We'll be in Galatians again,
if you would like to turn there. Galatians chapter three. Something important I mentioned
the first hour that I want to mention again is how important
it is for the Lord's preachers to how they deliver the message,
how they deliver the message. The Lord's made it clear we preach
the truth in love. We preach the truth in love,
not in a condescending manner, not in a way that we look down
upon people. And we certainly don't find something that someone
in the church is doing and then pick on that person. There's
a lot of churches I've been to that do that. We preach the truth
in love, line upon line, precept upon precept. That's how the
Lord's ordained it to be. That's how the Lord's ordained it to
be. Paul is the same here. In no way is he speaking condescendingly. He is heartbroken. These are
his children in the gospel. How would you speak to your children
if you loved them? Well, of course, you love your children, but how
would you speak to your children? You would want to try to tell them
the truth and love, try to warn them, try to encourage them.
And that's what Paul's doing. By inspiration of the Spirit,
that's what Galatians is all about. He is bearing the burden
of the souls of these men and women. He's pleading and compelling
by inspiration of the Lord. He's saying, who hath bewitched
you? Who hath duped you? pulled the
wool over your eyes, so to speak, that you would not obey the truth.
Paul's admonition is firm, but it's not out of spite. He has
one motivation, and that's the salvation of the Lord's elect.
That's the truth to be declared. That's what the Lord has given
Paul. That's what he's charged Paul
with, is preaching the gospel. So his responsibility and his
duty is to tell the truth in love. And with that, In mine,
I want you to notice he asks five simple questions. Five simple
questions. And that's what I've titled this
message, Five Simple Questions. Let's read verse one through
five. Galatians 3, one through five. Oh foolish Galatians, who
hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose
eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you.
This only would I learn of you, received ye the spirit by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of faith. Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are
you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things
in vain, if it be yet in vain? He therefore that ministereth
to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he
it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Something
important to mention. Every single one of these questions
are rhetorical questions. They're not really a question.
He's given the answer to the question in the question itself.
He's telling you, did you receive the Spirit of God by the law
or by the hearing of faith? Did you hear the gospel and receive
the Spirit or is it the law, working the law that caused you
to receive the Spirit? It's rhetorical, isn't it? It's
rhetorical. He gives the answers as a tool given to the reader.
So you would have no doubt of what the answer is. There's no
confusion there. There's no confusion at all.
The first question is found in verse one, and we'll go through
each of these. The first question is, O foolish Galatians, who
hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose
eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth crucified among you? This question is given to point
out not only that they're bewitched, but also to point out false prophets
are there. False prophets are the one telling
you this. That word bewitched, as I said, the first hour means
to be charmed or flattered. It means your flesh has been
appeased. Flesh has been appeased, you've been flattered. And so
these men were telling them, you should do this and you should
do that as part of your salvation. It was primarily just circumcision,
but it was still going back to the law as part of their righteousness.
And Paul's saying, no, Christ is the end of the law because
he's already established our righteousness before God. Christ
is the end of the law. This is the message all throughout
Galatians and now he is returning to ask them questions. He had
just got done talking about Peter and Barnabas and how they had
sat with the uncircumcised Gentiles until the Jews came around and
then they got up and went where the Jews were and made a big
statement by doing that, well you need to be circumcised. And
so he had already rebuked them in the previous chapter but now
he is going straight to the Galatians and saying, who hath bewitched
you? Something important about the word of the Lord, something
important about the Lord's gospel, it is very particular. It's very
personal, very personal. When the Lord comes to a person,
to call them out of darkness into light, he comes to where
you are, directly to where you are, and he points out your sin,
and he shows you the Savior. This is what the Lord does. He
shows you that there's nothing you can do to obtain salvation
or to work salvation in any way. He shows you that Christ did
though Christ is the end of the law for righteousness say Christ
worked the works that pleased God Christ life please God and
his death please God and we're saved by grace alone. This bewitching is unto disobedience
of the truth. That's what he says, isn't it?
He says that you should not obey the truth. So this bewitching
is to unobedience of the truth. What does it mean to be unobedient
to the truth? That's to not look to Christ.
