Galatians chapter 4 Bible Study

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savior lastly we ask that you visit our prayer list page and pray for your brothers and sisters whose names are on that prayer list and now let us join pastor clarence for today's bible lesson well god bless you saints citizens and soldiers of the most high god my name is clarence and i'm pastor of united body of christ church which is an online ministry on behalf of my family and myself we take this opportunity to welcome you to welcome you back to another broadcast another bible study excited about the lesson today today we're coming at you from galatians chapter four i'm always trying to look at two chapters but it hasn't been that way during our broadcast of galatians so i'll just limit it to chapter four today but very excited about the lesson and uh most of all i'm excited about how god has been keeping us uh the things that you've gone through you have not gone through them for no reason amen the lord has you uh where he's trying to get you right now he's you know those of you that are listening to this broadcast look at where you once were and and look at where you are now you're sitting here you're you're in your class in the spirit of the lord in the kingdom's class if you will and and you're willing and looking to learn you're seeking his face that's god's leading leading you and guiding you that's your obedience and that's the work that he's performing inside of you constantly transforming you until you're totally conformed to the image of his only begotten son the lord jesus christ so to god he he has the praise of his glory we give him the praise the honor for he is worthy to receive our servitude he's worthy to receive our love our obedience our holiness he indeed is a mighty god and i thank him for the things that he's been doing for us all amen individually and collectively again today we're looking at going in through galatians chapter 4 as always we position and condition ourselves to come before the lord in prayer amen our father thou art in heaven and halloweth be thy name thy kingdom comes thine will be done upon this earth as your will is done in heaven father so let your will be done within every one of our lives give unto us this day our daily bread your majesty we ask that you would forgive us of our sins of our trespasses of our transgressions we ask that you would forgive us of our depths as we forgive those our adeptors lord god lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory now and forevermore in jesus name we pray father we come before thee this day with bowed down heads with humble hearts thanksgiving and praise glorifying god for the lord jesus who was christ our pastor our redeemer our intercessor the shepherd and the bishop of our souls the only begotten of the father he that had made it possible for us to have a relationship with the father lord god we give you thanks for the lord jesus christ jesus we thank you for being that lamb of god that lion of judah and all the things that you've done before right now and the things that you will do hereafter thank you for keeping us and not losing any one of us lord god as we begin the breath of this day as we take in the breath of this day we thank you because you have allowed and enabled us to participate in this day and in this day we have you on our minds and have you on our hearts willing to please you looking forward to walking with you and to learn in your ways to discovering your wonders and your ways and applying them to our walk to our faith god lord we thank you thank you so much for your grace and your mercies that you dispense constantly on our behalf lord god we thank you for it lord for providing for protecting for leading and guiding us oh god bringing us closer to you lord helping us to understand your word helping us to praise you regardless of the situations and the times that are before us lord god we thank you for the works that you are working inside of us we acknowledge your hand lord god we acknowledge your presence lord god and i say thank you i say thank you in the name of jesus for all that you've been doing lord answering our prayers even moving us to pray so that you can answer our prayers lord god i thank you i acknowledge your presence and i acknowledge your power lord at times we find ourselves ready to just fall apart ready to just lay down on the job lord but it's your strength that keeps us that keeps us standing that keeps us moving lord god we acknowledge your presence we acknowledge your power lord there is times father that we see where the where the signs of the times have led us lord and when we see these things some of these things have enough to discourage us but then you remind us of the coming of our king the lord jesus christ and how such things has to be lord and i thank you father i thank you for constantly reminding us father that we are an expectation of our king the lord jesus thank you lord god thank you for having our names written in the lamb's book of life lord god thank you for providing allowing us not to miss a meal thank you for sheltering us giving us a peaceful dwelling oh god thank you for serenading us with your word of life which is found in the book the bible lord we thank you for the word the lord jesus christ father we even bless you and thank you for the indwelling of the holy spirit your power and your presence dwelling inside of us lord god we thank you and with all such things you make it so that we can endure the day which is set before us and all the events and the trials that are to come our way because of your power and your presence you help us to endure for without you where would we be father i remember the time when i started going to church when i started going to the place of worship at a young age and i used to hear them pray lord and i used to heal the deacon praying god that he can when he would pray he would say father i stretch my hands unto thee no other help i know if thou would draw thine self from me whether will i go and father i have a better understanding of that now than i had at any other point in time in my life and i thank you for it i thank you for allowing me to be there to hear it then and to come into a deeper understanding of it today father thank you you're always reminding us and always showing us you're always crafting the path in which our footsteps are commanded to take because of the way you've purposed us so god i thank you i thank you for the things that you're constantly doing the angels that you have assigned around us oh god i thank you thank you for this word which we are about to receive thank you for the spirit upon us to even be grateful and thank you and think to be grateful when filled with thanksgiving lord i thank you for it i thank you lord i thank you that you move us to praise in the midst of what's going on you move us to praise you god always and it is such a delight to do so thank you lord god thank you for such love for such compassion for such power thank you lord god i just give you thanks right now because of who you are and what you constantly do for us i thank you lord now father i give you thanks for this which we are about to receive this word this bread even our com our fellowship one with another the way we are about to commune with you i give you thanks for this setting i give you thanks for this moment for this time for the word in which we are about to receive father for the presence of the holy ghost and using us to declare your truth to declare your promises to reaffirm father the things which were written before time i thank you i thank you for the opportunity to do so thank you god those whom you've caused to hear this broadcast to participate in this broadcast father that you would continue to bless them i know they're blessed because she calls them to even make time to hear this meaning that they were obedient unto you they were obedient to your spirit lord that they would tune in to the word of god so that they could be blessed god thank you for them thank you for all of those whom you've caused to hear this thank you lord thank you for the work that you have caused us to perform and we give you thanks lord for taking care of us keeping us so that we could even equipping us so that we could do the work father we bless you we pray for our brothers and sisters that they would be encouraged that they would be helped that we all will lay aside the weight of sin which so easily beset us god we thank you thank you for the victory that we have in jesus christ thank you for allowing us to be heirs to be adopted sons and daughters of the most high god thank you for giving us the privilege the permission and the right to call abba father daddy thank you lord i thank you for such things that you do for us all the time particularly those things that you do in general thank you lord god lord let this bible study be for the for your praise and for your glory father help us to continue to worship you in spirit and in truth be glorified lord from every life that you change for every path that you start someone to take be glorified for every understanding for all revelation knowledge and wisdom that we receive from the written word be glorified lord be magnified i pray i pray that these things come to pass lord that you are glorified that you are magnified condition our lives to where we remain chaste and holy give us a constant hunger for your word where only you can satisfy the craving of the lord and i thank you god i thank you for keeping us on the straight and on the narrow lord i thank you thank you father for allowing us to have our treasures there in heaven i bless you father because you are forever worthy you are truth you are holiness you are faithfulness always and you are god all by yourself the god of abraham of isaac and of jacob i give you thanks for our peace for our mercy for our grace for our substance i give you thanks for the lord i give you thanks for our protection and i'll walk with you i give you thanks god for you are forever worthy in jesus name we pray amen again folks it's really a delight to to come before you and we are coming closer to the end of uh uh closing out the book of galatians and really really a powerful book and i'm looking forward to the chapter today uh and it's just a lot for us to take in so that being said i'll get out of the way of the scripture of the scriptures in this case god is to shelf the bread that he has prepared for us to break and receive it's the bread of life the lord jesus christ who was also that word of god uh we also honor uh give honor to the holy the holy spirit the holy ghost which dwells inside of us the holy ghost has moved my family and myself your family and yourself to all come together for this bible study so that we can worship the lord god in spirit and in truth so that we can fellowship and that we could commune with the father amen so we again we honor the father the son and the holy spirit without any further ado let's all eat uh from the book of galatians chapter four beginning at verse one now i say that the heir as long as he is a child differs nothing from a servant though he be lord of all now just to give us the the backdrop of what's going on here uh uh just to bring it back up here if you will remember paul is trying to minister by letter to the galatians and they were instrumental paul was instrumental in launching this particular body of christ getting them started amen in their walk with god allowing them to come together as a church and in his absence you had some some judais some judaizers of judaism crept into uh in into the the church of galatia and they started trying to put the body of christ in bondage by telling them that their conversion is not complete unless they honor