The NXR Podcast - THE SERMON - In His Kindness, God Will Destroy Dispensationalism - Galatians 3_15-29 ｜ Pastor Andrew Isker

00:00:00.000 Well, good morning, and yeah, thank you all for having me here. We drove down this week from

00:00:07.120 Minnesota all the way down to here in Texas, and so the first thing I noticed is it is, it's hot

00:00:13.680 here. So I, my church doesn't even have air conditioning, and so in the summer it's a little

00:00:20.600 warm, but even with the air conditioning here, it's like I need, I need something. I know I'm

00:00:24.340 to be dripping all over my Bible by the time we're done here. But the passage I have selected

00:00:30.240 today to read and to preach on is Galatians 3, verses 15 to 29. And I don't know if you

00:00:42.300 guys stand for God's Word, or if you don't, you do? Yeah, all right, well then please

00:00:46.220 stand for the reading of God's Word.

00:00:54.340 And this I say that the law, which was 430 years later,

00:01:23.860 cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ that it should make the

00:01:30.800 promise of no effect. For if the inheritance is of the law it is no longer of promise but God gave

00:01:38.060 it to Abraham by promise. What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions

00:01:45.900 till the seed should come to who the promise was made and it was appointed through angels by the

00:01:52.000 hand of a mediator. Now, a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. Is the law

00:02:00.140 then against the promises of God? Certainly not. For if there had been a law given which could

00:02:07.720 have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. But the scripture has confined

00:02:15.620 all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

00:02:23.260 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward

00:02:30.380 be revealed. Therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified

00:02:37.780 by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of

00:02:47.620 God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on

00:02:55.040 Christ. There's neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither slave nor free. There's neither male nor 1.00

00:03:01.940 female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed

00:03:10.540 and heirs according to the promise. The word of the Lord. You can be seated. Let's pray.

00:03:21.380 Our Father, our God, we thank you for your grace and your mercy to us that we can gather

00:03:26.500 together with your people in peace before your throne that you give us grace to come before you

00:03:35.140 that you speak to us through your word by the power of your spirit and we ask that he would

00:03:41.160 be here and present among us that that he would be leading us and guiding us forming and shaping

00:03:47.920 and transforming our hearts and conforming us into the image of your son Jesus Christ in whose name

00:03:56.140 we pray. Amen. Well, what I'm used to doing back home is preaching through an entire book

00:04:06.700 of the Bible. It sounds like that's what you guys do too. You go through the whole book.

00:04:11.440 So I'm not really used to doing a topical sermon or just a one-off thing. And I'd much

00:04:17.080 rather just go through the whole book of Galatians with you this morning. But Joel told me he

00:04:22.360 usually only goes about 50 minutes. So that's not going to be enough time. Yeah, that's not true.

00:04:28.520 He goes longer than that. But I don't think I have six or eight hours to go through the whole book

00:04:33.780 with you today, unfortunately. So we're just going to look at part of chapter three. And this

00:04:40.660 section here, the reason I chose it is because it deals with things that are very timely,

00:04:48.780 very relevant to us today. There are a couple errors that I wanted to dig into and talk

00:04:56.860 about, and they're two very different ones, and they're both, you know, relevant to this

00:05:03.400 text. So I wanted to dig into those things. But Galatians as a whole, right, what is this

00:05:08.960 book about? Paul, the Apostle Paul, he is writing to the churches of Galatia in Asia

00:05:14.560 minor in southeast asia minor these all these different churches in that area that he had

00:05:20.580 helped plant on his first missionary journey and they have a problem right they have a very serious

00:05:27.820 problem it's actually the most serious problem in the new testament this recurrent problem which is 0.88

00:05:33.340 judaizing it's judaizing this is the great threat to the gospel in the new testament era is the

00:05:41.440 Judaizers and we don't really think about that or talk about that it's not really you know they're 1.00

00:05:45.900 not beating down the door here attacking your church I don't think so since it's 2,000 years 0.99

00:05:52.260 we don't think about the context what it means and why it was such a great threat but what it

00:05:57.400 means what the whole New Testament is about is you have the old covenant right the whole Old

00:06:03.680 Testament all of that and then Jesus comes and now you have the new covenant and for a brief period

00:06:09.380 of time the old covenant is still chugging along but the new covenant has come in and there is 0.97

00:06:14.280 conflict between the two and right in the middle of that conflict is the Judaizers right the

00:06:20.120 Judaizers they would come into the churches and they would tell the Christians there that you

00:06:25.880 know you're not really saved unless you conform to the law of Moses right and we think what's 0.99

00:06:32.100 they're just kind of confused it's not a big deal but it's a huge deal a very big deal to Paul

00:06:36.820 because what that is saying is that what Jesus did was nothing, right?

00:06:42.520 It's rejecting the work of Christ on the cross to liberate his people from Satan, from sin, from death, and from the law. 0.96

00:06:53.180 And so, right, these Judaizers, they're coming in and they're saying, 0.98

00:06:56.040 no, these Greeks that have come to the church, right, these Gentiles, they need to get circumcised. 1.00

00:07:01.480 They need to stop eating pork, right? 1.00

00:07:03.260 They need to follow the law of Moses if they really want to be saved. 0.65

00:07:06.820 And we think, oh, that's just kind of a silly error. It's a mistake.

00:07:10.040 But no, that is a rejection of the gospel.

00:07:14.060 And so Paul is dealing with this issue throughout the entire book of Galatians.

00:07:20.000 And he gets to this point in the chapter here and really reveals to us what actually is occurring.

00:07:28.740 What is going on with the covenant?

00:07:30.540 You have the covenant made to Abraham. You have the covenant with Moses.

00:07:35.200 the series of progressions of the covenant.

00:07:38.140 And what he's showing us here is that the new covenant is the greatest and final one

00:07:43.760 in that long series of covenants,

00:07:46.280 and it's the one that opens up the entire world to the promises of God.

00:07:53.040 And so if you have your Bibles open, we'll look at this in a little more detail,

00:07:56.940 looking at verses 15 to 18 at first.

00:08:00.780 and so in verses 15 to 18 right what we see here we see that who is this this covenant to right he's

00:08:10.920 talking about a covenant and he the first thing he says is i'll just speak to you in the language of

00:08:15.740 men what is a covenant right we we think about it what's a covenant right it's a contract right

00:08:21.000 it's a contract uh you know i have a friend um who uh who talks about this sometimes and he's like

00:08:28.140 you know, really, Andrew, the Bible really just is a book about property and contracts, right?

