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Introduction
Well as we begin today, I have a number of points that we will be going through in relation to what was going on in Galatia.
Much of what has been discussed so far could be revisited to make a summation of this present passage.
Yet there is so much more to be looked at.
We addressed last week how sin is so engrained upon the hearts of man that we often don’t see the things associated with it in our daily lives.
If you remember the analogy of meat being eaten was given as one of those examples.
Although it’s a joy to share something like a rack of ribs with one another, ultimately the fact that we eat meat is a reflection of the fall.
It’s a reflection of the consequences of sin laid out before us in a very real way.
In order for us to enjoy any type of meat, some animal must die.
Now once again I want to relay that there is nothing wrong with eating meat.
In fact, we’re told right after the flood that meat is to be eaten.
And I for one am glad that at the very least in this depraved way, we have something joyous to eat :)
Yet that doesn’t resolve the fact that it’s a consequence of the fall.
And all of these issues that arise in this life are consequences of the fall.
Whether it’s cancer or some other form of degenerative disease.
They’re all results from the fall.
The fact that we age and our bodies break down and wear down over time is part of that as well.
They are the repercussions of the reality that we live in this present evil age.
This age where man is both inflicted by sin and bound towards an evil bent.
Yet as we addressed last week.
Man is not without hope.
Man is not left in the dumps and deepest depravity of our sins in such a way that we have no prospect of escape.
Those who have been bought by Christ through His death, burial and resurrection have a sure joy awaiting them.
They have the encouragement needed to make it through the day in this age.
Yet they also have the encouragement of the way life shall be in the age to come.
The age where we will stand around the throne of Christ.
The age where the remnant of sin has been completely done away with and we can look upon the Lord with pure joy.
We can look upon the Lord with total satisfaction.
No longer will our hearts cling to the thoughts of my will Lord and not thine.
But instead we will gaze upon the splendor of Christ and profess with absolute honesty, Your will Lord.
We will not have the thoughts in our minds from the day that drag us away from the Lord.
We will not be constantly begging for understanding of why God took someone out of our lives before we felt it was time.
There will be no more confusion about the design of the Lord.
And we beloved, we will the joy of looking at the Lord with no more sorrow.
With no more pain and anguish.
The sorrow in our hearts from the ones we miss shall cease to be.
For the glory of the Lord will overtake your mind and you will finally be free.
Free from every consequence of sin.
Free from the chains of addiction to pornography.
Free from the immoral and unjust thoughts that run through your mind.
Free from the desire to seek after the things that are not holy.
Free to no longer struggle with the besetting sin that has haunted you every day of your life for too many years to count.
Beloved this great joy of being removed from our sin nature and brought into a new age was the entire point of last weeks message.
While you as a Christian may have to live in a double age at the moment, you have a great joy in the morning.
In the blink of an eye when you stand before the Lord, you will know that it was totally worth it.
It was worth it.
Well, now that we’ve had a little moment of recap, would you turn with me to .
I’m going to introduce something a little different today so please don’t be alarmed when I do.
Our goal will be to make it through 4 verses today if at all possible.
I would like us all to stand for the reading of the Word of God.
Read.
Please be seated.
Pray.
We have discussed in abundance many of the details surrounding Paul’s heart and what was meant in his introduction here.
And as we’ve pointed out before, normally with Paul’s letters, you see a beautiful praise.
In Colossians, Paul is so generous in his love towards them in his letter.
He states, “We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
Normally after his greeting, Paul would go on to pray for the body he was writing too.
Instead what we see is no prayer.
No praise.
No thanksgiving.
Paul immediately sets in on addressing the Fickle and unstable nature of the Galatians.
Now the translation laid out in the Authorized Version renders this passage as saying that Paul was astonished that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you...
However, a better translation of that passage would not render it as being removed.
For the Galatians were not removed from the grace of the Gospel.
They were not abandoning the Gospel entirely as one might think when it’s rendered as being removed.
Instead what we find in the passage is not that the Galatians were departing from the faith.
But instead that they are adding to the faith.
Not once in the text does it state that there is a departure.
These people are not any less Christians during this period of time.
Instead what we see is a transferring of ones allegiance.
The same word used here to describe what the Galatians did is used in relation to politicians who change sides.
They are not now politicians merely because they left one political party to head over to another one.
No instead they are still politicians but just in a different setting.
Holding allegiance to a different party.
The same word could be used to describe the actions of Benedict Arnold during the war for Americas freedom.
Arnold did not quit being a soldier but instead he changed his allegiance.
He switched sides and began supporting a side that fought a losing battle.
He became a true “Turncoat.”
That is a word that better defines the actions of the Galatians.
They weren’t necessarily defective in their service to Christ but they were in the middle of turning away.
They were religious turncoats.
Spiritual deserters if you will.
People turning away from Him who had called them into the grace of Christ to embrace another gospel.
This other Gospel could be defined by .
Where there were people who were saying that unless you were circumcised according to the customs of Moses, you cannot be saved.
But before we get to deep into that side of it.
We need to examine something that didn’t happen.
Notice how there is not a place in the text of Scripture that says that the Judiazers denied needing Jesus.
Nowhere in the text would you see a place that states that Jesus was denied.
They didn’t deny the atoning work of Christ.
Not fully anyway.
They did not deny that you must believe in Jesus for salvation.
They never claimed that Christ didn’t pay the ransom on your behalf.
Instead, what we find here is that instead of denying the Gospel, they added to it.
One might hear the Judiazers saying something like this, “no, no.
You must believe in Jesus.
And also keep the Law and be circumcised.”
There was not a denial of the necessity of belief in Christ.
It was belief in Christ, plus....
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