Aligning with the Right Side: Guidance Through Galatians

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You just realized that in and of yourself you're forever guilty.

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So who's gonna deliver you from this body of death?

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And now you finally get your eyes off of you, get your eyes off a man and you say I thank God through Jesus Christ, my Lord.

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He became a curse so I could be blessed.

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He was turned into sin so I could be made into the very righteousness of God.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYCcom.

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That's CityLightNYCcom.

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Pastor Boyan Jansic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you.

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Praise God.

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Before I begin and continue with our series in Galatians, I just want to share this scripture that came to me as I took the pulpit on Friday night during our revival nights.

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I was taking the pulpit, I had a message prepared and you know, the Holy Spirit will bring all things to your remembrance, and so every scripture you ingest, it goes into your spirit and that's something that the Holy Spirit can withdraw.

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It's a well of scripture that's inside of you and it stands to reason that if nothing has gotten in you in the moment you need it, the Holy Spirit has nothing to draw out.

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But if you have a belly full of the Word of God when you need it, the Lord will make it withdrawal and bring that scripture to your memory.

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And I wasn't thinking at that moment about the situation in the Middle East, with Israel and Palestine.

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But this is the scripture that came out and I just want to present it to you.

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Amen.

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And then we'll get into the continuous series in Galatians.

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It is from Joshua, chapter 5, starting in verse 13.

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Moses had just died, joshua was anointed as really the new leader of Israel and his purpose was to take him across the Jordan and bring him into the promised land, god's holy land, israel.

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And he has a vision Really, I shouldn't say vision he saw the commander of the Lord's armies in bodily form, and it was Jesus.

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It was a pre-incarnation appearance of Jesus in the Old Testament as the commander of the Lord's army, and it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked and behold, a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him Are you for us or for our adversaries?

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This is the Lord Himself.

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And that's the question.

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That's the question really everybody wants to know.

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Right, whose side are you on?

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There's a lot of people during this conflict they don't even know what they should think because they haven't been told yet.

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A lot of times, when there's something controversial, you maybe don't admit it to yourself, but really the thought is which way is the majority leaning?

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Because I don't want to be unpopular, so tell me my opinion and tell me what I should think, and then I'll put a little flag in my bio and show everybody I'm down with the current thing.

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Are you for us or for our adversaries?

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And here is the Lord, the Lord's response.

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So he said no, but as commander of the army of the Lord, I have now come.

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What a response.

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Now, obviously, this is Yahweh God, and he could have said Well, joshua, really I'm on your side and I'm going to take you across the river, the Jordan River, and I'm going to help you establish the nation of Israel in the Promised Land.

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But he really says I'm not on your side and I'm not on their side.

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I'm on my side, I'm on the Lord's side, and so you can't degrade this and belittle into who side.

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Are you on team A or team B?

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And that's my response.

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I'm on the Lord's side.

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I want his purposes to be wrought forth.

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Amen.

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And that's what we're praying.

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We're praying for safety for people, we're praying for the punishment of evildoers, protection of people, and also that the Lord's will would be done.

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And let me just also say this you know the God of Israel, the person who generally in culture, when we refer to God, we're talking about Elohim, yahweh El-Elyon, the God of Israel, the God of the Bible.

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Do you realize that nobody knew this God until just a couple of thousand years ago?

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A small group of people in the Middle East knew him and that holy scriptures that taught on him.

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But it was really Jesus who made him globally famous in only three and a half years of ministry, so that the whole world has now heard of the one true God.

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And even during that time where Yahweh was so obscure and his scriptures were so obscure, all those scriptures pointed to this little patch of land no bigger than Rhode Island called Israel, to this itty bitty town in that itty bitty country called Jerusalem.

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And thousands of years ago said end time events will culminate here.

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That was thousands of years ago.

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People have a hard time predicting what's going to happen two years from now.

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To me just lends credibility to the Bible being a supernatural book that even thousands of years ago it said in this little town, city, in this little country, that's where it's going to go down.

