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So looking a bit at what we're seeing in Galatians,

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I wanted to focus a bit about this idea of rules

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and relationship, and how it is that we see the

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distinction that following after God, it's not

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about trying to see what laws are prescribed,

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but rather asking how is it that the God we know

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is the God that we serve with everything that

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we say and do. When I was in elementary school,

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they had an after -school program that was there

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my my parents were both working and whenever

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We'd finish school. I'd go over to this after

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-school program and they had two spots there

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there was one spot where you could sit to the

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side and you could you work on your homework

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and Then there was this other spot where basically

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all these kids are running around having a whole

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bunch of fun All right, but my parents have told

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me that I'm supposed to finish up my homework

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Before I go and play with all the other kids

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now the math wasn't the problem. I love math

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great thing But here's the problem. I was always

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a slow reader It was always this thing where

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my mind would get distracted all over the place

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and nobody had invented ADD yet, so you know

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we didn't know what that was But in trying to

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get all this done the reading would take so long

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that by time I finished or even got most of it

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done, my parents were already there to pick me

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up. It was like I never got to go and play with

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the other kids. So it's like, could I have just

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talked this out with my parents and said, hey,

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could I do maybe some or half of the homework

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and then go play with the other kids and then

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I'll finish up the rest at home? Because my parents

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didn't ever actually know what the issue was

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I never told them I was so stuck in my mind That

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I had to make sure I did exactly what I was supposed

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to in these rules And I never questioned it my

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sister though. Oh, she had no issue questioning

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the rules at all and she made lots of friends

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and and I was like click with all the other kids

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and later on it's like Well, did you get your

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homework done? I have too much and then she'd

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do it at home anyway Well, the thing is that

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I was living by the law without asking what the

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law was even for. And I wasn't even bothering

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to ask if it was actually hurting rather than

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helping me. And even more than that, I didn't

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trust the relationship with my parents and to

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believe that they actually wanted the best for

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me. I just believed the arbitrary law was what

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they had in mind for me. The thing is that that's

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this idea of what we see Paul explaining in today's

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passage about the law. There are times when the

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law is put into place to keep us in check and

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help us along, but it was never meant to take

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the place of our true parent, God. As we have

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come of age in the faith, seeing Christ, and

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knowing what it is to follow Christ Himself rather

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than just seeing which laws were written down,

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we aren't meant to spend our time focusing more

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closely on the law. We're meant to cling to the

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Spirit of God that Christ has given to us. The

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law has a purpose, but it's not meant to bring

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life. It's temporary, until the real parent,

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the real guide, the real relationship, has taken

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root. So we want to just look a little bit more

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at the letter to the Galatians about law, about

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faith, and about growing up in the Spirit. You

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see, the law serves an important role. It offers

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boundaries, it gives guidance, it gives discipline.

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Over time though, the laws have changed. The

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laws have changed. They've been different in

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different times and different places for different

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reasons. But that doesn't mean that some laws

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were necessarily wrong or that others were right

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instead. Sometimes the laws had to change because

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of what was happening among the people. Israel

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oftentimes had to see different things in the

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same way as well. Depending on where they were,

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the laws themselves were not always universal.

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So for example, the Ten Commandments were given

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at a time whenever the people were leaving Egypt

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and having to start from scratch. The problem

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is that the laws that they had gone under were

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just so broken and so distorted because of the

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gods that they worshipped and the way that they

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lived, they had to start over. So the Ten Commandments

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were there just to make sure they even knew where

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to even start and gave a moral backbone and guidance

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to Israel. But then you also realize, well over

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time, that doesn't necessarily answer every question

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that you have. So the rabbis came up with traditions.

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What they were trying to do is to try to add...

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Extra things that might help to make sense of

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how you live your everyday life We're gonna try

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to make sure you know well You should probably

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wash your hands when you come into the temple

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or hey You should make sure that you spend a

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certain amount of time if you've been around

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something unclean Make sure that you're careful

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at before touching anything else that is clean

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things of that nature Careful with what you eat

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careful with what you prepare some were helpful,

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but some were just burdensome. Just adding it,

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what you could wear, what you could say, what

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you could touch. All of these things started

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adding up. But then we see Jesus and then they're

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trying to ask Him, well which is the best one?

