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Good evening. It's good to see you this evening.
Would you turn with me in your Bibles to Galatians chapter 3, please?
Galatians chapter 3.
And as is our custom, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1.
Please read along silently with me. Galatians chapter 3.
And in Galatians chapter 3, the Bible reads, Oh, foolish Galatians.
Who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
This only would I learn of you, received ye with the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish, having begun in the Spirit? Are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if it be yet in vain?
He therefore that ministereth to you the spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith,
even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
No ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying,
In thee shall all nations be blessed.
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse,
for it is written,
Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith.
And the law is not faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
For it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men,
though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed,
no man disannuleth, or addeth thereto.
Now to Abraham and his seed, where the promise is made,
he saith not into seeds as of many, but as of one.
and to thy seed, which is Christ.
And this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God and Christ,
the law, which was 430 years after, cannot disannual,
that it should make the promise of none effect.
Or if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise,
but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Wherefore, then, serveth the law.
It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made,
and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now, a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
Is the law then against the promises of God?
God forbid.
For if there had been a law which could have given life,
verily righteousness should have been by the law.
But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith, which should afterwards be revealed.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ,
there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
Brother Shalom, would you pray for us?
All right, we are in Galatians 3.
And if I was to title this sermon, I'd say,
is it by law or by faith or the law?
And if you were listening, obviously, you know,
that our promises are by faith, our salvation is by faith.
It's the theme of this whole book.
And really the whole question I kind of nailed down
last week was the whole reason why Paul is writing
this letter is kind of revealed to us in chapter number two.
the Pharisees that came down that believed,
believed, infiltrated, came down and said,
unless you keep the law of Moses,
unless you're circumcised and keep the law of Moses,
you cannot be saved.
And so that is what legalism is.
Legalism is saying it's either just works alone
to be saved or a combination of faith and works,
which is what they were teaching.
Because it said they believed,
but then they're saying, well,
you got to get your flesh circumcised and you got to keep the law Moses or you
can't be saved and then Paul goes up to Jerusalem and they have the little show
down with the Pharisees up there and then James kind of just says well here's
what I'm saying that you have to do and I I personally don't believe that James
was Judaizing after that that's my opinion I just think that he was just
You know, if you were a drunkard, you're going to get thrown out of the church.
He didn't bring up being a drunkard, but he did bring up that you're not supposed to eat blood.
I think I proved you on the shadow of a doubt that that's always been the case in Genesis.
That was the case, and we're still not supposed to do that.
Now, we can eat all things, but we're supposed to drain the blood out of the animals still.
Eating blood is not something that we're supposed to do and no steak.
I don't care what you say.
Steak if it's the blood's been already drained out of the animal and it looks like it's bloody. That's not blood
Okay, it just looks like it, but it's not okay. All right you you Hispanics, okay?
Have you ever noticed the like, you know Hispanic people that always want their meat well done because they think it's blood
That's what it is the superstitious. Anyway, they were just raised that way
Anyway, so anyway, let's move on and let's look at point number one Paul asked
This question is salvation by faith or by the works of the law because he's he's trying to get down
You know these people have been fooled into thinking that these guys might be right
Paul already given the answers, but he's still dealing with this.
And remember the chapters and verses didn't get put until afterwards, this is one big letter to the Galatians.
And verse number one says, oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth.
before whose eyes Jesus Christ
hath been evidently set forth,
crucified among you."
He's using some strong language here.
He's calling them foolish.
Oh, foolish Galatians.
And then he says,
who hath bewitched you?
Now, we know
What has happened and again the false brethren the pretenders have come and fooled these people into believing these things
so Paul is likening them to having a spell of witchcraft cast upon them and
They have been deceived by witchcraft
That's what be which means it means to cast a spell upon someone and this is what false prophets can do false prophets
I you know he
He's kind of, you know, later on in the next, I think it's either the next chapter,
I think it's the next chapter where he says, I'm afraid of you,
let's lie bestowed upon you labor out, you know, out in vain.
He's afraid that they're not even saved.
Maybe some of them weren't but the fact that I think that saved people can go into error
If they allow themselves to be taught by somebody
That is very slick tongued because I mean there's people that they believe all kinds of heresy out there today
But this is damn double heresy
This is heresy that you know if you believe this you're just if you believe this and stick with it after being corrected
You're just not saved
So this is, you know, this is salvation heresy.
This is the damn double kind that if you believe this,
you are not saved.
But you know, I've gone to people's doors
and they got, maybe they went to a church
where they were saying, well, you know,
if you take the mark of the beast, you know,
you can't be saved.
And then it kind of makes people doubt.
Have you ever gone to a door and they're like,
well, you know, maybe if you just blast him
the Holy Ghost, you could lose your salvation
or something like that.
And then you just say, well, Christians can't do that.
You know, and then you explain it to them and they go,
oh, yeah, well, then I guess you can't.
And then, to me, those people have just had some bad teaching or something.
and people can doubt things or have some issues,
but if you can straighten them out just like that,
you know, like if someone's saying,
well, you gotta repent of your sins,
and you're like, well, hey,
this is what repentance means,
they're like, oh yeah, okay, yeah, I see that.
So people can get fooled to a certain extent,
but if they're saved,
you can about face them with scripture
and turn them around.
But he's worried about these people.
Says in verse two,
this only what I learned of you received you
the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? So how do they get saved?
Do they get it by the spirit?
Or by the hearing of, I mean by the spirit of the law, excuse me, did they receive the spirit, excuse me, the spirit of God?
This is like, you know, a capital spirit here by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith.
How did you get the Holy Spirit? Were you just working really hard and doing a lot of works?
And then all of a sudden the Holy Spirit just came into you? No, that's not how they got saved.