00:08:35.300 That's what it's about.

00:08:36.240 And I'm like, well, yeah, I mean, I guess you could say that.

00:08:40.100 But this major feature in the Bible is covenants, right?

00:08:44.580 It's a business contract, right?

00:08:46.300 But it's a pretty serious business contract because it's between God and men. 0.81

00:08:51.500 It's between God and men. 0.72

00:08:53.400 And Paul talks about it in these terms, in the manner of men. 0.59

00:08:59.100 And he's making this contrast because the promises to Abraham, they preceded the giving of the law by 430 years, he says. 0.75

00:09:06.800 And what he is arguing that Judaizers are doing is saying,

00:09:10.420 these promises that were made to Abraham, well, the law comes in and they're annulling

00:09:14.500 or they're changing the promises a little bit, saying that the only way you can have access to these promises

00:09:19.640 is where? Through Moses, right? Through the law of Moses. And he says, no, that isn't the way at

00:09:26.760 all, right? If a covenant is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. And in verse 16, right? Who

00:09:35.200 does he say the promises were made to, right? The promises in Genesis 12 and in Genesis 17,

00:09:40.520 who are the promises made to? They are made to Abraham and his seed, right? In my translation

00:09:45.620 of the Bible here, seed is capitalized, maybe yours is too, capital S, seed. The unfortunate

00:09:51.240 thing is you go back to Genesis 12 and Genesis 17 when that word is used, and sometimes they

00:09:57.100 translate it as offspring, which is terrible. It's seed, right? To your seed I give the land

00:10:02.920 of Canaan, right? To your seed I make these promises. Well, that S in Genesis should be 0.96

00:10:09.600 capitalized just like it is in galatians right who is the seed it's jesus it's jesus and that's

00:10:17.680 what paul says he does not say and to seeds plural but as of many but how many one singular one seed

00:10:27.960 and to your seed and who is that that is jesus christ right so you go back to genesis and you

00:10:35.020 read those promises and you think okay well who is this right who is this to right who who is the

00:10:41.380 ultimate heir of these promises who is it it's jesus right you see seed you should just see

00:10:47.940 jesus right there in in genesis and in verse 17 right he says that right the law that happened

00:10:56.060 430 years after the promises that god made to abraham and after and the covenant is is what

00:11:03.780 It's confirmed before God in Christ, right?

00:11:07.280 So Christ is present, right?

00:11:09.120 As these promises are made to Abraham, right? 0.98

00:11:11.540 It's a triune God. 0.84

00:11:12.200 He's there.

00:11:12.640 Jesus is eternally existent in the Godhead, right?

00:11:16.400 So Jesus is making this promise that would be ultimately fulfilled in him, right?

00:11:22.020 He is there the entire time in Genesis.

00:11:25.440 And he shows, Paul says, right, that this law being given, right,

00:11:30.720 it doesn't make the promise of no effect.

00:11:34.780 Verse 18, the inheritance, is it of the law?

00:11:40.040 Does the inheritance come by the law?

00:11:41.480 Do you get this inheritance?

00:11:42.700 The whole point of the covenant, I mean, again, property, contracts, inheritance.

00:11:47.500 That's the language he's using.

00:11:50.040 How does this inheritance come by? 0.99

00:11:52.300 Does it come by keeping the law but not wearing mixed fabrics?

00:11:55.540 I think this is cotton and polyester.

00:11:57.060 I'm breaking the law of Moses right now.

00:12:00.060 I had some bacon earlier today.

00:12:02.020 I'm breaking the law.

00:12:03.780 If the inheritance is of the law, then the promise does not matter.

00:12:09.820 The promise that God made doesn't matter.

00:12:12.160 Paul makes this point in Romans, a very similar point.

00:12:16.440 When did God make these promises to Abraham?

00:12:19.420 When did he make these promises to Abraham, Paul says in Romans?

00:12:23.060 While he was still yet uncircumcised. 0.91

00:12:25.720 While he was covenantally a Gentile, he makes these promises to Abraham. 0.96

00:12:31.840 Circumcision came after that. 0.98

00:12:33.720 He's making a similar point here as well.

00:12:36.080 The promises are made to God centuries before the law of Moses came.

00:12:42.300 So Abraham probably had some knowledge of the law.

00:12:45.380 We see in Genesis there was a knowledge of clean and unclean and things like this. 0.76

00:12:49.680 In Noah, Noah is told to take seven of every clean animal.

00:12:53.840 So there's some knowledge there, but not like Moses had.

00:12:58.740 And so Abraham's not keeping the law of Moses, but the promise is to him. 0.91

00:13:04.020 Isn't that interesting, you Judaizers, Paul says. 0.95

00:13:07.700 And so now turning to verses 19 through 25, Paul keeps on going. 1.00

00:13:13.060 He says, what purpose then, if the law is not that for these things,

00:13:16.660 what purpose then is the law?

00:13:20.420 What purpose does the law serve?

00:13:24.160 What was it?

00:13:25.260 It was added because of transgressions.

00:13:27.600 And that's a confusing thing.

00:13:28.720 There's a lot of different people that have different views of what does that mean, added because of transgressions.

00:13:33.760 I think the most plausible, best explanation I've heard of what this could mean is what does the law do?

00:13:41.280 Paul makes this point also in Romans.

00:13:43.180 Romans and Galatians, very similar books.

00:13:46.000 What does the law do when your dad or your mom say, hey, when you're a little kid, don't touch that.

00:13:54.740 right i you know before they said it i didn't even want to touch it but after they say don't

00:14:00.720 touch that now all i want to do is do what i want to touch the thing i was told not to touch

00:14:04.640 and i say this as a as a father now i know how this the mind works right the heart works that

00:14:12.080 way right what does the law do the law provokes more sin right as soon as god says don't do this

00:14:18.700 thing, what do we want to do, right? We want to sin even more, right? That's what it does. Pastor

00:14:26.140 Joel's talking about this earlier, right? This is when we teach the law, especially with a law

00:14:32.300 without grace, right? This is what it does. This is what it does. And when grace comes, that God

00:14:37.240 forgives us our sins, right? Then we can be restored through it. And so it's added because

00:14:43.240 of the transgressions, right? Till the seed, which is Jesus, should come. And then he says something

00:14:51.700 really interesting, really interesting here. And it was appointed through angels by the hand

00:14:56.560 of a mediator. And so you go back to Exodus, right? You don't see any angels handing Moses

00:15:03.460 the Ten Commandments or anything like that, right? So what is Paul talking about here?

