Transcript: Episode 0061

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Let's get go.

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Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast.

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I am Corey J. Moeller, and I'm still woe.

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On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing Galatians 328.

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This is a passage that has come up many times in past episodes.

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It's an episode that we've discussed for a while doing separately as its own thing.

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It's a passage that comes up all the time in church life.

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You frequently hear pastors and others pointing to Galatians 328 as a very important passage

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for one thing or another.

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The problem is that virtually every time this verse comes up today, it is for evil purposes.

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So today we are going to be exegeting very closely the entirety of this verse.

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It's 26 words in most English translations.

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It's 23 words in Greek.

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They basically mean the same thing.

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We'll give you a transliteration in a minute of the Greek and the English.

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There's one error that's common in almost all the translations today that goes back

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to the King James that we will be discussing at some length, but it's not an error that

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used to matter because it didn't change what the verse meant until these new attacks occurred.

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We've talked a lot in past episodes about how the new modern global religion has new

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doctrines.

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It has new tenets of new faith, and one of them is the inversion of Galatians 328.

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So today we're going to be continuing half a dozen past episodes where we've brought

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this up in the episode on Amongst the Ashes.

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We talked about the fact that Black Lives Matter on their original website, part of

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their manifesto, basically went line by line through, or word by word, through Galatians

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328 and inverted it, which is pretty weird when you're talking about something that was

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ostensibly a group that was supposed to be anti-racist and just make sure the Black people

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didn't get beaten up by cops.

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That was sort of how it was sold, and that sounded pretty good to some people.

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So why would they attack Galatians 328?

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We talked about that in that episode.

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We're going to rehash a bit of that today because it's really important.

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In three of the human race episodes, one on foundational matters on scripture and soteriology

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and on racism, in different contexts we discussed how this passage is used to falsely bind

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consciences and things that are not found in scripture.

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On the episode on women's scripture and ontology, the same thing, saying that sexes don't exist

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because of Jesus, somehow that makes sense.

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If you paid attention two weeks ago to the Gnosticism episode, it will sound very much

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like the Gnostic heresy because that's exactly what's going on.

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I want to reiterate, as we said in that episode, when we call something Gnostic, this is not

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the generic internet.

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I don't like it, so I'm going to call it the G word.

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There are a lot of people online that have just latched onto that and say, well, it's

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Gnostic.

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We're not doing that.

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I'm conscious of the fact that it's become a meme, and it's unfortunate because there

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is actually a portion of the first and second century Gnostic heresy that's come roaring

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back today.

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When we deal with this passage today, it's in light of the things we said two weeks ago.

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Remember Gnosticism, one of its core tenets, was denial of the flesh, saying that the flesh

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is not real or it's wicked.

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It's not really us.

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We're spiritual.

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That is the higher realm, and all this fleshly stuff is evil.

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It's wrong.

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It's not us.

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It's incidental.

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It's accidental.

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That's a heresy.

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That is an anti-Christian heresy.

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It's an anti-creation heresy, which makes it an anti-creator heresy.

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In the episode we dealt with, the fact that these things are going on in the church today,

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and then in last week's episode, we established the same thing that Paul is establishing as

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he's writing this letter to the Galatians, which is that you people are falling away.

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I've taught you the truth, and now you're believing lies.

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Where did these lies come from?

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So we'll explain how the fact that Paul would have these concerns, that God would have these

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concerns in Galatia, should give us pause today.

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We're no better than them.

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Paul didn't plant our churches.

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Paul, through the Holy Spirit, has given us our doctrine.

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He's given us the words that we hold to, but he certainly was going to do a better job

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planting his church than any of our churches.

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I think that's fair to say.

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Now, insofar as a human is going and doing something, that's true because he was an apostle

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of Christ.

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Insofar as God's word is taught, there's always the possibility for any church to be

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completely faithful to God's word, insofar as it believes what Scripture says.

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But that's the problem.

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Do you believe what God has told you, or do you believe lies that you're bringing in

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from elsewhere?

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Same problem that they had in Galatia is a problem we have today.

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We talked about in last week's episode that this is the modern fight.

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It's a fight against not only ancient heresies, but against the unbelief that's inherently

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in all of our hearts.

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Last episode that we've previously referenced significantly, Galatians 3.28, was in Hebrew's

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Israelites and Jews, where we talked about the Talmudic prayer, and how one of their

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prayers is directly condemned by Galatians 3.28, that what the Jews pray to this day

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is an inversion of what God says here, and why that's significant.

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Just to give some historical context, Paul and Barnabas' first missionary journey in

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about AD 47 and 48 went into Galatia.

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If you don't know, Galatia is an Asia Minor.

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It's north of Jerusalem by quite a bit, north of Judea.

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It's in modern-day Turkey, kind of centered probably around the modern city of Ankara.

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The problem with us hearing that today is you think, oh, Paul went to the Turks, and

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you know what a Turk looks like.

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You know something about their language and a little bit about their culture, their Muslim

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now, that they're brown and swarthy, and that's what they are.

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Okay, what you don't know if you don't pay any attention to the historical context is

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that that's not what they were then.

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The people to whom Paul took his first missionary journey in Galatia were Celts.

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Celts, the same people that are really only extant today in Ireland, in a bits and few

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other places.

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Basically, when you think Irish, you think Celts, that's who lived here.

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Galatia in modern-day Turkey was Celtic.

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It was not Arab.

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It was not Shemite.

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It was Japhethite, and incidentally, the same is true of much, if not all of the Mediterranean.

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For example, King Tut, a couple thousand years before, his DNA was Irish, it's Celtic.

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He had red hair and blue eyes, and he wasn't the only one.

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The pharaohs, in many cases, they had Japhethitic DNA.

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They're also, I believe, Shemitic in ancestry, but there's inbreeding, this happens.

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The problem is that today when we think, oh, I know what an Egyptian looks like, I know

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what a Greek looks like, I know what a Turk looks like, it doesn't apply.

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2,000 years ago, many of those people looked different, and it's particularly true of where

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Paul was taking his missionary journeys.

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When he went to these people, they were Celts.

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They had light eyes, light skin, light hair.

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They were European.

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Now, this only matters because of the very first couplet in Galatians 328.

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I'm going to read the whole thing from the ESV.

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It's similar in most of the other translations, and I'm also going to give the transliteration

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from Greek so you can see that they're the same thing.

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In English, it says, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,

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there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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And in the transliteration from the 23 words in Greek, neither there is Jew nor Greek,

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neither there is slave nor free, neither there is male and female, for you one are in Christ

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Jesus.

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We'll get into some of the details there because there's one word that's mistranslated

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from the Greek in the majority of the modern English and other translations and other languages,

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going back to the King James, so it's not just a modern issue.

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There's just a sloppiness, and the sloppiness didn't use to matter.

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It didn't really significantly change the text, but the modern attacks do make that

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change matter, so we'll talk about that in a bit.

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I give that text now because the first thing it says is there's neither Jew nor Greek.

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Well, when Paul was speaking to the Galatians, there were almost no Jews there.

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They weren't Greek either, they were Celts.

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They were speaking Greek.

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They were part of the empire of the West.

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It was first the Greeks and then the Romans.

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Their empires were huge, so they were conquering and ruling these lands.

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When Paul says Jew nor Greek, he's drawing a distinction that matters, and today we're

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told it matters because of race.

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It meant something completely different at the time, because when you look at the dispute

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in Galatians, the actual problem that Paul was trying to solve by writing this to them

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was Judaizers.

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The Judaizing heresy had emerged in the church that he had just planted within just a couple

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of years.

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We talked about that three weeks ago.

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There were those who came along from the so-called circumcision party who said, you guys, okay,

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you're Christian, now that's great.

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You all have to be circumcised, you have to live as Jews.

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You have to follow the Mosaic law.

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Paul's writing to the Galatians because he's not only horrified, but he's pissed.

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He is angry.

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I think the fourth chapter, he actually says, in effect, I don't know who it is among you

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that is telling you to be circumcised, but he should emasculate himself.

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He should castrate himself.

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He should chop it all off.

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He's saying, this guy's telling you to take off your foreskin, you tell him to take off

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the whole thing.

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He was angry.

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God was angry that these Judaizers had shown up in a church that Paul had just planted,

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and these were Christians, and the first words in chapter three that we're going to

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read in its entirety in just a minute are, oh, foolish Galatians, who bewitched you?

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I highlight this before we read the whole thing because that is a warning to us, too,

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as the warning from last week on our apostasy.

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We have this nonsense view in our heads that we are somehow immunized from falling into

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error because we say we're Christian, we say we believe the Bible, we have a confessional

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document in whatever our church body is, and we definitely really hold to that.

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Given all those things, how could we possibly be bewitched?

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Well, Paul came to these people, and he told them everything, and as soon as he left, someone

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snuck in and gave them a different gospel, and they ate it up, they loved it, and they

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switched sides.

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They were abandoning the Christian faith right behind his back.

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When he follows up with the church in Galatia, it's not to congratulate them on their perseverance

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in the faith, it's to say, oh, foolish Galatians, who bewitched you?

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Who is it among you that has spread this Judaizing heresy that was tearing apart their faith?

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It was about the faith that all of this hinges.

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When we look at the context of Galatians and you look at everything that's being said,

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the particular things that are said today about this one verse become just completely

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nonsensical.

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They're simultaneously retarded and just absolutely demonic lies.

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There's no possibility for anyone who reads Galatians to come to the conclusions that

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pastors will try to get you to reach when they just give you the 26 words in English.

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Yesterday, just for the sake of curiosity, and so I can make the point today as we're

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recording, I read Galatians from start to finish in one sitting, it took me eight and

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a half minutes.

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I'm a fast average reader, not a speed reader by any stretch.

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I would imagine that most of the people listening could comfortably do it in 10 minutes or

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so.

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I highlight this to say that we're so lazy about saying, oh, I'm just going to read a

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verse or I'm going to read part of a verse, or maybe I'll read a chapter, but man, that's

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a commitment.

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Well, it's typical that the intros to Stone Choir run about 15 minutes before we even

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really get into the meat of the subject.

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If you have two hours to listen to a Stone Choir episode once a week, you have 10 minutes

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to read a book of the Bible.

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Just like last week, we said, go read 2 Kings 17-23, probably about the same amount of time

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if you did that.

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Galatians is going to probably take you about the same amount of time.

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Please, after this episode, go read Galatians.

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You'll take no more than 15 minutes of your life.

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It's God's word that he put there for your benefit.

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I say this specifically because when you do that and then you look at the arguments that

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are made about Galatians 3-28, they're just garbage.

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They're completely insane in addition to being false doctrine, in addition to being evil.

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They're just absurd.

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No natural reading of the text would arrive at the conclusions that are being shoehorned

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into it.

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It's only the proof texting of this verse that makes it possible for this deception to occur.

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By the end of this episode, what we're going to attempt to do is draw a moat around the

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entirety of Galatians 3-28.

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We're going to draw a bright line around everything that's permissible for anyone to say about

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this verse.

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We are going to extend as a challenge of defiance against any teacher who would say anything

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differently than we say here.

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We are saying to you that they are outside of the Christian faith in whatever they say

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that's contrary to what we say here today.

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There's a very limited scope of what can be said about this verse.

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Anyone who says anything different is going to make one or more of the errors that we're

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going to lay out today.

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There are a lot of errors that are in the wind.

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We're going to talk about a few of them, but principally this is another tool giving episode.

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We're going to give you the tools to understand, here's what this means.

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Anytime you hear anyone for the rest of your like bring up Galatians 3-28, your ears should

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perk up and you should start listening for these errors because in virtually every case,

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you're going to find them.

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You need to be aware of that because those errors are going to cause serious problems

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spiritually for anyone who believes what they say.

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The reason I'm going to have an exhaustive list of all the possible errors is that there

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are new ones every day.

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There are new insane false teachings about this that we can't possibly give you a list

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of.

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There's always going to be more.

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What we can do is say this is literally all that is permissible for anyone to believe

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about this verse.

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I know it's a bold claim, but we're going to make the case for that today.

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This is a simple verse.

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As we're doing this episode, we're not proof texting.

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We're not trying to pluck this out of context.

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We're going to put it in its context so that you understand clearly what is and is not

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being said here.

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From now on, for the rest of your life, whenever Galatians 3-28 comes up, whenever you hear

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these words on anyone's lips, you're immediately going to know, are they saying what the Bible

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says about this, or have they completely ignored the context, have they flipped it upside

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down and turned it inside out to do something wicked with it.

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That's why we're here.

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That's why Stonequire exists, because this verse, if this verse were not being maligned

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and inverted, this podcast wouldn't exist.

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We have done so many episodes where we refer to this because it is the key way in which

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Satan is attacking the church today.

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This is, again, this is an attack coming from inside the church.

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BLM is inverting it in their own words, but in the church, we're seeing inversions that

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are far more harmful.

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As we go through these today, we want you to be equipped to understand, just like the

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heresy episodes on Judaizing and Gnosticism, there's an entire set of heresies surrounding

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Galatians 3-28 that, incidentally, all revolve around Judaizing and Gnosticism.

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As promised, we will start off by reading Galatians 3, so that you have at least the

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entire chapter.

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But again, to echo woe, you should go and read the entirety of the letter to the Galatians

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at some point this week.

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And so Galatians 3.

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O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?

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It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

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Let me ask you only this.

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Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

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Are you so foolish, having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

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Did you suffer so many things in vain, if indeed it was in vain?

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Does he who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you do so by works of

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the law, or by hearing with faith?

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Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness.

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So then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham, and the scripture foreseeing

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that God would justify the nations by faith, preach the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying,

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In you shall all the nations be blessed.

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So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

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For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed be everyone,

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who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.

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Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for the righteous shall

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live by faith.