the mosaic laws meaning that they have to become circumcised and once you honor that covenant once you become once you go forth in circumcision then you're putting yourself in the midst of the law okay and then you've lost your liberty because once you start to address one portion of the law you start to address all the law after that so they begin to forfeit the liberty that they had in christ jesus and again these were gentiles they they weren't of the jewish bloodline and as they accepted christ as lord and savior you end up having some of the some supposedly christian jews but they wasn't christian jews they was just jews be you know acting as an impostor but you know acting or being an imposter acting that they were jewish christians when they really wasn't and they were trying to they said well if you gentiles one want to be part of the faith then you have this is what you have to do and they were they were becoming stumbling blocks to them and then in the process of talking to the galatians and trying to convince them that they needed to be circumcised thus bringing them into the law of moses they were also speaking against paul so that uh they could cut access off from paul and and galatia the galatians you know again these judies judaizers and i know i'm i'm not saying it right uh and i apologize for that but these which crept in unawares as the scriptures put it uh these imposters that came in uh secretly uh acting like you know they're happy for the for the you know for the church of galatia when when actually they were trying to imprison them by putting them in and metaphorically speaking they were trying to imprison them by putting them into to chains and bondage meaning that they were trying to make them adhere to the law of moses they knew that paul was still a threat so what they wanted to do was to cut the communication off between paul and the church of galatia and so that's that's what's going on so paul having caught wind of this is trying to address it and and trying to minister to them to see how they got to this point now keep in mind that whatever is written it's written for a reason even even this letter and we have to look at ourselves because the problem that paul is addressing is new converts being deceived by people that supposedly supposed to have been part of the faith but they really wasn't and the the the new converts have become manipulated and and and and now have gone astray through this course of manipulation and so when we look at this and try to look at how it applies to our lives today when god draws you in to the faith he taps you on the shoulder and and let you know that your name is in the lamb's book of life he or he wants to put it in lamb's book of life and he wants you to be his child he draws you in with love immediately the enemy didn't have to worry about you before because you wasn't a threat to his kingdom because you were going to perish you were going to perish without god anyway so he wasn't really concerned about you but then all of a sudden god god gets active god's love is just so precious that god is letting you know hey i've got room for you too and once god starts reeling you in the enemy begins to send his agents now the enemy got to worry about you so he sends his agents after you and he'll provoke those closest to you he'll provoke family members neighbors co-workers to try to trip you up to stumble you and if if that doesn't work all of a sudden now he's got people coming in in the place of worship to try to to woo you and to get you to because you got you actually got in places of worship you actually got clans set up there's believe it or not you there's people in the place of worship that they they ride together over here some people ride together over here over there and and and some people will try to pull at you to get you to come and without you ever knowing you don't know what to do because you're new to this and you're just glad to belong to something and to someone to have a god like family you're just you're you're you're appreciative but the enemy will have somebody staged in the place of worship to try to get you to be a part of this clan and this is the clan that's working against the word of god against the leadership of that place of worship against the way god will have things done and before you know it they're making you worse than the person that you were before you even came into this place of worship this is the way the enemy does things so this is one of the reasons why i feel maybe that this is written but whatever the holy spirit gives you to from this remember that is written for a reason and we're learning about paul's experiences with the god with the church of galatia so again let me get out of the way of the scripture and let's read on here now i say that the heir as long as he is a child he differs nothing from her servant though he be lord of all and what he's saying here is when you when you have a child especially as far as a king a king has a son and that son has not come into authority yet so you can't tell the difference you can't tell that that's the king's son you know when you look at the activities that they have to do daily okay you can't tell it seems to be no different than the servant but when that child grows up and and then come into their authority they begin to blossom and this is what the scripture is saying but as under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father and we're going to keep looking at this the time appointed of the father so again when the child when the king has a son and it's not time for the son to come into his office you can't tell him no different you can't tell anything different about him than that of of a servant and there are people that's constantly instructing him and constantly teaching him constantly you know trying to guide him and point him in the right right direction until he's ready to assume the position of authority okay and what happens is it's the king or the father of that child that that that appoints the time for them to finally come into their calling or to their office and it's saying that god did it god did it the same way or man has done it the way that god has done it at an appointed time god sent forth his only begotten son to cause him to rule and to leave but only at an appointed time even so we when we were children were in bondage under the elements of the world but when the fullness of time was come god sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons so think about it like this god allowed his son to go to jail so that he can break everybody else out of jail he had him working from the inside to get everybody on the outside he had him go into the inside of the jail the law represented the inside of the jail god had his son to be working on the inside of the jail to help jail break everybody from the inside out now hold your place there because this is some heavy stuff what paul is saying here notice what he said in verse two but is that that the child that that's the call the purpose that particular child is under tutors or gov and governors until the appointed time of the father now let's relate this back to scripture here go with me to genesis chapter three genesis chapter three now god had a set time for the lord jesus to come okay so so there and and it had to follow god's protocol so let's go back to where god first established that his son was going to come this is genesis chapter 3 and this is this is the need for jesus to come so i i only plan on reading verses 14 and 15 but just so that you have an understanding let's just read the whole chapter here or at least up to verses 15. genesis chapter 3 starting at verse 1. now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said unto the woman yea hath god said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden remember we talked earlier just briefly just briefly about when god has tapped you has chosen you has got your attention the enemy is going to do what he can to send somebody there to trip you up to stumble you we see this same thing going on with eve right now we see eve is freshly out of god's bosom here she's freshly created if you will and and from from this from the rib of man okay so she's fresh so what do the enemy do he targets her he targets because he knows that that she's weaker so yeah and then because she's new to this whole thing she's kind she's weak she's a babe at this right so guess what he does he goes after her he goes after the weak the weak one right and then he he tries to twist the word of god look at what he says here yea hath god said you should not eat of every tree of the garden so he tries to twist the word because her being a young babe she wouldn't be able to have that full complete understanding right and the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the trees which is in the midst of the garden god hath said ye shall not eat of it neither should you touch it unless you die okay so she has uh the whole reason that she's part of the faith that she's here is because she does have a foundation okay even though it's a little weak there is a foundation that's what got her here in the first place that's that's who she is that's her husband was made with this foundation to where he knows god so she comes from her husband she has this foundation to where she knows of god amen and the serpent said unto the woman you shall not surely die for god doeth know that in the day you eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as gods knowing good and evil and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise she took the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also one to her husband with her and he did eat okay so what's what was the plan of the enemy trip her up so that she can go and trip others up get the one that's weak persuade them next week and so that that person can go and be an advocate for you to go and trip others up okay and the eyes of them were both open for they knew that they were naked and they sold fig leaves together they made themselves apron and they heard the voice of the lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day and adam and his wife they hid themselves from the presence of the lord among the trees of the garden and the lord called the lord god called unto adam and said unto him where art thou god respect god knew where he was but god was respecting the space god is a respectable god he is a honorable god god will if you don't want him looking in your life you know so be it but if you allow him into your life he still respects the space that you got okay so god was like where are you adam what's going on and he said i heard the voice i heard thy voice in the garden and i was afraid because i was naked and i hit myself first of all afraid is not really part of god's vocabulary so the fact that he said i was afraid he knew something that that that didn't come by way of faith he knew something that came of carnality that he was afraid and that he was actually naked that comes from where you when you're no longer walking by faith the enemy is always trying to get you to you know to expose you okay so he makes you aware that you're naked okay now watch this he said i heard that voice in in the garden and i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself and he said who told who told you that thou art naked who told thee that thou was naked how has thou eaten of the tree uh whereof i commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat and the man said the woman whom thou gave us to me gave us to be with me she gave me the tree that uh the the tree and i did eat so it doesn't matter what the enemy did the enemy was trying to get them to be rebellious against god and that's what the enemy was doing to the church