00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:12 Black Friday and Good Friday

00:27 Favorite Apps and Gadgets

03:22 Bible Recommendations

04:42 Galatians Overview

05:02 Paul's Concern for the Galatians

10:01 Freedom in Christ

11:36 Living by the Spirit

13:27 Addressing Sin in the Church

16:55 Final Thoughts and Prayer

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Introduction and Welcome

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Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey, hello. It's Tuesday and it is Turkey week. It's Turkey week. We're in the thick of Black Friday week too, right? Black Friday month, black Friday month, black Friday year, black Friday, everything.

Black Friday and Good Friday

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By the way, don't confuse Black Friday and Good Friday.

Even though you might be excited about Black Friday. It's Good. Friday is good for a totally different reason, so. Black Friday. Good Friday. Totally different things. They both include savings, just not the same kind. They do. Touche. They do.

Favorite Apps and Gadgets

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Do you have anything in pass around What's, as you consider this last year, something that has benefited you?

That might be something for our people to put on the radar on Black Friday. Maybe it's gonna go on sale. Something like that can be a gizmo. It can be a gadget. It can be something that has been an improvement in your life over the last year. I have so many there's so many tools that I've used. I guess one that I've loved, I've been using two apps for years, maybe double digit years.

It was a lifetime subscription to their ai. Oh yeah, thing, which gives you like a commentary and different fun stuff that's helpful. So I've been using this app for a long, long time. I love it. It's called Bible Memory. It's a Bible memory app as a name suggests, in case that wasn't obvious. It's a great app.

Another one that I, I don't know if this one costs or not, but I've had this one for a long time as well. It's called Permeate. I really love this one. Helps keep my prayer life organized. It's one of my favorite apps that I use with. Great deal of regularity. So those are two like spiritually focused apps that would be helpful.

Here's one that isn't a spiritually focused app, but still one that I use all the time. This one's called Brain fm. D-R-A-I-N fm. Yep, yep. It plays music that is, as they say, and I'm gonna just quote their website here. They say that it is scientifically proven to help facilitate whatever it is that you pick.

I pay for it every year. I've been using this one also for at least five years, maybe more, but it's expensive when it's not on sale. So I typically wait for Black Friday. I'll cancel my current account, start it all, all over again, and get a half price discount on it. How about you? I would say.

So one device that I've been using more and more and more recently, hammer I've got, so I've got a larger iPad that I use when I preach on Sundays. It gives me a lot of real estate on it, which is why I use that. And it's helpful, but, I've been using my iPad Mini a lot and just its form factor.

Justin Sung, you can find him on YouTube. He was talking about note taking and so I've been using that on my, on the freeform app, on my iPad Mini. Mm-hmm. It's just, and it's a, it's relatively cost effective. I think they've got 'em on sale for 3 79 for Black Friday sale. Wow. And it's, I have to pick one up.

It's a great resource. It's a great tool. I love taking it to meetings, things like that. It just it's form factor is fantastic. So my iPad Mini is up there.

Bible Recommendations

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The other thing I would say is if you're in the market for a good Bible check out Crossway they're the ones that are the publishers of the esv.

You might also check out Evangelical Bible. Calm. Sure. I don't, sounds right. I don't know if they've got any Black Friday sales per se, but if you're in the market for a good bible of and investing in a good Bible can be something that is gonna last you for the rest of your life. If you get one that has a good cover on it, that's gonna be durable, that's gonna last.

There's the different covers and what they're made out there. There's the layout. Do you like a dual column? Single column. Do you want cross references? No. Cross references. A lot of it is what meets the eye. We've talked about this before, but one of the better ways to get. Consistent with Bible reading is to want to be in your Bible.

Yes. Part of that is loving the way your Bible looks, appears. Whether that's a digital format or you like holding one tactile in your hand. If you think that it's a beautiful thing that's gonna help get you in God's word more, it's gonna be attractive. You're gonna desire to be there. So that may not resonate with everybody, but if it does, maybe you check out some sales like that.

Absolutely. Well, you didn't come here for Black Friday ideas, but I thought we might throw a couple of 'em out there. They might enjoy some though, maybe.

Galatians Overview

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Maybe you came here for the Bible and specifically for Galatians chapter four, five and six. Lemme tell you what, we're gonna give you a Black Friday discount on our Bible podcast today.

