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Grace Over Effort: Unpacking the Old and New Covenant

Grace Over Effort: Unpacking the Old and New Covenant
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Season 1
This episode will change your perspective on faith, by exploring the essential difference between living under the old covenant, rooted in human effort, versus the new covenant, a grace-filled life where God's approval is already ours. We discuss the dangers of mixing the two covenants and how the old covenant breeds insecurity and a performance mentality, while the new covenant provides freedom to enjoy our relationship with God.
 
Strap yourself in as we dig deeper, examining the implications of living under the old law versus the new covenant, and how grace disrupts our innate human belief that good actions yield good results. We will marvel at the infinite goodness of God, especially when we're at our lowest, and explore the incredible power of grace and God's unwavering love, despite our failings and transgressions. Let's delve into the mystery of the Trinity, its unity, and the profound significance of Jesus' statement that looking at the Father equates to looking at Him. 
 
This episode is packed with profound insights and life-changing revelations - an unforgettable deep dive into the heart of our faith. Don't miss out!
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00:00.161 --> 00:04.747 The more time you spend with him and a place of boldness, you'll realize that it doesn't matter at all what other people think. 00:05.249 --> 00:06.977 You'll realize it doesn't matter. 00:07.017 --> 00:09.183 The only one you need to live for is the Lord. 00:09.544 --> 00:11.709 The only one you need to please is the Lord. 00:12.350 --> 00:24.089 Listen, it is vital in the season that we're moving in as a world, as a country, as a Christian people, at a pivotal time, that the fear of man be broken off of you. 00:24.250 --> 00:25.494 In Jesus' name. 00:26.336 --> 00:28.422 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 00:28.662 --> 00:34.963 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 00:35.705 --> 00:41.124 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYCcom. 00:41.465 --> 00:44.071 That's CityLightNYCcom. 00:44.793 --> 00:51.908 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 00:52.650 --> 01:02.429 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. 01:05.120 --> 01:08.447 We're in Galatians, chapter four. 01:08.708 --> 01:15.317 I believe this is part five because some chapters have been split up into two messages, but we're in Galatians, chapter four. 01:15.337 --> 01:22.073 We're in the middle of this series called Clash of the Covenants, because it is vital, it is foundational. 01:22.540 --> 01:28.873 It is absolutely a necessity that we know what covenant, what arrangement we have with God. 01:29.361 --> 01:34.561 And there is an old covenant, there is a new covenant and you must pick one that you want to live under. 01:36.225 --> 01:38.088 And you cannot mix the covenants. 01:38.148 --> 01:43.225 And that's what you find most often in the church A little bit of the old, a little bit of the new. 01:43.847 --> 01:59.956 Come up with your own non-biblical, confused covenant and then wonder why prayers aren't getting answered, wonder why you feel distant from God, wonder why you feel shame, guilt and condemnation, wonder why you're walking civil war and there's no peace and you never feel at rest in your relationship with the Lord. 02:00.257 --> 02:02.424 The answer is you haven't fully discovered grace yet. 02:03.085 --> 02:04.348 You're living under mixture. 02:04.769 --> 02:09.886 And the whole of Galatians is Paul trying to wake the Galatians up who started off in grace. 02:10.287 --> 02:21.141 But very quickly the Judaizers came who added to the completed work of Jesus, because the gospel is Jesus plus nothing equals everything. 02:22.866 --> 02:30.425 Judaizers come in and they bring in mixture and they say well, jesus, plus stuff that you do equals everything. 02:30.967 --> 02:34.296 Well, you don't have to do anything, he already did it all. 02:35.218 --> 02:41.175 He cried out it is finished, paid in full as far as your salvation goes. 02:41.236 --> 02:42.760 You don't have to lift a finger. 02:44.303 --> 02:46.648 Hallelujah, amen. 02:48.431 --> 02:54.283 So I used to read Galatians in my late teens, early 20s, before the Lord opened my eyes to Galatians. 02:54.323 --> 02:56.788 I had a really hard time getting into it. 02:58.111 --> 03:03.310 The gospel is I got into because Jesus is speaking to you right where you are. 03:03.651 --> 03:08.085 You can always and the words of Christ in red and I mean it's all the word of God. 03:08.126 --> 03:13.191 But sometimes as a teenager, and you really say you just want to read those words in red and they're like water to your soul. 03:13.231 --> 03:18.936 But then I get to Galatians and Paul's talking about these Judaizers and they want him to circumcise people. 03:19.277 --> 03:21.143 And I'm sorry but I couldn't relate to that problem. 03:22.246 --> 03:26.960 Feel me, and there's nobody here in 2023 chasing you around, going. 03:27.060 --> 03:30.435 You got to get circumcised in order to be accepted by Christ and I'm going. 03:30.777 --> 03:31.038 What's? 03:31.058 --> 03:34.609 Some guys are cringing at me right now Just the very mention of it. 03:36.174 --> 03:39.423 I believe he used that example of circumcision not because that was. 03:39.905 --> 03:41.891 It's a metaphor for mixing of the covenants. 03:42.333 --> 03:50.132 But that face, that should be the face, a cringe, like what I have to do. 03:50.192 --> 03:50.733 What now? 03:52.116 --> 03:52.557 You're telling me? 03:52.617 --> 03:56.807 Jesus didn't do it all, and so I couldn't relate until I realized the Judaizers are everywhere. 03:57.208 --> 04:00.363 It wasn't a first century problem, it's an everyday problem. 04:00.824 --> 04:04.552 A Judaizer could be a person, could be a church, could be a doctrine. 04:05.060 --> 04:08.107 Oftentimes, most often, it's the voice of our own head. 04:08.868 --> 04:28.448 A Judaizer tells you that you, you, oh, god, something, and that you have to help out with salvation, that you have to add to the already completed work of the cross, because the whole Old Testament, the whole system of the law there was an emphasis on you, on me, hint. 04:28.729 --> 04:29.772 That's why it didn't work. 04:30.874 --> 04:33.941 It always failed because it depended on humans. 04:34.723 --> 04:39.132 Have you discovered yet that humans tend to fail in trying to please God? 04:39.673 --> 05:01.505 So the whole old system of the law was based on you working really hard, trying to keep religious, trying to keep holy crossing every T, dotting every I in an attempt to get God's righteousness, in an attempt to be found approved before God. 05:02.387 --> 05:04.732 Yet you always failed. 05:05.433 --> 05:05.774 Why? 05:06.656 --> 05:12.790 Because if you're guilty in breaking the law in one part, you're guilty of breaking the entirety of the law. 05:12.930 --> 05:13.893 It's a rough system. 05:15.221 --> 05:22.403 It's like you write a 5,000 word essay it's perfect, it's brilliant, but one comma you put in the wrong place. 05:22.443 --> 05:27.440 Your points are awesome, your spelling is immaculate, Sentence structure one. 05:27.570 --> 05:31.267 You put a comma in the wrong place and you get an F on the test. 05:31.397 --> 05:35.545 That's what it's like to live under the law, Under grace. 05:35.665 --> 05:44.510 However, living on the right side of the cross, you're not endeavoring to gain God's approval with your own self effort. 05:45.453 --> 05:48.641 You already have all of God's approval. 05:49.504 --> 05:51.028 You have all of your sins forgiven. 05:51.789 --> 06:07.548 You are adopted into the family of God, not based on what you do or can't ever do, but based on what already Jesus has done in the past 2,000 years ago for you Living under the law, living under the old covenant. 06:08.169 --> 06:09.432 It breeds insecurity. 06:10.333 --> 06:12.364 It breeds a performance mentality. 06:12.424 --> 06:14.249 You can never enjoy God, you can never rest. 06:14.269 --> 06:17.348 You always got to work for him and you're only as good as your last work. 06:17.428 --> 06:20.280 So you got to constantly impress him, you got to show up. 06:21.785 --> 06:23.230 It's a torturous relationship. 06:24.092 --> 06:27.863 This is why people run away from the church, because eventually they just all tuckered out. 06:29.466 --> 06:30.869 And it's no different from paganism. 06:31.610 --> 06:34.503 We do missions trip to Guatemala, where they're new Christians. 06:34.523 --> 06:36.028 They used to be pagans, they used to. 06:36.108 --> 06:47.387 They're the Mayan and they carry that mentality into their Christianity, where they're constantly trying to and appease an unappeasable deity. 06:49.171 --> 06:51.335 And it's exhausting, torturous. 