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Trapping Birds
Growing up we had lots of animals.
One of my favorite animals growing up was a rat.
He was a fairly typical pet rat.
The kind that you can purchase from any pet store.
He was a black and and white.
His name was Spike.
He was named Spike because of his interesting hair.
He was a fairly typical pet rat.
The kind that you can purchase from any pet store.
What set him apart is that he was what is called a rex.
He was a black and and white.
But his fur was short, matted, and curly.
But along the center of his head, was a single streak of white hair that stood up like a Mohawk.
It was because of that mohawk, that we called him spike.
The way we got Spike was he originally was used to trap a hawk.
In addition to my pet rat Spike, we had birds of prey.
One of the questions I always get, is how do you get a bird of prey, how do you get a hawk.
And the answer is we would trap our hawks.
We would make a box out of chicken wire.
So in essence it’s a wire box.
We would have a little door on the bottom of it, where we would insert our bait.
And in this instance, the bait was a black and white rex rat, that I would later name Spike.
Then, all along this wire box, we would take fishing line, and tie little slip nots all over it.
It was completely covered with slip knots.
Then early in the morning, we would go looking for hawks.
We’d find a hawk sitting on a telephone pole.
We’d drive right by the telephone pole, but as we drove by, we’d throw this wire box, with slip knots, and a rat out of the car door, right underneath the hawk, who was looking for a meal.
We’d then drive down the road a couple hundred yards and watch.
The hawk would see the movement of the rat in the box.
She’d drop down from the pole, onto the box and try and catch the rat.
She’d use her feet to try and get inside the wire box.
She’d stomp all over the box, looking for a weak spot.
The more the hawk tried to catch the rat, the more of those little nooses would get stuck on the birds feet.
Soon it was too late, the bird was completely stuck.
We’d drive back.
We’d free the bird from the little knots, and then proceed to train the bird.
The bird didn’t see the danger of the trap.
Because we got a new hawk, and I got a new pet rat.
In fact the more she moved on the trap, the more she became stuck.
I rescued Spike from the trap, and kept him as my own pet.
Have you ever experienced the grip of sin?
Sin can also act like a trap.
It grabs hold of you.
It ensnares you.
And it brings with it a feeling of complete helplessness.
Rending the victim unable to move.
And what we need is to discover the rescuing power of grace, in order to be freed from the imprisoning power of sin.
Which brings us to where we are today.
Today we will begin going through the book of Galatians.
The Galatian Christians were a group of Christians, who had become ensnared in sin.
Trap of Sin
Sin can also act like a trap.
It grabs hold of you.
It ensnares you.
The more you try and fix the problem, the more it grabs hold of you.
Have you ever experienced the grip of sin?
It brings with it a feeling of complete helplessness.
Rending the victim unable to move.
Rending the victim unable to move.
Sin can also act like a trap.
Sin can also act like a trap.
It grabs hold of you.
It ensnares you.
Beverly grew up in a strong Christian family.
Rending the victim unable to move.
She went to church every week growing up.
Her college years came and her attendance became rarer.
What began as a rare absence from church, soon became a habit.
And finally Beverly never returned.
Beverly wanted to go to church.
She knew it was right.
Somewhere inside there was a certain oughtness that she ought to go to church.
She knew the right thing was to surrender to the Lord and worship Him in fellowship with other believers.
She’d been gone for so long, she felt that she didn’t belong in the church anymore.
It would be weird.
People would whisper about her.
People would say things about her.
People would ask where she’d been.
These thoughts kept running through her mind.
And so she refused to go.
Beverly was in a trap.
She had become trapped in sin.
The trap of sin told her there was no escape, and she would never be welcomed in God’s presence.
She’d never be welcomed in the church.
Her sin had fooled her into thinking that she would never be worthy of coming to church.
That she would never be worthy of being a Christian.
That her best option was to just stay far away from God, religion, the church, Christ.
What Beverly needed to discover is what we need to discover as well.
She needed to discover the rescuing power of grace, in order to be freed from the trapping power of sin.
Sin traps us.
It fools our brain into doing everything, but the right thing.
And like the box I used to trap my birds with, the more we move in the wrong direction, the more ensnared to sin we become.
Which brings us to where we are today.
Today we will begin going through the book of Galatians.
Open your Bibles to .
Read Galatians 1:1-5.
The Galatian Christians were a group of Christians, who had become ensnared in sin.
Paul begins it like most of his epistles.
He says who he is.
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