Good evening, let's all stand together and sing hymn number 295. 295. He leadeth me, O blessed thought, O words with heavenly comfort brought. What e'er I do, where e'er I be, still tis God's hand that leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me, By His own hand He leadeth me. His faithful follower I would be, For by His hand He leadeth me. sometimes mid scenes of deepest blue, sometimes where Eden's flowers bloom. By water still or troubled sea, still tis his fame that leadeth me. He leadeth me, he leadeth me by his own name. He leadeth me, his fame Or by His hand leading me? Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine, Nor ever murmur nor remind.

Content whatever lot I see, Still is my God that leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me By His own hand He leadeth me His faithful follower I would be For by His hand He leadeth me And when my task on earth is done, When by thy grace the victories won, In death's cold wake I will not flee, Since God through Jordan leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me By His own hand He leadeth me His faithful follower I would be For by His hand He leads me Be seated. In just a couple pages over we'll sing hymn number 290. 290.

Be still, my soul, the Lord is on thy side. Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain. and provide. In every change, be faithful, will remain. Be still, my soul, thy best light help me bring. Be still, my soul, thy God doth undertake To guide the pure and the wise. true as He has the best. Thy hope, thy confidence, let nothing shake. All now mysterious shall be pride and praise. The waves and winds still moan His voice subdued Him while He dwelled below Be still, my soul, the hour is hastening on When we shall be forever with the Lord When disappointment, grief, and fears are gone Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored. Be still, my soul, when change and tears are past. All safe and blessed, we shall meet at last. Galatians chapter, let me look to where I'm at. Chapter five. Start in verse seven.

You did run well, who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth a whole lump. I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none otherwise minded. But he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he shall be. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offense of the cross ceased? I would they were cut off, which trouble you. For brethren, we have been called unto liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Oh, blessed Savior, The one true and living God who came down to this earth, assumed our nature, made in the likeness, in the likeness of this sinful flesh. A man without sin, a man without fault, a man without a blemish, sinless, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.

As to who we, whom we come, We come to you, Lord Jesus. We come into your holy presence. And Lord, we're so grateful, so thankful that you ever lived to make intercession for us, that in our frailty and weakness, sinfulness, loathfulness, impatience, all the things Lord Jesus had dishonored you, and don't seem, at times, to trust you. But we're grateful that you make intercession for us in the awfulest state we're in, and in maybe the most gracious state we're in. But, Lord, it's you that upholds us. It's you that gives us strength for day by day by day by day. And, Lord Jesus, we've gathered here to meet, to worship, to study your precious word. God, make it be profitable to us tonight. May the Holy Spirit make the Word of God profitable to us. May it be edifying to all of us.

And may the saints be encouraged. And, Lord, we pray for those who are not with us through weakness of the flesh, and our brothers and sisters who we pray for so constantly. Again, those who can't come because of weakness of their body. God bless them. Lord, encourage them. And oh, please bring glory to yourself through us. We ask in our Lord Jesus' name. Amen. M number 62.

Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne. Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own. Awake, my soul, and sing Of Him who died for thee, And hail Him as thy matchless King Through all eternity. Crown Him with thorn of love, Behold His hands and sides, Rich wounds yet visible above, Beauty glorified, O angel in the sky, Then flew he there that side, But down where lives his wandering eye, Had mystery so bright. Crown him the Lord of life, who triumphed o'er the grave, Who rose victorious to the strife, for those he came to save. His glories now we sing, Who died and rose on high, Who died, eternal life to bring Him lives that death may die. Crown Him the Lord of Heav'n, one with the Father known. One with the Spirit, through Him given, crowned yonder glorious known. To Thee be endless praise, for Thou for us hast died, Be thou, O Lord, through endless days adored and magnified.

Just look again here at Galatians 5. Sunday we dealt with the liberty that we have in Christ and stand fast in it. Don't move from it. Always do it. And remember that circumcision or uncircumcision, liberty, no liberty, anything that you do, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, and belittle Him in any way, it makes the death of Christ none effect for you, and His life not profitable for you.

Now that's the awfulest thing to think of. When our Lord told those people that came to Him, told them all the works that they had done, all the preaching that they had done, all the devils they had cast out, He said, Oh, depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. I never knew you.

