Hi, and welcome to
His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and I'm glad
you came apart with me to read
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the Word of God. Before
we start let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so
much for your love for us.
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And we can never
thank you enough for it.
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As we read these words that
you have given to us, may they
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fulfill the purpose that
you have for them in each of the
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lives of those of us
reading and listening right now.
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You have something for us to do
for you. Please open our hearts
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and show us what it is. Open
our minds and let us understand
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a deeper wisdom
than we had before
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from these
precious words of life.
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Thank You so much
and we love You. Amen.
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I am reading today
from the King James version
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in II Corinthians chapter
13 starting with verse 9.
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For we are glad, when we
are weak, and ye are strong:
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And this also we
wish, even your perfection.
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Therefore I write these things
being absent, lest being present
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I should use sharpness,
according to the power
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which the Lord hath
given me to edification,
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and not to destruction.
Finally brethren, farewell.
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Be perfect, be of good comfort,
be of one mind, live in peace;
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And the God of love and
peace shall be with you.
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Greet one
another with a holy kiss.
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All the saints salute you. The
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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and the love of God, and
the communion of the Holy Ghost,
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be with you all. Amen.
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Turning over now to
Paul's letter to Galatia.
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We are going to begin
in Galatians, chapter one
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and we are reading
from the King James Version.
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Paul, an apostle, - not of men,
neither by man, but by Jesus
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Christ and God the Father,
who raised him from the dead; -
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And all the brethren which
are with me, unto the churches
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of Galatia: Grace be to you
and peace from God the Father,
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and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who gave himself for our sins,
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that He might deliver us
from this present evil world,
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according to the will
of God and our Father:
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To whom be glory
forever and ever. Amen.
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I marvel that you are so soon
removed from Him that called you
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into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel.
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which is not another, but
there be some that trouble you
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and would pervert
the gospel of Christ.
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But though we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel
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unto you than that which
we have preached unto you,
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let him be accursed. As we
said before, so say I now again,
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If any man preach
any other gospel unto you
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than that ye have
received, let him be accursed.
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For do I now
persuade men or God?
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Or do I think to please men?
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For if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant
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of Christ. But I certify you,
brethren, that the gospel which
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was preached of me was not after
man, for I neither received it
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of man, neither was I
taught it, but by the revelation
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of Jesus Christ. For ye
have heard of my conversation
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in time past in the Jews'
religion how that beyond measure
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I persecuted the
church of God, and wasted it:
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And profited in the Jews'
religion above many my equals
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in mine own nation, being
more exceedingly zealous of the
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traditions of my
fathers. But when it pleased God
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who separated me from my
mother's womb and called me
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by his grace, to reveal his Son
in me, that I might preach him
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among the heathen; immediately
I conferred not with flesh and
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blood, neither went I up to
Jerusalem to them which were
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apostles before me; but I went
unto Arabia, and returned again
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unto Damascus. Then after three
years I went up to Jerusalem
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to see Peter, and
abode with him fifteen days.
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But other of the
apostles saw I none, save James,
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the Lord's brother. Now the
things which I write unto you
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behold, before God, I lie
not. Afterwards I came unto the
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regions of Syria and Cilicia;
and was unknown by face unto the
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churches of Judea which were in
Christ: But they had heard only,
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that he which persecuted
us in times past now preacheth
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the faith which
once he destroyed.
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And they glorified God in
me. Continuing to read Galatians
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Chapter two: Then 14 years
after went up again to Jerusalem
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with Barnabas and
took Titus with me also.
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And I went up by revelation,
and communicated unto them that
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gospel which I preach among the
Gentiles, but privately to them
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which were of reputation,
lest by any means I should run,
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or had run in vain. But
neither Titus, who was with me,
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being a Greek, was
compelled to be circumcised:
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And that because of false
brethren unawares brought in,
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who came in privily to spy
out our liberty which we have
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in Christ Jesus, that they
might bring us into bondage:
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To whom we gave place by
subjection, no not for an hour;
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that the truth of the
gospel might continue with you.
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But of these who seemed to be
somewhat, - whatsoever they were
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it maketh no matter to me:
God accepteth no man's person: -
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for they who seemed to
be somewhat in conference
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added nothing to me: But
contrariwise, when they saw that
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the gospel of the uncircumcision
was committed unto me,
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as the gospel of the
circumcision was unto Peter;
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For he that wrought effectually
in Peter to the apostleship of
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the circumcision, the same was
mighty in me toward the Gentiles
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And when James, Cephas, and
John, who seemed to be pillars,
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perceived the grace that was
given unto me, they gave to me
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and Barnabas the right hands
of fellowship; that we should go
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unto the heathen, and
they unto the circumcision.
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Only they would that we
should remember the poor;
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the same which I
also was forward to do.
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But when Peter was come
to Antioch, I withstood him
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to the face,
because he was to be blamed.
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For before that certain
came from James, he did eat with
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the Gentiles: but when they were
come, he withdrew and separated
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himself, fearing them
which were of the circumcision.
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And the other Jews dissembled
likewise with him; insomuch that
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Barnabas also was carried
away with their dissimulation.
