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 Well I have a thesis for you. I want you to see if you agree with my thesis. It's a bold statement so see if you agree.

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! My thesis is this. Every one of us in our hearts loves rules. We all love rules. Let me give you some evidence to try and back it down.

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 When we first had a child seven and a half years ago, we suddenly discovered that everyone around us had different baby books.

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 These are books that tell you what routine to follow, how often to feed them, when to put them down for a nap, what to do, what not to do, how dark in the room must be, etc.

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 And everybody craved these books with their newborn children because they all followed them religiously like a manual of instructions

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 because the baby, unlike the new TV, doesn't come with a manual.

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 And so people love these rules so they have some idea what to do.

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 And we get very... they make these rules and make them feel secure.

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 Let me give you another example.

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 Exercise books and magazines that tell you how to get fit.

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 Or what goes with them, the Fitbits and apps on your smartphone that measure how far you've run, how many calories you've burned off,

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 how high your heart rate has been.

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 Why do people spend a huge amount of money on these things?

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 Because they like the rules, they like the targets.

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 We want to know how we've done.

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 See, it's not that actually we like rules in themselves.

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 Probably most of us have some rules we don't like.

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 The stink limits or rules that come from the government somewhere.

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 But actually in our hearts, we all want the security of rules, of black and white,

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 of being able to measure ourselves like these apps on our smartphones and Fitbits and things like that do.

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 To tell us how we're doing.

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 To make us feel like we're making progress.

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 We all love rules.

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 Isn't that right?

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 And not only do we love rules, we love the praise of other people.

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 We love other people telling us we're doing a great job or we're good folks.

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 Now that's understandable because we're human beings,

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 we've been made for relationships, made to live in community.

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 So it's understandable we should want the praise of others.

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 In fact, Jesus in some of his parables

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 uses the thought of getting praise from him on the last day

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 as an incentive for obedience now.

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 So there's nothing wrong with wanting to be praised by others.

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 There isn't necessarily wrong with some rules in themselves.

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 But the danger with rules, with loving rules and loving the praise of others,

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 is we can become slaves to them.

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 If we find our security in keeping certain rules

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 or in being affirmed by other people,

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 then we'll end up being slaves to those rules

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 or slaves to those other people.

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 And that is what was happening to these young Christians

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 in Galatia, what is now modern Turkey,

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 2,000 years ago.

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 And there's a danger for every one of us today

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 who professes to be a follower of Jesus Christ.

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 There's very much a danger for those who do not yet know Jesus Christ.

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 So what's going on here?

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 Well, Paul has been writing to these Galatians

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 to not be slaves but to retain the freedom they have in Jesus Christ.

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 But these false teachers have come in

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 who are very sincere, very plausible, very polite.

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 And they said, no, you need to follow these rules.

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 If you want to be truly secure as part of God's people,

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 you need to follow these Old Testament rules over here,

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 like we do.

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 Then you'll know you're really part of God's people.

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 So Paul is warning them against that slavery.

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 He starts to go before and after contrast to remind them.

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 Look at verse 8.

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 Formally, he said, when you did not know God,

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 you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

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 In those days, these people would have followed

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 the gods of the Roman world or the Greek world

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 or the local cults in Asia Minor.

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 But all those religions were basically the same

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 as every religion is across the world.

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 All based on the basic principle,

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 the elementary principle, as Paul puts it in verse 10.

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 If you do enough good stuff, God will accept you.

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 That's what drives, in a sense, the new mother

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 looking at those baby manuals.

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 If I do this, it will all be alright.

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 What drives the devout Muslim

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 keeping the fast of Ramadan

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 in the hope that if he keeps these rules,

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 Allah will be merciful to him on Judgment Day.

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 See, those things are essentially fear-driven.

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 Keeping the rules to hope you'll be alright.

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 And that means they're always self-centered, actually.

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 So we're always consumed with our own performance.

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 Have I done enough?