And so we, I can't think of anything worse than what Christ did on the cross. What he accomplished by his life, by his death, by his blood, by his work, by his obedience to his father, his burial and his resurrection. I cannot imagine it not being effectual for me. I just can't imagine that. But it's going to be ineffectual for lots and lots of people. But, oh, to have his death not profit you nothing? His righteousness not profit you nothing? That would be an awful state to be in.

But now let's start here in verse 7. He said, You did run well. You did run well. They start out running. They started out zealous. They started out Moving on. And you know, that's what the scriptures tells us. Let us run with patience the race is set before us. We got a race set before us. And there, you know, Christ is the starting place. That's where we start. The race starts there in Christ. And you know, we cross the finish line, Christ will be the finish line.

And so you with patience, our Lord said in In your patience possess you your soul. And that word patience means just wait. We said, Son of tonight, be still, oh my soul, be still. Be still. And that run with patience, the race has set before you. Be patient about it. Don't try to make a hurry out of it. Don't try to make yourself any faster than you can go. But he says this, and this is the key to it, looking. Looking. unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. And he says, you all did run well. You started out good. You started out really, really well. And then look what he says. Who did hinder you? And in the margin, it says, who drove you back? That word hinder means to drive you back. Drive you back. Who caused you to go backwards? Who caused you to go backwards? Who caused you to do that?

And this is the thing, that you should not obey the truth. He said evidently they knew what the truth was. They had heard the truth and they started out with the truth. And he says, well, who did hinder you? Who turned you back and made you go in a different direction? Who did that? that you should not obey the truth that's been preached to you, the truth that you once believed. Well, and he says there in verse 8, this persuasion. Who persuaded you to do this? Who persuaded you to run well and hinder you that you should not obey the truth? Who persuaded you to this? Who convinced you of this? Who caused you to do this? Who was it? Who, where'd this persuasion come?

It didn't come from Him that called you. It couldn't, God doesn't persuade people to go back. Oh my. God didn't cause this persuasion. He's the one that called us. You know, Christ is, He didn't persuade anybody to turn from Him. And He's the only Savior. He's the only one that can save us. He's the only righteousness we have. Christ doesn't persuade a person to go back.

He has said this, he said, a man putting his hand to the plow and looking back not fit for the kingdom of God. That's what he did say that. But he said Christ didn't persuade you of this. The Holy Spirit who come to reveal Christ to us and teach us Christ, they didn't do that.

Him that calleth you, he called you. You think he gonna turn around and tell you to go backwards? To go in another direction? To go someplace else? To go to law after you've had Christ? He said, I'm marveled that you're so soon removed from the grace of Christ to another gospel. And there's not another gospel. And if a man preaches another gospel, let God curse that man. Let God curse that man. And oh, he said, and this is where I messed this up Sunday morning.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. And I told you, you know, you know what leaven is. Somebody told me later, I was trying to, I couldn't think of saving my life, but they told me back there, said it means yeast. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. Yeast does. And that's what he's talking.

And you know, when I was reading that every sacrifice that they had to give, the sacrifice had to be with unleavened bread. And unleavened bread means that it has no leaven in it, no yeast in it whatsoever. And that's what the Jews did, that when there's sacrifices in Leviticus and all that, and in the Passover, you had to have unleavened bread for seven days. And you're not even supposed to have leaven in your house. If they come into your house and found leaven in there, they'll take you out and stone you.

That's how serious this business is. And look what our master said about this leaven. Little leaven leaveth the whole loaf. Get with me and I say, Matthew 16, Matthew 16, six. Get Matthew 16 with me. You know, a little leaven, and that's what he's saying here, just a little leaven, it'll mess up the whole thing. Oh, a little leaven. Leaven's the whole thing. Look in verse 5 here, Matthew 16, 6. 16, Matthew 16, starting verse 5. And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

And they reasoned among themselves, when he said that, this just goes to show you how dull we are sometimes, how we miss things that Christ says. And they reasoned among themselves, is it because we didn't bring no bread? And they reasoned among themselves, and our Lord Jesus Christ, when he perceived, he said, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves because ye have brought no bread? Do you not yet understand, or don't you remember, the five loaves of five thousand, how many baskets we took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, how many baskets we took up?

How is it that you do not understand that I spake, that I spake it not to you concerning bread, but beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees? Now look what it says in verse 12. Then understood they that he bade them beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Stay away from their doctrine. Stay away from what they're teaching. Stay away from what they're preaching. Stay away from what they believe. Because it's got, it's a false doctrine. Stay away from that leaven. Stay away from it. Stay away from it.

