Okay, well, we come back to Galatians after a week away at the end of last year, but we come back to Galatians chapter 5 and the first six verses this week. We've started using Ian Potts's new book of daily readings, and it's a great blessing to us. And the reading this morning was a piece by Don Fortner, as are many in that book, and it was on salvation.

Salvation, what a big word salvation is. There's another thing that we've done over the last few days, which is, and I don't normally spend time in a sermon recommending a television series, but we watched the four episodes of Titanic Sinks Tonight, and it's very good, the way it's done. It's a docudrama, if you like, but it shows the horror of being on that ship that night, and the progression towards certain death. I mean, there were 1,500 people who knew that rescue was nowhere near, and they were going to go down into that water, impending doom. And there was such a scramble for salvation.

Salvation. Some were soon to die. Some were soon to die. Afterwards, all would die, as they all did. I don't think there are any survivors left now. We're frail beings. People are frail beings. We're made in the image of God, and yet we're so marred by sin. The sin of Adam, which has gone through the entire race, and it's what we're subject to. It's what we are by nature. It's what we do by practice. We're sinners. We're barred because of that sin from God's eternal kingdom. We have no escape from it. It's an eternal doom.

But God has revealed his kingdom to his people. God has revealed that he has his kingdom. And that kingdom promises life and happiness for eternity. As we saw a couple of weeks ago, God has given two covenants, and Stephen in the reading read it to us from the end of chapter four of Galatians, the allegory of Abraham and his two first sons. He did have more children later in life, but the two first sons, Ishmael, the son of Hagar, the bond woman, and Isaac, the son of Sarah, the free woman, the one by fleshly means, the other only possible by means of the promise.

He gave two covenants. He made the first covenant in the Garden of Eden with Adam. He made the first covenant there. And he wrote that covenant in all men's hearts. So all that are born have that covenant written in their hearts. And that covenant was amplified at Sinai. But that covenant was conditioned, as all covenants are, it was conditioned on perfect, unwavering obedience. And that is impossible. That is utterly impossible. And a second covenant is revealed.

But this covenant really, the second one, is really the first one, because this second covenant was made before time began. It was made in the persons of the Godhead, in the one Godhead, in the three persons of the one Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And it was to this end that a multitude of sinful humanity, of humanity that would fall in Adam, that a multitude of them would be saved. would experience salvation from condemnation.

And these two covenants are mutually exclusive. They are impossible to mix. You cannot have a bit of one and add to it a bit of the other and, well, all together you'll come out okay. No, impossible to mix. They're mutually exclusive. So why was the first covenant given? Well, the book of Galatians has already told us. is to drive us to the second covenant. It's to point us to Christ as the only way to be saved. It's to show that it's impossible to experience salvation by the works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified in his sight. We, none of us, get any better or any different in the eyes of God as a result of obedience to the first covenant. It is only by the second covenant.

What is the work that we must do, the Jews asked Jesus, that we might do the works of God? And he said, this is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.

And Paul has shown in those verses that were read to us from the end of Galatians chapter 4, by allegory, that's by a story, and it's a literal, it's a true series of events that happened in history, but by that allegory, speaking of deeper, more profound things, that allegory of Sarah and Isaac, and Hagar and Ishmael, that it's only, it says, only the children of the free are heirs. Only of the children of the free.

We are not children of the bondwoman, it says in verse 31 of chapter 4, but of the free. Those who believe Christ are children of the free woman because our salvation comes from that covenant of grace formed in the Godhead before the beginning of time that the Father chose a multitude that the Son covenanted that He would come and redeem that multitude from the curse of the law, from the curse of their sin, and that the Holy Spirit would regenerate in time, in their lives, that multitude, that they come into the full knowledge and possession of the blessing of that salvation.

Those in Christ were elect before time, united with Him, united with Him, betrothed to Him, There's a marriage supper coming. Betrothal speaks of marriage, it's engagement speaking of marriage. And the people of God, the elect of God, this multitude that no man can number were engaged, betrothed to Christ for an eternal marriage. There's a marriage supper of the Lamb coming at the end of this world when his people are taken to be with him.

redeemed in time, because he had to come into time. Though he's the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, yet in this realm of time and space, he had to come into time, and in the middle of time, when the fullness of the time was come, it says in verse 4 of chapter 4 of Galatians, When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law to redeem those who are under the law, that they might receive the adoption of sons, whereby we cry, Abba, Daddy, Father.

