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 I don't know if you've ever been the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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 The story goes of Guy Gomer who was waiting for a job interview in the reception at BBC Television Centre.

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 At the same time another Guy, Guy Cuney, was due to appear on live TV that morning.

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 It was five minutes until the interview was due to air.

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 So the studio manager runs down to reception and goes over to one of the men, Guy.

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 Guy Gomer answers yes.

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 And he's whisked off to answer questions about an intricate lawsuit involving Apple on live TV.

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 He hadn't a clue what he was talking about.

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 He was the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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 He thought it was part of the interview, so he just kind of muddled through.

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 But you could tell looking at his face that he was totally out of his comfort zone.

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 And if you can imagine that feeling of being in a situation of total unfamiliarity, of bemusement, being out of your comfort zone.

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 That is how a Christian believer should feel with the things that the Galatians were doing.

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 Look at verse 9 and 10 at the bottom of your sheets.

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 Paul says they are turning back to principles of the world, observing days, months, seasons and years.

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 Paul's been tackling, hasn't he, the lifestyle of these people as they insist on paying for God's acceptance.

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 It's the drum that he keeps banging all through the letter.

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 Being right with God doesn't happen like that.

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 It comes through what Jesus has done by being a curse for us, paying for our debt in his death.

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 But here they are trying to supplement Jesus' work, aren't they?

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 With their keeping and observing of certain laws.

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 We've heard about circumcision already.

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 And there are some more laws here, aren't they?

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 Observing of days and of months and of seasons and of years to be right with God.

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 And he's saying to them in this section, you should feel totally uncomfortable with that.

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 You should feel, Christians, like you're in the wrong place.

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 Being the wrong people at the wrong time.

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 Because of who God has made you to be now.

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 You're living your life, Galatians, in the wrong place, first of all.

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 You're out of place.

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 Look at where Paul says they were before they met with Christ.

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 Look at verse 3.

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 In the same way, we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

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 He says it again in verse 9.

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 Why are you turning back to the elementary principles of the world?

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 He says there is a place that specialises in seeking to pay for salvation.

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 The world.

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 And he calls the way the world thinks the elementary principles.

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 It's just a posh way of saying the basic values of the world without God.

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 So, no matter what your ethnicity, your sex, your worldview, your kind of religion,

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 when you peel back the layers of things that are done in the world, this is always the approach.

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 It's a universally accepted international value system of human merit, of human tradition, of human work and endeavours to save ourselves.

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 Whether you're into economics, or environmentalism, or politics, or works, or religion, or veganism, whatever it is.

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 When someone says they've got a new thing we can do to save the world's problems,

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 outside of the solution that God gives in Jesus, it's always the same.

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 Paul says it's elementary, my dear.

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 In a world ignoring the God of the Bible, they are the prescriptions and ordinances to which men and women all over the globe surrender themselves outside of Christ.

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 To be what they think they need to be in the sight of God.

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 The elementary, the kind of basic principles of the world in which we live.

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 And it's in the air that we breathe all around us.

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 God says in Jesus, it is done, done, done.

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 All that is necessary, the work that is necessary for you to be right with me is finished.

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 But the world in its elementary value says, no, forget Jesus, just carry on and do, do, do.

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 In whatever way you can find, whatever works for you, to solve the problems of this world,

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 and your broken relationship with the God who made it.

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 You know the old kids' chorus.

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 He's got the whole world in his hands.

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 I was stood outside the nursery gate the other week listening to her mum singing that song to their kids,

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 to her kids, but she changed the words.

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 She sang, we've got the whole world in our hands.

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 The whole world in our hands.

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 Sadly, she was singing the elementary principles of the world to her kids.

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 The sad thing is, isn't it, that the Galatians, while they don't believe that's true,

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 they live as if it is.

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 And if we've trusted in Jesus, why do we then still lean on our own performance?

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 Even just a little bit.

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 Why do we get crushed when we're aware of sin and when we fail?

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 Or we feel proud when we think like we're doing really well?

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 Because we've gone back to the place that we came from, the world.

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 Paul is saying, forget the Lord Jesus and his work and you're out of place as a Christian.

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 And you should feel totally foreign with your life.

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 In this place with these principles.

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 I don't know if you remember a couple of years ago, that defector who escaped from North Korea.

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 He managed to get into a 4x4, didn't he?

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 He put his foot down and headed for the border.

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 And he got out.

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 He was rescued by medics in South Korea.

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 But for a while afterwards, for a few weeks, he complained of nightmares.

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 Of being kidnapped and taken back to the place that he'd escaped from.

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 He dreaded the sights and the sounds of that old place.