So a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Back over in our ... And you know the Scriptures tells us in 1 Corinthians 5 that our Lord Jesus Christ was our Passover sacrifice for us, and that He is the one that takes away all the leaven out of everything that we have. He takes the leaven out of it. All right, now look what it says here in verse 10. This is what I want to talk about, confidence. Confidence. How do you have confidence in somebody?

And Paul evidently had confidence in them. He said, I have confidence in you, through the Lord, that you'll be none other likewise minded, but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment. How could he possibly have confidence in these people? How could he have confidence in them? He asked them so many questions. Did you start out in faith going to be made perfect by the flesh, start out by the spirit, and now you're going to go back to the law? And oh, how could he have confidence in them?

He said, I have confidence in you. I have confidence in you. And you know, he called them brethren. In verse 28 of chapter 4, he says, now brethren, as Isaac was. Then in verse 31, so then brethren. And then here in verse 11 in chapter 5, he calls them brethren. So there's some men there that he calls brothers. They're my brethren. And he believed in these people. He said, I have confidence in you.

Well, why would he? Because they called in question his authority as an apostle. They wondered, you know, whether he had any authority at all as an apostle. They had turned and went from Christ to another gospel. Another gospel that then other than that he had preached. and that they had once believed. He believed that those he is writing to are real, real believers. And let me tell you something. If they're real believers, and Paul really believes they're believers, some believers among these people, as such, they could not end up departing from the faith.

God would not let them stay in that condition. He would not do it. What he calls them, brethren, said, I know this, that if you're one of God's, and if you pay attention to what I'm saying, and you listen to what I'm saying, and you listen to what I'm telling you, he said, God will not let you depart from the truth and stay departed from it. He will not, blessed is the man who endures chastisement. God will chastise his people. He will not let them. will not let them eventually be lost.

He won't do it. He won't do it. And their preservation, now listen to me, their preservation would not be because of them or anything they did. They've already made a mess out of everything. Kind of like us. They've made a mess out of everything. But their preservation would not be because of them, but the power of God keeping them.

He said, I've got confidence in you. How can he have confidence in him? Then this is the key to it. Look what it says. Through the Lord. It's not in you. It's through the Lord. That's where my confidence for you comes from. Comes through the Lord. I know what you're able of. I know what you're capable of. But I know what he does, too, and I also know what he's doing.

Oh, so he expresses confidence that they had turned back to the true gospel, that they had turned back to Christ, that they had come back to believing the gospel, believing the truth. And, oh, my, look over in Philippians. Now, you know, over to your right in Philippians chapter 3 and verse 3. You know, he expresses confidence in them through the Lord that they'd turn back to the gospel. And this confidence was through the Lord. Look what the apostle said here in Philippians 3, 3.

We are the circumcision. When he talks about circumcision in this instance, he's talking about the cleansing of the heart. Not physical circumcision, not that at all. It's a circumcision of the heart. The people that's been cleansed by Christ. That, you know, circumcision is of the heart, not of the flesh. That's what Paul told the Romans. He said, we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and listen to this, have no confidence in the flesh.

He didn't have no confidence in their flesh. You know where his confidence? I have confidence in you through the Lord. That's a horse of a whole other color, ain't it? Oh, back over in our text. They said, I have confidence through the Lord. Oh, and you know why he had this confidence? That Christ will not lose one for whom he died. Christ will not let them go. He'll let them go so far. So far.

You know, when you, have any of y'all heard that message by Eric Van Beek on the weakness of the flesh? I'll tell you what, he's talked about Simon Peter. Could anybody, could anybody have done anything worse than deny Christ three times in one night?

And yet the Lord Jesus Christ told him, when you're converted, and he wanted to know how much you loved him. So with this people, you know this business of through the Lord. If God did not keep us, I know this without a shadow of a doubt. If God didn't keep me, day in and day out, I would not be able to stand one day in this world without Christ. You know how easy it would be to get carried about with the things of this life? And that's what he's talking about.

His confidence was through the Lord because of their union, their join to the Lord Jesus Christ. And his confidence was through the Lord. He was confident that the Lord would teach them, that the Lord would bring them, that the Lord would bring them to himself. I believe it's in I believe it's in 1st or 2nd Timothy, but anyway, it says, the Lord cannot deny himself.