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But the law is not of faith, rather, the one who does them shall live by them.

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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written,

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Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.

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So that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations, so that

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we might receive the promised spirit through faith.

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To give a human example, brothers, even with a man made covenant, no one annules it or

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adds to it once it has been ratified.

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Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring.

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It does not say, and to offsprings, referring to many, but referring to one, and to your

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offspring, who is Christ.

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This is what I mean, the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant

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previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

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For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise, but God gave it

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to Abraham by a promise.

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Why then the law?

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It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise

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had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

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Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.

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Is the law then contrary to the promises of God?

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Certainly not, for if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would

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indeed be by the law, but the scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise

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by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming

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faith would be revealed.

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So then the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified

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by faith.

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But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you

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are all sons of God through faith.

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For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female,

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for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

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I would just like to start off by pointing out a quick grammar point for those who may

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have been listening particularly closely to what was literal reading of the Greek at the

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beginning of this episode.

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Different languages handle negation in different ways.

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Many languages do it in a way that sounds unnatural to the English here, it's something

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that we don't really have.

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German for instance has something similar.

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And so for instance, if I were to say there is beer here, I'll butcher the word order

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in German just to make it the exact same so it's easier to understand for an English

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speaker.

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Es gibt beer here.

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Now the negation of that would be there is no beer here.

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In English we use no, so we sort of drop that article we use no as our negation.

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And then is es gibt kind beer here, which would be the equivalent of if we had a negative

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form of the article a or an, so not a Greek is closer to that latter bit.

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And so what you hear there in the literal reading is oak and then any that the verb

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for is that oak is a negative prefix.

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And what that does is it negates the following verb.

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And so in English when we translate it, that's why we have neither nor, that nor being uda.

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And so when you hear the literal translation of the Greek, that's why it sounds unwieldy

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to an English speaker.

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But the other thing that I wanted to pull out here and why it's important to understand

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or pay attention to the grammar with the particular nuance is that you see that there are three

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couplets, neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, not male and female.

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Now it is the same underlying word there for neither and not.

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It is translated differently within the scope of the term, so the translation is fine, but

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it is translated differently in order to make it sound like English.

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Some very literal translations don't do that and it sounds very strange to an English

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year.

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But the important part to notice there is that middle word because the middle word is

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in fact different, the connecting word between the terms.

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So it is Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, not male and female, because the Greek word there

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is chi, the word for and in the pairing of the two sexes.

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This is an important distinction.

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We'll get into it more later in the episode, but it's an important distinction between

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the first two couplets and the third.

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There's a difference there in what is underlying this in the nature of these things.

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So the first one is ontological, immutable and inherent.

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It is dealing with race.

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The second is ontological, indirectly so, whereas the first is directly so, but indirectly

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ontological because the nature and the status as slave or free flows from things that are

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in many cases, not always of course, and that's also important, but indirectly ontological

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mutable because this can be changed and inheritable, so not inherent, whereas we get back to the

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same sort of nature as the first couplet with the third because it is directly ontological.

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The difference between the sexes is an ontological difference.

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It is a difference in being, it's a difference in nature and it is indeed immutable and inherent.

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And yes, you could say it is heritable, but that is a different thing.

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You're talking about biology then, which is involved here, but it's not the entirety

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of what is in view.

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So that gives you some of the grammatical structure, some of the underlying workings of this, the

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underpinnings in order to build a foundation on which to place what we're going to review

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in this episode about the nature of this verse and why it is so important and why Satan is

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attacking it.

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There are many parallel or related verses for this I have about 14 or 15 of them at this

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point that I've collected for, I'll probably eventually write something longer on this

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particular verse, this subject, but this is the key one.

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And one of the ways you can tell this is the key verse is this is the one that's attacked.

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Satan is going to attack the thing he wants to destroy.

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Now he may get to it in a roundabout fashion at times and he's done that in this case.

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He's attacked each and every one of these couplets separately, building up to a direct

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attack on this verse because it undermines Christendom, it undermines creation, it undermines

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everything.

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But this is the important verse because this is the one that's being attacked.

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And so this is the one that we need to defend.

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We may touch on some of the other verses as well because they do add some nuance.

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They're interesting, at the very least.

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But by and large, we are going to focus on that's why it's the title of this episode

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and why it is the focus of this episode, Galatians 3 28, because it is the core of this entire

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matter.

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Within these three couplets lies what you need not only to defend the church and God's

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creation, but what Satan, if he can subvert them, needs in order to destroy both of those

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things.

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And that is why you see it so frequently in the mouth of false teachers and false pastors

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because they are serving their master by teaching falsely, by ice-egeting as opposed to exegeting.

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Ice-egeting is to falsely interpret by ice-egeting this particular passage.

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So as I mentioned at the outset, Paul is writing to Galatia.

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He's writing to Celts who live in a different cultural context.

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But they're Christians now.

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They've been given the gospel.

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The Judaizing heresy has emerged among them, and they're being told that they need to

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begin circumcising.

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That's the full context of all six chapters of Galatians.

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I want to read again the 29th verse, the last verse in the third chapter.

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And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

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Now this helps to explain everything that's going on here.

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The concept of Abraham's offspring being the key to salvation was the fundamental belief

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of the Pharisees.

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It was not the faith imparted to them by God.

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It was the pharisaical heresy where they believed that salvation was racial.

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That was their belief.

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The belief of the Pharisees, of most of the Jews.

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In that day, the salvation was racial.

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That belief in all that stuff was incidental.

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But as long as they had Abraham as their father, and then they held to the mosaic code, they

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would be saved.

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And so much of the Inc's build in the New Testament is throwing them all under the bus,

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saying you lying, brutal vipers, everything you're doing here is false.

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And so the first couplet, there is neither Jew nor Greek.

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It is about races, but it's specifically in the context of the Abrahamic covenant.

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Because again, they believed that because they could call themselves sons of Abraham,

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they could say they had a claim on salvation.

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And so that was what the Judaizers are doing.

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It's what the circumcision party was doing, saying, okay, that's great, you're Christians

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now, you got to circumcise yourselves, you have to follow the mosaic covenant.

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Which was the opposite of what Paul had just taught them as Christians.

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We see this also in Matthew 3.

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This is right as Jesus is being baptized.

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Listen to what John the Baptist says, but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees

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coming to his baptism, he said to them, you brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from

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the wrath to come, bear fruit in keeping with repentance, and do not presume to say to yourselves,

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we have Abraham as our father, for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise

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up children for Abraham.

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Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees.

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Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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This is entirely keeping with the overall theme of Galatians.

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Who is a son of Abraham?

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Well, again, it was verse 29 say, if you're a Christ, then your Abraham's offspring

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heirs according to the promise.

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And the airship is something we're going to get to in the third couplet because why is

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he talking about sex?

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Why did Paul bring up sex in this context?

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When you read Galatians, it's one of the most exhaustive treatments of this subject, but

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we also find it in Romans 8.

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What scripture makes very clear is that every Christian is a son of God.

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That is the term that God uses.

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Every woman who's listening, every girl who's listening, you are sons of God according to

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the promise.

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When Paul says, when God says there is no male and female, that's what he's talking

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about.

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He's saying that salvation is available to all human beings.

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Sex has nothing to do with your salvation.

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And by what means does salvation come?

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It comes as heirs of God.

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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God, for you did not receive the

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Spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you've received the Spirit of adoption

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as sons by whom we cry, Abba, Father.

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The Spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God, and if

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children then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with

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him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

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So repeatedly uses gendered language, and it's not that it's excluding women.

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It's not that it's saying, oh, only men are saved.

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It's saying that in Christ, when you're saved, you become a son of God so that you may inherit

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eternal life.

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We are all sons of God and effectively brothers of Christ for the purpose of salvation.

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And that's the crux of the entire battle around misapplying Galatians, particularly

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verse 328, because every argument that says, well, this is a proof text against race.

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This is a proof text against slavery or classes.

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This is a proof text against any distinctions among or between the two sexes.

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The only way to reach that conclusion is to rob this passage of its sotereological import.

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To say this passage isn't about salvation.

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When the very passage itself says, for you are all one in Christ Jesus, there's something

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we focused on in the past.

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We're going to repeat here.

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The in Christ Jesus part is what the whole thing hinges upon.

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And four is synonymous with because.

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Four and because are the same.

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They could just as easily say, because you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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So in Christ Jesus matters because who's in Christ Jesus is everyone on the planet

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in Christ Jesus?

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No, almost everyone is outside of Christ Jesus.

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Only those who have faith are inside Christ Jesus.

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This is talking about saving faith.

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Only those who have faith does Galatians 328 apply at all.

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So as we said in the racism episode, the notion that somehow the phrase, there is neither

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Jew nor Greek, somehow means that races are not real.

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Even if that were true, when taken in the context of its sotereological import, it would only

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apply to Christians.

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It would mean that there are races until you become Christian.

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And then once you become Christian, the race dissolves and you cease to be Christian, you're

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just a spirit body.

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Well, that's Gnosticism.

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That is full-born Gnosticism.

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We do not change who we are or how God created us.

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Because the only way to read Galatians 328 in opposition to races existing is simultaneously

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to say that sexes don't exist.

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That's the other prong of this battle that we see everywhere today.

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It's very common for radical feminists, for some of the most evil people who pretend to

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be in the church, but they're wolves.

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They will use this as a feminist rallying cry, saying, we're all priests of God.

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There's no more distinction of male and female, therefore, there's no such thing as an office

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that's specific to a man, because there's no male and female in Christ.

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There are really two camps who abuse this passage, those who ignore the in Christ and

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those who embrace it.

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And so those who ignore it will just focus on there's no races, there are no classes,

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there's no sex.

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Those who acknowledge that in Christ is present will not do it properly.

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They won't do it to glorify God and say, this is about the gospel.

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Instead they'll do it to dissolve the church from within, say, okay, well inside the church

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there's no male and female, therefore, anyone can be a pastor, anyone can do this, that

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or the other thing, because there's no difference whatsoever.

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All the other parts in scripture that make clear that that's not true are deliberately

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ignored and this is used as a solvent to try to wipe them off the board.

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But that's not how God works.

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God's word is never set against itself.

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A house divided against itself will fall because it's evil.

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That's describing hell.

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It's describing the devil.

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It cannot describe God's things.

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All of God's things are a coherent whole.

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When we see passages that say things like there is no male and female and then we see

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literally everything else in scripture saying the opposite, it's not a conundrum if you

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understand the context, which is why as we're beginning, the context of all of Galatians

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is salvific.

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Again, Paul is addressing the Galatians long way from Judea, a long way from Jerusalem,

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long way from most of the Jews.

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I don't know how many Jews were there, not many, but there were certainly enough to ban

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them to destroy their faith.

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We have to tell them, why are you talking about circumcision?

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Why do you think that circumcising yourself and living under the law is going to make

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you a son of Abraham?

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How are you sons of Abraham?

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The racial component was a complete denial of the gospel, which is what all of this revolves

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around.

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See, when men like Cory and myself are called racist and evil and all these things, we're

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told that we hate the gospel and we hate other people.

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What's actually happening is that the destruction of these passages in service of anti-racism

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and anti-feminism and anti-misogyny and anti-slavery, all of those things, when those are drawn

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and pointed at the church, the function that they have is to destroy the gospel because

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this is a gospel passage, this is a gospel context.

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All Galatians is about salvation.

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Now it's a rebuke and again, that's crucial.

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A church that Paul planted four or five years later, they've gone off the rails.

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Oh, foolish Galatians, who bewitched you?

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He's looking at them in just disbelief and anger and he actually says, I wish that I

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were their face to face so I could use a different tone, but he had to make sure that they understood

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how important it was that the Judaizing heresies that they were embracing were endangering

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their salvation.

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Not a small matter, not a minor detail, not flipping a nor to an end.

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They were actually denying the faith by saying that they had to live as Jews because somebody

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came along and told them that.

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They're always going to be false teachers in the church, always.

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Every single one of our churches has false teachers inside it and has a line of them

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trying to get in.

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Why?

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Because that's where the Christians are, it's where the sheep are.

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Satan doesn't need to worry about the animals that are outside the sheepfold.

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He's already got them.

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He's devoured them.

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It's inside the sheepfold that the sheep exist.

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So when these attacks come and they're done in the name of all the good modern religion

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things, just keep in mind what they're fundamentally doing when they attack this passage by inverting

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it, is they're denying how we're saved.

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They're denying how we are saved and part of that is denying how we are created.

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Again, this is all Gnostic.

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The only way to deny there is Jew or Greek in reality is to become Gnostic to say the

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flesh is nothing.

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This is evil.

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This will all fall away.

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In the racist mepsode we treated the fact that when you look at passages like Acts 17-26

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and Revelation 7-9 where it talks about the different nations with their boundaries and

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it shows the distinct races in heaven before the throne of God, these are natural.

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These are created.

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They're things that God made.

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They're how God made us.

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God made me English and German.

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I am broadly Northwestern European and nothing else.

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Do I like that?

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Sure.

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Cool.

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I'm good at it.

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Do I think that if someone is Japanese or Ugandan or whatever that they're worse than

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me or less than me?

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No.

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God died for them.

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Do He's given them gifts that I may lack?

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But I am proud of what I am and I'm happy with what I am because it's God's gift to

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me.

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Talking in the past about the fact that I'm average in height, do I like to be taller?

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Sure.

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Am I going to complain about it because they're upsides?

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I like being me.

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I know how to be me.

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I wouldn't know how to be anyone else and I don't have to worry about because I have

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been given one life by God and it's a particular life.

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I have a genealogy that goes back to Noah and back to Adam.

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I can go more than some people but I don't know all the details and I don't care.

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How God made me is the same way that He made each of you.

