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all of Galatians is really about the
fact that when Jesus died we were set
free from the Old Testament law not the
moral
law not the civic law but all of the uh
the
U the ceremonial laws all of the
sacrifices that had to be made I last
night I read just a handful of things
and we just saw that it just
you know when when a legalistic person
gets a hold of something that’s even a
truth and they start turning it into a
law it just like the Ten Commandments
I’ve been told the legalists eventually
turned it into 2200 rules and
regulations that people had to follow I
we
cannot there’s no way that we can fully
understand what Jesus did for us when he
was on the cross and he said it is
finished and he meant that old whole old
system was finished that we no longer
had to serve God under the law we didn’t
have to be
afraid uh every time we made a mistake
that God was going to punish us that we
didn’t have to live under guilt and
condemnation that something new was
happening now called the dispensation of
Grace and that we’re saved by grace and
grace alone not by keeping the law now
that doesn’t mean that we don’t want to
keep the law not the ceremonial law but
we know we we still can’t kill people
and we can’t lie we can’t steal and
there’s lots of things that the law said
that were really good but the problem
was was they had no ability to keep it
no matter how many they kept under that
legalistic system if they missed it in
one thing they were guilty of all of it
and so no matter how hard they tried
they could never
really have peace with God through
keeping the rules and the regulations so
this should have been like unbelievably
good news to them and it was for
many people that Paul was preaching to
had been Idol worshippers they were
Gentiles not Jews and so you know
sometimes if you haven’t learned
something it’s much easier to learn the
new thing than if you’ve got to unlearn
the old thing first and then learn the
new thing you know for example if you
grew up in a
really
legalistic religious denomination how
many of you did you grew up in something
that was just very legalistic okay well
you know that all those things that you
were told for years and years and years
that you couldn’t do that you’d be
punished if you did them that God would
be mad at you them you didn’t just get
over that overnight it took a long time
to get over that I grew up with a
tremendous amount of guilt and my dad
was always
angry because he was angry he took his
anger out on everybody else and you
never knew what he was angry about he
was just angry so the whole game in our
house was to keep dad from getting upset
and
so I went into my relationship with God
like that and I felt guilty every single
time that I didn’t do everything exactly
the way that I thought it should have
been done how many of you know what I’m
talking about there well here’s the one
thing I want to say to you this
morning I want to get you to the point
today where you can be completely
comfortable with
God I mean like when you’re hanging out
with God like you put on
your women probably right to this a
little bit better but your most comfy
fuzzy PJs and you’re snuggled up in your
most comfortable chair and you know we
we can just be ourselves with God we
don’t have to be rigid and legalistic
and follow rules and regulations I you
know most people if you get down to the
laws that we create for ourself we make
a law out of reading the
Bible you’re told read your Bible read
your Bible every day read your Bible
every day well I think it’s better to
say study the word every day and
sometimes the word that you need to
study comes from a different book that’s
got the Bible in it but also explains
some things about it well last night I
said you know what I didn’t read my
Bible this
morning and you should have heard the
silence in this
room here I’m coming to pray you didn’t
read you didn’t read your
Bible now there would have been a time
when I would have made myself do it even
though it really wasn’t what I wanted to
read but I would have made myself do it
because if I wouldn’t have done it I
would have felt guilty all day if I
didn’t do it but instead I’m reading a
book right now that I’m really enjoying
about how to hear from God and that was
what I felt led by the Holy Spirit to
study yesterday morning now I did get
around
to reading my Bible later in the day
studying for what I was going to do last
night but I just thought it was
interesting the reaction I got when I
said I didn’t read my Bible this
morning so we get these things we that
we need to read the Bible every day we
need to go to church every week we need
to maybe do a few good works you know be
nice to somebody whatever and if we get
our three or four check marks on our God
calendar then God’s not mad at us but
the whole thing is is we miss the whole
thing because he doesn’t want us to be
yes
I’m not telling you not to read your
Bible but I am telling you that if you
don’t do it every single day as long as
you get the word of God in you in some
form or fashion then you’re still okay
you don’t have to you don’t you don’t
have to pray one hour every day so God’s
not mad at you you know people can take
that can you not pray with me one hour
and at one time there was a whole big
movement that went all across the the
the world about everybody praying one