00:15:10.080 I think, and this is what would take maybe two or three hours to discuss and explain,

00:15:14.340 but I think the plausible case is that the Old Covenant,

00:15:20.280 the whole Old Covenant world,

00:15:22.420 who dominated the whole Old Covenant world were the angels, the heavenly host.

00:15:27.400 In the New Covenant, this is the major transition to the New Covenant,

00:15:31.600 is now who is in control of the world,

00:15:35.420 who has all power and authority in heaven and earth, right?

00:15:40.500 Jesus does.

00:15:42.300 And not just Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, as God,

00:15:45.680 because God, of course, eternally, always is sovereign and powerful over everything.

00:15:49.740 But who has the rule and power and authority in the new covenant?

00:15:52.860 It's the God-man, Jesus Christ.

00:15:55.400 Now you have a human being united with God in the person of Jesus Christ,

00:16:01.580 sitting on the throne of the universe, right?

00:16:05.200 So man in Christ is exalted to rule in the new covenant. 0.82

00:16:10.500 But in the old covenant, right, both Jew and Gentile, right, both the Jews, the believing Jews, right, 0.77

00:16:17.700 they had angels that are ruling over them, and the Gentiles, too, had these demons ruling over them. 0.71

00:16:23.120 What did they do? 0.96

00:16:24.260 They worshipped demons.

00:16:26.560 They worshipped demons.

00:16:27.320 And I don't think it was just wood and stone and metal things that they're worshipping.

00:16:32.240 I think they're worshipping actual corporeal beings, right?

00:16:35.020 All the ancient gods, those were real that they were worshiping.

00:16:39.000 They were bound to these things.

00:16:40.560 They were giving them their law, their contorted, twisted version of the law of Moses. 0.63

00:16:46.940 And so Paul is describing the same thing.

00:16:49.280 You're under the angels.

00:16:51.200 You're under the law. 0.91

00:16:52.720 You see this if Paul wrote the book of Hebrews.

00:16:55.080 I think he did.

00:16:56.400 You see this in the beginning of the book of Hebrews.

00:16:58.240 right why why does Paul or whomever wrote Hebrews spend so much time talking about angels in the

00:17:05.360 very beginning and how Jesus is superior to them what's obvious God is superior to angels

00:17:10.100 so why does he spend all this time because the old covenant dominated ruled by angels

00:17:16.240 new covenant now man in Christ is on the throne and so an indication of that here

00:17:23.420 in this verse is right there as well and so this is why i mean this is a passing reference

00:17:29.660 that paul makes but i think it's an important one and so right what is what does he say uh verse 21

00:17:37.340 is the law or is the law then against the promises of god right he's making this contrast he's

00:17:43.480 anticipating this objection right the law and the promises those are not the same thing and the and

00:17:50.860 the promise doesn't come through the law it comes through faith so is the law opposed to the promises

00:17:56.020 of God right because it's piling up more and more sin for God's people it's provoking more and more

00:18:01.340 sin is that what's going on Paul says no certainly not what do you what what is it what is the truth

00:18:09.220 of the matter right if if the law could give you the righteousness that would fulfill these promises

00:18:16.060 then there's no need for a promise there's no need for it right so it can't be that right if

00:18:22.280 there was a law that could be made if God was going to construct some system of laws that we

00:18:27.300 could follow that would make us perfectly righteous he just would have done that he would

00:18:32.060 have sent Jesus but Paul says no that's not the way it works that's not the way it works at all

00:18:38.500 and so verse 22 right but scripture has confined all under sin the same the same idea right the law

00:18:47.500 confines them in their sin keeps them guarded right it's a guardian that watches over that

00:18:55.280 protects them like boxes them in uh in their sin so that the promise by faith in jesus christ

00:19:03.180 might be given to those who believe and so because faith before faith came right we're kept in guard

00:19:10.220 by guard under the law kept for the faith right so they're being preserved right it's like they're

00:19:16.960 on a game a game reserve right here you are here's the fences of the law and you just hang out here

00:19:23.080 and wait until what wait until jesus comes and and opens the gates right that's what they're

00:19:30.140 waiting for, right? The other analogy that Paul uses here is that the law is also a tutor, right?

00:19:35.700 That's not the only thing. It's not just guarding you and keeping you locked away, right, hermetically

00:19:40.100 sealed here. It's also a tutor that is bringing us to Christ, right? That's teaching you about Jesus,

00:19:49.700 right? And Pastor Joel talked about this as well just now, right? It's, right, that's this one of

00:19:55.820 the uses of the law is to teach you righteousness teach you about jesus teach you about your need

00:20:03.200 for jesus christ so it's not like the law oh the law is bad right and this is this is a major

00:20:08.940 problem probably the third maybe i should say three things we're dealing with it this major

00:20:12.940 problem of antinomianism right this big word just means against the law or people that don't like

00:20:18.160 the law and it's a huge problem in the church today right and many people that are of the

00:20:25.740 antinomian bat they read galatians and say ah i'm vindicated right i'm vindicated there's no law

00:20:31.340 there's only grace right look at paul talking bad about the law right i am right law doesn't matter

00:20:37.580 that's not true at all right look at what paul says here right therefore the law was our tutor

00:20:43.880 to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.

00:20:47.300 He doesn't say here, the law doesn't matter.

00:20:49.460 The law is really bad, actually.

00:20:51.540 You should not care about the law.

00:20:53.580 You should turn up your nose when you read the Old Testament.

00:20:57.500 No, he says the laws are tutored to bring us to Christ

00:21:00.500 that we might be justified by faith,

00:21:02.220 that we might know our sin and know our need

00:21:04.400 for the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:21:07.300 But verse 25, it sums it all up.