They're regenerated to life by Holy Spirit faith. He gives that gift of life to see that which they couldn't before, like the blind man receiving his sight. and resting in Christ's accomplished salvation. We rest in it because it's accomplished. He's done it. He's finished it. He said, John 19 verse 31, is it? It is finished. His cry on the cross, the most powerful words, it is finished. He had accomplished everything that was necessary, that the justice of God be satisfied, that his people receive salvation, be saved from their sins. His name is Jesus, for he shall save his people from his sins.

Paul had gone to Galatia in his missionary journeys. He preached This gospel of redemption from the curse of sin in the blood of this man, Jesus of Nazareth, who he proved over and over, read the Acts of the Apostles, that he was the very Christ. He was the promised Messiah of God, that he was the seed of the woman who would come and bruise Satan's head in the process of his heel being bruised, but for the salvation of his people. He preached the gospel to pagan Galatians. Galatians, middle of Turkey, modern day Turks in the middle of Turkey. And these people had heard, and they had believed. They'd heard the gospel because God sent them a preacher. How will they hear without a preacher? God sent them a preacher, and they heard the gospel, and he gave them faith, and they believed that gospel, and they rejoiced in that gospel.

They turned to God, as he says to the Thessalonians, they turned to God from their idols. to worship the one true God for there's only one way to worship the one true God and that's in Jesus Christ his son that's the only way to come to him and that's why Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me they believed it they've rejoiced in it they progressed in the knowledge of it he'd no doubt stayed a while and ministered to them and people have been raised up to teach and to lead them until look at chapter 1 of Galatians chapter 1 and verse 7.

In chapter 1 and verse 7, we see that there were people that had come in to those Galatian churches that trouble you. They trouble you. How do they trouble them? How do they trouble true believers? They pervert. the gospel of Christ, just like Paul says they had done at Antioch. These were people from Jerusalem, they were from HQ, and they'd come there and they'd said in verse 4 of chapter 2 of Galatians, they were false brethren, says Paul, unawares brought in, they crept in secretly, they came in privily to spy out our liberty.

They didn't like the idea that these Christians in Antioch, and by the same implication, the Christians in Galatia, They didn't like the fact that they had liberty, which we have where? In Christ Jesus. We're free in Christ. This is what this book is saying. We're free in Christ. that they might bring us into bondage. Do you know there's a whole load of so-called Christianity that cannot stand the idea that we're free in Christ. I remember a guy years and years ago, 25, 30 years ago, wrote a book, a commentary on Galatians, and he gave it the title Free in Christ. You would have thought that he'd written a book that was peddling drug smuggling or other vices because they banned it. There are certain so-called Christian bookshops that banned that book because it gave the message of this epistle. I'm not telling lies, that's absolutely true.

They didn't like it that we have liberty in Christ Jesus and they wanted to bring them the people at Antioch and these at Galatians. They wanted to bring them back into bondage. The bondage of that covenant one legalistic religion. That's what they wanted to bring them back into. What were they teaching? It's what we saw a few weeks ago in Acts chapter 15, verse 1. We're at the council of Jerusalem. It's laid out clearly. Certain men, this is talking about the situation in Antioch, but it's the same in Galatia. Certain men which came down from Judea HQ, Jewish HQ, taught the brethren and said, taught those who were believers, who believed the gospel, except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, except ye take on board obedience to the whole of Mosaic law, you cannot be saved. Oh, it's one thing to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and what he has done, but you have to do all of these other things as well. You cannot be saved. That's what they were saying. They were saying, believe the gospel of Christ, but that's just for justification for past sins. But submit to Mosaic law, covenant one, for the preparation for God's kingdom. And I repeat, Most serious Christianity pedals those ideas in the day in which we live. Faith in Christ for justification, but submission to law for sanctification, to improve your standing with God.

And you may say, oh, aren't you being too narrow? Aren't you splitting hairs? I mean, isn't Christianity a pretty broad church? We can tolerate differences of opinion, can't we? We can tolerate variations of ideas of acceptability to God.

not according to the Apostle Paul. And why should we listen to him? He's writing under Holy Spirit inspiration. This, as the Apostle Peter said of him in one of his epistles, this is the word of God. Because although it's got the characteristics of the Apostle Paul, it is undoubtedly inspired by the Holy Spirit.

To use the Titanic lifeboat picture To try to add elements of the Works Covenant, Covenant 1, to Covenant 2 is to punch a great big hole in the floor of the lifeboat and it will sink. It will go down. You cannot bail out fast enough. It will go down. And that is the message of Galatians chapter 5, verses 1 to 6.

So I've got three points. Freedom in Christ, stand fast, and waiting for the hope.

