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 A few years ago, or many years ago now, I lived in Kenya for a year, and we had these in our house occasionally, about once every week, I suppose.

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 We'd see these big orange furry spiders. They're quite terrifying, but we thought, well, those dudes are going to kill off the other things we really don't want to have.

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 So we let them run around our house. We put up with them. We thought they were a kind of welcome addition to our house. They'd take care of other nasties.

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 Now, after we'd been there 11 months, one of our students, we're teachers out there, one of our students, a lad named Ezra, was in our house.

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 He saw one of these things, and straight away he stamped on it. And we looked at him like, Ezra, what's the problem?

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 He said, aye, teacher, these are more dangerous than scorpions. Oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for helping us out.

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 See, Ezra loved us. He didn't want us to be in danger. And so he acted very promptly. These things that we tolerated, he knew, were actually dangerous to us.

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 So he took strong action. And that is a sense of what is happening here as we read Galatians.

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 The Apostle Paul is taking strong action because ideas that people were tolerating, that people were thinking were acceptable, were actually deadly.

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 That's why he gets straight into this stinging rebuke. Every other letter he writes, he starts with thanksgiving and saying how he's praying for people.

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 Not stay with these folks. Look at verse 6.

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 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel.

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 He is not, as I think the Germans were saying, he's not politely knocking on the door, asking to come in for tea.

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 Rather, he's entering the house with the door in his hand. I believe that's a German expression.

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 Barbara can correct me if I'm wrong. It's what a German professor told me.

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 He's entering the house with the door in his hand. He has an urgent message.

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 He's being very abrupt with these people.

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 Now that sounds intolerant. It sounds very fundamentalist to our 21st century Western ears.

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 So why is Paul being like this?

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 Well, we need to understand that he's being like this because it's only God's good news that rescues people.

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 It's only God's good news about Christ Jesus that transforms lives.

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 And so Paul wants us to hold to that true gospel message.

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 To accept other ideas is not merely to dilute the gospel.

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 It is to distort the gospel and make it deadly rather than life-saving.

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 Now why is that the case?

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 Well, Paul shows us here in these verses that the gospel has a unique source, a unique message, and a unique seriousness.

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 A unique source, a unique message, and a unique seriousness.

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 We need to get these things right to understand why Paul is so urgent here.

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 So first of all, the source.

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 Look at verse 1.

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 This is God's good news.

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 Paul says,

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 Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through men, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead.

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 The unique source is God himself.

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 That's why Paul introduces himself as an apostle.

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 Literally, that's a word that means sent one.

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 Now, occasionally in the New Testament it is used as someone sent by a church,

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 but mostly it is used in a technical sense of one sent, one appointed by the Lord Jesus,

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 one sent by him with a message to speak his message.

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 So in Acts chapter 1, when they needed to get a new apostle to replace Judas who betrayed the Lord Jesus,

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 there were certain criteria.

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 It had to be someone who had been with the Lord Jesus from the beginning,

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 who had been a witness of the resurrection.

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 And he was then appointed by the Lord Jesus, in fact, through lots there in Acts chapter 1.

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 Now, some people dismissed Paul.

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 They said, oh, you weren't one of the original crowd.

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 But Paul, and we'll read about this later on in Galatians,

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 was specifically chosen by God, by the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus.

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 He had been an eyewitness of the resurrection as he saw the Lord Jesus there.

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 And Paul wants to underline this, because he's not speaking as a private individual.

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 He is speaking as one speaking God's message.

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 He is not from man or through man, but by God.

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 It is God's word. God is the source of this gospel.

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 Now, it's important we get this for two reasons.

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 Firstly, there are some today who use that word apostle in a very different, loose way.

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 So about a few years ago, I had a cup of coffee with a lady who gave me a book she'd written,

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 and she called herself an apostle.

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 Now, the best thing I can say about that is it's very confusing.

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 Very confusing.

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 She is at least 2,000 years too late to be an apostle.

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 She is not an eyewitness of the resurrection.

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 She does not have the authority of an apostle, in the biblical sense.

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 So that is confusing.

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 The second reason it's important is that people like to, we all, all of us as human beings,

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 like to resist authority.

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 And we find that with the Bible particularly, and often very much with the apostle Paul.

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 People like to divide a, try to create a division between what Jesus taught and what Paul taught.

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 So people will say things like,

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 Well, I like Jesus.

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 I like what he said.

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 But I don't like what Paul said.

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 He can be very harsh.

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 He can be very judgmental.

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 He was a misogynist.

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 What did he know?

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 He was very sexist, wasn't he?