hour a day
well if any of you were like me you
really didn’t have an hour’s worth of
anything to say but you made up stuff
and bored yourself and talked in circles
and anything just to say that you got in
your hour because then you come on is
anybody with me you know
know what I’m talking about I remember
an intercessor came to our church one
time and talked about how she prayed
four hours every day from starting at
4:00 in the morning you know that woman
seems so spiritual and she seemed to
have such a strong anointing on her so I
decided that if I did what she
did come on now if I did what she did
then I would have that same anointing
that she had but that’s not true God
doesn’t want you to do what somebody
else does he wants you to do what he
wants you to do for
you
and then his anointing and power comes
on you because of your obedience to him
but you know what when you start being
led by the spirit it gets a little bit
scary because you’re going to be led
outside those lines of just following
rules and regulations and that’s when
you’re going to be free and that’s when
you’re going to be comfortable with God
I spent years where I felt guilty all
the time I mean I I didn’t even know
what I felt guilty about I just felt
something’s wrong with me I just I felt
guilty and if I didn’t feel guilty I
felt like that was a sin because surely
I should have been feeling guilty about
something and can I tell you something
right
now I don’t ever feel
guilty that’s worse than not reading my
Bible yesterday morning right what you
never feel guilty no not really you know
why because God has taught me and it
took so long for me to get this but he’s
taught me that it’s a total waste of
time and all our feelings of guilt are
is us trying to pay for what Jesus has
already paid for when you sin and God
convicts you of it you agree with him
you don’t give excuses you
repent which means you’re not only sorry
but you want to turn away from that and
not do it again you realize that you’re
not going to succeed by yourself so
don’t ever promise God you won’t do this
I do this again go God I promise if
you’ll just forgive me God I’ll never do
this again yes you
will you will the only way that you
might not do it again is if you say God
I’m going to do this again unless you
help me because I cannot do this by
myself I need you to work through
me
amen so Paul had his handsful because he
was trying to teach these Gentiles that
they everything came to them through
faith
not through works of the law but they
were saved by grace through faith
everything that we get from God is by
his
grace through our faith so all this good
stuff can be there but if you don’t
trust God for it you still won’t get
it g we don’t need Jesus to
go do anything else for us he’s already
done it all what we need is to believe
in what he’s already
done and learn how to receive it through
following the leadership of the Holy
Spirit and being promptly obedient to
God just because we’re not under the law
doesn’t mean that we’re still not
required to be obedient to God but now
he’s given us a heart of want to not of
have to let me read you a little story
this is this is
what hopefully I find my story
quick and if not I’ll find it slow and
you’ll
wait here it is Bill was a man who’
lived an especially Wicked and sinful
life a friend of his said bill I feel so
sorry for you having to give up all
those things that you enjoyed now that
you become a
Christian and Bill replied oh I can get
drunk anytime I want
to I can see any kind of movie I want to
I can
gamble I can treat people bad anytime I
want to his friend looked at him very
puzzled and said well how can you do all
those things to be a Christian and Bill
said oh you don’t understand I don’t do
them anymore because I don’t want to God
gave me a new want
to and see God God doesn’t want me to go
to church every week because I’m afraid
I’m going to get in trouble with him if
I don’t he wants me to go because I want
to he doesn’t want me to study his word
because because I’m going to get in
trouble with him if I don’t he wants me
to do it because I want to well the
truth is is God has given you a new want
to but if you keep living in the realm
of have to you’re never going to get
around to finding out what you really
want to do and the truth is you want to
do everything right you want to please
God you want to be good otherwise you
wouldn’t be taking a Saturday morning
sitting here listening to me all day so
you don’t have to feel bad about
yourself God is proud of you he’s
pleased with you you’re not where you
need to be but thank God you’re not
where you used to be you’re somewhere in
the middle you’re on your way and that’s
okay here’s the good news it’s okay that
you haven’t
arrived it’s
okay that you haven’t arrived at the
place of perfection yet
and I don’t want to depress you but as
long as you’re in a fleshly body you
never
will
sorry you’re always going to make
mistakes until Jesus comes and gets us
out of here but none of us are surprised
to God he knew what he was getting when
he took us
on Amen all he cares about is that
you’re making
progress that’s all he cares about all
he cares about is that you care about
what he thinks and so because you care
and you do or you wouldn’t be here he’s
pleased what must I do to please God
this is the work that God requires of
you that you believe in the one whom he
has sent