of galatia trying to god had used uh the apostle paul to to you know to to get them started and the enemy came as a stumbling block to persuade them to do things otherwise by twisting the word of god and getting them to sin to rebel to go against what god the gift that god has given them if you will amen and the lord god said unto the woman what is this that thou has done and the woman said the serpent begot me and i did eat now these are the two verses we needed to take a look at verses 14 and 15. the lord god said unto the serpent because thou has done this thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field upon thy belly shall thou go and thus shall thou eat all the days of thy life and i will put and here is the timing i will put enmity between thee and the woman in between thy seed and her seed and it shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel so why first of all we understand that god was setting a time because man began to fall for grace his eyes were open he was a he was aware of fear and no longer of faith he was aware of fear uh he knew about carnality because he rebelled against god so this is not the state that god attended man to be in and and instantly god knew that he had sinned that he had did something that he should not have done and that's what the enemy is trying to get you to do the gifts that god has for you the enemy is trying to get you to forsake to forsake it to turn your back on god and to do what the enemy will have you to do and not what god will have you to do okay so god begin to curse the the the serpent you know and to curse the enemy if you will and then god says that i see that man has fallen from the grace that was set aside from you know for him and so what i'm going to do is i'm going to deliver a man from this the state that he now finds himself in at an appointed time through the woman whom you used to to to get man to fall i'm going to use the woman to bring forth my son that will cause man to be restored okay you use woman to cause man to fall i'm going to use woman as a means to bring in my son that will restore man into the state that i wanted him to be at in the first place now that's a time frame that only god would have established okay and that that he knew what would come but he announced the time that that there that the woman will be used and she's going to have a child that's going to be a problem to this to the kingdom of the enemy her son that the son that god was going to bring into this world through the woman was going to be a problem towards the kingdom of the enemy and and he was putting the enemy on notice so that's the time frame amen that's what we're seeing here in the book of galatians now so as as we see why god had to bring his son in and when his son did come in he was under tutors and governors because he had to be raised up but once that particular time had hit now all of a sudden the plan of god is is really set into full motion and as jesus laid down his life and was resurrected he's he paved the way for us to have the jailbreak those those that were in the bondage of the law and those that knew not of god but now we know of god and now are subject to be called sons and daughters of god all of this god was working both sides when he brought jesus forth god have both sides in mind the gentiles as well as the jews bringing us all under the liberty of christ under one umbrella so that we can all be sons and daughters of the most high god but all things had to be under a time frame it had to be specific to a certain time and that's what paul is talking about here is if the person is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father now when we drop down to verse 4 but when the fullness of the time was come god sent forth his son he knew the time would come and once we hit that time god sent forth the son made of a woman made under the law meaning that he was there in the jail the problem was the law put people in bondage because people you know the the law had to be there as a place market to slow people down from what they were doing and to make them look at their sins and how bad it was to and and maybe get them to change but sin got into the law so it's like if your parents tell you don't do something all of a sudden you want to do something to see why they were telling you not to that's what the law did that's what sin did to the law it revealed the problems that that that were in people the brokenness about people and took advantage of their weakness of their brokenness okay so now jesus comes and jesus sees this law and then he sees those that are outside of the law those that are just lawless altogether just just how it is and what does he do he breaks down the law and then the gentiles he give them liberty and say look you don't have to go through the law to have your name written in the lamb's book of life the lamb's book of life i will take care of you just as i'm taking care of the jews it's it's a powerful thing but i digress let me get out of the way so here's the purpose of jesus in verse five to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons god loves us so much imagine this and it it in a choke you up when you think about it the king of the universe the king of the universe the only wise true god sent forth his son and gave his son authority to make all of us sons and daughters god wasn't content just having the lord jesus he wasn't content just having the jews but he wanted all of us to be a part of his family to make us all sons and daughters and when you think about it you're talking about a king look at all that the king possesses and that he wants to make you an heir so you may not you you you're growing up as a child and you it seems to be that you're no different than a servant when you look at everything that you have to go through but when that appointed time comes you will reign with christ jesus as kings as priests as rulers you're going to reign why because jesus has made you an adopted son or daughter of the lord god almighty and the the the because he's made you an heir that means that you're going to be in authority too and it's hard for you to see that right now because you know you feel like you're no different than you you have faith but it seems like you're struggling like the world is remember what the scripture just said here it says but is under tutors and governors until the point of time but in verse 1 it says that now i say that the heir as long as he is a child differs nothing from his servant though he be lord of all so there's hardships that a king's sons or the king's children have to go through there are common hardships no different than people that aren't uh uh you know heirs and kings there are there are similar hardships that you have to go through but watch this at the appointed time you will be upheld as as a as a high priest as a king you will be an heir because you are a son or daughter of the most high god you have to endure unto the appointed time and at that appointed time god is going to place you exactly where he's created you to dwell at in the first place and that is a marvelous wondrous thing and it's for you to understand that and and god had this in plan way back at the time of the garden you know when when the enemy sent forth the this the serpent and operating through the serpent to to get man to fall but through jesus christ and the means by which the the enemy got man to fall was through the woman god used that woman to bring forth his son and so to restore and to redeem all of us when god came looking for adam son where are you guess what that title was on us sons and daughters hold on and hang in there because i know you're going through some things but hold on and hang in there at the appointed time god is going to lift you up and place you right where you belong right now it just it seems hard and challenging but i tell you rejoice because your father is the king of the universe and he knows and he is caretaker to all his children he's mindful of every last one of us so it's a powerful thing that he would allow jesus to bring us into the family amen but i digress let let's continue here so verse uh uh where we have verse five so to redeem them that we're under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons and because you are sons god has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying abba father the spirit of jesus and the spirit that worked in jesus is now inside of you and just as jesus was able to call on his dad and call him alba because because of jesus allowing us to become adopted sons and daughters we now have that spirit dwelling inside of us which gives us the right to call god father and you know when it when that word abba is a term of endearment abba it's a turn of endearment it's the way we say daddy we can say dad but there is there is a special meaning to when your children says daddy there is a term of endearment there if you will amen and that's that's what it's saying there that it's that special it's it's collective and it's individual it's the way we walk with god and as jesus was able to call his father daddy god has placed us in the same position to be able to call on him in the same manner and that reinforces what what what god has planned for us that we are truly heirs it's it's really is a powerful thing because it shows how god loves you amen wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son and if a son then they heir of god through christ and this only is made possible through jesus christ there is no other way to come in to to to this inheritance there is no other way to come into this faith other than the lord jesus christ because jesus made it possible that all of us can have this adoption ship he is the one that has made it possible so without him you you can't do that you can't call on the father unless you've already called on the son do you understand that you cannot call on the father unless you've already called on the son and the son puts you in connection with the father it's it's a powerful thing how be it then when you knew not god ye did service unto them which by nature were no gods so paul is saying to them do you understand what you have in the father do you understand what jesus has done for you to make you sons and daughters of the most high god you can remember when you how things were when you knew not god you didn't have any hope you served you served things that you made into idols and you worship those things you worshipped your money your job your cards your house you worshipped your boyfriend your girlfriend you worshipped those things that were that you made gods that were really no gods and could not save you you were subject to them why would you return to that life he goes on to say but now after that you have known god or rather are known of god how turned you again to the weak and beggarly elements where until you desire to be in bondage so paul tells the church of galatia he says remember before you knew god how you was subject to all of these things these idols and you made these idols your god now that you know of god or better to say that god now is knows of you because he has chosen you to be his son and daughter he said now that god knows of you you're known of god now why would you go back to the very area that you of life to where you didn't have god and you had those weak bagely things those things that will kill you those things that were not going to be happy until it totally destroyed why would you turn back to that and this is what happens when you stumble when you end up when when the when you get around the wrong people and they are intimidated by how passionate your walk is and then they'll try to recruit you and it even take place in the place of worship they're trying to recruit you to