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 That's why it's really important we understand,

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 when Paul talks as an apostle,

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 he is saying that he is speaking God's words,

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 with God's authority,

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 as one appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father.

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 What the apostles said went into the Bible.

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 What we say today,

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 what people like me say today,

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 has to come out of the Bible.

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 There is a unique source here.

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 The unique source is ultimately God,

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 is his gospel.

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 So that's the first thing,

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 there's a unique source of this message.

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 It is from God.

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 But secondly,

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 there is a uniqueness to this message.

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 There's a unique message here.

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 Many people may say,

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 well, all religions are just the same, really, aren't they?

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 They're all really about getting to God,

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 and being nice people,

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 and all that sort of thing.

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 I mean, after all,

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 didn't Muhammad claim to be speaking God's words?

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 What makes Paul any better or different than Muhammad?

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 That's why we need to be clear about the uniqueness

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 of this good news message.

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 Gospel means good news.

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 So look at all other religions.

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 You find you can divide them into three basic camps.

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 They're either about behavior,

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 what we do,

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 or belief,

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 what we think,

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 or about belonging,

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 about being part of a community.

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 So for example,

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 Islam gives many things for Muslims to do.

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 They've got the five pillars of Islam.

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 Forms of Buddhism can really be a kind of philosophy,

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 a way of thinking about the world.

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 Many forms of Buddhism are atheistic, in fact.

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 Nothing about God at all.

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 Or think about a conversation I had with a Hindu friend of mine.

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 And he didn't necessarily believe

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 any of the, or many of the teachings.

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 But for him what was important

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 was a sense of belonging,

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 a sense of tradition,

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 a sense of the culture,

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 being part of something bigger than himself,

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 which generated a sense of order to life

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 and connectedness with the past.

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 See, these religions tend to be about behavior,

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 about belonging,

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 or about believing certain things,

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 thinking certain ways.

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 But in contrast to these mere religions,

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 see what Christianity is about.

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 We get a clue to what it's about in verse 4.

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 You see,

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 the gospel diagnoses a deeper problem

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 and prescribes a different remedy.

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 Diagnoses a deeper problem

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 and prescribes a different remedy.

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 You see it in verse 4.

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 Paul talks about the grace from God our Father

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 and the Lord Jesus Christ

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 who gave himself for our sins

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 to deliver us from the present evil age

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 according to the will of God the Father.

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 See, the deeper problem

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 that the gospel identifies

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 is our sins.

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 It's the fact we're in an evil age.

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 It's not just modifying our behavior.

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 It's about rescuing us.

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 Deliver us.

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 He delivered us, Paul said,

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 from the present evil age.

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 That's the worst to do with rescue.

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 There's a film out at the moment,

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 or it came out at the end of last year.

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 I could have watched it on a plane I was on

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 but didn't a couple of weeks ago.

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 It's called The 33.

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 It's about the miners,

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 the 33 Chilean miners

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 who a few years ago

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 were trapped underground

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 for many, many days.

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 What was their problem?

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 Their problem was they were trapped.

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 They were in a desperate situation.

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 They were going to die.

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 They needed to be delivered from that.

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 They needed people to come down

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 and get them out.

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 That, Paul says,

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 is what has happened to us.

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 We have been delivered

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 from this present evil age.

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 We've been rescued

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 through the death of our Lord Jesus.

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 Now, what are our sins?

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 What are our sins?

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 What is this present evil age?

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 Well, our sins

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 are not one or two wrong things we do

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 but our general rebellion against God.

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 Our turning away from the God who made us

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 and trying to live lives

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 relying on our own strength,

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 our own wisdom,

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 our own sense of right and wrong.

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 And that's true of the whole world around us.

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 Has been true

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 since Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden

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 and ate the apple.

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 It's been true ever since.

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 This present evil age

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 is not an age where

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 there's an internet

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 or whatever you think

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 is the most evil thing around.

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 It's the human course of life

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 all through human history

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 trying to live without God.

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 One of the most obvious consequences of that

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 is death.

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 Because death is the consequence

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 of sin.

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 Death is the consequence

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 of rebellion against this God.

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 So that's the diagnosis

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 of this unique gospel message.

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 The diagnosis is

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 we are dead in our sins.

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 Trapped in this present evil age.

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 What's the remedy?

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 Well the remedy

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 is not just to change

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 the way we behave.

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 That's the remedy of religion.

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 The remedy is not just to

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 think something different.

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 That's a remedy

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 of man-made religion.

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 The remedy is not to belong

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 to a certain group.

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 Again, that's just

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 mere man-made religion.

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 What is the remedy?

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 What's the cure?

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 Well verses 3 and 4 again.

