397 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 - Part 1 - Book 34 - Our Position After Salvation

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 34 OUR POSITION AFTER SALVATION Galatians 6:11 Now remember Grace means Total Freedom, and Total Liberty! Galatians 4:1 So now he dips into the Roman and the Greek culture that the wealthy Romans and Greeks would hire tutors, and the soul purpose of these tutors was to prepare that child, that legal son who was an heir. Galatians 4:2 "But is under tutors, and governors until the time appointed of the father." We don't know how long they were under tutors as I'm sure the times were different. Now verse 3. Galatians 4:3 Remember the Gentile world was never under the Law of Moses - only the children of Israel fell into that category. Se he says in verse 3 again - Galatians 4:3a "Even so (just like these Roman and Greek kids were under the rule of a tutor, and the father paid very little attention to them, so in like manner, Israel) when we were children, (under the Law) were in bondage..." Now I know I just keep hammering away at people that to live under the Law is always a bondage. It's like Peter says in Acts Chapter 15. This is when Peter finally wakes up and realizes that Paul is right. He can now see that the Judaisers were giving Paul grief and causing him trials and tribulations by saying that apostle Paul's Gospel was not sufficient unless his converts also became keepers of the Law, and practiced circumcision. The Law could not do anything to bring a person out of his sin. All right so looking at verse 3 again. Galatians 4:3 Now you've got to remember that Israel as a nation, when they came out of Egypt and had been surrounded with all of that pagan culture, when God gave them the Law at Mount Sinai, God didn't lift them out of the world. Now remember Abraham was called out of Ur at approximately 2000 BC, and then 490 years later Moses led them out of the land of Egypt and God gave the Law. So you're talking in terms of about 1500 BC from the giving of the Law to Israel until the time of Christ at what we now refer to as 0 so there were 1500 years that Israel labored under this yoke of bondage. Now verse 4, what's the first word? All of a sudden God stepped in and changed the format. I hope my listening audience realizes that, as you come up through human history, you can see how many times God changed the format totally. Although God Himself never changed, the format was changing. It was totally different, but had God changed? No, God never changes. God's whole economy for man was going to be set up differently. God says to Abraham, "I'm going to make of you a little separate race of people. The Nation of Israel makes their appearance then God again does something totally different. Galatians 4:4a "But when the fulness of the time was come,..." Because it was in God's timetable. It was all part and parcel of God's plan for the ages, and at the exact right moment in time, Christ was born of a woman and became the fullness of time. Galatians 4:4b "God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law." God is talking to Satan through the serpent here. Genesis 3:15 "And I (God) will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; (the Christ, the Son of God) it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt (Satan) bruise his heel." As soon as man sinned, God came right back with the remedy, and it's the only remedy. Now coming back to Galatians Chapter 4 we see, then, in the fullness of time, right on God's timetable the Son was born. I was just explaining to someone last night that when you watch the timing of things back in the Old Testament, God was never a day late! You take Abraham, at exactly the right time God brought him out of Ur, and set him on his path toward going into Canaan and becoming the father of the Jewish race. God's timing is right on. God is always right on schedule. Now according to Paul then, Christ's birth is the same way. At the exact moment in human history when the fullness of time was now fulfilled Christ was born in Bethlehem. Not an accident, but totally according to God's program. The priests were performing the rites; they were bringing the animal sacrifices the whole Nation of Israel was under the Law. Now it was a degenerated religious system, totally degenerated. Instead of now operating under the basic Ten Commandments you want to remember that Temple worship at the time of Christ was now under 613 rules and regulations which comprised the Law. You see Israel was not yet in a place where the Law was set aside. The Cross was where the Law was finally crucified. The Nation of Israel at that time could see nothing but their own self-righteousness and they could brag about how they were Law-keepers. #lesfeldick #biblestudy #bible