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 And we, as people of faith, if we are, should be uneasy about it.

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 We should have nightmares about any human merit of performance.

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 Because we're free of all that.

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 We're free from the demands of human merit.

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 We're free from the demands of the law to be right with God.

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 Paul said in chapter 2, didn't he?

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 I died to the law in Christ.

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 We'd be finding ourselves in the wrong place again altogether.

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 In the world.

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 If we were doing that.

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 So they're in the wrong place.

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 Secondly though, they're living their lives in the wrong time.

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 They're living lives in the wrong time.

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 If I came in today wearing a waistcoat and a bowler hat, you'd think, get with the times.

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 What are you doing?

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 But the Galatians are doing that.

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 They're not just loitering around in the wrong place back in the world.

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 But their lives are anchored in the wrong time in God's timeline.

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 And look at verse 4.

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 When the fullness of time had come, God sent his son, born of woman, born under the law to redeem those who were under the law.

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 Did you hear the kind of fullness of time thing going on there?

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 Now the issue of time actually is a really big theme in Galatians.

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 And we've not highlighted it up until now.

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 But it's there.

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 The idea that performance related salvation that the Galatians are into.

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 Is a characteristic not just of a place of the world without God.

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 But an age in God's history.

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 In God's timeline there are two ages.

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 There's no bronze age, ice age, all that.

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 There's just two ages.

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 Marked by a transition when he sends his son into the world to be born of a woman.

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 There's the before that and then there's the after that.

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 And what Paul is saying is that the history of the world as we know it with its principles.

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 At the birth of Jesus is beginning to end.

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 It's winding down.

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 When he sends his son in the incarnation.

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 God is indicating that history is coming to a close.

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 It's now the fullness of time.

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 It's complete.

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 If you've got a Bible maybe on your phone or later on.

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 You can go back to the very beginning of Galatians chapter 1.

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 In the introduction of Galatians.

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 It's the bit you kind of read over isn't it.

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 To get to the important stuff.

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 But actually the important stuff often is there.

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 Paul opens the letter.

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 Paul an apostle not from men through man.

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 But through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead.

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 Now we gloss over that bit don't we?

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 But there Paul wants to kind of mention something that he's going to draw out throughout the whole letter.

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 He mentions the resurrection.

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 There's only one other letter that he does that in.

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 It's Romans.

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 And what he's doing there is hinting at what he now talks about in detail.

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 That in the coming of Jesus there is going to begin a new history.

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 Which is characterized by resurrection life.

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 What happened in the resurrection was the mark of a new era.

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 A history unlike the old history.

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 A history of resurrection life.

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 And Jesus was the first to be raised of many like him.

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 So that now Jesus has come.

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 The last grains of sand in the old age are dropping to the bottom of the hourglass.

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 And the bucket of God's history.

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 Of measure of history.

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 As we once knew it.

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 Is filling to the very brim.

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 He carries on in his introduction in chapter 1.

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 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age.

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 You see another reference there to time.

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 And to an old age that is going to pass away with the coming of Jesus.

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 With the work and the coming of Jesus.

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 The principles of the world now have a shelf life.

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 Paul is saying.

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 And they are coming to an end.

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 And people who trust in Jesus are going to be delivered from that old age.

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 The age of do, do, do.

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 And brought into a new one.

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 And so back in chapter 4.

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 To live according to our performance.

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 Is effectively to be a spiritual throwback to a bygone age.

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 It is to flounder around in the past.

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 In a world that is destined for the dustbin of history.

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 Do, do, do.

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 Is so last season.

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 Says God.

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 Paul says.

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 Galatians get with the times of God's history.

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 Because you are now modern people.

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 In God's timeline.

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 In his calendar.

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 You've been brought into the new age.

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 But they are saying aren't they.

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 We want to go back and work in the Victorian workhouse era.

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 Lord, Lord.

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 Let me live in the past.

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 Lord, please let it be about me and my works.

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 Let me go back to the world and its ways.

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 That is consigned to the dustbin of redemptive history.

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 I really want to be there Lord.

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 And even the kind of most fashionable, trendiest ways that people come up with today.

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 Of saving themselves.

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 Are a thing of the past.

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 Says God.

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 All the principles and prescriptions.

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 And techniques of worldly religion.

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 Of new age spiritualism.

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 Of secular efforts.

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 Of political reform.

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 Of social conditioning.

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 All of those things done without Jesus Christ.

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 Are part of the human merit project.

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 And the human merit project is cancelled.

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 That time is full.

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 It's finished.

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 It's old hat.

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 And so if you were living like that.

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 You'd be living in the wrong place.