That's not to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as all of your
righteousness before God. That's what that means. It's
that simple. Disobedience of the truth means that you're not
looking to Christ as all of your wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. It looks to works rather than
the simplicity of the finished work of Christ, rather than,
he called it the crucified, didn't he? You see, evidently set forth,
crucified among you. That's what he's talking about
is the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ for his chosen people
on the cross of Calvary, not believing that. It's because
they've been Bewitched, they've been flattered, they've been
flattered. Men like this trust in sight, and to trust in sight
is a complete denial of the blood of Christ. It's not just adding
to the blood of Christ, it's completely discrediting it, it's
calling it a common thing, it's saying that it didn't accomplish
that which God had purposed for it to do, that I must do something
to make the blood of Christ effectual. This is what it is to say, I
must do a work to please God as part of my salvation. That's
how serious it is. It's how serious it is. There's all kinds of sorcery,
if you will, in false religion, anti-Christ spirits, and there's
a lot of churches, they're more like places of shows now, aren't
they? You've probably seen some on
TV at different places. They have entertainment, and
I'm not gonna spend much time on that, but our adversary has
many tools to try to deceive those that would, that are able
to be deceived, but the good news is the Lord keeps his people. The Lord keeps us from being
deceived. So understand something, it's
not the satanic temples that have the demonic things. Of course
they do have some, but you want to find the most demonic thing
that happens? It's will worship. It's false
worship of God. It's adding works. to the grace
of God. It's adding something to the
blood of Christ. That's demonic. Saying that Jesus
loved everybody, saying that he died for everybody, that everybody
has a chance. It's to dethrone God and put me upon his throne,
and in doing so, I am becoming God. But it's not true. It doesn't work that way. God
is God and he is seated as the successful redeemer of his people.
From the foundation of the world, there was no way he could fail.
No way he could fail whatsoever. We don't add anything to it.
We don't take away anything from it. We come to Christ alone.
We come barren. We come clotheless. We come empty. We come broken. We come sick.
And he says, I'll let Noah's cast you out. Come unto me. I'll
let Noah's cast you out. Now this flattery of men telling
people to do their part, that's just the lie. It's flattery because
it causes us to get glory. It causes the flesh to be able
to rejoice in something that the flesh does. And anytime the
flesh can rejoice in itself, it's glorying in itself, that's
righteousness. That's bragging upon self, that's
righteousness. The truth is Christ successfully
redeemed all that the Father gave him and to obey Obey the
truth is to believe Christ for righteousness and for justification. That's what it is. To obey Christ
is to believe Him for righteousness and for justification. It's to
believe Him for sanctification, to believe Him for everything
in salvation, everything that God requires. In the sight of
God, we believe Christ. Second question, verse two. This only would I learn of you.
Received you the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing
of faith? That's a pretty simple question,
isn't it? Did you receive it by the works of the law or by
the hearing of faith, the spirit? Well, you know, they can't say
by the works of the law because the gospel came to them first.
Paul brought the gospel to them and declared it unto them. And
that's when they received the spirit. So what he's doing is, is he's
saying the obvious it's rhetorical. He's saying you received it by
the spirit. Why are you going back to the law? But yet this
is what they're doing. It's twofold that it has to be this way because
number one, that which is spirit can only be received by spirit. The flesh can't mind the things
of God because they're enmity against him, they're enmity to
him. Can't mind them, we can't know the things of God unless
he gives us his spirit to believe him, unless he breathes the breath
of life into us to understand his truth. So the only way to
receive the spirit is for the Lord to say, receive the spirit.
Lord has to do that, Lord has to do that. It's not by sight,
it's by looking to Christ's finished work, not our works. So that's
what it means to receive the spirit. If the Lord's given you
his spirit, you're not looking to your works anymore. You're
looking to the work of Christ. You're no longer looking, I'm
no longer looking to my, the way I've lived. I look to the
way Christ lived. I look to the way Christ died.
I don't look to my sacrifice anymore. You don't look to your
sacrifice anymore. Whose sacrifice do we look to? The sacrifice
of the precious lamb of God on Calvary's cross. We look to his
sacrifice because we know God was pleased with that sacrifice.
