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Amen, alright, we're going to actually do an overview of the book of Galatians this evening and so we're going to try to get as much done of it as we possibly can. So we're going to study the book of Galatians tonight. We're not necessarily, well we might go verse by verse, but I'll just touch on certain points and just give an overview of what the book of Galatians has to do. So the letter to the Galatians was written to multiple churches obviously in the region of Galatia. The Apostle Paul obviously had received news that Judaizers or false prophets were infiltrating the churches there in that region. Why? Because you see throughout the book of Galatians he's defending this matter of salvation by grace through faith. And we see that Judaizers were obviously coming in, they were teaching a false doctrine, they were teaching a false way of salvation and he basically came with this letter to reprimand what's going on in that area and really unfortunately he began to question the salvation of those who were within the churches. Why? Because these people who were supposedly saved by grace through faith were now beginning to accept a false doctrine of salvation which was the Judaizers way of salvation, the keeping of the law of Moses and the circumcision, etc. And so we see here that Paul in his zeal and Paul with his knowledge of the word of God pleased with these people in regards to doctrine. So in chapter 1 we see here he begins to talk about the light of the Gospel, we see his announcement of the Gospel in verses 1 through 5 it says Paul an apostle not of men neither by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead. So we see that he announces his own apostleship, right? And he says this, he says Paul an apostle not of men neither by men but by Jesus Christ. And I think that's very significant because nowadays you have a lot of self-proclaimed apostles, right? I mean you go through the freeways and you'll see apostles so-and-so and apostles so-and-so and they're still getting revelations from God and no one needs the word of God there because he has the revelation of God, no. You need to be called by Jesus Christ and let me say this, the apostleship office of the apostle no longer exists today. And he's saying this, I came by Jesus Christ and we'll see later on that he was taught by the Lord Jesus Christ in the book of Acts but he proclaims that he says Paul an apostle not of men neither by men but by Jesus Christ. Why is that? Well the apostles, they were endowed with special abilities but this is something that God had given to them to confirm the message that they had, okay? And in fact in Luke chapter 10 verse 19 says, Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Look, don't try to play with scorpions and serpents today, it ain't gonna happen. By the way, I'd like to see these self-proclaimed apostles go ahead and take up serpents and scorpions and see what happens if you're such an apostle. But not only that, they were eyewitnesses to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Okay, so well Paul wasn't, no he was, he saw the resurrected Christ on the road to Damascus. And the Bible says in Acts 1-22, beginning from the baptism of John unto the same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection. So this is a very special calling for these men, and they were catalysts of the Church of Christ in the New Testament. So he proclaims that, he lets them know, look, I'm an apostle, I'm sent from God, you can trust what I'm telling you is what he's saying, right? He's not just some guy who's just running his mouth or just trying to get something off his chest. No, he was a man sent from God. But not only that, verse number two says, and all the brethren which are with me unto the churches of Galatia. So he's talking to a group of churches where false doctrine was spreading, and to these assemblies. And really, in a sense, single-handedly battling these heretics, you know? And it goes to show that, you know, the Bible does, it's true when it says we ought to earnestly contend for the faith. And often we think of, well, contend for the faith of, you know, X, Y, and Z. But really, when the Bible says to earnestly contend for the faith, it's talking about common salvation. It's talking about the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith. We have to constantly make sure that that stays right, that the manner of salvation by grace through faith believe only stays right. Why? Because the devil would love to have a little leaven creep into the church and a little false doctrine creep in to lead people astray and damn people to hell. So we have to make sure that we maintain that. And this is what he's doing here. He's correcting these doctrines. Verse number three, grace be unto you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world. According to the will of God and our Father to whom be glory for ever and ever, Amen. And then in verse number six, we see here verses six through ten, he actually begins to reprove them and was kind of like astonished how they can be so soon removed from the gospel that was given to them. I mean, and by the way, that's no different from what's going on today, right? We often hear about churches or Baptists or KJV only, they're this or that. And then they start accepting the repent of your sins crowd, they start accepting the Calvinistic teachings and we're like, what in the world are you doing? We're astonished that they would be removed from such a simple, the simplicity that is in Christ. But it happens. And we were just talking about this before the service that a lot of the times these are well-meaning people who just read too many books. In fact, they read books and that's the problem, okay? And where do they get these false doctrines from? From books. They read them from false, from unsafe people who write books about doctrine and they don't even know what they're talking about. And they get conditioned to think a certain way to the point where they believe another gospel. It says in verse six, I marvel that you're so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. Let me say this, there's no such thing as another gospel, right? There's not another gospel that can save. We don't believe in this dispensational different gospels of different of the gospel of the Old Testament that's by sacrifices. And then you have the gospel of the kingdom in the New Testament, and then we're under the gospel of grace and Paul showed our epistles, that doesn't exist. And if that were true, the Bible says that the people who do this pervert the gospel. That means Jesus Christ is a pervert. Why? Because he preached the supposed gospel of the kingdom, right? And Paul's preaching the gospel of grace, well, those are two different gospels. He's perverting the gospel. But guess what? The Bible says that in the Old Testament that Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. And then the New Testament says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That if we just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, we can be saved. It's never changed. It's always been the same. And when you twist that to mean something else, you're perverting the gospel. You're twisting it. You're resting the gospel. Very dangerous. But he's appalled by this. And look, the main culprit of this false teaching in this book is who? Is the Jews. They're the ones who are bringing in this damnable heresy that you got to keep the law and