Relapse from Liberty – Liberated by Faith: A Study of Galatians – Part 2 – Dr. Charles Stanley
Are you trusting in Jesus or your good works? Dr. Stanley continues his examination of Paul’s letter to the Galatians in “Relapse From Liberty,” as he guides us through Galatians 1:6-10. Despite already enjoying the liberty that is theirs through Jesus Christ, Paul admonishes the Galatians for returning to a works-based hope of salvation. Dr. Stanley tells us that many of today’s Christians have chosen the same path: leaving a life of grace for a life of laws. But these laws were added by man, not God. Our Father has called us to a life of grace, not because of anything we’ve done but out of His absolute love for us. This message is part of the series “Liberated by Faith: A Study of Galatians” Liberated by Faith: A Study of Galatians: CD Series: https://store.intouch.org/purchase/li… Part 1: A Declaration of Freedom – 
• A Declaration of Freedom – Liberated … Part 2: Relapse from Liberty Part 3: In Defense Of Our Liberty – Part 4: The Foundation of Our Liberty – Pt 1 – Part 5: The Foundation of Our Liberty – Pt 2 – Part 6: The Key to Liberty – Part 7: Liberated By Faith – Part 8: Liberated Unto Sonship – Part 9: A Personal Plea for Liberty – Part 10: Standing Firm In Your Liberty – Part 11: Liberty, Not License – Part 12: The Obligation of Liberty – Part 13: The Cross: Where Liberty Begins – Pt 1 – Part 14: The Cross: Where Liberty Begins – Pt 2 – Part 15: Liberty’s Brands – For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week’s broadcast, go to www.intouch.org/watch
with a message from God’s word here’s
Charles
Stanley turn to Galatians chapter 1 and
this is the second message in our series
and tonight a relapse from Liberty and
Paul is discussing the believer’s
freedom all through this book many of
God’s people are hung up in bondage
about what people think about them about
the expectations they believe that God
has over them and they’re living in
constant defeat not recognizing that
they’re their own personal problem so in
this book he gives them some solutions
to the problem of human bondage that is
living in spiritual and mental bondage
to things that God never intended for us
and you recall the first five verses we
talked about last week a declaration of
freedom and tonight a relapse from
Liberty that is having already begun to
enjoy the Liberty that is THS in Christ
Christ Jesus and if you look over in uh
chapter 5 and remember what he says in
verse one he admonishes them to Stand
Fast therefore in the Liberty wherewith
Christ has arist tense once and for all
made us free and be not entangled again
with the Yoke of bondage and you see
when a person is saved and is liberated
by God’s grace and then goes back to try
to live by the rules and try to live by
the expectations of
others and self impos rules and laws
that they think they ought to live up to
they get themselves in bondage and the
vast majority of God’s people are living
there so that is not where the Lord
wants us to live and the second uh
paragraph of Galatians 1: 2 or beginning
in verse 6 is an incident where the
Galatians relapsed from the Liberty that
the Lord had provided for him and so I
want us to read verses beginning in
verse
6-10 so Paul says having introduced the
whole book he says I’m Mark
that you are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel which is not
another but there be some that trouble
you and would pervert the gospel of
Christ but though we are an angel from
heaven preach any other gospel unto you
than that which we have preached unto
you let him be a cursed
anathema as we said before so say I now
again if any man preach
any other gospel unto you than that you
have received let him be
accursed for do I now persuade men or
God or do I seek to please men for if I
yet please men I should not be the
servant of Christ So In this passage
he’s talking about the relapse from
Liberty so the first thing I want us to
notice here is this and that is the
realization of this relapse here’s what
Paul realized when he got word from the
churches there in galatia he realized
something was going on that these people
whom he had won the Christ who had
indoctrinated them in the faith they
were beginning to talk about going back
and keeping the law they were beginning
to talk about the necessity of
circumcision and he realized that
something was going on and that
something was they were about to be
entangled again once again in the very
bondage from which Jesus Christ had
delivered them and so he’s writing this
uh to speak to them and so let’s look at
two or three things here first of all
the affection he says I Marvel that you
are so soon
removed now when he says removed what
he’s talking about here is this watch
this he says I Marvel he said I’m
