Galatians 4:28-5:8
January 28, 2024
preached by Joshua DePasacreta
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness.”

~ Jonathan Edwards

“The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.”

~ Charles Stanley

“As Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parades, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it.”

   ~ A.W. Pink

“Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship – and not as ends in themselves.”

   ~ Francis Schaeffer

“To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.”

   ~ Henry Blackaby

“Four of the Ten Commandments deal with our relationship to God while the other six deal with our relationships with people. But all ten are about relationships.”

   ~ Rick Warren

“Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.”

~ Jerry Falwell

“Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.”

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sermon Passage

Galatians 4:28-5:8

Galatians 4

²⁸ Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. ²⁹ But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. ³⁰ But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” ³¹ So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

Galatians 5

¹ For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

² Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. ³ I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. ⁴ You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

⁷ You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.