keep the circumcision. By the way, they don't do it. They never intended to keep the law, okay? They just want to, they want to strain it and swallow a camel for those who don't supposedly, right? And in fact, go to Acts chapter 15, hold your place there in Galatians. I hope we get to the book of Galatians, but there's so much good truth in each one of these chapters. Acts chapter 15, verse number 1, the Bible reads here, and certain men, speaking of the Jews, which came down from Judea, taught the brethren. Sounds very similar to today, isn't it? And said, except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. And a lot of people were carried about with every wind of doctrine, but to slide them in and cunning craft in this whereby they lie in wait to deceive and never believe in this junk. But it's the same thing that's happening today. I mean, how many Baptist churches do we know of that are accepting the repent of your sins, but the pastor believes right on belief, right? But he's right on the gospel, but he's willing to accept people in his church who believe in a repent of your sins gospel, and they say, well, you know, they're not bad people, they're good people, and they're just a little off on the gospel. No, if you're off on the gospel, you're off. You're not good people. Now, I understand that there's some people that are just confused, or they've been taught wrong, but when you bring in people who are teaching other people that you need to repent of your sins, then you've got a problem. And that's why we've got to make a distinction between the false prophets and those who are just ignorant, right, because there are ignorant, sincere people out there. There are ignorant, sincere people out there that have believed a wrong gospel, and they need to be taught, they need to be reproved, they need to be shown what the Bible actually says about it. But there are others who creep in unawares, who actually try to teach this stuff, right, with the motive of leading people astray. That's wicked. That's very evil. And that's what we see here in the book of Galatians. Go back to Galatians. He says, let him be accursed in verse number eight. It says, but though we are an angel from heaven, Mormon, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. And look, I don't know about you, but I see a lot of churches who because they're receiving this teaching, their churches are becoming cursed. You know, we often get on these churches who receive the reprobates and it's like, I can't believe they're doing that. That's probably part of their curse. Maybe we shouldn't correct them as much because that's probably a part of the curse that they're getting, that these reprobates are going in there molesting their children. I mean, that's a curse. That's bad. You know, I can tell God's blessing is here because no Sodomites are in here. That's God's blessing because we're preaching the right gospel. But the Bible says let him be accursed, and let me say this. If you believe wrong on the gospel, you believe wrong on a lot of things. Because look, when you believe right on the gospel and you're saved, you have this Holy Spirit living within you, you're able to discern spiritual truths. You're able to see what the Bible actually says about certain subjects, and you don't just accept every crazy doctrine that's out there, you know, every new doctrine. No, you stick with what the Word of God says because that's what the Holy Spirit uses to teach us. Verse 10 says, for do I not persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet please men, I shall not be the servant of Christ. I like Paul's attitude. He preached the truth no matter what because he wasn't a servant of men, he was a servant of God. And too many times, even pastors today, the reason they're rearing back on this teaching of preaching against the false heresies of repenting your sins and a works-based salvation because they're afraid they might lose church members. No, we hope we lose church members because of it. Because who are we going to lose? We're going to lose the people who don't believe right, and they're trying to lead other people astray. It's better to keep the church doctrinally pure. People leave, so be it, but the church is pure, doctrinally. But he was aiming to please God, and all of us ought to have that motive, right? We're not worried, concerned about what this brother says, what that sister says, what so-and-so says. We just want to make sure that we're right with God, that we're pleasing the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, the Bible says in John 12 42, nevertheless, among the chief rulers, also many believed on him, but because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue, for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. Oh, we see that today. There's people who, they even believe like us, but they won't openly say it. Why? Because they love the praise of men more than the praise of God. They love the praise of the Baptist popes more than the praise of God. No, we're not going to go down that route. We don't care what other people think about us. We don't care what any Baptist pope says about us behind the pulpit, which they won't even call us by name because they're too scared, because they're afraid they're going to get called down on YouTube. I've had people tell me that. Are you going to put me on YouTube? They're afraid. But here's the thing, we don't care about that. We want to make sure that we please God. Be a servant of Christ. Verse 11. Verse 11 here. Then Paul begins to give his argument for his ministry. This is verses 11 through 24. He says, But I certify, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man, for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. What does he say? He got it straight from God. Okay? And it reminds me of the Lord Jesus Christ when people said of him, they say, He speaketh as one, hath authority, and not as the scribes. Why? Because a scribe is someone who's, you know, in Spanish, how do you say it right? Escriba, right? Well, a scribe is something who basically repeats what someone else says, Jesus Christ got it straight from God. We want to be Christians who get what we get, our doctrine, straight from God. Straight from the word of God. Not from a commentary, not from a book, not from some seminar, no, we want to get it straight from God. Okay? And look, you hear sermons from Pastor Anderson, Pastor Jimenez, don't just believe it right away, you need to go to the Bible and confirm it. Oh yeah, you need to go to the Bible, okay? Because here's the thing, God expects us to study the word of God, to study to show thyself, approve them to God. Not study the URL link, right? What sermon I need to look for in order to know what I should believe. No, you ought to go to the Bible, okay? And look, if you hear something and it's just like, wow, I didn't know that, but let me study it on my own. Okay? Don't be a parrot. Look, that's what the old IFB does, right? You know, Pastor Anderson does all that, but it's true, that's what they do, they parrot. We don't want to be that way. We want to make sure that when we hear the word of God preached unto us, that we are confirming it, that we're just like the Bereans, the Bible says, how they, the verse is fleeing me right now. There are more noble than the Thessalonians because why? Because they studied to make sure that these things were so. I misquoted it, but you know what I'm talking about. We got to make sure that when we hear the word of