He said, I preach, you know, I endure all things for the elect's sake, for God cannot deny us and cannot deny himself. If he denies you for whom he died, if he denies one for whom he died, then he would have to deny himself and say, I did not do what I said I was going to do. That's the argument that Moses used against the Lord. When the Lord said, Moses, get out of my way. I'm going to destroy this bunch. I'm going to kill them all. And I'll raise you up another nation. Moses said, oh, Lord, Lord.

He said, you know what? If you kill all these people, you know what they're going to, the enemy's going to say about you? You know what everybody in Egypt is going to say about you? Do you understand that if you can't keep these people, see these people through?" He said, don't you know what they're going to say about you?

And he used that argument about if you failed your people that you brought through the Red Sea, and that you shed blood for, and you had bread for them, and blood shed for them, and a roast lamb for them. He said, if you deny them, oh my goodness, what in the world is people going to say about you? Now, you think about it. If God lets one for whom Christ died, whether it's a Galatians, whether it's a Philippians, or whether it's a Cumberland Countian, or a Crossvillian, if God lets one for whom Christ died go, he'll let him go so far and then he'll reach and get that crook. Jerk him back. He won't let you. He'll let you go so far and then he won't let you. That's about, you know, That's as far as you're going. You ain't going no further.

And I thank God for that. Don't you? Oh, I thank God for it. Oh, my. And not only that, but he was confident that the Lord would teach them and that he would use Paul's teaching and Paul's preaching. But here's the thing that he knows, he said, I confidence through the Lord. He understand the salvations of the Lord, not of me, Paul. Their salvation doesn't depend on me, it depends on God. If they learn anything from me, God's got to be the one to teach it. He says, one of us, they say, well, we like Paul better than we do anybody. I like Paul better than anybody. Well, I like Cephas the best. Paul said, who are these men? Who are they? Some of them sow a little bit of seed, somebody comes along and waters, but it's God, God, God that gives the increase. And that's why he says, I have confidence through you, but only through the Lord. God's responsible for their salvation. That's why Paul had confidence in these Galatians being brought back to the truth of the gospel.

And look what it says here now. And also in this, and he says there in verse 10, I have confidence you through the Lord that you will be none other words minded. He said, what it means is, is you gonna think like I think. You're gonna believe like I believe.

He said, I want you to be minded that the only reason you stand at all is through the Lord. Through the Lord. You know, be none other minded that you agree with me. submit to the Lord that taught the truth taught by Him. And let me say this, if they did not, if they did not, that would mean that they were not real believers to start with. If you can go there and stay there and God doesn't bring you out, that's a But God's not going to let His people go. That's why Paul said, I've got confidence in you through the Lord.

Through the Lord. And oh my. And look what he says here now in verse, again, in verse 10. But he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. He that troubles you. He that troubles you. Oh, he that troubleth you. There's evidently some people there that troubled them. Troubled them.

I remember one time, and maybe some of you all remember it, years and years and years ago, up at 13th Street Baptist Church when Henry was in his mid-50s, there's a group of men got together, and they start having a Bible study together. And they started preaching and teaching that holiness was something to do with your flesh. That we had to start living holy lives and start, you know, manifesting the holiness in our lives and in our thoughts and in our, and all of those things. And the next thing you know, everybody here's out here trying to be holy.

And they say, one fellow took another man's wife. And he said, you know why I did that? Because Henry wouldn't preach against adultery. They would have done that whether it's Henry Baird, the pastor, who was. That's what I'm telling you. That's what I'm telling you. That's why it's those people that come along and trouble you. That cause trouble. Where you cannot preach the law and don't talk about holiness and holiness in the flesh and Christ at the same time. You can't do it. How do you talk about grace and talk about works? It can't be done.

And all he that troubles you. Look what our Lord said in Matthew 18. Matthew 18. Oh, this is this is something here. And verse six. But whosoever, but whoso shall offend one of these little ones, which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he would drown in the depth of the sea. That means if you trouble somebody.

Now let me show you in Acts chapter 15. Look on Acts chapter 15. Verse 24. He that troubleth you. He that troubleth you. Look what he said here in Acts 15, 24. For as much as ye have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you. And how'd they trouble them with? With words. With words. Subverting your souls. Subverting your souls. saying, you must be circumcised and keep the law.