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 It's the Lord Jesus Christ

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 who gave himself

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 for our sins

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 to deliver us

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 from the present evil age

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 according to the will

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 of God the Father.

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 Through Jesus' death

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 we can be raised

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 set free

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 raised to new life.

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 And that is the will

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 of God the Father.

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 That's why Paul can

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 pray in verse 3

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 Grace to you

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 and peace from God our Father.

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 The whole point

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 of this gospel message

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 is it's not about

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 what we do

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 it's about what God

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 in Christ has done.

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 It's about what God

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 in Christ has done.

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 That's why Paul can say

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 grace to you

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 and peace from God our Father.

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 Grace

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 is God's undeserved kindness

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 God's unlimited kindness

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 to undeserving people.

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 God's unlimited kindness

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 to undeserving people.

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 He gives us his love

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 he gives us forgiveness

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 he gives us rescue

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 not on the basis

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 of what I do

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 or what you do

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 but on the basis

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 of what Jesus Christ

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 the eternal Son of God

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 has done.

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 And through that grace

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 we get peace.

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 Verse 3

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 Peace is not just

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 an absence

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 of conflict

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 but the presence

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 of wholeness

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 the presence

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 of the wholeness

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 the well-being

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 that God created us for

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 and that can only come

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 through knowing God.

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 If you look at the end

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 of verse 4

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 how does all this come about?

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 Well through Jesus

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 who gave himself

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 for our sins

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 to deliver us

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 from the present evil age

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 according to the will

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 of God the Father.

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 See this good news

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 this rescue

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 is all God's idea.

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 That's what makes this

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 a unique message.

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 It's not about our idea

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 it's about God's idea.

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 It's unique

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 in its diagnosis

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 of our real problem.

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 We need to be rescued

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 from our sin.

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 It's unique

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 in its remedy.

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 It's not about us

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 it's about what God

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 has done in Christ.

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 And it's unique

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 because the hero

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 is not us

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 and what we do

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 the hero is God

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 it is all his will.

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 So that

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 is the good news message.

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 That is the good news message

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 that Paul had taken

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 to these Galatians.

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 It's the good news message

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 that we preach here

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 week by week.

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 So what's the danger?

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 Why is Paul writing

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 so forcefully

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 to these Galatians?

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 What's the danger

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 for you and me?

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 So I suspect

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 it's not that we'll

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 wake up tomorrow

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 and say

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 I don't believe in God anymore

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 I'm going to be an atheist now.

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 I don't think that's

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 our biggest danger.

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 Our biggest danger

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 is probably not

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 we're going to wake up

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 and say

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 you know what

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 I think Buddhism

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 or Hinduism

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 or Islam

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 is a much better idea.

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 I don't think

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 that's the biggest risk.

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 The biggest risk

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 is we distort

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 the message

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 that we've heard.

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 Because that's

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 what the Galatians

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 are doing.

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 This message

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 that is unique

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 in its source

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 unique in its substance

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 in its message

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 it's also unique

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 in its seriousness.

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 So look at verse 6

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 I'm astonished

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 that you're so quickly

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 deserting him

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 who called you

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 in the grace of Christ

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 and turning to

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 a different gospel.

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 Not that there is

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 another one

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 but there are some

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 who trouble you

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 and want to distort

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 the gospel of Christ.

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 And look how serious

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 this is.

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 He goes on

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 verse 8

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 But even if we

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 or an angel

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 from heaven

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 should preach

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 to you a gospel

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 contrary to the one

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 we preached to you

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 let him be accursed.

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 As we've said before

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 also now I say again

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 if anyone is preaching

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 to you a gospel

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 contrary to the one

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 you received

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 let him be accursed.

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 That is

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 let him be cut off

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 from God forever.

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 This is a very serious

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 warning in the New Testament

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 I think.

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 Now what is this

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 distortion that Paul

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 is worried about?

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 What distortion is this

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 that it's turning away

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 from the grace

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 of our Lord Jesus Christ

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 God's unlimited kindness

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 to undeserving people

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 it's turning away from that

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 it's thinking we can do

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 something to deserve

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 to merit

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 it's thinking we can do

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 something extra

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 to add to what Christ

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 has done

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 that's the different

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 gospel here

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 the difference of adding

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 saying yet Jesus is good

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 but I need to do

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 something else

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 Jesus is good

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 but I need to have

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 something else

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 and that

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 is what the danger

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 you see what Paul

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 says they're doing

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 as soon as they add

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 try to add to the gospel

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 verse 6

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 they are deserting

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 him who called them

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 they're not just

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 having a different

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 idea

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 they're deserting

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 the God

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 who called them

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 as soon as they

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 distort the gospel

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 as soon as they

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 leave the central

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 teaching of Jesus

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 giving himself

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 as a substitute

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 for us

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 as soon as we try

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 to add to that

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 we're deserting

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 we're rejecting

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 God

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 and how are they

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 in danger of doing

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 it?