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We all have a uniqueness in how we have been winnowed down through time into the particular

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humans that we are.

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That is to God's glory that there's so much diversity and variety.

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It's amazing.

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It's incredible.

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Different people have different gifts.

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The attack on anti-racism, the attack on the existence of race is a denial of the creator

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to say, that's garbage.

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There's neither Jew nor Greek.

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If you understand what Paul was talking about and to whom he was speaking, the reason he

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said Jew was that he was dealing with a Judaizing heresy among people who weren't Jews.

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He's like, what does it matter?

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You're Celts.

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This verse could just as easily say, there is neither Jew nor Irish.

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It would make just as much sense, it would be just as true.

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More directly applicable to those people in that day.

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The Irish by that name didn't exist, they were Celts.

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There's neither Jew nor Celts.

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That is exactly what it is saying here.

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It was particular to that place.

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In the Jew part, it was only highlighting the Abrahamic promise and covenant because

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they were denying it.

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They were denying the true nature of what it means to be a child of Abraham.

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John the Baptist explained it, do not presume to say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our

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Father for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

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This passage says the same thing.

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We are made children of Abraham because we have the faith of Abraham.

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That is our gift from God.

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We become sons of Abraham by becoming sons of God.

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It's synonymous and therefore it's not racial.

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The first couplet dealing with race is specifically denying that race saves.

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We don't think that.

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We think the opposite.

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There are heresies like Christian identity that believe that.

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They think that non-whites, non-Europeans are not human and cannot be saved.

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That is blasphemous.

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Those people are all going to hell.

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That is a wicked and perverted attack on the Christian faith.

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We think nothing of the sort because scripture says nothing of the sort.

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But it doesn't mean that race doesn't exist.

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It boggles my mind that people can't hold two separate simple things in their head.

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It can simultaneously be true that your race doesn't save you and that your race still

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exists.

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How is this hard?

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It shouldn't be hard.

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It's not.

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It's not.

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It's a simple thing.

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A five-year-old can understand it.

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It's only when people get older and their heads are full of lies that suddenly these things

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get complicated.

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Much of this battle is about explaining simple things simply so that people can get back

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to having a simple faith in God.

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It's not complicated.

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It's the lies that make these things confusing.

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So please, as you go through your days, just keep in mind, anyone who's talking about

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Galatians 3.28, if they ever talk about it in a way that isn't connected to salvation,

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they're a demon, full stop.

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They are speaking the teachings of demons because this is a verse about how we are saved.

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It's a verse about our sonship with God, how we become heirs of salvation.

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That's salvation talk exclusively.

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And then once we're saved, we're still a man or a woman.

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If you're a woman, you should be happy to be a woman.

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I'm happy to be a man.

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I know how to do it.

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I could never possibly be a woman because God didn't equip me for that.

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And the fact that someone can have some delusion in their head to think that, oh, I'm actually

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the other thing, that's a Gnostic heresy.

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They're departing from the faith that they ever had it.

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They can't have it anymore at that point.

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But they're denying their Creator actively by saying, I'm not what you made me.

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I'm this other thing.

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No, you're one particular thing.

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And thank God for it.

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When someone comes along and says, no, none of those things exist, just know that not

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only are they attacking creation, but they're attacking your salvation.

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Because the point of attacking this passage is to destroy the gospel.

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Galatians is about the gospel, and it's about the Judaizing Gnostic heretics who are attacking

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it then, and who are attacking it today.

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And when they succeed, as they were succeeding in Galatia, faith is destroyed, and souls

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are condemned to hell for eternity.

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On the note of this verse being simple, and really the entire book of Galatians is simple,

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I would like to divide this in two through an interpretive lens, as it were.

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On the one hand, the immediate verse, Galatians 3.28, is very simple.

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On the other hand, like much of Scripture, it is also inexhaustible.

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God managed to pack a lot of information into not very many words.

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Woe mentioned that the word for there in English can also mean because.

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I want to emphasize that by pointing out that the conjunction there in the Greek gar

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is explicitly causal.

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The reason that the beginning, the first part, the first half as it were, not in terms of

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size, but in terms of meaning or weight, as it were, is the division between the two halves

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of this verse.

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The first half must be understood in light of the second.

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These things are so because, or you could say, if, and only if, you are in Christ Jesus.

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Because it says that you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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That is the requirement here.

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And so this most certainly does not apply in any way, shape, or form to those who are

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outside the church, those who are not in Christ.

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However, it is vitally important to understand, and quite frankly it's insane that people

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manage to miss this.

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Many do it maliciously to subvert things, but some in an innocent fashion miss this fact.

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If the three groups, the three couplets, are not real, if they are not actual things, if

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they do not have an existence in reality, then the verse is incoherent.

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It has no meaning.

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It has no import.

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It would be utterly pointless for it to be in Scripture, and God does not include things

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in Scripture that are pointless.

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The reason that it is important, the reason that it matters, the reason that it means

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something to say that we are all one in Christ, despite these things, is because these things

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are real.

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There is a real division between the Jew and the Greek.

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There are differences between and among the races of man.

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That couplet, that distinction has to be real for it to matter that we are one in Christ,

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that we are all one in terms of how we are saved if indeed we are.

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And as Woe pointed out, in this context, which in this case I mean the broad context, which

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would be the Greek world, the Roman world, and the Jewish world, in that world inheritance

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passes to the son.

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This is the case in most ancient civilizations.

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It's the case in most civilizations until fairly recently.

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Women did not inherit.

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Daughters did not inherit.

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The reason the daughters did not inherit is because a daughter became part of the family

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into which she married.

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She ceased to be part, legally speaking, of her original family, of her birth family.

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And so she didn't inherit from the father because the inheritance went to the sons who

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remained part of the family, period.

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They carried on the family name, they carried the family forward.

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She became part of another family.

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And so the word there that we see in verse 29, the word for heirs, Greek, unlike most

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cases in English, distinguishes between the masculine form of a noun and the feminine

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form and not just in terms of grammatical gender, in this case, in terms of masculine

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referring to men who are that noun versus women who are that noun.

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It's masculine in the Greek.

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I want to be careful here not to imply that you need to know Greek in order to understand

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Scripture.

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That's not the case.

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Anyone who tells you that is lying to you.

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Is the Greek language important?

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Yes, it is the language that God used to give us Scripture.

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And by that I mean both the Old and the New Testament.

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And so Greek is important, but you do not need to know Greek in order to read Scripture

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and understand it.

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There are some things that are accessible only in the Greek like this.

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You don't see that that word is masculine if you're looking at only the English.

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Now from the balance of Scripture, you would still understand that even if you had only

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the English because it says we are sons of God, we become heirs in Christ.

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It speaks of that in terms that are understandable simply in English without access to the underlying

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Greek.

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And, of course, as Woe has pointed out many times previously, there are many software

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programs out there including free websites where you can see this information and have

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ready access to it even without being able to read Greek.

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Because you can probably still read, for instance, if I just hover over heirs, I have

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it up in Logos.

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If I hover over heirs, it tells me that it is a noun.

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It is nominative.

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It is plural.

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It is masculine.

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There.

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We can all understand those terms in English.

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So I do not want you to think that you need to have Greek.

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The Greek is useful.

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It is not absolutely necessary to understand Scripture.

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But in this case, like I said, useful because I can pull out that heirs is explicitly masculine

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in the underlying Greek.

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Because we are heirs in Christ.

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We inherit.

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That is why it says son.

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It does not say it because only men can inherit.

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It is saying it because in that context only men inherited.

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And so in order to inherit, you had to be a son.

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And so even those who are female, women are also sons according to the promise.

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Because they inherit along with men.

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That is why you have the masculine there.

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And also one of the reasons we have not male and female.

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That distinction with regard to salvation is largely irrelevant.

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We've gone over previously some of the ways in which it is relevant tangentially speaking.

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And so, for instance, the issue of headship becomes relevant.

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Because certainly if you are a woman married to a man who is faithless, you are much less

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likely to remain faithful than if you were married to a man who is faithful.

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And so headship matters.

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Of course, that does flow in the opposite direction as well.

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Because wives are also supposed to help their husbands stay in the faith.

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But I want to pull out that earlier distinction with regard to the second couplet that I mentioned.

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The second couplet is mutable, which distinguishes it from the first and the third.

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And the reason that is relevant is partly because of historical context.

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And partly because it gives a greater scope to the totality of this verse.

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Because if all three categories were immutable, if they were all purely and directly ontological,

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then all would be saying is that an ontological, immutable category does not affect your salvation

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in a causal way at least.

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But because this one is mutable, the scope of the verse is that none of these things.

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And you could put in any number of different things in these various parts.

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As Woe said, you could swap out Jew and Greek for Jew and Roman, or you could swap it out

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for Greek and Scandinavian if you were so inclined, because it's saying that race does

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not save you.

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In this context, it's saying Jew because the Judaizers were the issue.

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But today we have those who will try to say, as Woe mentioned, that your race is what saves

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you.

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And so you can add any two races there.

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Feel free.

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It retains the meaning of the verse.

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You're slave nor free.

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You could swap in working class and upper class.

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Because this one is a condemnation of those who would say that is your social standing

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or your success in life.

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And so there goes the prosperity gospel, among other things.

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Those who would say all of these other things that are ultimately irrelevant are what actually

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save you.

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They're necessary for salvation.

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They contribute to your salvation.

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A lot of them harken back to and are basically in their essence works righteousness.

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This condemns all of that.

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And in the ancient context, part of why that is relevant, perhaps more so for the Romans

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than for the Greeks.

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But many of the ancient cultures viewed success in this life as an indication of favor from

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the gods.

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And the Jews did this as well.

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That is why at certain points in the New Testament, Christ rebukes the disciples when they advance

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this idea that, well, this person must be successful because he's a good person or this

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person must have been cursed because his parents were bad persons, anything like that.

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The Roman case would largely be because some of the public religious rights that were conducted

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in Rome were expensive if you wanted to participate.

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And so if you were wealthy, you could participate in the religious rights.

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And therefore, you were more favored by the gods.

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It was a very transactional religion.

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You had some of this in the Greek case, but it would partly depend on which gods you were

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worshiping in which region.

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But this is a condemnation of all of that.

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You are not saved by your works just because you have wealth does not mean that you're

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saved.

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Now, wealth is a gift from God and you are to use it in an appropriate fashion.

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He gave you the wealth in order to use it to further good in the world and no, not in

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the New World Order sort of sense, but by helping your neighbor and by helping your church,

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helping fellow Christians, all of those things, you are given your skills or your abilities

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or your assets in order to further things that are important to the church.

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They're important to a Christian life that benefit your Christian neighbors.

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And so this is a condemnation of those who would say that, no, my wealth means that

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God loves me and I'm saved.

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That's not what it means.

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We know what God says in the pages of Scripture about wealth and how it can be a hindrance

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to entering the kingdom of God.

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And then when it comes to the third couplet, that condemnation of those who would draw

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a distinction between man and woman with regard to salvation, that is a condemnation of a

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number of things.

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One is that there were some cults in the ancient world that basically said women cannot be

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saved.

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Women, some of them went so far as say women do not have souls, but there were also including

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in the Greek world some who said that women in the next life would become men.

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And so it's a condemnation of all of those denials of the good created nature of sex,

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that being part of God's creation that is preserved in paradise.

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If you are male in this life, you are male eternity.

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If you are female in this life, you are female in eternity.

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God made you the way you are.

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He wants you to be the sex that you are, and you will be that forever, because that is

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how he made you.

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And the good things that God creates are not destroyed.

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So this is an affirmation of the goodness of God's creation, of his created order,

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and a condemnation of those who would say that, no, you actually have to be male in

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order to be saved, or you have to be male in order to have a soul, or any of the various

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things like that.

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But again, as I started out saying, it is necessarily the case that all three of these

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are real in order for the verse to have any actual meaning.

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Because if you say that these are not real, then what does it mean for them to not matter

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if you're one in Christ?

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What does it mean for something that isn't real, not to matter to salvation?

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That's a meaningless statement.

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So they have to be real.

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So those who deny the reality of race, or the reality of hierarchy, or the reality of

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sex are denying, one, God's created order, and so they're tacitly denying God, but two,

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they are asserting that this verse has no meaning.

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And so in a very real way, they actually subvert their own argument, not that it matters,

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because the appeal to hypocrisy never really matters in these discussions.

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But they are subverting their own argument, because they say, well, we're all one in

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Christ, and so these things aren't real.

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Well, if they aren't real, then it doesn't matter that we're all one in Christ.

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But you have to pay attention to the false teachers and the false pastors who would

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use this in order to subvert the created order, because ultimately, again, they are basically

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Gnostic.

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The rejection of any part of this is Gnosticism.

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You have the rejection of race, which is the rejection of the flesh.

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You have the rejection of hierarchy, the created order of things in the world, which is a rejection

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of the material world.

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That's one of the most hard-line forms of Gnosticism.

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And then the rejection of male and female is, again, a form of Gnosticism that was particularly

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an issue in some parts of the ancient world.

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I think it's important with this second couplet not to completely divorce the slave nor free

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from slavery, cross-slavery.

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We did an entire episode entirely on the subject of slavery as being morally illicit.

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Scripture permits slavery.

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This is a fact.

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In fact, there are many cases in Scripture where God blesses some men by giving them

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more slaves.

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That would not be the case if slavery were, per se, sin.

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So when the status of being a slave is brought up in Scripture in these passages, it's important

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to understand how God treated, I think, another good passage that illustrates that is Ephesians

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6.

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Paul again writes,

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Slaves obey your human masters with fear and trembling in the sincerity of your heart

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as you would Christ.

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Do not work only while being watched as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ.

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Do God's will from your heart.

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Serve with a good attitude as to the Lord and not to people, knowing that whatever good

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each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.