00:21:09.700 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

00:21:13.880 right we're no longer and that word under is very important doesn't mean that the law is gone god's

00:21:19.240 moral standard is completely gone right you're under grace you can do whatever you want and he

00:21:24.140 addresses that in romans as well he says by no means by no means shall we continue to sin that

00:21:29.460 grace may abound right no when faith has come we're no longer under a tutor which means we're

00:21:35.440 not in the old covenant anymore and having the law that's that's pointing us to jesus jesus is here

00:21:41.260 now we don't need to be tutored to be brought to jesus as if we're in the old covenant right that

00:21:47.540 those days have passed that's why right here why should the gentiles in the church not be 0.90

00:21:52.980 circumcised and and follow the law of moses not they why they're allowed to eat pork right why 0.96

00:21:58.520 are they allowed to do all of these things because the faith has come we don't need that tutor right 0.91

00:22:04.860 all of those things right all of those things in in the old testament all the parts right when you

00:22:08.780 do your you know one year bible reading plan and you get to leviticus and you're like whoa this is

00:22:15.200 this is dry right we're doing family worship and the kids you're reading about the the different

00:22:20.200 animals that are clean and unclean the kids are not paying attention they're picking their nose

00:22:24.120 and they're like oh this is boring right actually we really need to pay attention to those things

00:22:27.920 because the point all of those things what are they doing what is paul saying here in verse 25

00:22:32.460 that they are doing right they are a tutor that would bring the people who got to christ all of

00:22:38.740 that is pointing to jesus so it's very important even though we think oh it's kind of boring uh

00:22:43.420 very important to read those things not important in a self-dific sense and paul's saying that

00:22:49.060 right it's not the thing saving us we don't have to follow it we're not under it but it still

00:22:54.240 teaches us about the lord jesus christ and so finally in this passage we get to the right to

00:23:01.640 apex of it. So here, the tutor is done, and Paul continues the analogy, actually. Why do you have

00:23:10.300 a tutor? Maybe some of you do have your children tutored. Tutors in the ancient world, you had to

00:23:17.220 be fairly wealthy, you had to be elite to be able to pay someone or have a slave that would teach

00:23:21.360 your children. And that means you're a wealthy heir. Maybe you're a nobleman, and that's what

00:23:29.420 Paul's continuing this analogy here in verse 26.

00:23:32.620 For you are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

00:23:36.140 This is an important point that Paul makes in many of his epistles,

00:23:40.020 is that if you're in the family of God,

00:23:43.080 and Jesus is the king, the king of kings,

00:23:45.560 the world emperor of the entire universe,

00:23:49.380 and you are adopted into his family,

00:23:54.320 what does that make you?

00:23:55.940 That makes you nobility.

00:23:57.040 that makes you a noble son that's what you are in the inheritance of christ you'd see this in

00:24:03.520 the ancient world you know about um julius caesar right he becomes the emperor or or rather all but

00:24:12.580 the emperor and then they kill him uh and he's dead and he doesn't have a legitimate son anyway

00:24:17.840 so what they read his will and what uh what does his nephew octavian find out he finds out that he

00:24:24.200 has been adopted by Caesar into his family, right? He is the son of Caesar and the heir

00:24:33.160 of Caesar, right? Adoption has to do with inheritance, right? Back to property and law

00:24:38.960 and all of those things. Adoption has to do with inheritance. And it's interesting, the language

00:24:44.700 that Paul uses here, right? He says that you are all sons of God, right? That's an interesting

00:24:51.680 point right paul um this is controversial statement to make especially in this crowd but paul was not

00:24:58.720 a feminist um i don't think he was um he was not a feminist but here he's saying to everyone in the

00:25:05.400 church in galatia the men and the women right you are what you are sons right he doesn't say sons

00:25:11.720 and daughters and that's deliberate right not because he's a feminist or a you know transgender

00:25:16.440 advocate or something like that, right? He says this because who inherits in the biblical world,

00:25:23.240 the ancient world, who inherits? Sons do. Sons do. So, right, who is inheriting, right? The sons

00:25:31.040 of God are, and who are the sons of God? Everyone who's united to Christ, right? Verse 25, for as

00:25:38.020 many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ, right? This point here is that your

00:25:43.780 baptism, right, what your baptism is, is you are being brought into the family of God. You are

00:25:50.080 being brought in as an heir, right? You think of this, right? We don't have kings and queens here.

00:25:57.420 Maybe, unfortunately, my wife, unfortunately, we don't. Imagine if we did, right? Imagine if, 0.57

00:26:02.620 you know, President Trump was the king, and maybe some of you, some of you like that, maybe some of

00:26:07.600 Imagine he's the king, and he says, hey, you, and you, and you, I am adopting you as my sons.

00:26:16.140 And you're going to rule America with me.

00:26:20.540 That would be pretty cool, wouldn't it?

00:26:22.240 That would be pretty awesome.

00:26:23.400 You're adopted into the royal family.

00:26:26.660 And you get to sit on a nice throne.

00:26:28.400 You get really cool clothes and walk in parades.

00:26:33.080 You're adopted into the royal family.

00:26:35.440 That's what your baptism is doing.

00:26:36.500 You're putting on the royal robes of the king of the entire universe,

00:26:42.820 the king of kings and lord of lords.

00:26:44.440 You're being adopted into that royal family.

00:26:48.660 That's what your baptism is.

00:26:51.700 And then we come to verse 28.

00:26:55.080 And within this context, remember the context.

00:26:58.740 You are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

00:27:02.420 Your baptism is entry into the family of God, the royal family of God.

00:27:08.680 And this is where he says,

00:27:09.840 Therefore, neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,

00:27:15.480 there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

00:27:20.860 So what is he saying here?

00:27:21.860 In the context, what is he saying?

00:27:24.200 in the royal family of God as heirs of the inheritance,

00:27:28.340 of the promises to God, to Christ, and to his people.

00:27:33.920 There is no distinction between Jews and Greeks.

00:27:36.680 What is the main theme of Galatians

00:27:39.040 is that these old covenant people, the Jews, 0.89

00:27:41.860 that are separated out from the rest of the people of the world,

00:27:45.040 that separation is over.

00:27:48.340 They are brought into Christ in faith,

00:27:51.540 and the Gentiles, all the other people of the world,

00:27:53.940 they're brought into Christ in faith, and there's no distinction between them. They are both equally

00:27:59.320 heirs in the royal family. It's not the Jews are up here, and the Gentiles are down here. No, it's 0.98

00:28:04.840 like, no, you're one. You're together in this, right? There's neither slave nor free, right? In that

00:28:11.020 in ancient society, this actually is controversial, right? In ancient society, you had lots and lots

00:28:17.380 of slaves, maybe 20, 30 percent of the Roman Empire, more than that even, at different times,

00:28:23.940 were slaves, right? We're owned by someone else, right? At the bottom of the social status. And

00:28:29.400 then you had various gradations of free men and patricians and so forth. There's a very rigid

00:28:34.440 hierarchy in the ancient world, right? In America, we don't like hierarchy. It's bad. We don't like

00:28:42.240 social classes and things like this, even though it exists. And what is he saying here, right?