So he's just asking this question because everybody gets the spirit by the same way.
You get saved, the Holy Spirit enters into you at that point.
Now, so that's what happens.
We get saved, the Holy Spirit comes inside of us,
and we're sealed with the Holy Ghost onto the day of redemption.
So in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit could leave,
but in the New Testament, that is one thing that's changed in the New Testament,
is that once you get the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit remains in you forever.
Verse three are you so foolish having begun in the spirit? Are you now made perfect by the flesh?
Now perfect can mean a couple different things perfect can mean that you're the complete package like you're well a well-rounded like an MMA
I always like to use MMA as a
As a teaching tool, but because some guys like hoist Gracie
He knew do Jitsu when he first when the UFC first started that was his thing
He would try to drag people to the ground and choke him out with his gear or whatever
if you know what a G is, but he would, he would just, that was his thing.
And then people, one person was a karate style, one person was a boxer,
one person was a kick boxer, and so on and so forth.
But now MMA, you have to know everything or you're going to get destroyed.
So if you're a wrestler, you have to learn how to punch or you're someone,
if someone's going to stuff your takedowns, then they're just going to
beat you up on the feet and you're going to get beat up and knocked out.
So you have to be well rounded.
and be able to do everything in that sport now. You can't just be, you know, you can be really,
really good at wrestling, but you still have to learn the other aspects of the fight game,
or you're going to get beat up. So...
And it's the same thing as Christian.
You can't just be really good at Bible reading,
but then you never go to church, you never go soul-winning,
you never listen to preaching,
you never do the other things in the Christian life.
You're just a Bible reader and that's all you do.
It's good to read the Bible,
but that's not the only thing that we do in the Christian life.
So, but that's one form of being perfect,
like the complete package,
but there's the other perfect.
And it can also mean
without fault and free from any flaw or or blemish and so in my opinion this is talking about
are you perfect are you made perfect by the flesh this is talking about the salvation
style perfect because how did they get saved well Jesus had to be perfect for them.
And the imputation of the blood of Christ is what makes us righteous.
God puts that imputed blood upon our account, and then we are righteous because of Jesus,
not because of works that we've done.
So when it says, are you perfect now by the law, then that's not possible,
because you can't just...
You know, you don't get saved by Jesus and then all of a sudden you have to keep doing things to stay saved.
That's not how it works.
You know, he's specifically talking about salvation. Isn't that what the context of the passages is talking about salvation?
So to be saved you have to be completely perfect in God's eyes and
We can't we can't do that. We cannot keep the whole law
We can't keep even one aspect of the whole law. So we have to have the imputed blood of Christ
So he's saying to them
And what he's saying to them is that were you, you know, is, you were not perfect yet
until you started keeping the law, you know, did you start, you got saved and then you
had to keep the law.
And then that made you ultra perfect, no, because that's not what the subject matter
is.
It's talking about salvation.
So now what does the word foolish mean?
Anybody know what the word foolish means?
Well stupid or not smart. I mean it has a lot of different synonyms, but
But yeah, there was actually some pretty interesting synonyms in there
But stupid or not smart is basically what it means
So now Paul is calling them foolish and have you ever had someone bring up and say?
Well, Jesus said if you call someone a fool then you're guilty of you know
The you're in danger of going to hell because you say that
And the Bible does say that.
Matthew chapter five, verse 21 says,
you have heard that it was said by them of old time,
thou shalt not kill, and whosoever shall kill
shall be in danger of the judgment.
But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause, so it's without a cause,
shall be in danger of the judgment,
and whosoever shall say to his brother Raqqa,
or Raqqa, shall be in danger of the council.
But whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hellfire now
Reika means empty-headed worthless or stupid also, but it's just I guess not as bad as calling somebody a fool
Because one you're in danger of the council and the other one you're in danger of hellfire, so but
The sin of insult, you know, it's it's basically the it's the sin of insulting or being hateful to your brother without a cause
Or for no reason so Paul isn't saying
this and just making fun of them and mocking them. You idiot, you know, for no reason.
He's not calling them stupid for no reason. Because if you think about it, anytime Jesus
called someone a fool or foolish, he's doing it for a specific reason. And Paul's doing the same
thing here. So don't let people like, if you say someone's a fool or being foolish or whatever,
or you call somebody a fool.
It's it's it's basically the difference between just mocking somebody and saying they're an idiot or stupid just because you're just being mean to like a brother
Or sister in Christ versus telling someone they're spiritually blind like he did with Jesus did with the Pharisees
He called them you fools and blind and
Paul is basically saying the same thing to the he's called him foolish twice you foolish Galatians and
It's because
In both instances where you see Jesus say it,
he's talking about their spiritual blindness.
And he's calling them spiritually blind fools.
And he says it to the Pharisees,
and then he also says it to his own disciples.
And he upgrades them for their blindness
and their spiritual stupidity.
So and so apparently you can say it to your brother Jesus is the one that said it and then he calls his own disciples foolish
So is he breaking his own rules? No, it's just it's just you got to get the context of kind of what he's talking about
He's talking about just calling your brothers and sisters and Christ idiots just for the sake of doing it
Just to be mean just to be hateful just to be rude so and
So when I will say somebody's retarded
as far as like, I'm talking about spiritually retarded,
or, you know, I'm not trying to make fun of people
with disabilities, because retard,
Just means you know it can mean the derogatory term
That's what it's kind of taken it the form of since the 80s, you know
I'm an 80s kid and so I have I know a lot of 80s words
Fag is an 80s words that was really popular when I was a kid. So was rad
So was awesome and so was retard. Okay. I don't mean anything by it
I don't I don't make fun of handicapped people
But spiritually handicapped people, and guess what? I looked up the synonym for foolish and retard was on there
It just means you're stupid, you know
So what when Jesus was calling the Pharisees reep, you know, I mean if you could if it's a synonym
It means it means the same thing
So don't get so upset about it like people just like you can't say that don't tell me what I can't can and can't say if
It's a synonym. I'm not trying to talk about people that have special needs
Get that through your head. That's not what I'm talking about
I'm not I would not make fun of handicapped people. We had in our inner paint striper
We had a but a switch called advance and retard
Do you think that that was being like?
against handicapped people or something? No, it's just the skip timer to get off.