God, we're going home, we're opening the King James Bible, and we're studying our own and say, okay, yeah, that is true. I agree with that. Amen. Okay? Not just parrots. I quoted it already, but Mark 1-22 says, they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authority, not as the scribes. Let's see here. So let's keep going. In verse number, let's see, I'm going to skip a lot of stuff here. Verse 13, for ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own country, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. And we see here, man, Paul the Apostle is, can you turn on the AC, Brother David? Paul the Apostle is just being transparent. He's like, look, I know what I'm talking about because I was on the other side of this. Right? He was like, I was a Pharisee of the Pharisees of the tribe of Benjamin. You know, he was all these things, but yet he himself said, look, I was zealous in my religion. I was zealous about the wrong things. So what is he saying? I have some credibility when I, when I'm talking about this matter of doctrine and what's the right type of doctrine. He knew what he was talking about. And the Bible says this, look, and by the way, some of us come from the old IFP. Some of you don't, but some of us do. And you know what the Bible teaches us is that, you know what we like, we talked about earlier before the service. We just need to humble ourselves, admit that we're wrong and go with what's right. And that, and that doesn't just stop when we came to this church. It continues on after that. Be humble if you're wrong. Be humble to accept the truth. Okay. Be humble when you're reproved. Be humble when you're rebuked. Why? Because the Bible says that God gives grace to the humble. Okay. And look, it doesn't feel good to be rebuked. It hurts to get your face ripped off. But you know what, it's necessary. And it produces the peaceable fruits of righteousness, the Bible teaches us, when we're chastised. Be zealous, therefore, and repent. It's for our own good. But here we see that he was very much a zealous person. But look at verse 15, but when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his son in me that I might preach him among the heat and immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. It wasn't something that he questioned. You know, he wasn't going to go confirm it with other people, hey, was this true? No, it's just like, if I got it straight from God, it's true. Okay. We don't need to go to the internet. Okay. And go type in, is this true? No. Why don't we just type it in into our Olive Tree Bible app to see if it's true. Amen. Why don't we just memorize that scripture to see if it's true? That's what we need to do. Okay. Verse 17, neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again into Damascus. And by the way, the Bible says, but ye have not so learned Christ if so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus. We know for a fact that the apostle Paul was taught by the Lord Jesus Christ. These biblical truths that he got, he got from the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 18, then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him 15 days, but other than the apostles saw I none save James the Lord's brother. Now the things which I write unto you behold before God I lie not. Afterward I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia and was unknown by faith unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ. You know what's admirable about the apostle Paul is that he was born out of due season, right? Due time, the Bible says. He came out after the apostles, but he didn't allow that to intimidate him, right? You know, we're going to look in chapter two how he rebuked Peter. I mean, Peter was there with Christ. Yet, the Bible says that he was stood him to the face, and this goes to show us that all of us are in the same level playing field, right? We're on the same level. No one's better than anybody else. No, we're not greater than anybody. Essentially, we're all the same people. Now obviously, there's different offices in the church. We understand that, okay? And the certain offices that are worthy of more honor than others, we understand that. But essentially, we're all the same, okay? And here's the problem with the old IFB movement. The old IFB, it was just like if the pastor was wrong, don't question what the pastor is saying. Just shut up and accept it, and that's done. Well, guess what? That's not biblical because Peter was wrong. And Paul, who was younger than Peter in the Lord, was stood him to the face, okay? And I'm not saying we ought to look for opportunities to do that, but the Bible teaches us that, hey, look, these principles and this doctrine, they're timeless, okay? So just because you're older in the Lord doesn't give you the license to just say whatever you want, teach whatever false doctrine you want, and we're just going to go ahead and receive it because you're older in the Lord. You could be 20 years older than me in the Lord, but you could be following some false doctrine, and we're not going to accept that, okay? But then in verse 23, we see here, but they had heard only that he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed, and they glorified God and me. What a blessing. You know, I mean, what a testimony, right? I'm sure people were like, wasn't this the guy who was like persecuting? I mean, this is crazy, and now he's like preaching it? This is awesome. You know, he was a siphon for Christ, and the Bible says in John 1.6, there was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe. Each and every one of us, obviously we have different testimonies, but the main purpose of God working in us is so people might believe through us, right? As we go out and preach the gospel. As we go out and where vessels of honor meet for the master's use to go tell people about the gospel. We're not there to give them our testimony. No, we're there to give them the gospel, but it's through this vessel. It's through these feasts, through this mouth to preach the gospel so that God can be glorified. And so in chapter 2, we see here, we're going to look at Paul's approval of the apostles here, and he gives an unbiased approach in verse number 1 and 2 where he talks about that privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run or had run in vain. And in verse number 3, it says, but neither Titus who was with me being a Greek was compelled to be circumcised and that because of false brethren, unawares brought in who came in privilege to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. See this is a problem that we've always had as churches. People have always been trying to creep in unawares. And here's the thing, one thing we need to be careful as a church, we're so focused on in spiting the false prophet, you know, Satan's not going to come in with the false prophets that we're looking for. They're going to bring in some other heresy that's going to catch us off guard. It's going to blindside us if we're not careful. We need to just be balanced, be vigilant, trust God, recognize that not just anyone's going to... I mean, obviously anyone could come into the church, but we need to be vigilant in these things. Why? Satan is timing it, okay? Look, I don't know how many people got saved today, okay? I was just telling him up, I can't wait to count, did anybody get the sum of it? I just put the numbers there. That's a lot of people saved. That's a lot of people. You don't think that's catching the attention of Satan? You