Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:07 Hi, and welcome to the unveiling. I'm Tim, one of the hosts, and along with Andrey and Mark, we are three guys discussing the one true gospel. We hope you're encouraged by this episode. Let's dive right in.
Speaker 2 00:00:23 Yes, indeed. Here we are at the unveiling with the usual guys at the microphones. Tonight, this is gonna be episode 62. We are still in our series on Galatians, and this is going to be part seven. And today, just for those of you following along in your Bibles, we are going to be reading from Galatians five, starting at the first verse and ending when our time is up. So <laugh>, I I don't want to make any predictions on that Mark, considering how, how slow this has been going in some spots, but it's because we're beating so complete. Yes. So as I said, we're gonna start with, uh, Galatians five verse one. Guys, do you mind if I dive right in?
Speaker 3 00:01:03 Go for
Speaker 2 00:01:04 It. Alright. Galatians five, one says, it is for freedom that Christ has set us free stand firm then, and do not let yourselves be burned again by a yoke of slavery. Look, guys, I think we can stop right there. That is almost the entire book of Galatians co compressed down into 25 or 26 words right there. It's, it, is there anything else we need to go over or should we just sign off?
Speaker 3 00:01:31 Well, it's really almost the entire Bible
Speaker 2 00:01:33 <laugh>,
Speaker 3 00:01:35 You think about it, the message of the Bible, you know, but I think we could probably expound on it a little bit.
Speaker 2 00:01:42 <laugh>. I think it's a good place to stop though that first, first because I, I truly get the feeling that some people don't understand what that's actually trying to tell us. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. I know I stumbled over that years ago now after finding grace that took on a whole new meanings for me. Yeah. And, uh, I wanna let you guys, uh, talk about this a little bit.
Speaker 3 00:02:05 Sure. If I can just, uh, AJ if you don't mind if I can Yeah, go ahead. Go first here. I wanna do a quick, because what I love about this, and it's the way you kind of promoed it last week on our episode, Tim, about just, we're waiting for five cuz five is like a turn. In Galatians, Paul has taken the first four chapters. I'm gonna give you just a quick, quick summary of each chapter. So in chapter one, Paul is chiding the Galatians for allowing the gospel to be perverted among them. He talks about his own journey from the law to the gospel of grace, the one true gospel in two. He's talking about opposing the Judaizers in Peter for perverting the law. And he further develops the doctrine of grace. In three, he's talking about the fact that we start and finish both by faith in the spirit, that the laws occur, curse.
Speaker 3 00:02:59 And he talks about the difference between the law and the promise. And then in four, which we did last week, he talks about, about the law, uh, being a cruel PAs master master or a school master or a guardian. Different, uh, translations have different words, but he talks about when we remain under the law, we're like underage heirs, immature children. And then he does his great comparison of Sarah and Hagar being pictures of the old and new covenants. So now going into five, he's gonna leave kind of like the negative admonishing tones in which he was gently admonishing the Galatians, but very strongly refuting the judaizers who were coming in and perverting the gospel. Now he's summarizing the whole thing in glorious power. And as positive as you can get in, in human experience, it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. And I'll hand it off to Haji.
Speaker 4 00:03:59 Yeah. You know, I just want to point out, uh, in, uh, I'm looking at, at a new kj, it says Standfast, therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free. So it starts at therefore that means united, it is actually referring to the previous chapter. So the previous chapter ends, its so then brother and we are not the children of born women, but of the free. So I think it's very important to understand, right? You know, even in this natural whatever you are born into, you're basically that, right? So if you are born into slavery or slavery, unless someone comes and, uh, sets everyone free, you continue that. And if you are born free, you are free. Especially, it is, uh, very, very prevalent during, uh, um, the times of Romans. And, uh, during the time, you know, when lodges fresh came, uh, you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, Lord picked that time because, you know, that's when we had real slavery going on all these types and shadows, right?