Paul's Concern for the Galatians

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This is in the context of the Judas coming in, by the way, Juda, what are they? We didn't really define that yesterday. They're. I think false teachers that come in behind the apostle so often, and they will sow seeds of discord by teaching the new converts that they're not fully baked yet.

They're not fully saved because they haven't submitted themselves to the law of Moses. And so we talked about that yesterday and the relationship between the Christian, the true Christian and the law, and that really it's a important thing. And what they were forgetting, what these Christians in Glacier were forgetting is that they were saved by.

Faith and not by works of the law. And so we picked that back up in chapter four. And Paul is going to further this idea. He's going to talk about the idea of being one who is going to be an heir, being one who is part of the household of God. And his concern is that the people in Galatia were forgetting they were betraying this.

Here, even to the point of saying, my little children in verse 19, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you. I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone for I am perplexed about you. Paul is wrecked. Over the state of this church here. He's not. And this shows his compassion, his compare his concern, his love for this church, this group of believers There.

He's not the disappointed father. He's not the task master saying, Hey, you guys are a bunch of screw ups. He's saying, no I am grieved over the fact that you are tempted to abandon the gospel in order to pursue something that you know can't save you. And so that's why he says, I'm. I'm perplexed.

That's bold of Paul to say. I know a lot of women are like, wait a minute, you've never been pregnant. So anyway, yes. He still says it and he says, I'm in the anguish of childbirth. That is so excruciatingly painful for Paul that he could say it's like a woman giving childbirth. It says, this is how much I love you.

This is how much I care about you, and whatever your ministry field is I think this is an appropriate way to say, I should feel this way for the people that I'm charged to care for. Mm-hmm. And if you don't, you don't have a Pauline heart. And more importantly, you don't have a Christlike heart Christ.

Wept over Jerusalem said, oh, Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the city that stones its prophets, if would that you would've known the time of your deliverance and you would not. And now your house is left to you desolate. So Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Paul is weeping over the Galatians. Are you weeping over anybody?

Yeah. It's okay to shed tears. In fact, these are the places where shedding tears is the most sensible thing that you can do because you care for people because you wanna see Christ warm in them. This is the kind of heart you should have with the people that you love. And it's. Something to cultivate too.

That's gonna help stir our affections. This way you're gonna care about others more than others, that's just natural. For example, if you've got kids, you're gonna care about your kids coming to know Jesus more than you're gonna care about your mailman necessarily coming to know Jesus. Not that you don't want your mailman to know Christ, but your affections are just gonna be stirred differently there.

I'm laboring over you. I'm in the anguish of childbirth because I care that much about you. From here, he goes on to give what he calls an allegory. Now, an allegorical interpretation takes one thing and says it means this, but it also means this. And where we have to be careful is that, that we have to.

Guard against doing this too much in scripture and we're on safe footing here because Paul specifically says this may be interpreted allegorically in verse 24. And what he's doing is he's going again, back to the story of Abraham, and he's gonna say, Abraham had two wives. He had, well, one wife and a concubine he had.

He had Sarah and he had Hagar. And these two women, Paul's gonna say, are an allegory for the two covenants, the one covenant being Sinai, that's Hagar, that's the law. And then you've got the other one being Jerusalem. And that is Sarah and that is the new covenant. And basically Paul's gonna say, which one do you want?

Freedom in Christ

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And what we have in Christ is we have freedom and so he's going to call them again to believe in Christ, to have faith, to be sons in of Abraham in verse 28. Now you brothers like Isaac, our children of the promise, and so he's gonna call them again to say, choose faith and not works.

Chapter five, he's gonna build on that concept of freedom, which can also be a minefield of its own self. In fact, our memory verse in one Peter this month is similar to this when Peter said live as those who are free, not using your freedom as a coverup for evil. But instead living as servants of God.

Here, Paul says, for freedom crisis, set us free stand firm there and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Live as those that are free in Christ. Because if you wanna go back to the law, understand that you're gonna be severed from Christ. His language is as strong as he's been yet in the epistle here, he says, if you want the law, you don't get Christ.

In other words, he's anticipating the objection. So then it doesn't matter how I live. Antinomianism, I don't need the law. Then Paul's saying, no, no, no, no. The freedom you've been called to is not a freedom so that you can just live with abandon, but don't use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love, serve one another.

Peter's gonna say, be servants of God in your freedom, and then from here he's going to address.

