1 of 5 for GT to Debate (The entire book of Galatians)
Paul now speaks so plainly, and all of our journey through Galatians has been so strong, that I will go straight to the scripture for the first part of this chunk.
Galatians 4
8*But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.
Here, obedience to Moses is equated with not knowing God. The enslavement refers to the dispensation of Moses through Angels, the Stone, Men and Death.
9*But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
Jesus freed us from our bondage to Sin, by taking our full judgment under Moses.
Why would you disgrace Jesus by turning back to obedience to Moses instead of accepting His FREE gift to you that He purchased with His Life, Death and Resurrection?
10*You observe special days, months, seasons, and years.
This is a direct reference to ALL of Moses!
11*I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.
It makes Paul afraid to see that any could turn from the provision of Jesus to simply wallow in the filth of their flesh, by obedience to Moses.
Our obedience, at it's best, is no better than our disobedience, at it's worst!
12*I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have not wronged me;
Paul forsook Moses as his guide. He asked the Galatians to turn back to Jesus and do the same.
13*you know that previously I preached the gospel to you because of a physical illness.
This ties to Pauls thorn. People relegate this to physical health and affliction, but it is a spiritual analogy for the affliction of sin in our members.
Paul speaks over and over that he uses physical teaching to reveal spiritual analogies.
1st Corinthians 2:
6*However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7*On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestinedbefore the ages for our glory. 8*None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9*But as it is written:
What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.
10*Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.11*For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12*Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. 13*We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. 14*But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated[h] spiritually.
14*You did not despise or reject me though my physical condition was a trial for you. On the contrary, you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.
Again, Paul is imploring the Galatians to shun no man based on his flesh. We should never judge by Moses! We are to receive all people of the earth as children of God. Love is the only Spirit that we can discern.
Consider John 9: (Note the sinful blind man can see, but the followers of Moses are blind)
John 9:
The Sixth Sign: Healing a Man Born Blind
9*As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth. 2*His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3*“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him. 4*We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. 5*As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6*After He said these things He spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.
This is the Creator of Adam, who formed the clay of the earth.
7*“Go,” He told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam”(which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.
8*His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?” 9*Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”
He kept saying, “I’m the one!”
10*Therefore they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”
11*He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”
12*“Where is He?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” he said.
The Healed Man’s Testimony
13*They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees. 14*The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. 15*So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.
“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”
16*Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.
17*Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”
“He’s a prophet,” he said.
18*The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.
19*They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20*“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.
21*“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.” 22*His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue. 23*This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”
24*So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”
25*He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”
26*Then they asked him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”
27*“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”
28*They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’ disciples. 29*We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”
30*“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes! 31*We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.
32*Throughout history no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.
33*If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”
34*“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.
The Blind Man’s Sight and the Pharisees’ Blindness
35*When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36*“Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?” he asked.
37*Jesus answered, “You have seen Him; in fact, He is the One speaking with you.”
38*“I believe, Lord!” he said, and he worshiped Him.
39*Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”
40*Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”
41*“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’—your sin remains.
Now back to Galatians:
15*What happened to this sense of being blessed you had? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
Paul is now referring to Jesus's teaching that our continual admission of guilt before him gives us site and LIFE ETERNAL.
The Galatians would have taught Saul to turn from Moses so he could turn to Jesus.
He is even saying their fervor for God was so great before they had been Judaized, that they would have given their lives to save him from his spiritual blindness.
16*Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
The Galatians were manifesting the traits of the Pharisees that attacked the message of absolute Grace!
17*They are enthusiastic about you, but not for any good. Instead, they want to isolate you so you will be enthusiastic about them.
Any person who mixes any form of human favoritism into the Gospel is doing it to simply boast in the numbers of their following and the flesh or righteousness of their converts.
This was spoken of by Jesus.
Matthew 23
15*“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make one proselyte (Convert), and when he becomes one, you make him twice as fit for hell as you are!
18*Now it is always good to be enthusiastic about good—and not just when I am with you.
Paul is now exalting the "Good of Jesus". This is not the "good" of the attempt to be righteous by obedience to Moses, or any twisting of scripture that unravels back to it.
19*My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.
Paul is paralleling the Labor pain of the struggle of man to "Be like God" that started in the garden of Eden and was only relieved through the birth of Jesus!
Jesus is our propitiation and hope. Only by HIS flesh, blood, Birth within us, Life, Death and resurrection are we saved! How simple is that? Super wonderful and simple it is. (Yoda speak)
There is no try in our flesh.
Their is only do in Jesus. ([emoji846])
20*I would like to be with you right now and change my tone of voice, because I don’t know what to do about you.
Paul has geared up for it, intensified his preaching and now get ready for the BOOM!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3eiza_LXjq8
Are you ready to sharpen that Gospel Sword, Soldier of Jesus, wielding the Spirit of Love against the darts of Hate?
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Tomorrow will be the atomic bomb of Paul. It is the "Click, click BOOM" of the Gospel!
No other words, outside of every word in red from the Good Shepherd, can bring a child home as strongly as the knowledge of the coming words.
I'm leaving them posted until tomorrow. If you want, try to study them with everything you've read so far. See if you get them.
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Tomorrow the DRAGON gets reminded of his mortal wound that causes his black blood to flow to this very day!
Tomorrow we glory in our risen savior!
Sarah and Hagar, the two covenants.
21*Tell me, those of you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law?
22*For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and the other by a free woman.
23*But the one by the slave was born according to the impulse of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
24*These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.
25*Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trinU3VD1Zo
26*But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
27*For it is written:
Rejoice, childless woman,
who does not give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate are many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.
28*Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUHoFAziyU
29*But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.
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30*But what does the Scripture say?
Drive out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave will never be a coheir with the son of the free woman.
31*Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
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