>>BILL: ON TODAY'S "IT IS WRITTEN" PROGRAM WE ARE 00:00:01.43\00:00:02.46 CONTINUING OUR EXPLORATION OF THE BOOK OF GALATIONS 00:00:02.46\00:00:04.16 WITH OUR SPECIAL GUEST, DR. GEORGE KNIGHT. "IT IS 00:00:04.16\00:00:09.36 WRITTEN" BEGINS RIGHT NOW. 00:00:09.36\00:00:11.90 (MUSIC) 00:00:14.76\00:00:23.56 >>ANNOUNCER: IT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME... 00:00:24.00\00:00:26.43 GOD'S BOOK, THE BIBLE. 00:00:26.60\00:00:29.83 STILL RELEVANT IN TODAY'S COMPLEX WORLD. 00:00:30.06\00:00:34.26 IT IS WRITTEN . . . 00:00:34.50\00:00:36.93 SHARING MESSAGES OF HOPE AROUND THE WORLD. 00:00:37.23\00:00:41.73 (MUSIC) 00:00:42.50\00:00:50.56 >> BILL: WELL, LET ME WELCOME ALL OF OUR VIEWERS 00:00:51.53\00:00:52.56 TO THIS WEEKS PROGRAM. 00:00:52.56\00:00:54.50 THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO BE WITH US TODAY 00:00:54.50\00:00:55.46 YOU KNOW, THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS WE HAVE BEEN 00:00:55.46\00:00:58.53 MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE BOOK OF GALATIONS AND 00:00:58.53\00:01:01.80 LEADING US ON THAT EXPLORATION HAS BEEN OUR 00:01:01.80\00:01:02.70 SPECIAL GUEST, DR. KNIGHT AND HE'S BACK WITH 00:01:02.70\00:01:06.50 US AGAIN THIS WEEK. THANK YOU, DR. KNIGHT, FOR BEING 00:01:06.50\00:01:08.80 HERE. >>DR. KNIGHT: GOOD TO BE HERE BILL. IT'S 00:01:08.80\00:01:09.80 HARD TO BELIEVE THAT WE'RE ALREADY IN OUR THIRD WEEK. 00:01:09.80\00:01:12.10 >>BILL: THAT'S RIGHT. AND SO, WE HAVE.IN OUR FIRST 00:01:12.10\00:01:14.43 WEEK WE GOT AN OVERVIEW, A GOOD CONTEXT OF WHAT SOME 00:01:14.43\00:01:15.50 OF THE CHALLENGES AND SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT 00:01:15.50\00:01:23.13 PAUL WAS FACING, A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HIS THEOLOGY 00:01:23.13\00:01:27.86 AND THEN LAST WEEK, CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO WHERE 00:01:27.86\00:01:28.86 HE ASSERTS HIS AUTHORITY. 00:01:28.86\00:01:33.80 >>DR. KNIGHT: HE HAS TO PROVE THAT HE HAS SOME 00:01:33.80\00:01:34.86 AUTHORITY. >>BILL: THAT'S RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:01:34.86\00:01:38.83 .IN ORDER TO ASSERT IT. 00:01:38.83\00:01:39.33 >>BILL: THERE WAS SOME UNDERMINING THERE OF HIS 00:01:39.33\00:01:41.53 AUTHORITY AND HIS CALLING. 00:01:41.53\00:01:42.06 >>DR. KNIGHT: THAT'S RIGHT. >>BILL:.AND SO, WE 00:01:42.06\00:01:44.73 GOT THAT, HE GOES THROUGH THAT AND GIVE US A LITTLE 00:01:44.73\00:01:50.96 BIT OF THAT BACKGROUND AND POSITIONS HIMSELF, 00:01:50.96\00:01:52.03 ESTABLISHES SOME CREDENTIALS FOR WHY HE'S 00:01:52.03\00:01:55.83 ABLE TO TEACH WHAT HE CAN TEACH. >>DR. KNIGHT: HE'S 00:01:55.83\00:02:01.13 GOT TO PROVE THAT HE IS AN APOSTLE EQUAL TO THOSE 00:02:01.13\00:02:02.26 DISCIPLES.>>BILL: RIGHT. 00:02:02.26\00:02:06.86 >>DR. KNIGHT:.WHO BECAME APOSTLES AT THE DEATH OF 00:02:06.86\00:02:07.83 JESUS. >>BILL: YES. AND I THINK THIS OTHER POINT 00:02:07.83\00:02:09.53 THAT I THOUGHT, AT LEAST IT RESONATED WITH ME, WITH 00:02:09.53\00:02:12.56 THIS IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONE GOSPEL AND IF 00:02:12.56\00:02:13.60 IT'S NOT, IF IT'S NOT THIS TRUTH THEN.HE CALLS IT 00:02:13.60\00:02:16.66 A DIFFERENT GOSPEL, RIGHT, BUT THERE'S NOTHING THERE. 00:02:16.66\00:02:20.76 THERE'S ONE TRUTH. >>DR. 00:02:20.76\00:02:21.26 KNIGHT: ONE GOSPEL. 00:02:21.26\00:02:21.70 >>BILL: I'M AMAZED, HE SAYS. >>DR. KNIGHT: AND 00:02:21.70\00:02:26.33 HE'S GOING TO BRING THAT TO A CLIMAX AT THE END OF 00:02:26.33\00:02:29.56 CHAPTER, CHAPTER THREE. 00:02:29.56\00:02:30.10 AS TO HOW THAT FITS INTO OUR LIFE TODAY. YOU KNOW, 00:02:30.10\00:02:36.16 BILL, YOU GET DOWN TO THE END OF THE CHAPTER AND 00:02:36.16\00:02:37.16 THERE'S NOT MUCH ROOM FOR DISCRIMINATION. SEXUAL, 00:02:37.16\00:02:41.23 RACIAL. >>BILL: SURE. 00:02:41.23\00:02:41.70 >>DR. KNIGHT:.OR ANY OTHER KIND. BECAUSE, IF WE 00:02:41.70\00:02:46.66 ARE ALL LOST AND IF WE ARE ALL SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH 00:02:46.66\00:02:51.96 FAITH, WE ARE ONE FAMILY. 00:02:51.96\00:02:52.50 >>BILL: THAT'S RIGHT. 00:02:52.50\00:02:52.96 >>DR. KNIGHT: AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH REALLY 00:02:52.96\00:02:57.03 NEEDS TO LIVE THIS OUT IN EVERY COMMUNITY IN WHICH 00:02:57.03\00:03:02.26 WE EXIST. >>BILL: ABSOLUTELY. NOW YOU HAD 00:03:02.26\00:03:03.16 SAID IN CHAPTERS THREE AND FOUR NOW, HE'S DEALING 00:03:03.16\00:03:06.73 WITH THIS THEOLOGY. IS THAT.>>DR. KNIGHT: YES, 00:03:06.73\00:03:09.10 CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO BASICALLY DEAL WITH THE 00:03:09.10\00:03:10.16 HISTORY OF THE PROBLEM WHICH HE PROVES 00:03:10.16\00:03:15.33 IS GOING BACK HISTORICALLY DEMONSTRATES THAT HE WAS A 00:03:15.33\00:03:20.40 TRUE APOSTLE, AT LEAST EQUAL TO PETER, AND, OF 00:03:20.40\00:03:21.50 COURSE, HE HAD TO SHOW HOW HE CONFRONTED PETER. HE 00:03:21.50\00:03:26.40 CAME OFF WINNER. >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: YEAH, 00:03:26.40\00:03:30.46 I'M EQUAL TO PETER. BUT HE HAS TO DO THIS. THIS 00:03:30.46\00:03:31.50 IS NOT SOMETHING THAT PAUL WANTED TO DO. I DON'T 00:03:31.50\00:03:34.43 THINK PAUL WANTED TO DOWNPLAY THE AUTHORITY OF 00:03:34.43\00:03:38.46 ANOTHER APOSTLE. THAT WAS NOT HIS PURPOSE. BUT PETER 00:03:38.46\00:03:39.53 DID WHAT WAS WRONG.