And you know those stripes on the road? Sometimes they get off and they'll be
a little bit too far, a little bit too long. It's not hitting the stripe perfectly
every time.
So you go advanced, so get a little ahead of the stripe
and retard. Go a little bit away. Anyway, I just want to explain that to you because
This is the same thing people do with us when they say don't call people a fool. How dare you call them a fool?
Jesus said you're in danger of hellfire. It's like no you're being a fool
Because you're not saved or you don't understand the scriptures. You're spiritually foolish. You're a spiritual blind
You're a spiritual retard. Okay, don't get upset. All right. I know just like
My mom told me not to say that when I was I'm not telling you kids to say that you do listen to your parents
Alright, I'm not saying to make fun of people. I'm not talking about mocking actual people that have handicaps. Okay, but
Spiritual fools is what I'm talking about when I when I say that that's what I'm generally talking about. Okay, so anyway, let's move on
brethren, okay
Retarded means less advanced in mental physical or social development
Then is usual for one's age or a very foolish or stupid person
So it doesn't necessarily mean it can't and this says offensive
Dated the other one just doesn't it just is the definition. So anyway, all right Luke
I'm not gonna have you turn here, but turn to mark 16
And I'm going to read Luke 24-25 Luke 24-25 says, then he said unto them,
O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
So he's saying that to who? He's saying that to his own disciples.
after he said, if you say fool.
So you see how Jesus isn't going to contradict himself.
So people just need to understand,
people that say that usually just are unsaved
and don't understand what the Bible is saying,
or they're just these hyper spiritual,
you know, holier than mouths, okay?
Mark 16, 14 says, after he appeared unto the 11,
as they sat at meet and uprated them with their unbelief,
the hardness of heart because they believed not them which had seen him
after he was risen so that word uprated means he told them off that's what it
means and it's probably like calling them fools all right I just looked up what
uprated means and it says he told them off you know it's telling someone off so
and I'm sure he wasn't like
cussing them out or whatever, but he was telling them off.
He upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart.
And he did that throughout the Gospels.
He would just rebuke them and shut them up quite a few times.
Matthew 23, verse 17, Jesus said,
he fools and blind for whether is greater the gold or the temple.
that sanctifyeth the gold. Verse 19 says,
ye fools and blind, for whether it's greater the gift,
or the altar that sanctifyeth the gift.
So, I mean, Jesus threw the fool word out,
you know, to the saved and the unsaved alike.
Jesus calls the reverberates fools
because they're spiritually retarded.
spiritually stupid. So that is why Paul is saying it. He's not saying it to just
make fun of them and mock them. That's the difference. So Galatians 3-4 back in
our text it says, have you suffered so many things in vain? If it be yet in vain?
So he's basically saying all the persecution and toil and hardship was it for nothing?
Was all that that you guys have gone through to this point was it all just for nothing?
He therefore that ministereth to you the spirit and worketh miracles among you
Doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?
So the spirit of God
Does the spirit of God do that because you heard by faith and got the spirit of God?
That's where you got your spiritual gifts. I mean the gifts that what are they called the gifts of the what?
The gifts of the spirit. They're not called the gifts of the law
Are they know the gifts of the law now? There's nothing wrong with doing the law
I'm not saying that but this is what Paul's saying. Did you get it from doing the works of the law or did you get it from the spirit?
And verse 6, even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
So now it's going to go back to Abraham, and it's going to discuss Abraham.
And the Bible says this, this is a quoted verse from the Old Testament from the first book of the Bible.
And all these people like Ruckman and these people that say,
oh, there's these dispensations.
And in the beginning it was by this,
and then there's 16 dispensations.
And I don't know how many, you know, he confused himself.
I don't know how many dispensations they said
that there was of salvation.
But I think in the book of Acts,
it changed multiple times.
Guy was just a bozo.
Confused about how many different types of salvation there was because he's like saying and see after Steven got killed
No, it's just like what there's only one salvation my friends. It's salvation by faith alone. It always has been
So, just because the law of Moses came to teach us about the transgressions of the law,
that was the school master.
That was the thing that taught us, hey, we can't keep these laws.
So you better just get saved by calling upon the name of the Lord, which is what you've
always had to do anyway.
And look at verse number one, so Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Isn't that what we have to do today?
We have to believe God, we have to put our faith in Jesus and that's accounted to us for righteousness, right?
We're not righteous, it's accounted to us.
Romans 4-1.
It says in what shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found.
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.
If anybody could have bragged about how good a works that they did, it could have been Abraham,
but not before God. For what sayeth the scripture? What's the Bible say?
Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
So he's quoting that again, different book, same author, the Apostle Paul.
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
If you want to work your way to heaven, guess what?
You just earned a whole bunch of debt that you're never going to be able to pay off.
But to him that works not, but believe with on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
You know, you just set aside your works and stop trying to work your way to heaven, and you believe on him that justifies the ungodly.
Who's that? Jesus Christ? His faith is counted for righteousness. It's just that simple.
Even as David also described it, the blessedness of the man unto whom God impudeth righteousness without works.