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 I'll see more of this

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 in coming weeks

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 but they're deserting

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 being called

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 verse 6

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 in the grace

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 of Christ Jesus

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 in other words

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 they're deserting

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 the simple truth

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 that is purely

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 what Jesus has done

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 on the cross

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 for us

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 through his life

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 death and resurrection

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 that makes us

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 right with God

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 it's not our own

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 religious act

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 it's not our own

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 prayerfulness

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 it's not our own

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 giving

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 it's not our own

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 church attendance

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 it's purely Jesus

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 now why

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 would anyone

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 be tempted

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 to turn away

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 from that?

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 why were these

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 Galatians tempted?

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 why are you and I

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 tempted day by day

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 to try and add

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 to what Jesus

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 has done?

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 well

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 it comes from at least

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 three different places

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 first of all

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 there can be pressure

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 from people teaching

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 let's look at verse 7

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 Paul says

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 there are some who

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 not that there is

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 another one

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 but there are some

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 who trouble you

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 and want to distort

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 the gospel of Christ

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 well people need

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 to make money

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 by writing books

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 by being preachers

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 and teachers

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 on the circuit

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 they put pressure

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 on Christians

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 by selling different

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 ideas

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 by saying things

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 which sound very

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 believable and

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 plausible

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 which sound like

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 they're Christianity

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 but actually are not

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 notice Paul goes on

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 to underline the fact

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 it doesn't matter

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 what people's

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 qualifications are

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 or credentials

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 or their past record

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 what matters

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 is whether

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 what they teach

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 is in line

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 with the gospel

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 that's why he says

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 in verses 7 and 8

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 if even an angel

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 shop or even I

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 come back myself

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 and preach something

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 different

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 let me be accursed

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 let me be cut off

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 so there can be

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 pressure

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 from other teaching

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 coming in

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 also there can be

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 the desire to be

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 popular

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 can make us want

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 to add

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 to the gospel

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 and distort it

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 that's what Paul

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 says in verse 10

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 am I now seeking

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 approval of man

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 or from God

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 if I were trying

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 to please man

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 I would not be a

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 servant of Christ Jesus

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 see people hate

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 the idea

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 that as human beings

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 we are powerless

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 to save ourselves

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 people hate that idea

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 it's deeply unpopular

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 to say that Jesus

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 is the only way

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 to be right with God

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 and so it's easy

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 just to be more popular

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 to kind of dilute

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 that a bit

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 but of course

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 the other reason

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 we can try and add

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 to the gospel

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 is purely our own

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 pride

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 in our pride

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 we want to feel

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 like we can do

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 something

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 to make ourselves

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 in a better standing

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 with God

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 but as human beings

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 we're all naturally

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 proud

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 we all want to feel

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 we've contributed

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 something

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 if you want evidence

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 of this

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 just go down the road

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 to Marks and Spencers

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 I've got nothing

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 against it

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 but go and look

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 at the food aisle

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 go and look at

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 the kind of meals

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 you can buy

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 now you can buy

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 ready meals

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 or you can buy

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 meals where all

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 things are already

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 chopped up

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 and there's a nice

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 sauce there

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 so you can make

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 the meal yourself

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 that's the idea

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 you can feel

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 like you've

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 contributed something

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 to it

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 that's why

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 supermarkets

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 like M&S

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 sell those

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 kind of meals

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 not just

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 things you

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 shove in the

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 microwave

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 and so you

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 can feel good

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 about yourself

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 like you've

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 contributed

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 to the meal

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 you haven't

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 just been lazy