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And masters treat your slaves the same way, without threatening them.

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Because you know that both their master and yours is in heaven and there is no favoritism

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with them.

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And the word favoritism there is usually translated as partiality.

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We've talked about partiality in the past.

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It's particularly in the context related to this, where social status was treated by

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some as a matter that would distinguish whether or not someone received more favors in the

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church.

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This is what happened in the Epistle of James.

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When he condemns the showing of partiality, it's that the rich were given a higher place

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in the church.

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They were given the best seat and the poor guy was stuck in the back.

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And James condemned that.

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He said, like, the rich are the ones who drag you in the court.

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What are you doing preferring them?

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And God certainly doesn't show partiality.

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God doesn't care about who has more money or more looks or IQ or any of the rest.

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Because you know what?

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Whatever good we have, God gave us.

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I think that's one of the things that Corey and I will point to Job for, because when

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Job came to God complaining, God's response was, basically, who do you think you are?

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Where were you when I created the foundations of the world?

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He didn't take him seriously as a challenger, because whatever good, whatever blessings Job

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had before Satan came and took them away, God gave them to Job.

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Whatever you have, whatever I have, whatever good anyone has comes from God.

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So the notion, therefore, that, oh, I have this good thing, I'm going to use this to

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prove that what I get more salvation, I'm going to take the gifts that God has given

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me and then come to God and say, look how good I am.

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You need to give me more.

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That's insane.

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It's just deranged.

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And it's the sort of smackdown that Job received from God, because to whatever degree he was

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up and he went out of the line, God put him back in his place.

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He's like, who do you think you are?

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You have no business challenging me.

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That's God's attitude.

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Whatever we have came from him.

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So whether someone's a slave or they're free, if they're rich or they're poor, those distinctions,

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not only don't they matter for salvation, but relative to God, in those terms, we're

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all exactly the same.

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The riches that we have on earth compared to the riches of God, they're not the same

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category.

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It's not the same type of thing.

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And this is part of the nuance in the verse that is just completely wiped away if you

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start saying these things are real.

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Obviously, it's real if someone has more, someone has less.

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If someone's a slave, if they're literally owned by another person, they have a lower

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station in life.

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There are things that they can't do that others can't.

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They don't have freedom.

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But when God addresses those with freedom, he chastises them.

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He warns them.

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He admonishes them, don't treat your freedom as license because it's not.

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Whatever blessings we have, whatever freedom we have, it's still enjoined by God's will.

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You can't go outside of that.

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And so in many cases, those who have more options just make their sin worse.

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They make their sin more elaborate.

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They're going to get creatively evil in ways that the guy who has very limited means and

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very limited scope in his personal life as a slave, he's not going to be able to do the

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things that somebody like Andrew Tate will do.

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Totally different class in the one who's a slave is going to be far better off.

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Even if he's wicked, he's going to be better off because his sins are going to be simpler.

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The man who has no limitations makes how far worse for him without God.

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And so again, the soteriological context, the fact that this verse is about our salvation

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is what makes it interesting, makes it valuable and a blessing.

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It's a reason that the epistle of Galatians is beautiful.

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It's one of the epistles that opened Luther's eyes to the gospel because he saw arguments

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and things that were here that made clear that things he'd been taught in the Roman

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Catholic Church were simply not true.

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For us to fixate on this verse today is not to get tunnel vision.

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It's to highlight.

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It's to shine a light on the fact that these are God's treasures.

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All these little nooks and crannies of scripture, and when suddenly some verse suddenly starts

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getting an outsized attention, or words to, you know, on Twitter I've pointed out that

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Imago Dei is something that's used all the time now.

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But when you do a Google Ngram search for it, it took off in the last like 10 or 15 years.

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But it sounds really Jesusy, right?

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It sounds like a super Christian thing to say.

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To say Imago Dei in Latin, that new trend, it's a completely new thing.

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Now, there's always been discussion of the image of God, but it was in different contexts

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than today.

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Whenever anyone says Imago Dei today, they're using it as license for bad things, for bad

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theology, but they're hiding behind that Jesus dust.

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They can put that mask on, and then they can present false doctrine and say, look, I'm

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going to see.

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And so we got to do this.

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And when they say Imago Dei, they're saying you can't execute murders because so many

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of them are black.

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That makes it racist.

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Well, we think the concern is that why are so many blacks murdering?

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That's what concerns me.

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Why are there murders?

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And then why did they predominantly come from certain groups?

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That's relevant.

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We did a whole episode on that.

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Galatians 3.28 doesn't condemn that because it doesn't say there's no such thing as a

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black guy.

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It says there's no such thing as a black guy being given preferential or disadvantaged

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salvation.

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Same Jesus, same salvation, same cross.

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The differences are how we respond to the message of the gospel.

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That's a personal question.

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It's not a racial one.

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It's not one derived from our sex or from our status or anything else.

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For those of you who are listening and are Lutheran, I want to point out that you are

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technically confessionally bound to deny that those who are not in Christ have the

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image of God.

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Our confession states that the Amago Dei is lost in original sin, and it is not restored

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except in baptism, except when you are given faith, when you are placed in Christ.

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I am less familiar with the confessions of the various Reformed traditions, so I do not

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know if you have something similar in yours.

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Perhaps some of you do.

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I know that the book of Concord denies the Amago Dei to the pagan.

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In this case, I just mean unbeliever.

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One thing that I hope that comes through in this episode, and I believe that it will given

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that we're going to spend about two hours on essentially one verse, although with other

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verses pulled in, is just the depth of the wealth that is present in Scripture.

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If we can spend this much time and discuss this many different aspects of a single verse,

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it should be very clear that you can read Scripture for a lifetime and never exhaust

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it.

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You could read a single book in Scripture for a lifetime and never exhaust it, which again

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is very clear proof.

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This is the word of God.

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You couldn't do that with any other book.

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If you read whatever your favorite book is, pick your favorite science fiction book, great

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piece of historic literature, whatever it is, you could exhaust it in 20 years, regardless

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of what it is.

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You cannot do that with Scripture.

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You will always be able to find more and a deeper meaning, a deeper understanding when

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you return to Scripture no matter how many times you've read it.

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On that note, I want to pull out something from Galatians 3.28 that will make some of

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you very happy and perhaps annoy some of you a little bit, but in this case, I wish to

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make very clear to you that this is actually important in this case.

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In many cases, you will find those who interpret Scripture who will attempt to find chiasms,

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chiasmus everywhere because it is one of the forms of writing.

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It is one of the little tools in the Shemitic toolbox that's just popular in that part

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of the world.

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And so you will find it in the pages of Scripture.

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And notably, it does appear both in the Jewish context and in the Greek world.

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And so it makes perfect sense that you would find it also in the Greek of the New Testament.

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In the case of the Germanic world, so also the Celts, incidentally, you're going to find

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less chiasmus and more parallelism.

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Now to be clear, to make sure that you understand what is I'm saying, if you have a structure

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of a particular chunk of text that you have a thought and then another thought, let's

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just go with two thoughts formulated two different ways.

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So you have A, A prime, B, B prime, two different thoughts formulated different ways.

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To the Shemitic mind, you are going to write that in a chiasmic structure, which is to

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say that you are going to have A, B, B prime, A prime.

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You're going to have it inverted as it were, whereas to the Germanic mind, this includes

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those of us who speak English, you are more accustomed to seeing parallelism.

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So A, A prime, B, B prime.

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That's the sort of comparison that we expect.

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However, in this case, neither one of those appears here in Galatians 328, because that

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second couplet basically subverts all expectations.

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So if you had, say, a Pharisee reading this, he would see there's neither Jew nor Greek.

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Well, that's going to annoy him, but if he gets over that and keeps reading, neither

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slave nor free.

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Okay, that's fine.

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Those two, the first and the second alone, that would be chiasmic to a Pharisee reading

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this.

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Because how he would read this is he would read it, the Jew is free, the Greek is a slave.

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Great.

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I agree with that.

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That's, I like that.

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But then he would get the third part and the problem is inherently having three parts

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you can't form a chiasmic structure in this way, because it would be A, B, C, C, B, A

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is how you would do that.

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But he gets to it and goes, okay, the Jew is free, but now we have the third one.

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We can't form a chiasm here, and it's inverted.

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You can't do parallel either, because you'd be expecting, you know, the Jew is free and

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male.

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And I'll get into that more in a second here, and the Greek is a slave and female.

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It's not a chiasm.

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It's not parallel.

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So it subverts the expectations for both groups.

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And another place that scripture does this is a related passage to Galatians 3.28.

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This is one of the passages that I want to bring in from outside Galatians, as it were.

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Colossians 3.11.

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Here, there is not Greek and Jew circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, skithian, slave

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free, but Christ is all and in all.

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And so you can obviously see very similar to Galatians 3.28.

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But here you actually have two chiasms, because you have Greek and Jew circumcised and uncircumcised.

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And so the Jewish reader is going to say, okay, so the circumcised Jew and the uncircumcised

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Greek.

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Great.

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Then you'll get to the second chiasm, barbarian, skithian, slave free.

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For those who do not know, the skithians at this time in this cultural context were considered

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the absolute worst of the barbarians, the most feral, uncivilized people on earth.

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And so it's saying barbarian and the worst of the barbarians.

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Here's where you have the problem for the Jewish reader, because the Jewish reader will

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look at it and go, wait a minute, this chiasm taken together with the first is comparing

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Jews to the worst possible barbarians.

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And not only that, but it's saying that the Jews are slaves.

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And so there's a critique there that you see in Paul when he's writing this.

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It's implicit, it's not explicit, but it is there if you understand the literary forms

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that are common to these peoples.

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But to return to Galatians 3.28, one of the things that you will miss in Galatians 3.28

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if you do not have the background context, the historical context, is that this is an

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explicit polemic.

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If you want to say it's an implicit polemic, then it is right on the line, it is as strong

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of an implicit polemic as you can make without it being explicit, because it doesn't explicitly

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mention the Talmud.

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This is the inversion of a prayer that Jewish men traditionally pray as part of their morning

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prayers.

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And so that inversion in the second couplet is an important part of this condemnation,

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of this polemic against the Jewish prayer, but now I'll read you the translated text

01:11:45.440 --> 01:11:49.080
of the Jewish prayer.

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There are three blessings that Jewish males traditionally pray as part of their morning

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blessings as part of this specific prayer within those blessings.

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The first is, blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has not made me

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a goy, which is to say a non-Jew, a Gentile.

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The second, blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has not made me

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a slave.

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And the third, blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has not made

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me a woman.

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This is the Burkot Hashakar, if you want to look up the prayer and manage to spell all

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the phlegm that I just got on my mic.

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But these three blessings that are traditionally prayed by Jewish males as part of their morning

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prayers are a rejection of God's created order.

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They're a rejection of God's created order because they're not praying, thank you, God,

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for making me what I am.

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That's fine.

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Go ahead and pray to God, thank you for making me male.

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Thank you for making me German.

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Thank you for making me whatever the thing is about which you are thankful.

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That's fine.

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You should be thankful for what God has made you, what God has given you.

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Because don't forget that your attributes are also gifts from God.

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Everything you have is a gift from God.

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The problem with how this is prayed, partly it's the intent behind it, but you can see

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the intent in the wording.

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Because it's not thank you for making me, it's thank you for not making me.

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These groups, a member of this group that is lesser than I am.

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This is the prayer of the Pharisee versus the publican, or the tax collector, whatever

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you want to call the gentleman.

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This is the prayer of the man who stands up in the synagogue or who stands up in the temple

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and says, I am so much better than everyone else, thank you God for making me so holy

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and great.

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Thank you for not making me like the rest of these sinful wretched people who are surrounding

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me and making the building smell bad.

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This is not a prayer of humbling oneself before God.

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This is a prideful prayer.

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It's not even really a prayer, it's an insult to God's face.

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And so this verse in Galatians is a polemic against this prayer.

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It is a polemic against the Jewish religion, against Judaism, which is not Christianity,

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which is related to Christianity only insofar as it is a perversion of Christianity.

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This verse in Galatians specifically condemns it and does so in part by using the exact

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same three couplets.

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Because that's what we see.

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Thank you for not making me a goi and it says doesn't matter, Jew or Greek.

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Thank you for not making me a slave.

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It doesn't matter, slave or free.

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Thank you for not making me a woman.

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It doesn't matter male or female, but it also inverts that second one.

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And so you have Jew slave male instead of what these Jewish males who pray this prayer

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in the morning would expect, which is Jew free male.

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And so it's just one of those layers to bear in mind when you read Galatians.

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And just to think about the depth of what is put into Scripture for us and sure if you

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don't understand the historical context of this, you will still understand the meaning

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of the verse because the meaning is there right on the face of the thing.

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It says you were all one in Christ Jesus, so these things so teleologically do not matter.

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That's blunt from the face of the text in Galatians 3.

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But you get this additional depth of meaning here of the condemnation of the polemic against

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false religions.

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And it just shows you how much there is in Scripture to be discovered for those who spend

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the time to meditate on God's Word to study God's Word.

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He has given us an immense wealth in His Word, and we should be very thankful for it.

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And another one of those details that stuck out to me a couple of years ago was the fact

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that these three couplets are not and, and, and, nor, nor, nor.

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It's nor, nor, and.

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I saw some discussion online, and for some reason I noticed that the ESV translates this

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correctly even though a number of others don't.

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And somebody else had quoted a different one, and they said nor, nor, nor, and I thought,

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I think my Bible says differently, but of course I didn't do what we condemn here and

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say, well, my Bible says this, so you're wrong.

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I said, well, I'm going to look at the Greek and see, like, clearly somebody dropped a compound

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word somewhere, who was it?

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And it turned out that King James and a number of others use a nor.