try to get you to belong to their committees and their things and all the while some of them breaking you down because they're intimidated by you they don't want your passion to change status quo and then there and the enemy is using them to break you down into so dissension and all all and the purpose of this whole thing is to take you back before you knew god to draw you back out into the world and guess what happened a lot of times that works because you end up getting so frustrated and and the dissension that starts to be sown you end up getting so frustrated at all the going zone in the place of worship that you just can't you just wash your hands and go right back to the world because you you fall out of a favor with people in the place of worship you you walking in the planet of the enemy and it chased you right back into the world and then it sours you you ever you ever i've been on a horse before and as i was on as it happened to me two times one time i was on a horse and the horse shot off while i was on there and i'm doing everything i can to hold on to this horse as this horse is trotting off you're not even trying i'm just riding off into the sunset and so that that was finally i get this horse to stop i'm hearing people yelling talk about pull the ring and i pull it and the horse stops second time i'm on a different horse called an arabian and this horse is headed for a tree it just wild horse just just shoots off the horse is headed for a tree why because i'm hanging off on the side of it and i think the horse was trying to get run me off run me into a tree i don't i i just i know that's where we were headed my foot was caught in this stirrup and and i'm hanging i'm trying to get my foot out and trying to get off the horse at the same time and now i'm being dragged and headed towards this tree the horse is plowing to it and i'm going to hit and and at the last minute my shoe comes off allowing my foot to break break out of the stirrup here right and i'm i'm toiling you know turning over on the ground you know rolling and stuff people come and say hey are you okay i was like yeah yeah yeah i'm just grateful to be off the horse and immediately they said you got to get back on because if you get back home you you're fine but if you don't get back on you never will get back on and i'm like trust me i don't have any plans on getting back on the doors i have no plans on it that's but if you don't get on now and you will never ever get back on the horse it's important for you to get on now uh-uh i will never get back already that it's a wrap right now my point in saying that story is that's what the enemy is trying to do the enemy is trying to get you in the mindset to never get back on it because of the bad experience that you have because the enemy has his people set up in these places of worship and they will try to sour you in this walking in this lifestyle of christianity they will try to sour and you will find yourself more unforgiving towards any assaults that happen uh any offenses i should say that happened to you in a place of worship than those things that happened to you're more forgiving about things that happened to you in the world than your episodes that are going on in the places of worship right and so when you become sour towards the atmosphere you never want to go back to it and the the job of the enemy is accomplished and that's what the enemy is trying to do because the enemy knows that you're still weak therefore you can be manipulated because you're new to this this is what's happening to the chill to the church of galatia and paul is saying know you not that that your sons and daughters of the most high god and that makes you heirs because of jesus if you forsake jesus because when you go back to the law you're forsaking jesus if you forsake jesus you're giving up your adoptionship to be called sons and daughters you're giving that up god is your father but when you when you go back to the world you're tearing up the papers of adoption and and now the enemy is your father again why would you do that why would you go back to those things you know so again i look at this as written that new converts that come into the places of worship you have to be careful and just stay with god and bless them and worship them those of us that's been in been in this walk don't get complacent because the enemy can use you to to become a stumbling block amen so be be careful amen but let me digress read on because we still got some things to cover here so paul tells them in verse 9 but now after you have known god or rather known of god how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements where unto ye desire again to be in bondage he says you observe days and months and times and years i'm afraid of you lest i've bestowed upon you labor in vain paul is saying that i'm in um i fear for you you know because it looks like that all the work that i put in you has been for nothing and and this is what happens when when you come in to to to when you're a babe and you come into the faith and you get around the wrong people their job is to put you in bondage because they have not they they've never accepted jesus truly as lord you know and so they've been in bondage to that and then they want to put you in bondage and next thing and then all of us all of a sudden you start observing these things uh uh you know and concerning the law new moons and and sabbats and and all all the other things that come with it and it i don't have a problem with even our household we acknowledge the sabbath on a saturday meaning that we we look at that as the day of rest so that's how we look at it not that we come under the law you know we're not subject if i need to get things done on saturday guess what i'm going to get things done that's just how that goes but i don't feel that i broke the law of the sabbath we use the law we we use the sabbath i would say differently than other people do when when we bring in the sabbath we use that acid that we don't make our beds up we have a day of rest because we've been working hard all week long doing various things you know we don't cut grass we don't we don't do anything we we relax now i have a job that i that my job works on saturdays i don't feel guilty that i work because i'm not under the law we look at we look at that whole setting a little different we welcome a day to where we all can take a a break that day to where we can just chill out and just we don't even let our daughter wash dishes that day we don't wash dishes we just hang out that day beds are not made we just slouched that day because we worked hard all week long but if something happens to where we do make up our bed or if the grass end up being cut by some way if i do have to go to work we don't feel that we broke it because we didn't imply it in the in to the extent that other people apply it we don't look at it like that we just look at it as a day of rest that's how we look at it amen and that for me it don't always come it came like that in my former job to where i always had saturdays off but with this job because i'm starting a new job that's not always the case but i don't feel guilty because i'm not under a law to where i feel like i'm breaking the law of the sabbath it's it's our choice if we want to have a day of rest but if you bring it in as as a law you put yourselves under the law do you understand that if you bring it in as a law you put yourself under the law and now you have to be mindful of all the laws because you decided to be mindful of this one law you got to be mindful of all of them for us we just institute a day to where everybody could just chill and just rest and not be held accountable for this or for that i have to do this i have to do that and we delight and we all look forward to this day as a matter of fact our my kids they played their play they they may not get a chance to play all week long their their their video games but on saturday they play their games why because we don't look at this as the holy the holy sabbath we just look at this day as the day of rest where we can all just be ourselves and and just have a good time that we can fellowship that we can just just hang out you know and not have to not have to succumb to the ritual of a day it doesn't work like that so that's that's the point that i'm trying to make here and and when you start looking at new moons and things like that people will try to put you in bondage of that thing and now you're right back into the world because you you're putting forth your best effort to try to walk in this manner somebody took advantage of you and exploited you and put you in another set of bonds you just you just broke out of jail over here now you're back in jail over here you know through through religion you know so you got to be careful you are special to god and he wants you to enjoy the liberty of christ jesus amen now brother and i beseech you be as i am for i am as you are you have not you have not offended me at all you have not mistreated me when i when i started preaching to you is what he's saying so he says brethren i beseech you to be as i am meaning that i'm free of the law he says for i am as you are you gentiles and you were free of the law guess what i'm trying to be like you i'm trying to be free of the law but now instead of you trying to be as me free of the law you're trying to go you're trying to be part of the law to where you are in chains you are in chains and in bondage and everything why would you do that why would you allow yourself to be subject to that he said remember when i first came at you he says i wasn't he says there were some things going on about me but you didn't mistreat me this is what he was saying here you have not injured me at all you know through it he said you know how through infirmity of flesh i preached the gospel unto you at the first when i first came at you you didn't mistreat me he says you didn't injure me you didn't mistreat me he's and now it's it's it's said that paul was sick at the time and his sickness led him to to to galatia and therefore he became instrumental in it and starting starting this the place of worship there but what paul is saying in my sickness you didn't mistreat me you know as a matter of fact you knew that i wasn't well and you still gave me utterance you still heard what i had to hear you still heard what i had to say rather and you treated me well in doing so he goes on to say you know how through infirmities the flesh i preached the gospel unto you at the first and my temptation or my trial which was in my flesh you despised not nor rejected but received me as an angel of god even as christ jesus now paul is saying remember how good you were to me at first and i was sick you know i had some things going on about me you didn't you didn't uh offend me you didn't mistreat me you gave me a platform to preach the gospel to you even though you knew that i was sick you never rejected me nor have you you rejected ever what i had to say he says where then is this blessedness you spake of um he said but i'm sorry let me finish 14. my my temptation or my trial which was in my flesh you despised not nor rejected but you received me as an angel of god even as christ jesus whereas then this blessedness you spake up for i bear you record that if it had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me paul is like look at how you're treating me now and remember what i told you the enemy will try to get you once the enemy puts his clutches on you he don't want you he don't want somebody coming to save you so he's going to use people around you to cut off to to put distance between you and anybody that that is of right standing with god think about a relationship this is the better way to put it i suppose