06:52.779 --> 06:54.722 Under the new covenant you have rest, amen. 06:55.624 --> 07:00.874 Yet, because that is the cross of Jesus and the grace that affords us. 07:01.641 --> 07:03.225 That's the foundation for all that we do. 07:04.167 --> 07:08.269 This is why the enemy attacks it so much and this is why Judaizers will come. 07:09.032 --> 07:10.780 Judaizers are covenant mixers. 07:13.386 --> 07:18.358 They want you to get up from under grace and assume more responsibility. 07:18.599 --> 07:20.723 But really it sounds noble, doesn't it? 07:21.184 --> 07:30.772 But when you do that, you now move away from grace and, according to the very words of Paul, you nullify the grace of God. 07:31.555 --> 07:35.024 So pick a covenant and decide to live exclusively under that covenant. 07:35.545 --> 07:40.625 Hint, I would pick the new one, since that's what Jesus came to install and that's what he bled for. 07:40.705 --> 07:42.950 Amen, hallelujah. 07:44.633 --> 07:47.600 So let's continue in Galatians. 07:47.740 --> 07:48.984 We'll start in chapter four. 07:49.245 --> 07:59.154 That's where we are, and Paul had just finished telling us that we're heirs of God, that we're adopted into the very family of God. 08:00.237 --> 08:03.568 He explained that the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ. 08:03.668 --> 08:06.037 Why was the law our tutor to bring us to Christ? 08:06.057 --> 08:06.780 He said. 08:06.940 --> 08:09.126 Well, I would not have known sin if it wasn't for the law. 08:09.367 --> 08:11.902 The law didn't say don't do that, and I then did it. 08:11.962 --> 08:13.789 I realized I have a sin nature. 08:13.990 --> 08:15.696 I realized I'm powerless against it. 08:16.419 --> 08:17.942 And so the law shows you up. 08:18.283 --> 08:23.253 It's like a giant magnifying glass and an x-ray, and it detects sin in your life. 08:23.600 --> 08:24.583 What's the point of that? 08:25.144 --> 08:29.054 For us, as people, to realize that we're powerless. 08:29.937 --> 08:31.160 We are powerless too. 08:32.524 --> 08:33.326 Stop sinning. 08:33.747 --> 08:34.951 We're in and of ourselves. 08:35.031 --> 08:43.032 We're powerless to change our own lives around, and we're powerless in and of ourselves to receive any kind of forgiveness. 08:43.833 --> 08:47.905 We're lost, and so you get to the end of yourself. 08:48.186 --> 08:52.945 You know, to get saved or to get to the end of yourself, the doorway to salvation is one of humility. 08:54.530 --> 08:58.423 So you got to get to the end of yourself and realize I cannot do what's required of me. 09:00.749 --> 09:09.572 For many people the gospel doesn't open up until they realize that you have to be perfect to gain entrance into heaven Perfect, sin free. 09:10.675 --> 09:15.668 Whenever I explain that to someone and they get it, they all have the same look of horror on their face. 09:19.417 --> 09:22.526 Then quickly they look at me like, well, you're perfect, you know. 09:24.391 --> 09:31.291 And then I have to explain to them no, experientially, in and of myself, I'm not perfect, but I have been perfectly forgiven. 09:32.114 --> 09:33.598 You have been perfectly forgiven. 09:33.618 --> 09:36.144 You've been given God's right standing. 09:36.805 --> 09:38.969 You've been justified, pronounced, not guilty. 09:39.430 --> 09:45.211 All of your sins, past, present and future, have been taken out of the way. 09:45.672 --> 09:47.678 You have non-imputation of sin. 09:48.059 --> 09:50.708 You have been imputed the very righteousness of God. 09:51.330 --> 09:58.248 And so that's how you're heaven bound, because when God looks at you, he cannot find one speck or a Yoda of sin in you. 09:59.129 --> 10:00.131 It's beautiful, isn't it? 10:01.273 --> 10:06.047 Hallelujah, it takes the pressure off, yeah. 10:07.511 --> 10:07.972 And guess what? 10:08.012 --> 10:25.457 When the pressure comes off, you then live for Christ, when you truly get grace, you know, from the inside out, empowered by the engine of the Holy Spirit, the, the energio in the Greek, the energizing power of the Holy Spirit. 10:25.898 --> 10:30.764 What a difference that is when you just yield to him and now your spirit led. 10:32.266 --> 10:37.578 You're not trying to be religious, trying to be a good person, trying really hard to abstain from sin. 10:37.825 --> 10:38.808 Those people are miserable. 10:39.952 --> 10:40.574 You know they are. 10:41.306 --> 10:42.229 I tell you who knows they are. 10:42.249 --> 10:42.991 You talk to the world. 10:43.072 --> 10:43.674 They know they are. 10:44.305 --> 10:47.773 That's what they think of Christians, because they don't meet too many freed ones like you. 10:49.525 --> 10:52.386 Hallelujah Paul says. 10:52.426 --> 10:59.519 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave. 10:59.825 --> 11:03.670 You have to establish that you are an heir, and this is under Greek and Roman rule. 11:03.910 --> 11:08.234 In the wealthy family, the young heir would have a tutor. 11:08.586 --> 11:11.531 I remember the law was our tutor, a tutor or guardian. 11:11.705 --> 11:24.974 Think of it as private school, but one on one, and this tutor or guardian would really stay close to the young child and train them and develop them and teach them, and oftentimes this child didn't have a lot of freedom. 11:25.225 --> 11:25.908 That's what he meant by. 11:25.968 --> 11:27.052 He's no different than a slave. 11:27.505 --> 11:30.052 He had to go through the process of being tutored. 11:31.725 --> 11:43.498 As long as he's a child, it's not different at all from a slave, though in reality, he's master of all, but he's under guardians and stewards until the time this is great until the time appointed by the father. 11:43.865 --> 11:48.773 Today we have this arbitrary age 18, right, it doesn't matter where the kid is in their development at 18. 11:50.185 --> 11:53.033 Because society says they're old enough, get out the house, right? 11:54.025 --> 11:55.671 That wasn't so back in that culture. 11:56.245 --> 11:57.952 It was an appointed time of the father. 11:58.025 --> 12:00.293 The father said it might be 16 if you're really mature. 12:00.785 --> 12:02.370 It might be 25 if you're you know. 12:04.385 --> 12:06.271 It was the appointed time of the father. 12:07.525 --> 12:10.754 He decided when that child was an adult. 12:11.905 --> 12:18.639 Verse three even so, when we were children, we were in bondage. 12:18.805 --> 12:20.331 This is so key here. 12:21.225 --> 12:22.488 He's saying when we were children. 12:23.531 --> 12:40.974 When we were children was when we were under the law, under the system of law Remember the system of law you as a hamster on a wheel trying to get God's approval, but always failing, never, ever resting because there was no finished work at the cross. 12:42.125 --> 12:45.575 He's saying we were in bondage under the elements of the world. 12:46.125 --> 12:49.055 That is the Greek tastocia to kosmu. 12:49.285 --> 12:51.290 This is I'm not trying to be fancy and show off my Greek. 12:53.825 --> 12:59.990 This is so important because when Paul said elements of the world, everybody knew immediately what he was talking about. 13:00.685 --> 13:09.352 He used this phrase tastocia Stocia is a word that's found all over the Greek language, but especially when Plato was teaching little children the ABCs. 13:10.425 --> 13:14.995 And tastocia to kosmu is the ABCs of the universe. 13:16.545 --> 13:18.212 What are the ABCs of the universe? 13:18.745 --> 13:23.093 Paul says we were in bondage under the ABCs of the universe. 13:23.554 --> 13:30.155 Tastocia to kosmu that is something that all of his listeners would have immediately understood. 13:30.865 --> 13:34.715 This is something that Jews believed, greeks believed, romans believed. 13:35.465 --> 13:39.414 Anyone on any continent, in any culture, innately believes this. 13:39.455 --> 13:45.011 And that's this you do good, you get good, you do bad, you get bad. 13:46.265 --> 13:47.209 Most people believe this today. 13:47.249 --> 13:50.529 Right, if someone totally secular would call it karma. 13:52.092 --> 13:58.111 Or you break the golden rule, bad things happen and grace flies in the face of this. 13:59.345 --> 14:01.032 Grace is the exact opposite of this. 14:01.185 --> 14:01.908 You got to get that. 14:02.985 --> 14:03.587 This is not how. 14:03.627 --> 14:12.678 God is, while we were yet sinners, in total rebellion to God, our backs turned to him. 14:13.225 --> 14:15.995 There is none that seeks after him, there is none that desires. 14:16.145 --> 14:21.568 Before we came to Jesus, we didn't want him, we didn't love him, we loved our sin. 14:22.225 --> 14:25.054 But yet, while we were still sinners, christ died for the ungodly. 14:25.265 --> 14:31.012 When we were at our worst, christ came for us and it's not just at the cross. 14:31.665 --> 14:38.694 Still he does this over and over again that when you're at your lowest, when you're at your worst, when you've done bad, he'll come and give you good. 14:39.545 --> 14:44.400 So much so that Paul had to address this several times in the New Testament. 