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And so when events like this happen, we should pay attention, we should be prayerful and also we should be ready, because 2024 is going to be lit, we're coming upon another election year and whenever Jesus talks about the end times, you'll notice over and over again he says the same thing take heed that no one deceive you.

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Take heed that no one deceive you.

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Hey, by the way, make sure that you don't fall into deception over and over again.

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Do you know why?

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Because in the last days, there's going to be rampant deception, and the problem with deception is that it's so dang deceiving it's like bad breath.

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You're the last one to know.

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You got it.

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And so, even concerning the end days, the scripture says in those days, god will send them strong delusion that they should not believe the truth, but shall believe in the lie.

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So my prediction and you don't have to be a prophet to predict this now is we're closing off 2023 and going into 2024 is there's going to be misinformation, disinformation, deception everywhere.

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Manias and panics are going to try to be a fan, and I want you to keep your wits about you.

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I want you to stay solid in Jesus.

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Don't fall victim to the current thing.

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If you ever want to gauge, our ultimate gauge is the Lord.

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But if you ever want to just double check, just see what Hollywood is doing, see what the world is doing and do the opposite, that's always a good gauge.

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See what they're trying to get you to think and go.

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Hmm, this is probably a good indicator.

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Listen, if you haven't realized this after 2020, I don't know what more I can do for you Every time.

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If you haven't realized that there is this God, realize that there is a system that is against you, that is trying to brainwash you, that is trying to make you like cattle and just go with the herd.

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You need a one, awakening, amen.

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This response is going to make me drop Galatians and go hard after this.

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I didn't lose a third of my church just to get.

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Are you kidding me?

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Amen, amen.

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And I can't think of any gift better, any impartation.

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As your pastor, with the responsibility before the Lord, what can I impart to the people to get them ready for 2024 and the craziness that's going to ensue, than an understanding of the new covenant.

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And that's why we're in the middle of Galatians right now, because the new covenant is the system that we're under.

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The new covenant governs how we relate to the Lord, and the enemy is always trying to move you from the new covenant and get you to go with mixture, mixing the old and the new.

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Because if you mix even a little bit, according to the Scriptures, you frustrate the grace of God and you nullify the new covenant.

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So even if you mix a little bit, you're no longer under a new covenant, you're back in the old.

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Jesus shed his precious blood to bring you from out of the old and into the new.

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Amen.

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And that's why we're in Galatians, because there was this group known as the Judaizers, and what they told people was it's nice that you're a believer in Christ, but now you have to do something extra.

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You have to do-do.

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That voice is a do-do voice.

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Do not listen to the voice covered in do-do.

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The voice is Jesus plus other stuff that you contribute to help us save your out.

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That equals your salvation.

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But the Gospel is Jesus plus nothing equals everything, and there is no mixing allowed.

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So let me just recap a smidgen, because we're in the middle of chapter three right now.

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But for those who are guests and it's just always good to recap I find that when I'm completely tired of saying the same thing over and over again, that's just when the people are getting it.

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The old covenant let's define old and new.

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The old covenant is a system, it's a dispensation, it's a system of order.

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God has not changed.

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God is forever the same, but the covenant that we live under has, and the way God relates to man has To.

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The old covenant you endeavored to get approved unto God, based on your self-effort, based on your own law keeping, based on your own religiosity, based on your religious ability to cross every T and dot every I.

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Does that sound like fun to you?

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Not only is it not fun, but it's unsuccessful.

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It's impossible Because part of the curse of the law is that if you fall in just one point, you're guilty of breaking the whole of the law, which puts us all under a curse.

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Amen, under the new covenant, it's not you endeavoring to change God's mind about you, to win God's favor, to win his approval through your own works, your own behavior, your own being a nice person, yeah, your own being a good citizen, going to church and helping out and giving to the poor.

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That does nothing to contribute to your salvation.

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Under the new covenant, you are already fully approved unto God not based on your behavior, your performance, but based on what Jesus has already accomplished for you in the finished work of the cross, Amen.

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And you have to make a decision on which covenant you want to live.

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Under what?

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side of the cross you want to live under and no mixture allowed.