say you're in a relationship um as a as a as a guy you may want to you want to go to god you you're tired of the way life is and you want to be saved okay and your wife or your girlfriend uh they're not acting right you know they're they're as a matter of fact it might be one of the reasons that you're being led to the most high god right through the trial and tribulation and through the infirmities you're having a face with either your girlfriend or those of you that are married you know through your spouse right so you end up finding the lord right you end up he's you end up acknowledging the fact that you were without him and now you have them right and guess what yes and guess what happened here all of a sudden they began to make it hard on you you know who do you think you are that you know what you think you better to me because you you you call yourself giving giving your life to god i know how you are see you may have them food but you don't have me food i know you know you would hear that noise i can testify because i come from that years ago i've come from that you know i know i know what i'm talking about i've come from that you know years ago and they will try to turn up the heat you know i know they don't know you like i know you you you i don't even know why you in there wasting their time right you're a hypocrite i don't know why you're wasting their time i know you know the enemy will try to the enemy will try to turn it up right and and trying to try to belittle you for for going you know for going this way and that's that's what's starting to happen here kind of with with the uh with them here with the guy with with the church of galatia now the the the those that are unawares or these spies that have that have spied out the liberty these these import these imposters you know all of a sudden they're they're they're trying to belittle paul they want to try to be you know put some distance between paul and and and the church of galatian because they don't want paul getting them in a right in the right way so what it was starting to happen they're starting to be mean towards paul the church of galatia they once received them now they're starting to to dog him out you know they're starting to you know he trying to do everything he can to help him and now they're trying to bite his hand you know and and this is kind of kind of remind me of a situation to where people are trying to get their lives right and you and then all of a sudden those that are closest to you begin to start biting your hand because you're trying to do right it's and it's all because the enemy don't want he don't want you having to when he had his arms around you and his grip he don't want you breaking out of the grip so here trying to use those that has the most influence to to try to belittle to try to berate you until you line back up with the enemy and that's what that whole thing is about you know uh paul broke them free and got them on the right path and now they're gonna come and try to woo them over and then and then be hard on them if they don't allow if they allow paul back on the scene the enemy put put pressure on the church of galatian to be mean towards paul so that he he keeps his distance from him right and and that's what's going on here and the enemy will put people in our lives to distract us to you know to put distance between us and god you know so that the enemy can wrap his arms around us again as he tries to suffocate us and send us to hell you know that's that's what's going on here but i digress let me shut up here so paul began to question their treatment of him as to what have i done to you you know i can remember when y'all was real nice towards me and even in my sickness you you disrega you didn't reject me you didn't disregard me you comforted me you heard everything that i had to say you treated me like i was an angel uh in the spirit of the lord jesus christ that's how y'all was that's how you treated me he's like well where is that now where is that kindness where was that that that compassion he said where is then the blessed that you speak of for i bear you record that if i if it had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me paul was like you know back then you were so kind to me that you would have plucked out your eye if i needed an eye you would have plucked out your own eye and gave it to me so i can accomplish the work that i set out to do he says i'm there he said am i therefore become your enemy because i tell you the truth this is how they're treating paul now you know because he's telling them the truth and this is what happens when you get your life together the and the people that are closest to you when they're not ready to have their lives put together they come at you and they come at you hard and make you question am i your enemy what's going on that you you know you you you hot on my heels i'm trying to be better and then and you're telling me i'm taking the wrong path so it's just and again i speak from experience might be going too far in my examples maybe some of you get it maybe some of you don't but just trying to put myself in the mindset of what paul was going through how the enemy has convinced the church of galatians to distant themselves from paul so much so that paul has to defend himself towards them and when god changes you and gets your life changed and have you instrumental towards the work of his kingdom those which are closest to you are going to turn on you especially if they have not committed to the lord jesus christ yet they're going they are going to turn on you and they are going to throw out every name and every work in the book to slow you up and it's not about you it's about god using you you know and that's what it comes down to and they'll they'll try to say that you're not qualified because of where you came from but not because of where you are but because of where you came from and what you have done then they'll try to say that you're not qualified okay but now they're saying that paul they're trying to say that he's not qualified at least those that are persuaded that galatians to to come against paul you know they're questioning paul's authority and his calling amen he goes on to say they zealously affect you but not well they would exclude you that you might affect them so paul is saying that they're they're trying to influence you but they're they're they have improper influences over you you know and and they would have you he goes on to say that they would have you work with them then work against them he says that uh they would exclude you meaning that when he said that they would exclude you they're trying to keep you from me they're trying to make sure that i don't have access to you they would exclude you that you might affect them that you would roll with them that you would be on their side keep you from me so that you can stay in their posse and that they can have control over you so that you would do what they would want you to do rather you would do what god would have you to do he says it's good to be zealously affected always he says but it is good to be zealously affected always in in in a good thing and not only when i'm present with you so paul is saying that they're trying to um they're trying to act they're trying to woo you over okay they're they're trying to say oh man you know we can use you you know you you you represent that thing we've been looking for you an asset to what we're trying to do they're trying to woo you over you know and and paul is saying i guess that's not a bad thing uh it it'd be different if they were doing it in my presence but while i'm apart they're trying to secretly get you on their side you know he said it's it's okay for people to find after you it's okay for people to acknowledge you as long as they don't have a hidden agenda and the way that people find over you they they shouldn't do it when other people not around if you have pure motives it don't matter who's around if you think that that person is a a high value you will let them know in front of everybody but if you let them know only in front of certain people while others are not there you have a hidden agenda okay and that's what paul is trying to say it's okay for them to s to speak good things to you but if but they have a hidden agenda because they only do it when i'm not around when i am when i am around you don't see them being as active but when i'm not around they're being busy bodies over you you know that's not right my little children of whom i travel in and birth again until christ be formed in you i desire to be present with you now and so to change my tone for i stand and doubt of you paul said i wish i could be there with you because right now the the tone that i take you you're forcing me to take this tone with you because of the tone that you've been taking with me if i were there maybe i would have more of an effect on you to where we could come to some understanding but while there's distance between us my tone is a reflection of the tone that you have towards me this is what paul is saying this is why he said i stand out of you he says tell me ye that desire to be under the law do you not hear the law he says now those of you they're telling you that you need to be circumcised and and he said do you understand what the whole law entails he says it is written that abraham had two sons one by a slave woman that word bond woman is a slave woman or that were bond made as a slave woman and the other by a free woman but he was but he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh but he that was born but he that was of the free woman was born by the promise so let's look at this let's let's kind of get into this what paul is talking about because he begins to say that it's an allegory or it's symbolic the way this is set up okay so paul is saying that let me do you understand the law even as is written he says let me enlighten you on what you're getting into first of all understand that the law everything starts with abraham and abraham had a maid and he had a wife and and actually let's go into scripture so to give you some understanding go with me to genesis chapter chapter 15 genesis chapter 15 and we'll start out with verse 1. so let's take a look at genesis chapter 15 and take a look at verse 1. after these things the word of the lord came unto abram in a vision saying fear not abraham i and thy shield and that exceeding great reward and abram said lord god what will thou give me sin that i go childless and the steward of my house is this eliezer of damascus and abram said behold to me thou has given no seed and lo one born in my house is mine heir and behold the word of the lord came unto him saying this shall not be thine air but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine air so what's going on here and abram god told abram that he is going to be blessed he is going to be a father of many nations so as time progresses abram starts wondering when is this going to come to pass what's when shall this promise be fulfilled and there's a there's a guy in my household that's that's a servant he's had a child is this child is the one that you're talking about that's going to be an heir and the lord also the lord begins to tell him no that's that's done the one that you're going the heir is going to be the one that shall come from your loins that's going to be the heir now turn from there and let's go to genesis chapter 16 genesis chapter 16 verses 1 through 16 genesis 16 verses 1 through 16. take a look at this now sarai abram's wife bare him no children and she had a handmaid an egyptian and an egyptian whose name was hagar and sarai said unto abram behold now the lord has has restrained me from bearing i pray that go into my maid it may be