Faster Pastor and Heirs of Grace [Part 2]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright. The proclamation of the gospel. Paul says is an announcement that your salvation and your sanctification had nothing to do with you, yourself being good enough and has everything to do with God at work in you that's Pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good view that will help you see your life will deliberate excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series Galatians is presented at renewal the church in North Carolina able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now.

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If you're enslaved to something he's talking about a power and so that is best to interpret. This is what Paul is speaking of his elementary spirit of the world and by this he means demonic powers, which raises the stakes of what is at hand. What what he's talking about because he's saying we were enslaved. If you are under the law and living under system.

The law he is saying that there is a form of this that is like an enslaved condition to demonic persecution in your life. Now this is very important to get this straight. Paul has already told us in Galatians that the law is good and the law was given by God so he's not saying now in Galatians 4 that the law is bad and that the law was given by demon. Instead what he's saying is that the good gift of the law. Why was it good. It's a revelation of God's holiness. It points us to our need of Jesus Christ. The law he said was added because of transgressions pointed out to us how futile it is to try to save ourselves and how much we needed grace and prepared us to receive the gospel of grace, the Lord is good and Christ didn't come to abolish the law but to fulfill it and usher in a new covenant of grace. So is not saying that the law is evil or that the law was given by evil entities. So what is he saying the law that was meant to draw us to Jesus. If we stay under it as a system for our lives that law. Instead, will become the weaponry of the principalities of hell. This is something that you can chronicle pretty well. Throughout the whole metanarrative of the Bible is that that Satan himself is a legalist and one of the greatest points of spiritual persecution you ever encounter in your life is going to be surrounding the matter of your inability to keep the law to what happens is it Satan, whose name means accuser and all of the principalities of hell operate a crane. This basic principle to seek to convince you that you do not have an inheritance because of your sin.

Your failure and your folly is an accuser because what is the accusation. The accusation always will be, in one form or another. You didn't keep the law and therefore you don't deserve to be blessed in what so many people do in their attempts to have inward peace is an attempt is to just live a better life. I'll do better next time, I'll be I'll be a better person. I'll quit being impatient. I'll quit losing my temper.

I'll quit lusting whatever it is, in order to feel better about themselves, not realizing that when you do that and when you when you talk that way that I'm going to I'm going to feel better about myself because I want to try to keep the law that you actually placed yourself what Paul says under the law. And that's the position that's the place where where the tempter's snare comes weaponry. The tools of the of the elementary spirits of Paul speaking are essentially this the legalistic that the vote law giving accusatory condemning voice is essentially to say you have not kept the law and therefore you are disqualified and what the gospel does is absolutely strip all such temptation of all of its power is like is like when you come up under grace.

The enemies gun has no bullets. As all the ammunition is stripped away from an accuser if there's nothing to accuse you of the answer.

The answer for the piece. The serenity, the passion of your soul for God is not to hear the accuser's voice say you haven't done enough for God and you are be ashamed yourself and therefore used and condemned an unblessed the answer instead is the proclamation of the gospel which Paul says is an announcement that your salvation and your sanctification had nothing to do with you, yourself being good enough and has everything and to do with God at work in you that it is God through Jesus Christ who saved you and it is his grace. That is sanctified, better, in other words, what you been invited into beloved is not another system of law that just called new covenant you're called into a new covenant of grace wherein you live by a new reality. You have been written by God through the shed blood of Jesus to be the righteousness of Jesus Christ, so that when the enemies tempter voice comes to you and accuses you and says you have no inheritance. You can't draw near to God. You can't claim his promises you can't live victoriously because look at all your failures.

You have to turn back to that voice and say it can't be taken away from me because it didn't come by me maintained by God is way is great is so much at stake, and so that any error is not subject to the accuser's voice in the same way that the orphan is this is what would grow with us when we need each other's while we keep reminding each other some years ago we had an outreach event at Weaverville Park and one of things were doing was weird give it.

We are given away bikes, the little kids and it was just that this one most fun things you can ever do is just just find some kids that maybe never had a bike and don't have much chance to get one and we are able to meet we some people work hard for some off this mortal gift came its way. They were not all shabby bike. They were new bike.

They they go store got these bikes and I just remember this picture. This one is one little boy he could if he is maybe four at most five and I we had some system where you got a number then you get a bike. It was praise God.