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They make all three of these couplets parallel, and that's not what the original language did.

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As I said earlier, it doesn't really change the purpose of, like, the text works either way

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in its own context.

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So when you're treating Galatians properly and you're treating it as a soteriological passage,

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it's totally fine if a nor is there instead of an and for male nor female instead of male

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and female, which is correct.

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It doesn't really change it.

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I want to say that explicitly.

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I'm not saying, oh, no, those, those Bibles are all terrible.

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They're, they're wrong.

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They have this terrible corruption.

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It's a mistake.

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It's clearly a mistake.

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It's not ambiguous.

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They are wrong, but it doesn't damage your understanding of this passage.

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If you're just treating the passage the way it should be treated, which is this is about salvation.

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Doesn't matter if you're Jew or Greek.

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Doesn't matter if you're slave or free.

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It doesn't matter if you're male or a female.

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But as Cory was just saying, there's a, there's a depth in a richness to the way God presents

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these things, that when this came under attack, that's when I started looking.

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And I think that Cory and I first discussed this because we were talking about Galatians

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as we realized just how important this was.

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Like not that the difference of that one word is groundbreaking or earth shaking, but it's notable.

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God said one thing.

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Let's leave it the way he said it.

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And then when you start looking at the attacks and keep in mind, what are the attacks today?

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When you get outside what a Galatians 3 28 says, what God says,

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and you start looking at what evil men are doing with it, what do they say?

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They say there are no races.

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They say that there are no sexes.

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There's no distinction between male and female.

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We're absolutely the same.

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We're interchangeable.

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We're just, we're fungible.

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We're human beings.

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That's clearly false.

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And then in that context, when someone is trying to attack the created nature of reality,

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this distinction becomes important where it never mattered for,

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for, you know, ever any hundreds of years people have been mistranslating that one word.

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It didn't make any difference.

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But in the 21st century, it does because as Cory said earlier,

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there is an ontological distinction between a Jew and a Greek or a Jew in a Kelt.

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Just as there's an ontological distinction between a man and a woman,

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that is according to their nature.

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It's not an accident.

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It is how God made you.

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So those are similar in that way.

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You are made whatever race you are, whatever mix of races you are,

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you're made one sex.

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You're either male or female.

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Yet the distinction between male and female is sufficiently different

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from even the ontological distinction between a Greek and a Jew or a Jew in a Kelt.

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That God treated it slightly differently.

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And this is when I started to hone in on it and Cory and I had really interesting discussions

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around, yeah, this is, here's what's actually going on here because

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the Jew in the Greek and the context of the verse,

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God's saying it doesn't matter for your salvation.

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Absolutely true.

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The anti-racist says, well, that means that there are no races, which is absolutely false.

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Yet at the same time, it's true that a well-behaved Jew,

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completely separated from whatever problems that group has.

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If they're well-behaved and they believe God and just did the right things,

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whatever differences they had from Greeks who were similarly faithful to God,

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it wouldn't be that much.

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It would be the things that we call ethnicity.

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They would have maybe different food, different music, different language,

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but they would all basically behave in similar ways.

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Some would be better at some things and worse at others.

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Jews seemingly, at least today, tend to have more gifts and creative endeavors sometimes.

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I don't know if there have been a lot of impactful Greek people lately,

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but again, going back to what we said earlier, the Greeks today

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aren't the same as the Greeks then.

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It doesn't matter.

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If the two different races, whatever two races you want to distinguish from each other,

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they're somewhat similar.

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If they're behaving and they're doing what God wants,

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they're going to have enough similarities that they could get along.

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It would be okay.

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I would never say that they were interchangeable,

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but I think that one of the distinctions we have today that illustrates this is

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Western cultures in Japanese culture.

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When we first came in contact with them before we screwed them up by Westernizing them,

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there were some things that were very weird and very different,

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and they're still weird and different because they're Japanese.

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They're alien to me.

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I don't think that's bad.

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It's just that they're very different.

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There are certain things about the Japanese in particular,

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even among all Asians, that I think many Westerners, when they look at it,

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they find certain things that they do very laudable.

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When Japan got into Scotch in the early 80s, they bought up a bunch of Scotch distilleries,

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but they didn't change what they were doing.

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They just made them even better because they fell in love with whiskey, with spirits.

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They already had sake, but what they found when they had this love affair with whiskey

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was it's really, in a way, a very Japanese thing to distill something in nature to its essence

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and then to wait patiently for it to transform into something sublime

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with all these very subtle distinctions.

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It's a very Japanese thing culturally.

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They just took to it like, yeah, this is Scotch stuff.

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We love it.

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We love Scotch.

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They made it their own in a very, very subtle way.

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There is an overlap, even from vastly disparate races and cultures, yet there was an overlap

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and appreciation of that particular thing that was complete harmony between two people

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that had been scattered for thousands of years.

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That's an example where, although the Scots and the Japanese are not remotely the same

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or remotely interchangeable, nevertheless, there's a certain overlap in

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the type.

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The best of the Scots had something that was also the best of the Japanese.

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Even if they came at it from some different angles,

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they were still doing something beautiful that was mutually intelligible.

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Now, I highlight this in terms of races because when God distinguishes, there is no

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neither Jew nor Greek and then says there is not male and female, that's a distinction in kind.

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Because what I just said about the Scots and the Japanese,

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you cannot say about men and women, period.

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There's no version of womanhood that can have that sort of harmonious interaction with manhood.

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There's appreciation, but it's an appreciation as alien in some sense.

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The ways that man and woman complete each other are because we're both missing something.

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Adam was perfect in the garden and he was not complete and kill until God created Eve.

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Even in his perfection, he was incomplete.

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There wasn't enough without her.

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And then when God created Eve, he said at last, this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.

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He was like, yeah, this is it.

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And from that day until today, when a man finds a woman and loves her the same way that Adam loved

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Eve, it's the same feeling.

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You're like, I was missing something and now I have it.

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But it's not the way the Japanese discovered scotch.

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It wasn't, okay, I'm going to take this and make my bone and I can go off in my corner.

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No, they have to exist together for it to work.

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Men and women have to exist together as a one flesh union for any of it to work.

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When they're separated, they're their own separate things.

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So the distinction with this one changing a nor to an and when God did that,

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and he said there's no male and female, he was respecting that not only are they distinct,

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but that they are maintained in their distinction at all times.

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We talked about this in the Gnosisism episode, when you are resurrected from the dead

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as a Christian, even though you are soteriologically a son of God, even if you're a woman listening,

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you're going to be raised a woman.

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It doesn't change who you are.

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It doesn't change your nature.

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It's solely for the purpose of inheritance of salvation that you're a son of God.

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That's a blessing from God because it's how he says he does it.

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We don't have to understand.

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We have to second guess like, okay, you said it, I believe it, praise the Lord.

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That's the end of the discussion.

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Nothing else about you as a woman has changed.

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You're still a woman and when you're resurrected from the dead,

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your female body is going to be perfected.

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Whatever is wrong with it now is going to get fixed.

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You're going to be perfect and you're going to be a woman for eternity because that's what you are.

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You're not going to be some spirit body that's some asexual

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in between.

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You're not going to be an angel.

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Cori and I are going to be raised as men.

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It's what we are because it's how God made us.

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And so there's one small word here of nor versus and.

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It didn't matter in the context, but it does matter today because it's yet another of the

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thousand different examples in scripture where God makes clear that men and women are different

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in a unique and special way.

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That's a blessing.

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And just as with the other couplets in this, it's not to denigrate one.

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The distinction that there's no distinction between Jew and Greek, slave or free male

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and female, is not to say one over the other.

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It's say that before God, we're all the same in terms of salvation,

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but we don't lose who He created.

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He created you.

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He created me.

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We're different.

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That's a good thing.

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I wouldn't want anybody else to be like,

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you know, what's the point?

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There's one of me is more than enough.

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The variety that God has created is awesome.

01:26:53.420 --> 01:26:55.020
It's something that we should celebrate.

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Like we should celebrate diversity.

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That shouldn't be.

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It kills me that something that's actually a beautiful part of God's creation has turned

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into the solvent that's destroying faith and is destroying creation simultaneously.

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Because if not for that, we could actually appreciate foreign food.

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That's one of the reasons the Europeans explored and conquered the planet,

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was looking for spices.

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You know, the jokes online today is that white people don't spice their food.

01:27:25.980 --> 01:27:30.540
Well, we literally conquered entire continents looking for spices for food.

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So get real.

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We have good food.

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We know how to make it and we know how to find recipes.

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But if someone else does something great, awesome.

01:27:38.780 --> 01:27:41.580
When someone does something different, like the scotch,

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the Scottish making scotch and the Japanese discovering it, that's great.

01:27:45.500 --> 01:27:49.660
And Japanese whiskies now, as they've been developing over the last many decades,

01:27:49.660 --> 01:27:53.900
but especially in the last 30 years, 40 years, they're sublime.

01:27:53.900 --> 01:27:57.180
And they're distinct in a way that's very subtly Japanese,

01:27:57.180 --> 01:27:59.660
that's different than scotch or American whiskey.

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And that's beautiful.

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There's one more amazing whiskey in the world because the Japanese made it their own.

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That's the kind of diversity I celebrate.

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I don't want the Japanese to be wiped out of existence

01:28:10.700 --> 01:28:14.300
by being replaced by other races because what they're good at would be gone.

01:28:15.500 --> 01:28:17.020
I don't want women to cease to exist.

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I want everything that God wants to create to be sustained.

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And for us not to mess it up in discussing Galatians 328 for a couple of hours

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is precisely because the world, including within the church,

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is not immunized against making these errors.

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Obviously, the world is going to be evil.

01:28:35.900 --> 01:28:39.980
But when we find the evil coming inside the church and attacking God's creation,

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that's when it's our problem.

01:28:41.660 --> 01:28:45.020
When we see our own pastors and our own teachers spreading

01:28:45.740 --> 01:28:51.580
Judaizing heresy and Gnostic heresies and this other filth, the up-ends creation,

01:28:51.580 --> 01:28:54.940
by denigrating each other, we have to go after it.

01:28:54.940 --> 01:28:57.820
We have to defend it because there's no one else to do it.

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Paul's not going to write any more epistles to us.

01:29:00.300 --> 01:29:02.780
Can you imagine what the epistle to the Americas would be like?

01:29:03.900 --> 01:29:08.940
Oh, foolish Americans who bewitched you would be the least of the problems in there.

01:29:08.940 --> 01:29:10.460
Paul would be spitting fire.

01:29:10.460 --> 01:29:11.260
It would be banned.

01:29:11.260 --> 01:29:12.780
You want to talk about banned books?

01:29:12.780 --> 01:29:14.540
If Paul wrote an epistle to America,

01:29:15.340 --> 01:29:19.020
he would never be allowed to see anyone on the Internet because he would tell the truth.

01:29:19.020 --> 01:29:21.820
He would tell us what God thinks of the things we're doing.

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And the Galatians are in far better shape than the churches of our day.

01:29:27.180 --> 01:29:33.660
So that's why I said earlier, the passage of John speaking to the Pharisees,

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their attitude where they presume to say to themselves,

01:29:37.980 --> 01:29:42.300
we have Abraham as our father, that's the attitude of every church body today.

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And I'm particularly talking about the conservative ones,

01:29:45.020 --> 01:29:48.140
the ones that have historic confessions,

01:29:48.140 --> 01:29:53.260
the ones that have tradition that have preserved the things that were inherited from of old.

01:29:53.260 --> 01:29:56.060
And they say, I believe the Bible, I'm this and I'm that.

01:29:56.060 --> 01:30:00.060
When these things happen, when Galatians 3.28 comes under attack,

01:30:00.060 --> 01:30:01.020
where are they?

01:30:01.020 --> 01:30:02.780
Are they joining in the fight?

01:30:02.780 --> 01:30:04.620
Are they splitting the difference?

01:30:04.620 --> 01:30:07.100
Are they saying, well, I'm going to hold the line on traniism,

01:30:07.100 --> 01:30:09.100
but yeah, we got to stop racism.

01:30:09.100 --> 01:30:11.180
You can probably guess some of you who I'm talking about with that.

01:30:11.740 --> 01:30:13.340
That's very common.

01:30:13.340 --> 01:30:18.460
The boomer stalwarts of the old generation and of the new religion,

01:30:18.460 --> 01:30:22.380
they will happily burn down half of this verse to try to defend the rest.

01:30:23.020 --> 01:30:26.700
And everyone wants to give them credit for sitting on their laurels when

01:30:26.700 --> 01:30:29.180
all they're going to be remembered for is the evil they're doing today.

01:30:29.900 --> 01:30:32.460
When we have guys who did good things in the past

01:30:32.460 --> 01:30:36.780
and may openly embrace doxers against men in their own churches

01:30:36.780 --> 01:30:38.700
and for once I'm not talking about myself here,

01:30:40.140 --> 01:30:41.180
this is bad news.

01:30:41.980 --> 01:30:46.060
When it takes podcasters to say, hey, maybe Galatians 3.28 matters,

01:30:46.060 --> 01:30:47.340
the church is in real trouble.

01:30:48.300 --> 01:30:50.460
I was telling Cory, we were doing prep,

01:30:50.460 --> 01:30:55.660
I pray every day that we will eventually succeed in making this podcast obsolete.

01:30:55.660 --> 01:30:57.020
I don't have to talk about this stuff.

01:30:57.020 --> 01:31:00.860
I want it to be so common and for us to equip so many men

01:31:00.860 --> 01:31:04.060
that anytime I get up and see some new horror,

01:31:04.060 --> 01:31:06.780
I see 500 guys piling in and saying what I would say.

01:31:07.340 --> 01:31:09.900
Because the things that we have to say about these matters,

01:31:10.540 --> 01:31:11.900
they're not particularly clever.