that i may obtain children by her and abram harken to the voice of syria so what's going on here they know that god has given them a covenant that they're going to be the parents of many nations and god had already told abram that it's not his steward it's not his servant you know because they're up in age and so they can't see themselves having children so you know sarah's never been able to have children in the first place so they're wondering okay well if it's not your servant the wife says maybe it's from my servant and she says look here go my servant hagar an egyptian an egyptian woman why don't you end up uh uh having a baby by her and then that child will be the one that child would be the one uh that we will parent over okay so sarah sarah i said unto abram behold now the lord has restrained me from bearing i pray thee go into the maid that it may be that it may be that i may obtain children by her serie i abram's wife took hagar her maid the egyptian after abram had dwelt 10 years in the land of canaan and gave her to her husband abram to be his wife so that means that she says here's my slave uh have a baby with her and he went in until hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her eyes so after hagar had brought forth a child she looked at sarah with an attitude like i did i was able to do something that you couldn't do that's how she began to look at sarah and sarah saw that cereal they called her serie at the time syria said unto abram my wrong be upon us my wrong be upon thee rather i've given my maid into thy bosom and when she saw that she had conceived i was displeased in her eyes the lord judged between me and thee but abram said unto syria behold thy maid is in thy hand due to her as it pleases thee and when serie i dealt hardly with her she fled from her face so uh abram's wife sarah got permission from abram to chastise uh haggar because of the or hagar because of the way that she looked at her after she brought forth the child and so because the hand of of sarah was hard against uh a hagar she end up leaving okay she end up fleeing so let's read about this just a little bit more here but abrams verse 7 so the angel of the lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness by the fountain in the way of sheer and said unto her hagar sarah sarah's made once came as thou and wither will thou go and she said i flee from the face of my mistress syria the angel of the lord said unto her return to thy mistress and submit thyself unto her hands the angel of the lord said unto her i will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for multitude the angel of the lord said unto her behold thou art with the child and shall bear a son and shall call his name ishmael because the lord has heard thy affliction so it's after she conceived after she deemed that she was pregnant okay and he will be a wild man and his hands will be great against every man and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in his presence of of all of his brethren and she called the name of the lord that spake unto her thou give us thou god seeketh me for she said have i also here looked after him that see that seeth me so she said to god lord you sought me and here i am i seek you in return you acknowledge me now i have acknowledged you so so that's that that's the story of hagar so remember paul is saying abram had two two children he has he had two sons one born from the slave and who was she was in shackles she was she was a slave woman and one born from a free woman so we just heard we just read rather the story of him of the child being born by the slave woman now go with me to genesis chapter 17 verses one through seven when abram was 90 and we'll start at verse one genesis chapter 17 verses one uh through seven here's verse one when abram was 90 90 years old and nine or 99 years old the lord appeared to abram and said unto him i am the almighty god walk before me and thou be perfect and be thou perfect and i will make thy covenant between me and then will multiply thy seed exceedingly abram fell on his face and talked and and god talked with him saying as for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shall be a father of many nations neither shall thy name any more be called abram but thy name shall be called abraham for the father of many nations have i made thee i will make thee exceeding fruitful and i will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee and i will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generation for an everlasting covenant to be a god unto thee and thy seed after thee drop down to verse 15 and god said unto abraham as for syria thy wife thou shall not call her serie but she'll call her her name but her name should be sarah but sarah shall be her name and i will bless her and i will give thee a son also of her yea i will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations king of people shall be of her kings of people should be offered then abraham fell upon his face and he laughed and said in his heart shall a child be born unto me that is a hundred years old and shows sarah that is 90 years old there and abraham said unto god oh that ishmael might live before thee and god says sarah sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed and thou shall call his name isaac and i will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him so now god is saying even in your old age the child that i'm going to bless you with uh that's going to be the child that's part of this covenant that's going to come from kings shall come out of this bloodline of this child so so now go with me real quick uh to genesis 21 verses 1 through 3 genesis 21 verses 1 through 3. the lord visited sarah as he had said and the lord did unto sarah as he had spoken for sarah con conceived and bear abraham a son in his old age at the time set of which god has spoken to him abraham called the name of the son that he was born unto him that was born unto him uh abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him whom sarah bore to bear to him isaac okay so that we can stop that now the whole reason the whole reason why we read those verses there because we need to have some understanding as to what paul is is saying here paul is saying to the church of galatia there is a child born to abraham that is part of the covenant and there is a child born to him that is part of a different covenant the one covenant was a covenant born unto slaves the other covenant was a covenant born unto liberty unto freedom the one covenant whose mother was slave the other covenant whose mother was free okay and one is a covenant of the flesh one is a covenant of the spirit okay so those are the two covenants and we read the difference between the two children one was from a slave woman and one was actually from his wife which we can say miraculous conception that was from the spirit because him and his him and his wife were never able to to have children and they were way past child bearing age but god visited sarah and through his powers he allowed sarah to to bring forth a child okay now let's read because this gets this gets real interesting in verse 24 of galatians chapter 4 he says these things are an allegory meaning that there is some uh some there's it's symbolic in in this nature the way it is one from mount sinai which gender to bondage which is haggar and for this hagar is mount sinai in arabia an answer to jerusalem which is now uh which now is and is in bondage with her children so what is paul saying paul is saying that when the children of israel was over at mount sinai guess what was given to them what was given to them was the law and that's that's their bondage right there that's what put them in bondage okay it was the law this mount sinai okay now because that put them in bondage when you think about it the whole covenant with that god made with with haggar she was a woman that was in bondage so there are those that that are meant to be in bondage that are slaves but then there are those that god means to have to be free and look at this because this is real interesting what paul is saying he makes the analogy here for this hagar is mount sinai in arabia and answereth to jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children so the children of israel when they received uh the law they received it at mount sinai and and from that point on they became in bondage because it was never meant that they would be in bondage but that's what happened to him now look at this what he goes on to say but jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all it says for it is written rejoice thou barren that bearest not break forth and cry thou travail is break forth and cry thou that travail is not for the desolate hath many more children than she which has a husband now we brethren as isaac was are the children of promise that's that's who we are now and and so what's up before you are two isaac isaac and ishmael if you go to if you go to the site of ishmael you're going to the side of the law the the mosaic law if you go to the side of of of isaac you're going to the free side the sign of the promise amen and that's what god intended for us to have to be deemed righteousness through the righteousness of christ through faith you can't have the righteousness to be brought unto you by the workings of the law and that's what that's what paul is trying to address and i'm trying to put it out as elegantly as i can there was a spiritual conception there that god allowed this husband and wife to to come together in their old age and to be able to bring a child because they were past their child-bearing age if you will and besides that her womb was barren she was never able to have children amen and then all of a sudden god allowed them to come together and to be able to conceive that's that's the spirit of the promise of liberty and and through that bloodline we get the lord jesus christ and now we are heirs because of the promise from liberty the free the freeness that didn't come by slave amen so anyway let me come off off you know make sure i stay out of the way of the scripture so i don't confuse you i can over explain and end up confusing you here so he says now brethren we as isaac are children of the promise but then as but then but but as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now and that's a powerful thing what he's saying he said the way that those that were free were mocked then were mocked in this way now and he gives the example when when with isaac and ishmael ishmael mocked isaac he called it persecution now paul calls it persecution uh ishmael persecuted isaac for no reason at all and then paul looks at the distinction of that you know at this time just as as isaac was persecuted so are we persecuted by those that are of uh of bondage we're persecuted by those that are of bondage amen so this is real powerful here look at what he's saying here he gives the example nevertheless what saith the scripture cast out the bomb woman and her son for the son of the bomb woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman and to actually give you the scripture on that go with me to genesis chapter 21 verses 6 through 10 genesis 21 verses 6 through 10. and sarah said god had made me the lamb so that so that all that here will will laugh with me and she said who would have said unto abraham that sarah would have given children suck for i have borne him a son in his old age and the child grew and was weaned and abraham made a great faith great feast the same day that isaac was weaned sarah saw the son of hagar the egyptian which she had borne unto abraham mocking wherefore she said unto abraham cast out this bond cast out this bondwoman and her son for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son