Speaker 4 00:04:57 So it's much easier to understand what the gospel does to us, right? It actually took us out of slavery and made us free. So I think in reality, having that, you know, there are slaves, people were kicking slaves at that time. There were oppressors and then there were some free men. So it's, uh, I think the Lord of course, you know, pick the right time to send our lodges Christ. So I guess, uh, what I'm saying is like, we are the children of free women. So basically he's saying that, you know, if you are the children of a free woman, act like the children of the free woman, right? Don't go back and go back under bondage. And many of us again, I think when we talk about free and bondage, they immediately jump to, um, singing and not sinning. But clearly the context here is it's not about, you know, going bondish to sin. And of course, you know, if you go back to the law, you'll also go back to bondish to sin. But here the context is you are the children of the free woman. So be free. Don't go back to bondage
Speaker 2 00:05:56 Again.
Speaker 3 00:05:57 But, uh, let me ask you, uh, Tim, on this. So did you, did you have the same misunderstanding of this scripture that I had where I thought it was talking about sin? Cuz you kind of mentioned that.
Speaker 2 00:06:09 Absolutely. Because when presented in the past, this has always been, it is for freedom that Christ sets you free and the pastor will freedom from what? Freedom from sin. And it's like, no, you know, if you read this correctly, especially, you know, the first four chapters getting to this point, you really can't. And you really can't misunderstand it anymore. It's not about sin, it's about being slaves to the law.
Speaker 3 00:06:34 And I mean, the chapters before this, many times Paula's using the metaphor, a metaphor of slavery. He talks about the law and being underage, children being the same as a slave. And then he talks about Sarah, the free woman. And, uh, Hagar, the bond woman, the slave right into this. In fact, well, you know, I'm sure most people have heard this before, but the original scriptures were written on scrolls, and there were not breaks between chapters we didn't read for and end up talking about the slave woman. You know, they didn't just then turn a page as though this is a new subject. It is for freedom. It's, it's Paul coming right out of talking about the free woman and the slave woman, the child of promise, and the child who was a slave. And he says he, he, he's now concluding this and summarizing it is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Speaker 3 00:07:30 And where my mindset, like you, Tim, back in my earlier days of Christianity for quite a long time, I always heard this taught as being on sin. And back in those days before I knew the power of the spirit in our lives through the one true gospel, I would memorize scriptures as part of my strategy to improve my performance and my behavior to overcome sin. This is one of those ones I would try to use. And yet, I'm gonna just take a quick little tangent here because this beautifully just illustrates one of the points that I know the three of us hold a very high value to. And that is, when interpret interpreting scripture, we go directly to the scriptures. And then it's context, context, context. If you don't see what came in the chapter before, if you don't look at the verses that come immediately after it, if you don't even sometimes look at that in that entire book, if you don't look at the entire Bible.
Speaker 3 00:08:34 And there's three great questions that I, I learned a couple of years ago, uh, famous theologian RC Sproll said, you asked who wrote this book? Who was it written to, and why was it written? And when you surround things in that context, so many people think, oh, I can't understand the Bible. I can't understand the Bible. Well, if you take things out on their own, it makes it very difficult to understand. And that's why so many people have twisted scripture to start cults and false religions. And that's why it's so important that the people of God go right to the scripture and understand it, uh, in context. So that's my soapbox and uh, I'm still sticking to what I said
Speaker 2 00:09:17 <laugh> Mark, I'm gonna take your tangent and just tangent just a little bit more, cuz you did say it. A lot of people say, I don't, I can't understand the Bible. And it's not always just about the content contents of, of the verses it's about the language and stuff. But a lot of people object to the old, you know, the King James and even the new King James, because stylistically it's not very modern and it's, it's something you have to actually think about. I know, AJ, you and I have talked in the past, we both like to defend scripture from King James, cuz we kind of feel that it is more of the more base and more direct, uh, translations available. But you can get the word in a lot of different translations for your modern ear. And I am a firm believer when God says, my, my word will not return void. That no matter what you use, God will use it to speak to you.
Speaker 3 00:10:06 And you know, I, I know, I just know from experience, the three of us at times find great value in checking the same verse in two or three translations. And you know, for the most part, the general theme is very, very similar. But between, between different translations, sometimes you'll get a slightly different flavor or look at it from a slightly different angle. And sometimes just the King James, by the more old-fashioned placement of words of objects and subjects, it opens up a new thing you didn't see in our more modern English. So there's great value to, to really looking at multiple translations. And there's no reason for us to argue about which is the best one because they're all great tools for us coming into understanding.