01:31:11.900 --> 01:31:13.500
We're just paying attention.

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It's literally just paying attention.

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I've been very frustrated recently with the illiteracy of even intelligent men

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where things like our distinction of because and for being causal

01:31:27.580 --> 01:31:31.900
and that actually mattering for the sake of Galatians 3.28.

01:31:31.900 --> 01:31:35.180
If you don't understand the causality inside this verse,

01:31:35.180 --> 01:31:37.820
you're illiterate and you're a fool and you don't understand anything.

01:31:38.460 --> 01:31:39.820
And I don't say that to be mean.

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I say that as a warning that if you're just gliding through the text

01:31:44.140 --> 01:31:46.300
and you're not actually understanding what's said,

01:31:47.340 --> 01:31:49.500
best case, you just don't draw any conclusions.

01:31:50.140 --> 01:31:53.180
But you're also not equipped when a false teacher comes along

01:31:53.740 --> 01:31:58.380
and tries to separate the three couplets from the causality.

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Because the in Christ causality in this passage is the whole thing.

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It only applies in Christ.

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It doesn't apply outside of Christ.

01:32:07.740 --> 01:32:09.740
It shouldn't take us pointing that out.

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Everyone should be saying the same thing because it's not a hard problem.

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But apparently it's hard for people to pay attention.

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So one of the things we beg people, just pay attention,

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is Corey said earlier, it's not about reading Greek.

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I don't know Greek.

01:32:22.300 --> 01:32:23.180
I'm never going to learn Greek.

01:32:23.180 --> 01:32:23.740
I don't want to.

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The more Corey learns, the less I need to care.

01:32:26.940 --> 01:32:30.380
Because I have one more guy I can ask questions about these things.

01:32:30.380 --> 01:32:30.940
That's fine.

01:32:30.940 --> 01:32:31.820
I've solved the problem.

01:32:31.820 --> 01:32:32.940
I can ask someone who knows.

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It doesn't need to be complicated.

01:32:36.140 --> 01:32:39.340
Just believe what's actually there, but believe all of it.

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When God said not a jot nor a tittle will fall away.

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That was about the stuff, about the little details,

01:32:47.020 --> 01:32:50.700
the smallest letter, the smallest mark, the tiny details.

01:32:50.700 --> 01:32:54.700
If those are important enough for God, maybe we should pay attention.

01:32:55.340 --> 01:32:57.180
And it doesn't mean obsessing.

01:32:57.180 --> 01:33:00.460
We're giving this verse more attention than we give most verses,

01:33:00.460 --> 01:33:06.060
precisely because Satan has a spotlight pointed at Galatians 3 28.

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Because with things like BLM, he's driving a truck right through it.

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He's showing us what matters.

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You could be completely a deaf mute,

01:33:16.380 --> 01:33:19.340
and you could still feel the vibrations from this attack.

01:33:19.340 --> 01:33:22.300
That's how clear it is that these types of things

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are what matters to hell.

01:33:24.940 --> 01:33:27.500
And if they matter to hell, they have to matter to heaven.

01:33:27.500 --> 01:33:29.340
Even pagans understand this.

01:33:29.340 --> 01:33:31.740
There are a lot of men who are seeking out God,

01:33:31.740 --> 01:33:34.220
because when they see evil in the world,

01:33:34.220 --> 01:33:36.300
they understand that there has to be an opposite of that.

01:33:36.860 --> 01:33:41.340
And when Christianity historically has been the place where it was claimed we had that,

01:33:41.340 --> 01:33:43.180
they come looking at Christian churches.

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And unfortunately in most of them,

01:33:44.940 --> 01:33:47.500
they find people attacking Galatians 3 28,

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just like the global religion,

01:33:49.420 --> 01:33:52.460
saying there are no races, there are no sexes,

01:33:52.460 --> 01:33:54.460
slavery is bad, classism is bad,

01:33:54.460 --> 01:33:55.420
there are no distinctions.

01:33:55.420 --> 01:33:56.300
We're all equal, man.

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Anyone who doesn't know God yet,

01:34:00.300 --> 01:34:02.060
but knows that those things are lies,

01:34:02.060 --> 01:34:04.140
is going to keep looking for God elsewhere.

01:34:04.140 --> 01:34:06.140
Because the very people who told me,

01:34:06.140 --> 01:34:07.980
I know about Jesus, let me tell you about them.

01:34:07.980 --> 01:34:09.660
When the first thing that they say is a lie,

01:34:10.700 --> 01:34:13.420
the intelligent man who doesn't know God is just going to keep walking,

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like, no, that's more the same.

01:34:15.180 --> 01:34:17.420
I don't know about their Jesus,

01:34:17.420 --> 01:34:19.340
but I know this is a crock of crap.

01:34:19.340 --> 01:34:20.300
I want none of that.

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That's why this stuff is consequential.

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It's not just fiddly,

01:34:24.460 --> 01:34:27.260
and it's just not just about nores and ands,

01:34:27.260 --> 01:34:28.700
and obsessing with one verse.

01:34:29.340 --> 01:34:34.060
It's when you betray the gospel by subverting creation and its creator,

01:34:34.620 --> 01:34:37.340
you make it impossible for the gospel to be spread

01:34:37.340 --> 01:34:39.660
to those who God is trying to reach in these days.

01:34:41.180 --> 01:34:43.660
Woe saying jot or tittle reminds me of

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one of the ways that I have taken to saying that.

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And for those who don't know,

01:34:48.460 --> 01:34:51.660
it basically just means the smallest parts of writing.

01:34:52.300 --> 01:34:54.940
The tittle, an example of that being the dot on an I.

01:34:56.220 --> 01:34:59.820
One of the ways that I've liked to say that is either iota or yod.

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And the reason that I like that is because it highlights the two languages

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that God used in order to transmit his word.

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Because the yoda is the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet,

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and the yod is the tenth letter and the smallest letter

01:35:15.980 --> 01:35:17.340
in the Hebrew alphabet.

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And so we have a promise from God,

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this the promise that neither jot nor tittle will pass away,

01:35:24.060 --> 01:35:27.020
of course, is a promise from God about scripture

01:35:27.020 --> 01:35:29.580
being transmitted to us without losing anything.

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And so today we can say that not an yoda will be lost.

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And we already see historically,

01:35:38.460 --> 01:35:41.340
he fulfilled the promise, if we say yoda or yod,

01:35:41.340 --> 01:35:43.020
of a yod not being lost.

01:35:43.020 --> 01:35:46.060
Because when scripture was translated,

01:35:46.860 --> 01:35:49.900
when it was transmitted from the Hebrew into the Greek,

01:35:49.900 --> 01:35:50.940
nothing was lost.

01:35:51.660 --> 01:35:56.700
We have God's perfect word without anything being lost

01:35:56.700 --> 01:36:01.420
as he promised in the Septuagint with regard to the Old Testament.

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And that's why I will continue to say yoda or yod,

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despite the fact that very obviously,

01:36:07.980 --> 01:36:10.380
we are going to emphasize the use of the Greek

01:36:10.380 --> 01:36:12.060
instead of the Hebrew in the Old Testament.

01:36:12.060 --> 01:36:14.300
We'll get into that more in the future.

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But I want to emphasize something that Woe said about

01:36:19.660 --> 01:36:23.500
that third couplet in Galatians 328.

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If you start with the first,

01:36:28.860 --> 01:36:32.780
let's pick two examples, the French and the Japanese.

01:36:33.740 --> 01:36:36.540
If there were no Japanese, would the French still be French?

01:36:37.420 --> 01:36:38.300
The answer is yes.

01:36:38.860 --> 01:36:40.140
And the inverse is also true.

01:36:40.140 --> 01:36:43.340
If there were no French, the Japanese would still very well be Japanese.

01:36:44.780 --> 01:36:47.340
If there were no slaves, would there still be freemen?

01:36:48.140 --> 01:36:48.460
Yes.

01:36:49.820 --> 01:36:51.980
If there were no freemen, would there still be slaves?

01:36:52.700 --> 01:36:53.340
Yes, again.

01:36:54.140 --> 01:36:56.460
I could go into greater depth on why that one is true,

01:36:56.460 --> 01:36:57.980
but we'll save that for another time.

01:36:59.740 --> 01:37:01.740
But this does not apply to male and female.

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You cannot have man without woman, and you can't have woman without man.

01:37:08.460 --> 01:37:14.860
Because as Woe mentioned, even though Adam in the garden was perfect,

01:37:14.860 --> 01:37:19.420
he walked with God, God said it is not good for man to be alone,

01:37:19.420 --> 01:37:21.340
because Adam was not complete.

01:37:22.620 --> 01:37:24.300
Man without woman is not complete.

01:37:24.300 --> 01:37:26.060
Woman without man is not complete.

01:37:26.780 --> 01:37:29.820
And so that is why there is male and female.

01:37:32.300 --> 01:37:36.060
And that highlights another thing that I want to say about this verse,

01:37:36.060 --> 01:37:39.580
this verse, this is one of those times in Scripture

01:37:40.220 --> 01:37:42.780
where you can actually say the exact opposite of the verse

01:37:44.380 --> 01:37:47.660
in terms of the literal wording, and it's still be true.

01:37:49.100 --> 01:37:51.900
Now that is only the case if you ignore that final clause,

01:37:52.620 --> 01:37:55.420
because if you pay attention to the final clause, then you can't do this.

01:37:56.140 --> 01:37:59.900
But without that final clause, you can say and have it be entirely true and

01:37:59.900 --> 01:38:03.820
consonant with Scripture, there is Jew and there is Greek.

01:38:04.380 --> 01:38:05.980
There is slave and there is free.

01:38:06.540 --> 01:38:08.140
There is male and female.

01:38:08.860 --> 01:38:12.380
Because that is what the verse again, as I said earlier, is saying.

01:38:12.380 --> 01:38:15.420
It's saying these are real categories, these are real things.

01:38:15.420 --> 01:38:21.420
These are part of the created reality as God intended it, as God made it.

01:38:22.380 --> 01:38:27.660
And so that is why it matters that if you are in Christ, again, causal,

01:38:28.300 --> 01:38:31.260
if you are in Christ, then you are all one,

01:38:31.260 --> 01:38:34.460
and these things do not matter soteriologically.

01:38:36.460 --> 01:38:39.980
But I just wanted to emphasize that difference of that third couplet,

01:38:40.620 --> 01:38:46.700
and the reason for the difference is because both male and female are necessary for the

01:38:46.700 --> 01:38:48.540
totality that is humanity.

01:38:49.180 --> 01:38:53.260
You cannot have one without the other, whereas with the other two couplets,

01:38:53.260 --> 01:38:57.500
you can very well have one and not the other at any given time in any given place.

01:38:58.220 --> 01:39:05.820
Now that we've drawn a clear line around the proper context of this verse,

01:39:06.860 --> 01:39:10.140
I hope that everyone who's listening who agrees with our arguments,

01:39:10.140 --> 01:39:12.060
I'm not sure how someone could disagree.

01:39:12.060 --> 01:39:16.300
But if you agree with them, if they're sound to you, know this.

01:39:17.340 --> 01:39:21.580
There is no possible claim that can be made about this verse that we have not addressed here.

01:39:22.140 --> 01:39:26.380
Anything else must necessarily defy some portion of this.

01:39:27.020 --> 01:39:29.660
Either denying that this is about salvation,

01:39:29.660 --> 01:39:35.020
or denying that it's about the ontological nature of created reality.

01:39:35.020 --> 01:39:38.620
God's creation is material.

01:39:38.620 --> 01:39:40.780
It has particulars.

01:39:40.780 --> 01:39:42.060
They include race.

01:39:42.060 --> 01:39:43.500
They include sex.

01:39:43.500 --> 01:39:47.500
And indeed, they do include things like slavery and class.

01:39:47.500 --> 01:39:52.060
There are some men who are simply not fit for anything other than the lowest stations.

01:39:52.860 --> 01:39:56.140
And to say that, everyone's like, oh, that's so mean.

01:39:56.140 --> 01:39:57.580
Why would you want to do that to them?

01:39:58.380 --> 01:40:03.100
There's nothing that's harder on a man than not knowing his place in the world.

01:40:03.100 --> 01:40:04.780
I don't know what I should be doing.

01:40:04.780 --> 01:40:06.460
I don't know what I want to do.

01:40:06.460 --> 01:40:07.900
I don't belong.

01:40:07.900 --> 01:40:09.660
I don't have any sense of self.

01:40:10.380 --> 01:40:13.340
That's something that's common in all times and places,

01:40:13.340 --> 01:40:16.300
especially for younger men, just trying to figure things out.

01:40:16.300 --> 01:40:22.780
Now, it's worse today because we're no longer inheriting the occupations of our fathers.

01:40:22.780 --> 01:40:25.900
It used to be that if your dad is a tanner, you're a tanner.

01:40:25.900 --> 01:40:29.340
If your dad made stained glass windows, you make stained glass windows.

01:40:29.340 --> 01:40:30.300
That's just how it worked.

01:40:32.780 --> 01:40:37.660
When that went away, young men ceased to really understand, well, what do I do?

01:40:37.660 --> 01:40:39.340
Whenever I was like, oh, you can do anything you want.

01:40:39.340 --> 01:40:40.780
You can be anything in the world.

01:40:40.780 --> 01:40:42.220
Well, that's nonsense.

01:40:42.220 --> 01:40:45.420
The overwhelming majority of men can't be anything they want to be.

01:40:45.900 --> 01:40:47.500
They're going to be good at a few things.

01:40:47.500 --> 01:40:51.260
They'll be mediocre at a fair number, and they'll be bad at a whole bunch.