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 And at the wrong time.

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 But thirdly he says.

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 You'd also be living as the wrong people.

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 You'd be living as the wrong people.

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 There's another contrast.

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 With what was once true about the Galatians.

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 And what is now true about them.

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 Did you notice in verse 1.

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 They were slaves.

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 Weren't they?

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 But now.

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 Verse 4.

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 Jesus has made them sons.

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 So there's not only a time and a place change.

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 For them.

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 But a status change.

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 And it's amazing.

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 What has happened to Christians.

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 Is the opposite of what has happened to Jesus Christ.

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 Look at verse 4.

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 Notice where Jesus begins.

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 It is the same as where Christians end.

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 Verse 4.

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 Where does Jesus begin?

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 He is the son of God.

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 And then he comes down doesn't he?

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 He is born of a woman.

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 And then he comes down a little bit more.

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 He's born under the law.

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 Think about that.

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 That the pre-existent.

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 Eternal.

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 Second person of the Trinity.

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 Takes on a human nature.

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 His human nature.

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 And he comes under the demands of God's standards for our lives.

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 But what happens in exchange?

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 We men and women are released from the demands of the law.

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 We're redeemed from God's standards.

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 And we are made, adopted as sons of God.

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 We end where Jesus begins.

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 C.S. Lewis puts it really nicely.

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 He says,

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 The son of God became a man.

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 That men might become sons of God.

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 It's brilliant.

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 And because of that status change.

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 Paul says the Holy Spirit comes into a Christian's life.

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 And allows them to call to God as their father.

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 To say,

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 Abba, father.

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 The eternal son of God.

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 Comes down.

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 And he is born of a woman.

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 And he cries out,

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 Mummy.

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 So that we can call up to our father.

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 In heaven.

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 So,

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 What the Galatians are doing is absurd.

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 They deny their status as children of God.

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 And they live like slaves.

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 Again.

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 Mark Twain.

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 He wrote the famous story,

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 The Prince and the Pauper.

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 It follows as a prince catches glimpse of a poor little boy playing outside the palace.

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 And he welcomes him in and plays with him.

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 Kind of in the throne room.

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 But they look just like each other, it turns out.

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 So, in a mix-up,

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 the king's guards get them confused.

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 And they get the prince,

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 the real prince,

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 a prince,

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 and throw him out of the palace.

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 It's a moment of grievous injustice in the story.

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 As the prince is barred entry into the palace.

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 And he's plunged into poverty.

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 This is just not right,

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 you feel.

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 No,

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 he is the wrong person,

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 in the wrong place,

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 at the wrong time.

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 He should be in the palace.

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 And this is the greatest tragedy of all,

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 isn't it?

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 Is when Christians plunge themselves

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 back into the world with its principles,

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 and take a leap backwards

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 and forget who they are.

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 Paul says,

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 Paul says,

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 you're no longer a slave,

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 but a son,

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 because of this exchange.

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 No one has ever asked the queen's children,

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 or grandchildren,

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 to pay,

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 to get into Buckingham Palace,

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 have they?

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 They don't,

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 kind of,

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 need one of those vouchers,

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 you buy online.

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 The gates fling open,

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 and they come in,

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 there's no questions asked.

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 And,

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 the fear is,

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 isn't it,

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 that some of us might be waking up today,

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 and realise that we drifted,

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 into a place,

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 and a time,

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 where we no longer belong.

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 And we've forgotten who we are.

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 Maybe we want the control.

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 Maybe it just feels simpler,

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 to follow a set of rules,

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 doesn't it?

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 Maybe we still feel guilt,

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 about our past.

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 Maybe we feel the need to pay.

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 Maybe we just don't believe,

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 in this exchange.

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 But,

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 the moment you find yourself,

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 doing something,

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 to make up for your mistakes,

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 and the moment you find yourself,

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 motivated by guilt,

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 when you feel proud,

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 or when you feel crushed,

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 then open your eyes,

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 and look around you,

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 and wake up.

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 Because,

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 you're the wrong person,

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 in the wrong place,

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 at the wrong time.

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 And you've started to live,

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 like a slave again,

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 in the world,

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 and in the past.

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 You're the prince,

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 and you're acting like a pauper.

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 God says,

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 you may enter my palace,

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 free of charge.

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 Why wouldn't you be,

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 allowed to?

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 You are my sons.

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 You're free,

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 from the human merit project.

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 To enter,

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 in the name of my son,

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 Jesus Christ.

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 And you are subject,

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 to none apart from him.

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 So wake up,

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 and remember,

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 where,

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 and who,

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 and when you are.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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