Speaker 2 00:10:55 So the second half of that verse says, do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. So that freedom, and like you said before, he talked in the, in the previous chapter about what that all was. And they've been brought out of this by the grace. They understood grace. And now the Judaizers came along and tried to tell 'em, oh, well grace plus this, and Paul is being sticking to his guns here. Now it's, it's not grace plus, it's, it's grace plus nothing. So what I'd like to do, guys, is let me read the next, uh, let, let me read the next few verses here and we'll move along a little bit, starting back up in verse two. Mark my words. I Paul tell you that if you let yourself be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. Again, I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is obligated to obey the whole law. You who are trying to be justified by the law, have been alienated from Christ. You have fallen away from grace for through the spirit we eagerly await by faith, the righteousness for which we hope for in Christ Jesus. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision as any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. I'm gonna stop there and Mark, I'm gonna, I'm gonna turn it over to AJ to open this part
Speaker 3 00:12:20 Up. <laugh>, take us away, AJ
Speaker 4 00:12:23 <laugh>. Yeah, you know, I've been, while you guys are talking at it, right, I've been looking at verse two. You know, just like Tim, you stopped at one verse. I think verse two is also what, just stopping at this and, uh, let it sink in. You know, look at what it's saying. If you go back to the law, Christ is of no value to you. Think about that. And in my version it says, Christ will prophet in nothing. So all the Christians who call themselves as Christians, if they insist on going back to the law, Christ is of no value. And the other two, next two verse also the same thing, right? I testified to you again, to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. So if you go back to the law, you're a debtor to keep the whole line, then he says again, right?
Speaker 4 00:13:09 You have become estranged from Christ, whoever is trying to be justified by the law. You're fallen from grace. So here you see, right? You know, you are basically, Christ becomes a stranger to you. Christ is of no value to you if you go back to the law and then you're fallen from grace again. I think, uh, uh, like we discussed, right when we th when we before, we used to think, right, you know, freedom stand first in the freedom we thought, you know, it is like freedom from sin. Of course, you know, by grace, you know, we are also made free from sin. But the context is freedom from the law. Again, when people think, you know, when you're fallen from grace, you know, people immediately say, Hey, if someone fell into some sin, they say it's falling from grace. But here again, we see that, uh, clearly it's saying, you know, whoever is attempting to be justified by the law, you are fallen from grace. So it's, uh, I think very serious matter here, right? And somehow, you know, we just, uh, gloss over these scriptures. Don't even take it seriously, but it's saying, you know, if you go back to the law, you know Christ is useless to you. So yeah, how much stronger can it get? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:14:13 And it's very specific. If you decide you have to keep one law, you don't have to keep one law, you have to keep them all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:14:21 And I think the bigger thing Paul is talking about here, he's not, he starts out specific, but then he kind of summarizes by, because they were trying to get them to be circumcised as a point of the law. He says, you are trying to be justified by the law. Yeah, that's what they were doing with the circumcision. It's not about that one point. Cuz he even makes the point, it doesn't matter cuz at the end he says, neither circumcision nor circumcision has any value. And you can take four justification, let's put it that way. So to say, like tithing, he would say that for justification sake, tithing has no value whatsoever either way. It's not going to hurt you if you don't. And it's not gonna help you if you do. Now that doesn't mean that tithing's not good because you're helping people, you're supporting the gospel being spread. You're feeding people, you're clothing people. But that's the key to this whole paragraph here is you who are trying to be justified by the law. When we try to keep church rules or do this or don't do that, or see special ceremonies and rituals in days as somehow gaining us a better relationship with God or being part of our salvation, that's when it's sin, that's when it's evil. And I'd call it the antigo because the minute you, because really the opposite of the gospel is works.
Speaker 4 00:15:49 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:15:49 And, and, and just to throw a final thought and then I'll hand it back to you guys, is Christians nowadays, just like in this day, these judaizers that were coming back against the Galatians telling them, yes, we have faith in Christ just like you, but you need to add the mosaic law. You need to be circumcised. They believe to their core that that was a mature form of Christianity. If I keep all these rules in having Christ, now I'm adding to it and I'm more mature than you. Where do else do we see that? That's nowadays any church you go to, people that, that are relying solely on the grace of God and the work Christ has done, they see that as not as being not as serious as serious a form or mature form of Christianity as doing that, but also doing all these things, Hey, I'm giving Tillen herz, you know, I'm serving, I'm going to church three times.
