Friday, July 20, 2012


Gal 3:27-29  "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." 


In your accepting the Absolute Love of God into your life and demonstrated dying and being raised to life by your act of being baptized, you now have the covering of the nature of Christ. You are not identified by nationality, position, gender or other societal restraints you are all unified ,brought together and reconciled to God in Christ Jesus, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. He is Absolute Love.
It is like this your being a child of God was established by God but you had not received the inheritance until the Father decided to give it to you. It is all by grace. God is the Sovereign giver.



Gal 4:1, 2  "I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father." 


It is the same way that happened to us and to you, we were captive to the to ignorance and immaturity until God the Father sent the man Jesus, God in the flesh, place under the same restraints,so we could be redeemed to become like Him as a child of God. We are adopted into God's family because Jesus Christ came in Absolute Love and humility to give us that inheritance.


Gal 4:3-5  "In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,  to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 


Because you have been adopted as God's child, made in His likeness by His Spirit coming into our hearts. Our hearts now beat in rhythmic tones that end up causing us to love to do what God commands. So as God's child you are an heir to all that God has to give. Yes, that means everything. 


Gal 4:6, 7  "And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God." 


So you didn't know God, you were trapped in your ignorance and inability to follow after the purposes of God, now it is not that you only know God, but He has an intimate relationship with you built upon his relationship with his Son, Jesus. 
How could you turn your back on that inheritance, belonging to the family of God, and go back to weakness and being unworthy, acting in ways that lead to futility and frustration. 


Gal 4:8, 9  "Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.  But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?" 


You turn life giving fellowship with God into worthless superstition and the drudgery of futile rituals. Your actions scare me to death. It is not lie you as you first received me and stood by me defending the message of freedom in Christ.


Gal 4:10- 15  "You observe days and months and seasons and years!  I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,  and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me." 


So don't turn truth into your enemy. Others want you to shut the message out so that you can make much of your works. They want pride in self to rule rather than the humility of Jesus Christ. It might be good to receive praise for doing good, that good is that character of Christ is fully formed in you. It is like being born again and again until it really grabs hold of you and changes your life.


Gal 4:16-19  "Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?  They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.  It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!" 


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