surprised in fact he says I’m really
surprised that you are so quickly having
been saved by grace having known the
truth and having not been saved very
long that you are so soon doing what he
says removing yourself from Grace back
into law which is to say you are turning
your back on what a life of Grace means
a life of unmar undeserved favor and
acceptance from God you’ve been adopted
into his kingdom you’ve been redeemed by
his love you have the inheritance of
Jesus Christ you have all that God has
provided for you and you didn’t do
anything to get any of that so he says
what you’re doing is you have received
the gift of God you have received the
life of Grace which is a life of freedom
and liberty all of God’s work we are
simply responding by receiving his gift
he says you’ve turned your back upon
that and now you’re contemplating and
some of you have already is begun he
says you’re going back into a life of
bondage he says what you’re doing is he
say you leing the life of freedom and
liberty and going back in the same old
entanglements from which God saved you
through the cross he’s saying to them do
you realize what you’re doing that the
one thing that you wished for and
dreamed of and never believed could
possibly be true you found in Jesus
Christ and now you have allowed somebody
to misinform you and now you’re creeping
back to your old way and he says what
you’re doing is you’re leaving the life
of Grace and going back to the life of
law now there are a lot of Christians
who do the same thing you hear the
Gospel of Jesus Christ and somebody says
to you how are you saved they say for by
grace are you saved God’s unmar love and
favor towards you the power to receive
God’s goodness and love and mercy you
just receive by faith all that God has
given to you on the grounds by which we
to receive that
salvation then what do we do having
received it by faith we do the natural
normal thing then we try to figure out
what we can do to deserve it now we
don’t realize that we don’t use that
terminology but we start doing things
whereby we can deserve to be saved young
lady called me this week she came by to
see me and she says uh I want to be
saved and she says I think I already
have been saved she says here’s what I
did she says I was saved in a certain
church and as soon as I was saved I knew
that I had to start serving the lord
going to church giving my tithe and
doing everything I could to keep saved I
said now give me that again she said and
she went right through the same thing
again I said you mean and she says and
by and also she said I had to be
baptized and she said I knew I had to be
baptized if I were going to continue to
be saved and she says the problem is
I’ve done all those things and she said
I’m just as miserable as I was before
that happened she said I I think I’ve
been saved she says but man she says I’m
not free she says in fact I’m so
entangled she says I’m so under this
thing this load she says I believe I
probably need to get baptized again she
says is the place in Sunday school I can
teach she just went right through all of
these things because this young girl 26
years of age somebody told her if you’re
going to be saved you’ve got to be saved
you got to be baptized You’ got to serve
the Lord you’ve got to do all of these
things what they did they put a yoke of
bondage on her and so they said to her
you saved by Grace plus many works and
faithfulness to your denomination and I
want to tell you my friend if you never
hear of another denomination has nothing
to do with being saved not one thing in
fact anything anybody tells you you must
do after you’re saved is added by man
not by God otherwise what are we doing
it is God plus something we do so he
said to them he said I’m amazed at you
he said I instructed you I taught you
and you you receive the message that I
gave gave you and now you’re going back
circumcision keeping the law and all the
rest and he says all of that is in
absolute vain now notice the word he
uses here in verse 6 he says I Marvel
that is I’m surprised that you so
quickly so quickly removed that is you
have be the word removed here means to
become of another mind your mind has
been changed he says from him that
called you into the grace of Christ unto
another gospel now listen when he says
he called look if you will in Romans
chapter 8 for just a moment in verse
30 he says he called you into the grace
of Christ in Romans 8:30 listen to what
he says he says moreover whom he did
predestinate them he also called and
whom he called them he also Justified
and whom he justified them he also
glorified look in second Timothy look at
this verse before we talk about it
second Timothy CH 1 and verse
n because the word calling here isn’t
just hey come on it isn’t that kind of a
word he says in 2 Timothy 1:9 speaking