Now watch what he says here, to whom we gave no such commandment. They just went out to trouble you, trouble you. And it is troubling for somebody to bring in things like that. And all these Judaizers, whosoever he be, that's what he says, back over in our text, whoever he shall be, These Jewsizers led these Galatians away from the truth, and it says they shall bear their judgment.

Now you think about God. God's saying this, that it'd be better for somebody that troubles the church of God and causes trouble and starts leading people astray. He said it'd be better to put a millstone around his neck and throw him in the depths of the sea as trouble God's people. He said, whoever this is, he that troubles you shall bear his judgment. You ain't gonna bear it, he's gonna bear it.

You think about God setting his sights on you to judge you. Oh, listen, you're causing trouble. You're leading people astray with your words. You're talking about Moses in the ceremonies, in the ritual. He said, he that troubleth you, bear his own judgment. Oh, my. And I tell you, judgment is sure.

And oh, God don't never, ever let us stray. Stray. from the gospel and from the grace of God, stray from love, stray from grace, stray from Christ, stray from blood, stray from anything but the truth. God help us never to stray, never to stray. Then look what he says in verse 11. And thy brethren, he calls them brethren again, and thy brethren, No, he talks about the offense of the cross. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision. If I was preaching, well, I started out preaching. Paul started out a Pharisee. He started out with that doctrine. He started out a Pharisee. A Pharisee, and he was a zealous after the law. He said, one time I had a righteous after the law, blameless, but it was dumb.

And oh my. He said, if I preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offense of the cross ceased. If I still preach circumcision, that's what he's saying. And he did preach it once. He did. I mean, he hated Christ. You know, God brought him down on the Damascus Road. He said, if I still preach circumcision, why do I suffer persecution? And what he's saying is if it were right to preach circumcision, I'd do it. That's what I'd preach.

So I can escape the opposition that I have to face. I don't like to be hated. I don't like to be mistreated. I don't like to be thrown in jail. I don't like to have stripes beat on my back. I don't like those things. I don't enjoy those things. But oh, I tell you one thing. If circumcision was the right thing to preach, that's what I'd preach. And then I wouldn't have to all this trouble. Everywhere I go, they throwin' dust on the road. They put me in prison. They put me in jail. They put me in chains.

If circumcision was right, that's what I'd preach. And then I wouldn't have to ever suffer any persecution. But oh my. All I have to do to avoid it is preach Moses and the law. But the offense of the cross, he said, oh, then the offense of the cross don't happen anymore. Oh, the offense of the cross. There are so many things that makes the cross offensive to people. That means the atoning work of our Lord Jesus Christ without obedience to the law.

Christ is the end. the end, the goal, the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to them that believe, believe. And oh my, the offense is this, this is one of the most offensive things, is that salvation is by one person, one way, that's the Lord Jesus Christ. And if, you know, you set that down, you set that down as a maxim, No matter how a person's saved, no matter where they live or what color they are, what race they are, there's only one Savior. One Savior, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. And when you preach the test, the only way in the world God will accept you is through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. No other way. in Christ and Him crucified. Any other way is false. To add anything to what Christ did and then take anything away from it, you're falling from grace. It's false. It's false. Let me tell you, law, keeping law, keeping works, free will preaching, they don't suffer persecution. They don't suffer persecution from preaching that. No. Fatalism don't suffer no persecution.

You know, just left to old fate. You know, get up every day and you don't know what in the world is going to happen in your life. You just, well, whatever fate orders for me, whatever fate orders for me, whatever the cards fall my way, without God, without Christ, without any wisdom, without any power behind it.

But oh my, I tell you, Only those who insist on Christ alone, I'm telling you now, Christ alone, about sovereign election. Sovereign election that God chose a people for himself before the foundation of the world. Sovereign election. You start preaching that, folks say, now that's not fair, that's not fair, that's not fair, that's not right. I believe this man's got to give a man a chance, and then your man's got to cooperate with God.

There's no offense in that. But when you say God in sovereign election, a bunch of them run up to him and said, if you be the Christ, tell us plainly. He said, I've told you, but you don't believe. Why not? Because you're not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. And guess what? They follow me. Oh, my.

And then, you know, talk about Christ's redemption just for his elect, just a particular redemption. He did not die for everybody. He died for a particular people. He died for sheep. He died for vessels of mercy. He died for people that he chose in Christ before the foundation of the world.