So do we have to have works? Well, it seems to me that it says he imputed righteousness without works
saying
blessed are they whose
Iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered are your sins covered today if you're saved
It's what the Bible says right blesses the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin
He will not impute sin to our
general account. He will not impute that sin. We can never go to hell ever.
Come with this blessedness then by the circumcision only or upon the
circumcision also. For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
How was it then reckoned?
When he was in circumcision or an uncircumcision when did he get the promise is what it's saying not in circumcision
But in uncircumcision when was the because when did circumcision come into play?
When did he actually give him the order to start circumcising? I believe it's chapter 17 in Genesis
So when did God call Abraham to come out of or the Caldees?
Genesis 12
So, I mean he made him all these promises well before the circumcision.
He says, and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith,
which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe.
That's why everybody calls him Father Abraham.
He's the father of faith.
Though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also.
So that symbolized what?
The fact that the Gentiles are going to get in on it too.
As a matter of fact, we were always part of the plan.
But I'll get to that in a minute.
And it says, and the father of circumcision to them
who are not of the circumcision only,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith
of our father Abraham, which he had been yet uncircumcised.
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world
was not to Abraham,
or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."
So it wasn't through the law, it was through faith.
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect.
So you cannot bring the law in any way, shape, or form, in a combination with faith at all.
Because what's it say? Faith is made void.
What does that mean when you go to the store and you try to try to scan they scan it twice and they have to void the transaction or
They've you know, sometimes the they'll they'll act. Yeah, that happens a lot, right?
They'll accidentally scan something twice and then what do they have to do?
They have to avoid that transaction or you forgot the coupon
And then they have to take it off and redo it and put the coupon on with it. So
That kind of helps you to understand what that faith is made void if you want to be air with the law
Because that means the promise. What was the promise? The promise was of faith before the law ever happened in
Uncircumcision now turn to James chapter 2 verse 23 James chapter 2 verse 23
James chapter 2 verse 23 the Bible says and the scripture was fulfilled which sayeth
Abraham believed God and it was imputed onto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God.
So far we've seen that it says it was accounted unto him, then it says counted unto him,
and now it says what, that it was imputed unto him.
So all three of those things mean exactly the same thing.
Those three things are synonyms of each other.
So imputed, accounted, or counted to him for righteousness kind of just helps you understand what it means
You know, we get it put onto our account basically
Genesis 15 verse 6
Now this is where it actually says it in in Genesis and this is before he got circumcised before God told him to get circumcised
Genesis 15 verse 6
It says, and he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness.
So there's the actual verse in Genesis, the very first book of the Bible and people began
to call upon the name of the Lord in Genesis chapter 4.
that first generation. So let's go back to our text in Galatians chapter 3.
Galatians chapter 3 verse number 7 it says now you therefore know you
therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham.
So if you're of faith you're a child of Abraham so do you have to be a Jew to be
a child of Abraham? No you just have to be of faith.
So in verse eight says,
and the scripture foreseen
that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying,
in thee shall all nations be blessed.
It's kind of an interesting way of putting it, isn't it?
The scripture foreseen.
And I kind of was just thinking about that,
and the first verse that popped into my head was
Hebrews 412.
because the Bible is not just a regular book, folks.
The Bible, it says the scripture first seen,
like the, you know, the people are like,
it's just a, it's just black and white ink on, you know,
on white pages, it's black and white ink or black,
not black and white ink, black ink on white pages
or red on white pages, but it's more than that.
The word of God is, the Bible says in Hebrews 412,
it says, for the word of God is quick.
And that means it's alive.
powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit and to the joints and marrow and as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
What other book in the world can do that? What other book in the world can discern the thoughts
and intents of your heart? What other book can foresee things in the future?
besides the Bible. And that's why Paul says this. He says the scripture foreseen that God would justify the heathen
through faith. The Bible prophesied that that would happen. It says it in multiple places that the Gentiles
would come to his light, and so on and so forth.
Now, and then it says, yeah, so it says that God would justify the heathen through faith.
That's he said it way before it proves what that we were never plan B
We were never wall if Jesus gets rejected by his own people
Then I'll let the Gentiles get saved. No, he this verse says that God would justify the heathen
When did when did what did it say? Let's look at it again
Missed my page up here. Oh, yeah, it says the scripture for seeing
God would justify the heathen so
Sounds to me like
God had that plan in mind the whole time and that we're not just some second-class citizens to the nation of Israel and
I think that God knew all along that the nation of Israel was gonna
Screw up multiple times and then eventually turn into some kind of a reprobate nation
because if you listen to the song of Moses,
or if you read the song of Moses,
he kind of spells it out.
He like says that they kick and wax fat
and their rock is not as our rock
and he starts just really ripping on it.
Moses just rips on them for like,
that song is mostly just kind of a rebuke
of Israel in general.
But it says,
Now it says in God told Abraham multiple times and Paul says this that Abraham was was preached the gospel look at verse
at the end of that verse it says
He preached the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed
So all the nations of the world all nations be blessed in thee
So he preached the gospel Abraham did Abraham get the gospel preached to him before that's what it says
I don't think Paul's stuttered, so he preached the Gospel, the Scriptures foresaw this, that
he would justify the heathen.
Who's the heathen?
Y'all.
Me.
We all are the heathen, right?
And so, I mean, who's getting saved right now in droves?
Is it the Jews?
No, it's the heathen.