of the Lord who ha saved us and called
us with a what kind of calling a holy
calling not according to our what works
but according to his own purpose and
what Grace which was given us in Christ
Jesus when before the world began now
listen if that’s what God’s provided
what in the world can I do for something
he’s already provided before I ever got
born how in the world can I add anything
to something that was already given to
me before I was born look at that verse
again he says he has saved us AR Tense
one time saved us called us with a holy
calling not ACC calling to our works
listen you know what that means he did
not call you into Grace because of
anything you would ever do you see some
people say well I’ll tell you why God
saved me he looked down through eternity
he saw the good works I would do he just
applied them to my account before I was
ever born that’s why he saved me I want
to tell you my friend that is pure
heresy is what that is and yet there’s
some folks who will tell you that’s the
truth notice he says who has saved us
and called us with what kind of a
calling a holy calling not according to
our works but watch this according to
his own purpose and and Grace which was
given us in Christ Jesus before the
world began the word calling here means
to be called for a definite purpose it
isn’t just say hello it is to be called
with a definite purpose so when he says
that God has called us God through Jesus
Christ through the power of the Holy
Spirit has called us into a life of
Grace and when I comprehend the meaning
of the life of Grace I will not work for
God for his acceptance I will not work
for God for his favor I will not work
for God to please him I will not work
for God of the motivation of fear I will
wanted and desire to work for God why
out of the motivation of Love driven by
love because I love him because of what
he’s done for me not because if I don’t
God is going to do something real
drastic in my life God doesn’t want us
living in fear and under bondage he
wants us to live in perfect Freedom
listen you and I have been accepted on
the basis of what according to 2 Timothy
1:9 upon what basis have we been
accepted the grace of God the pleasing
purpose of the Lord so we don’t have to
go around in bondage now listen that
doesn’t mean you shouldn’t tithe and you
shouldn’t attend church we ought to do
all of those things and a lot more
things but motivated by love not because
we’re afraid of what God’s going to do
and if this is going to happen and
that’s going to happen our motivation
ought to be loved so Paul is saying you
Galatians he says I’m absolutely
surprised that you have moved moov so
quickly from the unmar favor and freedom
and liberty of Christ into another
gospel now listen Paul says here’s why
I’m disappointed here’s why I’m
surprised I’m surprised first of all
because it’s happened so quickly and
secondly he says I’m surprised because
you have moved from the truth of the
Gospel into a heretical Doctrine now
what is that well let’s look at this
passage for a moment look in verse six
now and see uh two words here he says
the last phrase of that verse says unto
another gospel in the Greek heteros all
right verse 7 which is not another in
the Greek Alo now what here’s what it
means I Marvel that you are so soon
removed from him that called you into
the grace of Christ unto another gospel
listen that is another of another kind
and heteros here is from the we get our
word heterodoxy which means false
Doctrine he says I’m amazed that you
move from the gospel of Liberty the
Gospel of Freedom no longer entangled
and no longer under bondage he says I’m
surprised that you are so soon removed
from that gospel unto another gospel he
says another of Another Kind listen he
says which is not aros’s gospel that is
one just like you’ve been experiencing
in Liberty he says but there be some
that trouble you and would pervert the
gospel of Christ now listen but though
we are another angel from heaven preach
any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you let him
be a cursed now here’s what he’s say you
have removed yourself you have
deliberately walked away from Freedom
absolute freedom in Jesus Christ Liberty
in him you’ve walked away from that back
into the entanglements and bondage and
he says what you’ve done he says you’ve
gone into a false Doctrine because what
you’ve heard is not really another
gospel at all it is error it is
heresy he says but there be some that
trouble you and would pervert the Gospel
of Jesus Christ now I want you to notice
the word here when he says when he
speaks of the Gospel verse 7 which is
not another gospel but there be some
that would trouble you and would pervert
the gospel of Christ that word is yelon
which means the good news now watch this
let me show you why you can’t have but