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That's the theme of Galatians no mixture allowed.

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And the Judaizers?

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They were bringing in mixture.

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They were saying well, it's great that you believe in Jesus, but now you have to get circumcised and now you have to keep the law of Moses.

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When I mentioned Judaizers, it's tempting to think of this strange people group from 2000 years ago.

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What does that have to do with the price of eggs and me in New York City in 2023?

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Well, judaizers today come in all forms as ministers, as pastors, your friends and especially the sound of your own inner monologue.

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Everything that would take you away from Jesus, plus nothing equals everything, is the voice of a Judaizer.

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It's the voice of mixture, and I say this with love.

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I would guess that even in a strong new covenant gospel grace based church like City Light, about 85 to 90% of us still live with mixture.

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How do I know this?

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Because every single day, I have to resist mixture.

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Every single day, I have to resist mixture, the moment I feel like God is distant.

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I'm no longer under the new covenant, I'm mixing.

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I feel like my performance has something to do with whether God is quote, unquote, close or not.

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The moment there is guilt or shame or condemnation, that's a red flag saying that I've allowed mixture.

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In the moment there's a religious pride or I feel like there, the moment you feel pressure, oh, you're mixing.

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Under the new covenant there's no pressure.

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There's no pressure to perform.

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You say, by the way you're preaching, you're going to have a lazy church of people who just don't do anything and just can you believe that you can actually do all of the right things?

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But for the right reasons?

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And a lot of religion is people doing all of the right things for all of the wrong reasons.

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See, they're doing all of the right things in order to win God's favor and His approval, to win salvation.

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We and I will put city light up against any other group as far as our giving, our volunteers.

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We do not have a lazy body here.

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We have people who are immediately we have a missions team to Guatemala immediately full.

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We need volunteers, boom, they come.

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We have a giving campaign.

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Boom, goal is met.

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So we don't have a lazy church who's just said oh well, jesus has done it all on the cross, cool, I'll just sit back and relax and occupy till he comes.

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No, but you do those things not to earn His favor.

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But you do those things because you already know you have His favor and you already are approved and nothing you could ever do could cause Him to take one drop of His love from you.

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So now you have the right motive.

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You're not doing it to win His favor, you're doing it as a thank you.

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When you realize the depth of the forgiveness and the love of God, the natural responses, lord, I bend the knee.

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I'm no longer my own, I belong to you, my life is Yours.

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What do you want me to do now?

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Amen.

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Do you see the compare and contrast between that and dead religion?

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Yeah, hallelujah.

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So we're going to explore the new covenant and what it means to live under grace.

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And again, I can't think of a better impartation for the months to come, because out of this comes your strength, out of this comes your relationship with the Lord.

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This is where boldness comes from.

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By the way, fear, that's another red flag.

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There's another red flag that you're mixing covenants With a new covenant.

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You don't have to be afraid.

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You've been given boldness, Remember.

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You cry abba father, not boohoo.

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Cry Abba father, but it means cry like with a boldness.

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In Proverbs it says the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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You don't know you're righteous, that you have total right standing with God, until you see the blood of Jesus, those who are mixing, and they never quite know where they stand with God.

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See, if you're mixing, you'll always think you're only as good as your last day's performance.

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You don't have boldness.

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You go to pray and you hear that voice God's angry with you.

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It's not the Lord, it masquerades as his voice, but you hear, oh, don't you just feel that he's distant?

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I don't care how I feel he might feel distant because I went to bed at 3 am and now I'm groggy trying to pray in the morning.

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Maybe I had a whole pizza pie the night before.

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Now I'm like, oh, he feels so distant from the Lord.

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No, there is biochemistry involved here.

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The word says he'll never be.

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How much closer can you get than you and him and him and you.

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Amen.

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That's the reality of the word Hallelujah.

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All right, let's go to Galatians 3.

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We'll start in verse 13,.

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Just a two verse recap of where we left off last time.

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Oh, hallelujah, christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

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Hallelujah, that means you are blessed, and you should say that every single day as you leave the house, lift your hands and say Lord, I am blessed.