God will not accept your or my offering. He only accepts Christ's
offering. He only accepts Christ's offering. These are pretty simple
questions, aren't they? Notice that word received in
the middle. This only would I learn of you, received ye the Spirit
by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. Word receive,
receiving is not a work. Receiving is not a work. Somebody
says, well, you need to receive Jesus into your heart. You won't
find that in the scripture, first of all, but second of all, receiving
is not a work and receiving is not a choice that you consciously
make. It's something that's bestowed
freely by the grace of God. To receive is not the same as
accept or reject. All these false preachers were
declaring where they were saying receive or believe, and they're
saying that you have the capability of choosing. That's what they
were trying to say. You need to choose to do this. Let me
give you an example. How do we know receiving is not
a word? Well, when the Lord, in the book of Luke, the Lord
was walking through Galilee, I believe it was, and there was
a man that was blind crying out for him. It may have been blind
Bartimaeus, I'm not sure, so I'm not gonna say that, but this
is the reference I went and read. You remember Bartimaeus, and
it's the same thing. He was crying out, Jesus, thou son of David,
have mercy on me. He cried and they said, they shushed him.
They said, be quiet, be quiet, don't bother the master. Well,
that didn't do anything, he just cried louder. A man that's desperate,
that's got to get to Christ, he's got to do just that, get
to Christ, I've got to have him. He couldn't get to Christ because
he was blind, he couldn't see him. So the Lord calls him, he
says, fetch him, bring him to me. And he does, brings him,
they bring him to the Lord. And the Lord asked the question,
what would you have me do for you? And he said that I might
receive my sight. So he can't choose to receive
his sight then, can he? He's blind. He's blind. What
did the Lord say? Receive thy sight. And immediately he saw. Immediately
he saw. See, that is evidence to us that
this receiving is the gift of God by grace. Like everything
else that God requires, he must provide. And he does it by saying,
receive the Holy Spirit. Receive life. Receive thy sight. What about the young child that
was, she had passed away, and the parents were distraught.
They came to the Lord, Lord, you have to heal my little girl.
She's sick. Well, as they were going, she
died. Well, he gets there. And what
was her choice in becoming back alive? None. What did the Lord say to the
damsel? Arise, receive life. And she was made alive. What
about Lazarus? Lazarus didn't have a choice to make. Whenever
the Lord walked to him, he was dead for four days. He'd stinks.
That's what his sister said. Lord, if you'd have been here,
our brother would not have died. He said, I'll know he'll live
again on the resurrection. He said, I am the resurrection
and the life. What happened when they rolled
the stone away? And he said, Lazarus, come forth. And he came forth,
bound hand. This is the miracle of grace
in the heart of the Lord's people. This is eternal life. It's when
the Lord speaks the word of power. We're made alive by the preaching
of the gospel, not by the works of the law. If we're going to
receive the Holy Spirit, it's gonna be by him, through him,
all for his glory. That's how it has to be. That's
how it has to be. This is what receiving is. You
just find yourself the benefactor of grace. You find yourself the
benefactor of grace. means you've received grace,
the free gift of God. God's chosen people receive his
spirit the same way we receive anything from God, by faith in
Christ alone. You wanna receive something of
the Lord, it's gonna come through him by looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ, not what these eyes can see, not what this mind thinks,
not what this tongue says, but looking to the Lord Jesus Christ,
not with these eyes, but with the eyes of faith. That's how
we receive of the Lord, look to Christ. Look to Christ. It's gonna be by his faith bestowed,
not our works in any shape or form. Now, the second question,
if we're simplified, it would be this. Did you receive the
Holy Ghost because you kept the law or because you heard the
gospel? That's the simplest way to put it, isn't it? Did you
receive the Holy Ghost because you kept the law or because you
heard the gospel? Well, if I heard, hearing's passive
too. I can't hear him if he don't
let me hear his voice, but he said my sheep hear my voice.
It's God's doing. God gave his spirit because he
calls me to hear. He's the one that did it and
he gets all the glory. Third question is verse three.
Are you so foolish having begun? Now you'll notice that question
mark beside foolish, but the next word is lowercase. This
is just one question. Are you so foolish having begun
in the spirit? Are you now made perfect? by
the flesh. Well, this has something to do
with sanctification, doesn't it? That's what perfection is,
holiness. He's asking them, you've begun in the spirit, but now
you're made perfect by the flesh. Now you're sanctified by your
flesh. Is that what you're saying? That's what he's asking them.
Well, that can't be right. They have to acknowledge that.