Speaker 3 00:16:48 You know, so it it's Paul's going very clearly here, and I love those three words at the beginning that none of us have remarked on yet. This chapter is so important. This is paragraph we're reading that he starts it out by saying, mark my words, man, look at these words. Mark 'em on your soul, on your mind, in your spirit. Man, this is important stuff. And I love that Paul does that throughout his epistles when he's about to say something important, he'll either repeat it or he'll say, Hey, look at this, wake up, mark my words. You know? So I I love the way he put such emphasis on that
Speaker 4 00:17:25 Just, uh, before moving on to, uh, different section, you know, again, verse five, also, one thing I noticed is for we through the spirit, you eager wait for the hope of righteousness. So the introduction of spirit, you know, comes only after the law. You cannot be under the law and then still be led by the spirit. You know, if you look at chapter three also, right? He says, received in the spirit by the works of the law or by hearing of faith. So again, I think it's important, right? You know, all of us are eager to walk in the spirit and, uh, also be led by the spirit. But, uh, I think most of us, uh, mistake just trying to obey the law as walking in the spirit, trying hard to do stuff. But here you see, right? Only after you are set free from the law, only when you are, you know, standing in liberty, uh, in Christ. And then only after we have died to the law, that's when the interaction of the spirit comes in verse five, for we through the spirit, eager for the hope of righteousness by faith. Again, the righteousness by faith is the key to actually participating in the spirit.
Speaker 3 00:18:33 Paul is giving you two choices here for your, for your life being justified by the law or through the spirit. Those are really the choices of everybody. If you're, even if you're an believer, you're gonna be judged by the law. It's either the law or Christ for believers and unbelievers. And he's presenting those right next to each other there justified by the law or through the spirit. They're an opposition to one another.
Speaker 2 00:19:01 And that's a binary choice. Exactly. They're they're opposed to each other. You can't have both. You can't mix them.
Speaker 3 00:19:09 Yep. It's like having two sides of a coin and you're trying to live by balancing the coin on his side, <laugh> so that you get both. That doesn't work real well.
Speaker 4 00:19:19 Yeah, I just wanted to clarify one thing you said, mark. I think it's right there. So when you say we are justified by the spirit, we mean, you know, justification by faith.
Speaker 3 00:19:29 Yeah, I didn't say, but I didn't say justification. I meant living through the spirit or being justified. But that's the same thing what you're saying there. So
Speaker 4 00:19:37 I think you said you're not just, we are either justified by the spirit or justified by the law. I was just clarifying, justified by the spirit is same as certification by faith. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:19:46 I must have been slip of my tongue, so yeah.
Speaker 4 00:19:48 Yeah. No, that is true too. Bible says, you know, when we are justified by faith, we are actually justified by Christ Star, justified by the spirit all mean the same thing,
Speaker 2 00:19:57 Right? Yep. So let's get the next little section here, starting at verse seven. Uh, you are running a good race who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth. That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough. I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. And I like that Paul keeps throwing in little illustrations that one about a little yeast works through the works through the whole batch of dough. I like to bake guys. I call me a pandemic baker I guess, but, uh, I've been baking since I was a kid. Cookies, and I'm, you know, with by my mom and up graduated to pies and cakes and eventually breaded.
Speaker 2 00:20:49 And I really kind of got into bread baking a little bit, uh, during the pandemic. And you know, you, you put in three cups of flour, you put in a cup of water, you put in some salt and a quarter teaspoon of yeast against all that volume. That's a very small amount of yeast. And yet what it does to the dough in making the whole thing rise. And his point is that, you know, this is just a little bit of law, just a little bit, but a little bit is enough to spoil, like we were saying earlier, your faith and, and make Jesus of no account value for
Speaker 3 00:21:27 You. Matthew Henry describes it in, in terms of an infection. It's like putting an infection in your body. That infection, if not cut outta you or somehow killed, can kill you. It can go into your blood, into your brain. That infection's gonna spread just like a little bit of yeast. It's gonna spread through the dull.