know? Or Satan's minions, right? Who he's going to delegate that to? It's coming. This church is going to be attacked. I'm going to be attacked, you're going to be attacked. It's going to happen. And it's going to come through, at moments, it's going to come through false brethren who try to creep in unawares, teaching damnable heresies. I pray to God that they're not here today, you know, tonight. I pray to God that each and every one of you, you guys are saved, you love the Lord, you love the King James Bible, you love for what we stand for, and you're here with the pure motive to be used of the Lord. I hope that's the case. But you know what? It might not be. There could be a Judas in here. You see what I'm saying? But we have to make sure that we're vigilant and not give in to these proselytizing Judaizers, false brethren, okay? And look, there's an immediate application to this, because that stuff is still coming in today. I'm talking about the Judaizing, where Baptists are going back to the Hebrew roots and all this stuff, and we need to observe the Torah and all this crap, you know? The Hebrew roots movement and the Hebrew language and the worshiping of the Jews and all these things. No. I'm not going to worship no Jew. You know what I mean? Because Jews hate Christ, okay? And here's the thing, you study what the Jews actually believe about Jesus Christ, it's blasphemous. Hate me all you want, criticize me for not being pro-Israel, say what you want, but I'm for my Savior, I'm not for a Christ rejecting religion. You see, here's the thing, these hypocrites say, well you know, they get on the Catholics, they get on the Jehovah's Witnesses, they get on all these people, but the Jews are just as bad. In fact, they're even worse. You know, I'm not for Catholicism, you know, but I prefer to witness to a Catholic rather than a Jew. He said, why is that? Because Catholics even, they even have some sort of foundation, they believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, you know, they believe in the Trinity, right? Don't even tell you, I believe that the Bible is the word of God. I mean, you've got to get a backslid in Catholic, okay, you know, the one who goes to church like twice a year, you know what I mean? You need, yeah, Christmas and Easter. But a Jew, you will not get a Jew to confess Christ as their Savior. They believe he's burning in hell, in his own excrement, and you expect me to worship that and believe that they're God's chosen people? We're going to look at it in just a little bit, but here's the thing, and here's the logical, it means like, these are God's chosen people. The Bible says the Lord knoweth them that are his, and in Matthew chapter 7, he says, depart from me, ye that work iniquity, I never knew you. So if you truly believe that the Jews are, though they're God's chosen people, they're going to burn and go to hell, then that's a contradiction, because how can you know them, and then he says, I never knew you. It's foolish. We'll look at it in just a little bit. Where are we at here? Let's go to verse number six. But of these who seem to be somewhat whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me, God accepted no man's person. I like that attitude. It's like, I don't care who you are. I don't care if you're the Baptist pope, right? He's like, God accepted no man's, oh but they have the palace, they have the money, God accepted no man's person. God is no respecter of people. You know, and yeah, they can have the biggest church, and all the glitz and glamour, the fountains and the screens on the wall, and all these things, it means nothing to God. It means nothing. Let's see here. For they who seem to be someone in conference added nothing to me. Verse seven. But contrary-wise, when they saw the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter, for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles. Now, obviously we know that when Jesus Christ gave the great commission to give it to the apostles to go to everyone, now these guys, obviously they were wrong on this. They wanted to go and just give it to the Jews, and only to the circumcision, not to the Gentiles. And Paul went to the Gentiles because he realized that those were the fish that were biting. You know? It's like these churches that only want to reach white people. You know? It's like, but the Mexicans, they're super open. You know what I mean? I met people like that, it's like, we're just only white people, you know? And it's just like, but what about all the other people who are open to the gospel? You know? And it's racist is what it is. And here's the thing. Peter was just content with just going to the Jews and only to the Jews, even though the Jews didn't want it. The apostle Paul was just like, well I'm just going to the Gentiles because they're open. And he was seeing them saved all over the place. But he recognized, he said, look, nothing special about Peter, the same God that Peter has and the same power that he has is the same power that I have. And we often never think that just because, you know, someone has a supposed higher position than us, that they can be, no, no, you can be greatly used of God just the same. But it's up to you if you want to be used of the Lord. Verse 9, and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given him to me, they gave to me in Barnabas the right hands of fellowship that we should go into the heathen in the end of the circumcision. So that met their approval. Like, oh yeah, you guys, yeah, man, you got that. You should go and reach those Gentiles, you know what I mean? Obviously God's hands on you on that, no, that's what God told you to do, Peter. That's what God told you to do, James. He's like, we're going to just give you the right hands of fellowship, God's doing something great with that, why don't you go ahead and reach those people? No, that was your responsibility too. Because the Bible says that we ought to teach all nations, all of them, not just one. Verse 10, only they would that we should remember the poor, the same which I also was forward to do. Verse 11, but when Peter was come to Antioch, I was stood him to the face because he was supposed to be blamed. Wow. You know, he's, the Bible says, by the way, the Bible says faithful are the wounds of a friend. I believe Paul and Peter, they got along, but when it came down to this, it's like, man, I'm going to confront you about this. You know, faithful are the wounds of a friend. And the Bible says that, you know, open rebuke is better than secret love. You know, better to openly rebuke someone and reprove them, right? So they can get right. And it's far more beneficial. And that's exactly what he did, and Peter did get right in that regards. Verse 12, for before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them, which were of the circumcision. Now, this is so funny. I remember in my old church, okay, it was me, David, Alex, and who else? Marcos, right? And Marcos is not here. But I remember after a while, people knew who he were, you know, the pastor knew who he were. He's like, these are the troublemakers, though we didn't, I mean, the only trouble we caused is that we saw people saved, you know. And I remember like when we would sit, we would all sit together because no one wanted to talk to us. So we just all sit together. And everyone one time we went and we sat, I mean, there's people who would talk to us, but not like openly, you know what I mean? They would like talk to us, but not openly. And everyone