Well, that can't be right. It can't be the works of the law. This
is what the message is to these Galatians. How are we sanctified? How are we made perfect? By our
works. No, then Christ would not have had to die. If I can
do something that makes me more holy, then I could continue doing
that until I'm as holy as God is. That's a lie. That's false, that's not true.
We can't do anything to become better in the sight of God by
doing something, we can't. All we can produce is sin because
that's what we are. Every thought and imagination
of the heart of man is on evil continually. Continually, this
is what we are by nature, we can't fix that. Going to the
law, and I said this, I might say this about every Sunday now,
I don't know why we're in Galatians, because it's very true. Going
to the law is just going to a mirror to show you how bad you are.
Cannot please God. You cannot use a mirror in order
to change something on your body. Now you can change while looking
in a mirror, but what I'm trying to say is that mirror is not
going to help you get better. It's not going to help you get
better. a skin condition, the mirror can't fix it. Do you see
what I'm saying? You got to go to the great physician.
He's the one that can fix the skin condition. He's the one
that can fix the leprosy. All the mirror can show you is
you're a leper. You got to get to Christ. We got to have Christ.
And that's what he's saying here. We begin the spirit now made
perfect by the flesh. Do we go back to the law and
say, okay, now my sanctification is based entirely upon what I
do and do not do. God's going to see me as more
holy. If I continue doing this, or if I don't do that, that is
not true. You will not find that in the
scripture. We are sanctified by what? The spirit of God. It is Christ in you, the hope
of glory. He is our sanctification. The
Lord is our sanctification. The Lord's people are made to
look to Christ alone as all of our wisdom, all of our righteousness,
all of our sanctification, all of our redemption, all of our
justification, and any other part of salvation. It's all Him,
all Him. There is no one under the sun
that is getting better. No one is getting better. Now
they may have moral reformation. They may have moral revivals.
They may stop doing some habits and start doing better habits.
That's good. I like morality, but not for righteousness. I
don't want us to lose all of our morals in this country. We've
seen how that's been over the last 20 years. But for righteousness,
we don't keep morals in order to be saved. No, we look to the
Lord to order and provide, to teach that which he expects his
people. He gives us the love that looks to him and that's
our response to him as we do as he's taught us. They all shall
be taught of God, not as our righteousness, but because Christ
is our righteousness. All we can do naturally is produce
sin. We've been taught that he produced
everything that pleased the Father. Now, something important I don't
want to forget. I don't think I've said this already.
The word foolish here, he's not called him stupid, which is what
I initially thought he was saying. I thought, man, he's really grilling
him. He's really giving him down the road. OK, got it. And I was
mistaken. I looked up the definition, and
it means unlearned. Are you so unlearned? He's reminding,
he knew that they had learned it because he was the one that
preached it to them to begin with. Do we see that? He was
the one that said, Christ is all in salvation. So he taught
them. And then he says, are you unlearned? Of course not, you're
not unlearned. So it's another rhetorical question, isn't it? Paul knew the Lord had already
taught them the truth. This shows the weakness in us. You know
what we say whenever we see brethren that are weak, brethren that
falter, brethren that fail? It doesn't puff us up. It doesn't
make us feel better. It breaks our heart when we say,
but for the grace of God, there go I. There go I. Fourth question. Here we find
in verse four, Have you suffered so many things in vain if it
be yet in vain? Suffering. Here is the cost of
trusting Christ alone for salvation. Here is the cost for believing
on the Lord Jesus Christ as all of your righteousness before
God. This is the cost of it. You will suffer. In the world
you shall have tribulation, Christ said, but be of good cheer. I
have overcome the world. Paul says in Galatians 5.11,
and I brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer
persecution? Then is the offense of the cross
ceased. Why would the offense of the
cross cease if he started preaching persecution? Because now it's
Christ plus something. So that includes everybody. Everybody
could just be circumcised and we all go to heaven. That's the
mentality there. But it's not so, is it? It's not so. you would
be removing God from his throne and making salvation dependent
upon something that you do. If I believe in circumcision
or any other law for that matter, any other standard that the Lord
gave in the Old Testament under the Old Covenant, as part of
my salvation, I would be saying, God cannot save me until I do
my part. It is limiting the Lord. It's
limiting his power, it's limiting his sovereignty, it's limiting
his character, and that's why it's blasphemy. No, the blood
accomplished what it was purposed to do. It washed away the sin
of his people. They're gone. There's nothing