Speaker 4 00:21:50 I'm looking at verse seven. You know, there's a word obey here. Who is who, who hindered you from obeying the truth? So, you know, again, you know, when we hear the word obey, we immediately jump back to, you know, in our mind obeying the 10 Commandments, right. Obedience to the law. That's so we think about it, but, uh, if you, um, study careful in the New Testament, whenever Paul used obedience or obeying or obeying the truth, he's talking about obedience to the gospel. Yeah. Or believing the gospel. And in some places he uses it as obedience of faith. And in, in Romans he says, obedience to the faith. And then here he is saying, obeying the truth. Again, the context is what is obeying the truth. It is basically not falling back on the works of the law, but actually believing the gospel of all Lord Jesus Christed. And the gospel is in a way justified by faith without the works of the law. So there's nothing we need to do but to believe
Speaker 3 00:22:50 That's such a crucial, awesome point. Haja, and I missed that as I read through it this time. But yeah, like obeying the law is our focus on ourself. It's putting our, our eyes on ourself and what we can do, how we can try harder. But obeying the truth is the gospel that we are saved in sanctified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. It's putting our focus on Christ. Yeah. And what, you know, and that's a stumbling block for so many there they read that and they think it's about obeying the
Speaker 2 00:23:23 Rules. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:23:24 It's really the opposite. It's about focusing on Christ.
Speaker 4 00:23:27 You know, I'm just actually thinking back off all the terminology in Christianity, right? Again, I bet I don't know if you ran into it, but I'm guessing a little 11, 11 is a whole lump here, a little bit of law. Even if you introduce one work, it basically, you know, you're spoiling the whole thing. Right? You know, Christ is become of no value to you. You're going back to this works based, uh, living. So I'm thinking, you know, uh, when people hear in little 1111, the whole lump again, I a little bit of sin spoil the whole thing, right? They immediately apply to sin. But again, I think, uh, we are not encouraging people to go and sin, but I think it's important to know the truth. The context is obeying the truth. So here the context again is a law, a little bit of law you bring in it spoils the whole thing.
Speaker 3 00:24:16 No, you're right aj. We're not encouraging people to sin, but we are encouraging people to follow the Holy Spirits guidance in their life. And that may, on the outside to some people look a little bit like trying to follow along because as you're following the Holy Spirit, certain things are gonna drop away from you. You're not going to be interested in some of the things you used to be interested. So you may not do this or may not do that, or in fact you may do the dos and don't, don't do the don'ts. But it's not based on what we do. It's based on what the Holy Spirit is working in and through us. Great point, Tim, you and I both shared that we had that scripture five one backwards, that we always thought it was about sin. And though we just carefully explained that, no, looking at the, the mass context here of talking about the laws of yoka slavery, that it's about the law not sin.
Speaker 3 00:25:09 But that being said, along with what you just said, it actually is about sin because this is the only way that sin is ever gonna lessen in your life. And that's coming into the ministry of the Spirit, the one true gospel. The sin is going to dissolve away in your life by the spirit. It's the only way sin can ever be. What's boy, when I think about that, that's really profor profound. That it's the spirit of Christ is the only one that ever deals with sin. He dealt with it, the cross at the cross, and now he deals with it in her life because we walk by the spirit and his fruits work through our life, through his power. So in some ways that's that five one is indirectly about sin when you think about it. Yeah, we have the freedom to follow the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3 00:26:01 And I think that it, it isn't our, the fact that we're going to be sin conscious is the fact that we still are flesh and live in the flesh and live in the world. We are gonna fail sometimes. So what we're really freed from is the fact that we don't have to beat ourselves up. We don't have to have a guilty conscience. We don't have to confess, we don't. It is the freedom to fail and keep moving on, still secure in our relationship with God because he does not hold that against us. That's one of the biggest freedoms I see in that. Well, amen. I love his, uh, little last line summary here. That the things we do, points of the law works, church rules, whatever you want to call 'em, they don't have any value. And the logical, really the logical end of the gospel is faith expressing itself through love. That's, that's the fruit of the gospel when you think about it. Beautiful, beautiful line there too. That's something you could just sit and think on for the next month. Faith expressing itself through love. What does that look like? I know I want it in my life, that's for sure. And there's only way to, one way to get it not through the
Speaker 2 00:27:12 Law. I don't know where I heard this, but it was definitely not my line. Uh, but, uh, someone in one said that the two, only two rules of the new covenant are love me by loving one another
Speaker 3 00:27:26 Or love one another by loving me. They kind of work interchangeably.
