The Fake Gospel #9

Galatians 4:1-11

WHAT HAD THE GALATIANS BEEN OLD TO START DOING?

• Embrace Jewish ancestral customs or traditions (1:14; 2:16)

• Be circumcised (2:3, 12; 5:2; 6:11)

• Separate from Gentile believers (2:12ff)

• Observe special days, months, seasons and years (4:10)

AS PART OF THE ESSENTIALS

FOR FOLLOWING JESUS

WHAT WAS REALLY GOING

ON

• DIFFERENT MESSAGE• NON GOSPEL• PERVERSION• BONDAGE• THIS WORLD’S ORDER• SOWING TO THE FLESH• MAKES NO DIFFERENCE• AVOIDING PERSECUTION• LOOKING GOOD IN THE EYES OF OTHER

PEOPLE

THE FAKE GOSPELSteals your relationship with the Father

1 What I am saying is that while the heir in a household is a child there is no difference between that child and a servant in the house, even though the child is the future owner.

2That child is placed in the care of tutors and other carers until the time set by the father. 3 We used to be just like those children: we were under the tutelage of this world’s order

4When the right time came God sent his Son. He was born of a woman and born under the law 5 so that he could redeem those who were under the law and they, in turn, could be adopted as sons.

6Because you are sons and not slaves, God has sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts. This is how we are able to call God our dear father. 7 You are no longer a servant but a son and, if you are a son, then by God’s action you are an heir.

8When you didn’t know God you were serving things that were not gods in any way. 9 Now that you know God and experience a relationship with him, how can you turn back to things that are weak and poor and want to serve them all over again.

10You are observing special days and months, seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you in case my work among you will count for nothing.

STEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR FATHER

1. Robbing you of the opportunity to live as adult sons/daughters – becoming little children needing to be manipulated and cosseted.

STEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR FATHER

2. Robbing you of your inheritance from God through enslavement

STEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR FATHER

3. Making you the subject of humanly derived principles rather than supernatural revelation.

STEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR FATHER

4. Making you depend on what is weak and impoverished.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

1. It is what Jesus came to make possible.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

2. Its what redemption is all about.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

3. It’s what happens when you have been adopted.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

4. It’s what the Spirit within testifies about.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

5. It’s what makes turns

YAHWEH into ABBA