>>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:03:39.53\00:03:44.86 .AND PAUL STOOD UP TO HIM. >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:03:44.86\00:03:46.86 KNIGHT: ON THE BASIS OF THE UNITY OF THE GOSPEL 00:03:46.86\00:03:48.00 AND WE'RE ALL SAVED IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. 00:03:48.00\00:03:52.30 >>BILL: THE SAME WAY. 00:03:52.30\00:03:52.86 >>DR. KNIGHT: AND THAT'S WHERE WE GOT THAT 00:03:52.86\00:03:55.36 BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE IN VERSE 16, THAT "NOBODY IS SAVED 00:03:55.36\00:03:57.53 BY WORKS OF THE LAW BUT WE ARE SAVED BY OUR FAITH 00:03:57.53\00:03:58.56 IN JESUS CHRIST". WHO THEN COMES TO INDWELL 00:03:58.56\00:04:05.50 US IN THAT POWERFUL PASSAGE.>>BILL: YES. >>DR. 00:04:05.50\00:04:09.03 KNIGHT:.I'VE BEEN CRUCIFIED BY CHRIST 00:04:09.03\00:04:09.83 >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: CHAPTER TWENTY OF CHAPTER 00:04:09.83\00:04:11.96 TWO, "I'VE BEEN CRUCIFIED BY CHRIST. IT IS NO LONGER 00:04:11.96\00:04:14.40 I WHO LIVE BUT CHRIST WHO LIVES IN ME". YOU KNOW, 00:04:14.40\00:04:15.43 BILL, IF EVERY CHRISTIAN HAD CHRIST LIVING IN THEM 00:04:15.43\00:04:20.56 WOULDN'T THE WORLD BE A WONDERFUL PLACE? >>BILL: 00:04:20.56\00:04:31.56 ABSOLUTELY. >>DR. KNIGHT: IN FACT, EVEN THE CHURCH 00:04:31.56\00:04:32.56 WOULD BE A WONDERFUL PLACE. >>BILL: ABSOLUTELY. 00:04:32.56\00:04:34.16 IT WOULD. WASN'T IT GHANDI WHO SAID, "I WOULD HAVE 00:04:34.16\00:04:35.80 BEEN A CHRISTIAN IF CHRISTIANS HADN'T ACTED 00:04:35.80\00:04:36.76 MORE LIKE CHRISTIANS", RIGHT? IF THEY HAD BEEN, 00:04:36.76\00:04:40.46 IF THEY ACTUALLY LIVED OUT IN THEIR LIVES WHAT THE 00:04:40.46\00:04:42.10 LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST, RIGHT? >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:04:42.10\00:04:43.16 THAT'S RIGHT. >>BILL: THAT'S A RESPONSIBLE 00:04:43.16\00:04:44.63 THOUGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: ACTUALLY, I SAW A BUMPER 00:04:44.63\00:04:46.63 STICKER ONE TIME. 00:04:46.63\00:04:47.03 IT SAYS, 'JESUS, SAVE ME.' THEN DOWN AT THE BOTTOM IN 00:04:47.03\00:04:48.90 SMALL PRINT, 'FROM YOUR PEOPLE'. WELL, I DON'T 00:04:48.90\00:04:49.90 THINK THE 'FROM YOUR PEOPLE' PART WAS 00:04:49.90\00:04:52.70 CHRISTIANS, IT WAS CHURCH MEMBERS. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:04:52.70\00:04:57.06 >>DR. KNIGHT: AND BILL, I THINK PAUL IS REALLY 00:04:57.06\00:04:58.06 TRYING TO RESCUE HIS PEOPLE. HE WANTS ALL 00:04:58.06\00:05:02.56 THE CHURCH MEMBERS TO BE CHRISTIANS. AND AS PASTORS 00:05:02.56\00:05:06.00 THAT'S OUR MINISTRY. 00:05:06.00\00:05:06.46 >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: NOT ONLY TO EVANGELIZE THE 00:05:06.46\00:05:10.16 WORLD OUT THERE BUT TO EVANGELIZE THE CHURCH 00:05:10.16\00:05:11.10 >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: SO THAT THEY KNOW 00:05:11.10\00:05:14.16 JESUS CAN LIVE WITHIN THEM >>BILL: YES. WELL, I GUESS 00:05:14.16\00:05:17.46 WITH THAT LITTLE OVERVIEW, JUST BRINGING OUT VIEWERS 00:05:17.46\00:05:18.53 UP TO SPEED WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN WITH US THE LAST 00:05:18.53\00:05:23.83 COUPLE OF WEEKS. AND JUST TO REMIND THEM YOU CAN 00:05:23.83\00:05:25.56 ALWAYS GO ON OUR WEBSITE TO SEE THE PAST EPISODES 00:05:25.56\00:05:26.53 ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL, JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED 00:05:26.53\00:05:29.83 THOSE. WE'RE GOING TO HEAD INTO, IS IT CHAPTERS THREE 00:05:29.83\00:05:35.60 AND FOUR THIS WEEK? >>DR. 00:05:35.60\00:05:36.13 KNIGHT: THAT'S IT. >>BILL: OKAY. >>DR. KNIGHT: AND 00:05:36.13\00:05:37.93 PAUL STARTS OFF RUNNING JUST AS HE DID BACK IN 00:05:37.93\00:05:38.93 CHAPTER ONE AND VERSE SIX, "I'M ASTONISHED HOW 00:05:38.93\00:05:43.30 QUICKLY YOU'VE DESERTED THE TRUE GOSPEL". >>BILL: 00:05:43.30\00:05:46.63 THAT'S RIGHT. >>DR KNIGHT: NOW, VERSE ONE, 00:05:46.63\00:05:47.56 "OH FOOLISH GALATIONS", I MEAN, COME ON NOW. >>BILL: 00:05:47.56\00:05:52.50 TALK ABOUT MAKING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING PEOPLE, 00:05:52.50\00:05:55.46 RIGHT? >>DR. KNIGHT: YEAH, YEAH. THIS IS WHAT HE WAS 00:05:55.46\00:05:56.53 ACCUSED OF, IS TRYING TO BE A POPULAR 00:05:56.53\00:05:58.80 PREACHER.>>BILL: RIGHT. 00:05:58.80\00:05:59.30 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT:..AND ONLY PREACHING GRACE SO 00:05:59.30\00:06:02.46 THE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH SOME OF 00:06:02.46\00:06:05.43 THESE THINGS, LIKE CIRCUMCISION. >>BILL: 00:06:05.43\00:06:06.33 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: PAUL IS NOT A REAL PREACHER. 00:06:06.33\00:06:10.63 HE'S NOT GIVING THE.WE CALL IT 'THE STRAIGHT 00:06:10.63\00:06:12.30 TESTIMONY'. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:06:12.30\00:06:12.86 >>DR. KNIGHT: PAUL SAYS, LOOK IT, GRACE IS STRAIGHT 00:06:12.86\00:06:14.70 TESTIMONY. "OH FOOLISH GALATIONS, WHO HAS 00:06:14.70\00:06:15.60 BEWITCHED YOU? BEFORE WHO'S EYES JESUS CHRIST 00:06:15.60\00:06:23.96 WAS PUBLICLY PORTRAYED AS CRUCIFIED." I WANT TO STOP 00:06:23.96\00:06:32.10 HERE WITH THIS WORD 'CRUCIFIED'. YOU KNOW, 00:06:32.10\00:06:33.03 EARLIER ON, PAUL TELLS US IN CHAPTER ONE HE WAS 00:06:33.03\00:06:38.80 A PERSECUTOR OF CHRISTIANS >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:06:38.80\00:06:44.30 DO YOU KNOW WHY HE HATED CHRIST? BECAUSE CHRIST 00:06:44.30\00:06:45.36 WAS CRUCIFIED. HOW COULD A CRIMINAL BE MESSIAH? 00:06:45.36\00:06:47.50 MESSIAH WAS TO BE KING. 00:06:47.50\00:06:48.00 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:06:48.00\00:06:52.76 KNIGHT: AND SUDDENLY THE THING THAT HE HATED MOST 00:06:52.76\00:06:53.73 ABOUT CHRISTIANITY BECOMES THE VERY CENTRE OF THE 00:06:53.73\00:06:59.60 GOSPEL. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:06:59.60\00:07:00.13 >>DR. KNIGHT: WHEN JESUS.WHEN PAUL REALIZES, 00:07:00.13\00:07:03.80 HEY, WAIT A MINUTE, IF YOU GO BACK TO THE OLD 00:07:03.80\00:07:08.16 TESTAMENT IT IS A CRUCIFIED, A LAMB OF 00:07:08.16\00:07:09.03 GOD WHO DIES FOR US. SO CRUCIFIXION WENT FROM 00:07:09.03\00:07:14.53 BEING THE MOST HATEFUL PART OF CHRISTIANITY TO 00:07:14.53\00:07:18.10 THE VERY CENTRE. WHAT IS IT HE SAYS IN GALATIONS, 00:07:18.10\00:07:19.06 "I GLORY IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST". OKAY, SO. "OH 00:07:19.06\00:07:24.33 FOOLISH GALATIONS WHO HAS BEWITCHED ME, BEWITCHED 00:07:24.33\00:07:29.63 YOU, LET ME".VERSE TWO, "LET ME ASK YOU THIS, 00:07:29.63\00:07:30.73 DID YOU RECEIVE SPIRIT BY WORKS OF THE LAW 00:07:30.73\00:07:35.80 OR BY HEARING WITH FAITH? 00:07:35.80\00:07:36.43 NOTICE THESE BELIEVERS ARE CHRISTIANS. THEY HAD 00:07:36.43\00:07:42.03 RECEIVED THE SPIRIT. PAUL IS NOT TALKING TO PEOPLE 00:07:42.03\00:07:47.73 WHO DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A GENUINE EXPERIENCE 00:07:47.73\00:07:48.76 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:07:48.76\00:07:52.90 KNIGHT: BUT HERE'S PEOPLE WHO HAD A GENUINE 00:07:52.90\00:07:53.80 EXPERIENCE WHO GOT MISLEAD BY SOME FALSE TEACHERS 00:07:53.80\00:07:56.46 WHO SAY, LOOK IT. WE'VE GOT THE WHOLE TRUTH. YOUR 00:07:56.46\00:08:03.26 PREACHER, PAUL, HE'S ONLY GIVING YOU PART OF IT OF 00:08:03.26\00:08:04.26 THE TRUTH. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:08:04.26\00:08:08.60 >>DR. KNIGHT: BUT WE'VE GOT THE WHOLE TRUTH. 00:08:08.60\00:08:09.56 AND, YOU KNOW, BILL, AS A PASTOR YOU'VE PROBABLY 00:08:09.56\00:08:11.50 FOUND SOME OF THESE PEOPLE IN SOME OF THE CHURCHES 00:08:11.50\00:08:15.33 YOU'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH. 00:08:15.33\00:08:15.83 >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: YOU KNOW. THEY'RE SAYING, 00:08:15.83\00:08:17.53 YOU KNOW, THE PREACHER, THE CHURCH DOESN'T HAVE 00:08:17.53\00:08:18.56 THE TRUTH. COME LISTEN TO US. WE'VE GOT THE TRUE 00:08:18.56\00:08:23.33 LIGHT. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:08:23.33\00:08:23.80 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: AND I'VE SEEN SO MANY 00:08:23.80\00:08:26.86 BEWITCHED. >>BILL: YES. 00:08:26.86\00:08:27.36 >>DR. KNIGHT: I'M GONNA TELL YOU THIS. YOU KNOW 00:08:27.36\00:08:30.50 THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT; THOU SHALT NEVER TRUST THE 00:08:30.50\00:08:32.36 THEOLOGIANS. WELL YOU COULD PARAPHRASE THAT 00:08:32.36\00:08:33.26 AND SAY, THOU SHALL NEVER TRUST A PASTOR. YOU ALWAYS 00:08:33.26\00:08:37.36 GO TO THE BIBLE. >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: JUST 00:08:37.36\00:08:42.10 LIKE TIMOTHY.THESSALONIANS SAY, YOU SHOULD TEST THE 00:08:42.10\00:08:43.13 PROPHETS. YOU NEED TO TEST EVERY TEACHER THAT THEY 00:08:43.13\00:08:47.06 ARE ACCORDING TO GOD'S WORD. >>BILL: THAT'S 00:08:47.06\00:08:50.93 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: NONE OF US CAN EVER STAND 00:08:50.93\00:08:51.90 OUTSIDE OR ABOVE THE WRITTEN WORD. AND ISN'T 00:08:51.90\00:08:56.46 THAT WHAT 'IT IS WRITTEN' IS ALL ABOUT? >>BILL: 00:08:56.46\00:08:59.80 ABSOLUTELY, IT IS. >>DR. 00:08:59.80\00:09:00.36 KNIGHT: OKAY, NOW, WE'RE GONNA GET DOWN.LET'S GO TO 00:09:00.36\00:09:07.80 VERSE FIVE, "DOES HE WHO SUPPLIES THE SPIRIT TO YOU 00:09:07.80\00:09:08.83 AND WORKS MIRACLESS AMONG YOU DO SO BY WORKS OF THE 00:09:08.83\00:09:12.90 LAW, OR BY HEARING WITH FAITH?" OKAY, WHAT IS IT 00:09:12.90\00:09:17.63 GOING TO BE? YOU GUYS ARE OBVIOUSLY CHRISTIANS, 00:09:17.63\00:09:18.63 YOU'VE BEEN CONVERTED, YOU'VE WORKED MIRACLES, 00:09:18.63\00:09:23.63 YOU DO THIS, YOU DO THAT, YOU HAVE HAD A GENUINE 00:09:23.63\00:09:26.26 EXPERIENCE, HOW DID YOU RECEIVE THAT EXPERIENCE 00:09:26.26\00:09:27.43 THEN HE GOES INTO THE WITNESS OF ABRAHAM 00:09:27.43\00:09:33.20 BEGINNING IN VERSE SIX, "THUS ABRAHAM 'BELIEVED 00:09:33.20\00:09:38.23 GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:09:38.23\00:09:39.20 SO YOU SEE THAT IT IS MEN OF FAITH WHO ARE THE SONS 00:09:39.20\00:09:47.40 OF ABRAHAM." AND THEN HE CONTINUES TO QUOTE DOWN AT 00:09:47.40\00:09:56.06 THE END OF VERSE EIGHT, "AND YOU SHALL ALL THE 00:09:56.06\00:09:57.16 NATIONS BE BLESSED." THIS WORD 'NATIONS' IN THE 00:09:57.16\00:10:03.93 GREEK IS 'GENTILES' >>BILL: OH WELL. >>DR. 00:10:03.93\00:10:09.23 KNIGHT: SO, ALL THE GENTILES WERE TO BE 00:10:09.23\00:10:10.13 BLESSED THROUGH ABRAHAM. 