14:44.761 --> 14:48.312 Because warped people really that's us all. 14:48.352 --> 14:55.969 People will then look at that and go, wow, god is like so good, so can I do bad that even more good will come. 14:59.169 --> 15:01.874 So everyone always goes so quiet when I. 15:02.755 --> 15:05.585 this is a real thing, you know. 15:05.786 --> 15:09.514 Every single one of you have thought this as you're being immersed in grace. 15:12.225 --> 15:13.390 I'm preaching it to you straight. 15:14.265 --> 15:15.209 There is no fine print. 15:16.265 --> 15:17.510 There is no nuance here. 15:18.265 --> 15:23.114 God is infinitely good, and God is way better to us than we are to him. 15:23.785 --> 15:25.732 He's way better to us than we are to ourselves. 15:26.225 --> 15:38.518 And some of my greatest personal breakthroughs listen, the greatest things that have come to me were not at the end of a 40-day fast, at the end of praying three hours. 15:38.625 --> 15:45.789 I've done all those things, but the vast majority of things that I will boast about that the Lord did for me. 15:46.150 --> 15:47.053 They didn't come then. 15:47.425 --> 15:48.870 They came when I was in the gutter. 15:49.705 --> 16:00.810 They came after a stupid mistake, after I did something I shouldn't have done, after I made some idiotic, just faux pas and I'm like, oh man, I'm just such a mess up. 16:01.130 --> 16:02.333 And then God comes and goes. 16:02.353 --> 16:12.107 I love you and I don't give you bad for bad, I give you good for bad and what that does. 16:12.147 --> 16:22.169 Then now I'm on the floor in a puddle of my own tears and God is all right, we're going to pick you up, we're going to patch you up and I can watch you a present. 16:22.611 --> 16:23.434 Look what I have for you. 16:23.745 --> 16:27.353 I'm like I will serve you forever. 16:29.785 --> 16:30.468 That is grace. 16:31.845 --> 16:41.759 That is how God operates and that is completely opposite of to stoichiya, to kosumu, the ABCs of the universe. 16:42.446 --> 16:44.814 This is why so many people don't get the gospel. 16:45.225 --> 16:53.173 They don't get Jesus because they're approaching it in the way they've been trained by their parents, by school, by society, and that you mess up. 16:53.534 --> 16:56.429 Uh oh, the chickens are going to come home to roost now. 16:57.505 --> 16:58.569 When's the other shoe going to drop? 17:00.165 --> 17:06.074 That's when the Lord loves, loves to show himself better to you than you are to him. 17:07.185 --> 17:09.651 And the point isn't then you experience that a few times. 17:09.671 --> 17:13.288 You'll get that question wow, maybe the Lord doesn't mind sin. 17:13.408 --> 17:21.112 You know, he's just so awesome to me to yeah, he does, his blood, takes in away. 17:23.225 --> 17:25.806 His standard is holiness and no, we don't. 17:25.827 --> 17:27.553 Then sin, the grace should abound. 17:27.745 --> 17:28.568 Paul said God forbid. 17:29.485 --> 17:32.874 But what that does, and this is how a relationship with the Lord is built. 17:33.175 --> 17:36.794 When you meet someone and they're in love with God, you know why they're so in love with God. 17:37.346 --> 17:40.131 It's not because they live their life so perfectly, it's because they didn't. 17:44.946 --> 17:46.710 And over and over and over again. 17:47.051 --> 17:49.276 God still came to them and loved them. 17:49.905 --> 17:53.455 That is grace and that is what our love for him is founded on. 17:54.225 --> 17:56.920 And if I have this testimony, you're a better person than me. 17:56.940 --> 17:58.326 Maybe you don't, maybe your testimony's. 17:58.366 --> 18:01.292 I got saved and I've just been flawless ever since. 18:01.312 --> 18:01.772 Awesome. 18:05.265 --> 18:09.316 But yet you were born in sin and while you were still a sinner, turning your back on God. 18:09.705 --> 18:13.910 Christ died for the ungodly Amen and you're saved under the ABCs of the universe. 18:15.525 --> 18:20.868 Can you see how this is totally different than every faith system in the world, totally different than every religious? 18:21.610 --> 18:30.756 And the reason why people reject the Lord is because they've been given this false version of Christianity that's in line with the ABCs of the universe. 18:31.705 --> 18:35.607 This is why people will get saved, mess up and then run from church because they feel like they've messed up. 18:35.647 --> 18:37.052 They can never come back to the Lord again. 18:38.327 --> 18:40.755 Meanwhile, the Father is there with open arms saying come back to me. 18:41.667 --> 18:43.093 Who are you going to do to me when I come back? 18:43.406 --> 18:45.145 Here's what I'm going to do. 18:45.185 --> 18:51.776 I'm going to love you so much, I'm going to bless you so much that you will never, ever think of turning your back on me again. 18:52.566 --> 18:53.007 Do you think? 18:53.047 --> 18:57.889 When that younger brother came back to the Father, do you think he wasted any more of his money? 18:58.545 --> 19:01.970 I guarantee you the parable of the prodigal son. 19:04.094 --> 19:06.678 That father had one obedient son after that. 19:06.718 --> 19:10.591 I'm telling you right now he's overwhelmed with the love of the Father. 19:12.585 --> 19:14.673 We were in bondage under the L. 19:14.825 --> 19:16.509 So the law is the ABCs. 19:16.690 --> 19:19.797 The system of the law is the ABCs of the universe. 19:20.045 --> 19:22.190 Do bad, get bad, do good, get good. 19:25.545 --> 19:27.171 Verse five to redeem those. 19:28.327 --> 19:29.392 Oh, but when the fullness. 19:29.825 --> 19:33.012 Verse four but when the fullness of the time had come. 19:33.874 --> 19:37.307 I study this in the Greek out also, and it means at the right time. 19:38.049 --> 19:47.794 In case you're wondering what the fullness of the time was so much funnier in the first service, you ever ask yourself why did Jesus come when he came? 19:48.707 --> 19:50.829 Well, here's the biblical answer it was the right time. 19:52.629 --> 19:54.013 It was the fullness of the time. 19:55.607 --> 20:03.289 But it also fell in line with Daniel's prophecy of the 70 weeks, which almost everyone agrees was 490 years. 20:03.329 --> 20:05.955 So he came at the right time to fulfill biblical prophecy. 20:06.985 --> 20:20.556 And even if you don't believe any of that, in all of human history there was a never a better time for God to come as man than that time when he came, the Roman Empire had taken control of most of the then known world. 20:20.865 --> 20:32.688 They built roads, they built bridges, they established trade systems and commerce so that, when Jesus did come, that's how the gospel and the good news could spread in the most efficient way At that point in history. 20:33.009 --> 20:37.714 And that's when he came, god and his infinite wisdom, and that's what made it the fullness of the time. 20:38.545 --> 20:39.810 God sent amen, right. 20:40.905 --> 20:49.780 God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who are under the law. 20:50.145 --> 20:52.866 Under the law, you were not a son, paul said. 20:52.906 --> 20:56.474 Under the system of law, you were a slave. 20:58.445 --> 21:00.031 This is why Paul is going crazy. 21:00.785 --> 21:02.331 When I say crazy, I mean all emotional. 21:02.907 --> 21:03.650 It kind of loses it. 21:03.785 --> 21:04.708 It's the most unhinged. 21:04.748 --> 21:09.031 You see, paul, because you have these Galatians, who were slaves. 21:09.392 --> 21:15.988 Then they became set free in Christ, not relying on themselves but receiving the unmerited favor that comes from the Lord through Christ Jesus. 21:16.985 --> 21:24.632 And then the Judaizers come in and start adding works and mixing the two covenants and they immediately go back to being a slave. 21:25.105 --> 21:28.188 And Paul is saying what Does this make sense to you? 21:30.325 --> 21:31.589 Who has hypnotized you? 21:33.185 --> 21:39.428 I know silly Galatians, right, we do this nonsense all the time we do it all the time. 21:41.485 --> 21:43.911 You gauging your relationship with the Lord by how you feel. 21:46.905 --> 21:50.114 You feeling like you always got to perform so that he would love you and approve of you. 21:51.065 --> 21:52.170 You're mixing the covenants. 21:53.086 --> 21:56.334 No, you're not running off to get circumcised as an adult, but it's the same thing. 21:57.665 --> 22:00.835 You now think you have to do something to gain God's approval. 22:01.265 --> 22:02.772 You don't have to do anything. 22:02.845 --> 22:13.077 You have to be in Christ To redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons. 22:13.117 --> 22:29.632 And why this is so important is because they understood that when you were adopted when we get this in America today but it wasn't always the case, but under Roman times, even in the first century, it was the case when you were adopted, you had the same rights and privileges as the natural born heir. 22:30.815 --> 22:37.191 Yeah, oh yeah, take that to its fullest conclusion. 22:38.785 --> 22:41.052 You have the same rights as privileges as Jesus. 22:44.122 --> 22:46.910 That's why in the book of Hebrews it calls Jesus your brother. 