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 And when we're consumed with rules

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 or wanting to please others,

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 it either goes one of two ways, doesn't it?

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 Our self-centeredness, it either leads to pride,

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 we look down on other people

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 who don't do it as well as we do,

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 or despair,

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 if you're another type of person,

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 where you think, I have never matched up.

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 And so instead of freedom and joy,

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 we end up with slavery, self-centeredness,

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 pride and despair.

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 Paul's saying that formally.

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 You follow those rules,

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 but you shouldn't anymore.

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 Look at verse 15.

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 Remember what happened after

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 you first believed the Gospel.

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 What then has become of your blessedness,

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 your happiness, we could say?

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 For I testify to you

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 that if possible,

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 you would have gouged out your eyes

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 and given them to me.

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 See, Paul had only ended up in Galatia

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 preaching the Gospel

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 because of some illness.

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 It seems probably connected with his eyes.

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 He said, you are so happy,

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 the joy you experienced

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 in knowing the living God

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 through faith in Jesus Christ.

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 Made you generous.

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 You are saved from despair

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 and pride and slavery.

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 To be generous,

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 has God been generous to you?

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 Now how would that happen?

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 It's because in the good news

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 of Jesus Christ,

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 this Gospel that Paul preached,

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 people could discover

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 they could be accepted by God,

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 not because of what they had done,

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 but because of what Jesus has done.

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 When they had this blessedness,

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 as Paul puts it in verse 15,

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 it's because they could say

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 what Paul said back in chapter 2,

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 verse 20.

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 The life I now live in the flesh,

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 I live by faith in the Son of God

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 who loved me and gave himself for me.

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 They knew they'd be loved by the living God,

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 loved by the Son of God

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 who had given himself for them.

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 So they were set free

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 from the religious rules,

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 set free from pride and despair,

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 set free from the self-centeredness

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 of performance.

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 To be generous,

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 to be joyful,

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 to be blessed.

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 A joy-driven, self-giving life.

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 Paul says that's what you experience.

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 So why,

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 why are you heading back to the slavery?

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 Well of course the reason

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 they're heading back to slavery,

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 the same reason you and I

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 will head back to the slavery of rules,

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 is we like rules

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 because we feel we're achieving,

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 we feel we're secure.

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 We like the praise of other people

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 because it is tangible,

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 it is there for us.

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 We're just like them, aren't we?

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 So what does Paul do

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 to win these people back?

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 How can we be kept

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 living by faith

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 in the Son of God

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 who loved us

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 and gave himself for us?

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 Well as we look through these verses

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 we'll see Paul

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 is reminding them

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 of the joy and delight

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 they had by faith in Christ.

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 He's reminding them

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 two things of that.

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 First of all,

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 he's calling them to enjoy

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 the security they had

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 with God

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 by faith in Christ.

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 Enjoy the security

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 of your relationship

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 with God,

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 he says.

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 Now you see they weren't

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 enjoying that security

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 if you look at verse 10.

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 What were they doing

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 in their slavery?

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 You observed days

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 and months

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 and seasons

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 and years.

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 These were all

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 Jewish practices,

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 mainly from the Old Testament

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 but then embellished

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 by Jewish tradition.

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 Because the false teachers

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 were telling them

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 if you kept these rules

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 you'll really be part

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 of God's people.

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 You'll really know

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 you're secure and loved.

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 But actually those rules

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 were no longer relevant.

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 Those things all pointed forward

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 to the coming of Jesus Christ

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 the true rescuer.

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 They were the school teachers

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 Paul put it

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 in the last chapter

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 of the Guardian

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 who was to point them

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 to Christ.

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 They were now redundant.

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 They served their purposes.

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 They served their purposes.

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 So they were not rules

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 to keep anymore.

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 because they served

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 their purpose.

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 Yet you see the temptation?

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 They felt if they were

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 doing something.

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 They felt if they could

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 measure their performance

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 against a rule

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 then actually that would

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 mean they're okay.

