Transcript: Episode 0061

“Galatians 3:28”

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00:00:00 – 00:00:27:	Let's get go.

00:00:27 – 00:00:39:	Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast.

00:00:39 – 00:00:45:	I am Corey J. Moeller, and I'm still woe.

00:00:45 – 00:00:50:	On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing Galatians 328.

00:00:50 – 00:00:53:	This is a passage that has come up many times in past episodes.

00:00:53 – 00:00:59:	It's an episode that we've discussed for a while doing separately as its own thing.

00:00:59 – 00:01:03:	It's a passage that comes up all the time in church life.

00:01:03 – 00:01:09:	You frequently hear pastors and others pointing to Galatians 328 as a very important passage

00:01:09 – 00:01:11:	for one thing or another.

00:01:11 – 00:01:18:	The problem is that virtually every time this verse comes up today, it is for evil purposes.

00:01:18 – 00:01:23:	So today we are going to be exegeting very closely the entirety of this verse.

00:01:23 – 00:01:26:	It's 26 words in most English translations.

00:01:26 – 00:01:28:	It's 23 words in Greek.

00:01:28 – 00:01:30:	They basically mean the same thing.

00:01:30 – 00:01:33:	We'll give you a transliteration in a minute of the Greek and the English.

00:01:33 – 00:01:37:	There's one error that's common in almost all the translations today that goes back

00:01:37 – 00:01:43:	to the King James that we will be discussing at some length, but it's not an error that

00:01:43 – 00:01:50:	used to matter because it didn't change what the verse meant until these new attacks occurred.

00:01:50 – 00:01:55:	We've talked a lot in past episodes about how the new modern global religion has new

00:01:55 – 00:01:56:	doctrines.

00:01:56 – 00:02:04:	It has new tenets of new faith, and one of them is the inversion of Galatians 328.

00:02:04 – 00:02:09:	So today we're going to be continuing half a dozen past episodes where we've brought

00:02:09 – 00:02:13:	this up in the episode on Amongst the Ashes.

00:02:13 – 00:02:18:	We talked about the fact that Black Lives Matter on their original website, part of

00:02:18 – 00:02:23:	their manifesto, basically went line by line through, or word by word, through Galatians

00:02:23 – 00:02:29:	328 and inverted it, which is pretty weird when you're talking about something that was

00:02:29 – 00:02:34:	ostensibly a group that was supposed to be anti-racist and just make sure the Black people

00:02:34 – 00:02:35:	didn't get beaten up by cops.

00:02:35 – 00:02:40:	That was sort of how it was sold, and that sounded pretty good to some people.

00:02:40 – 00:02:42:	So why would they attack Galatians 328?

00:02:42 – 00:02:44:	We talked about that in that episode.

00:02:44 – 00:02:47:	We're going to rehash a bit of that today because it's really important.

00:02:47 – 00:02:53:	In three of the human race episodes, one on foundational matters on scripture and soteriology

00:02:53 – 00:03:01:	and on racism, in different contexts we discussed how this passage is used to falsely bind

00:03:01 – 00:03:04:	consciences and things that are not found in scripture.

00:03:04 – 00:03:09:	On the episode on women's scripture and ontology, the same thing, saying that sexes don't exist

00:03:09 – 00:03:13:	because of Jesus, somehow that makes sense.

00:03:13 – 00:03:16:	If you paid attention two weeks ago to the Gnosticism episode, it will sound very much

00:03:17 – 00:03:20:	like the Gnostic heresy because that's exactly what's going on.

00:03:20 – 00:03:25:	I want to reiterate, as we said in that episode, when we call something Gnostic, this is not

00:03:25 – 00:03:27:	the generic internet.

00:03:27 – 00:03:30:	I don't like it, so I'm going to call it the G word.

00:03:30 – 00:03:33:	There are a lot of people online that have just latched onto that and say, well, it's

00:03:33 – 00:03:34:	Gnostic.

00:03:34 – 00:03:35:	We're not doing that.

00:03:35 – 00:03:39:	I'm conscious of the fact that it's become a meme, and it's unfortunate because there

00:03:39 – 00:03:44:	is actually a portion of the first and second century Gnostic heresy that's come roaring

00:03:44 – 00:03:47:	back today.