It's the heathen around the world that are getting saved and God
Said that this is gonna happen. So look at Genesis 12 verse 2
He tells Paul or
God tells Abraham multiple times in the book of Genesis
He kind of just keeps reminding him every so often now we go by chapters
But we're talking these things happen years apart
So Genesis 12 2 says and I will make of thee a great nation
And I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing
So as he's saying the nation of Israel know he's saying thou that's singular right and I will bless them to bless
Thee and curse him that curse of thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed
This is the promise that Paul is talking about here in Galatians now turn to Genesis 17 verse 1 Genesis 17
verse number 1
The Bible says that when Abram was 90 years old and 9
99 years old
He's an old man. The Lord appeared to Abram, said in him,
I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee,
and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abraham fell on his face,
and God talked with him, saying,
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee,
and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,
For a father of many nations have I made thee and I will make thee
Exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee. I mean imagine being 99 years old
I mean, you know what 99 year old people look like, right?
I mean, maybe he looked younger at 99, I'm guessing that he did, but still you're 99 is like,
he's like, yeah, I'm going to make, you're going to be fruitful and multiply. You're going to have
all these nations. These kings are going to come out of these. I mean, Abraham must have had some
great faith because most people at that age are probably like, yeah, I think my time might be a
little bit past. You know, that's what Sarah thought. That's why she laughed. She's like,
I'm past my age. She was, you know, it was a miracle.
And verse seven says,
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee,
and thy seed after thee, in their generations,
for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee.
So how long was the covenant?
An everlasting covenant, right?
So the covenant he made with Abraham
was an everlasting covenant.
And what was it as a covenant of what faith?
It says, And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger.
All the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God and God said unto Abraham
Thou shalt keep thy covenant my covenant therefore thou and thy seed after thee in their generations
This is my covenant which she which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee
Every man child among you shall be circumcised so this is when the circumcision takes place is in Genesis 17
So now turn to Genesis chapter 18 Genesis chapter 18 verse 17
Genesis 18 17 it says
And the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?
So he's about to go and nuke Sodom and Gomorrah and he's, he's figure, you know,
he's like, should I tell Abraham?
It's like seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.
For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him and
they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment and the Lord may
upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him. So, I mean, Abraham gets talked about quite a lot
about in the Bible, but the promise was to thy seed after thee in their generations
for an everlasting covenant. To thee and thy seed after thee.
Now let's go back to Galatians in our chapter here Galatians chapter number three verse number eight
The Bible says this and the scripture we already read it
But I just want to show it to you once again in the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith
Preach before the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham
So that is that, Abraham was of faith, he believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness and therefore we get in on that blessing because all we have to do is simply believe on his seed.
Who's his seed? Jesus Christ.
And I'm happy to say that I am of the faith alone crowd.
and I'm of the easy believism crowd.
I'm of the grace plus nothing, minus nothing crowd.
I'm on Team Abraham, all right?
And I'm not ashamed of that at all.
And I'm, more importantly,
Team Jesus Christ, the seed of Abraham.
So...
But if you're on the team of faith plus works or faith plus circumcision or faith plus the law
Then you believe another gospel
And when you die, you're gonna go to hell. So you better just turn away from that
Foolishness that stupidity that retardation and just get saved
My wife's probably watching just upset right now. Sorry, honey. I love you. I meant spiritually. All right
Number two tonight the just shall live by faith look at verse 10
It says for as many as are of the works of the law or under the curse
You want to be under the works of law? You're under a curse. You're cursed
For it is written cursed is everyone that continue with not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do them
All these people though all you have to have the works. You're under the curse
Do you think that you have to do works to be saved? You're under the curse. That's what it says, right?
You're under the curse. What is the curse? You're damned
That's what it means
If you don't do every single thing according to the law, you're going to hell.
If that's what you want to, if that's the covenant you want to be under, look, that covenant's gone.
It's done away with.
James 2-10 says, actually let's turn there, James 2-10.
James 2-10, this explains it for you, really well.
yet offend in one point he is guilty of all. I used to be like well how because
if I just lie then how did I murder somebody that's not really what it means
though.
Listen further it says for he that said do not commit adultery said also do not kill
Now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressor of the law
What it's saying is that you don't have to commit murder all you have to do is be a liar and you still have broken the law
It's not saying you've broken all the commandments. It's just saying that you're a transgressor of the law
You might as you you haven't kept them all so you've broken the law you've broken the whole law
So if you can't do all those things look and you don't even realize the first time you ever committed a sin
You probably don't
I remember the first time I was conscious that I did I've told this story before I was like three years old and
I stole some toys at the store. I put them in my pocket
My grandma caught me with him when I got back and she made me say I was sorry
And she took me back to Kmart or wherever it was that I stole him from there were just these little plastic
These little rubber like toys and I put them on my pocket. She said I couldn't get them. I was a brat apparently but I
Remember doing it
So why do I remember that because it's probably the first sin I ever committed that I remember anyway
So and I knew it was wrong because I was trying to like look around
Don't know who I was looking for I
Didn't know I didn't know there were security guards or anything. They didn't catch me I
Got caught because I pulled him out too quick and I was just like playing with him and trying to hide him for my grandma
And she was like, what's that? And I was like nothing
Yeah, I lied to my grandma there's a double the sin see brother. Thank you brother Alex
But that but I mean you're I'm a transgressor like it's over. I'm a sinner at that point
Now look back at our text in verse 11. It says
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God
It is evident for the just shall live by faith
What does it say? No man is justified by the law on the side of God. No man
It is evident that just shall live by faith.
What kind of life?
If you're gonna have everlasting life,
it's gonna be by faith.
No man is justified in the sight of God by the law.
It's just not, it's not gonna happen.
And the law is not a faith,
but the man that doeth them shall live in them.
Why do you think that the Bible says
that the people in the great white throne judgment
are judged by their works?
because that's what they tried to live by.
That's, oh, I'm a good person.
Oh, I followed the golden rule.
I kept the Ten Commandments.
I did many wonderful works.