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The Bible says I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus and consequently I cannot be cursed.

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Also, make a decision, please.

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You're either blessed or you're cursed.

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Choose one.

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There's a whole Christian book and teaching business and ministry that wants to say, yeah, you're blessed, but also you're kind of cursed and you have to do, do, do cover yourself with, do do all these things to come up under a curse, go to inner healing for 40 hours, renounce your great, great grandfather's sin you know what he did, you know and you got to renounce that and again works.

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No, you're either blessed or you're cursed.

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I know what I am.

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I'm blessed.

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He says I'm blessed.

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Why?

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Because Jesus, god himself, became a curse so that I, the curse, could be blessed.

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It's known as the great exchange.

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Hallelujah, that's your reality, that's the truth, having become a curse for us.

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For it is written cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

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That the blessing of Abraham?

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What's the blessing of Abraham, justification by faith.

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Justification means you're pronounced not guilty and you receive this not guilty verdict.

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By the way, that verdict is only brought once, it doesn't daily.

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Wake up and go.

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Let's see if you're not guilty today or not.

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Which way is the gavel gonna swing?

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I don't know.

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You've been pronounced not guilty.

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You're now not guilty, amen.

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Oh, what if I slip and fall?

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Come back up, but it's not that.

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Now you're guilty and you have to get un-guilty again.

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Oh Jesus.

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This is why people leave church.

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Who would want to stay up as a Christian where they have to get resaved 50 times a month?

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Someone's here saying it's torture.

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It is torture.

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When I first became a Christian, I saw there was a pocket.

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It's not everyone, there's a pocket of believers who live this way.

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And I thought I wonder what keeps them around Like I wouldn't.

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What a terrible way to relate to God where every time you mess up you have to get born again and again.

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Every time an altar call is given, you're mouse-dilly raising your hand.

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I don't know where I stand.

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Know where you stand.

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You should know.

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John said these things.

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I write to you that you may know that you have eternal life.

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You know why.

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I know I have a microphone in my hand.

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Because I have a microphone in my hand, I know that I have eternal life.

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I know I know because I didn't do anything.

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It doesn't depend on my behavior.

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I know because he died and took my place.

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So I know.

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No one can take that away from you or from me.

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Oh, you know what we're entering.

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We're entering apocalyptic times In the truest sense of the word.

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Apocalyptic means the peeling back of the curtain.

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People think apocalyptic means fire from heaven, destruction of all.

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It was the Greek revelation, the peeling back.

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And we're truly entering into apocalyptic times where listen to me now the curtain is going to be peeled back and people are going to see.

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A lot of stuff will get exposed.

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People are going to see clearly and I believe there's going to be multiplied, hundreds of millions who are going to see Jesus as he really is, not as religion has presented him.

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Amen.

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Those of you who are used to high church forgive me for those antics, sorry, I sometimes get.

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I'm Pentecostal and I'm Balkan, which is a curious combination.

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But seriously though, you know, the Bible says like there's these scriptures you read we're going to get to Galatians, but there's these scriptures you read like in that hour Jesus rejoiced, and you go.

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You know you read it with like an accent In that hour Jesus rejoiced.

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And you kind of sterilize it when you're like what does that look like?

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Well, that word rejoiced is alegrio, which means to dance, twirl and leap about and clap one's hands.

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So in the movies Jesus rejoiced.

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It's like Meanwhile Jesus knew how to get down.

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Amen, and that's how I scripturally justify standing on the front row chairs.

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Let's go to Galatians.

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Oh Lord, verse 15.

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Brethren, I speak in the manner of men, so he's changing his tone a little bit.

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By the way, his tone has been very, very harsh, the harshest you'll ever see it.

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Very corrective.

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Papa Paul was rebuking people.

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Note that he'd never got this upset with the other churches.

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And when it comes to mixture.

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Paul doesn't lost his mind.

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He will not tolerate one drop of mixture, and neither should you.

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That's the message.

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Do not tolerate any Judaizing voice in your life.

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And the number one Judaizing voice in your life, frankly, is our own inner monologue.