00:28:49.140 Whether you are a CEO, right? Whether you're Elon Musk, you're down in Austin and one of the richest

00:28:55.340 men on the planet, if you were a Christian, right? Or if you are just a part-time worker at 0.88

00:29:02.240 McDonald's, right? Everything in between or unemployed, right? A homeless guy, but you believe

00:29:08.680 in Jesus, right? Everything in between, you are all one in Christ. That hierarchy in the kingdom

00:29:14.480 does not exist. It does not exist within the kingdom, within the royal family of God. There's

00:29:22.340 neither male nor female, right? What is the major point of contention in Galatians? It's over

00:29:27.940 circumcision, right? Well, who gets circumcised in the law of Moses? Only men, only men do, right? 0.57

00:29:36.060 only men are really these covenant members. The women are by virtue of their family status, but 0.98

00:29:42.680 it's the men who get circumcised, and they're the real heirs of all of this. But in the new covenant, 0.92

00:29:50.280 that's not the case. That's not the case, right? They inherit along with the men. They have this

00:29:55.780 status, right? You think of sons of God, right? Where in verse 26, you should think of sons of God

00:30:02.020 as a title, right, as a title that someone holds, like duke or prince or king, right? Sons of God

00:30:10.420 is this royal title that is held equally by Jews, by Greeks, by slaves, by free men, by men and

00:30:19.020 women, all of them together in Christ. And so a little bit later, right, we'll go back to verse 28

00:30:26.060 and talk about what it doesn't mean, right, what it doesn't mean, but that's what it does mean

00:30:30.100 positively right that's the context of the verse and then finally right verse 29 right verse 29

00:30:37.680 and if you are christ's then you are abraham's seed lowercase s you are abraham's seed and heirs

00:30:46.620 according to the promise so the question here is right you read genesis 12 genesis 17 right and it

00:30:56.060 says, right, those who bless you, Abraham, I will bless, and those who curse you, Abraham, I will

00:31:01.940 curse, right? Who is that to? Who is that to? Is it to a nation-state in the eastern Mediterranean

00:31:09.300 today, or is it a particular ethnic group all throughout the world today, right? Who do those

00:31:14.740 promises? Those promises are still active today. Who do they belong to, right? Paul tells us right

00:31:20.280 here in Galatians, they belong to Jesus Christ and his people, right? Those who belong to him 0.98

00:31:29.480 by faith, those promises belong to Jesus and his church. So you read those promises in Genesis

00:31:38.800 to Abraham and to his seed. Those are promises to Jesus and to his people. You read that when

00:31:45.520 it's his seed. It's like, that's, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's us right there. It's us, right? It is to us

00:31:52.740 alone by faith in Jesus, right? That's this point, these promises, right? These promises that God has

00:31:59.940 made are to his people, right? And Paul doesn't say here, well, some of the promises are to

00:32:06.480 to the church and some of them are to other people, right? Even the promise of the land,

00:32:12.040 right the promised land who gets that land well the entire world is now the promised land of

00:32:20.500 canaan that belongs to jesus right jesus this is what jesus says at the end of matthew in the great

00:32:25.280 commission right all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me right what does that mean

00:32:29.480 the entire planet is my inheritance right this is what what god says to him the father says to him

00:32:38.240 that David records in Psalm 2, right, what does the father say to the son? Ask of me and I will

00:32:44.060 give the nations for your inheritance. Not just one stretch of land in a particular place, right?

00:32:49.920 It doesn't mean that promises null and void because that is one of the nations. It's now

00:32:54.580 all of the nations are the inheritance of Jesus Christ and his people and the sons of God, his

00:33:01.840 royal family right his co-heirs with him right that's when he's adopting us that's what he's

00:33:09.720 doing he's saying i am writing you into the will and you get the same inheritance as me

00:33:15.060 and that inheritance includes the promises that were made to my father abraham right that is what

00:33:23.320 it means right which is right everything i've said here right runs very contrary to what many

00:33:30.040 modern Christians believe today. We believe, whoa, Old Covenant's still operating out here

00:33:35.160 somewhere, somehow. And those promises, those belong to not to the church or to Jesus. They

00:33:40.880 belong to people by virtue of their DNA or by virtue of their religious traditions. They don't 1.00

00:33:46.560 belong to the church. But you read straightforwardly what Paul says right here, and you can't come away

00:33:53.320 with any other point, right? This is why the church for, until the mid-19th century, this is

00:34:00.180 why the church believed this, right? The same thing that I'm saying everywhere, right? Whether

00:34:04.220 you're Catholic or Orthodox or Protestant, a reformer, right? Right up until the middle of

00:34:10.240 the 19th century. This is what we, yep, we are, we are the church. We are united to Christ who is

00:34:17.700 the true Israel, and he is the inheritor of the promises to Abraham. That makes sense. Paul said

00:34:24.280 it. I'm going to believe it, right? But today, right, we don't believe those things, right? That's

00:34:29.280 the first, the first error I wanted to address. Let's see how much time I have here. How much

00:34:34.700 time do we have for the other ones? The second one, and Joel's looking at me. He's like, just keep

00:34:39.520 going. You go for two more hours. It's fine. Lunch will be cold, but it's okay. The second

00:34:47.000 error, right, going back to Galatians 3.28, the second error is, right, you read, right, anytime,

00:34:58.400 anytime you make the point, right, now today in like contemporary politics, there's a lot of

00:35:03.440 controversy over what exactly is America, right, what is America, is America, you know, is America

00:35:10.520 a people? No, it's not a people, a particular people, anyone could be American, you just have

00:35:16.240 to believe the right propositions you just have to really love freedom and that's not how the

00:35:22.700 original people that founded the country believed right they believed that americans were a

00:35:26.600 particular people that settled the country and they would of course they would they would bring

00:35:30.840 more people here that they thought these people will fit into what we are doing uh they can

00:35:36.020 these people will assimilate and so forth so it wasn't totally restrictive but it still was very

00:35:41.320 restrictive. They understood themselves as a particular people. We are Americans as a real

00:35:46.520 definite people. But you make that point now within, especially within modern evangelicalism,

00:35:53.840 where you say, I don't think America is a propositional nation. I think it's a distinct

00:35:57.340 people, right? And mainstream evangelicals, big Eva evangelicals, what's the first thing they do? 0.59

00:36:04.800 the very well they call you racist uh and the second thing they do is they pull out their

00:36:11.780 bibles and what verse do they turn to right what verse do they turn they turn to galatians 3 28

00:36:17.960 they will say i can't believe yeah you're racist right here's what paul says galatians 3 28 there's

00:36:25.020 neither jew nor greek we're all one in christ so that means you need to have infinity immigration

00:36:32.200 into your country, right? That's, I mean, it's funny, but that's really what they do. That's 1.00

00:36:36.920 really what they say. That's really what they believe. There's neither Jew nor Greek, right?