more that he needs, especially not from you and I. He was satisfied
with the sacrifice of his son on Calvary's cross, and he saved
his people from their sin. Salvation is not dependent upon
you and I. But if we say that there is a
law, there is a law or some form of law that we must keep as part
of our salvation, what we're saying is as part of our salvation
or evidence of our salvation, Christ is dead in vain. That's
what it means. Verse 21, we looked at it last
time. If chapter two, I do not frustrate the grace of God for
if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
That's as simple as it can be put, isn't it? Did he die in
vain? No, but that's what he's trying
to tell them. Christ didn't die in vain. You don't go back to
the law. He died and accomplished everything
he had purposed to accomplish. Everything is finished. God was
satisfied eternally with his son. Ask yourself, is Christ dead
in vain? Do you seek righteousness outside
of him? Because that's saying the same thing. No, we seek righteousness
in Christ alone, by grace alone, through the faith he gives alone. When he died, he said it is finished. Now our
God cannot lie and our God cannot change. But men have to take
those words and have to say that he is lying then if there's something
left for you and I to do. If there's another work that
you and I have to do in order to obtain salvation. But it's not
true. He finished the work, didn't
he? He accomplished salvation. How much of it? All of it. All
of it, period. Everything required by God, he
provided in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he is
satisfied with the Lord Jesus Christ. In so much, he has redeemed
his people back to God. When Christ ascended, he said
he ascended on high and he led captivity captive. When he sat
down, think about what he said in John chapter 17, where he
said, I in them and thou in me. That's not metaphorical. We are
in Christ. right now in the heavenlies.
Now, I don't know how to believe that other than by faith because
the flesh can't believe it. So that's what I'm encouraging
you to do. Look to Christ and know that that's true. We're seated,
it's done. Everything is done. Somebody said, well, I could
just live how I want to then. I wish I could. I would never sin one
more time. I would talk about him all the
time. I would love to live how I want to. What the Lord does
is he gives you a new heart that looks to him and desires to serve
him in love. I wanna worship him. Oh, I see
myself as the dead dog sinner and he saved me from my sin.
What a glorious savior we have. If we could live like we want
to live, we wouldn't be antinomians. We wouldn't live lawless lives.
We would live by love towards our savior and everything that
we do. And we would never take our eyes off of him. That's how
I want to live. That's why it's called heaven.
That's what it's going to be when we get there one day. We would look
to him for eternity. Oh, this is why we love God's
gospel. When he had by himself purged our sin, he sat down.
If we remove Christ as the successful redeemer of his people, that
he actually accomplished the salvation of everyone he loves,
redeeming them back to God, if we remove that, we would suffer
no persecution. Everybody would be like, oh yeah,
they're a sister church now. You better believe, the longer
we're here, the more we're going to get marked. It's just how
it is. We're going to get criticized. We're going to get falsely accused.
It's just how it works. Our adversary hates the true
Word of God. He hates the Gospel. Why? Because
it's the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believeth.
That's what the Scripture tells us. Wherever the gospel's going
forth, there will be trouble. There will be trouble. And we
will have persecution from family, from friends. Christ even said,
I came to set at variance. That means sever in two with
a sword. Father, mother, sister, brother. He said, I come to set at variance. But you know what he said? He
said, for those who lose anything, you'll have it a hundredfold
in this life. And in the life to come, eternal
life. Eternal life. Last question, number five. He therefore that ministereth
to you the spirit and worketh miracles among you, doeth he
it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Now
he's talking about the Lord ministering. And the question can be brought,
what is our justification? What is being ministered here?
Because if our justification is dependent upon what I do,
Christ didn't successfully justify. So all these things are justification,
sanctification, they're righteousness, that's all the things he's bringing
into question. He's saying, were you saved by the gospel or by
the law? Are you sanctified by Christ alone or by the law? It
has to be one or the other, that's what he's trying to say here.
What is the cause of my justification, my salvation and righteousness,
if it's the law, We are living in the illusion. We are living
in the illusion because no flesh shall be justified by the deeds
of the law. See, that's what it means to
be bewitched, is to live in the illusion. I used magician earlier
as an example, how you have a card trick or something and the card
disappears, but it really don't disappear. It's slot of hand,
they move it somewhere else. That's an illusion. That's an
illusion. If we believe that justification
comes by something that we do, then we are living the illusion.