22:49.800 --> 22:51.687 You're all children in the family of God. 22:52.840 --> 22:54.347 And show me where there's a distinction made. 22:54.460 --> 23:01.106 Of course, jesus is God and we worship him, but as far as our standing before the Father, we're all in the family of God. 23:04.800 --> 23:05.885 Can we go back to verse four? 23:06.742 --> 23:10.311 I wanna make sure I, that's five, four please. 23:11.160 --> 23:16.767 I wanna make sure I said God said four, but one of a woman under the law. 23:16.807 --> 23:22.769 We're good To redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 23:23.361 --> 23:35.971 And because you are sons, god has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying out Abba, father, this is key. 23:37.582 --> 23:44.243 It's a key because you will know if you're mixing the covenants, you will know if you're falling into the same trap as the Galatians. 23:44.343 --> 23:52.868 You know what a good metric for it is your level of boldness, your level of boldness before God and then your level of boldness before man. 23:55.003 --> 23:56.460 Alexander Dowie said something. 23:56.641 --> 23:58.027 I learned about it in Bible school. 23:58.361 --> 23:59.465 I've kept it all these years. 24:00.161 --> 24:04.547 Alexander Dowie is where the original healing rooms that Pastor Mo leads came from. 24:04.881 --> 24:09.347 It was then from him, john G Lake in South Africa, and to this day healing rooms continue. 24:09.740 --> 24:13.211 He said this sin makes cowards out of men. 24:14.801 --> 24:16.467 When you don't know, you're totally forgiven. 24:16.700 --> 24:18.005 You're a coward on the inside. 24:18.901 --> 24:23.448 You can see it in the way people approach God, like an old worm coming up to the throne. 24:23.720 --> 24:25.427 There's no passion, there's no boldness. 24:25.860 --> 24:26.462 They're afraid. 24:27.024 --> 24:28.108 They don't even wanna pray long. 24:28.481 --> 24:32.263 They're afraid if they spend more than 10 seconds in the presence of God, a lightning bolt will come and strike them. 24:32.901 --> 24:33.383 They come in. 24:33.625 --> 24:38.845 God, please give me X, y, z and peace out, amen, before anything bad happens. 24:40.541 --> 24:44.107 And then they're always worried about what people think, what they don't have any boldness before man. 24:44.500 --> 24:47.650 But the Bible says the righteous are as bold as a lion. 24:48.120 --> 24:54.429 When you know who you are, when you know your identity in Jesus, there is a boldness, there is a cry. 24:56.800 --> 24:58.046 Cry doesn't mean boohoohoo. 25:00.462 --> 25:02.549 When the Bible talks about boohoohoo it says weep. 25:04.826 --> 25:09.630 But over and over again, for example, people cried to the Lord, son of David, have mercy on me. 25:10.000 --> 25:12.468 It means you speak loudly and passionately. 25:13.220 --> 25:21.929 So when you receive the spirit of his son, you're not some timid Mickey Mouse, maybe Pamby Christian, wondering who you are. 25:22.360 --> 25:25.629 Oh, father, you know, if you want, if it be your will. 25:26.460 --> 25:28.688 This is the first thing that shocked me when I got saved. 25:29.000 --> 25:30.164 I was terrified of praying. 25:30.224 --> 25:38.841 I talked to the creator oh, and my first day saved with the Christians and they're praying and they're talking to him like he's a friend and they're speaking loud and I'm going. 25:40.867 --> 25:43.446 Do you remember the first time, if you weren't raised in Christianity. 25:43.540 --> 25:45.964 The first time you heard Christians pray, my mind was blown. 25:46.620 --> 25:48.346 I was like they talk to God as though he's a friend. 25:49.340 --> 25:51.607 They talk to God with no filter. 25:52.380 --> 25:54.227 They just seem comfortable in his presence. 25:54.700 --> 25:57.507 You know, in religious people, come on, you can't get too familiar, can't get too. 25:57.580 --> 25:58.685 They always want to create a distance. 25:59.160 --> 26:05.348 No, he's your dad, he's your heavenly father, and you now have the spirit of his son. 26:06.040 --> 26:11.689 And there is a cry, there is boldness, and it'll manifest in every area of your life. 26:11.780 --> 26:25.984 First, with the Lord, you'll know you can come to him whenever, however, and then you'll realize, the more time you spend with him and a place of boldness, you'll realize that it doesn't matter at all what other people think. 26:26.940 --> 26:28.547 You'll realize it doesn't matter. 26:28.660 --> 26:30.808 The only one you need to live for is the Lord. 26:31.200 --> 26:33.308 The only one you need to please is the Lord. 26:33.800 --> 26:36.348 And then the fear of man breaks off. 26:36.880 --> 26:50.449 Listen, it is vital, in the season that we're moving in, as a world, as a country, as a Christian people, at a pivotal time, that the fear of man be broken off of you, in Jesus' name. 26:51.200 --> 26:52.125 It is crucial. 26:54.280 --> 27:00.905 Something will happen where the masses will say oh, this is how we should think, this is how we should go. 27:01.500 --> 27:12.946 And you need to be the person going uh-uh and they'll call you every name in the book and they'll say you're wicked, and they'll say you don't have enough love, you don't have enough compassion, whatever. 27:13.360 --> 27:21.329 And if you know biblically that's not the way to go, you need to be the one guy saying, mm-mm, I don't care what it costs me, I won't live by lies. 27:21.460 --> 27:22.363 That is not the truth. 27:22.644 --> 27:27.288 I'm following my Savior, amen, hallelujah. 27:29.980 --> 27:34.584 As a PS, can we just put a pen and clash of the covenants and grace verse law? 27:35.120 --> 27:36.846 I just, as a PS, just look at that verse. 27:36.886 --> 27:37.588 It's so beautiful. 27:38.221 --> 27:40.929 He says God has sent forth the spirit of his son. 27:42.240 --> 27:51.082 There was a lot of words, a lot of names for Holy Spirit that Paul uses, that other writers use that, for whatever reason we just don't use too much in the church. 27:51.720 --> 27:59.369 We always call him Holy Spirit, but Paul called him the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of liberty, the spirit of his son. 28:01.540 --> 28:02.484 Why is that important? 28:04.080 --> 28:04.762 It's important. 28:07.028 --> 28:12.988 It's important because too often we separate the Godhead to a fault. 28:15.240 --> 28:17.527 I understand that God has manifested in three persons. 28:18.600 --> 28:25.208 I believe there is a trinity, but I also believe there is a unity, and sometimes almost bordering on paganism. 28:25.320 --> 28:35.445 People separated and they've moved away from a monotheistic faith and it's like they have three separate gods and the Holy Spirit is in third place, like he's not that involved. 28:35.560 --> 28:37.367 Yeah, he kind of comes later in the Bible, in Acts. 28:37.460 --> 28:41.468 He makes people speak in funny languages and he does a few miracles. 28:41.901 --> 28:44.970 He's been present since Genesis, hovering over the water. 28:45.420 --> 28:48.229 You know, in creation you see the entire Godhead. 28:48.340 --> 28:57.210 You see the Father speak, the word, that's Jesus, while the Holy Spirit is merahepithing in the Hebrew, hovering like a mother hen over her chicks over the water. 28:57.560 --> 29:00.329 And when the word met the spirit, creation happened. 29:00.620 --> 29:01.162 You know where else. 29:01.182 --> 29:03.627 You see him At the crucifixion. 29:04.040 --> 29:06.364 What do you think the Holy Spirit was doing at the crucifixion? 29:06.940 --> 29:08.567 Kicking back in heaven, waiting for his time. 29:08.620 --> 29:16.705 On the day of Pentecost the Bible says that Jesus offered himself up through the uses another title for him the eternal spirit. 29:17.200 --> 29:24.887 The Holy Spirit was right there and the sacrifice of Jesus was received by the Father because it was offered through the eternal spirit. 29:25.640 --> 29:38.006 And here the Holy Spirit is called the spirit of his son and the Holy Spirit is in another place called the spirit of the Lord, is it possible that Jesus is the Holy Spirit? 29:39.009 --> 29:40.352 Yes, are they separate? 29:40.600 --> 29:40.761 Yes. 29:41.800 --> 29:43.285 Does this make sense to your carnal mind? 29:43.386 --> 29:45.883 No, welcome to my world. 29:48.826 --> 29:58.286 No, I want to say this to you because I used to be able to beautifully describe the Trinity when I was 25 years old and fresh out of Bible college Really new. 29:58.860 --> 30:04.408 And then, the older I get, the more I pour into the scripture and the more I meet God, the quieter I am. 30:06.380 --> 30:07.042 I just go, lord. 30:07.925 --> 30:10.666 There's some things I mean I get it, but I don't get it. 30:10.900 --> 30:11.622 And there's some things. 30:13.588 --> 30:16.442 There's some things that I'm only really gonna get when I stand before you. 30:17.445 --> 30:17.706 Amen. 30:18.260 --> 30:25.271 But I am convinced too many people separate them out, and when, to the detriment. 30:25.914 --> 30:30.906 When the apostle John appeared in the book of Revelation, he said I saw the one sitting on the throne. 