00:36:42.200 Therefore, there's no such thing as a distinct American people. And if you believe that,

00:36:47.320 you are very bad, right? You are sinning. You're committing this heinous sin. But what is the

00:36:53.880 context of this verse, right? The context of this verse is not, I mean, take away America. Just

00:37:00.900 think about Britain or France or Germany, these particular countries, because the same play is

00:37:07.240 being run on those countries, right? Nigel Farage, why are you objecting to millions of Muslims and

00:37:16.380 Pakistanis and people from third world countries coming into your country, right? There's neither 1.00

00:37:22.980 Jew nor Greek. Anybody can be British, right? There's no such thing as British people. And it's

00:37:28.200 like well I think there is uh they're distinct people they talk pretty funny um they're real

00:37:33.680 they they eat weird food they have beans for breakfast they're weird people uh and they are

00:37:38.760 a real people right no you can't have you can't have a distinct country right why because there's 0.96

00:37:45.280 neither Jew nor Greek we're all one in Christ I mean same thing with France same thing with Germany

00:37:49.260 all these countries the same play is being run on them but what is what is the context of the verse

00:37:55.220 it is not about your country right it's not about can you have a country or not are you allowed to

00:38:02.820 have a distinct people or country because i mean what is a country it's just a family writ large

00:38:06.860 it's just it's that's what a people is right you have a family and then you have an extended

00:38:12.320 family then you have a tribe then you have a nation right that's right in in genesis right

00:38:19.500 what does God promise Abraham? He says, I will make many nations from you, right? What does that 0.77

00:38:25.760 mean? And you see this, right? There are other peoples that come into Israel. So it's not just

00:38:29.820 distinctly like blood descent from Abraham, but the main part of it is, right? And this distinctiveness

00:38:36.920 as a people, right? You have, yeah, Ruth, the Moabitess, Rahab, people that are grafted into it. 0.89

00:38:43.140 But the main body is the people that are descended from this man, right? That's natural. That's

00:38:48.380 normal that's the way it works right all all the british people right they're just they have the

00:38:52.780 same fathers all the way back right you see the table of the nations it's just a family tree in

00:38:57.900 genesis 10 genesis 10 right that's not bad that's not wrong to recognize these as realities

00:39:03.720 because the opposite is nobody anywhere can have nations right nobody anywhere can have

00:39:11.300 a distinct people you're not allowed to have germany or france or britain

00:39:14.340 those can't exist anymore we need to just take all eight billion people as if they're a deck of

00:39:21.640 cards right and just shuffle them up that's what we want to do right no no distinct nations of

00:39:27.900 peoples and cultures that's no that's that's it's insanity it's nuts and what do they do they use

00:39:33.360 this verse Galatians 3 28 to justify it but Paul is not talking about this he's not saying that 0.82

00:39:38.460 all right you Greeks in Asia Minor you need to you need to get some more diversity you need to go

00:39:43.380 you need to go elsewhere. Some of you are going to have to go to Persia. Some of you have to go to 1.00

00:39:47.220 India. You have to bring Indians here. He's not saying that with his verse at all. What is 1.00

00:39:53.380 his point that he's making? He's saying in Christ, in the kingdom of God, there's neither Jew nor 0.96

00:39:58.420 Greek. In Christ, in the church, there are not these distinctions. And this is true. This is

00:40:05.340 wonderful or you think about this in in nigeria right now there are many of our christian brothers 1.00

00:40:15.080 and sisters and little children that are being attacked by muslims and murdered destroyed right 0.83

00:40:22.680 and i i have affinity for these people in a way that i don't when there are terrorist attacks 0.89

00:40:26.800 against in pakistan against muslims or iraq right but when christians are attacked right those are

00:40:32.880 our brothers we are heirs just like they are right we have the same inheritance with them

00:40:37.940 in christ and that is a beautiful and wonderful thing but that doesn't mean that every all eight

00:40:46.200 billion people on planet earth have a right to come to america and vote in our elections and

00:40:51.080 and you know collect our tax money and things like that that's insanity it's not what paul is

00:40:55.280 arguing for he's not arguing for that at all right and secondly right you take this or you take that

00:41:01.760 exegesis and you say oh there's no distinctions between peoples anymore right well you also you

00:41:08.360 have other distinctions other than you know ethnic distinctions in that verse right what are the other

00:41:13.680 distinctions you have a distinction between male and female right so if you if you take the same

00:41:20.460 exegetical strategy as you look at jews and greeks and you universalize it to everything

00:41:25.280 not just within the kingdom of god but to everything then what does that mean right it 0.97

00:41:30.780 means that feminism is fine, right? It means, right, your pastor referenced it earlier. I'm sure you 0.98

00:41:37.080 all saw it. The spectacle yesterday, I mean, just the travesty of it, especially the very end of the

00:41:44.420 video as the president is getting into the SUV, right? I mean, did you just see the women 0.99

00:41:50.180 secret service agents, right? I mean, they're running around like chickens with their head 1.00

00:41:55.040 cut off. They're playing with their sunglasses. They're not serious defenders of the president.