00:10:10.13\00:10:11.93 NOW THE KEY ISSUE IS, WHAT WAS IT ABOUT ABRAHAM THAT 00:10:11.93\00:10:13.00 MADE HIM SPECIAL? AND THE ARGUMENT WILL BE 00:10:13.00\00:10:20.90 OVER CIRCUMCISION BECAUSE ABRAHAM SAID CIRCUMCISION 00:10:20.90\00:10:25.56 WAS A SIGN OF THE COVENANT. >>BILL: YES. 00:10:25.56\00:10:26.43 >>DR. KNIGHT: OKAY, HERE YOU ARE, YOU'VE BEEN 00:10:26.43\00:10:29.30 CIRCUMCISED, AS A MALE THAT MEANS THAT YOU'RE A 00:10:29.30\00:10:32.33 PART OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:10:32.33\00:10:32.83 YOU ARE A PART OF THE CONVENANT PEOPLE. PAUL IS 00:10:32.83\00:10:35.66 GOING TO SAY.>>BILL: NO. THAT'S NO GOOD. 00:10:35.66\00:10:36.56 >>DR. KNIGHT: BEFORE CIRCUMCISION, ABRAHAM WAS 00:10:36.56\00:10:41.66 COUNTED RIGHTEOUS. EVEN BEFORE THE CIRCUMCISION, 00:10:41.66\00:10:46.16 BY FAITH. HE BELIEVED IN GOD IN SPITE OF THE 00:10:46.16\00:10:47.13 DIFFICULTIES HE AND SARAH FACED. I MEAN, AFTERALL, 00:10:47.13\00:10:55.53 YOU'RE GOING TO BE A FATHER AT 100 YEARS OLD, 00:10:55.53\00:10:59.66 YOUR WIFE IS 90. COME ON NOW, THAT TAKES A MIRACLE 00:10:59.66\00:11:00.73 >>BILL: YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. 00:11:00.73\00:11:05.10 >>DR. KNIGHT: IT TOOK FAITH. ABRAHAM WAS COUNTED 00:11:05.10\00:11:06.13 RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH. THIS WAS ALL PART OF THE 00:11:06.13\00:11:12.16 ARGUMENT. IT SEEMS STRANGE TO US BECAUSE WE DON'T 00:11:12.16\00:11:15.93 ARGUE THESE THINGS. BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO UNDERSTAND 00:11:15.93\00:11:17.00 THE BOOK OF GALATIONS, WE HAVE TO. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:11:17.00\00:11:18.76 >>DR. KNIGHT: OKAY. NOW, PAUL IS GOING TO TURN, IN 00:11:18.76\00:11:27.13 VERSE 10, TO THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW AND THE 00:11:27.13\00:11:28.06 FUNCTION OF THE CROSS. AND HE'S GOING TO SPEND THE 00:11:28.06\00:11:34.66 REST OF THE CHAPTER, PRETTY MUCH, ON THESE 00:11:34.66\00:11:37.00 TOPICS. VERSE 10, "FOR ALL WHO RELY ON WORKS 00:11:37.00\00:11:38.10 OF THE LAW ARE UNDER A CURSE". >>BILL: OKAY. 00:11:38.10\00:11:41.90 >>DR. KNIGHT: WHAT DO YOU THINK HE MEANS THERE, 00:11:41.90\00:11:44.90 BILL? >>BILL: WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT A LADDER 00:11:44.90\00:11:45.93 FOR SALVATION. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO WORK IT THAT 00:11:45.93\00:11:47.83 WAY, IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK THAT WAY. >>DR. 00:11:47.83\00:11:50.26 KNIGHT: YEAH. I MEAN, AFTERALL, WHAT DOES THE 00:11:50.26\00:11:51.26 LAW SAY? IT SAYS, IF YOU DO THIS.>>BILL: YOU'RE 00:11:51.26\00:11:52.96 CURSED. >>DR. KNIGHT: YOU'RE A SINNER. WHAT'S 00:11:52.96\00:11:57.96 THE REWARD FOR SIN? 00:11:57.96\00:11:58.43 >>BILL: THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:11:58.43\00:12:01.36 YEAH, WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. "FOR ALL WHO RELY 00:12:01.36\00:12:02.33 ON WORKS OF THE LAW ARE UNDER A CURSE". THE 00:12:02.33\00:12:06.76 LAW HAS A FUNCTION, SAYS PAUL, TO SHOW YOU OVER AND 00:12:06.76\00:12:10.20 OVER.>>BILL: TO SHOW YOU YOU'RE A SINNER. >>DR. 00:12:10.20\00:12:11.26 KNIGHT: I CAN SHOW YOU YOU'RE A SINNER BUT I 00:12:11.26\00:12:12.80 CAN'T.>>BILL: DO AWAY WITH THAT SIN. >>DR. KNIGHT: I 00:12:12.80\00:12:16.76 CAN'T DO AWAY WITH THE SIN. NO, THAT'S THE 00:12:16.76\00:12:17.83 FUNCTION OF THE LAW. 00:12:17.83\00:12:19.46 >>BILL: YEAH. >>DR. 00:12:19.46\00:12:19.93 KNIGHT: YOU ARE A SINNER. 00:12:19.93\00:12:20.43 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:12:20.43\00:12:21.90 KNIGHT: THAT'S AS FAR AS THE LAW CAN TAKE YOU 00:12:21.90\00:12:22.90 >>BILL: THAT'S RIGHT. 00:12:22.90\00:12:24.30 >>DR. KNIGHT: DOES THE LAW HAVE A GOOD FUNCTION 00:12:24.30\00:12:25.26 >>BILL: YEAH. >>DR. 00:12:25.26\00:12:26.73 KNIGHT: YES. >>BILL: IMPORTANT FUNCTION. >>DR. 00:12:26.73\00:12:27.70 KNIGHT: YEAH. I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT TO WAKE 00:12:27.70\00:12:29.00 UP. THE LAW HAS A WAKE UP CALL >>BILL: THAT'S RIGHT. 00:12:29.00\00:12:32.63 >>DR. KNIGHT: OKAY. "FOR ALL WHO RELY ON WORKS OF 00:12:32.63\00:12:33.60 THE LAW ARE UNDER A CURSE, FOR AS WRITTEN CURSE".IT 00:12:33.60\00:12:36.10 GOES ON THERE. AND THEN DOWN HERE IN VERSE ELEVEN, 00:12:36.10\00:12:43.50 "NOW IT IS EVIDENT THAT NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED BEFORE 00:12:43.50\00:12:44.70 GOD BY THE LAW; FOR 'HE WHO THROUGH FAITH IS 00:12:44.70\00:12:48.36 RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE'; BY FAITH, BUT THE LAW DOES 00:12:48.36\00:12:55.43 NOT REST ON FAITH, FOR 'HE WHO DOES THEM SHALL LIVE 00:12:55.43\00:12:56.56 BY THEM'." OKAY, WHAT PAUL IS REALLY SAYING HERE IS 00:12:56.56\00:13:00.53 THAT IF YOU KEEP PART OF THE LAW, YOU'VE GOT TO 00:13:00.53\00:13:04.16 KEEP IT ALL. I MEAN, IF IT SAYS, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL 00:13:04.16\00:13:05.26 AND YOU'RE NOT A THIEF BUT IF YOU'VE BEEN BEARING 00:13:05.26\00:13:10.80 FALSE WITNESS, NOW WAIT A MINUTE. >>BILL: THAT'S NOT 00:13:10.80\00:13:13.90 GONNA WORK. >>DR. KNIGHT: YOU'RE STILL COOKED. 