one
gospel he says verse 6 I Marvel that you
have so soon removed from him that
called you into the grace of Christ un
to another good news let me ask you
something how many of you know any other
good news besides Jesus
Christ so they can’t be but one gospel
verse 7 which is not another good news
but there be some that would trouble you
and would pervert the good news of
Christ he says what they’re doing is
distorting twisting it turning it just a
little bit in order that you may be
subverted when I read the survey of the
men who are in Seminary who are being
trained to preach the gospel who don’t
believe in God who don’t believe in the
Virgin birth who do not believe in
Genesis who do not believe in Adam and
Eve as persons who do not believe the
Bible is divinely inspired and who
believe that it’s full of Errors I want
to say to you you talking about people
who are going to suffer people out here
in these churches who are going to have
placed upon them the laws that men are
going to have to give because if you
don’t know Jesus Christ and Liberty and
Freedom by Grace what in the world can
you preach the only thing you’ve got to
preach is
Law and that’s why we’ve got churches
that are just born down nobody’s excited
about Jesus Christ I want to tell you
something if I had to wake up on Monday
morning thinking that I had to keep all
Ten Commandments on Monday and God is
going to strike me dead if I had to keep
everything Jesus said in The Sermon on
the Mount if I had to go through the Ten
Commandments and keep every one of them
in order to be pleasing to God
acceptable to God and to keep my
salvation I’m here to tell you I tell
God take me home tonight because I know
I can’t do it and neither can
you what is a man going to preach if he
doesn’t know the grace of God what is a
man going to preach if he doesn’t know
freedom and liberty in Jesus Christ the
only thing he can do is put people under
bondage and I can tell you I can
remember the time when I thought man if
you didn’t come to church you just flat
backsliding or if you didn’t do this and
you didn’t do that and you didn’t do the
other you just backsliding on God you
said now what that sounds like you’re
preaching an easy gospel I haven’t got
of that part yet not preaching an easy
gospel I’m just simply saying this
listen and here’s what I’ve discovered I
read this statement by Martin Lord Jones
who probably is one of the greatest
English preachers of our time he was the
Queen’s pastor and Eng a great great man
of God somebody asked him in his Bible
studies on Friday night he says what
they said why don’t you preach to the
Book of Romans he kept putting him off
so finally he said well when I
understand Romans 66 I’ll preach through
the uh Epistle of Romans and he must
have been in his 60s or somewhere there
about before he ever started he’s a wise
old man of God here’s what he said in
reading through chapter 6 and he has a
whole volume on chapter six here’s what
he said he said if you listen now
because I read this and I thought now
wait a minut I really got to think about
that one here’s what he said he says if
you and I preach the Bible if we are
true to the word of God if we preach the
book just like God wrote it
it will naturally sound like we are
preaching an easy gospel when we say
Jesus Christ died for our sins Jesus
redeemed us Jesus adopted us all of
these things that he has done and that
our relationship to him is to be one to
receive him and to glorify him he says
when we understand the truth of what God
has done for us it will sound to ears
that are ill equipped like you say
that’s an easy gospel it’s all of God
none of you
it is all of God none of us but when you
and I understand who he is when we
understand who we are in him when we
understand the Liberty that is ours in
Jesus Christ what happens is the
shackles and the bondage of the law are
torn us under and we become freed to
live and to serve him motivated by love
doing more than we’ve ever done before
no strain not the Frets not the cares
not concerned about what people think
therein is the freedom but when it is
first proclaimed it sounds like an easy
gospel so Paul is saying to these people
he says what’s happened here
is that instead of having one gospel now
you’re talking about two there is only
one gospel everything else is heterodoxy
that is it is false Doctrine and he says
you to stay away from it lest you get
entangled once again all right now the
reason for their relapse why were these
people going back into bondage let me
ask you this how many of you could
anybody ever convince you that you were
unsaved here were some people who
received the truth but the scripture
says that something had happened now
there are two reasons they were willing
listen two reasons they’re willing to