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But when I saw that they walked
not uprightly according to the
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truth of the gospel, I
said unto Peter before them all,
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If thou being a Jew, livest
after the manner of Gentiles,
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and not as do the Jews, why
compellest thou the Gentiles
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to live as do the Jews?
We who are Jews by nature,
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and not sinners of the Gentiles,
knowing that a man is not
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justified by the works of
the law, but by the faith of
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Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ,
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that we might be justified
by the faith of Christ,
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and not by the works of the
law: for by the works of the law
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shall no flesh be
justified. But if while we seek
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to be justified by Christ, we
ourselves also are found sinners
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is therefore Christ the
minister of sin? God forbid.
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For if I build again the things
which I destroyed, I make myself
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a transgressor. For I, through
the law, am dead to the law.
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that I might live unto
God. I am crucified with Christ:
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Nevertheless I live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth in me:
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and the life which I now live in
the flesh, I live by the faith
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of the son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me.
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I do not frustrate the grace
of God: for if righteousness
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come by the law, then
Christ is is dead in vain.
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Continuing to read Paul's
letter to Galatia, this is
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Galatians chapter
three, the King James version
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O foolish Galatians,
who hath bewitched you,
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that ye should not obey
the truth, before whose eyes
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Jesus Christ hath been evidently
set forth, crucified among you?
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This only would I learn of you,
received ye the Spirit by the
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works of the law, or
by the hearing of faith?
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Are you so foolish? having
begun in the Spirit, are ye now
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made perfect by the flesh?
Have ye suffered so many things
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in vain? if it be yet in vain.
He therefore that ministereth
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to you the Spirit, and worketh
miracles among you, doeth he it
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by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
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Even as Abraham believed
God, and it was accounted to him
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for righteousness, know ye
therefore that they which are of
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faith the same are
the children of Abraham.
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and the Scripture, foreseeing
that God would justify
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the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto
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Abraham, saying, In thee
shall all nations be blessed.
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So then they which be of
faith are blessed with faithful
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Abraham. For as many as
are of the works of the law
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are under the curse. For it
is written, Cursed is every one
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that continueth not in all
things which are written in the
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book of the law to do them.
But that no man is justified
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by the law in the
sight of God, it is evident:
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for the just
shall live by faith.
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And the law is not of faith:
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But the man that doeth
them shall live in them.
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Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made
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a curse for us: for it is
written, Cursed is every one
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that hangeth on a tree: That the
blessing of Abraham might come
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on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ; that we might receive
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the promise of the
Spirit through faith.
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Brethren, I speak
after the manner of men;
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Though it be by a man's
covenant yet if it be confirmed,
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no man
disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
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Now to Abraham and his
seed were the promises made.
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He saith not, And to
seeds, as of many; but of one,
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And to thy seed, which is Christ
And this I say that the covenant
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that was confirmed before of
God in Christ, the law, which
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was 430 years after, cannot
disannul, that it should make
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the promise of none effect. For
if the inheritance be of the law
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it is no more of promise:
but God gave it to Abraham by
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promise. Wherefore then serveth
the law? It was added because of
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transgression, till the seed
should come to whom the promise
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was made; and it was
ordained by angels in the hand
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of a mediator. Now a mediator
is not a mediator of one,
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But God is one. Is the law then
against the promises of God?
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God forbid: for if
there had been a law given
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which could have given life,
verily righteousness should
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have been by the law. But
the scripture hath concluded all
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under sin, that the promise by
faith of Jesus Christ might be
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given to them that believe. But
before faith came, we were kept
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under the law, shut up unto the
faith which should afterwards
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be revealed. Wherefore the law
was our schoolmaster to bring us
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unto Christ, that we
might be justified by faith.
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But after that faith
is come, we are no longer
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under a schoolmaster. For
ye are all the children of God
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by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as have been
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baptized into Christ have put
on Christ. There is neither Jew
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nor Greek, there is
neither bond nor free,
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there is neither male or female:
for ye are all one in Christ
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Jesus. And if ye be Christ's,
then are ye Abraham's seed,
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and heirs
according to the promise.
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Continuing to read in
Galatians, chapter four.
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Now I say, that the
heir, as long as he is a child,
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differeth nothing from a servant
though he be lord of all;
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but is under tutors and
governors until the time
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appointed of the father. Even
so we, when we were children,
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were in bondage under
the elements of the world.
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But when the fullness of the
time was come, God sent forth
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his Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, to redeem them
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that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption
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of sons. And because ye are sons
God hath sent forth the Spirit
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of his Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
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Wherefore thou art no
more a servant, but a son;
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and if a son, then an
heir of God through Christ.
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not
God, ye did service unto them
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which by nature are no gods.
But now, after that ye have
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known God, or rather are known
of God, how turn ye again to the
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weak and beggarly elements,
whereunto ye desire again
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to be in bondage? Ye observe
days, and months, and times
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and years. I am afraid of you,
lest I have bestowed upon you
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labour in vain. Brethren,
I beseech you, be as I am;
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for I am as ye are: ye
have not injured me at all.
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Ye know how through infirmity of
the flesh I preached the gospel
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unto you at the first. And my
temptation which was in my flesh
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ye despised not, nor rejected;
but received me as an angel
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of God, even as Christ Jesus.
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Thank you for joining with me
today. Please join with me again
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