00:13:13.90\00:13:14.96 EVERY.IF YOU DECIDE THAT SALVATION IS BY THE 00:13:14.96\00:13:16.76 LAW, THIS IS WHERE FALSE PERFECTIONISM COMES 00:13:16.76\00:13:20.80 IN.>>BILL: OKAY. >>DR. 00:13:20.80\00:13:21.43 KNIGHT:.YOU MUST DO EVERY PART. AND IF YOU FAIL, 00:13:21.43\00:13:24.70 EVEN IN THE SMALLEST PART, YOU ARE CONDEMNED. >>BILL: 00:13:24.70\00:13:25.93 GUILTY. >>DR. KNIGHT: VERSE 13, HERE WE COME TO 00:13:25.93\00:13:30.60 POWERFUL PASSAGE, "CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE 00:13:30.60\00:13:35.20 OF THE LAW, HAVING BECOME A CURSE FOR US." JESUS 00:13:35.20\00:13:36.20 TOOK OUR SIN. SO, IN CORINTHIANS FIVE, VERSE 00:13:36.20\00:13:45.00 20 SAYS IT A BIT DIFFERENT IT SAYS, "JESUS BECAME SIN 00:13:45.00\00:13:47.36 FOR US." >>BILL: FOR US. 00:13:47.36\00:13:47.86 >>DR. KNIGHT: JOHN 5, WHAT IS IT, 29, JOHN THE 00:13:47.86\00:13:52.73 BAPTIST LOOKS OUT AND HE SEES JESUS AND HE SAYS, 00:13:52.73\00:13:53.73 "BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF 00:13:53.73\00:13:58.90 THE WORLD". JESUS DIED ON OUR BEHALF. HE TOOK THE 00:13:58.90\00:14:07.50 PENALTY FOR THE CURSE OF THE LAW. BECAME A CURSE 00:14:07.50\00:14:08.50 FOR US. VERSE 14, "THAT IN CHRIST JESUS THE 00:14:08.50\00:14:17.10 BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME UPON THE GENTILES 00:14:17.10\00:14:20.73 THAT ALL NATIONS MAY BE BLESSED THROUGH ABRAHAM" 00:14:20.73\00:14:21.83 OKAY, THEN HE GETS INTO QUITE AN ARGUMENT 00:14:21.83\00:14:28.66 HERE ABOUT ABRAHAM AND THE CONVENANT, WHICH WE'RE NOT 00:14:28.66\00:14:32.86 GOING TO HAVE TIME FOR BUT WE DO WANT TO GO TO 00:14:32.86\00:14:33.86 WHAT PAUL SAYS ABOUT THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW. 00:14:33.86\00:14:36.93 >>BILL: OKAY. >>DR. 00:14:36.93\00:14:37.36 KNIGHT: OKAY, VERSE 19, PAUL IS GOING TO ANSWER 00:14:37.36\00:14:41.83 A QUESTION. THE QUESTION IS NOT HERE BUT IF YOU'RE 00:14:41.83\00:14:46.43 SAVED BY GRACE.>>BILL: WHY THE LAW? >>DR. KNIGHT:.WHY 00:14:46.43\00:14:47.53 THE LAW? >>BILL: WHY THE LAW? ABSOLUTELY. >>DR. 00:14:47.53\00:14:52.26 KNIGHT: YEAH. I MEAN, THIS IS A PRETTY SERIOUS 00:14:52.26\00:14:53.73 QUESTION. >>BILL: YES. 00:14:53.73\00:14:54.23 >>DR. KNIGHT: AND THEN YOU SEE THE SAME THING OVER IN 00:14:54.23\00:14:55.30 THE BOOK OF ROMANS. 00:14:55.30\00:14:55.76 ANYBODY THAT DEALS WITH GRACE, THAT GOD GIVES YOU 00:14:55.76\00:15:01.16 SALVATION, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING FOR 00:15:01.16\00:15:02.26 IT.>>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:15:02.26\00:15:03.86 KNIGHT:.YOU'VE STILL GOT THE DEAL, THEN WHY DOES 00:15:03.86\00:15:04.86 THE LAW.>>BILL: RIGHT. 00:15:04.86\00:15:09.53 >>DR. KNIGHT:.COUNT? AND DOWN HERE IN VERSE 21, 00:15:09.53\00:15:10.50 HE SAYS, "IS THE LAW THEN AGAINST THE PROMISES OF 00:15:10.50\00:15:16.46 GOD? CERTAINLY NOT; FOR IF A LAW HAD BEEN GIVEN WHICH 00:15:16.46\00:15:22.36 COULD MAKE ALIVE, THEN RIGHTEOUSNESS WOULD INDEED 00:15:22.36\00:15:23.53 BE BY THE LAW." SO, YOU SEE, HE'S TALKING ABOUT 00:15:23.53\00:15:28.10 WHAT THE LAW IS NOT FOR >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:15:28.10\00:15:31.16 KNIGHT: THEN IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH HE'S GOING TO 00:15:31.16\00:15:32.16 TELL US WHAT IT IS FOR, OKAY? VERSE 23, "NOW 00:15:32.16\00:15:35.56 BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE CONFINED UNDER THE LAW, 00:15:35.56\00:15:40.66 KEPT UNDER STRAINT UNTIL FAITH SHOULD BE REVEALED." 00:15:40.66\00:15:41.70 NOW, FAITH IS REALLY THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST, WHO WE 00:15:41.70\00:15:47.73 HAVE FAITH IN. AND HE WILL BE REVEALED. VERSE 24, 00:15:47.73\00:15:54.06 VERY IMPORTANT VERSE.>>BILL: YES. YES. 00:15:54.06\00:15:55.03 >>DR. KNIGHT: "SO THAT THE LAW WAS OUR CUSTODIAN 00:15:55.03\00:15:57.93 UNTIL CHRIST CAME, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY 00:15:57.93\00:16:02.56 FAITH." NOW, THIS WORD 'CUSTODIAN', IF YOU READ 00:16:02.56\00:16:03.53 IT IN THE KING JAMES VERSION, IT REALLY SAYS 00:16:03.53\00:16:10.56 'TEACHER' OR 'PEDIGOG' >>BILL: YEAH. MINE, I HAVE 00:16:10.56\00:16:17.76 THE NESV, SAYS 'OUR TUTOR'. >>DR. KNIGHT: OUR 00:16:17.76\00:16:18.73 TUTOR. >>BILL: YEAH. >>DR. 00:16:18.73\00:16:20.56 KNIGHT: NOW, WHAT THIS CUSTODIAN REALLY WAS IN 00:16:20.56\00:16:21.70 THE GREEK LANGUAGE IS THE PERSON THAT LEADS YOU TO 00:16:21.70\00:16:26.23 THE TEACHER. >>BILL: OH. 00:16:26.23\00:16:26.70 SEE. OKAY. >>DR. KNIGHT: IT'S NOT THE TEACHER 00:16:26.70\00:16:30.73 ITSELF. >>BILL: OKAY. 00:16:30.73\00:16:31.20 >>DR. KNIGHT: SO THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IS 00:16:31.20\00:16:32.86 TO LEAD US TO THE TRUE TEACHER. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:16:32.86\00:16:37.00 >>DR. KNIGHT: AND THIS IS TRUE HISTORICALLY FOR 00:16:37.00\00:16:37.96 THE WHOLE JEWISH NATION. 00:16:37.96\00:16:40.26 EVERYTIME THEY HAD A SACRIFICE, REMEMBER THE 00:16:40.26\00:16:41.30 LAMBS? >>BILL: YES. >>DR. 00:16:41.30\00:16:44.40 KNIGHT: AND THE GOATS? 00:16:44.40\00:16:44.90 >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: EVERY SACRIFICE, WHAT DID 00:16:44.90\00:16:47.03 IT MEAN? >>BILL: IT WAS POINTING TO JESUS CHRIST. 00:16:47.03\00:16:48.16 >>DR. KNIGHT: IT WAS POINTING TO JESUS CHRIST 00:16:48.16\00:16:52.30 AS THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD. >>BILL: THAT'S 00:16:52.30\00:16:53.90 RIGHT. 00:16:53.90\00:16:54.13 IT WAS LEADING.>>DR. 00:16:54.13\00:16:54.56 KNIGHT THAT'S RIGHT. 00:16:54.56\00:16:56.00 >BILL:.LEADING TO THE TUTOR. >>DR. KNIGHT: TO 00:16:56.00\00:16:57.00 THE TRUE GOD. >>BILL: THAT'S RIGHT. TO THE 00:16:57.00\00:16:58.86 TUTOR. >>DR. KNIGHT: THIS WAS JUST AN ILLUSTRATION. 00:16:58.86\00:17:01.60 >>BILL: THE TUTOR. THAT'S RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: THIS 00:17:01.60\00:17:02.76 LAMB DIED IN YOUR PLACE. 00:17:02.76\00:17:03.66 >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: BUT THE REAL LAMB WILL 00:17:03.66\00:17:04.70 COME. SO, EVERY TIME A JEWISH PERSON, 00:17:04.70\00:17:06.90 HISTORICALLY, WHEN THEY HAD A SINFUL ACTION OR A 00:17:06.90\00:17:13.56 .THEY HAD TO SOMEHOW PRAY INREGARD TO THE DAILY OR 00:17:13.56\00:17:14.66 A PERSONAL SACRIFICE. THE LAW POINTED THEM TO 00:17:14.66\00:17:22.53 THE NEED OF FORGIVENESS >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:17:22.53\00:17:29.73 KNIGHT: AND THE REAL FORGIVENESS, ALL THOSE 00:17:29.73\00:17:30.66 LAMBS, ALL THOSE GOATS, POINTED TO JESUS CHRIST. 00:17:30.66\00:17:33.30 >>BILL: THAT'S RIGHT. 00:17:33.30\00:17:33.76 >>DR. KNIGHT: SO THE LAW IS OUR CUSTODIAN. THE ONE 00:17:33.76\00:17:38.60 WHO LEADS US TO CHRIST THAT WE MIGHT BE.READING 00:17:38.60\00:17:44.56 NOW FROM VERSE 24, "THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY 00:17:44.56\00:17:45.53 FAITH". NOW WATCH THIS ONE, BILL. "BUT NOW THAT 00:17:45.53\00:17:51.33 FAITH HAS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A CUSTODIAN;" 00:17:51.33\00:17:56.86 WOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE LAW NO LONGER HAS 00:17:56.86\00:17:57.83 A FUNCTION? >>BILL: NO. 00:17:57.83\00:18:00.83 >>DR. KNIGHT: WELL, HISTORICALLY IT'S LOST ITS 00:18:00.83\00:18:01.83 HISTORIC FUNCTION. >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: JESUS 00:18:01.83\00:18:07.70 HAS COME. THE LAW, ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE OLD 00:18:07.70\00:18:11.46 TESTAMENT, WAS POINTING FORWARD TO THE NEED 00:18:11.46\00:18:12.43 OF SALVATION. A LARGER SALVATION THAN THAT OF 00:18:12.43\00:18:14.90 SHEEPS AND GOATS. >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: BUT, 00:18:14.90\00:18:17.56 HERE'S THE PROBLEM OR HERE'S THE ISSUE. EVERY 00:18:17.56\00:18:18.56 TIME A CHRISTIAN SINS THE CUSTODIAN COMES BACK INTO 00:18:18.56\00:18:26.83 EFFECT. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? IT SAYS, BILL, YOU'RE 00:18:26.83\00:18:34.16 A SINNER. YOU NEED JESUS. 00:18:34.16\00:18:34.70 >>BILL: ABSOLUTELY. >>DR. 00:18:34.70\00:18:35.20 KNIGHT: AND SO THERE'S AN EXPERIENCIAL ASPECT OF 00:18:35.20\00:18:39.93 THIS. THAT WHEN WE SIN, EVEN AS CHRISTIANS - NOW 00:18:39.93\00:18:45.10 WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW AS A WAY OF SALVATION.>>BILL 00:18:45.10\00:18:46.16 THAT'S RIGHT. >>DR. 00:18:46.16\00:18:48.30 KNIGHT:.NOBODY EVER WAS. 00:18:48.30\00:18:48.80 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:18:48.80\00:18:49.23 KNIGHT: THE LAW ONLY ALWAYS POINTED TO THE 00:18:49.23\00:18:50.56 SOLUTION. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:18:50.56\00:18:51.03 >>DR. KNIGHT: ALWAYS POINTED TO THE TRUE 00:18:51.03\00:18:52.46 TEACHER. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:18:52.46\00:18:52.96 >>DR. KNIGHT: BUT EVERY TIME I SIN THE LAW SAYS 00:18:52.96\00:18:54.26 YOU'RE A SINNER,.>>BILL YOU NEED JESUS. >>DR. 00:18:54.26\00:18:59.73 KNIGHT:.YOU NEED TO BE CLEANSED. >>BILL: RIGHT. 00:18:59.73\00:19:00.76 >>DR. KNIGHT: YOU NEED TO GET ON YOUR KNEES. >>BILL: 00:19:00.76\00:19:02.80 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: AND FIRST JOHN 1:9 SAYS, "IF 00:19:02.80\00:19:04.50 WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE'S FAITHFUL AND JUST AND 00:19:04.50\00:19:05.63 HE'LL FORGIVE US". HEBREWS 7:25, "WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE 00:19:05.63\00:19:09.26 TO THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS." 00:19:09.26\00:19:13.06 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:19:13.06\00:19:13.53 KNIGHT: NO. EVERY - SO THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW - THE 00:19:13.53\00:19:19.23 LAW REALLY HAS MORE THAN ONE FUNCTION BECAUSE PAUL 00:19:19.23\00:19:20.23 SAYS IN ROMANS 7, IT'S REALLY A GOOD LAW. >>BILL: 00:19:20.23\00:19:24.53 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: I HAS GOD'S IDEAL. >>BILL: 00:19:24.53\00:19:27.66 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: OH MY, GOD'S IDEAL, THOU 00:19:27.66\00:19:28.60 SHALT NOT KILL, THOU SHALT NOT, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE 00:19:28.60\00:19:30.20 TEN COMMANDMENTS. THAT SORT OF THING. THAT'S 00:19:30.20\00:19:34.00 GOD'S IDEAL. WHEN I FALL FROM THAT IDEAL, WHEN I 00:19:34.00\00:19:35.00 REBEL AGAINST THAT IDEAL, THEN THE LAW COMES, HAS 00:19:35.00\00:19:40.06 THE LEADERSHIP FUNCTION AND POINTS ME TO JESUS. 