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 and had ready

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 meals

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 that's appealing

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 to our pride

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 as one of the

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 adverts once said

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 life gets so

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 busy that sometimes

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 it's temptingly

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 easy to pick up

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 some convenience

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 food

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 but it's easier

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 than you think

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 to find nutritious

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 foods

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 in other words

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 don't give in

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 to the easy

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 thing

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 do something

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 yourselves

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 make us

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 let us help

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 you feel good

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 about yourselves

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 and that's why

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 it's so tempting

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 to think we can

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 add to what

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 Jesus has done

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 it appeals to

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 our pride

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 instead of

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 recognising that

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 actually it's

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 only through

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 the perfect

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 sinless life

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 of our Lord

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 Jesus

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 through his

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 death

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 in our

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 place

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 on the cross

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 and through

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 his resurrection

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 to new life

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 it's only

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 through that

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 we can be

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 set free

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 from this

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 present evil

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 age

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 see Paul

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 wants the

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 Galatians

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 and us

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 to see

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 the ultimate

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 significance

00:20:17.779 --> 00:20:18.840
 of this

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 gospel message

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 if we try

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 and dilute it

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 we don't merely

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 water it down

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 we distort it

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 and make it

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 deadly

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 it is not a

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 matter of life

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 and death

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 it is more

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 important than

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 all that

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 in July

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 the 7th

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 2011

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 a 44

00:20:36.059 --> 00:20:36.480
 year old

00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:36.839
 lady

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 surprisingly

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 died

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 at the hospital

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 in Greater

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 Manchester

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 people couldn't

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 quite figure out

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 why

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 and four days

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 later another

00:20:45.660 --> 00:20:46.379
 man died

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 and on the

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 12th of July

00:20:49.019 --> 00:20:49.660
 staff at

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 Stepping Hill

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 Hospital

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 discovered that

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 vials of

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 saline solution

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 had been

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 tampered with

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 what should have

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 just been pure

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 water with a

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 bit of salt in

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 it

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 used for

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 flushing out

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 drips and

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 syringes and

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 things

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 to keep

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 everybody

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 healthy

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 instead

00:21:03.299 --> 00:21:04.139
 someone had

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 added

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 some

00:21:05.900 --> 00:21:06.379
 insulin

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 the result

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 was that

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 something that

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 should have

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 been safe

00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:11.039
 and promoted

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 health

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 became deadly

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 and those

00:21:15.639 --> 00:21:16.059
 vials

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 which were

00:21:17.699 --> 00:21:18.240
 contaminated

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 would not

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 have looked

00:21:18.879 --> 00:21:19.559
 any different

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 to the

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 healthy ones

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 to the

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 true ones

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 yet the

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 addition of

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 one extra

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 ingredient

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 was deadly

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 and that is

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 the same

00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:31.219
 with the

00:21:31.219 --> 00:21:31.719
 gospel of

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 the Lord

00:21:31.979 --> 00:21:32.799
 Jesus Christ

00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.759
 the good news

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 about Jesus

00:21:35.339 --> 00:21:36.299
 if we dilute

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 it

00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:37.579
 if we try

00:21:37.579 --> 00:21:38.039
 and add

00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:38.539
 to it

00:21:38.539 --> 00:21:39.700
 we make

00:21:39.700 --> 00:21:40.420
 it deadly

00:21:40.420 --> 00:21:41.720
 it might

00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:42.500
 look similar

00:21:42.500 --> 00:21:42.799
 it might

00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:43.659
 sound similar

00:21:43.659 --> 00:21:44.680
 but it's

00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:45.079
 deadly

00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:46.859
 only God's

00:21:46.859 --> 00:21:47.279
 good news

00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:47.859
 about Jesus

00:21:47.859 --> 00:21:48.720
 rescues us

00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:50.019
 this message

00:21:50.019 --> 00:21:50.480
 is unique

00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:51.079
 in its source

00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:51.619
 it comes

00:21:51.619 --> 00:21:52.839
 from God

00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:53.859
 as Paul

00:21:53.859 --> 00:21:54.299
 as an apostle

00:21:54.299 --> 00:21:54.920
 writing it

00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:55.759
 it is unique

00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:56.740
 in the scope

00:21:56.740 --> 00:21:57.519
 of its message

00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.559
 it diagnoses

00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:00.039
 our deep

00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:00.500
 problem

00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:02.139
 rebelling

00:22:02.139 --> 00:22:02.799
 against God

00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:03.819
 it prescribes

00:22:03.819 --> 00:22:04.399
 the only

00:22:04.399 --> 00:22:04.859
 remedy

00:22:04.859 --> 00:22:06.299
 faith in

00:22:06.299 --> 00:22:07.119
 Jesus Christ

00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:07.519
 the Son

00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:08.039
 of God

00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:09.200
 and it's

00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:09.759
 unique in

00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:10.519
 its seriousness

00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:12.539
 this is the

00:22:12.539 --> 00:22:13.259
 only way

00:22:13.259 --> 00:22:13.879
 to life

00:22:13.879 --> 00:22:15.940
 so we must

00:22:15.940 --> 00:22:16.659
 hold fast

00:22:16.659 --> 00:22:17.339
 to this gospel

00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:18.259
 and not

00:22:18.259 --> 00:22:18.839
 desert it

00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:19.440
 let me pray

00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:19.859
 for us