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 Now I don't imagine

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 you or I

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 are very tempted

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 to observe

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 Jewish customs

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 of months and seasons

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 and years.

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 But I bet there are rules

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 we all like to follow.

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 And I know that

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 from my own experience.

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 I mentioned earlier

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 my daughter being born

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 seven and a half years ago.

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 When she was about

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 three months old

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 when she'd wake up

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 in the morning

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 I'd go and take her

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 out for a little walk

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 around where we lived

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 so my wife could have

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 a little bit of extra sleep

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 having been up in the middle

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 of the night feeding her.

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 Now my practice

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 has always been

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 for years and years

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 and years

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 first thing in the morning

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 to have that as my

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 time of reading the Bible

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 and praying.

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 That was my time

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 for God

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 as far as I was concerned.

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 And so I used to get

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 really frustrated

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 on those days

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 where I'd sit down

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 and I'd finally

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 get a Bible open

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 and then Zoe

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 would start crying.

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 And I'd get really angry

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 with my three year old daughter.

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 Why?

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 Because I felt

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 she was interfering

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 with the thing

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 that maintained

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 my relationship

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 with God.

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 So in my mind

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 it was like a rule

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 I had to follow.

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 I had to have that time

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 of the morning

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 of reading and praying

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 otherwise I wasn't

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 a good Christian.

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 What was I doing?

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 I was doing exactly

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 the same as these Galatians.

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 And I was thinking

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 that somehow

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 my relationship

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 with God

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 depended

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 on what I was doing

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 not on what Christ

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 had done.

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 And so that's why

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 I was angry.

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 That's why I was angry.

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 Now what's the cure

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 for thinking

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 we can get right

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 with God

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 by rules

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 or by our own

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 performance?

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 Well let me tell you

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 what the cure is.

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 The cure is not

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 don't make rules

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 because that's just

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 another rule isn't it?

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 That doesn't help.

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 The cure is to enjoy

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 the security we have

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 with our Father

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 in Heaven.

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 That's what Paul

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 reminds me of

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 in verse 9 here

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 of chapter 4.

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 Now you've come

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 to know God

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 or rather be known

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 by God.

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 Do you know

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 how he puts it

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 both ways?

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 I think he puts it

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 both ways

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 for this reason.

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 Often our feelings

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 tell us

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 that we don't

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 really know God

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 or God doesn't

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 really know me.

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 That's how feelings

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 go up and down

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 don't they?

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 I feel terrible

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 unless I've had

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 some food.

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 Some of you

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 are probably

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 feeling quite sleepy

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 and need to have

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 some more coffee.

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 Our feelings change

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 with what we've eaten

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 with the time of day

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 with the weather.

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 Guess from America

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 British weather

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 really affects us.

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 You've seen the rain clouds

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 the last few days

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 you'll know why.

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 Our feelings

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 go up and down.

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 What does not change

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 is God's truth.

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 That's why Paul says

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 you've come to be

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 known by God.

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 And that word

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 known in the Bible

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 is a very personal word.

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 It's not like saying

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 I know Canberra

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 is the capital

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 of Australia.

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 That's just

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 intellectual knowledge.

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 Know here

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 is a personal word.

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 It's like me saying

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 I know my wife.

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 So Paul is reminding them

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 of this security

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 they have in Christ.

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 By faith in Christ

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 they are known

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 by God.

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 They're included

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 in the Lord Jesus.

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 Included

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 in God's family.

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 In the verses

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 before he's told them

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 how God has given

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 them his spirit.

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 So by the spirit

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 they can cry out

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 Abba, Father.

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 They are children

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 of the living God

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 simply by trusting

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 in Jesus Christ.

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 Not by what they do.

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 So when we're tempted

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 to think

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 we need to follow rules

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 to be accepted

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 by God

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 or when we're tempted

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 in society

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 to think that

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 our worth

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 our identity

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 is found in what we do

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 what we've achieved.

