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And so it's this final push there

in Galatians at the end of the, the.

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The epistle here to say, Hey,

don't, don't misunderstand.

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I'm not saying that.

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Godliness holiness works.

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Don't have a place in

the Christian's life.

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If indeed they do.

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Just not the place of justification, but

the place of sanctity, sanctification

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and growing in Christ likeness.

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And then.

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Hey, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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We thank you for just that.

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Even this, this study, this, this

chronological study to appreciate it.

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In, in a greater depth as we see

it unfolding in the early church,

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and I'm trying to figure out, Hey,

where does the law fit into all this?

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It's it's been fruitful.

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It's been helpful.

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I prayed.

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And I know it has, for me, I pray

it has for others that have been

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going through this with us as well.

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And so.

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Thank you God, for this

opportunity to learn more and to

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be reminded that your word is.

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It's it's riches are, are, are untapped.

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There's so much every time we come back

to it, there's more for us to learn.

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And we're so grateful for that reality.

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We pray that we would take that

approach every time we pick up

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your word and study it together.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then.

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We'll see you then.

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Bye.