Living by the Spirit

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I think specifically that, and really the rest of the book in chapter five, he's gonna talk about the two categories. You've got the rotten fruit of the flesh, rather the works of the flesh. And then he's gonna give the fruit of the spirit, and he's gonna say, those that are truly saved are gonna have transformed lives.

chapter five, Paul, anticipating that objection. Okay then if we're free, then why do we need the law at all? I wanna point your attention to a word that you could miss. PPG already mentioned it, but I just wanna highlight for you verse six six verse six, verse 13, verse 22 verse 13 and 14 actually.

And it's that word love. Love is the protective element from both legalism and license. And so here in verse six, you see that only faith, working through love is what counts. If you want to be guarded against. Li Licentious living or anti nomine, anti mean against, no namas against the law. Now, love will compel you to do otherwise.

It's freedom to love. So the freedom that Paul is saying is not freedom from all law, period. He's saying, you're now free to love, and that's important. Of course. Verse 22, Paul starts off the whole list of the the fruit of the spirit. The fruit of the spirit is. Love it encapsulates the whole of it. So if you wanna know if you're on the right track, ask yourself, am I growing in love for God and for men?

And if so, then you're probably doing a pretty good job.

Addressing Sin in the Church

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In chapter six, he is gonna continue this theme of how we address sin within the church, how we address the disobedience, the breaking of God's law in the church. And he's going to, again, like we talked about in yesterday's episode, say, brothers, you who are spirituals should look out for sin in the camp.

And when you see it, you should confront it. You should call sin. Sin. He's not saying that we just. Turn a blind eye. In fact, that wouldn't be loving either to do that. But that we should call it out and say, Hey, I love you enough to tell you, like you were saying yesterday, to, to tell you to your face, you're in sin and I care about you enough to call you back to repentance.

Destruction. If you're sowing to the spirit, you're gonna reap life. And so he's gonna say, continue doing good. Don't grow weary of doing good and induce season. He says, we will reap good things, is what's implied there If we don't give up. So then we, as we have opportunity to let us do good to everyone, especially to those who are the household of the faith.

So Paul is really encouraging this church to come together to understand, to come back to the true gospel and to live in light of it. So he's correcting and he's exhorting and he's encouraging, and he's teaching, he's instructing here. This is not just the anvil and the hammer that he's just beating them up in this whole letter.

Doesn't mean that you call on all sin. Sure. Please don't be that person. You're not the Holy Spirit. You're not meant to be the one who's calling everybody else out. There is a kind of wisdom that has to be part of your thinking and you're anticipating when you're interacting with people as to whether or not some sins need to be dealt with or whether they need to be covered.

Lots of sins that are committed against you can be just covered and overlooked. What you're really looking for is a pattern that is more destructive than it is productive. If you see patterns where people are continuing to act in certain ways and you're not seeing improvement in those areas, you're not seeing a humility about that, that might be worth you peripherally saying, Lord I think I need to say something about this.

There's a lot of sins though. There's so many sins that people will commit against you un unknowingly. Sins that they're just going about life and they say something sharp to you. They give you a sarcastic word or whatever you feel slighted. Not everything needs to be called out. So while we're saying that and we're saying, amen, do that.

And then Galatians six, one, if anyone's caught in a transgression, you who are spiritual. That's an important qualifier if you're a spiritual. I think he's saying mature wise, thoughtful, godly. If you're that person, hey you go restore him in a spirit of gentleness because you could be trusted with that.

Oh, for sure. That's great. Yeah. Super good counsel. And the other thing too, if you're gonna cover over an offense and I'm think it's specifically in the context of marriages here, make sure that you do truly cover over it. Yeah. You don't just, sweep it under the rug to bring it up later.

Yeah. For bitterness sake. Yeah. If this is something that you really feel like you can't do that with, then maybe it does need to be addressed. Yes. But if you're gonna cover over it, cover over it, bury it, throw it in the bottomless ocean. Cast it to the shore of sea. There you go. And then move on.

That's right. Yeah.

Final Thoughts and Prayer

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But Lord, we do wanna take holiness seriously at the same time. So help us to find that balance and to walk in light of it. And God, we want to be a church that honors Christ, that never strays from Christ, never drifts from the true gospel. So keep us holding fast to the true gospel, we pray in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen. Keep your new Bibles tuned again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye all.

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PJ: Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said