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 We need to come back

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 and remember

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 and enjoy

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 the security

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 we can only have

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 through faith

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 in Jesus Christ.

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 The security

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 of being known

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 and loved

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 by our Father

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 in Heaven.

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 That does not come

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 by going to Mass

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 every week.

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 It does not come

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 by heading to church

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 every so often.

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 It does not come

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 through being

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 a nice person.

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 It comes only

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 through faith

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 in Christ.

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 Here's the first point

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 Paul is making.

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 Enjoy the security

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 of God's relationship

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 with you.

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 Flee the slavery.

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 Flee thinking

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 you need to have

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 that 20 minutes

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 in the morning.

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 But your relationship

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 with God

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 depends on that.

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 It does not.

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 It depends

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 on Christ

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 who died for you.

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 There's another reason

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 that Galatians

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 have been tempted

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 to turn back

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 to slavery.

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 Not just the attraction

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 of rules

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 so they can feel

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 they can measure

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 their progress

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 but also the attraction

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 of praise

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 from others.

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 Look down to verse 17

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 for a moment.

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 Paul talks about

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 these false teachers.

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 He says,

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 they make much of you.

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 Now we all like

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 being made much of,

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 don't we?

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 We all have people

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 packing us in the back

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 saying,

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 you're great,

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 well done.

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 Notice what Paul

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 does here

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 to woo these

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 young Christians

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 back to the truth

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 He doesn't give them,

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 he doesn't flatter them.

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 Rather,

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 he compares

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 his ministry

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 and the ministry

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 of these false teachers.

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 He compares

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 his motives,

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 his methods,

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 his goals

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 and his results

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 and their methods.

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 Motives,

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 methods,

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 goals and results.

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 So let's quickly

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 look at that contrast.

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 First of all,

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 what is Paul's motive?

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 What is Paul's motive

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 in sharing the good news

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 of Jesus Christ with them?

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 Well back in chapter 1

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 verse 10

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 he said,

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 I'm not out to please people.

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 If I was,

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 I wouldn't be preaching

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 the gospel message.

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 But those verses

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 I quoted earlier

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 from chapter 2

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 verse 20,

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 turn back over the page

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 if you like.

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 He tells us

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 his motivation

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 for everything.

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 Chapter 2

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 verse 20

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 The end of the verse,

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 the life I now live

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 in the flesh,

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 I live by faith

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 in the Son of God

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 who loved me

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 and gave himself

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 for me.

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 See,

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 Paul's motivation

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 is love for Christ,

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 love because Christ

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 has loved him.

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 So that's his motivation.

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 Love for Christ.

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 What's his method?

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 We'll turn back to chapter 4

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 and look at verse 12.

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 Brothers,

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 I entreat you,

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 become as I am

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 for I also

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 became

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 as you are.

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 What was his method

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 in sharing this good news

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 with other people?

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 It wasn't to stand

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 in the street corner

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 shouting at them.

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 It wasn't even just

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 to give them a little look.

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 It was to identify

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 with them,

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 to live with them

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 in their community,

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 to live their way

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 of life with them.

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 He tells us elsewhere

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 in 1 Corinthians

00:15:18.539 --> 00:15:19.199
 chapter 9

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 verses 20 and 22

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 that this was his method.

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 He would identify

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 with people

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 in order to get away

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 all the barriers

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 that could prevent them

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 hearing the good news

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 of Jesus.

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 And the reason

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 he puts it like this here

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 is he wants the Galatians

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 to stop identifying

00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.159
 with those false teachers

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 saying you need

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 to do these rules

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 but instead

00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:37.539
 to identify

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 with him

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 and being motivated

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 to live their life

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 by love

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 for the saviour

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 who first loved them.

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 Well that's Paul's

00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:47.399
 motive and method.

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 What's the false teacher's

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 method?

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 Oh he spells it out

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 in verse 17.

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 They make much of you.

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 They were flattering

00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:55.459
 with Galatians.