give up freedom and go back to the law
trying to keep the law and trying to do
all these things number one was the
appeal of the troublemakers from
Jerusalem and you’ll recall we mentioned
that the judaizers who believe that Paul
what they were saying of Paul they said
Paul you’re preaching an easy gospel
You’re simply saying all they have to do
is to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and
his death on the cross and they can be
saved we believe that is the atoning
death of Jesus Christ plus circumcision
plus keeping the law and that’s the only
way a person can be
saved so the first thing that happens
here is they begin to appeal to these
young believers now let me show you a
perfect example of this that is hideous
in my eyes when people of different
so-called denominations come into a
church body
not because they care about anybody’s
salvation not because they want to see
anybody saved not because they want to
see anybody serve the Lord not because
they want to see the sanctification
process going on not because they want
to see God glorified but in order to
steal converts and subvert minds and
pervert the truth and distort the truth
and say to them that listen have you
ever heard so and so does your pastor
preach on this maybe you’d let me share
this with you and begin to say to them
now listen if you want to be what God
wants you to be trusting in the Lord’s
fine but there’s some other things and
if you haven’t had this and this and
this and this and this you don’t have it
and you know what they do emotionally
and spiritually they put people in
bondage listen Paul if you’ll think
about it he didn’t have any the tangents
in his
preaching did he he said God called him
to preach the whole Council of God the
whole counsil of God is based on Grace
that God has provided in Christ Jesus
everything that we are everything we
hope to be in him so he says the problem
here is the appeal of the judaizers who
have come to pervert now listen the word
pervert there means to reverse it that
and that’s exactly what they did watch
this the word here means to reverse it
Paul’s preaching had been by Grace he is
saved not by man’s Works he says they
have perverted reversed the truth now
the word word would here means they
desired to do it they willingly did it
that is they came in purposely look if
you will in Galatians Chapter 2 and
verse
4 he says and that because of faults
Brethren
unawares brought in that is they slipped
into the church and nobody knew who came
in privately for the purpose of spying
out our Liberty which we have in Christ
Jesus that they might bring us into
bondage Paul says I’ll tell you why they
came they came for the sole purpose of
putting you back into bondage now friend
listen you need to be extremely careful
what you listen to and what you pay heed
to because one little turn of some great
biblical doctrines can put you in a
great sense of bondage and I don’t have
to go into all that and there are all
kind of those things going on right now
people distorting the truth and putting
people under bondage or giving them
licensed to do what they please you see
some doctrines God’s going to do it man
has nothing to do with it he’s going to
save some he’s sending some to hell man
has absolutely nothing to do with it and
you know what that does that just simply
says well gives me license to sit and do
absolutely nothing because whatever
God’s going to do he’s going to do it
whatever he’s not going to do he’s not
going to do and you see that is another
Distortion of the truth totally out of
bounds as if God will not use man so I
want to say to you and you need to say
to your children you need to be very
very careful what you hear and if it
isn’t balanced with a word then you need
to throw it out let me tell you a second
problem they had
here listen the appeal of the judaizers
first of all people slipping into the
church and distorting the truth the
second appeal here is the appeal of the
flesh now watch this if we took a survey
right now you’d be surprised you may be
even surprised about yourself if you had
to ask this question how would you
answer it I feel absolutely and totally
accepted by God this very moment totally
freed and accepted by almighty God right
now if you
don’t then what are you doing you’re
looking for a
way to find
acceptance how does a man find
acceptance before God he looks for
something to do that would be pleasing
to God that may appease God that may be
some something good that he does in
order to have God’s favor now here’s
what I’m I want you to see it’s so
deceptive and I want to tell you my
friend there’s so many God’s people hung
up on this listen to
me you can be save for 40
years and live in bondage all 40 years
if you live under the bondage of
believing that your acceptance before
God is on a momentary minute by minute
