Galatians 4:6-20
Galatians 4:6-20
Paul continues to establish the doctrine of justification by faith. His argument now begins to go from formal to personal. Up to this point we have seen Paul the apostle. Paul the theologian. Now we see Paul the Pastor.Set before us is the heart of a pastor. Paul sets an excellent example of what every pastor should look like. He sets the standard of defending biblical doctrine. All pastors must emulate Paul's example. In contrast, Paul also points out to us the trademarks of a false teacher.A great challenge that we have before is this; Is our Christian life moving forward in liberty or backward into bondage? As Christians, these two paths will ever be before us. There is only one way to be all that Christ has called us to be. That is by faith alone in Christ alone.
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Chapter 4
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And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
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Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
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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?
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Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
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I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
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Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
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Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
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Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
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I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.