I preached in your name.
I prophesied in your name.
I gave to the poor.
That's why they're judged by their works,
because if you're gonna do them,
and you're gonna think that that's how you're gonna get
to heaven, like the Muslims,
the balancing act that they try to do,
They actually think that if they're good deeds outweigh their bad ones, then they might make it. They still don't know
What a life to live to never know and tell you to die and then they all go to hell
None of them go to heaven
So it says the law is not a faith
So if you if you think it's by works at all you think it's just 99% faith and 1% works
You're bound by the curse, you're not saved, you're gonna go to hell.
You're like, that's not fair.
It's the Bible though.
That's what the Bible says.
You cannot trust in yourself at all.
Galatians 3.13
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
That's the good news.
He redeemed us from it, being made a curse for us,
for his written curse is everyone that hangeth on a tree.
So, did he hang on a tree?
Yeah, two pieces of wood nailed together.
He hung on that tree. It's called the cross.
He hanged on that tree for our sins.
And so he took the curse upon him who did no sin.
And so, really, I mean, it feels like that provision was just put in the Bible
so that Jesus could be a curse because otherwise he would have had to sin.
and he didn't sin. So he got nailed on a cross, which the Bible says if anybody is hanged on a tree, they're cursed.
Deuteronomy 22, or 20, I won't have you turn there, but Deuteronomy 21 verse 22 says,
and if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree,
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any ways bury him that day, for he that is hanged is a curse of God, that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."
So he even put the provision in there that you can't leave him up there all night.
So Jesus, they use that, I mean, they beg for the body of Jesus before the Passover.
And it's because that provision was put in Deuteronomy
that they were able to get him off the cross
and to bury him before the Passover, which fulfilled Scripture.
But what else fulfilled Scripture is that when he hanged on that cross,
he became a curse of God because of it.
He wasn't a curse for his sins.
He was a curse for our sins.
And his sins, you know, he didn't commit a sin worthy of death,
but we did, and those sins were put upon him.
Who knew no sin? He didn't sin. He became sin
so
Galatians 3 13 again Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law
Being made a curse for us for his written curse is everyone that hangeth on a tree verse 14
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the spirit
through faith
so
The reason why the blessing of Abraham comes upon us is because of what Jesus did and that he hanged on that tree.
So, if you remember the first time you see this happen though in the Bible, is when?
Does anybody remember the first time it happens in the Bible when someone's hanged on a tree?
We just went through it not too long ago.
Book of Joshua was one of those kings.
Remember, I can't remember what city it was for the life of me.
I want to say it was at AI.
After they after they kill they can they went back to AI and they I think they hanged that guy on the tree
And they did that and then so that was the first time but what he was a Gentile king, right?
And he would he did deserve to be hanged on the tree
But then the next time you that I can think of is that Saul those guys never saw he was killing the reccabites and
God's fierce wrath was upon them because they kept they said that they would not do that. They would not harm
Was it the Reckobites or was it the Gibeonites?
The Gibeonites were being harmed,
the ones that were supposed to give them water
and beherers of wood and drawers of water.
And Saul was, in his zeal, was killing them.
And so there was like a drought
and all this pestilence was happening.
And David didn't know why.
It was because of what Saul was doing to the Gibeonites.
David had to kill Saul's family members remember and they hanged him on the trees and the rat fierce wrath of God went away from Israel
And I've always wondered like why was that okay to do that?
But it is a picture, isn't it?
Because what did so what did Saul represent Saul represents the law?
David represents the New Testament. He represents Christ and Saul he's the one that deserved
to be hanging on that tree but his relatives didn't really deserve to be
hanging on the tree did they but they did in the place of Saul and so it's
just an interesting correlation there but what does it mean to be redeemed
well it means that
You know you're we're we're kind of we're lost in sin and
To buy us back
Jesus had to pay for our sins and since he paid for our sins then he can redeem us and
Restore us. It's kind of like, you know you buy a
24 pack of coke or something and you have to pay
The deposit price right and then you can take that deposit you can get the deposit price back
If you go to the store and cash it in who's taking cans back to the store before
Most people that brother Alex you've never done it. Oh, did you go like this?
Oh, yeah bottles old people the bottles. Yeah
Those were ten cents. That's why you really made some money, but I mean
But that just kind of helps you see that like you can you know
You can just grab bottles and cans and those those things have already been paid for but when you pick them up and take them
Off the side of the road or you know people usually just take them out of your recycling bin at night
If you put your your recycling out too early
And they're they're redeeming those things and taking them to the store and getting the money back for right
But those are their cans, you know, so I mean Jesus kind of gets those dirty old cans off the side of the road and
Cleans them up and takes them back to the recycling bin and, you know, they're his now, right?
I mean, that's kind of a way of looking at it, but we're better than cans, okay?
We're better than bottles.
So, but what does it mean?
It means to gain or regain possession of something in exchange for payment.
And he paid a great price for us so that we could be saved.
Number three, and this is my last point, the promise of faith explained through contract law.
Verse number 15 in our text says,
Brother, and I speak after the manner of men.
Though it be but a man's covenant yet if it be confirmed no man disannoleth or addeth thereto
So he's kind of just speaking in this manner of a man's covenant
So if it's confirmed if everybody's so who signed a contract in here
Maybe you've signed for a car or a house or something
Once you sign on the dotted lines and it's turned over right it's stamped and all that stuff a covenant or a contract
It's it's confirmed
no man disannoleth you can't you can't admit you can't take that back now
or add anything to it you can't say well i'm not going to pay
because you're going to get taken to the creditors right you can't add to it
you can't say well no i want you to give me
you know more than what you said nope sorry you've already paid the contract
already done so that's what he's saying right and it says now to
Abraham and his seed where the promise is made
See that S on the end, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.