So freedom in Christ. Verse 1, stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Freedom from the bondage of Covenant One. Covenant One, do this perfectly, perfect obedience, and you shall live. You shall live, you shall experience happiness. Do this perfectly, and you shall live, but fail in one point. As James says, he who has kept the whole law, yet has failed in one point, is guilty of all the law. He's broken all of it.

Freedom from the bondage of that covenant. That covenant is a heavy, heavy burden. It's impossible to keep, to go back to Acts chapter 15 again, this council of Jerusalem, when the apostle Peter is hearing what Paul and Barnabas have told them about what was going on. And Peter says in verse 10 of Acts 15, to those round about him who were wanting to bring Gentile believers back under the bondage of Jewish mosaic law covenants. He said, now therefore, why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples? He counted them as disciples. Remember, Peter was the first one to see Gentiles believe the gospel when he went to Cornelius. He said they were true disciples. They believed exactly as the Jewish disciples, the true disciples of Christ, had believed.

He said, why are you putting a yoke? A yoke is that thing which holds oxen together when they're pulling a plough. It holds the group of animals together so that they all pull in the same direction. and the force is transferred down to whatever it is that they're pulling. Why put ye a yoke on the neck of the disciples? It's a heavy thing. It's a burden. You don't skip along when you've got this burden on your back. It's heavy. It drags you down.

I remember once as a teenage boy going on a long expedition in the Lake District. There were three of us and we had incredibly heavy rucksacks on our backs with old-fashioned tents with steel poles. You don't get that now, you're all nylon and all nice and light. And we walked all day long, right up the top of the mountain to camp on the top of the mountain. And I remember distinctly the feeling of taking that rucksack off my back, that yoke, that heavy burden off my back, and it was almost like walking on the moon. It just felt like you'd suddenly lightened by 50% of your weight. You could just bound along, it was so easy. See, this is what he's talking about. This covenant of trying to be right with God by works of the law, the Mosaic law, is to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples. And Peter says this, let's face it, He says, our fathers couldn't bear it, and we can't bear it either. None of us was able to bear that burden. It's freedom from the law of the harsh husband.

Can I turn you back to John? Sorry, to Romans. To Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7 and the first four verses. In Romans chapter 7 and the first four verses, Paul, again, I know it's all Paul, but it's all Holy Spirit inspiration. This is all the Word of God. He says this, Know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law, how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth. For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth. But if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then, if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband be dead, she is free from that law. so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law, to that first covenant by the body of Christ, by what Christ did with his broken body and his shed blood, that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

We're dead to it, that law, by virtue of Christ's death. It's underlined in chapter six of Romans, in verse six, knowing this, that our old man, the old, the Adam, the Adamic nature of us, the flesh, is crucified with Christ. In fact, in Galatians chapter two, we already saw that weeks ago. that Paul says, I am crucified with Christ. I'm dead with him. When he died, I died in the justice of God. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once, but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise ye also yourselves reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You see, by his death he has freed his people from the bondage of that law. It's what Jesus said in John chapter 8 and verse 32. He said this to the Jews. Many were looking like they might believe him. And he says in verse 32, he says to them, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. And in verse 36, just a few verses later, he says, if the son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

Do you feel free? Do I feel free? Have I learned what this gospel is really saying? In Christ, who is my all and in all, I am free. I am free from the curse of the law. I am free from the condemnation of the law. You see, this first covenant, even if you use it just as a means of progressing in your sanctification, it's a hard way to the kingdom of God. It's a hard way. It's a heavy yoke. It's a relentless crushing weight. But many naively think they have discovered the right way to acceptance with God. But you know something, verse 21 of chapter 4, tell me ye that desire to be under the law, you that think part of your Christian life is living under the law, with the law of Moses as the believer's rule of life, do you not hear the law? As I've said before, it not only means do you not hear the whole law, not just the Ten Commandments, but all the law of Moses, but it means this, even those Ten Commandments, are you reading them right? Do you not hear what they really say?

Let me give you an example. They say, that they keep the Sabbath day, the fourth commandment. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Oh, how are we going to obey that command? What are we going to do in these days? The Sabbath day, Saturdays, no, no, no, we don't do that. No, no, that's a Jewish Sabbath day. No, we don't do that. This is a Christian Sabbath. Oh, I know, we'll make Sunday the Sabbath day. The Lord's day, when John was in the spirit on the Isle of Patmos, we'll make Sunday the Lord's day. the Sabbath day, and we'll add some man-made rules and regulations about how far you can walk on that day, what sort of things you can do, the music you listen to, the television that you do or do not watch. We'll set up all of these things and, you know, you might like to do such and such a thing. But on a Sunday, no, no, this is the Sabbath day. Just make it that you only read a Christian book on the Sabbath day and things like that. They make rules and regulations.