even with isaac so that mocking is persecution that's the example that that paul is giving to the church of galatia he's saying that look those that are in bondage they're mocking us because they haven't come over to the liberty we have in christ jesus so they're mocking us that's persecution and and that's what paul is trying to convey why would you be to the side of those that have persecuted you and mocked you why would you go to them inside with them when they have a problem with the liberty that you have we are part of a we are our part of heirs with abraham and his wife sarah through that faith through the righteousness of christ jesus and the righteousness that was appointed to abraham because he believed god we are part of the covenant that god made with abraham and we and with sarah but people that go for the law you you take on the covenant that god made with hagar and with ishmael and she was a slave woman so all that that covenant there has to do with people that are in bondage okay and so our liberty is found under abraham and and remember his wife was she she was not a slave woman and she was she said the scripture said that she was the mother of many nations amen so that's a powerful thing and so now looking at us today don't go back to the sins that god had delivered you from be mindful of those of you that as you were in as you are in places of worship that the enemy has people in the places of worship that's meant to sowed uh division and dissension and that's meant to put you in some form of bondage making you want to leave and go back to the world this is not what god has for us that's why when we worship god we worship him in spirit and in truth god didn't lead you into a place of worship to be put in shackles he didn't lead you into a place of worship for you to be put in chains and and to be coming to come around the wrong people and to try to tear up the place of worship he allowed you to go somewhere that you can integrate so that you couldn't forsake the assembly one of another so that you can fellowship that you can worship you don't even have to go to a place of worship to a place of worship to worship him you can worship him where you are but the lord allows you to come together one for another so that you can edify so that you can share your gifts amen so that you can help your brothers and sisters you know that's how god operates he didn't send you there so that you can be turned out so you got to be watchful because the enemy has people all over and this is what paul is contending with so much so that they started turning on him amen so we have to be mindful so as we close up the scripture so brethren we are not children of the bondwoman but we are children of the free that's what we have to be mindful of god has freed you from all the sin and the shame he didn't bring you into fellowship with him to watch you go into the shackles of religion don't get caught up in legalism don't get caught up and being pushed out of these places of worship because you're in with the wrong crowd get away from those crowds god leads you to a place so that you can be free so that he can heal you so that you can you can be encouraged and that you can encourage others amen he didn't lead you to these places so that you can be shown the wrong way but that you can you can be edified and made stronger amen eternal god in the name of jesus christ i thank you for this opportunity to worship you in spirit and in truth i pray that this message reaches those whose ears it was meant to hear and i pray that they receive it i give you thanks and i i glorify you and i magnify you because you've given me a word to share with so many you allowed the scripture to be written and to be taught and to be broadcast i pray that in this word that chains are broken shackles are taken off of people and that people receive the understanding in this right context that they can worship you in spirit and in truth father lead and guide people into a personal relationship with you keep them from from even having contact with those who mean them no good but father encourage him to stay with it encourage him father to come after you regardless of what comes after them father encourage them to hold on to your hand through jesus christ god i thank you for allowing this word to be written and allowing us to have an understanding of this word i bless you for it i thank you for it in jesus name amen go with me quickly to matthew chapter 25 or i'm sorry chapter 11 matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30. go with me again matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30 come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy late and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me i am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light jesus says come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden he sees what we're going through he sees those things that we're that weigh us down and that causes us to be worn out the things that we struggle with the things that we have yielded our members to and have taken advantage of us uh the things that occupy our time those things that were godless how we how they influenced us and how they robbed us of life and joy and peace and rest the lord sees that and he didn't plan for life to be that way for you he actually had a great plan of rest and peace to gift you with those things but somehow of another you went off path and chosen those things that worry you out and so now he didn't want to leave you out there because you chose or you've made the wrong decision so what he did is he showed up on the scene where you are and said come i have an answer i have a rest i have a peace i have a renewed hope i have i have a eternal place of residency for you but in order for you to get all these things that i want to give you i need you to come and what he is saying is i need you to come and get it i need you to come and get it i i'm where you are but i need you to make some steps towards me see we want jesus to do everything for us but we forget that we're required to do the things that's going to help us allow him to do those things for us he requires us to come to where he is and he will come and meet us but we have to be willing to get up and he can you know how you're standing you're trying to teach your children to walk and you're standing before them they're little babes they're little toddlers and you're a distance from them you know they can't they can't travel that far because they haven't learned to use to strengthen their legs they haven't fully learned to use it but they've used it enough to take a few steps so guess what you do you reach out your hands and your smile and encourage them to come at you and what do the little baby do the little baby hold out their arms to balance themselves and they'll take a few steps and then they'll fall into your arms that's what christ does for us he comes to where we are but we're required to take some steps towards him because if he did everything for us for where would our strength how will we learn to stand and depend if if we never had to learn to use our legs to stand and to lean on how will we learn to do that he requires us to learn he requires us to come to where he is even if he meets us where we are he still wants us to come towards him so he says come come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laid then i will give you rest and he says take my yoke and pun you and learn of me and that's where a lot of us go wrong because when we come into a place of worship when we come into christianity we can be overwhelmed and we retreat but christ is saying what you have to do is learn of me because i need you to know what i can do for you and i need you to see you have to give me permission to do these things for you because here's the thing about it when you submit and surrender you're giving permission for christ to rule and ring over you but if you don't submit and surrender he can't do things for you so you have to allow him to come in this is why he said learn of me learn of who i am and and find out what your rights are find out who you are find out what your purpose is what your calling is and who has made it possible christ said learn of me learn of who i am learn of what what the authority is he says and i will give you rest unto your souls a lot of times people come out of the world and they come in to to the church and they they're full of the world and when it comes time to extract the world from them they begin to to resist because it hurts right it you're prying it from them and it begins to break them off and so all of a sudden they're not doing that but that's part of the process this is what the children of israel had to go through they had to learn of the lord they had to learn what he was capable of and they had to learn who they were with him so that they would know what their places were but they had to learn of the lord god to see who he was how he was and what he was about this is what christ is saying on this journey learn of me and the more you learn of christ the more you learn what your own limitations are the more you learn how much more you need him amen he goes on to say i am meek and lowly and heartened you shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light and be that last line my yoke is easy and my burden is light that should have a whole lot of people's curiosity peaked why because all this time things have been so hard for you it's been your marriage your finances your workplace your neighborhood life in general has been so hard and so overwhelming but christ comes with an answer and he says i will make things easier for you my yoke is easy my burden is light now once you're willing to accept jesus as lord you're willing to call on him now go with me real quick to romans 10 and 9 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and shall believe in thine heart that god has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved this is your part right here remember christ will come to where you are and he'll hold his hand out to you and you have to get up and come towards him learn to use your legs learn to use your faith and you have to be the one to call on him and you're calling on him because you believe in your heart that he is the christ he is the one that shall come from god and that he gave his life as a ransom for us to deliver us from our sins that he laid down his life and after three days and three nights of this death god raised him up from the dead if you believe it that you can't be persuaded otherwise you believe it with all your heart and you call on him with your mouth you believe in your heart and you confess that jesus is lord you believe it you can't be persuaded otherwise he shall save you look at what he says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and shall believe in thine heart that god has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed you have to take a chance on him just as he's taking a chance on you he knows your strengths and your weaknesses and yet he's still willing to save you you have to be willing to take a chance on him for there is no difference between the jew and the greek for the same lord over all is rich upon all that calleth upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord jesus whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved you have to do your part so that god can do his part amen and if i were you i would pause this video and call upon him right now go with me to 1st john chapter 1 uh verses 8 through 10 first john chapter 1 verses 8 through 10. so first of all if you're calling upon jesus that means you're turning away from the world and you're turning towards the kingdom and he that rules in the kingdom of