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[177.86 --> 180.02] and halfway houses and community leaders |
[180.02 --> 182.52] to discern, okay, how does this person |
[182.52 --> 184.36] who's now served X amount of years |
[184.36 --> 185.66] at Kent Penitentiary, |
[185.96 --> 187.24] and where are we going to place them? |
[187.30 --> 188.18] How are they going to flourish? |
[188.32 --> 189.92] What are the parameters they need |
[189.92 --> 192.60] in order to live well back in society? |
[193.66 --> 195.58] The question he had to ask |
[195.58 --> 197.36] over and over again is, |
[198.18 --> 199.32] what's the risk? |
[199.86 --> 201.12] And perhaps even more deeply, |
[201.62 --> 204.20] will this person who spent this many years |
[204.20 --> 207.10] with prison guards and fences and bars, |
[207.30 --> 209.18] will they actually change |
[209.18 --> 210.54] and choose a life of freedom, |
[210.54 --> 213.56] or will they go back to the old habits, |
[214.16 --> 215.64] the old way of life, |
[215.64 --> 216.78] and re-offend? |
[216.90 --> 217.98] What will they do |
[217.98 --> 219.68] with this new found freedom? |
[221.88 --> 224.54] That's the question of Galatians 5. |
[225.40 --> 226.50] There are these new people |
[226.50 --> 227.46] who have come to the church, |
[227.66 --> 229.02] they've got a harsh background, |
[229.18 --> 229.62] many of them, |
[229.68 --> 231.52] a tough growing up. |
[231.74 --> 233.00] They've come to faith in Jesus, |
[233.12 --> 234.06] they've been set free, |
[234.32 --> 235.38] and now the question is, |
[235.46 --> 236.32] what are they going to do |
[236.32 --> 237.44] with this freedom? |
[238.18 --> 239.40] Are they going to go back |
[239.40 --> 240.84] to the old lifestyle they had, |
[240.88 --> 241.72] are they going to fall back |
[241.72 --> 242.58] into the old traps, |
[242.64 --> 244.64] or will they finally flourish? |
[244.64 --> 247.32] And if so, how? |
[249.58 --> 250.42] Important background |
[250.42 --> 251.68] to reading Galatians 5. |
[252.28 --> 253.44] Up until this point, |
[253.52 --> 254.50] as you've probably noticed, |
[254.64 --> 256.18] Paul has been sort of in a debate |
[256.18 --> 257.84] with these people called the Judaizers, |
[258.20 --> 259.14] who have been saying |
[259.14 --> 260.24] to the people in the churches, |
[260.76 --> 261.58] this Paul guy, |
[261.68 --> 263.40] he's not taking your faith serious enough, |
[263.46 --> 265.32] he doesn't take the law serious enough, |
[265.56 --> 267.12] you need to come under the law, |
[267.22 --> 268.72] you need to take the law more seriously, |
[268.84 --> 269.80] it needs to be at the center. |
[270.58 --> 271.92] And one of their concerns, |
[272.12 --> 273.96] I would say a legitimate concern, |
[273.96 --> 274.90] was this, |
[275.74 --> 277.06] you've got these new Christians |
[277.06 --> 278.44] coming into the church, |
[278.62 --> 280.40] they have a really rough background, |
[280.60 --> 281.10] some of them, |
[281.24 --> 282.36] as churches always do, |
[282.80 --> 285.30] and how will they know how to live |
[285.30 --> 287.20] if they don't have the law? |
[287.30 --> 288.32] What's going to curb |
[288.32 --> 289.76] the destructive desires, |
[290.10 --> 292.14] their old habits from reappearing, |
[292.24 --> 293.36] from them going back |
[293.36 --> 294.56] to what they were before? |
[295.56 --> 296.80] And you know what Paul's answer is? |
[297.02 --> 297.90] So powerful. |
[297.90 --> 298.54] Number one, |
[299.42 --> 300.28] the old nature |
[300.28 --> 301.86] has been crucified with Jesus. |
[302.32 --> 303.18] I mean, that's what we celebrated |
[303.18 --> 304.76] at Jebai's baptism last week. |
[305.06 --> 305.84] The old nature |
[305.84 --> 307.34] has been dealt with |
[307.34 --> 308.32] through the work of Jesus, |
[308.48 --> 309.18] but secondly, |
[309.92 --> 311.98] what's going to curb their desires, |
[312.28 --> 313.32] change their hearts, |
[313.82 --> 315.00] shift their ambitions, |
[315.00 --> 317.34] is the power of God |
[317.34 --> 318.88] through the Holy Spirit. |
[321.36 --> 322.82] I want us to notice, |
[323.18 --> 324.84] before we move anywhere else |
[324.84 --> 325.52] in this passage, |
[325.52 --> 326.84] how Paul starts. |
[326.96 --> 327.26] In fact, |
[327.60 --> 328.76] he makes a repeated point |
[328.76 --> 329.78] that I don't want us to miss, |
[329.86 --> 330.34] and that is, |
[330.94 --> 331.52] ultimately, |
[331.84 --> 334.78] Christianity will always be about freedom. |
[336.04 --> 338.00] Christianity is about freedom. |
[338.96 --> 339.94] It gets misconstrued |
[339.94 --> 340.72] in all sorts of ways. |
[340.78 --> 341.52] If you watch Netflix |
[341.52 --> 342.54] or whatever you watch, |
[342.72 --> 343.36] you'll know that, |
[343.48 --> 344.28] culturally speaking, |
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