00:42:00.780 right it's maybe it's purposeful i don't know right why they do that it's insanity to think

00:42:08.060 that this job where your job is to take a bullet for another man would be given to a person that

00:42:13.980 god did not design to be a warrior that's nuts but if you take the mainstream evangelical approach

00:42:22.200 to galatians 3 28 well there's neither male nor female why do you have a problem with that you 0.95

00:42:27.480 hate women, Andrew? No, actually, I love women. I don't want them to take bullets for people. I

00:42:31.820 don't want them going to war because I love women. I love my wife and my daughters, right? I don't

00:42:37.140 want that. That's insane. That's nuts. But you take that same verse. Well, there's no, like,

00:42:42.520 grace has destroyed nature. So there's no longer Jew or Greek anywhere, anywhere at all. Totally 0.99

00:42:48.960 universalized. Well, then there's no longer male nor female, which means, right, Bruce Jenner can

00:42:54.840 become Caitlyn Jenner and Galatians 3.28 says it's okay, right? When you do, when you, when you

00:42:59.940 practice that, when you take that strategy and you take it away from the context of being about the 0.98

00:43:05.320 church of Jesus Christ and about the kingdom of God, then I guess transgenderism is fine if you 0.89

00:43:12.180 do that, right? Of course it's not, right? We, we, it's, it's, it gives us a sense of revulsion 1.00

00:43:18.920 to think that that could be the case that isn't at all that isn't true whatsoever so these

00:43:28.400 these two major errors right i think i think you hopefully you'll understand the points that i'm

00:43:35.040 making right what what is it i mean both of these things the idea that grace restores nature doesn't

00:43:42.400 destroy it right grace restores nature that you can have right what happens when the gospel goes

00:43:48.640 different nations that are distinct. They might not like each other, right? The Germans and the

00:43:54.540 French and the French and the English historically have not gotten along very well. But what happens

00:44:00.780 as the leaven of the gospel makes its way through these particular nations where they don't get

00:44:05.140 along with each other over centuries, what happens? You have peace because this nation and that nation

00:44:13.480 and that nation, right? They share Christ together. They recognize you are my brother in Christ. We

00:44:19.540 are heirs of the kingdom of God. And so I don't want to fight you, right? I don't, I don't want

00:44:24.460 to have war with you at all, right? That's what it, that's what it brings. That's what it brings

00:44:31.040 to us. So, and it's a recognition of Christian tradition, right? Nobody, 100 years ago, right?

00:44:39.220 No one would read Galatians 3.28 and think, well, I guess this means there's no longer any ethnicities.

00:44:46.300 There's not people from different countries or different races or anything like that.

00:44:49.320 We can just say goodbye to those things, right?

00:44:52.160 No, what it means is this is the mechanism that you have peace between the different people, right?

00:44:58.140 This is the mechanism where you have peace between the differences, right?

00:45:01.160 You also have, right, Revelation 7, right, where it says, right, up in heaven, at the end, there are many peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations.

00:45:10.280 They say, right, actually at the conference yesterday, Stephen Wolf referenced this verse.

00:45:14.440 They say, all right, your church needs to look like this, right?

00:45:17.140 Even if you live in a 98% white town, well, you need to have more diversity because that's what heaven looks like. 0.96

00:45:22.640 Your particular church, you're being very bad and non-Christian, right? 0.93

00:45:26.420 You don't look like Revelation 7, 9. 0.98

00:45:27.900 um and that of course is insanity nobody thought that way a hundred years ago or 500 years ago

00:45:35.560 right the traditions that we have um are are good and solid and sturdy and it doesn't mean that we

00:45:42.200 were bad though they were our great great grandfathers were bad people right oh they're

00:45:46.020 evil racist people because they didn't read galatians 328 the same way that david french does

00:45:51.180 no of course not of course not so the main the main point that i'm trying to bring to you today

00:45:58.920 is that tradition or the traditions of our fathers they're good they're good to reach back

00:46:06.660 to the traditions of reformed protestant christianity to read the things they thought to

00:46:14.700 to re-encounter the world that they lived in is good and healthy for us because the world we

00:46:21.060 live in today is insane, and it actually affects the church and how we read the Bible. That's why

00:46:26.920 you have so many churches that say, oh, women pastors are fine, because that was just a cultural

00:46:30.300 thing back when Paul was, you know, writing, and we're so progressive, and we're way better than

00:46:36.380 them now. I mean, don't you know they had slaves? So they're bad people. We were doing things the

00:46:42.420 right way right our world is messed up by things like like that our world is is in rough shapes

00:46:50.720 going back to these traditions is good and in fact um i think right the phenomenon and maybe

00:46:58.960 many of you are troubled by that i'm kind of troubled by this or more than kind of

00:47:02.740 is there this phenomenon of many young evangelical christian people you know my age and younger

00:47:09.240 you know 20s 30s uh that grow up in evangelical churches right what what's the thing that happens

00:47:15.500 especially if they move more right-wing politically right what do they do right they

00:47:20.780 they they go roman catholic or eastern orthodox many of you probably have friends that have

00:47:26.980 have done just that right what what are the what are the reasons why that they do this

00:47:31.760 right one of the main reasons is like well i want something grounded in tradition i want something

00:47:38.800 grounded in tradition maybe there's aesthetic reasons and things like that as well but i want

00:47:44.120 something grounded in tradition because what did they grow up going to right they grew up going to

00:47:48.860 either a big giant mega church evangelical thing where it's a where it's a ted talk and uh rock

00:47:54.880 concert and it's just totally vapid or there's nothing there at all or the other alternative

00:48:00.600 was going to the the really heavy doctrinal bible teaching church which actually was just we're

00:48:07.660 going to talk about blood moons and red heifers and black helicopters and things like that every

00:48:12.200 single week um that's all they do right neither of those things are grounded in in the tradition of

00:48:20.540 protestantism whatsoever neither of those things so that's why they flee that's why they go but what

00:48:27.540 what are we doing here what are we in my church what are we doing what are you doing in your

00:48:31.760 church in many churches like ours right you i think it's well known because of your pastor's

00:48:38.480 youtube channel that you guys are a 1689 church is that correct uh 1689 church right we're a 1689

00:48:44.040 church right that's beautiful that's wonderful that is something that's 1689 that was a long

00:48:49.300 time ago and right that means these are sturdy traditions that have been tested by hundreds of

00:48:56.660 years and they have held up right what do you have in the big box evangelical mega churches you have

00:49:02.460 you have traditions that are like five weeks old and they're going to chase the next trend those

00:49:06.300 are your traditions right whatever is trendy last week right young people especially now when they

00:49:12.060 see how bad things are they don't want that right they don't want they want something that is deep

00:49:17.060 that is grounded in truth and in tradition so that's why they leave and go elsewhere and so

00:49:24.060 what are we doing when we when we look at verses this way that in the traditional way right in the

00:49:28.620 traditional way we are saying our great great great grandfathers the things that they believed

00:49:35.640 you know they were actually right right we are honoring them by saying you know what you were

00:49:42.240 correct you were correct about what you believed and what we are doing now the generation our

00:49:49.480 generation the generations that precede us we rebelled against what you believed we thought

