Day 329 (Galatians 4-6) - Year 6
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Hey, bible readers, i'm trolly couple and i'm your host for the bible recap.

If you're doing our new text mate plan to day, we ve finished our sixth book. And if you're doing a whole bible, we ve finished our body pth book. This book, in particular, is the first of polls letters. We are talking about the books of the bible that are letters. We call them a pistol because that's the great word for letters.

When we left off yesterday, paul was telling us that we are areas according to the promise had made to the offspring of Abraham, which includes everyone who has been adopted into god's family, regardless of race, gender or status. Today he opens by telling us the s sons of god, we are fellow air with Christ, and as co air, we inherit everything that is bonkers, but even Better than that, we inherit the spirit of the sun or the spirit of jesus, which is just another way of saying god, the spirit or the holy spirit. He goes by a lots of different names in scripture, but you probably have one way of addressing him that you're most comfortable or familiar with.

The presence of the spirit in us is what enables us to call god our father. Those without the spirit do not have got as their father poses that when we have that status as a child of god in dwelled by guard, it's ridiculous to go back to being a slave. And that's what happens when we try to rely on the law.

IT in slaves, he employs them not to turn back to their old ways. But remember, these are gentiles. He's writing to their past doesn't include the law.

But IT does include other things that in slave them specifically, paul points out that they worship things that aren't god for many of them. This was the sun, moon, stars and planets in a culture of astrology. That's how they thought guidance in insight into their lives.

So when paul makes a reference to the days, months, seasons, in years in fourteen, some people think he's referring to taking council from astrology. One reason for this is that he refers to the weak and worthless element ary principles of the world. This phrase is also translated as elemental things and elemental spirits elsewhere in scripture, which seems to indicate there some sort of demon ic rit involved, which is not uncommon when IT comes to seeking a godless council.

Other scholars think this part, about da's months, seasons in years, is referring to keeping the jewish holidays and festivals, things that aren't even part of their cultural heritage, since they aren't ethnic jews. But to be clear, even if this is what people is referring to, he isn't saying it's wrong to celebrate events even if for a gentile he's saying god doesn't require IT of them. They aren't under the law.

If paul had forbidden hid be a hypocritic had just be flipping along to require something into forbid something or both law. So paul isn't talking out of both sides of his mouth here. He's telling them that they're free.

He makes this clear a little later in five six when he says, in Christ jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faiths working through love. Pog is on to say that we need first preach to them. IT was because of a bodily ailment.

We don't know what this means, but I have a theory. In four fifteen, he says they felt so blessed by him that they would have gouged their eyes out and given them to him. In six eleven, he says he's writing to them with large letters.

I don't think he means long letters because this letter isn't really that long compared to some of his others. I think he's probably talking about using big boy because maybe he's losing his eyesight. I wonder if that might be a permanent side effect of his blinding vision of Christ.

In six seventeen he says, I bear on my body the Marks of jesus. Maybe he's talking about the scarce from his beating, but maybe it's his eyes. A constant reminder for as long as he lives, that he encounter jesus in his whole life changed.

I think it's possible this could be the thorn in the flesh power referred to later in second currently. Ans, it's just a theory, but if it's accurate, we know paul would save fAiling vision is worth spiritual side a million times over in chapter five, poll tells them that if they rely on works to earn anything, they've missed the gospel. And y've missed Christ.

Inverse four, he uses some really intense language. He says, you are several from Christ you who would be justified by the law. People isn't talking about a person losing their salvation.

He saying, they clearly didn't grasp the gospel from the start if they thought I had anything to do with their own goodness. Leaning on our own so called goodness is a completely separate idea from what that means to trust in Christ. Those two things aren't even connected at the end of evs.

He says, you have bAllen away from Grace first. Let's remember that Grace means unmarried favour. It's when we get what we don't deserve. Often when I hear the phrase fall from Grace is used as a not so subtle way to say someone has fAllen into sin. But paul, use of IT here is more like falling into self registers, which to be pair is thin.

But you get the point pause version of a ball from Grace is when we make an effort to earn what has been freely given. He goes on to say that our freedom doesn't terminate on us. Freedom isn't an open past to live for ourselves, and then all we want.

Freedom is an opportunity to magnify god's character and model is love to the world around this? Because here's the thing, the only way we get this freedom to begin with is because the holy spirit of god lives in us. And there's only one thing the holy spirit of god wants to do, magnify god. And that's what the spirit does in us and throw us by producing his fruit in in keeping with all this love, joy, peace, patients, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. Journals in self control power opens chapter six with a few of the ways those things are demonstrated.

For instance, if another Christian is ensnared in their own sin patterns and can't seem to get free, lean in with journals and help him, and don't become arrogant about the fact that you are the one helping, because this could be you next week, he tells him to share with those who teach them to not grow weary of doing good, and to especially aim to do good to other beliefs. By the end of his letter, he's gotten all his harsh words in warnings out, and now he's reminding them, report IT looks like to be a family ends by calling them brothers today. My god, shot was in five twenty two to twenty three, the fruit of the spirit.

When guys planned us like trees in his garden, the spirit started working in us, producing spirit fruit in us. Third, fruit in five twenty two is singular. It's the fruit of the spirit, not the fruits. One fruit with nine characteristics, like if you came up with nine descriptions for an apple, and when these things began to show up in us, that's his signature.

The fruit may grow slower than we want IT to, but if we look back over the years, we can probably see how he has increased his fruit in us and diminished the fruit of the flesh pil talks about in versus nineteen to twenty one. Since those two are opposed to each other, they can't both grow simultaneously. One will crowd out the other a bit.

If I SAT down and talk with every one of you, you could tell me about a way you've seen his fruit in your life, even in the short time since we started T. V. R.

I bet you can see love, joy, peace, patients, kindness, goodness, fateful ness, journalists in self control, on the increase somewhere in your life. If so, thank him for that today that's his doing. He gets the glory and you get the joy because he is where the joy is. Okay, bible readers is time for our weekly checking.

Can we talk about the fact that god, based on nothing anyone has done, but by his Grace alone, not only chose to forgive our, but he also adopted you to be his kid and to be a co air with Christ? I don't want us to pass by those facts too quickly. And on top of that, god sends his spirit to live in believers .

and make them look more and more like jesus every day.

And here you are today, leaning into that. His work in you is more evident all the time. Keep leaning in to what he is doing in you.

He is doing you good, and he's turning you into a person who demonstrates more of his fruit in your life. And i'll be more for you here tomorrow. See you then.