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And He's simplifying it down to love God, love

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your neighbor. Well that seemed like it became

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a whole lot easier. Was it because the stuff

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in the past was bad? It's just he's trying to

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make sure to refocus because what had happened

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was they had taken the Ten Commandments, something

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that we think is so obvious and so basic, but

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they had so manipulated it for their purposes

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and their goals that it completely lost any sense

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of what was supposed to mean in the first place.

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You could have it and it could be meaningless.

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And even later on though, this is even just looking

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at the Jewish community. The early church, specified

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only a few ethical essentials to the Gentiles.

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Don't have sexual immorality. Don't eat meat

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that still has the blood in it and a bunch of

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you may be wondering well wait a minute I love

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a good bloody steak. That's actually not the

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blood That's actually the tissues in the meat

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that as you're cutting it. It's actually releasing

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and breaking the tissues That's actually not

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straightforward blood which I know doesn't sound

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nearly as great whenever you're trying to order

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it from the steakhouse But just so you know is

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that a lot of these rules were there because

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they're just trying to make sure that people

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keep what is important first and foremost in

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their mind. And I want to make sure that I also

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explain this part, is that even in this context,

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they're not saying that there was no such thing

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as faith before Jesus. This is not saying that

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the Old Testament did not have faith. We know

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from Romans and from Hebrews, Abraham, Moses,

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the people that were following, they were following

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by faith, but Paul is trying to show a distinction.

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He's trying to help people who have been so focused

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on the rules, on the laws, to understand, yes,

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there was a reason, but as we move forward in

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faith, we're not supposed to let the laws control

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us when we're seeing what God desires of us.

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because the law had become something that was

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like custody over people. It's like following

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school rules that made sense at the beginning,

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but didn't make sense later on. The law, it evolves,

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it adapts, it shifts over time because of things

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that we may be seeing, but faith doesn't. And

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that's why we always have to be careful, is that

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the Word of God never changes. The law... sometimes

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shifts because of circumstance. But the Word

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of God, in other words, the whole of God and

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who He is together never changes. But we also

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want to make sure we understand why were those

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even there in the first place? Why was it that

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the laws distinctions were there to divide us

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in the first place? What was even the purpose

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to even start with? Well, there were a lot of

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different reasons. One was that they wanted to

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make sure that they were avoiding other idols.

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Many of the rules that were there were because

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these things were leading them away from God.

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Having bloody meat at the time was actually something

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used in idol worship because it was seen as consuming

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the life force of the animal. or even trying

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to understand what was happening with purity

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laws and making sure that while certain things

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were acceptable to other gods, they were not

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for our God. And especially with marriage and

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making sure that they were not connected to other

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countries, because let's be honest, whenever

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we are in a family with people of different beliefs,

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how easy is it that we're always trying to figure

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out the middle ground. It doesn't mean that the

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other person is a terrible person. It's just

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always asking the question of, what is it that

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we're doing together? What is it that matters

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to us together? But another part is to be able

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to also ask the cultural identity. Because Israel

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was tiny. It was a tiny little country. among

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all these large superpowers. And how easy would

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it be if they lost all of their culture to then

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just blend in with all the other places? And

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then after a while, once you blend in so much

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and you lose the customs that you had, how easy

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is it to also lose what you believe? Even for

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health and hygiene, because so many of the things

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that they avoided actually would have made them

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sick, not just because of their diet, but also

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because of what was actually done with the animals.

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Eating pork back then was filthy. It was terrible.

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But even more than that, other purity laws that

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they had were actually keeping them clean and

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actually preserving them at these times. Or keeping

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them together as a people. Whenever we have certain

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things that we follow together, It basically

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keeps us united as a community, which is one

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of the reasons why we still try to have seasons

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of Advent and seasons of Lent, so we do something

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together as a community. But you see, God wanted

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them to be set apart. He wanted them to stand

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separate, different from the rest of the world.

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But you see, here's the difference. Is that in

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today's world, We live in a world where being

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different doesn't require you to be physically

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separate from other people. It doesn't require

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that you're going to be physically separated

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from the rest of the world. You can be different

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while still being alongside of them. And even

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how many times do we end up being in families

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with different cultures and different backgrounds?

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And that can be an opportunity to share Christ,

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to be able to know Him more clearly. And that's

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the thing with what we see is that the distinctions,

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the roles, don't need to control the same way

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they did before. The Jews and the Gentiles, even

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though they started in two different places,

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they're both supposed to be called by faith to

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Christ Jesus. There were slaves and free people

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at that time. Terrible words, terrible terms.