one time we went into the church service, we're finally looking for seats and there's that guy, he was sitting there. So we all sat with him. And, you know, we prayed before the service, as soon as we opened our eyes, he was gone. He's like, no way, I'm not gonna be sitting here with these guys, you know. So it was like he was being a hypocrite, you know, and it reminds me of this verse right here, because it says, for before that certain came from James, he did it with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. You know, he was fearing the leaders, this is who he was fearing. You know, and I commend, there's this other guy, I commended him, you know, he was a Bible college student, he sat with us all the time. And I said, hey man, you're gonna get in trouble for being, he goes, let them, I'm gonna get in trouble then. He goes, you're my friend, you know, and you're not doing anything wrong, I believe in what you're doing, and you've been a good friend to me, and he had integrity is what he had. You know, and these guys who want to be our friends, but they want to be closet friends, you know, they need to get right. He not ashamed of the chain, amen? Some of the blessings that we have will trickle on them. Verse 13 says, and the other Jews assembled likewise with him, in so much that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. So we see that his action actually influenced other people. And that's why it's important that we always observe and pay attention to what we do, because why? We're influencing others to act the same way. It's a trickle down effect. Verse 14, but when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, if thou being a Jew liveth after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compelest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles. What is he telling? He goes, man, you have really bad testimony at this moment, okay? And that's exactly what he was doing. Peter was not behaving himself in a godly manner, okay? Verse 16, he gives a distinction of the gospel here. It says, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. That's a good soul-winning verse for you to memorize, by the way. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid, the Bible says. Verse 18, and then he goes on, for if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Now look at verse number 21, I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Now what does he mean by I do not frustrate the grace of God? Hold your finger there, go to Ezra chapter number four, Ezra chapter number four. What does he mean by I do not frustrate the grace of God? You know, some people who believe in a works-based salvation would use something like that. You're just frustrated in the grace of God and you're going to lose your salvation. That's not what it means. Ezra chapter number four and verse number four, the Bible reads here in Ezra chapter four and verse number four, Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. So keep those events in mind, okay? It says right there to frustrate their purpose, and it says all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia, right? Now say in Ezra, go to verse number 23. Verse number 23, it says, Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rahim and Shimshi the scribe and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. Verse 24, Then cease the work of the house of God, which is at Jerusalem, so it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius, king of Persia. So in verse number four of Ezra chapter four, we see all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. And in verse number 24, it says, Then cease the work of the house of God, which is at Jerusalem, so it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius, king of Persia. So what does frustrate mean? It means to cause it to cease. Now go back to Galatians chapter number two in verse number 21, it says, I do not frustrate the grace of God. What is it? We don't cause it to cease. You know, how many people believe, you know, they'll say, well, I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and I believe what you're saying when we go out sowing. But what do they say? But if you get out of God's will, you're fallen from grace. You can take, they'll say this, you know, yeah, you can't, you can't, you know, the Bible says, I give unto them eternal life, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand, but you can take yourself out of the hand of God. How many times, I've heard that many times, you know, they're saying that you can just, you can cause it, you could, he won't walk away from you, but you can walk away from him. Well, God is omnipresent, so explain that. You're walking away from God, but God is omnipresent? You can't walk away from God, okay? Now I'm not saying you can't walk out of God's will and live a sinful life, but God is everywhere. Okay? And we cannot frustrate, the only way we can frustrate the grace of God is if someone who's not even saved starts trusting in works to get them saved. You see what I'm saying? Then the grace of God is in vain in their lives. Why? Because they're not using the grace of God to be saved, to be forgiven of their sins. They're trusting, you know, the Bible says in Romans 11, six, and if by grace and there's no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. What does that mean? Grace has ceased. Does that make sense? Does that make sense to everyone? So there we see that the frustration means to cease. We compare scripture with scripture. We can see that according to Ezra. Now we're in chapter three. I'm hoping to finish this. We're going to talk about the law of God's word. So he gives a personal argument in verses number one through five. Verse one says, oh foolish Galatians, good way to start the chapter, who have bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth crucified among you. So we see here that bewitched obviously means that they were deceived, right? And often he says this, he says, who hath bewitched you? You see, when people believe false doctrine, it's not on their own. It's not like they read the Bible and then they get a false doctrine on their own. It's a who who's teaching them these things. You know, I've had people tell me when I try to talk to them about my favorite subject, the Jews not being God's chosen people, and then I say, you know, Romans 2, 28 to 29. I said, that's the verse that did it for me. When I was reading the word of God, that convinced me right there. And they said, yeah, but that's not talking about. She goes, they're like, I've read the word of God so many times. And when I read that, it's not talking about that, you know, they're not really Jews. They're getting that from somewhere. They didn't get that from your Bible. You don't get teachings like that just reading the Bible. Because you take the Bible at face value, for he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision of the flesh made by hands, but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly. And circumcision is that of the heart and of the spirit, whose praise is not of men, but of God. And what does praise mean? That means God recognizes that. The praise is not of men. It's not of people who say that's a Jew. It's of God. God says that that's a Jew, a spiritual Jew. But we see here that often when people accept the false doctrine, it's not because they're reading it from the Bible. This book will not teach you false doctrine. You will not come to false doctrine, doctrinal conclusions by