Summary
It's Independence Day, July 4th, and this is such a wonderful time to celebrate our freedom, to celebrate our country, and I love that today we are asking and answering the question, if I believe in Jesus, do I still have to follow the law? Now our question is, if I believe in Jesus, so there's this, if I believe in Jesus, and Paul is starting right out, saying, my brothers and sisters, you are called in to freedom, the very fact that he is referring to these people in Galatia as his brothers and sisters, then that means that they believe in Jesus. If you turn back to chapter 4 of Galatians, verses 4 through 6, Paul wrote, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children, and because you are children, God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, crying, Abba, father, so you are no longer a slave but a child and if a child then also an heir through God. We believe in Jesus, the Galatians that Paul is writing to, believe in Jesus, they are no longer slaves to the law, but they are free, they are children in God and they are part of God's family together with Paul, so we continue. What's really interesting here is that Paul, Paul uses the word flesh or self indulgence instead of sin, that not that we don't use our freedom as an excuse for sin, but that we don't use our freedom as an excuse to indulge the desires of our flesh. What He chose to do with His sovereignty before the very creation of creation itself was that He would lower Himself, that He would humble Himself, that He would unite Himself to our flesh and that He would live perfectly under the law, that He would not sin, that He would not oppose God, but that He would live in full fill, it, holy and completely.
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- "If I Believe in Jesus, Do I Still Have to Follow the Law?" 7-4-21 — If you would please open your Bibles to Galatians the 5th chapter, we're going to be studying out of Galatians the 5th chapter. It's Independence Day, July 4th, and this is such a wonderful time to…