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but at the same time is reminding them not to

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abuse the people that are underneath you. Treat

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them like your brothers and your sisters. And

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even seeing that men and women, how often they

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were treated as these separate classes and to

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say, even if there had been different rules because

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of the different ways in which their bodies function,

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you've got to stop treating them like they're

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second class citizens. To be set apart by faith,

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is not about trying to be set apart physically

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from the others. But even more than that, what

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is it that we see the laws being for the children,

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the spirit being for the heirs? Because that's

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the thing about this, is that as we grow, as

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we become who we're meant to be, the way we look

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at the rules isn't quite the same. Because...

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I mean, I'm 45 years old. I have taken the ideas,

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the rules, the things that I grew up with, and

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I have made the most of them for my parents.

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It would be strange if every day I called up

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my mom and my dad and said, mom, dad, I need

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you to let me know. Can I eat this cereal today?

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Mom, dad, should I go and exercise today? Should

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I do this part? Mom. Dad, do I need to get my

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homework done now? Can I have dinner first? I'm

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a pastor, I'm probably going to be doing homework

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before and after dinner anyway. But that's also

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what we were seeing, is that instead of looking

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at Jesus and knowing that they had seen Him,

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known God Himself, and that His Spirit was leading

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them, many of them were still trying to go back

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and check whether they had followed all of the

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rules. But the thing is, is that even more than

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that, is that oftentimes we create extra rules.

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If I have a certain type of job, I'll be okay.

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If I'm married by a certain age, I'll be okay.

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If I can control everything and every person

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around me, then it'll be okay. We want to create

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laws that make us feel comfortable. But you see,

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The idea is that while people in the past may

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have needed the structure, we now have the Son

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of God. Because the miracle is the relationship.

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The miracle is coming to know Christ more clearly.

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But you see, the same thing is that we do that

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to other people too. We have in our mind expectations

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for what make us comfortable from other people.

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Why did you say it that way? Why did you act

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that way? Why do you think that way? Why is it

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that your life looks different from mine? And

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how often do we put extra laws on others that

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maybe we don't even follow perfectly ourselves?

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We take these rules and we think that they're

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the way that we follow God. But in reality, following

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God is following His Son by way of His Spirit.

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And that's what it is that we're called to be

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as Christians. What it is that we're called to

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be able to do is to walk by the Spirit, not to

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try to spend the time making sure that we've

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outlined and made a decision about every single

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thing that we see about others around us. It's

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not about trying to see every action from other

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people and making decisions in our minds about

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whether we approve of it or not. It's that each

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and every day we ask how our lives are following

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what Christ has shown us and then seeing how

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we can then bless others to see the same for

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their own life as well. As long as we continue

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to figure out when and how the law has applied,

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we're always going to miss the point. but rather

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is to grow up in the faith to see what it means

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in our lives today. Because that's what it is

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that God is inviting us to do. It's to grow up

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in grace. To live by the Spirit. Because the

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thing is that following God's law is not about

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the law. Following God's law is not about the

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law. It's about asking how our lives are following

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what Christ has shown us. And as Jesus died because

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of the law, that all of these people kept seeing

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him and saying, you are not fitting what we want

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and what we expect. He died because of it. The

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law doesn't bring life. It only kills. But he's

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also conquered it. and He's conquered it for

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us. So that instead of trying to figure out,

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do I need to try to figure out more of these

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laws that I can somehow prove to God that I'm

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good enough and that I've made it? Or do I need

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to try to figure out how other people can live

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up to what I think God wants for them, is instead

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to show them who has lived up to everything that

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the Father has wanted. Because the more that

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we bring them to our Savior, the more that we

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share the one who gave His life, that's where

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they start to change. This is where people come

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to know what God desires, because this is where

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His Spirit comes. This is how He leads us. Not

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by what we've figured out, not by what we have

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expected of others, but because of the Savior.

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who has given everything to us. So being heirs,

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it brings more than what any child would ever

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have from their parent. Because instead of having

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a list of rules, instead we have a loving father,

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we have his son, and we have his spirit. And

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because of that, we are part of a family. We

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are part of a relationship. that goes beyond

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any rule that we know we will fail to and Brings

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us back every time we do with that Thanks be

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to God