30:31.721 --> 30:40.311 To some people they would say I saw the three sitting on the throne, I saw the one one, god manifested in three persons. 30:41.680 --> 30:43.988 Focus also on the unity as much as you do the Trinity. 30:45.525 --> 30:46.408 Why is that important? 30:46.520 --> 30:59.250 It's important because when you ask for the Holy Spirit to come, it's not some other guy, it's the spirit of Jesus, it's his spirit, it's Jesus, the spirit of the Lord. 30:59.740 --> 31:03.908 When you talk to the Father, you're not talking to the stern, disciplinarian part of God. 31:04.680 --> 31:06.962 Jesus said you see the Father, you see me, you see me. 31:06.982 --> 31:08.542 You see the Father, we're one. 31:09.420 --> 31:10.082 This will help you. 31:11.366 --> 31:14.335 Amen, hallelujah. 31:15.600 --> 31:16.444 Let's go to verse seven. 31:17.780 --> 31:19.808 Therefore, you are no longer a slave. 31:20.140 --> 31:23.105 What does being a slave mean Under the system of law? 31:24.280 --> 31:25.325 But now you're a son. 31:25.580 --> 31:26.324 When are you a son? 31:26.720 --> 31:28.145 When you're completely under grace. 31:29.080 --> 31:30.105 Wow, this sounds important. 31:30.160 --> 31:32.048 I should do a whole series on Galatians. 31:32.120 --> 31:33.905 So people are no longer slaves, but sons. 31:34.969 --> 31:35.290 Amen. 31:36.881 --> 31:38.046 Then and ere. 31:38.280 --> 31:39.022 Oh, this is so. 31:39.804 --> 31:48.044 Why are you all so in such a hurry back there, always in a hurry, I'm not blown through this. 31:48.980 --> 31:50.426 Then and ere of God. 31:53.840 --> 31:54.584 Brian, was it like that? 31:54.624 --> 31:56.990 In college the professor had the little clicker in his? 31:57.010 --> 31:57.734 Remember that guy? 31:57.774 --> 32:01.809 He had the little and then he would be like next slide, I'm gonna get one of those little clickers for the verses. 32:04.760 --> 32:09.948 I'm just I wouldn't trade my media team blessings for anything. 32:12.220 --> 32:13.044 No clicker here. 32:17.300 --> 32:19.724 The Bible calls you heirs, right, listen, listen, listen. 32:20.300 --> 32:25.687 A good question, right, if the Bible says you're in there, a good question asked is what am I in ere of? 32:26.960 --> 32:27.884 What did I inherit? 32:29.800 --> 32:31.987 Testament is like last will and testimony. 32:32.700 --> 32:35.429 The new Testament shows you what you're in ere of. 32:37.024 --> 32:38.249 We never really talk about that. 32:38.702 --> 32:39.706 What did you inherit? 32:41.220 --> 32:43.468 He said well, I guess, forgiveness of sins, yeah. 32:45.420 --> 32:53.107 Healing in my body, yes, friendship with God, yes, prosperity financial, to be clear. 32:53.287 --> 32:55.486 So when I say prosperity, you don't think like soul prosperity. 32:55.780 --> 32:58.586 Yes, soul prosperity, pocketbook prosperity. 33:00.771 --> 33:13.588 When I talk about money, I try to say it in the most offensive way possible, to ruffle feathers yes, financial prosperity, but really that's just the fruit. 33:13.668 --> 33:14.250 What's the root? 33:14.840 --> 33:15.462 It's right there. 33:16.245 --> 33:17.048 What did you inherit? 33:17.380 --> 33:20.386 It's not what did you inherit, it's whom did you inherit? 33:21.120 --> 33:23.027 You're an heir of God. 33:23.820 --> 33:27.290 Your inheritance is God himself. 33:28.060 --> 33:29.606 He's given himself to you. 33:30.500 --> 33:32.527 How did you get such an inheritance? 33:33.040 --> 33:37.550 Jesus' blood paid for you to be an heir. 33:38.740 --> 33:40.506 Your portion is God. 33:42.100 --> 33:43.184 You belong to him. 33:44.700 --> 33:45.986 But he says I now belong to you. 33:46.140 --> 33:48.147 Do you understand the depth and beauty of this covenant? 33:48.540 --> 33:56.443 This is why, in the song of Solomon, the bride to be cries out I am my beloved and my beloved is mine, woo. 33:56.544 --> 33:57.807 I felt the anointing on that. 33:59.621 --> 34:04.910 I belong to God, but because of the covenant, he belongs to me. 34:05.180 --> 34:06.565 He's my portion forever. 34:07.460 --> 34:08.344 He's my inheritance. 34:09.500 --> 34:11.947 You're an heir of God through Christ, verse 8. 34:13.700 --> 34:23.922 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which, by nature, idols, pagan, false gods. 34:24.022 --> 34:27.090 You served those which by nature, are not gods. 34:28.480 --> 34:31.588 But now, after you have known God, verse 9. 34:33.000 --> 34:37.009 And then he corrects himself or rather, are known by God. 34:37.571 --> 34:38.272 Catch that, please. 34:38.740 --> 34:41.460 Just take a moment and read that. 34:41.460 --> 34:54.331 But now, after you have known God and Paul is dictating this, by the way, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, someone else is scribing it he says after you have known God, or rather are known by God. 34:54.391 --> 34:54.652 Why? 34:55.361 --> 34:58.670 Because it's actually much more important that God know you than you know him. 34:59.500 --> 35:05.949 Both are important, but first he has to know you, and we're in the process of knowing him. 35:06.740 --> 35:08.784 It's a journey, it's a lifelong journey. 35:09.380 --> 35:16.169 Paul said my determined purpose is to know him, but you won't really fully know him until you get there. 35:16.740 --> 35:18.206 And then it's just something so beautiful. 35:19.060 --> 35:28.412 In first or second John I forget which John but the epistles he says you will know him the same way you are known by him. 35:28.860 --> 35:29.643 Isn't that amazing? 35:30.600 --> 35:31.703 How are you known by God? 35:31.783 --> 35:35.191 Completely, thoroughly, fully and intimately? 35:35.211 --> 35:35.852 He knows everything. 35:36.220 --> 35:43.610 He knows what every cell in your body is doing right now and every thought you've ever had it says that when you stand before him you will know him, even as he knows you. 35:43.900 --> 35:44.604 Isn't that so awesome? 35:45.380 --> 35:51.248 But until then, we're just trying to bridge the gap, know him more and more so we're not totally shocked when we get to heaven. 35:52.020 --> 35:53.547 Some Christians are going to be so shocked. 35:53.660 --> 36:01.068 They'll get to heaven with the very basic faith in the blood of Jesus, but they have all these other preconceived ideas and notions of what God is like. 36:01.088 --> 36:01.911 They're going to get to heaven. 36:02.140 --> 36:03.807 It's going to be a giant jubilant party. 36:04.360 --> 36:08.871 God is going to have a big smile on his face and they'll go who is this A freak out? 36:09.582 --> 36:10.485 And then they'll get to know him. 36:11.300 --> 36:15.711 And then they'll be like I think that's the space of half an hour where there's total silence. 36:16.501 --> 36:23.225 You're going to be like you know, that stupid theology professor totally messed me up, told me all this stuff about God. 36:23.340 --> 36:24.347 He's nothing like this. 36:24.911 --> 36:26.080 Everybody will be quiet for half an hour. 36:26.160 --> 36:29.103 They'll be like well, glad that's done with, let's move on now for eternity. 36:33.960 --> 36:35.487 I mean, it's much more important that he know you. 36:35.660 --> 36:37.788 What you don't want to hear is depart from me. 36:37.880 --> 36:40.022 I never knew you and he knows you. 36:40.063 --> 36:43.016 When you say Jesus, I give you my life, jesus, come in. 36:43.558 --> 36:45.064 And then we go on the journey of knowing him. 36:46.100 --> 36:56.030 But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements? 36:59.507 --> 37:05.000 The ABCs of the universe, the system of the law do good, get good, do bad, get bad. 37:05.301 --> 37:06.425 That's the system of the law. 37:07.080 --> 37:12.468 It flies in the face of grace, it's mixing the covenants. 37:13.450 --> 37:17.080 And Paul says how, after you've known the truth, you're now going backwards. 37:18.084 --> 37:19.188 You want to be in bondage. 37:19.420 --> 37:27.211 I know right, silly Galatians. 37:27.671 --> 37:28.693 How could they do such a thing? 37:29.620 --> 37:31.346 This is what we tend to do every single day. 37:32.780 --> 37:34.265 You take your eyes off of Jesus and who do? 37:34.285 --> 37:37.467 You put them on yourself and very quickly you'll find you don't measure up. 37:38.000 --> 37:44.563 And then in comes guilt, in comes shame, in comes condemnation, which brings that separation, and you're wracking your brain. 37:44.804 --> 37:46.289 Okay, I know what I have to do. 37:47.262 --> 37:48.065 Don't do anything. 37:48.680 --> 37:49.685 I need to go back to church. 37:49.900 --> 37:51.626 Yes, you do, but stop before you do that. 37:52.820 --> 37:53.562 That's not what you need to do. 37:53.602 --> 37:55.949 To get your right standing before God. 37:56.500 --> 38:09.685 You need to look to Jesus, confess Him as your Lord, talk to Him and then all that other stuff, but not to gain God's approval, but because you already have it and so much of Christianity is set up with. 38:09.826 --> 38:11.029 If this, then that. 38:12.221 --> 38:14.008 Like, if you do this, then God will do that. 38:14.180 --> 38:21.794 Like he's this easily manipulable person who you have to do, then he does something. 