It worked out. There were enough bikes for all kids but this is one force. Once he came up and and that he call the number. He came about his number and he got to pick out his bike and he went out want to just fit him head train will shiny little by afirst by looking at little boy's face as he was wheeling that thing over towards his mom. It is just priceless. In that moment of bliss that moment in which some seed was planted in the soil of a little boy's heart that maybe this world is. There is a place where something could happen in your life. It was just an act of grace, maybe sometimes God just blesses you because he wants to bless you. Maybe you're not doomed to just be stuck in the same, but just a little seed like that and it lasted for no more than about a minute and 1/2 because a man came walking over and I'm just guessing that he was the mother's boyfriend the way he acted, and when the little boy looked up and saw the man little boy's face. His countenance melted and he had a look that was a look of fear and displeasure at looking at this man's face. It was just as natural response. Whatever relationship have been there and the man said to him why you looking at me like that. I hate when you look at me like that you better wipe that look off your face as I take that bike away from you. Given that bike. I just grieved this grieved and prayed for little boy, but realize that this is the spiritual battle that is at hand. That's Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series an option for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you my letter for site when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundred state asking Tyson sad that Shayna got enough for me to measure that on the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison. The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my having rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church. They pass Apollo is outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Wright's 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with pure grace.

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We are in our final days of offering the special product. Call us at 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor Alan.like today's teaching now continues your once again is Alan Wright every moment of grace is challenged by the accuser's voice who wants to tell you all that grace can just be taken right away from you is a spiritual battle and Paul saying this is about more than just acting like a child feel like a slave. This is about breaking out of subjection to the tyranny of your accuser break forth by the power of the gospel so he links this image to spiritual warfare and then he moves on to speak of the gift of God. When the fullness of time. Verse four had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons. All of the language in verse four has hasn't its subject. God, God sent God redeems and God adopts when you hear me talk and speak so much about the emphasis of the gospel what God has done for you rather than always talking about what you can do for God. It is not to say that what we do doesn't matter. It matters very much, but it is to say that the order of events is essential because only when you see that God initiated your salvation, and that God sent his son in the fullness of time, and that God redeems you, and that God adopted you into you get that image in your mind. You'll always feel as though it's you holding onto God, but the image of the Scripture is of God holding on to you and what Paul is trying to convince the Galatians of here he wants to convince us of is that we are secure in God's grace, it changes the way we live and feel the pillow I had at night. It changes our expectation. It builds our hope in our lives count on this. The power of the gospel is at stake.

God is the subject. He is the initiator. He is the asked tour and we are the recipients and receiving changes everything in our lives and makes us a people were totally sold out totally devoted totally longing to follow him in every part, but only because of what he has done for us. So now Paul changes the image from a child who hasn't written had access to his inheritance and he changes the image now to join with this. The whole picture of adoption and the act of adoption was a magnificent legal transaction in, and Paul's day, sometimes a wealthy man had no air and sometimes you actually select one of his own slaves slaves and adopted as a son. The reason for the adoption was so that the inheritance could be released so when you're adopted this image conveys means that you now have this animate access to this man who previously would not have had you may have even been a slave. But now you're like a son and you have access to an inheritance you were adopted because your love because you're wanted because you have a destiny and you're adopted because you have a rich father in heaven who wants to pour out and it spiritual inheritance into your life and leave a legacy for others and touch the world through you. That's the image that Paul is using here and I'd like to pause and and just make a brief account of a parenthetical comment about the language that you see here in the ESV as in many other translations that says adoption as sons because we've learned in recent years that there is something that is important about the insensitive in our language about gender so that we do not reinforce the idea of male superiority because we have just read that in Christ there is no male or female, and so we have sought and to to to change language that to be inclusive would say sons and daughters are our children. But here the language remains sons and I think there's an important purpose for this in this because in the context Paul was writing the firstborn son was the delight not only the family but was the honor of society. Firstborn son would receive a double portion of inheritance in a special blessing from his father and what Paul is saying here is inclusive to men and women that you because you're adopted you're adopted like sons because the inheritance flowed in that day. Inheritance flowed through the firstborn son what he saying, whether male or female understand that this is about your position.