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Do not tolerate it.

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Do not mix the covenants.

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Throw yourself into Jesus' arms under the gospel of grace.

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So finally he changed his tone a little bit.

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He's been nothing but rebuking them.

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He calls them family, now brethren.

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I'm going to give you an earthly example.

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I speak in the manner of men.

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Though it is only a man's covenant, he's saying in the example of an earthly covenant, if it is confirmed, no one annulls or adds to it.

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Now to Abraham and his seed, where the promise is made.

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Paul here is appealing to these Judaizers who took great pride that they had a genetic link to Abraham, that they were physically children of Abraham, and he's saying all right, you're so obsessed with Abraham, note this that the covenant between God and Abraham was 430 years before the law.

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And the covenant between God and Abraham was not one that was works-based, it was faith-based, forecasting the gospel of grace.

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Now to Abraham and his seed, where the promise is made.

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He does not say and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to your seed who is Christ.

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So the point is clear.

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God is referring to one specific descendant of Abraham, the Messiah Jesus, the Christ, not all his descendants in general Verse 17,.

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And this I say that the law, which was 430 years later, cannot annull the covenant that was confirmed before by God and Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect, for if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise, but God gave it to Abraham.

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God gave it.

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God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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Paul is just highlighting that.

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Abrahamic covenant.

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I know for some of you you're brand new and I had you in the beginning.

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Now you're about to get lost because I got into someone who lived 3,000 years ago and you're like what has that got to do with me today?

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But this is important.

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The Abrahamic covenant.

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Abraham was the first Jew, the first person to after nowhere to form a covenant with God, and that covenant was not based on Abraham's work.

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The Bible says that Abraham believed God and it was put on his account that he's righteous and that was forecasting the Gospel of Grace, where you believe God and it's accounted to you as righteousness.

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You know God has a permanent record.

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Remember back in school they would always tell you don't do that, it'll go on your permanent record.

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And then you became an adult and they realized they were lying the whole time.

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There was no permanent record.

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I'll never forget it was around high school where I went.

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You know I didn't cut school all those years because I was afraid it would go on my permanent.

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And you were like around 16, you realized there's no permanent record.

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They did that to me in the 80s, like they had a huge database and there was no.

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But God has a permanent record and on your permanent record it was accounted to you.

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There's these accounting terms God means.

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Put it down that it's so, righteousness, you're right standing with God when you put your faith in Jesus.

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God said put it on their permanent record.

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It is so, they are righteous, they have right standing before me.

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I want to just take a break here from Galatians 3, because Galatians 3 gets exceedingly technical, the latter part of Galatians 3.

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He's trying to win these people over, and Paul was a brilliant man and a philosopher in his own right, yet anointed by God and full of the Holy Spirit.

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And so he's very clever and he gets into some technical things.

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I just want to show you Romans 7 as a reminder to why it is so essential that we pick a side older, new.

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What side of the covenant are you going to live on?

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Why is mixture so dangerous?

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This entire passage is Paul talking about what life was like for him as a Christian before he figured out grace.

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This is the apostle Paul.

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He saved.

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Some people say, oh, this was before he was saved.

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No, because he says that which I hate.

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I do.

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No sinner hates their sin.

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Sinners just hate the consequences of their sin.

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But when I was a sinner.

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I love my sin.

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Only when you get born again do you then hate sin?

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Paul says that which I do, I hate.

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Paul is really here, indicative of a majority of Christians, unfortunately a majority that haven't really come to a full revelation of grace.

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So they're mixing the covenants.

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They're stuck in between two.

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How do you know when you're mixing?

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You keep looking at yourself.

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You keep relying on yourself.

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Paul uses the personal pronoun over 40 times in Romans, chapter 7.

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And this defines, unfortunately, the vast majority of Christians, and this defines modern day Judaizers, those who are mixing the covenants.

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This one verse look at it For the good that I want to do I don't do, but the evil I don't want to do, that's what I end up doing.

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Some people.

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I'll read this and I'll go yeah, that's my life, that's frustration right there.