38:22.020 --> 38:22.984 No, it doesn't work that way. 38:25.082 --> 38:25.864 It doesn't work that way. 38:30.660 --> 38:41.581 All the stuff I've ever received, and God has been so good to me, none of it I deserved Almost always came at a time that I expected, not Hallelujah. 38:44.469 --> 38:48.749 And then there's times, right, long seasons of years praying hours a day. 38:48.960 --> 38:50.263 I mean living in the glory. 38:51.346 --> 38:52.770 I'm like nothing in the naturalist. 38:52.830 --> 38:53.371 Am I happy? 38:53.860 --> 38:57.249 Yeah, I have joy and speak, but nothing in my life is like really changing. 38:58.700 --> 38:59.182 Finance is the same. 38:59.202 --> 39:12.026 Living in the same place, emily, less broke, busted, disgusted, waiting for my Emily, and I'm like Lord, I'm doing all this stuff for you. 39:13.140 --> 39:13.884 That is my reward. 39:16.196 --> 39:21.560 And then he goes well, that is the reward you serving me enjoy. 39:22.061 --> 39:22.422 That is it. 39:24.977 --> 39:25.318 What is this? 39:25.378 --> 39:26.061 A transaction? 39:26.215 --> 39:40.881 I'm gonna pay you now for being and you go, oh, okay, and you mess up royally and you think now I'm definitely gonna lose and nothing good's gonna ever happen. 39:41.155 --> 39:48.685 And then God says to the angels all right, boys, back up the truck now, the truck of blessings and just dump it on him. 39:49.515 --> 39:50.098 And I'm like huh. 39:51.635 --> 39:53.261 Lord, you're really messing me up here. 39:53.715 --> 39:54.599 He goes that's what I do. 39:56.075 --> 40:01.500 I'm not like you and I'm not like people and I'm not like the ABCs of the universe and every other religious system. 40:02.215 --> 40:05.360 And now I'm sitting there under a mountain of blessings and what do you think? 40:05.380 --> 40:05.866 I'm thinking? 40:06.615 --> 40:16.424 I'm thinking, lord, you are so good, by your grace, I will serve you forever because you are so good, far better to me than I am to you. 40:17.066 --> 40:17.387 Amen. 40:20.475 --> 40:24.106 But they wanna go back to the weak and beggarly elements, to be in bondage. 40:24.175 --> 40:28.782 You observe days and months and seasons and years, so circumcision was just one of the things. 40:28.895 --> 40:30.741 They were trying to get them to keep the Sabbath. 40:32.035 --> 40:34.783 You know, certain holidays are exalted over other holidays. 40:36.175 --> 40:37.781 That's all a system of the law. 40:39.618 --> 40:50.881 Verse 12, brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. 40:51.035 --> 40:53.363 And then he says you have not injured me at all. 40:54.115 --> 40:55.400 What is Paul saying here? 41:00.677 --> 41:06.194 He's saying, hey, when you're not injured, you're not injured, you're not injured. 41:06.355 --> 41:07.379 Paul is just saying this. 41:07.460 --> 41:09.741 He's saying, hey, we're gonna take a trip down memory lane. 41:10.015 --> 41:17.362 Look, you've seen Paul the apostle, paul the rebuke, and Paul has been very, very stern here, the sternest you'll ever see him in the scriptures. 41:18.195 --> 41:21.842 And now it's like he's like okay, let me just make a few things clear. 41:22.355 --> 41:23.501 You haven't injured me at all. 41:23.575 --> 41:29.185 In other words, I'm not writing you so sternly and rebuking you so harshly because you offended me. 41:30.555 --> 41:42.099 It's not like hey, by the way, I led you all to Jesus and then I left, and now you start listening to some other group adding to the finished work, adding to the gospel that I presented to you and I'm now jealous. 41:42.955 --> 41:44.681 So I'm really smacking you. 41:44.701 --> 41:54.700 Through this epistle he's not saying hey, let's just, let's go back down, let's go back, take a stroll down memory lane, review our relationship and let me just say you haven't injured me at all. 41:55.255 --> 42:02.121 Next verse you know that because of I don't even know where we are right now. 42:02.415 --> 42:04.242 Is that the right verse 13? 42:07.295 --> 42:13.343 Okay, you know that because of physical infirmity, I preached the gospel to you at first. 42:14.315 --> 42:20.725 Uh-oh, physical infirmity and my trial, which was in my flesh. 42:20.895 --> 42:22.642 You did not despise or reject. 42:22.755 --> 42:25.202 So Paul had this trial in his flesh. 42:26.595 --> 42:31.820 You did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 42:31.915 --> 42:36.480 He's reminding them of how tight they used to be, of how close they used to be. 42:37.235 --> 42:38.595 Remember, he's just, he's letting them know. 42:38.635 --> 42:42.183 Hey look, I know I've been harsh to you, but remember, we actually have a good relationship. 42:42.735 --> 42:48.917 I had this thing in my flesh you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus, verse 15,. 42:49.860 --> 42:51.705 What, then, was the blessing you enjoyed? 42:52.275 --> 42:58.079 For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. 42:58.475 --> 43:07.303 Now, this is awesome, because only an egghead theologian can mess up this particular passage. 43:08.435 --> 43:09.980 Listen, they'll come. 43:10.000 --> 43:11.365 There's whole pockets in Christianity. 43:11.455 --> 43:14.483 They'll tell you Paul had a terrible sickness. 43:15.695 --> 43:17.301 There's some people that just wanna stay sick. 43:18.115 --> 43:21.861 Or if they're sick and they haven't received their healing, they don't know how to process that. 43:22.195 --> 43:24.303 So then they tell themselves God is doing this. 43:24.695 --> 43:28.001 Doesn't matter that everywhere Jesus went, he healed them over and over again. 43:28.095 --> 43:31.345 He says everyone, everyone, he healed them all. 43:31.635 --> 43:34.819 Doesn't matter that Jesus never, ever turned away somebody from healing. 43:35.295 --> 43:44.523 Doesn't matter that Jesus has already past tense, healed us physically, because when they whipped Him, our sicknesses, our diseases fell upon Him. 43:45.355 --> 43:46.761 By His stripes we were healed. 43:47.275 --> 43:51.581 Doesn't matter when you're sick, because pain is a very loud speaker. 43:51.655 --> 43:59.603 I've never seen people change their theology quicker than when they're sick and then they wanna justify sickness and pretend that God gave it to them. 43:59.715 --> 44:03.740 No, if you're sick, if you're hurting, my compassion goes out to you. 44:03.860 --> 44:04.763 You're not to blame. 44:05.315 --> 44:08.800 I'm not saying you have secret or hidden sin in your life, but please don't put it on God. 44:09.515 --> 44:20.320 Please don't tell me that the one who has healed sickness when he was here in the flesh now has some spare in a spare pocket and just kinda arbitrarily doles it out to humanity. 44:21.875 --> 44:22.719 So what's going on here? 44:23.015 --> 44:24.080 Listen, this is so crazy. 44:24.735 --> 44:25.599 They'll take this apart. 44:25.639 --> 44:32.638 About Paul saying I had a trial in my flesh, and take the part where he says you would have taken out your own eyes and given them to me. 44:33.335 --> 44:37.104 And then in the end of Galatians he says see with what large letters I have written you. 44:37.455 --> 44:39.582 And they say aha, he had an eye disease. 44:40.615 --> 44:41.980 He had a terrible, disgusting. 44:42.000 --> 44:42.843 They even have a name for it. 44:42.895 --> 44:45.043 He was oozing, pussing out and that. 44:45.475 --> 44:46.800 Now a couple of problems with that. 44:47.635 --> 44:51.482 It is hard for a doctor today standing across from you to diagnose you correctly. 44:51.895 --> 44:55.301 They're trying to diagnose Paul, who's been physically dead for 1900 years. 44:56.715 --> 45:00.617 Second, that part about see with what large letters I've written you. 45:01.379 --> 45:07.286 It doesn't mean that Paul literally used 72 point font in his email as opposed to the standard 10 to 12. 45:08.595 --> 45:12.665 Dear Galatians, see with what large letters I'm writing you. 45:13.735 --> 45:17.103 It just means that he, first of all, he didn't write his epistles, he dictated them. 45:17.255 --> 45:19.463 He'll often thank the person who did the actual writing. 45:22.120 --> 45:24.446 It just means he wrote a long letter, amen. 45:25.036 --> 45:32.102 And then, for the complete trifecta, they'll add the third part from Corinthians, the infamous Paul's thorn in the flesh. 45:32.795 --> 45:35.921 And they'll say see, his thorn in the flesh was his disgusting pussy eye. 45:36.015 --> 45:42.543 He was so ugly and he thanks the Galatians for hearing the gospel from him because he was so hideous just to even look at. 45:45.196 --> 45:46.221 I get a kick out of this. 45:48.480 --> 45:50.165 Paul's thorn in the flesh is not a sickness. 45:51.035 --> 45:53.023 Paul's thorn in the flesh is not disease. 45:53.115 --> 45:53.819 How do we know that? 45:54.195 --> 45:59.060 Because he defines so many of our problems would go away if we just continued reading. 45:59.615 --> 46:01.543 He defines what the thorn is. 46:01.955 --> 46:06.098 He says the persecutions, the persecute. 