reading the Bible. The King James Bible, you'll get it if you read the NIV, the STD and the HIV and the ESV and all the other ones. But most of the time it's just a who, someone's teaching them these things. And they're parroting what other people are saying. Verse 2, this only would I learn of you, receive ye the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain, if it be yet in vain? Now this reminds me of basically what we were talking about before the service. People who started off right, they believe in salvation by grace through faith and later on in life they begin to believe that repent of your sins is gospel. And I believe that there are people who are saved and they believe that doctrine later on in life because of the people who bewitched them. And they stop reading the word of God, they're reading commentaries, they're listening to unsaved sermons and what happens, they get conditioned to think a certain way and they get away from this book. It can happen. I've seen it happen to pastors. I've seen it happen to Christians all the time. It does happen. And what do we have to do to make sure that doesn't happen? Well according to 1 Timothy chapter number 4, the Bible says give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine, right? Take heed to thyself, for in so doing thou shalt both save thyself and then they hear thee. How do we save ourselves from the repent of your sins gospel? By continuing to give attendance to the reading of the word of God, studying the Bible to show thyself approved unto the Lord. The Bible says in Hebrews 7 19, for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God. And verse number 5 in Galatians, let's continue on here. He therefore that ministered to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Verse 6, even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness. So now he's going back and he's giving a scriptural argument for the reason why they should believe and believe only, right? He says, what about Abraham? Which today, we're saying the same thing, right? Those who believe in the dispensational teachings and heresy, we say, what about Abraham who believed God and was counted unto him for righteousness? Thank God that he put that in the Bible. Verse 7, know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the same are the children of Abraham. And we're going to get into replacement theology in just a bit, because you can't study the book of Galatians without talking about replacement theology, right? It's all over there. And we're going to say, oh, no, that's your hobby horse. That's Galatians' hobby horse, okay? That's what Galatians teaches. And here's the thing is, the funny thing is, in most independent Baptist churches who are pro-Zion, pro-Israel, all this, they sing songs all the time about replacement theology. Let me just break the news to you, those of you listening on YouTube right now, okay? Or who will listen on YouTube. You're singing replacement theology songs. You're even teaching the bus kids about replacement theology. Father Abraham had many sons, and many sons had Father Abraham. I am one of them, and so are you. So let's just praise the Lord. But they're not thinking about that. I love that song. Because I am a son of Abraham, amen? And I like the fact that people who don't agree with me sing about it. You know, you think of all hail the power of Jesus' name. Ye chosen seed of Israel's race. Oh. I hope one day a song leader who's like so pro-Israel and just like stops. You know? That's right. You know, it is well with my soul, post-trip song. You know? Post-trip to the max. You know the one song, one day, one day when heaven was filled with his praise. That's a post-trip song. You know? But they don't think about that. They're just concerned about sliding all over the place and making the music sound all nice and whatnot and looking good in front of people. No, we're listening to the words. But Abraham, the Bible says, know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Verse eight, it says in the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith. He preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faith for Abraham. Amen. We're blessed with faith for Abraham. Not the Christ rejecting Jews that are in Israel today. They're not blessed. Amen. He was blessed with those who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ because that is the seed of Abraham. In fact, Genesis 22 verse 17 says 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. I find that interesting that in Matthew 16, 18 says and I say unto thee thou are repeated upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. These are Christians, people who have been saved by grace through faith. These are the children of Abraham. These are the ones who are going to do the great exploits for God. These are the ones who are going to fight against the principalities, against the powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world. The Jews aren't doing that. They are the rulers of the darkness of this world. They are the people who promote the most wicked, ungodly things of this world. I used to love rap. Okay, there, I said it. I used to love rap. You know who promoted NWA? Who knows who NWA is? Anybody know who that is? Come on, raise your hand. Everyone's like, just raise your hand. The pastor just said he used to listen to it, okay? I don't listen to it anymore. They're ungodly, they're wicked, and most of them, pretty much, they're faggots is what they are, okay? And I don't listen to faggot music. But here's the thing is, the guy who made these guys famous, his name is Jimmy Iovine. He's a Jew. Surprise! They're responsible for the most wicked music. And you listen to NWA, those of you who listen to it, they're very wicked people. Violent, wicked people. And the Jews are just throwing money in there, yeah, you know, this is good, this is gonna make us money. These aren't the sons of Abraham. Verse 10, 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. We'll skip down a couple of verses here. Actually, let's go to chapter number, or verse 15, let's go to verse 15. 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. Talk about the covenant he gave with Abraham. You know, this isn't done away, this is something that God had already planned ahead of time, okay? Where, Plan B, as some people would say. God has always said within the Old Testament that he wanted to reach the Gentiles. And even in the Old Testament, the Gentiles were reached. This is common. Verse 16, Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not unto seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. Amen. Okay? And here's the thing, the modern versions of the Bible, they changed that to what? Descendants. If you look at the reference in Genesis, it doesn't say seed, it says descendants. So those who believe that, you know, this pro-Israel false doctrine, they'll point to their NIV verses. And unfortunately, Baptists, Baptists who have bit into this lie, they're studying books who are using NIVs. That's why they're coming to this conclusion, that it's the physical descendants. No, your NIV says it's the physical descendants. The King James Bible says that it's the seed, and thy seed, which is Christ. That's what the Word of God teaches us. Verse 17, And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law, which was 430 years after, cannot this renewal, that it should make the promise of none effect. We'll skip down a couple verses here. Let's see, let's go to chapter four, because we're trying to do an overview. All right, chapter number four. So we see that now he begins to give, so this whole thing is like, he's giving an argument of why they should not be believing these things, okay? Now he gives an argument of timing, verses one through 11, he talks about the appointed time. Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, defereth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all, but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. You see, in the Bible, the Bible talks about governors and teachers that would teach people, or the Levites that would teach the children of Israel laws and statutes. But here's the thing, the Gentiles, which have not the law, have the law of God written in their hearts, right? So they're a law unto themselves. So both heir, okay, both the physical descendants, and the Gentiles who are not, these people are both subject to the same salvation, and to the same condemnation as well. You see, there are Jews in the Old Testament in Israel that, guess what, they died and went to hell. Okay, Korah went to hell, okay? There's a lot of people in the Old Testament that went to hell. They were still subject to the condemnation that the Gentiles were as well. And let's see here. Verse number four, but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father, wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son, and of a son than an heir of God through Christ, and praise the Lord for that. Verse eight, how be it? When ye knew God, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage. And this goes to show us that when we get saved, it's God who knows us. Now after that, it's our responsibility to begin to know God, right? Through the word of God, through the preaching of God's word, we need to know God through his word. But that's not how you get saved. You get saved by calling upon the name of the Lord, and guess what? God now recognizes who you are. You're his son. And we can cry, Abba, Father, according to the word of God. Verses 12 through 18, he gives a sort of a sentimental argument. You know, obviously he begins to talk about the travail that he went to, to get him the gospel, to see them saved till Christ be formed in you, he says. You know, he talks about how when he was there, you know, he was willing, they were willing to even poke out their own eyes and give it to him. You know, insinuating that possibly the apostle Paul had some sort of issue with his eyes, so there is a connection there, there is a friendship there that they had. And this goes to show that when false doctrine creeps in, it can really cause a lot of divisions between friends, right? The people who you love, you know, will turn against you because of doctrine. These are the people who love the apostle, I mean to pluck out your own eyes, you know, to be able to, desiring to give that to the apostle Paul, that's a lot of love. To sacrifice, that's a lot of love. And now it's just like, have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? Right? They became the enemies of Paul. And often that happens, and if you're not careful, if Christians aren't careful, they compromise on doctrine because they don't want to lose their fellowship with their fellow friends, with their family. But you know, we just need to trust God, take the stand for right, believe what God says, and let the chips fall where they may. And look, if you lose friends, if you lose family, so be it for the cause of Christ, God will give you new friends, He'll give you a new family. Okay, that's always how it works. And it's always for the best. And look, at the end, when we all go to heaven, it's not going to matter anymore. You know what I mean? But here it matters. Okay? Here we need to work, here we need to take a stand, here we need to believe right, here we need to do that which is right on the side of the Lord until we get to heaven, until that day of redemption. Verse 16, Am I therefore becoming your enemy because I tell you the truth? Let me skip down a couple of verses here. Now, look at verse 22. Then he gives the allegorical argument, okay? And this is what a lot of people don't understand is that these supposed biblical doctrines that they believe in regards to Zionism, it's an allegory. I remember a preacher got up, and I know it's getting late, but I need to talk about this. I remember a preacher got up, okay, and he used Galatians chapter 4 to prove that the sons of Ishmael were the Muslims. Has anybody ever heard something like that before? Okay, I'm not the only one. I remember, I was like, what? Ishmael? That's where the Muslims come, they're like, yeah, that's why the Muslims exist today. Nobody, you've been listening to too much Fox News. That's what it is. You're watching too much Fox News, take off the app off your phone, turn off the television, stop listening to Sean Hannity and all these other Catholics who believe who are for Israel, they're working for the Jews. Probably Fox News is owned by Jews, okay? So of course they're going to be propagating that garbage. But that's not what this is talking about. Let's look what the Bible says right here, verse 22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid and the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bond woman was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman was by promise. And they'll say, see, the one of the bond woman, that's Ishmael, those are the Muslims. You know, the ones with the beards, you know, like Brother Bruce, that Muslim, that's them. Sean Hannity said so. Well, who's the bondmaid talking? Let's talk about Hagar, right? In Genesis 16, verse 11, you don't have to turn, it says, And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shall bear his son, and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. The free woman is who? Anybody know? Sarah, right? The two sons who are there, Ishmael, who's born after the flesh, because why? And why does the Bible say that he was born after the flesh? Because that was a child that came because of Abraham's doubt of God's promises, right? He took matters into his own hands, and he had a child according to the flesh. It wasn't according to the promise that God had given to him that he was going to give him a son, okay? Isaac was born of promise. Verse 24, which things are in allegory. Allegory. It's supposed to shed light on a biblical truth in the New Testament. It's an allegory. Look what it says, allegory, for these are the two covenants. The one from Mount Sinai, which generith to bondage, which is Hagar. Now, why does it say generith to bondage? What does it mean to generate? It produces, right? So those who come from Mount Sinai produce bondage. Why? Because when we recognize that we sin against God, because the Bible teaches us in Romans chapter number seven, that Paul even said, he said, I had not known lust, except the Bible had said, Thou shall not covet, and he was slain, right? That's what brought him into bondage, recognizing that the law brings us into bondage. It makes us lost, is what it is, right? It slays us. It generith to bondage, which is Hagar. Verse 25, for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. See, the Muslims, because they're Arabians. You think I'm joking, but I'm being honest. People have said that. Bunch of racists. Okay. No, you need to read and see what it says. For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. By the way, what's significant about Sinai? That's where the Ten Commandments, that's where the