00:49:53.440 we do better and we were wrong right that's what we're returning to tradition recovering tradition

00:49:58.980 is and of course especially with an evangelicalism we have this antipathy toward tradition we think 0.98

00:50:06.220 tradition that's bad right that's that oh the Roman Catholics they do they have tradition 1.00

00:50:11.300 and that's bad they're just there they turn their brains off they don't read the Bible and they just 1.00

00:50:15.160 fall under it well I mean the caricature is kind of true I mean I know Catholics are gonna be angry 1.00

00:50:20.080 with me saying that but it's kind of true it's like well yeah we have the catechism we don't 1.00

00:50:24.680 need to read the bible why are you reading i need a priest to read that thing you're not qualified

00:50:28.200 right they do do that often when you argue with them right but what do we do right what do we do

00:50:34.340 we don't say oh i'm a robot just bound by tradition i'm not going to read the scriptures

00:50:38.880 for myself no we're guided by the tradition we're guided by the tradition um the analogy i would use

00:50:45.100 right now I'm reframing out the basement of my house. I'm reframing out the basement of my house

00:50:53.380 and if all I had right if I was a total novice I've never picked up a hammer in my entire life

00:51:02.500 right if all I had was just a pile of two by fours and studs and nails and it's like all right I'm

00:51:10.720 going to go try to frame this thing up, make it look nice, right? I'd never been taught how to do

00:51:17.560 construction. There was no YouTube videos available to watch. I didn't have anyone to teach me.

00:51:22.940 And I just tried to throw that thing together. It would look like modern art, right? It would not

00:51:28.360 look good. It wouldn't be straight and plumb and level, right? It would be like, is that a dog or

00:51:34.080 a person? I don't really know, right? It would be a mess. It would look like a lot of the buildings

00:51:39.060 in Austin, and it would be bad. It would be terrible, but what do I have, right? I'm guided

00:51:48.760 by what? By tradition, right? By tradition. My dad taught me, all right, you want to keep this

00:51:56.860 level, son, and you want these boards to be square and straight. Well, he didn't reinvent how to build

00:52:02.720 houses on his own spontaneously one day, right? Somebody taught him, and somebody taught that guy.

00:52:08.840 Somebody taught that guy.

00:52:09.980 It's on and on and on and on.

00:52:11.460 That's what tradition is.

00:52:13.940 It's guided by history, by your past.

00:52:18.060 It is, I think Roger Scruton has quoted his that I love,

00:52:21.900 What is tradition?

00:52:23.560 It's history's answer, enduring answer to enduring questions.

00:52:30.840 That's what it is.

00:52:32.040 We have that.

00:52:32.880 We could draw on those things.

00:52:34.160 We can go back and say, 1.00

00:52:35.260 well what did what did Herman Bavink think about right feminism or what we would call feminism

00:52:40.680 today what did what did he think about those things right what did John Calvin think right

00:52:44.820 what did Charles Spurgeon think we could go back and think what do these guys think

00:52:47.680 right about all of these these what do they think about nations were nations good right wasn't it

00:52:53.720 was it good for for nations to become Christian uh was that a good thing did they think that was 0.97

00:52:59.220 okay of course they did of course they did we could go back to these traditions and the more

00:53:04.460 that we do the more that our churches do the more that our churches recover a traditional

00:53:08.840 understanding of how to read the bible and are guided by by fathers who are long dead

00:53:15.540 the the more and more especially young people will flock to our churches and want to hear

00:53:24.720 what we have to say so in in closing and it's a real closing i don't know if if your pastor is

00:53:31.980 like me right sometimes when i say in closing in conclusion that's that's the alert that you have

00:53:37.640 30 minutes left but i'm really gonna wrap up here i'll really wrap up but in conclusion right the

00:53:43.660 more that you lean on your traditions right the the more the authority of scripture actually comes

00:53:51.380 out right the more the authority of scripture actually comes out because you're able you're

00:53:55.500 able to read it and understand it and it becomes more authoritative right because if every single

00:54:00.540 person here is just reinventing the wheel every time they open up the bible right you're gonna

00:54:05.320 have i mean how many people are like 300 people uh you're gonna have 300 different bible

00:54:09.180 interpretations right if you're all being guided just completely by yourself right that's the

00:54:13.640 critique that the catholics have of us and it's it's erroneous it's a caricature of what we believe

00:54:19.600 right what do we what are we guided by right scripture is the ultimate final authority

00:54:24.360 but our traditions guide us to that right it's it's just like having your dad or your grandpa

00:54:32.200 help you learn how to do a thing right that's that's what tradition in the protestant sense

00:54:37.860 is right we're having our grandpas and our great-grandpas and our great-great-grandpas

00:54:42.900 say hey here's how you read this passage maybe you'll disagree maybe it's like oh maybe there's

00:54:48.120 a little part that's wrong right the reformation it's semper reformando the reformation keeps going

00:54:52.400 on. We are going to continue to learn how to read the Bible better, but not by tearing down

00:54:57.900 everything that they have done in the past, but by building it up and adding on to it. So lean into

00:55:04.440 the traditions that have been laid forward for us, and God is going to bless us. He is going to

00:55:11.340 see this inheritance that Paul talks about in Galatians come to fruition. He is going to give

00:55:19.480 us that what what is going to happen right what does that inheritance entail part of it part of

00:55:24.480 it is right psalm 2 ask of me and the nations are your inheritance well we live in a particular

00:55:30.200 nation a particular people and what is psalm 2 saying right this particular nation at this point

00:55:35.360 in time what is it it is part of the inheritance of jesus christ it belongs to him it belongs to

00:55:44.840 him, and who else does it belong to? For you are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ,

00:55:49.840 and if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise,

00:55:53.900 right? So that Psalm 2 promise, right, who does America belong to? It belongs to Jesus

00:55:57.760 and his people, right? Jesus and his church, Jesus and the sons of God, which are Christians,

00:56:04.840 right? That's, and so how does this inheritance, right, come to fruition, right? It comes through

00:56:10.320 the faith of his people, the repentance of his people, the preaching of his people, the truth

00:56:16.680 being made known to our whole nation, and then we will win this inheritance for our Lord Jesus

00:56:26.420 Christ. So in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.

The NXR Podcast - July 14, 2024

THE SERMON - In His Kindness, God Will Destroy Dispensationalism - Galatians 3_15-29 ｜ Pastor Andrew Isker

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