46:06.378 --> 46:08.044 He had the gift of persecution. 46:08.135 --> 46:14.725 He calls the thorn in the flesh a heavenly messenger, an angelos, not a heavenly messenger of Satan, excuse me. 46:15.175 --> 46:17.864 An angelos, a messenger sent to buffet him. 46:18.495 --> 46:19.600 How was Paul buffeted? 46:20.115 --> 46:26.026 You see it, from as soon as he saved, he had this unique gift to get persecuted everywhere he went. 46:28.075 --> 46:29.099 No, it was a gift. 46:29.795 --> 46:30.958 Listen, in one place. 46:31.018 --> 46:37.002 No, I mean it was on the gift level because he would come into town, listen. 46:37.335 --> 46:41.999 He would deliver a sermon so anointed, so full of the fire of God. 46:42.039 --> 46:43.083 All the heathen that heard him. 46:43.915 --> 46:47.461 They said the gods have come down in the form of men to speak to us. 46:47.795 --> 46:51.684 That's on Tuesday, on Wednesday, to the same crowd, in the same place. 46:51.695 --> 46:52.238 This is an ax. 46:52.915 --> 46:56.605 He preaches again and they all pick up stones to stone him. 46:57.175 --> 46:57.737 What happened? 46:57.978 --> 46:59.102 In less than 24 hours? 46:59.835 --> 47:01.923 An angelos of Satan, the gift of persecution. 47:03.375 --> 47:04.479 That's his thorn in the flesh. 47:05.595 --> 47:09.681 And to anybody who serves Jesus Christ fully, you're gonna notice persecution. 47:10.815 --> 47:18.757 Jesus even said no one has left mothers or fathers or houses that you want in this life and the next. 47:18.838 --> 47:19.701 Reap a hundred fold. 47:19.935 --> 47:23.245 He said that, reap a hundred fold in this life and the next. 47:23.355 --> 47:25.301 And then he said, with persecution. 47:25.782 --> 47:37.777 He added that part Par for the chorus, baby Hallelujah, the servant is not above his master, and this whole part about you would have plucked out my own eyes. 47:38.660 --> 47:43.840 Nobody here in the first service, but maybe in the second, anybody here from Greece or Montenegro there's my. 47:43.860 --> 47:50.303 Montenegro Back me up on this one Anybody from the Balkans or Greece. 47:52.855 --> 47:58.343 So they say Paul had this bad eye and he's saying to the Galatians you would have plucked out your eye and given it to me. 47:58.395 --> 47:59.620 That's why Paul had a bad eye. 48:01.815 --> 48:04.197 Now you got two people with bad eyes you plucked out. 48:04.217 --> 48:05.200 That doesn't solve the problem. 48:06.795 --> 48:09.424 This when he said this to everybody back then. 48:09.484 --> 48:11.381 You, everybody in our region, knows. 48:11.595 --> 48:13.142 Have you ever heard this expression before? 48:13.495 --> 48:19.978 My grandmother used to say this because we're a weird emotional people, we wax poetic. 48:20.038 --> 48:26.262 My grandma couldn't say I love you, but she would say oh, child, I would pluck my eye out and give it to you. 48:26.575 --> 48:26.776 What? 48:27.895 --> 48:33.399 Like get me a chocolate bar, tell me you love me, but we say this weird. 48:33.419 --> 48:40.325 This is where we're from, macedonia, which is all over the Bible and that was a part of former Yugoslavia. 48:40.355 --> 48:45.884 This is that same mentality, that same region across the Adriatic Sea going down into Greece. 48:46.295 --> 48:49.602 They all knew what he was talking about, but it took American theologians to go. 48:49.675 --> 48:51.241 You know, I think Paul had an eye disease. 48:53.621 --> 48:54.764 It's an expression. 48:56.515 --> 48:57.157 Who said it is? 48:58.381 --> 49:04.797 You know what I'm talking about, stella, stella Right. 49:06.095 --> 49:09.563 All sorts of things, even like oh, you know, I would cut my arms. 49:09.855 --> 49:10.537 No, keep your arms. 49:10.618 --> 49:11.641 Give me a chocolate, grandma. 49:12.935 --> 49:14.722 Put a chocolate right down in the corner store. 49:17.735 --> 49:19.320 All right, verse 16. 49:21.216 --> 49:24.600 Have, oh, this verse If you ever want to get me a gift. 49:26.275 --> 49:27.240 Have I ever asked for a gift? 49:27.375 --> 49:33.538 But somebody's going to get this for me one day A plaque with this verse on it for my desk where I do counseling. 49:35.115 --> 49:37.083 Have I therefore become your enemy? 49:37.215 --> 49:38.640 Because I tell you the truth. 49:40.075 --> 49:41.620 I need this on my desk. 49:43.616 --> 49:45.644 I I'll do counseling with anyone. 49:45.795 --> 49:47.280 I'll meet with anyone in our church. 49:48.435 --> 49:49.299 I actually enjoy it. 49:49.775 --> 49:53.500 The only part I don't enjoy is that it is the biggest impediment to church growth. 49:53.575 --> 49:54.860 Is me actually meeting with people? 49:55.815 --> 49:56.860 I lose more people. 49:56.975 --> 49:59.438 You think his pastor just meant more people, the church would grow. 49:59.835 --> 50:00.678 It's the opposite. 50:02.315 --> 50:04.562 Whenever I withdraw a little bit, the church grows. 50:05.775 --> 50:06.860 Then people want to meet with me. 50:07.295 --> 50:09.196 Then I have to tell them the truth and now I'm. 50:10.721 --> 50:11.804 I'm not that guy anymore. 50:12.395 --> 50:13.741 Before that I was that guy. 50:14.195 --> 50:18.702 Pastor Boyan, the way you share the gospel I'd never I didn't even know grace. 50:19.075 --> 50:20.260 I'm so grateful for you. 50:20.635 --> 50:21.419 I'm so glad. 50:21.775 --> 50:23.542 The way you deliver, you're all the compliments. 50:23.975 --> 50:27.541 Then we have a counseling session and I try to be so gentle. 50:27.655 --> 50:30.036 So, but I got to speak the truth in love the moment. 50:30.056 --> 50:32.223 The truth oh, you're not like how I thought. 50:34.841 --> 50:36.486 Ah, oh, you're different. 50:39.835 --> 50:43.185 Listen, this is in your relationships too. 50:43.595 --> 50:47.742 Everybody's going to always like you, as long as they agree with everything you're saying. 50:48.595 --> 50:52.440 It's when you tell them the opposite of what they want to hear that you actually meet the person. 50:53.383 --> 50:56.720 Amen, and so you don't know. 50:56.980 --> 51:05.997 My greatest fans I hate to use the word fans, but I'm talking about loyal city lighters, who, who not only love the church but genuinely, I knew, loved me. 51:06.398 --> 51:18.643 They were supporting me, but when the COVID thing went down, all of a sudden I was enemy number one Because I wasn't walking around with a mask and you know hugging people with an air hug from six feet away. 51:19.635 --> 51:27.700 Because I kept the church open and to those who didn't want to be vaccinated, we provided religious exemptions, because we don't believe the government should tell you what you should stick in your body. 51:27.815 --> 51:29.678 Amen, hallelujah. 51:30.335 --> 51:36.119 But then I became an enemy Now, so many people that God jabbed up many of you, thankfully. 51:36.139 --> 51:41.198 If you had to, let me let me not say that you didn't have to, but you did it you can say you had to. 51:41.238 --> 51:41.821 We've had people. 51:42.275 --> 51:48.161 You know who the biggest resistors of the vaccine were, where people in the medical community city light has a bunch of people in the medical. 51:48.182 --> 51:48.723 They didn't get it. 51:50.935 --> 51:59.562 And those of you who did get it, you trust the blood of Jesus to purge you, to cleanse you and, for the love of God, do not be 3X, 4x, 5x boosted, please. 52:00.926 --> 52:05.703 Please, let them use a pin cushion of their own design, not you. 52:06.164 --> 52:06.405 Amen. 52:08.235 --> 52:09.580 But people thought I lost my mind. 52:10.535 --> 52:11.439 Now the truth is out. 52:11.795 --> 52:13.621 I notice nobody has come back to apologize. 52:14.915 --> 52:16.781 Nobody, zero. 52:16.821 --> 52:24.284 People have come back and said you know, I left the church because I was, I was scared to be associated with you. 52:26.423 --> 52:30.644 And now no one came back and said hey, you know you sounded crazy back then. 52:30.675 --> 52:33.323 Do you ever notice these supposed conspiracy theorists? 52:35.856 --> 52:37.575 It's just a matter of 12 to 18 months. 52:37.675 --> 52:39.342 And then it turns out they were right all along. 52:40.297 --> 52:41.121 Ha ha ha ha. 52:46.316 --> 52:49.029 Random, pitter-patter of claps. 52:49.712 --> 52:55.618 Ha ha ha, random, but still is it safe to Hallelujah? 52:56.860 --> 52:57.404 Ha ha ha. 52:58.497 --> 52:59.883 All right, I think we should move on from that. 53:00.757 --> 53:03.866 I could camp around that verse for the rest of our time together. 53:05.681 --> 53:09.921 Ha ha ha, they zealously court you. 53:11.935 --> 53:14.244 You know cults have that term love bombing. 53:15.375 --> 53:17.082 That's how they get you and it's an actual term. 53:17.755 --> 53:20.403 Church of Scientology has that term love bombing. 53:21.195 --> 53:22.500 They zealously court you. 53:23.475 --> 53:24.901 They make you the center of their world. 53:25.036 --> 53:26.275 They put all their attention on you. 53:26.315 --> 53:31.018 You've never been so loved and then you do whatever the cult says to do they zealously. 53:31.058 --> 53:36.243 The Judaizers, the covenant mixers In case you I've gone off on too many rabbit trails. 