It's like we are all the firstborn son you're adopted for that purpose. When I change everything I could go deep inside it would not change everything about how you view life. You're like God's firstborn son adopted so that he could put an inheritance into you. The plan of God has always been to make us heirs to give us an inheritance territory a realm of spiritual influence and this intimacy that we have with God is conveyed through the expression that our heart cries out, we don't really have a good way to translate this probably would be… It would be it would be like daddy but not in the sense of just just how casual it might seem.

But in how intimate it is and how bold it is and this is the way in which you can know that your sons because your sons, God has sent the Spirit of his son into our hearts and and so the spirit. Paul says elsewhere is bearing witness to our spirit that we are signs so verse seven. So you are no longer a slave but a sign of firstborn son.

And if a son, then an heir through God.

The plan of God has always been since sin entered the world to find a way to convince eyes that we are heirs of God, there has been a progressive revelation and many Henson shadows and prophetic visions and words that all pointed to the coming of Christ. When Adam and Eve were in the garden. They were given an assignment and they were blessed and they were told that they had dominion in the earth. They were told that that that they were to have a form of rulership under God in the earth, and they were to be fruitful and multiply. In other words, that they were to have a place of governance and be of great blessing to the whole earth, and this was God's plan for humanity is never changed when sin came into the world and Adam and Eve forfeited their paradise. God didn't thwart his plan, but he began to unveil a redemptive plan with the question at hand. Will I ever be able to convince my people who belong to me that they are also my heirs or will they. Since sin is in the world forever doubt that have no assurance of it and therefore live more like orphan so it comes to Abraham and he makes Abraham an incredible promise. He says that you will have a territory you'll have a land you'll have governments and he says and you're gonna be fruitful, and you're going to be a blessing that you can have a son. The same promise in other words, it was spoken. Adam and Eve is reinforced now through a covenant that is made with Abraham, but the question that continues is will I really be a blessing. Am I really an heir.

Even Abraham and Sarah, even Abraham, the man of faith. They question it, they bring in Hagar they wind up with Ishmael. But Isaac is born and so it is that God that that that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jay would continue to try to assure his people. This is the image of Jacob.

Jacob was the second born and he didn't think that he would be an air and so he stole and can I've been deceived and lied his way into trying to grab an inheritance not know when he'd already been predestined to be treated as though he were a firstborn, the pattern just continues that the people of God when they fall into slavery. God hears the cry of the poor, and he delivers them and you very soon realize that the story is about more than a Red Sea parting and swallowing up the enemy that that the story is also about how will this people live with their freedom will they be able to embrace their freedom, or will they act like children like orphans and therefore no different than slaves when they send people into the promised land to inspect and spy out the land. Those spies come back with a bad report and essentially they say we can't take it you know what they're saying is that we are not heirs after all if they had believed it was theirs. They would've taken it right in today's teaching is faster, pastor and heirs of grace from our series on Galatians and Alan will be back in a moment with additional insight on this for your life and our final word today unlock the power of blessing your life, discover God's grace filled vision for your life by signing rights, free daily press fill your heart with grace and encouragement. Alan writes a daily blessing. It's free.

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Pastor Alan got away an option for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you on the matter for site when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundred today that same person.

Sad that Shayna get enough for me to measure up on the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 90 days when 1% of conditional love poison. The other 99% which is 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my heavy rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church.

They pass Apollo is outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan writes 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with care grace.

It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God. When you make your gift to Alan Wright Ministries today will send you Pastor Alan's messages in an attractive CD album with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. We are in our final days of offering the special product, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website. Pastor Alan got away, you feel a lot of, especially those who've grown up in the church we know how to speak and sing the songs. We can pray the prayers and sometimes if were really honest. We have to pinch ourselves or do I really really believe this that I'm really an air of grace that God is that good will and you know it is often said that once the slaves came out of Egypt. The big question was, could Egypt, out of the slaves, could they believe themselves heirs of a promised land. And I think that's there. The right shadow the right picture for us as Christians as well is I think sometimes is easier to believe. Well were forgiven were safe will go to heaven one day, but to really start understanding that we who wants were far from God are not only forgiven but we are adopted and made heirs but it's essential that we know that until we do. I don't think we can live out the destiny that God has for us and that's why Paul really wants to make this really important point. We are heirs of the grace of life together. Today's good news message is a listener supported production of Alan Wright Ministries