Oh, my. And I'll tell you what. You start preaching those things and making those things to be the thing. Making that issue, that makes the cross offensive. It'll offend man's pride. It'll offend man's righteousness. It'll offend his concept of himself and his power. So don't follow any teaching or law.

You know, that's what they, you know, I don't know how many people I've talked to over the years now that are believers. When they were in reformed and doing those kind of things, He said, if you don't follow what we say, we'll discipline you and we'll put you out of the church.

And all the offense of the cross has been since Christ was crucified. Do you know that? Christ was crucified. Look what he said here in Galatians 6 14. But God forbid that I should glory only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Oh my. The Jews, they stumbled over Christ.

They stumbled over him because they sought righteousness by the law, and Christ was there. And they had a rock to stand on. They had a foundation to stand on. And yet they chose not to stand on that foundation. They chose not to stand on Christ. They stumbled over Him. Fell over Him. I don't need Him. I've got Moses. I've got my works. I've got my goodness. I'm doing the best I can. I'm keeping, the rich young ruler said, I've kept all these since my youth up.

Oh my, oh, you stumbled over. And then the Gentiles, and this is where, I don't know how many people, you start asking people whether they believe in Christ or not. And you know, not a heaven or hell, And most everybody say, yeah, yeah. Or else, no, I don't believe. I believe that's the most foolish thing ever. And that's what the Jews said. We're philosophers. We're philosophers. We're wise men. We read, we got Plato. We got Aristotle. We got all these great philosophers. We got Galileo and, oh my, we got all these gods. And he said, why in the world do we want somebody that was crucified on a cross and was bloody on that cross?

What would that man do for me? I don't need him. I'm too smart for that. I'm too wise for that. Oh, but to them that are called. Christ is a very power of God by which he saves us and teaches us. He, Christ, is the wisdom of God. to show us how God can be just and justify them that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That makes me happy all over. That does something for me nothing else in this world does. Oh my.

And oh, I'll tell you, it's easy to take the offense out of the gospel. Let me tell you how to do it. Use ambiguous terms. Use ambiguous terms. Don't define nothing. Speak in generalities. Don't define who God is. Just use the term God. Don't define who God is. Don't define who Christ is. Don't do that. Don't define who Christ is. Just use the name Jesus over and over and over again. Don't define who he died for. Don't do that. Don't you dare define who he died for. And don't you possibly tell man how wicked he is and how sinful he, don't do that. Oh, whatever you do, all you gotta do is say, listen, I am so glad you all come here today. Oh my, well, you know, you just made my day. Oh, I tell you what, I see all of you. I see you out there, I see you out there.

Oh, and I'll tell you something else, the cross is not some mystical symbol. No, no. Christ is not somebody for us to feel sorry for, for being mistreated. He wasn't made a martyr. Paul told us in fourth verse of chapter one, he said, Christ died for us. Christ died for us. He gave himself for our sins. And oh my. And that's how I'm gonna stay right there.

And then everyone who doesn't preach this, Paul said in verse 12, he said, I would they were even cut off, which trouble you. What he means is cut them off. You know, you ever have anybody that you had to cut yourself off from? They just cause you so much trouble. Well, that's what he said. You Galatians, may he be cut off. You cut yourself off from them and don't have nothing to do with them. Cut off. They seek to mutilate your flesh in circumcision. They'd do better if they cut themselves off in your connection to them.

And verse 13 says, for brethren, we've been called unto liberty. We've been called to freedom. We've not been called to bondage, we've been called to freedom. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. I may just preach that one verse next week. I don't know. I tell you what, there's so much to say here that I hope has a blessing to you. I hope it was. Oh, what a gospel God's taught us. Oh, bless his name. I'm so thankful for it. Oh, I'm so thankful for it. Our Father, oh, our blessed Father, in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for your great mercies and grace given us. Thank you for my brothers and sisters in Christ.

Thank you, oh, Lord, that you've taken us in hand and you won't let us go astray. Please don't let us go astray. Please don't let us think more of ourselves than we really are. Don't let us exalt ourselves in any way. And our confidence for our own selves is through the Lord, not in our flesh and not anything we've ever thought, said, or done. Our confidence is through the Lord Jesus Christ.

God bless these dear saints as they go home. Bless them who listen tonight, Lord, and bless them Encourage your dear people, wherever they may be, for Christ's sake, amen. Amen. Oh, what a Savior, what a Savior, what a Savior. Well, I'll see you Sunday morning, God willing.