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That shouldn't be your life.

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Paul here, anointed by the Holy Spirit, says this shouldn't be your life.

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He says that was his life when he was still looking at himself and mixing the dispensations, mixing the covenants.

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Does this sound healthy to you?

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No, no, this, this, yeah, you're a walking civil war.

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You're like a spiritual schizophrenic.

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You don't even know.

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It's like I want to go left but end up going right, then I want to go right but end up going left.

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I want to do good, but I do bad.

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I don't want to do bad.

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Who am I?

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Why am I here?

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Let's keep reading.

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Now, if I do what I desire not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

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I find, then, a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good, for I delight in the law, a law of God according to the inward man.

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But I see another law in my members, members, my body parts, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

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And Paul then finally comes to the end of himself.

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Remember, 40 times he uses the personal pronoun I.

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Now, finally, he collapses.

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This is the point of the law to bring us to a place of collapse where we try, try, try and can never do, and then we finally, according to Jesus' own words, we fall on the rock.

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Oh, it's a glorious breaking when you fall on the rock and you realize I'm not all that.

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I can't do it alone.

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I need a savior, I need a deliverer.

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Jesus said either fall on the rock and be broken, or the rock will then fall on you and grind you to a pounder.

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I love when the Lord gives me these clear options.

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I'll take what's behind door number one, please.

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Thank you very much.

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Oh wretched man that I am, he's describing too many people's Christianity and what a wretched life.

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Who will deliver me from this body of death?

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He's calling back to how ancient kings would torture their enemies.

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They would put them in prison and literally take a corpse and tie it to their back and they would have to walk around with a decomposing body on their back for months.

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He's saying this is what my life is like.

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Who's going to deliver me from this body of death?

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So finally he takes his eyes off of who Himself.

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He goes I can't do it alone.

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Where is the answer?

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And he finally stops mixing the covenants.

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In the next verse I say stops mixing the covenants.

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He stops mixing the covenants because he's no longer relying on himself at all.

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See, jesus said apart from me, you can do nothing.

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But we read that and think Jesus meant apart from me.

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There's a lot of things you can't do, but some things you still can.

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No, apart from me, you can do nothing, nothing of eternal value, nothing spiritual, nothing that really matters or counts.

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It all comes from me.

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I'm the root, you're the branches.

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Who's going to deliver me from this schizophrenic Christianity, this body of death?

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And he falls and collapses and finally looks up and out and sees a Savior, a deliverer, jesus.

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Who's going to deliver me?

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I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord, hallelujah.

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And now that he's collapsed, now that he's no longer trusting in himself, the victory comes and he's no longer under the old or mixing the old and the new.

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Now he's a born again believer, living under grace, looking to Jesus, and Jesus is doing the transforming work inside of him, hallelujah.

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So why did I show you that?

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Because if you found yourself in those scriptures if that at all relates to you Paul's dilemma then you need to hear this message and you need to become an expert yes, expert.

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You're not going to get grace by hearing it a couple hours a week.

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I promise you You're not going to get it.

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It's going to elude you, like most believers.

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They kind of sort of get it, but then they never fully dive deep.

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You got to go spelunking Underwater cave diving.

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Read Galatians every day while we're in this series.

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Ask the Lord for revelation.

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Study the cross, study your identity in Christ.

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One of the most powerful things you can do is go through the entire New Testament and every time you see in him or in Christ, highlight it.

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There's over 250 times where you see the phrase in him or in Christ, and it'll show you your identity.

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It'll show you everything that you have and everything that you are as a result of Jesus, and that'll begin to reprogram your mind, transform your mind and you'll see yourself in light of the cross.

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Amen.

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Let's go back to Galatians Hallelujah.

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What purpose, then, does the law serve?

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It was added because of transgressions till the sea should come, to whom the promise was made, and it was appointed through angels, by the hand of a mediator.

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So, the purpose of the law.

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Can you just go back?

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Thank you.

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The moral code provided people.

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Number one the purpose of the law.

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Aligning with the Right Side: Guidance Through Galatians

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