Can I just show you something in Numbers chapter 28 regarding the Sabbath day? Numbers 28 and verse 9. Numbers 28 and verse 9, this is the law of Moses concerning the Sabbath day, the Sabbath day. On the Sabbath day, two lambs of the first year without spot. and two tenths deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof. This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, beside the continual...

Have we got two lambs? to sacrifice here as a burnt offering and the flower for a meal offering and his drink offering. Have we got those things? We're not keeping. Do you not hear the law? You who desire to be under the law, do you not hear it? It's impossible. It's impossible.

Christ has freed his people from the bondage, from the curse of the law by his covenant redemption. We saw what it said in Galatians 3 and verse 13, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law is this, obey perfectly or else you shall die. In the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die. Christ has redeemed us. That's a bondage. We were in bondage. We were in captivity to that law, never able to keep it. But Christ has redeemed us. He's paid the ransom price. He's paid the price of freedom from that law. from the curse of that law.

How? By himself being made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. He suffered the dreadful death of the Roman cross, not the death of Jewish stoning, but the dreadful death of the Roman cross. He suffered it in the place of his people, as the substitute for his people, so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. He's freed his people from the bondage, from the curse of the law, by covenant redemption.

Law demands my death for sin. He has died for me, and I have died to the law's demands. In him, when he died, I died. His broken body, his shed blood, By that, he has lifted the yoke of legal bondage from off his people's backs, and he's replaced it with a light yoke, which is why he says in Matthew 11, come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, not this yoke of legal bondage, this heavy burden of legal bondage, but take my yoke, the yoke of Christ upon you, and learn of me, For I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, ye shall find sabbath unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light, in contrast to the crushing legal burden that we can never keep.

You say, well, isn't God's law good? Yes, of course it is. Romans 7 verse 12 says that itself. Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. Yes, there is no sense in which those redeemed by Christ have license to violate the righteous objective of the law of God. It's right, it's proper, it's good. But Christ has freed his people from it as a means of attaining the righteousness required for God's kingdom.

And so, again, in Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter 8, there is therefore, first four verses, there is therefore now no condemnation. What a blessing to know in your soul As you face a life of whatever length it might be ahead of you, but as you face a life which must end, as they all do, and you're going to stand before that judgment seat of Christ, and the perfect holy God is going to judge us for what we are, if we're in Christ Jesus, there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Him, who walk, who live, not after the flesh, the law of legal obedience, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law, the law of Moses, the law given at Sinai could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, my flesh can't keep it, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condensing in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled. You see, the law's intention is righteous. It's the character of God. The law's intention is righteous, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk after the flesh, trying to keep it by the flesh, but after the Spirit. In Galatians Sorry, another one, I won't turn to it now, but Romans 10 verse 4 about this says this, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. In chapter 3 of Galatians in verse 25, after faith has come, after you've believed Christ, you're no longer under that law of that schoolmaster which drove you to Christ, for you're children of God by faith in Jesus Christ. In Colossians, chapter 2, he tells us again and again, don't be judged by those who have put rules and regulations and patterns of behavior on you. Don't be judged by it. And he means that concerning the Sabbath. He says, you don't observe a Sabbath day. It's quite clear there. It really is.

In 1 Timothy, chapter 1, he talks about those who use the law lawfully, because there are many who use the law unlawfully. They try to bring people under bondage to it, but that's not what it's for. The law is for the ungodly, it says. The law is not for those made righteous in Christ. Christ has freed his people from the law's burden. He's freed his people from that yoke of the law, from the bondage of the law. Not by destroying it, but by what he says in Matthew 5, verse 17. He said, I came in the Sermon on the Mount. He said, I came not to destroy the law, I came to fulfill it. He's fulfilled it. And by his fulfilling it, we are free indeed. We are free from the law's curse. We are free from its condemnation. We are free from its covenant.

But flesh is always drawn to what it thinks it can do. You know those carnivorous plants, you know, the fancy flowers and some of them smell pretty unpleasant like rotting meat. But flies love them. The flies are flying around free and they cannot help being attracted. to the carnivorous plant's sweet stickiness. And they go in there, and they get trapped. And they're brought under a yoke of bondage. They're entangled, entangled to use the word of verse one of chapter five of Galatians. They're entangled within bondage. We need to avoid that.