00:19:40.06\00:19:45.26 >>BILL: TO JESUS CHRIST, RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:19:45.26\00:19:46.20 THE LAW IS NOT A WAY OF SALVATION BUT THE LAW 00:19:46.20\00:19:48.60 DOES UPHOLD GOD'S IDEALS AND WE'RE GOING TO COME TO 00:19:48.60\00:19:53.63 MORE OF THAT IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF CHAPTERS. AND 00:19:53.63\00:19:54.63 IT CONTINUES TO LEAD US TO CHRIST. WHEN I'M A SINNER, 00:19:54.63\00:20:00.03 WHEN I'VE MADE A MISTAKE, THE LAW IS THE CUSTODIAN, 00:20:00.03\00:20:04.96 IT TAKES ME BY THE HAND AND SAYS YOU NEED HELP 00:20:04.96\00:20:05.96 I'M GOING TO TAKE TO THE MAN WHO CAN HELP YOU. 00:20:05.96\00:20:11.10 >>BILL: RIGHT, RIGHT. 00:20:11.10\00:20:11.56 >>DR. KNIGHT: ON YOUR KNEES, BUDDY. VERSE 26, 00:20:11.56\00:20:13.46 "FOR IN CHRIST JESUS YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD", SONS 00:20:13.46\00:20:19.90 AND DAUGHTERS, "THROUGH FAITH". OH MY, THROUGH 00:20:19.90\00:20:21.03 FAITH. ALL OF US, JEWS AND GENTILES, "FOR AS MANY OF 00:20:21.03\00:20:25.76 YOU AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. 00:20:25.76\00:20:30.93 THERE IS NEITHER. OH THIS IS A POWERFUL PASSAGE 00:20:30.93\00:20:31.93 "THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, THERE IS NEITHER 00:20:31.93\00:20:35.23 SLAVE NOR FREE, THERE IS NEIGHER MALE NOR FEMALE; 00:20:35.23\00:20:39.30 FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS." HERE WE 00:20:39.30\00:20:40.26 HAVE THE ULTIMATE EFFECT OF THE GOSPEL. NONE OF US 00:20:40.26\00:20:44.70 CAN DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANYBODY ELSE BECAUSE WE 00:20:44.70\00:20:50.26 ARE BETTER. NO, WE'RE ALL SINNERS. >>BILL: WE'RE ALL 00:20:50.26\00:20:51.33 ONE. THAT'S RIGHT. >>DR. 00:20:51.33\00:20:54.93 KNIGHT: AND ANY FORM OF DISCRIMINATION IS 00:20:54.93\00:20:55.83 ANTI-CHRISTIAN. AND I THINK THAT'S VERY, 00:20:55.83\00:21:00.83 VERY IMPORTANT. >>BILL: ABSOLUTELY. >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:21:00.83\00:21:04.43 AND WE COULD HAVE PUT RICH PEOPLE AND POOR PEOPLE BUT 00:21:04.43\00:21:05.53 I THINK THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE FREE AND THE BOND 00:21:05.53\00:21:07.56 HERE. >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:21:07.56\00:21:08.10 KNIGHT: YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. BEFORE THE CROSS IS 00:21:08.10\00:21:10.43 FLAT LAND. >>BILL: YES. 00:21:10.43\00:21:10.93 >>DR. KNIGHT: THERE'S ONE TABLE, NOT TWO, NOT TEN. 00:21:10.93\00:21:15.73 AND VERSE 29, "IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN YOU ARE 00:21:15.73\00:21:23.10 ABRAHAM'S OFFSPRING, HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE." 00:21:23.10\00:21:24.20 >>BILL: WOW. >>DR. KNIGHT: CHAPTER FOUR GOES IN OUR 00:21:24.20\00:21:30.13 LOVE VERSE 4, "BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE TIME 00:21:30.13\00:21:34.23 CAME GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN 00:21:34.23\00:21:35.30 UNDER THE LAW", THAT'S BORN A JEW, "TO REDEEM 00:21:35.30\00:21:41.36 THOSE WHO WERE UNDER THE LAW," THAT IS JEWS, "SO 00:21:41.36\00:21:44.86 THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE ADOPTION." YOU KNOW, THIS 00:21:44.86\00:21:45.86 SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T TALK ENOUGH ABOUT. WE'RE 00:21:45.86\00:21:50.76 NOT BORN INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD. >>BILL: WE'RE 00:21:50.76\00:21:53.30 ADOPTED. >>DR. KNIGHT: WE'RE ADOPTED. AND THAT'S 00:21:53.30\00:21:54.30 THAT NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE. 00:21:54.30\00:21:56.76 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 00:21:56.76\00:21:57.23 KNIGHT: WE NEED TO STUDY MORE THE TOPIC OF 00:21:57.23\00:22:00.10 ADOPTION. AND THEN IN THE REST OF CHAPTER FOUR, TAKE 00:22:00.10\00:22:01.16 VERSE 8, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE MIDDLE OF VERSE 8, 00:22:01.16\00:22:08.03 "HOW CAN YOU TURN BACK AGAIN?" HOW CAN YOU GO, 00:22:08.03\00:22:13.00 HOW CAN YOU REJECT? 