01:40:51.980 --> 01:40:55.020
And the best they can do is to try to find something

01:40:55.020 --> 01:40:57.820
that they'll either be mediocre or really good at,

01:40:58.380 --> 01:41:01.180
and hopefully they can feed a family with it.

01:41:04.300 --> 01:41:06.940
The fact that there are men who are not good for anything,

01:41:06.940 --> 01:41:09.260
except for the lowest stations in life,

01:41:10.220 --> 01:41:14.220
if it's how they're made, if it's what they are,

01:41:14.860 --> 01:41:17.900
then to deprive them of even that is worse than not.

01:41:18.940 --> 01:41:23.980
If a man is only good for flipping burgers or fries or digging ditches,

01:41:23.980 --> 01:41:26.220
whatever you want to say is the lowliest thing.

01:41:26.220 --> 01:41:28.220
I don't say any of those things would be insulting.

01:41:28.780 --> 01:41:31.660
My paternal family was ditch diggers for generations.

01:41:31.660 --> 01:41:34.780
That was the family business, digging ditches.

01:41:34.780 --> 01:41:35.660
It's hard work.

01:41:35.660 --> 01:41:36.700
I'm glad I didn't do it.

01:41:36.700 --> 01:41:38.140
I'd be bad at it.

01:41:38.140 --> 01:41:41.340
But the fact that when we look at these things,

01:41:42.300 --> 01:41:45.420
we don't have a sense anymore of what we should do,

01:41:45.420 --> 01:41:49.500
hurts everyone, and especially hurts the man who isn't equipped for much.

01:41:50.060 --> 01:41:50.940
To say, you know what?

01:41:51.660 --> 01:41:53.100
You're going to be a janitor.

01:41:53.100 --> 01:41:54.780
You have an ADIQ.

01:41:54.780 --> 01:41:56.140
You can't even live on your own,

01:41:56.140 --> 01:41:56.620
but you know what?

01:41:56.620 --> 01:41:58.140
You can be a good janitor.

01:41:58.140 --> 01:41:59.100
Here's the mop.

01:41:59.100 --> 01:41:59.900
Here's the bucket.

01:41:59.900 --> 01:42:01.180
Here are the floors.

01:42:01.180 --> 01:42:02.860
Go to these rooms in this order.

01:42:03.420 --> 01:42:04.940
Go from wall to wall.

01:42:04.940 --> 01:42:06.780
When it looks like this, you're done.

01:42:06.780 --> 01:42:08.380
Someone who's retarded can do that.

01:42:08.940 --> 01:42:11.340
They're actually capable of doing a job like that.

01:42:12.060 --> 01:42:14.140
When you say, oh, no, you can do way better than that.

01:42:14.140 --> 01:42:15.180
No, they can't.

01:42:15.180 --> 01:42:18.140
If that's the best they can do, if that's their station in life,

01:42:18.140 --> 01:42:19.180
don't rob them of it.

01:42:20.140 --> 01:42:25.180
And so just as women have been robbed in the last century, certainly,

01:42:25.180 --> 01:42:27.820
and the last few generations by feminism,

01:42:27.820 --> 01:42:29.340
they've been deprived of motherhood.

01:42:29.340 --> 01:42:32.700
They've been deprived of the very thing that God made them for.

01:42:32.700 --> 01:42:35.660
They've been told, no, you need to compete with men in the workplace.

01:42:35.660 --> 01:42:39.500
You need to go get the same jobs as them, have the same crummy hours,

01:42:40.300 --> 01:42:43.900
same miserable political fighting all day long.

01:42:43.900 --> 01:42:47.260
You have to go up against them and compete on their terms.

01:42:47.820 --> 01:42:51.260
And anytime it doesn't work as well for you and you're unhappy,

01:42:51.260 --> 01:42:52.380
well, that's men's fault too.

01:42:53.180 --> 01:42:55.660
It will never have anything to do with the fact that a woman is in a place

01:42:55.660 --> 01:42:59.100
she doesn't belong, doing something she doesn't want to do,

01:42:59.100 --> 01:43:02.860
and is giving up on the thing that she does actually want to do,

01:43:02.860 --> 01:43:03.900
even if she doesn't know it.

01:43:04.540 --> 01:43:05.900
And it's tragic today.

01:43:05.900 --> 01:43:11.340
You see a lot of videos on TikTok that shows up elsewhere on the internet

01:43:11.340 --> 01:43:14.220
where girls say, I just figured it out.

01:43:14.860 --> 01:43:16.300
I'm 30, 35.

01:43:16.300 --> 01:43:20.780
I realize I want babies and here I am with this house and this career

01:43:20.780 --> 01:43:23.740
and I've done all this stuff and I'm not happy with any of it.

01:43:23.740 --> 01:43:24.620
I just want kids.

01:43:25.420 --> 01:43:27.740
She should have been told that when she was 15.

01:43:28.380 --> 01:43:33.100
She shouldn't have gotten all those years into her life before no one told her

01:43:33.100 --> 01:43:35.260
and she had to figure out on her own what she really wanted.

01:43:36.620 --> 01:43:41.020
So when Satan attacks a passage like Galatians 328,

01:43:41.020 --> 01:43:45.180
so there's no male and female, the or in the end doesn't matter anymore.

01:43:45.180 --> 01:43:48.540
Because when he's going after it, he's saying that we're interchangeable.

01:43:49.180 --> 01:43:53.100
He's saying that you go girl and girl bosses and all that stuff

01:43:53.100 --> 01:43:54.380
is going to work out for him.

01:43:54.380 --> 01:43:55.100
It just doesn't.

01:43:55.660 --> 01:43:57.020
It absolutely doesn't.

01:43:58.780 --> 01:44:02.780
And anyone who's deceived into believing that it does ends up worse off for it,

01:44:03.900 --> 01:44:07.100
and then you have guys on the internet pointing and making fun of them for it.

01:44:07.100 --> 01:44:10.620
And to some extent, it is necessary to have negative examples.

01:44:10.620 --> 01:44:12.220
Say, look, don't turn out like this person.

01:44:12.940 --> 01:44:17.500
But unfortunately, there's a lot of Schadenfreude and cruelty involved,

01:44:17.500 --> 01:44:18.380
which there shouldn't be.

01:44:19.420 --> 01:44:22.140
If someone screws up, let them be a lesson to others.

01:44:22.140 --> 01:44:27.100
And let that lesson come down to the younger generations who can avoid making all the mistakes.

01:44:27.260 --> 01:44:33.100
When Satan comes after this verse, when he comes after these distinctions,

01:44:33.660 --> 01:44:36.780
when he says that Africans are interchangeable with Europeans,

01:44:37.420 --> 01:44:40.620
when people with an average IQ of 85 are interchangeable

01:44:40.620 --> 01:44:43.980
with people with an average IQ of 100, he's lying to him.

01:44:43.980 --> 01:44:45.500
Everyone's being lied to.

01:44:45.500 --> 01:44:46.620
We're not interchangeable.

01:44:46.620 --> 01:44:48.220
We can't do the same stuff.

01:44:49.100 --> 01:44:52.860
And when that lie is told, it's everyone up for failure.

01:44:52.860 --> 01:44:57.020
Because suddenly you have Boeing miss drilling holes because of their diversity efforts.

01:44:57.900 --> 01:45:02.220
And you have white guys who'd have a good paying job on a factory line.

01:45:02.220 --> 01:45:07.180
They can't feed their families because some diversity hire got the job instead.

01:45:07.180 --> 01:45:10.460
And planes fall in the sky and everyone complains about it.

01:45:10.460 --> 01:45:11.740
And like, it's inevitable.

01:45:11.740 --> 01:45:13.900
You had someone doing something they're not equipped to do.

01:45:14.460 --> 01:45:15.660
What do you think is going to happen?

01:45:16.780 --> 01:45:18.220
I couldn't be a mother.

01:45:18.220 --> 01:45:19.660
I couldn't run a nursery.

01:45:19.660 --> 01:45:20.700
I'd lose my mind.

01:45:20.700 --> 01:45:21.820
It's just preposterous.

01:45:21.820 --> 01:45:25.020
The notion that I could do the things with small children,

01:45:25.020 --> 01:45:30.060
the women, all girls are virtually all equipped for just naturally.

01:45:30.060 --> 01:45:31.100
It's alien to me.

01:45:32.380 --> 01:45:35.340
At scale, if I had one kid or two kids, I could handle it.

01:45:35.340 --> 01:45:38.940
But the things that we're good at are distinct.

01:45:38.940 --> 01:45:39.740
And that's okay.

01:45:39.740 --> 01:45:40.780
It's a blessing.

01:45:40.780 --> 01:45:43.900
That's part of the actual godly diversity that we've been given.

01:45:44.620 --> 01:45:48.700
Every attack that happens in the world against that makes the world worse.

01:45:48.700 --> 01:45:50.220
That makes daily life worse.

01:45:50.780 --> 01:45:53.020
Forget even the false doctrine.

01:45:53.020 --> 01:45:57.340
Forget destroying salvation by denying the Creator.

01:45:57.340 --> 01:45:58.620
It just makes everything worse.

01:45:59.180 --> 01:46:00.540
That's also part of this argument.

01:46:00.540 --> 01:46:02.380
It's not the main argument here, but you know what?

01:46:03.020 --> 01:46:08.620
When all these attacks on Galatians 3.28 are provably and measurably making

01:46:08.620 --> 01:46:14.220
the world we live in a worse place, that's an indication that maybe we're up against God.

01:46:14.220 --> 01:46:17.580
Or maybe we're doing something that God says not to do.

01:46:17.580 --> 01:46:20.060
And we're believing the opposite of what he says.

01:46:20.060 --> 01:46:24.220
Because whenever you find people obeying God and doing what he says to do,

01:46:24.220 --> 01:46:25.500
you find God's blessings.

01:46:26.140 --> 01:46:29.500
Not in the way we were talking about earlier, where we're trying to measure whoever has the

01:46:29.500 --> 01:46:32.380
most money must be the most blessed by God.

01:46:32.380 --> 01:46:33.180
That's not the point.

01:46:33.980 --> 01:46:38.380
Sometimes having wealth, having a lot of stuff as a test,

01:46:38.380 --> 01:46:40.460
and it's a test that a lot of people fail.

01:46:40.460 --> 01:46:42.700
It could be a blessing if they were faithful,

01:46:42.700 --> 01:46:46.860
but when they have a lot, the way that they use it and how it preoccupies them,

01:46:47.420 --> 01:46:49.340
takes them further away from God.

01:46:49.340 --> 01:46:52.220
Whereas if they had less or had nothing, they would be better off.

01:46:53.020 --> 01:46:57.820
I want people to remember that this verse, whenever you hear someone talking about it,

01:46:57.820 --> 01:47:00.940
if they talk about it in ways that aren't about salvation,

01:47:00.940 --> 01:47:04.780
if they talk about it in ways that attack, how God created everything,

01:47:05.340 --> 01:47:06.140
they're from hell.

01:47:06.860 --> 01:47:07.420
Full stop.

01:47:07.980 --> 01:47:12.620
I don't care who they are, what their reputation is, how much you like them,

01:47:12.620 --> 01:47:14.540
how much else they've gotten right in the past.

01:47:15.340 --> 01:47:16.860
The Galatians got stuff right.

01:47:17.420 --> 01:47:19.580
Paul planted the church in Galatia.

01:47:19.580 --> 01:47:21.020
They had sound doctrine.

01:47:21.020 --> 01:47:24.380
They could have only possibly had sound doctrine because their teacher

01:47:24.380 --> 01:47:26.060
was an apostle of Jesus Christ.

01:47:26.860 --> 01:47:30.460
It was when someone else snuck in and bewitched them,

01:47:30.460 --> 01:47:32.620
and fed them teachings of demons,

01:47:32.620 --> 01:47:34.860
and they believed them too because they couldn't tell the difference.

01:47:35.900 --> 01:47:37.900
We are no better than the Galatians.

01:47:37.900 --> 01:47:39.100
We're no better.

01:47:39.100 --> 01:47:43.580
We're worse in every demonstrable way, because we are arrogant.

01:47:43.580 --> 01:47:45.020
We are the Pharisees.

01:47:45.020 --> 01:47:48.300
We're the ones who say that we have this confession.

01:47:48.300 --> 01:47:49.900
We have this logo.

01:47:49.900 --> 01:47:50.860
We're Christians.

01:47:50.860 --> 01:47:51.980
We're immune from that.

01:47:51.980 --> 01:47:52.620
No, we're not.

01:47:53.420 --> 01:47:59.340
The four-part series culminating in apostasy laid bare that we are not immune.

01:48:00.060 --> 01:48:03.500
Not only are you not immune, but it's happening before our eyes.

01:48:03.500 --> 01:48:05.900
And this verse is one of the chief ways it's happening.

01:48:06.700 --> 01:48:08.300
Don't let it happen among you.

01:48:08.300 --> 01:48:10.860
When you hear somebody bring it up, test what they're saying.

01:48:10.860 --> 01:48:15.580
And if they're not talking about how this verse in Galatians is a celebration

01:48:15.580 --> 01:48:19.100
of how God saves us from sin, death, and the devil,

01:48:19.900 --> 01:48:23.580
if they want to try to make it about reordering this life,

01:48:23.580 --> 01:48:26.380
saying that the Christian life no longer has sexes,

01:48:26.380 --> 01:48:28.780
that you don't need to be husband and wife anymore,

01:48:28.780 --> 01:48:30.940
you don't need to have distinctions,

01:48:30.940 --> 01:48:33.820
we can all just mix together and be one, they're from hell.

01:48:34.380 --> 01:48:39.100
Because everything, every single thing that will come downstream from those teachings

01:48:39.580 --> 01:48:42.380
is evil and does harm, period.