He says, stand fast. This is my second point. Stand fast. Resolve to be unmoved. Brace yourself against the assaults of legal religion, and use... What are you going to use? Well, I won't turn to it now, but the armour, the armour of God's Spirit that He's given to His people, in Ephesians 6, verses 14 to 18. The armour of God's Spirit to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. And one of those is the Sword of the Spirit. What is the Sword of the Spirit? It's the Word of God. You see, reading the Word of God, we have it absolutely objectively. We have it absolutely clearly. As Don Faulkner always said, how it first appears when you read it is nearly always the way that is the meaning of it. Whereas theologians of all sorts try to twist it and make it say something else. Read it for what it says.

the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, because it assures us in writing, God's committed it to writing, which is an amazing thing. He's committed it in writing that we're moved from bondage into liberty. Back in that Romans chapter 8, back in there, in verse 21, delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Liberty from the fear of death. You know in Hebrews chapter 2 he talks about those who through all their lifetime, through fear of death, are subject to bondage. But this gospel of liberty frees us from that fear. We rest in the full assurance of faith that all Christ has accomplished is mine by the gift of God. That it's in him alone that I possess the eternal inheritance, not in anything I add to it. Because if I add to it, beware, verses 2 and 3, behold, I, Paul, say unto you, that if you be circumcised, and that encompasses all of the Mosaic law, if you try to gain favour or change your worth before God by the legal things you do, Christ shall profit you nothing. Christ shall profit you nothing. I testify again, in case you didn't hear it the first time, to every man that is circumcised, that tries to add favour with God by the things that he does, he is a debtor to do the whole law. You're a debtor to keep the whole law. You're on your own with the law and you must keep it. To attempt favour with God by law works of any kind will punch that hole in the lifeboat of supposed salvation, and it'll do it below the waterline, and it will sink. Once holed, you are a debtor to endlessly strive to bail out that lifeboat, and it won't work. You will sink.

Verse four, Christ has become of no effect unto you. Whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace. Yes, true faith produces fruit, as we'll see later in this chapter five. It works, as the Apostle James writes in his epistle. True faith works. True faith, you know, he was accused of, Luther, of saying that he was speaking for justification by works. But what he was saying was, it's justification by faith. But true faith, as opposed to sham faith, actually works.

But it never think. that law works, that spirit, fruit affect your standing with God. Because that standing is settled in Christ and Him alone. Trusting in anything you do to add worth with God proves this. It proves you do not believe the sufficiency of what Christ has done. And this is the key. He is either all, or he is nothing to you for salvation from sin. That is what Paul is saying in these verses. He is either all or he is nothing.

As I quote so many times, Happy Jack, you know, what are your qualifications to be a member of our church? I'm a poor sinner and nothing at all, but Jesus Christ is my all in all. That's it. That's it. If you learn nothing else, if you hear nothing else, grasp that. I'm a poor sinner and nothing at all, worthy only of condemnation in myself, but Jesus Christ is my all in all. He's either all to you or he's nothing to you. You cannot mix. As soon as you start to mix, Christ will profit you nothing.

So then, verses five and six. We, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Christ Jesus, Circumcision doesn't matter, uncircumcision doesn't matter. What matters is faith which works by love. By spirit given faith, for it is the gift of God, it's the gift of God's spirit. He quickens, He gives faith, He gives the sight of the soul to see the things of eternity. Believing in Him, trusting in Him, resting in Christ and His finished redemption, We live now. We live now sabbathing, resting on that rock, that rock which is Christ, until he takes us to the possession, the inheritance, the realization of the hope of glory.

You see, this is what it's talking about. In verse 30 of chapter 4, the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. It's just the son of the free, the children of promise. They are the ones who will inherit. That is the realization of the hope of glory.

John Trapp said this, he said, to those that are in Christ, death is but daybreak of eternal brightness. Not punishment of sin, but the end of it. It's the opening of the door to eternal pleasure. For in his presence, it says in the scripture, in God's presence are pleasures forevermore.

There are many in orthodox Christian religion with their own different brands and takes on the works and the patterns that need to be added to the core of gospel faith. Different manners of dress, different manners of speech. Really, different manners of speech. All sorts of things like that which are particular practices. Jesus said in Matthew 15 verse 9, he said, in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

I would say to such, I would say to such, look in the mirror. Is that you? Is that me? Look in the mirror. Is the word of God alone our doctrine? Is it just simply that? Is the word of God alone our doctrine? Look at verse 6. In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision. These outward things mean nothing. We could look if we had time, but we haven't. Colossians chapter 2. Don't let any man judge you in these things. It's all that matters is this, faith working by love. Amen.