00:22:13.00\00:22:13.46 >>BILL: ONCE YOU SEE THIS, HOW CAN YOU GO BACK TO 00:22:13.46\00:22:16.10 WHAT YOU WERE? >>DR. 00:22:16.10\00:22:16.56 KNIGHT: THAT'S RIGHT. ONCE YOU'VE SEE THE GLORY OF 00:22:16.56\00:22:20.16 THE SUN WHAT DO YOU WANT A LITTLE CANDLE FOR? >>BILL: 00:22:20.16\00:22:21.26 THAT'S RIGHT. >>DR. 00:22:21.26\00:22:22.56 KNIGHT: YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU 00:22:22.56\00:22:23.56 PEOPLE? >>BILL: YES. >>DR. 00:22:23.56\00:22:25.90 KNIGHT: AND HE GOES ON HERE TO TELL THEM, WHEN I 00:22:25.90\00:22:26.90 CAME TO YOU, VERSES 12 AND ON, I HAD BODILY AILMENT, 00:22:26.90\00:22:29.03 IN FACT THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I STAYED, I WAS TOO 00:22:29.03\00:22:36.43 SICK TO GO FORWARD AND HE SAYS, YOU WOULD HAVE TORN 00:22:36.43\00:22:37.60 OUT YOUR VERY EYES FOR ME. 00:22:37.60\00:22:39.83 WHAT'S HAPPENED? >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: 00:22:39.83\00:22:40.76 THAT THESE PEOPLE LED YOU ASTRAY. SEE, WE CAN NEVER 00:22:40.76\00:22:44.36 MOVE BEYOND THE PROBLEM IN GALATIONS. GALATIONS IS A 00:22:44.36\00:22:55.66 PEARL. AND YOU KNOW, A PEARL FORMS INSIDE AN 00:22:55.66\00:22:56.63 OYSTER BECAUSE SOMETHING'S .>>BILL: AN 00:22:56.63\00:23:00.73 IRRITANT THERE. >>DR. 00:23:00.73\00:23:01.20 KNIGHT:.IRRITATING. AND THESE JUDIZERS CAME IN, 00:23:01.20\00:23:04.16 IF THEY HAD NEVER CAME IN AND TRIED TO DISTORT THE 00:23:04.16\00:23:07.76 GOSPEL IN THIS CHURCH WE WOULD NOT HAVE THESE 00:23:07.76\00:23:08.76 PRECIOUS TRUTHS. >>BILL: YES. ABSOLUTELY. >>DR. 00:23:08.76\00:23:12.26 KNIGHT: SO, WE CAN BE THANKFUL THAT GOD CAN TAKE 00:23:12.26\00:23:15.06 A BAD THING AND MAKE SOMETHING GOOD COME OUT OF 00:23:15.06\00:23:16.06 IT. HE GOES ON AT THE LAST PART TO TALK ABOUT THE TWO 00:23:16.06\00:23:22.66 COVENTANTS: THE COVENANT OF PROMISE AND THE 00:23:22.66\00:23:28.13 COVENANT OF, OF THE FLESH, OR THE COVENANT OF WORKS 00:23:28.13\00:23:29.16 AND HERE IS A POWERFUL PASSAGE BECAUSE IT'S THE 00:23:29.16\00:23:36.50 CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE, THE CHILDREN OF FAITH. AND 00:23:36.50\00:23:42.66 HERE WE HAVE A PARALLEL PASSAGE OF THE NEW 00:23:42.66\00:23:43.70 COVENANT OVER IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS, IT SAYS, IF 00:23:43.70\00:23:47.73 YOU'RE A NEW COVENANT PERSON YOU'RE SINS ARE 00:23:47.73\00:23:50.83 FORGIVEN, YOU'RE COUNTED AS RIGHTEOUS, THIS IS 00:23:50.83\00:23:51.80 HEBREWS 8, VERSES 8 TO 10, AND HE SAYS, "I WILL WRITE 00:23:51.80\00:23:57.60 MY LAW IN YOUR HEARTS". 00:23:57.60\00:23:58.10 IN THE NEW COVENANT, BILL, THE LAW IS STILL THERE. 00:23:58.10\00:24:03.16 BUT IT'S NEVER, EVER, PERVERTED AS A WAY OF 00:24:03.16\00:24:11.03 SALVATION. IT'S GRACE AND GRACE ONLY, ACCEPTED 00:24:11.03\00:24:12.00 THROUGH FAITH BUT BECAUSE THE LAW IS WRITTEN IN YOUR 00:24:12.00\00:24:17.63 HEART.>>BILL: YES. >>DR. 00:24:17.63\00:24:18.10 KNIGHT:.IT FLOWS INTO YOUR LIFE AND THAT'S GOING TO 00:24:18.10\00:24:21.43 TAKE US TO PAUL'S LAST TWO CHAPTERS, CHAPTERS FIVE 00:24:21.43\00:24:25.60 AND SIX. WHAT DOES CHRISTIANITY MEAN IN YOUR 00:24:25.60\00:24:26.63 DAILY LIFE? >>BILL: WOW. 00:24:26.63\00:24:31.16 THANK YOU. LET US PRAY, LOVING, HEAVENLY FATHER, 00:24:31.16\00:24:32.16 WE THANK YOU FOR THESE MOMENTS WE HAVE SPENT IN 00:24:32.16\00:24:39.80 YOUR WORD. FATHER, PLEASE TAKE THE WORDS THAT WE 00:24:39.80\00:24:42.00 HAVE HEARD HERE AND THROUGH THE WORK YOUR HOLY 00:24:42.00\00:24:43.00 SPIRIT MAKE THEM REAL IN OUR LIVES. BLESS EACH AND 00:24:43.00\00:24:47.83 EVERY VIEWER. I PRAY IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. >>DR. 00:24:47.83\00:24:51.13 KNIGHT: AMEN. 00:24:51.13\00:24:54.43 (MUSIC) 00:24:55.43\00:25:10.03 ARE YOU TRULY HAPPY? 00:25:11.36\00:25:12.73 HAVE YOU STRUGGLED WITH THE PURPOSE 00:25:12.96\00:25:13.73 AND MEANING OF LIFE? 00:25:13.73\00:25:16.56 WHERE CAN YOU FIND ANSWERS TO LIFE'S 00:25:16.83\00:25:17.63 DEEPEST QUESTIONS?.. 00:25:17.63\00:25:20.93 ATTEND THE FREE COUNTDOWN TO LIFE SEMINAR WITH BILL 00:25:21.23\00:25:22.26 SANTOS OF IT IS WRITTEN AND DISCOVER 00:25:22.26\00:25:25.33 LIFE'S PURPOSE. 00:25:25.33\00:25:27.43 OPENING FRIDAY, OCTOBER FOURTEEN AT SEVEN-THIRTY 00:25:28.06\00:25:29.06 PM. 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HERE'S THE INFORMATION YOU NEED 00:26:06.86\00:26:07.83 TO RECEIVE YOUR FIRST LESSON. 00:26:07.83\00:26:12.40 >>BILL: WELL, DR. KNIGHT, THANK YOU AND NEXT WEEK 00:27:12.00\00:27:13.20 WILL BE OUR LAST SEGMENT IN THIS STUDY. >>DR. 00:27:13.20\00:27:16.30 KNIGHT: OKAY. WELL, THE BOOK OF GALATIONS GETS 00:27:16.30\00:27:18.60 BETTER AND BETTER SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO 00:27:18.60\00:27:19.66 CHAPTERS FIVE AND SIX. 00:27:19.66\00:27:21.93 >>BILL: WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING YOU BACK 00:27:21.93\00:27:22.96 WITH US. LET ME REMIND YOU AGAIN, IF YOU'D LIKE TO 00:27:22.96\00:27:25.23 GET DR. KNIGHT'S BOOK, "EXPLORING GALATIONS AND 00:27:25.23\00:27:29.13 EPHESIANS", THERE WILL BE A LINK ON OUR WEBSITE 00:27:29.13\00:27:30.20 ITISWRITTENCANADA THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO ACQUIRE 00:27:30.20\00:27:34.50 HIS BOOK. I WANT TO ALSO LET YOU KNOW THAT ON THE 00:27:34.50\00:27:39.56 WEBSITE YOU CAN PRE-ORDER THE COMPLETE SET OF FOUR 00:27:39.56\00:27:40.56 PROGRAMS IN THIS SERIES ON DVD. 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