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 They say you guys

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 are really special

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 and you can be

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 even more special

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 if you're doing this

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 or you're following

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 our rules.

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 That's just like

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 the TV evangelists

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 we see today

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 who will tell you

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 you will be blessed

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 if you donate money

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 and give you

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 some credit card

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 details now.

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 Or like the false teachers

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 who will tell you

00:16:15.400 --> 00:16:17.040
 God has a perfect plan

00:16:17.040 --> 00:16:17.660
 for your life.

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 God has your best life now.

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 If only you'll put your

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 if only you'll come

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 and read my book

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 follow my way.

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 Or like the others

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 who say

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 if you really want

00:16:27.580 --> 00:16:28.480
 your prayers heard

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 and you're good enough

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 to come on my special

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 retreat over here

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 learn this meditative

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 technique

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 then

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 then

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 you'll really

00:16:36.539 --> 00:16:37.480
 get free to God.

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 These teachers

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 were making much of them

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 they were flattering them.

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 And what's their motive

00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:44.720
 for doing it?

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 Now look at the rest

00:16:45.659 --> 00:16:46.500
 of verse 17.

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 They make much of you

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 but for no good purpose

00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.340
 they want to shut you out.

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 In other words

00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:54.159
 these teachers

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 could see

00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:56.340
 the Galatians

00:16:56.340 --> 00:16:56.980
 going off

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 following the true gospel

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 and they didn't want that

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 because they wanted

00:16:59.779 --> 00:17:00.600
 to crowd for themselves

00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:01.679
 they said come over here

00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:02.340
 wonderful

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 special blessed people

00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.019
 God has a perfect plan

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 for you.

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 So flattering them

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 so they

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 could gain the following.

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 They wanted to have

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 more Facebook friends

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 they wanted to have

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 more people

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 following their tweets

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 they wanted to have

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 more hits

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 on their blog

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 and on their websites

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 more donations

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 in their accounts.

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 So their goal

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 was to shut

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 these young Christians

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 out of the kingdom

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 of God.

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 what was at the bottom

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 of all that?

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 It's pride

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 isn't it?

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 Pride

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 it's pride

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 that makes us

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 want to follow rules

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 it's pride

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 that makes us

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 want the praise

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 of other people

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 it's pride

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 that made these

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 false teachers

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 want to have

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 their rules

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 want to have

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 their following.

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 In contrast

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 what's the goal

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 of Paul's ministry?

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 He tells us

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 in verse 18

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 isn't he?

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 It is always good

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 to be made much of

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 for a good purpose

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 not only when I am

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 present with you

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 in other words

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 he's saying

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 I don't mind

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 other people

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 encouraging you

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 and affirming you

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 if they're doing it

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 for a good reason

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 I'm not trying

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 to control you

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 I'm not hung up

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 about the number

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 of people

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 following my tweets

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 I don't care

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 about that

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 so I don't mind

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 if they're encouraging

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 you for a good purpose

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 rather than

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 drag you away

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 but here's Paul's goal

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 verse 19

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 my little children

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 for you am I

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 again in the anguish

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 of childbirth

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 until Christ

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 is formed

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 in you

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 see what's Paul's goal?

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 it's not that he'll

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 have lots of followers

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 it's not that people

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 will like him

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 his goal

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 is that the lives

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 of these believers

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 will be transformed

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 so that Christ

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 is formed

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 in them

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 that instead of

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 being insecure

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 feeling they're

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 not good enough

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 they may know

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 the power

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 and presence

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 of the Lord Jesus Christ

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 instead of fighting

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 and squabbling

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 and being proud

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 they may know

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 the humility

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 and wholeness

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 of Christ

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 he wants to see

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 Christ's character

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 developed in them

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 you'll see that

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 more and more

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 when we get to

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 chapter 5

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 and do you know

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 just how passionate

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 he feels about this

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 again he is in anguish

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 as in the pains

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 of childbirth

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 it's the expression

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 of his heart's desire

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 for him

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 not only his heart's desire