or decision by decision basis accepted
now but I blew it then if my acceptance
were based on conduct do you know what
that means that means that my acceptance
may change every time I have a thought
or every action I
commit where would you be if your
acceptance was positive negative
positive negative positive positive
positive positive negative negative
negative negative what kind of life
would that
be you know what our problem is you know
what has Us in bondage what has God’s
people in bondage is our inability or
unwillingness to accept what God
proclaimed is absolute truth what is the
Gospel of Jesus Christ that is before
you were ever born in Christ Jesus you
were accepted in spite of everything he
knew about
you if I was accepted by Jesus Christ
God the father and God the spirit before
the foundation of the world does it
really make any difference whether
anybody else accepts us or
not absolutely not listen what matters
most whether the world accepts you
or God accepts
you think about it he says he’s accepted
Us in the Beloved you and I have been
accepted in the Beloved listen he didn’t
accept you on the basis of what you do
he accepted you on the basis of a
relationship with Jesus Christ The
Living Lord so you see you can’t ever
change
that and so Paul says these folks are
perverting the truth and so you and I
may feel more comfortable wanting to do
something but we can’t look if you were
in Romans chap 11 the two verses here I
want you to check on Romans
11 if there’s anything that you and I
need to teach our children it’s just
what I’ve got through telling you right
there Romans chap 11 listen to
this he says now and if by
Grace then is it no more of Works
otherwise Grace is no more Grace but if
it be of works then it is no more grace
otherwise work is no more work you see
he says you can’t have both if you’re
saved by grace can’t be work if you’re
saved by works can’t be Grace those two
things are like oil and water they’re
absolutely and totally
incompatible all right if you will look
in the Galatians Chapter 2 in the last
verse of this chapter look if you will
he says in verse 21 when you and I try
to mix grace and works I do not
frustrate the grace of God for if
righteousness comes by the law then
Christ is dead in vain that means Doran
in the Greek which means to no purpose
at all that is if we’re saved by works
then Christ’s death has no purpose
behind it so he says first of all the
reason for their relapse was the appeal
of the judaizers and secondly the appeal
of the flesh the third thing I want you
to notice here is his response to their
relapse how did Paul respond all right
he says first of all look if you will
verse 8 but though we are an angel from
heaven Yi that is evangelize speak the
good news any other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached unto you let
him be a
cursed Paul says if a man’s preaching
false Doctrine and perverting God’s
people let let the Judgment of God be
upon him listen the word a curse means
here the word Greek word is anatha means
uh refers to something that is delivered
up to Divine wrath that is something
that is presented for condemnation
somebody that’s presented for God to
judge them and notice he says it twice
and as we said before perfect tense and
let the effect remain so say I now again
if any man preach any other gospel unto
you than that you have
received let him be a cursed God’s
judgment upon him for perverting the
truth distorting the gospel and causing
God’s people to go astray now I want you
to notice something he says there’s no
exception he says if we are some Angel
come along he says doesn’t make any
difference he says let them be accursed
now listen to how Paul defends what he’s
saying here watch this for do I now
persuade men of God or do I seek to
please men for if I yet please men I
should not be the servant of Christ now
he says look he says if you think what
I’m saying is pleasing men that I can’t
be the servant of Christ and you can’t
please men at the same time please
God so he’s saying to them I’m not
making it an easy gospel he said I’m
presenting the truth and the truth is
that they’re accepted in the Beloved in
Christ Jesus by Grace has nothing to do
with their Works circumcision or all the
rest and listen to what he says if I yet
please men I should not be the servant
of Christ look if you will in Galatians
chapter 6 verse 17 let me show you
something in the 17th verse next to the
very last verse of the book Paul
says from henceforth let no man trouble
me he says you know enough of this stuff
for I bear in my body the marks of the
Lord Jesus the Greek word is Stigmata
which means the brands he says my life
is proof within itself that I’m not an
easy gospel preacher and that I’m not
letting anybody off the hook and I’m not