So this is like a revelation to people in the New Testament.
I'm sure when people read this for the first time, most people, when they read this for
the first time, which I, when I read it for the first time, I was blown away by this.
in a lot of different places, especially in the Old Testament.
But then, lo and behold, all of a sudden,
it might stay seed here.
But sometimes it doesn't.
But like, it doesn't make sense
if you go back to the things in Genesis
where it'll say descendants or things like that,
and then you go to this passage, it doesn't make sense.
because they've changed the wording around
to make it not make sense.
Probably just so people won't have faith in God.
I don't know.
But it's making the point right here for a reason
that even just that S not being added on the end,
if you go back in the King James Version,
you're not gonna see it say seeds any place.
And Paul's making that point right here
that it's to thy seed, which is Christ.
It's a singular, it's one person that is talking about.
And this is very important and something that Jews fail to understand and something dispensationalist
failed to rightly divide.
Jesus is the seed.
It's not the nation of Israel.
It's not the Jews.
And the seed is not seeds.
Plural.
Even our dispensational brethren, the old IFB can't seem to understand how to rightly divide their own Bible.
Because they think that this is that the Genesis 12 is talking about this this the land was given to Israel forever
No, the land was given to Abraham and his seed
See Jesus Christ owns that promised land and he says who gets to live in it and who doesn't that's why he kicked him out a couple times
That's why he's gonna kick him out again
It's gonna kick him out again according to Luke chapter 21
So you're like, well, that's already happened. Yeah, it is. It has it's happened a couple times. It's going to happen again
Genesis chapter 22
You have time Genesis 22
We don't have much time though Genesis 22 verse 15
It says the angel the Lord called into Abraham out of heaven the second time and said by myself
Have I sworn say it the Lord?
For because thou hast done this thing and has not withheld thy son thine only son so he swore by himself
You see that I have sworn I have my by myself. I have sworn say at the Lord
That in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying
I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore and
Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth
Be blessed. This is the scripture that it's quoting here in the Bible. Thy seed is this and it's not plural is it?
No, because he's talking about and Paul reveals to us in the New Testament. This is talking about Christ
This is not talking about the nation of Israel, but yet independent Baptist everywhere will just say
You gotta bless Israel. You're gonna pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And look, I used to be like that. I
See a lot of people, you know, just saying that
Charlie Kirk
Deserves to get killed because he was a Zionist or whatever for a while. I'm like
people are just taking that too far.
I used to be a Zionist.
I used to believe that 1948 was when, you know,
I mean, I could see where people would believe that
because shallow nations bring forth in one day.
I mean, it's pretty convincing.
If you don't really know your Bible that well,
I had to be convinced that Israel, it took a while.
I was like, no!
Pastor Anderson's wrong about this look at Zechariah chapter 14. Look at Zechariah chapter 12
And I finally I just want once you see it you can't unsee it
Now it's just everywhere. It's in every parable. It's like, ah, how can you not see it? How can you not see it? You know
But we do have to give people some grace
Now are they a bunch of murdering scumbags? Yes, they are
They're just killing people.
But I feel like Charlie Kirk was coming around.
He was starting to say things that were starting
to make a little more sense.
But just throwing him in hell because he said,
people get terminology wrong too.
And I heard some things that sound like he was saved.
I heard some things that were kind of like, eh,
I don't like that.
I didn't really like his stance on Israel.
Definitely don't like his stance on the homos
and some of the things he said.
But then I also saw quotes that he said that,
they should be put to death.
So I don't know which ones were right
or which ones were wrong, but I'm hoping the latter.
But it was terrible what happened to them.
I mean, anybody that just is laughing about that
and mocking that is sick.
There's nothing funny about it, it's disgusting,
and somehow I found a way to work it in.
Anyway, but it really, it was really,
Disturbing to me is just I mean I I was just scrolling through X just to find out what happened
and then I saw the video and
Wasn't expecting to actually see it. I thought that they would like black it out or something
But it was pretty horrific
So if you haven't seen it and you don't want to see something like that it was pretty bad, but I
Think we need to get be
We need to be a little bit graceful with people, you know.
Not everybody uses the exact terminology we do.
Not everybody's an independent fundamental Baptist.
Not everybody that's saved
as an independent fundamental Baptist, okay?
We do have to understand that.
And I'm not trying to give everybody a free pass,
but like, I mean, he, I mean,
do I know 100% for sure that he was saved?
I don't, but I lean towards that he probably was.
So.
What yeah, and he was saving is like in fifth grade or something
So yeah, anyway, I mean I don't I think that ours you can speculate all you want but I mean to argue about it and
Just go around throwing them in hell or whatever. I mean there's plenty of people to throw in hell
John MacArthur, he's definitely in hell Billy Graham definitely in hell
There's plenty of people we can throw in there but Joyce Meyer she's going to hell
I'll get behind that all day long but I mean it's pretty it's pretty rough so just I mean
I don't know it's terrible I hope that they catch that loser that shot him but anyway so um
Anyway so God said that he would
that in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice."
And if you want to just study it even further, John chapter 8, Jesus just, it's funny, Jesus starts using,
and I know that you're Abraham's seed and kind of goes into this whole thing with him,
and he just tells him, you're of your father the devil. You're not, I mean, I know you're related
to Abraham, but then he kind of flips the script on him and says, hey Abraham,
before Abraham was, I am.
And he said, Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it
and was glad.
And then they're ready to kill him for saying that.
But Abraham did rejoice to see his day.
You know why?
Because he was the seed that was promised.
And Abraham knew that.
Abraham knew that it wasn't talking about
the children of Israel.
He's talking about the seed.