53:36.635 --> 53:40.479 The theme here is do not mix covenants, stay under grace. 53:41.656 --> 53:44.858 Covenant mixers will zealously court you, but for no good. 53:44.898 --> 53:47.356 Yes, they want to exclude you that. 53:47.396 --> 53:55.602 You may be zealous for them, but it is good to be zealous in a good thing, always, and not only when I am present with you. 53:56.235 --> 53:57.396 Now here's Pastor Paul. 53:57.397 --> 53:58.741 He's been rebuking him up and down. 53:58.802 --> 53:59.544 He shows his heart. 53:59.555 --> 54:01.782 He says my little children, I love you. 54:01.822 --> 54:04.099 Galatians, you're acting silly. 54:05.375 --> 54:06.338 You were being set free. 54:06.378 --> 54:07.903 Now you're going back into slavery. 54:08.855 --> 54:11.264 You got grace and now you're going back into bondage. 54:11.355 --> 54:14.499 You're nuts, but I love you, my little children. 54:15.375 --> 54:21.365 But there's a key here in this verse he says for whom I labor in birth again? 54:22.775 --> 54:27.463 If he's laboring in birth again, that means he labored in birth once before. 54:28.655 --> 54:37.862 There's a key to seeing our family members saved our unbelieving spouses, that pig-headed co-worker that you love, that you've been friends with for years. 54:38.555 --> 54:45.045 There has to be a labor in the spirit, like a woman with child in labor. 54:46.255 --> 54:48.963 They're not going to get saved until something breaks in you. 54:49.795 --> 54:51.481 They're not going to be saved until you. 54:52.395 --> 54:53.741 You know what we all have in common. 54:54.576 --> 54:57.083 Somebody labored for us in prayer to be here. 54:58.095 --> 54:59.361 We all have that in common. 54:59.836 --> 55:01.883 Somebody prayed, and by labor. 55:02.456 --> 55:05.681 It wasn't just the end, lord, please bless so and so and let them get saved. 55:05.755 --> 55:06.518 No, there was a. 55:06.559 --> 55:18.084 It could have been two minutes, it could have been 20 weeks, 20 months, 20, but somebody took you and presented you to God and said, ah, like a woman in labor. 55:19.259 --> 55:27.675 Ah, god, open their eyes, soften their heart, let the truth pierce, let them come into your marvelous light. 55:28.297 --> 55:30.063 Somebody pray that for every single one of us. 55:31.040 --> 55:32.995 And now we need to labor in prayer. 55:33.659 --> 55:41.744 Paul did it twice once to see them get saved, the second time to see them mature in Christ until Christ is formed in them. 55:43.060 --> 55:43.644 Verse 20,. 55:43.664 --> 55:48.766 We should have at least one person that we're targeting with our prayers, at least one. 55:49.400 --> 55:50.395 I mean start with your family. 55:50.981 --> 55:52.435 You've been promised household salvation. 55:53.258 --> 55:57.204 That's in the Bible and that's supposed to get to heaven and wonder where's the crew. 55:59.348 --> 56:00.435 No, his whole house got saved. 56:01.618 --> 56:05.107 The Philippian jailer he was saved, and his whole house. 56:06.041 --> 56:09.435 When Paul talked about who he baptized, it was the house of Stefanus. 56:10.538 --> 56:11.922 He mentions whole households. 56:13.005 --> 56:18.405 Oh hallelujah, I would like to be worshiped in coming up. 56:18.495 --> 56:25.466 I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I have doubts about you. 56:28.733 --> 56:29.435 Let's stop here. 56:30.099 --> 56:36.415 We're going to continue with Galatians 4, because this second part of Galatians 4 is awesome. 56:37.182 --> 56:38.435 Please read Galatians 4. 56:39.277 --> 56:41.123 Read it in its entirety, read it every day. 56:41.163 --> 56:46.395 It's one chapter and we'll conclude next week, but I'll just close with this. 56:47.197 --> 56:48.982 Paul said that he has his doubts about him. 56:50.778 --> 56:54.462 Isn't it wild how the Corinthian church was an infamously carnal church. 56:56.238 --> 56:58.779 They were nuts Like. 57:01.589 --> 57:05.435 Corinth back then was an urban center and it was totally heathen and pagan. 57:05.879 --> 57:07.435 Does that remind you of any other urban center? 57:09.686 --> 57:18.286 And a bunch of people get radically saved and they all end up in the same life groups together Like two weeks old in the Lord. 57:18.447 --> 57:20.435 Guess what that produced Craziness. 57:21.748 --> 57:25.184 Paul had to write and be like hey, you want to stop getting drunk when you're taking communion. 57:25.879 --> 57:27.435 Hey, you want to stop sleeping with each other. 57:28.384 --> 57:38.395 And by the way, when he corrected people when they were in total sin, like fornication, adultery, he never said you nasty, disgusting thing, eh, repent. 57:39.539 --> 57:41.405 He would always remind them of who they are. 57:41.778 --> 57:43.435 He would always call them to a higher purpose. 57:43.837 --> 57:45.485 What Don't you know? 57:45.787 --> 57:47.435 Your body is the temple of the living God. 57:48.298 --> 57:49.122 What? 57:49.262 --> 57:50.708 That's not who you really are. 57:50.909 --> 57:51.873 You must have forgotten. 57:51.893 --> 57:54.222 You've been cleansed, you've been made perfect. 57:54.556 --> 57:55.162 Remember who. 57:55.384 --> 57:56.435 Go back to who you really are. 58:04.648 --> 58:06.410 He was encouraging and uplifting. 58:06.877 --> 58:08.102 You never see him lose it. 58:08.515 --> 58:13.862 But with the Galatian he never says to the Corinthians you guys are so nuts I have my doubts about you. 58:15.896 --> 58:20.820 But to the Galatians he says that I got to let the cat out of the bag. 58:21.435 --> 58:24.385 He actually he gets so upset. 58:24.455 --> 58:24.917 We'll read it. 58:25.017 --> 58:25.600 It's in the Bible. 58:26.455 --> 58:29.603 He tells the Judaizers he says I wish they would cut themselves off. 58:31.918 --> 58:33.328 You say is he talking about? 58:34.314 --> 58:35.620 Yeah, yeah, that's what he's talking about. 58:36.756 --> 58:39.704 He actually says I wish they would emasculate themselves. 58:40.656 --> 58:42.021 I don't know they're not getting what I'm saying. 58:42.776 --> 58:45.783 He says I wish that they would all put a Lorraine Bobbit on themselves. 58:48.199 --> 58:49.103 This is in the Bible. 58:49.525 --> 58:50.390 He's talking about that. 58:50.490 --> 58:51.435 He's like oh, they like to cut so much. 58:51.776 --> 58:53.001 I wish they'd cut themselves off. 58:54.238 --> 58:55.261 The holy impossible. 58:55.301 --> 58:56.325 Did you know that was in the Bible? 58:56.696 --> 58:57.197 It's in there. 59:03.458 --> 59:05.224 Get a plaque of that and put it in your front door. 59:06.177 --> 59:11.980 To all covenant mixers Cut yourself off before you enter my house. 59:18.731 --> 59:20.213 I'm not bending the word, it's right there. 59:20.774 --> 59:21.435 This is an agreed upon thing. 59:22.057 --> 59:23.423 This isn't like some fringe belief. 59:24.037 --> 59:25.162 He says it very plainly. 59:25.896 --> 59:31.584 What would cause Paul to say that and to say Galatians, I'm concerned for you. 59:32.978 --> 59:33.681 Mixture. 59:34.796 --> 59:37.524 You cannot tolerate mixture. 59:38.716 --> 59:39.338 Jesus. 59:39.478 --> 59:42.105 Plus, nothing equals everything. 59:42.535 --> 59:49.021 The moment you put yourself in the picture, you're mixing, and that's dangerous territory. 59:49.435 --> 59:52.144 Let's all stand to our feet, lift your hands up. 59:52.856 --> 59:55.345 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 59:55.956 --> 59:57.080 Thank you, jesus. 59:57.160 --> 59:58.143 Thank you, jesus. 59:58.243 --> 01:00:02.383 Thank you Jesus, hallelujah, hallelujah. 01:00:03.435 --> 01:00:05.721 Thank you, lord, for your grace. 01:00:07.977 --> 01:00:09.001 Thank you, jesus. 01:00:09.475 --> 01:00:13.482 Say this out loud Lord Jesus, thank you for your grace. 01:00:14.595 --> 01:00:18.786 I am saved by grace, through faith. 01:00:19.836 --> 01:00:22.724 I am approved by the blood of Jesus. 01:00:23.696 --> 01:00:35.201 I am accepted, I have been made perfect, I'm a child of God, I'm heaven bound, I'm sealed with the Holy Spirit. 01:00:36.555 --> 01:00:46.349 Good things belong to me because the blood of Jesus has qualified me and made me worthy. 01:00:47.595 --> 01:00:50.664 A fiery, intimate relationship with God. 01:00:51.595 --> 01:00:53.863 Yeah, that's my portion. 01:00:54.756 --> 01:00:57.184 Prosperity is my portion. 01:00:57.876 --> 01:00:59.903 Healing is my portion. 01:01:00.977 --> 01:01:03.624 Victory is my portion. 01:01:05.078 --> 01:01:05.861 Thank you, lord. 01:01:07.258 --> 01:01:11.301 The cross makes it possible, amen. 01:01:13.356 --> 01:01:15.518 This is the City Light Church Podcast. 01:01:28.717 --> 01:01:31.334 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 01:01:32.238 --> 01:01:33.743 We would love to connect with you. 01:01:34.718 --> 01:01:42.244 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace. 01:01:43.078 --> 01:01:43.961 Thank you for listening. 01:01:44.495 --> 01:01:50.000 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church Podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.