making it easy for him because he says
if I were trying to make it easy and
please men I wouldn’t be a bond slave to
Jesus Christ now let me tell you what a
bond slave was a bondslave was the
lowest abject type of slavery it is one
who was born in into
slavery it is one who is bound unto
death to his master a person who had
listen who had the branding marks of a
RedHot Branding Iron the marks of his
master’s name and his sign in his body
somewhere so when he says if I were
trying to persuade men I couldn’t be the
servant of Jesus Christ he says because
I voluntarily have been born Into
Slavery to Jesus Christ he says I’m
bound to that slavery to death in my
body I bear the Stigmata the marks of my
relationship to him he says my will has
been swallowed up in the will of my
master and he says I remove my desires
nor that I may please the desires of my
master that’s what a bondslave does and
Paul says I am giving you the gospel
truth and he is defending his ministry
here by saying I bear in my body the
marks of my obedience and my persecution
and my devotion to Jesus Christ and if I
were try to give you the easy way out I
would not have been suffering for our
Lord go back if you will to chapter 5 CU
here’s the whole theme verse one once
you’ve discovered the truth don’t
relapse don’t go back he says Stand Fast
that is to entrench yourself dig in
right where you are in the Liberty where
with Christ has made us free and be not
entangled again with the Yoke of bondage
friend you have been accepted in the
Beloved before you were ever born you
and I are living in Grace we sang on
Christ the solid rock I stand all of the
ground is sinking sand all of our hope
is built in Jesus Christ nobody can
attach anything to that nobody can put
us in bondage any kind of entanglements
any yoke because God has liberated us
and listen Jesus Christ was absolutely
free and he says you and I have been
placed into him who is free and he who
is free has been placed in us we have
been liberated from yolks of bondage
listen a yoke of bondage false guilt a
yoke of bondage trying to please men a
yoke of bondage that I’m having to
accept make myself feel accepted before
God a yoke of bondage that I’ve got to
carry out the rules in order to get
God’s favor those things he says we’re
to throw them off throw them off in
order that we might receive and enjoy
the Liberty we have in Christ Jesus he
says don’t go back from Liberty and
freedom back to bondage and my friend
some of you walk out of here tonight and
you’ll go home and lie in the bed and
think in your own heart God am I in
bondage and just like the spirit of God
will say you
are you dress to please others you act a
certain way to please
others you have an inferiority
feeling your life is based on what other
people think and that is one of the
worst types of bondage and I want to
tell you before we get through Galatians
God is going to show you how to just
shuck all of that and learn to be free
for the first time in your life if you
want to be free the only Freedom that
you’ll find at last is freedom in a warm
intimate relationship with Jesus Christ
but with the knowledge listen with the
knowledge of all that relationship has
provided for
you our father we thank you for the
freedom that’s ours in Christ Jesus our
living Lord
not by license but by love we serve you
and praise you everything in our heart
wants to bubble out everything in our
heart like a big volcano wants to
explode the grace and the love and the
goodness of Jesus Christ Our Lord and
father I pray that people here tonight
have seen for the first time in their
life some of them that they’re accepted
don’t have to prove it don’t have to
live up to it don’t have to work at it
but out of genuine love provided the
cross through Jesus Christ’s death we’ve
been set free and all that you’re doing
is waiting for us to
receive and act upon the freedom that is
ours but somebody tonight father who’s
unsaved they’re in bondage oh God help
them to see its Eternal bondage unless
you break them out of it that’s somebody
dear God who is in in bondage to drugs
in bondage to alcohol in bondage to all
types of sin in bondage to people’s
attitudes maybe in bondage to FAL
Doctrine would you help them see Lord
God the blood of Jesus Christ will
liberate them and free them in your life
within them will keep them free and may
they discover that tonight in Christ
somebody everybody Lord God my heart’s
yearning Earnest deepest desire is that
everybody in this place would be freed
and liberated and if they only got one
thing tonight Lord that you’ve already
accepted
them all already accepted them they’re
free liberated accepted forever and ever
and ever accepted in
Christ we’re
free would you teach us how to apply
that freedom in our everyday life is my
prayer in Jesus name amen