Verse 17 in our text says,
And this, I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God and Christ, the law, which was 430 years after cannot disannual, and it
should that it should make the promise of none effect. So what's he saying?
So the the law was 430 years after the promise came to Abraham, which was an everlasting covenant,
which was a covenant of promise, which was a covenant of faith and
that doesn't that doesn't take away that promise.
It doesn't supersede that because if it's an everlasting covenant, then how does the law take it away?
It doesn't. It doesn't make the promise of none effect because
He said God swore with an oath by himself that it was a covenant forever.
So that doesn't cancel out the promise verse 18 for if the inheritance be of the law it is no more
of promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise he promised him God doesn't break his promises
wherefore then serve with the law what's the reason for the law then it was added because of transgressions
till the seed should come to whom the promise was made.
He had to put those laws into effect so the whole world didn't turn into
what it turned into before the flood. And it was
ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one,
but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God?
God forbid. So the law isn't bad
for if there had been a law given which could have given life,
So, but that's not possible and so there isn't a law that could have been that could have given us righteousness
Otherwise God would have done it that way buddy, but that's not the way it works
But the scripture has concluded all under sin that the promise of by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the all the commandments
so then we see our need for Christ and
He did everything and was perfect for us, but after the faith has come, we're no longer
under the school master.
So we're no longer under the law is what it's saying.
For you're all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
So how do we become the children of God?
Are we the children of God before faith?
No, the Mormons are wrong.
Anybody else that says that everybody's a child of God, they're wrong about that.
And, you know, sometimes it's not even worth correcting people by saying it because it just annoys them.
But it's still true, because the day is long.
Only save people that believe in Jesus by faith are children of God.
So, yeah, it's a false teaching and to say that everyone's God's children or God's child is just a lie.
So, and of course we know John 1-12 I don't have time to go there, but I'm trying to finish the chapter here
of verse 27 for as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ
There's neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither bond or free
There's neither male nor female for your all one in Christ Jesus. We don't have the Jew baptism
and the Greek baptism. We don't have the female baptism and the male baptism. We don't have
different tanks for different people, right? There's one bat, one faith, one hope, one baptism,
right? So we have all put on Christ the same way. That's not baptism doesn't save you. It's not what
You know, we when you get baptized, it's kind of that public profession of faith that that you have died to self
And you're raised to newness in life. You're saying I'm gonna follow Jesus so and so forth. It's you know
Anyway, so but what's it saying that there there's nobody's better than anybody else
We're all equal in Christ as far as we are all one in Christ
It says and if you be Christ then you're Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise
So all you have to do is be Christ. You have to believe in Christ and then you're Abraham's seed
so we're heirs with Christ we're co heirs with Christ Jesus and
That's the way it is and these people that want to say that these Jews that say well, you're not really a Jew
No, they're not really a Jew. We are the Jews
We are the actual Jews
Because the Bible says in Romans 2 28
He's not a Jew, which is one outwardly
Neither is that circumcision which is an outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew which is one inwardly,
and circumcision is that of the heart, and the spirit, and not in the letter whose praise is not of men, but of God.
So it's not the the curly little hairs that they get and the big
Sto top hats that they wear and the fact that they go like this against the wall and the little
Filacteries and the leather things that they tie around their arms and all that stuff that doesn't make you a Jew
Having a big nose doesn't make you a Jew either. You know what makes you a Jew? What's in the heart the circumcision of the heart?
So it's not the outward things
It's what's on the inside. It's the circumcision of the heart not the flesh and
We at one time in the past
We were Gentiles in the flesh were called the uncircumcision
But that which is called the circumcision of the flesh made by hands
Ephesians 2 to 12 that at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and
strangers from the covenants of the promise
Having no hope and without God in the world, but now in Christ Jesus ye who were sometimes were a far off are made nigh
By the blood of Christ were made near by the blood of Christ
Matthew 3 9 says and think not to say within yourselves
We have Abraham to our father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children under Abraham
That's what John the Baptist said unto him, you know quit thinking that you're better than everybody else because you're a Jew
Yeah, so, I mean, what makes you a true Jew in God's eyes?
The fact that you have put on Christ in your Abraham's seed according to faith in Christ Jesus.
So, what's the takeaway of this chapter? Salvation comes by faith alone, apart from the law.
In fact, trying to add or keep the law as part of your salvation just completely nullifies it.
It's all faith or you're just simply not saved. Jesus redeemed us.
from the curse of law and I thank God for that
and I thank God for everybody in our church
that follows that.
You know, there's a lot of churches in this town
that doesn't follow that.
I mean, there's people that go to church all over the city.
There's a church across the street
that a lot of those people aren't saved.
And it's like, it's sad.
It would be nice if more people were saved.
But they got to have the right gospel,
they have to have the right Bible.
You know, if they got the wrong Bible,
it's not gonna help them.
because they're going to read descendants.
They're going to have verses totally completely taken out.
So anyway, let's pray.
Lord, we thank you so much for this great chapter
in the Bible, Lord.
We could learn great doctrine from.
And Lord, the scriptures that can make us wise
and to salvation, Lord.
And I pray you'd help us to keep these things in our heart,
teach them to our children, teach them to our family,
teach them to be unsaved and help us to Lord,
just be safe as we leave.
pray that you'd help those that are sick and lift them up, help them to feel better, and
we thank you, Lord, for the families in this church. Thank you for the children,
and we pray that you just bless us as we go our separate ways. In Jesus' name we pray amen.
Closing song is Beneath the Cross of Jesus, number 99 in the blue.
Singing out on the first
I shadow for my abiding place
I pass to all the soul
My only shame, my glory all the cross.
Brother Timmo, can you close this with a prayer?