men you're calling upon the lord jesus christ amen that means you're turning away from your sins you're repenting you're confessing your faults before him and you're calling upon the name of the lord because you're making him lord of your life look at what this says this is first john chapter 1 verses 8 through 10. if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness if we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us what he's saying here is when you call upon him you have to be willing to repent and to confess your faults before him you have to let them know what it is that you come wrong you have to let them know about the baggage that you carry when you're involved in a relationship and and you're getting to know one another you want to be open and honest about where you've been and what you have previously been involved in to give your relationship a shot you need to let them know what god delivered you from right well that's christ wants to deliver you but you need to let him know what you turned away from because when you when you confess it you're taking ownership of it you're taking responsibility for it you're not passing it off you're accepting the blame and you're letting them know that i've let it go i'm no longer part of that lifestyle i let that thing go and i'm letting you know what it is that i had to let go and once you do that the stain that was left on you from your sin god cleanses you he not only forgives you but he cleanses you so that it doesn't have power over you any longer and that it doesn't come up again amen for if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness if we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us he can't do nothing for us if we're not honest about what's been going on with us we have to be honest about what's going on with us so that he can help us so that that we can allow him to help us amen lastly and quickly go with me to acts chapter 2 verses 38 verses 36 through 47 verses 36 through 47 this is the day of pentacles uh this is the day when the holy spirit fell upon the disciples and not only came upon the disciples but came inside of them and began to use their tongues to minister to people that were present on this day of pentacles amen uh it's the day again when the holy ghost fell upon the disciples of the lord jesus christ and then once the holy spirit fell upon them it came inside and began to use their tongue and and it used the tongues of the disciples to speak in the native language of others that were there so for example if people that were there were from asia the disciples the holy ghost used the disciples tongue to speak in in an asian language if there was someone there from africa the holy ghost would use the disciple tongue to speak in an african language amen and the reason why this was done is so that the holy ghost could get the attention of those that were present and then peter would administer the gospel to them so now after afterwards what's happening is the gospel is now being preached and so peter begins to minister and we'll come in to to the part of the gospel here that peter ministers this beginning at verse 36 of acts chapter 2. therefore let all the house of israel know surely that god had made that same jesus whom you've crucified both lord and christ now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said unto peter and to the rest of the apostles man and brethren what shall we do now peter tells him that you may not have been the one to drive the nails through the hands of the lord jesus christ you may not have been the one to crucify him on the cross but the fact that you've rejected and you lived a rebellious life against him you are just as complicit and just as guilty as those that had done it to him and those when when they heard this when they heard peter preach this people that were in the audience they became guilty the holy ghost began to prick them in their hearts they felt guilty and what and the first thing they said is what should we do how can we resolve this you know how can we have some peace now and when god begins to reveal something to you what he's doing is he's trying to get to let you know or trying to get you to see what's out of order so that through him you can correct it amen and and when you hear something that convicts you in your heart that's god tugging at you to let you know the opportunity is presenting itself to where you can address it and fix it so that it's not a it's not counted against you amen now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said peter unto the and said to peter and the rest of the apostles men and brother and what shall we do peter said repent we talked about repentance that's turning away from your sins peter said repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the uh for the remission of sins now let's understand the ceremony of baptism christ was taken down from the cross after he laid down his life he was laid to rest in a tomb for three days and three nights after three days and three nights he was brought back to life okay when we are baptized when we go through the ceremony of baptism we are being laid to rest when we go down into the water we are being laid to rest in the lord jesus christ we are being buried in him when he was laid to rest we are being buried in him when we come up out of the water we come up in the resurrection of jesus christ so as jesus was laid to rest for three days and three nights he he was also resurrected after three days and three nights when we go down into the water our old man goes down our new man comes up up comes up out of the water our old man goes down our new man comes up out of the water all of our sins are washed away that's the remission of sins because all of our sins are being washed away when we come up out of the water this is why it's important to to go through the ceremony of baptism and i understand with all the social distancing and and what's left of any quarantines uh that it's you find it difficult to have this done and i'm telling you that god knows and he will help you to get it done and don't be deceived when you hear people in places of worship saying that we don't do that anymore they need to be doing it people don't pay attention to baptism anymore and i believe that that's the workings of the enemy it's written for a reason and we need to acknowledge it address it and to have it done amen so you want to get baptism done i believe that god will send somebody out to you to your own house and baptize you in your own tub it doesn't matter where you get it done it matters that you do get it done amen and then you shall receive the gift of the holy spirit just as god placed his disciples placed his spirit inside the disciples god is going to place his holy ghost inside of you and is going to be conforming and transforming you and molding you into the image of his only begotten son for the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are far off even as many as the lord god shall call as we always say god doesn't have grandchildren he doesn't have great grandchildren you once your children accept the promise and the gift they become just as we're sons and daughters they become god's sons and daughters amen with many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this untoward generation then they that and and what paul i'm sorry what peter was saying here is if you see that the generation is lawless meaning that they're godless put separate yourselves from them and put yourself in a position to be saved so that you're not deemed one of the godless okay then they that gladly received the word were baptized in the same day they were added unto them about 3 000 souls and they continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and in fellowship and breaking the bread and in prayers whatever god has done to get you to the point to where you have your joy your truth you're full of love you're full of life you don't stop doing those things you you don't stop reading the scriptures you don't stop praying you don't stop fasting you don't stop fellowshipping if anything there's more of those things happening not less so you do what you can to to keep going forward not going back and man and that's where a lot of people make mistakes they become complacent because things are good now things are controllable seemingly and then they begin to fall off the fervency of those things that got them to where they were that got them to where they are amen fear came upon every soul with many wonders and signs were done and and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles and all that believed were together and had all things common they sold their possessions and goods they parted them to all men and every man as every man had need they continued daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread uh from house to house they did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart praising god and having favor with all people the lord added to the church daily such as should be saved eternal god we take this opportunity to say thank you to bless you to praise you because you are worthy you are the only wise true god you are glorious you are mighty and you are the god of abraham of isaac and of jacob god i thank you for those whom you have called and saved i thank you for enlarging the size of our family i thank you for the gifts and callings that you've added to the to the community of believers now lord god i pray for those believers the new converts as well as those who have been saved father that you would continue to save that you would strengthen that you would transform that you would continue to lead and to guide that you would keep us that we return not to the world unless we're under orders for you from you lord god i ask in the name of jesus god that you would use us to continue to save the more people bringing them out of the world and into the kingdom then father i pray that you would allow the kingdom to grow inside of us to god be the glory i thank you lord for long suffering and not giving up on us seeing us at our worst you gave us your best and you continue to do so to this day god we say thank you thank you for saving so many our children our families our co-workers our neighbors and so on father have your way in every one of our lives that you'll be glorified always in jesus name we pray folks i thank you for allowing my family and i to be a part of your bible study i thank you for hanging in there with us throughout these days and times that we find ourselves in thank you for your prayer your your support your proceeds amen remember those that are on our prayer list uh that you would be mindful of them just as we're mindful to pray and all the prayer uh prayer requests that we we receive you may not hear from us right away as far as a return correspondence but but rest in rest in your hearts and in your mind that when we get them we hit our knees we do not fail to go before the lord in prayer we ask that you will continue to be mindful of those on a prayer list our benediction comes from numbers chapter 6 verses 24 through 26 i loose this on you that you would receive it in the name of the lord jesus christ let your faith activated for jesus is lord and i'll loose this on you in his name the lord bless thee and keep thee the lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee the lord lift up his countenance and pundit and give thee peace again let your face let your faith activate that receive it in the name of jesus christ and glorify god for he is the one that keeps you always god bless you in jesus name we love you and thank you this has been a united body of christ church video production you can visit our website at 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