The illusion. I understand these false ministers,
and I said this before, but I want to reiterate this. These false
ministers, are ministers of light. They're not ministers of darkness.
They're not standing in a pulpit telling you 47 different lies. They're just
adding one thing to the truth, which makes it a lie. It's just
as Satan did. Satan says is an angel of light
and his ministers are ministers of light. That's what they do.
They go forth and they preach Christ is all you're saved by
grace alone. The blood accomplished everything it's supposed to do.
But you have to do this, or but you have to do that. And in putting
the but on the end of it, putting the conjunction on it, then guess
what happens? You've erased everything you
said at the begin with. You've polluted it. You can't do that.
You've called the blood a common thing. This is what Paul's trying
to get across to them. To look at anything that the
law says as part of my righteousness, if I keep it, to look to any
work that I do as part of my righteousness, if I do it, is
to say the blood of Christ is a common thing, that it didn't
accomplish what it was supposed to. Unless, here's something scary,
brethren, and you know it's true, unless God shows the truth, the
flesh will calculate that these ministers of light are telling
the truth. The flesh will say, yeah, yeah,
that makes sense. Yeah, I believe that. That makes sense. You know
how we know? Were not some of us in false religion at one time
believing the lie ourself? Our flesh was saying, that's
absolutely right. God will be pleased with me. God will be
satisfied. And we would, There's a lot of sacrifices we made to
hope that we were gonna sit up a little bit higher than the
person beside of us and God would take notice of us. Is that not
true? Thank God for grace. Thank God for mercy calling us
out of that darkness. Calling us out of that darkness
into his light. The lie cannot be seen by the flesh ever. Legalism
is the magic trick. Legalism is the magic trick.
And I'm talking about sleight of hand. I'm talking about bewitching.
Legalism is the magic trick. that makes Christ's righteousness
disappear. Think about that. If you go to
legalism as part of your righteousness, Christ's righteousness does not
apply to you at that point. You're back under the law. You're
back under bondage. You've traded rest for work. You've traded liberty for bondage. You've traded freedom for slavery. That's what Paul is trying to
get across here to these and to us as well. Left to self,
we'll leave the real for the illusion. The flesh craves the
illusion. The illusion is human merit.
Human merit. How do we know we like the illusion?
We like illusions in real life, don't we? We like what we can
see. We like being wowed, entertained.
That's just how we are by nature. When it comes to the things of
God, it's not what we see by the eyes of the flesh, but it's
the eyes of faith given that we see. Paul's asking this simple
question, does the spirit minister or supply anything? That's what
that word minister means, to supply. Does the spirit minister
anything? Does he supply anything by the
law? Anything. Does the spirit, the
Lord's spirit, supply anything by the deeds of the law, by the
works of the law? No. No, it's by grace, faith
bestowed. In other words, God, God provided everything he required. He gives grace, he gives faith,
and we look to Christ. How does the Spirit give that
which we need? Because God's already provided
it. God's already provided it in the person of his Son. Does
God provide everything he requires or is he looking to you and I
as any part of our salvation? No, he's provided everything.
He's provided everything. It comes down to this, these
five simple questions. All the law can do if applied
for righteousness is condemn, is condemn. So the question is,
are you looking to Christ? for life, or are you looking
to the law for death? That's the only, that's how it
is. That's it. The law brings death. Christ
is the way, the truth, and the life. No man come to the Father
but by Him. Five simple questions. I'll read
them back to you. Number one, who or what has flattered
you to not obey the truth and look to Christ? Who? Who has
flattered you? Who has bewitched you that you
would not obey the truth? The second one is, did you receive
the Holy Spirit because you kept the law or you heard the gospel? You heard the gospel. Oh, I heard
the gospel. That's right. How are you sanctified
by the flesh or by the spirit? We're sanctified by the spirit,
aren't we? Fourth one is, did you suffer for Christ's sake
because of works? or because of the offense of
the gospel? It's because of the offense of the gospel. And the
last one is, are you justified freely by grace or by works? I'm justified freely by his grace. That's what he tells us, isn't
it? Five simple questions. You know what the answer to all
of them are? Christ is all. Christ is all. Let's pray. Father,
we're thankful that you are all to your people. Thank you for
these five simple questions. Call us. Call us to understand
and to see you. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.