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 but his work for him

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 in writing this letter

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 it's a pained letter

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 it's the expression

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 of his prayers for him

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 the anguish

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 that he has

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 as he prays for them

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 day by day

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 now wouldn't it be

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 wonderful

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 if it was our desire

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 for Christ

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 to be formed in us

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 not our desire

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 to be approved of

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 by others

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 or to feel good

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 about ourselves

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 from following rules

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 our desire

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 to be transformed

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 to reflect

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 instead of our

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 brokenness

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 and confusedness

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 and muddledness

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 the beauty

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 and wholeness

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 of the Lord Jesus

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 you see

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 that is the gospel

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 promise

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 that is what

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 God is doing

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 at the end of this

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 letter Paul will

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 talk about

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 the new creation

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 is all that matters

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 that is the new creation

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 God is bringing about

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 by the work of the

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 risen Jesus

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 in the hearts

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 of all who trust

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 in him

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 so you see how

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 the Galatians

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 are supposed to

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 respond to this

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 contrast

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 remember your

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 form of slavery

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 you fled that

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 and you had that

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 blessedness

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 when you first

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 trusted in Christ

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 the blessedness

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 that comes

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 because you knew

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 you were declared

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 right with God

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 you knew you received

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 the Holy Spirit

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 by faith

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 by which you call out

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 Abba

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 Father

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 no the fatherhood

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 of God

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 you've been included

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 in God's people

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 you're heirs of

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 God's promises

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 adopted as God's

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 children

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 all of that

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 encompassed by

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 Christ is being

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 formed in you

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 you're being made

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 into new people

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 he's wooing them

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 back isn't he

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 he wants them to

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 see the blessedness

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 the happiness

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 the goodness

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 they once had

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 the happiness

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 of knowing

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 they're truly loved

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 that their failings

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 and rebellions

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 would not be held

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 against them

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 the happiness

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 of knowing

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 they're secure

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 before the Holy God

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 and that only comes

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 by trusting

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 in Jesus Christ

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 now what are a couple

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 of practical consequences

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 of longing

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 for that blessedness

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 what Paul spells out too

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 briefly tells us

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 what we should listen for

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 we should listen

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 for the truth

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 don't just listen

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 to people who

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 will make much of you

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 as these false

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 teachers were doing

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 if we only listen

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 to people who

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 agree with us

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 and who at the end

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 of the day

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 we're actually

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 submitting to

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 if we only listen

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 to things that

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 make us feel better

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 then how is Christ

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 going to be formed

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 in us

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 we will not change

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 we'll just end up

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 in slavery

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 we also need to

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 listen for the

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 whole truth

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 we need to listen

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 to the truth

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 we need to long

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 for Christ

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 to be formed in us

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 that should be our

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 aspiration

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 that should be our

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 prayer

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 often our prayers

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 we long for little

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 things don't we

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 for someone to

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 to feel a bit

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 better

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 for someone to

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 do well in exams

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 for someone to

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 have a refreshing

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 holiday

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 they're not bad

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 things to pray

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 for

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 but isn't there

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 something deeper

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 and better

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 that Christ

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 may be formed

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 in us

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 because that is

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 the work God

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 is doing

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 he's forming

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 the character

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 of his son

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 in us who

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 believe

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 remaking all

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 our brokenness

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 remoulding all

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 our wonkiness

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 and forming

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 even in us

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 the beauty

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 and fullness

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 of Jesus

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 now how's that

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 going to come

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 about

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 not by

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 following rules

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 not by longing

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 for praise

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 of others

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 but by trusting

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 in the Lord

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 Jesus Christ

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 the son of God

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 who loved us

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 and gave himself

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 for us

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 let's enjoy the

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 security we have

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 with God

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 because of him

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 let's enjoy

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 the blessing

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 of God's work

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 in us

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 because of Christ

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 let's pray together

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 God

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