01:48:44.460 --> 01:48:48.460
When Satan came to Christ in the desert in order to tempt him,

01:48:49.820 --> 01:48:51.500
he did it by quoting scripture.

01:48:52.940 --> 01:48:54.620
And he didn't even misquote scripture.

01:48:55.340 --> 01:48:59.740
Really, he quoted scripture in a way that was misleading.

01:49:00.700 --> 01:49:05.740
It is possible to use basically any good toward a wicked end.

01:49:06.700 --> 01:49:10.860
It is possible to abuse things that are good in themselves

01:49:10.860 --> 01:49:13.340
in order to use them to achieve evil.

01:49:14.060 --> 01:49:15.580
That's what Satan does with the law.

01:49:16.460 --> 01:49:18.140
God's law is perfect and good.

01:49:19.020 --> 01:49:21.580
It is used to kill us because we are sinners.

01:49:22.300 --> 01:49:26.700
And incidentally again to remind you of what we've gone over before,

01:49:26.700 --> 01:49:28.220
we sin because we are sinners.

01:49:28.220 --> 01:49:30.380
It is not that we are sinners because we sin.

01:49:31.020 --> 01:49:34.780
The causation matters there because original sin matters.

01:49:34.860 --> 01:49:36.380
But we've covered that previously.

01:49:38.460 --> 01:49:40.460
So for this verse here in Galatians,

01:49:41.180 --> 01:49:44.300
Christians need to pull out two sets of truths.

01:49:45.340 --> 01:49:48.380
The one is what it says on its face.

01:49:49.420 --> 01:49:52.460
But you must be careful to recognize as Woe just said

01:49:52.460 --> 01:49:55.980
that it is in the sotereological context only.

01:49:56.860 --> 01:49:59.100
And so there is neither Jew nor Greek,

01:49:59.100 --> 01:50:02.700
which is to say race does not matter to salvation.

01:50:02.700 --> 01:50:04.380
There is neither slave nor free.

01:50:04.860 --> 01:50:08.780
Which is to say your position socially or hierarchically

01:50:08.780 --> 01:50:10.700
does not matter to salvation.

01:50:11.260 --> 01:50:12.940
And there is not male and female.

01:50:12.940 --> 01:50:16.940
Which is to say your sex does not matter to salvation.

01:50:18.620 --> 01:50:21.420
That is the first set of truths that you must pull out of this.

01:50:22.220 --> 01:50:25.820
And you must be careful to remember that four is causal.

01:50:27.260 --> 01:50:30.780
If and only if you are in Christ Jesus,

01:50:30.780 --> 01:50:32.300
then these things do not matter.

01:50:33.180 --> 01:50:35.340
Because that is the core of the Christian faith.

01:50:35.900 --> 01:50:40.220
The core of the Christian faith is that you are saved by faith alone.

01:50:40.780 --> 01:50:42.380
You are not saved by your works.

01:50:43.740 --> 01:50:46.140
I know that some who are listening are going to be up in arms,

01:50:46.140 --> 01:50:48.700
but that is the core of the Christian faith.

01:50:48.700 --> 01:50:50.140
There is no avoiding that.

01:50:50.140 --> 01:50:51.660
Well, what about James?

01:50:51.660 --> 01:50:53.660
That is about the and then what?

01:50:54.940 --> 01:50:56.780
Which is part of what this podcast is.

01:50:56.780 --> 01:50:57.740
It's the and then what?

01:50:57.740 --> 01:51:01.020
How do I live a Christian life now that I'm a Christian?

01:51:01.820 --> 01:51:05.500
Good works will necessarily flow from a living faith,

01:51:06.220 --> 01:51:08.620
but you are not saved by those works.

01:51:08.620 --> 01:51:10.300
Those works do not contribute.

01:51:11.020 --> 01:51:14.060
What does Scripture say of those who would be justified by the law?

01:51:14.780 --> 01:51:17.820
You are damned if you would be justified by the law

01:51:17.820 --> 01:51:19.420
because you are severed from Christ.

01:51:21.260 --> 01:51:25.420
And so this verse is purely in its literal wording

01:51:26.140 --> 01:51:27.740
about soteriology.

01:51:27.740 --> 01:51:29.180
It is about salvation.

01:51:29.900 --> 01:51:33.500
And so those first truths, that first set of truths that you must pull out

01:51:34.380 --> 01:51:36.060
are about salvation.

01:51:36.860 --> 01:51:41.420
The second set are the exact inverse of the literal wording.

01:51:42.380 --> 01:51:45.980
Because again, as I mentioned multiple times in this episode,

01:51:46.780 --> 01:51:53.340
this verse is coherent if and only if these couplets are real things.

01:51:54.300 --> 01:51:58.220
And so as a Christian, you must pull out race is real

01:51:58.220 --> 01:52:00.780
because there is Jew and there is Greek.

01:52:00.780 --> 01:52:01.980
Those are real things.

01:52:02.780 --> 01:52:06.140
That they are real is why it matters that they do not matter

01:52:06.780 --> 01:52:10.220
in order to be saved with regard to salvation.

01:52:11.580 --> 01:52:12.940
There is slave and there is free,

01:52:12.940 --> 01:52:15.260
which is to say that hierarchy is real.

01:52:15.980 --> 01:52:18.780
There is a real social hierarchy.

01:52:19.420 --> 01:52:22.540
God has created different men with different gifts.

01:52:23.420 --> 01:52:27.980
And that creates all of our hierarchies in civilization.

01:52:28.540 --> 01:52:31.900
It creates betters and lessers.

01:52:31.900 --> 01:52:34.940
It creates those with greater talents and those with lesser talents.

01:52:35.580 --> 01:52:37.420
That is not to say they are lesser men.

01:52:37.420 --> 01:52:38.620
That is a different thing.

01:52:39.660 --> 01:52:42.460
It is to say that some men are more capable than others.

01:52:45.500 --> 01:52:47.900
And so there is slave and there is free

01:52:48.940 --> 01:52:51.340
with regard to the natural order of things.

01:52:51.340 --> 01:52:54.940
And finally, there is male and female.

01:52:55.580 --> 01:52:58.220
And that is a very real distinction.

01:52:58.940 --> 01:53:00.780
You are one or you are the other.

01:53:01.660 --> 01:53:04.460
And so you are either male or female.

01:53:05.260 --> 01:53:06.860
The exclusive or in English.

01:53:07.580 --> 01:53:09.020
You cannot be both.

01:53:09.020 --> 01:53:10.060
You must be one.

01:53:11.020 --> 01:53:14.780
And so anyone who attacks any of those three truths

01:53:15.580 --> 01:53:18.940
is attacking scripture, is ultimately attacking God,

01:53:18.940 --> 01:53:22.140
is anti-Christian, is a false shepherd, is a wolf.

01:53:23.100 --> 01:53:25.100
So if anyone tells you that if you are male,

01:53:25.100 --> 01:53:27.900
oh you can be female today if you choose to be, no.

01:53:29.260 --> 01:53:31.260
And we did not go over this in the episode,

01:53:31.260 --> 01:53:34.940
but those same words in Greek can be masculine and feminine.

01:53:35.500 --> 01:53:37.260
So if you are a male you are masculine.

01:53:37.260 --> 01:53:38.780
If you are a female you are feminine.

01:53:39.420 --> 01:53:42.860
So if someone tells you as a male you can be feminine, that is a wolf.

01:53:44.300 --> 01:53:46.620
The second one going in reverse order.

01:53:47.580 --> 01:53:50.780
Hierarchy is part of God's created order.

01:53:51.340 --> 01:53:56.140
So those who seek to subvert it are seeking to subvert God's created order.

01:53:56.700 --> 01:53:58.620
What we have today is atomization.

01:53:58.620 --> 01:54:04.380
We have so many individuals who have taken themselves to be purely individuals.

01:54:04.380 --> 01:54:05.340
I stand alone.

01:54:05.340 --> 01:54:06.380
I am my own thing.

01:54:06.380 --> 01:54:07.980
I am an island unto myself.

01:54:10.060 --> 01:54:13.100
All of this stems ultimately, of course, from pride.

01:54:14.060 --> 01:54:17.100
The declaration that God's created order does not matter,

01:54:17.100 --> 01:54:19.100
and I can be and do whatever I want.

01:54:21.420 --> 01:54:22.540
And that's simply not true.

01:54:24.300 --> 01:54:25.500
We already went over that.

01:54:25.500 --> 01:54:27.660
If you're male you're male, period.

01:54:27.660 --> 01:54:28.140
Forever.

01:54:28.780 --> 01:54:29.980
You will be male in eternity.

01:54:32.620 --> 01:54:35.820
The gifts that God gave you, you have no control over those.

01:54:37.260 --> 01:54:41.100
He decided how intelligent to make you, how tall to make you.

01:54:41.820 --> 01:54:46.220
All of these things are from God because everything you have is a gift from God.

01:54:47.340 --> 01:54:51.660
And so a rejection of those things is a rejection of the created order,

01:54:51.660 --> 01:54:53.180
is a rejection of the Creator.

01:54:54.700 --> 01:54:59.500
And finally, one of the ones that has most stridently attacked these days,

01:54:59.500 --> 01:55:01.500
not that hierarchy isn't certainly, but

01:55:04.060 --> 01:55:07.820
the simple fact that God created the races of man.

01:55:08.860 --> 01:55:10.540
We see that all throughout Scripture,

01:55:10.540 --> 01:55:13.900
we address this in multiple episodes, many episodes at this point.

01:55:13.900 --> 01:55:15.660
We did a series on race.

01:55:17.180 --> 01:55:18.860
Race is a very real thing.

01:55:18.860 --> 01:55:21.340
It is part of God's created order.

01:55:21.340 --> 01:55:23.740
And to reject it is to reject God.

01:55:24.780 --> 01:55:27.260
And so one of the truths that a Christian must pull out

01:55:27.980 --> 01:55:31.980
from this verse in Galatians is that there is Jew and there is Greek.

01:55:32.700 --> 01:55:36.300
Drop in any national term you want there.

01:55:36.940 --> 01:55:39.100
There is Japanese and there is French.

01:55:39.180 --> 01:55:40.300
There is German.

01:55:40.300 --> 01:55:41.180
There is Russian.

01:55:41.180 --> 01:55:41.980
There is American.

01:55:43.340 --> 01:55:44.940
These things are real and they exist.

01:55:46.220 --> 01:55:52.700
We cannot reject either on the one hand that these things do not matter in terms of salvation

01:55:52.700 --> 01:55:56.300
because that is to reject salvation by faith alone.

01:55:57.020 --> 01:56:02.140
And we cannot on the other hand reject that these things are real and part of the created order

01:56:02.140 --> 01:56:06.460
because that is to reject the first clause of the Creed.

01:56:06.460 --> 01:56:09.420
It is to reject God the Father is Creator.

01:56:09.420 --> 01:56:13.820
It is to reject what He has done in this world and stated,

01:56:13.820 --> 01:56:15.020
this is my work.

01:56:15.020 --> 01:56:16.220
This is true.

01:56:16.220 --> 01:56:21.980
You must believe it because you cannot deny the creation without denying the Creator.

01:56:22.860 --> 01:56:24.220
Those are one and the same.

01:56:26.780 --> 01:56:31.020
And so for the Christian, we must pull out both the negative truth from this

01:56:31.820 --> 01:56:33.660
and the positive truth, so to speak.

01:56:34.620 --> 01:56:36.540
And this isn't just a command.

01:56:36.540 --> 01:56:40.460
This isn't just you must absolutely do X, Y, and Z.

01:56:42.060 --> 01:56:47.100
This is God's word to us, His truth, and there is blessing in believing that.

01:56:47.900 --> 01:56:52.780
Because I mentioned today we have so many individuals who feel atomized,

01:56:52.780 --> 01:56:54.540
who feel separated from everything.

01:56:54.540 --> 01:56:59.340
You have women who realize in their thirties or forties or God forbid their fifties

01:56:59.340 --> 01:57:00.780
that they wanted to have children.

01:57:00.780 --> 01:57:04.380
Because certainly by the time you're in your fifties, it's too late.

01:57:05.980 --> 01:57:08.860
Yes, there's the occasional outlier, but it's very seldom.

01:57:11.500 --> 01:57:15.900
If we live our lives in accord with what God has designed,

01:57:15.900 --> 01:57:19.740
in accord with the way that He has made us, we are going to have happier lives.

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And so saying that anyone can do anything is just lying to people and making them miserable.

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That's from Satan.

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That's a subversion of hierarchy.

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He is the one who wants to sow chaos and discord.

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That is not what God does.

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God is a God of order.

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This is His order.

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We see it in this verse.

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We see it in creation.

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Because the truth isn't just here in the special revelation that is Scripture.

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It's out there in the world too.

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All of these things can be known from natural revelation.

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And all of our ancestors knew them.

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And so what we want, not just for those who are listening and not just for those who agree with us,

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but for all Christians in all places, and all peoples we want to be Christian, of course,

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we want people to live in accord with what God has created.

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Because that is the best way to live.

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That is, in fact, the only way to have a good life.

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And so, yes, on the one hand, if you just recognize these truths, you will have a better life.

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Because God does bless you when you live in accord with the nature He has given you.

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But the fullness of that blessing is when you are in Christ.

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And so it is when you have faith, when you are an offspring of Abraham, an heir according to promise.

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And so, again, we encourage you to go and read the fullness of the letter to the Galatians.

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It'll take you 10, 15 minutes.

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See God's blessings.

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See why this matters.

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See what God says in His words.

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You are what God created you to be.

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Whether it's a Jew or a Greek, slave or free, whatever talents, abilities,

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wherever in the hierarchy He's placed you, and whether you are male or female,

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that is what God created you to be.

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That is a good thing.

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Live your life accordingly.