law came, the Ten Commandments, right? And look what it says, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with their children, but Jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all. So what does that mean when it says, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is? Now hold your place there in Galatians, go to Proverbs chapter number 27. Proverbs chapter number 27. When the Bible says, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is, if they would just study what that means, it would clarify that these people are not Muslims. Okay. Proverbs chapter 27 verse 19. Proverbs 27 verse 19 says, as in water, face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Okay, so when you go to water, right, and you look over and you look into the water, what do you see? Your reflection. So the water reflects your face, as face reflects in the water, right? So you use that same biblical definition, what is the Bible saying there? For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and reflects the Jerusalem, which now is. The people who are not saved, right? And it says, and is in bondage with her children. See, there were Jews that were according to the flesh, but these are sons of the devil, according to the word of God, John chapter eight. And they answer it to Jerusalem, which now is, they're the ones who are still in bondage because they're not saved. Verse 27, for it is rich and rejoiced thou, barren, that bearers not break forth and cry that thou that travailest not, for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. And this is a prophetic testimony of Isaiah, right, we're not gonna go there right now, but in Isaiah chapter 54, he talks about that, how he tells them, he says, you're barren right now, but lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes, because they're gonna have many children. And he's referring to reaching out to the Gentiles, okay? Not just to Israel. Verse 29, but as then, excuse me, verse, where are we at, verse 28, in Galatians. Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise, okay? Being the children of Isaac, which is the son of Abraham, alright? And the similarities of the two, verse 29, but as he, but excuse me, but as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Now in context he's talking about what's going on right then and there in Galatians, right? Because who's coming in preaching false doctrines and trying to bring people back into condemnation and bondage? The Jews! Right? So he's saying, it's the same thing that was happening then, it's still happening now. They're still persecuting it. Galatians 1, 7 says, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. Galatians 5, 12 says, I would, they were even cut off which trouble you. Talking about the Jews, which answereth to bondage the Jerusalem which now is. Verse 30, nevertheless would say the scripture cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. So then brethren, we are not children of the bond woman, but of the free. Now that's very, very important to get this portion of scripture here. Hold your place here, go to John chapter 8. John chapter 8. Hey, Galatians is good, amen? John chapter 8, verse 34. Keep in mind what we just read in Galatians, I'm going to read it to you again, it says, nevertheless would say the scripture cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. For then brethren, we are not children of the bond woman, but of the free. Keep that in mind. John chapter 8 and verse number 34, the Bible reads, Jesus answered them, barely, barely I say unto you, whosoever committed sin is a servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house forever. Who is he talking to, by the way? He's talking to the Pharisees, right? This is where he calls them the sons of the children of the devil. Well, he's telling them right there, whosoever committed sin is a servant of sin, and the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the son abideth forever. If the son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. Go back to Galatians, I'll read it to you again, cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. John Hagee, who you don't have to witness to any Jew because they already got a covenant, they're going to go to heaven. No, they're going to be cast out with the bond woman. You see what I'm saying? It makes sense. When you just compare scripture with scripture, you turn off Fox News, everything just fits like a glove, okay? And lastly, we're done here. I'm just going to go through chapter 5 because we're way, way past time. It's 9 o'clock already. Just kidding, it's not 9 o'clock. Everyone's looking at me like, all right. So now, then he gets into the matter of just godly living, you know, he talks about the Spirit and the flesh, the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, the Spirit against the flesh. These are contrary one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would. And he basically explains that when we're saved, and this goes to show, it just disproves this whole Calvinistic doctrine that if you're saved, you're just going to do right. If that were true, God would not be commanding us to walk in the Spirit, right? Why would we need that commandment, you know? Why would we need it if we're already made perfect? God wouldn't need to command us to do right, to walk in the Spirit, to not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Why? Because that's what we would do naturally. But because we're still in this flesh, and we're waiting to wit the redemption of our bodies, this flesh is still not saved, we still have the old man, right? And the Bible teaches us that we're to put off concerning the old man, the former man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. There's a battle going on constantly, a battle we've got to fight every single day. And then he talks in Galatians chapter number 6, he just finishes it off there with, he's talking about the works of the flesh, and proving your own work, and we're basically out of time. And so what's the message of Galatians? It's simply this, we see the heart of Paul, he's like, man, I put so much work into these churches, and now they're going astray. And he's going there, and he says, look. And this goes to show us that Paul was very thorough, right? When he explained certain things, he was very thorough with the Galatians. And you know, when we see a brother go astray, or maybe they start believing some false doctrine, we need to have that same heart of Paul to be thorough and explain to him, according to the word of God, with meekness and fear, what the Bible actually teaches about a certain subject, right? To help them to come back unto the Lord, to help them to get back on track, amen? Let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, we thank you for the book of Galatians, I didn't do any justice to it, there's so much that I missed, but it was just an overview, and I think we hit on the key points of Galatians, and I pray that all of us have learned something tonight. And please help us, Lord, to earnestly contend for the faith, and we need to, Lord. Help us to not grow weary in that, and when we do grow weary, may we be like they of old in the Old Testament, that just, their hand was weary, but it claved to the sword. We just claved to the right doctrine, we still fight for it, and weary, but yet pursuing, as the Bible says. And I pray that you'd help us to do so. Thank you so much for all that you do for us, we pray these things in Jesus' name, amen.