Speaker 4 00:27:31 They, they sound nice, but uh,
Speaker 3 00:27:33 They're not the golden act
Speaker 4 00:27:34 Two covenant. The only two commandments in the new covenant are, uh, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and love one another, right? The commandment he gave us. In fact, you know, that is very surprising to me. Like in the new covenant, there's no commandment to love God. Just think about it. We love God as a response, not as a commandment. It's, uh, it's amazing to me. There is the only commandment that new covenant gives is the one that Lord Jesus gave. He said, you know, uh, love one another even as I loved you. Not like the Old Testament where the Old Testament says, love others like yourself. Right? Love your neighbor as yourself. But in the new covenant, Lord says, you know, I give you a new commandment. And the new commandment is love one another, even as I have loved you. And of course, you know, John adds, you know, this is only possible by faith because he says this is a commandment. In John chapter one, John chapter three, towards the end of the chapter, it says, this is a commandment, you know, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and love one another. That's the only commandment.
Speaker 3 00:28:41 That's probably ah, j why Paul said the only thing he didn't say, the only thing that counts as love. He said, the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Because we as human beings, we can even make loving God and loving each other a work if we're not very careful.
Speaker 4 00:28:59 Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:29:00 Well, guys, I think that is a pretty good place to stop for tonight. And I would like to give you each the opportunity, it's a good thing we ended on a kind of a bunny shell there. It's, it's very much like us. So what I'd like to do is bring it back to here and let you guys summarize anything you'd like to for this episode and let you have that moment or two before we sign off. Aj, do you wanna start us off?
Speaker 4 00:29:25 Yeah. You know, the freedom of the gospel is, I mean, we talk about it several times, but, uh, God's acceptance, God's salvation, God's gifts are not based on us or they're not based on our doing. So when we say law, right, you know, we are not necessarily talking about just trying to keep the law of Moses, but if you approach God based on what I did, no matter what it is, God, because I did this, you give me this. So that is law, basically, it is a work based approach. And that approach will never work because if you have to go to God based on your works, you have to be perfect. Or it, it's again, you know, uh, binary zero or one. Either you're perfect or you're just doomed. So most of us, you know, we think, you know, some of our works are enough or just one other thing that I'm doing good is enough, but that is not enough.
Speaker 4 00:30:16 So the true freedom we have is we don't know how to do anything. Lord Jesus Christ did everything for us and for us, all we need to do is simply believe and receive what he has done for us. And, uh, and when we do that, you know, God gives us a spirit and he takes care of us rest of the life. So we don't have to really worry. All we need to do is just, uh, look at the Lord Jesus Christ and, uh, continue to rests, finish work and um, and the spirit goes to work in us.
Speaker 3 00:30:42 And I will, uh, conclude, uh, this episode by just having us quickly look at, uh, verse seven and eight here that Tim read for us, it says, you were running a good race. They were living in the grace of Christ, in the one true gospel by their belief, by their faith. And in the Spirit he said, who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. So many people think Christians think that God is calling them to obey the law. Paul's saying, no, he just got done talking about circumcision by being justified by the law. And he's saying this, teaching these false teachers, these Judas are bringing of mixing the works of the law with the gospel of faith in Christ that doesn't come from God. He's not the one calling you to this. But at the very beginning in in Galatians one, he says, I'm astonished. You are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ. God is not calling you to live under the law, not even calling you to add one thing. He's calling you to live in the grace of Christ.
Speaker 4 00:31:58 Amen.
Speaker 2 00:31:59 I would almost say that that first verse, first one that says it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. That freedom is almost freedom from sin consciousness. We've gotta stop looking at our relationship with God through the lens of our behavior, our dos and our don'ts, and look at it as a relationship with the loving Father and just learn to grow in that relationship and let the Holy Spirit work in and through us. God will take care of all the other stuff. Don't sit there and harp on yourself about, oh, this week I didn't do good. And just, no, it's not about all that. It's just about loving God and depending on the Holy Spirit. Yep. Well, everybody, we'd like to thank you for joining us for another episode. We hope you've been uplifted and encouraged, and we look forward to talking to you again the next time.
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