00:03:47 – 00:03:53:	When we deal with this passage today, it's in light of the things we said two weeks ago.

00:03:53 – 00:03:58:	Remember Gnosticism, one of its core tenets, was denial of the flesh, saying that the flesh

00:03:58 – 00:04:01:	is not real or it's wicked.

00:04:01 – 00:04:02:	It's not really us.

00:04:02 – 00:04:03:	We're spiritual.

00:04:03 – 00:04:07:	That is the higher realm, and all this fleshly stuff is evil.

00:04:07 – 00:04:08:	It's wrong.

00:04:08 – 00:04:09:	It's not us.

00:04:09 – 00:04:10:	It's incidental.

00:04:10 – 00:04:11:	It's accidental.

00:04:11 – 00:04:12:	That's a heresy.

00:04:12 – 00:04:14:	That is an anti-Christian heresy.

00:04:14 – 00:04:19:	It's an anti-creation heresy, which makes it an anti-creator heresy.

00:04:19 – 00:04:24:	In the episode we dealt with, the fact that these things are going on in the church today,

00:04:24 – 00:04:30:	and then in last week's episode, we established the same thing that Paul is establishing as

00:04:30 – 00:04:34:	he's writing this letter to the Galatians, which is that you people are falling away.

00:04:34 – 00:04:36:	I've taught you the truth, and now you're believing lies.

00:04:36 – 00:04:39:	Where did these lies come from?

00:04:39 – 00:04:43:	So we'll explain how the fact that Paul would have these concerns, that God would have these

00:04:43 – 00:04:48:	concerns in Galatia, should give us pause today.

00:04:48 – 00:04:49:	We're no better than them.

00:04:49 – 00:04:51:	Paul didn't plant our churches.

00:04:51 – 00:04:55:	Paul, through the Holy Spirit, has given us our doctrine.

00:04:55 – 00:05:01:	He's given us the words that we hold to, but he certainly was going to do a better job

00:05:01 – 00:05:03:	planting his church than any of our churches.

00:05:03 – 00:05:05:	I think that's fair to say.

00:05:05 – 00:05:09:	Now, insofar as a human is going and doing something, that's true because he was an apostle

00:05:09 – 00:05:11:	of Christ.

00:05:11 – 00:05:16:	Insofar as God's word is taught, there's always the possibility for any church to be

00:05:16 – 00:05:20:	completely faithful to God's word, insofar as it believes what Scripture says.

00:05:20 – 00:05:21:	But that's the problem.

00:05:21 – 00:05:25:	Do you believe what God has told you, or do you believe lies that you're bringing in

00:05:25 – 00:05:27:	from elsewhere?

00:05:27 – 00:05:29:	Same problem that they had in Galatia is a problem we have today.

00:05:29 – 00:05:34:	We talked about in last week's episode that this is the modern fight.

00:05:34 – 00:05:38:	It's a fight against not only ancient heresies, but against the unbelief that's inherently

00:05:38 – 00:05:41:	in all of our hearts.

00:05:41 – 00:05:46:	Last episode that we've previously referenced significantly, Galatians 3.28, was in Hebrew's

00:05:46 – 00:05:51:	Israelites and Jews, where we talked about the Talmudic prayer, and how one of their

00:05:51 – 00:05:57:	prayers is directly condemned by Galatians 3.28, that what the Jews pray to this day

00:05:57 – 00:06:02:	is an inversion of what God says here, and why that's significant.

00:06:02 – 00:06:08:	Just to give some historical context, Paul and Barnabas' first missionary journey in

00:06:08 – 00:06:12:	about AD 47 and 48 went into Galatia.

00:06:12 – 00:06:14:	If you don't know, Galatia is an Asia Minor.

00:06:14 – 00:06:18:	It's north of Jerusalem by quite a bit, north of Judea.

00:06:18 – 00:06:25:	It's in modern-day Turkey, kind of centered probably around the modern city of Ankara.

00:06:25 – 00:06:30:	The problem with us hearing that today is you think, oh, Paul went to the Turks, and

00:06:30 – 00:06:31:	you know what a Turk looks like.

00:06:31 – 00:06:36:	You know something about their language and a little bit about their culture, their Muslim

00:06:36 – 00:06:41:	now, that they're brown and swarthy, and that's what they are.

00:06:41 – 00:06:46:	Okay, what you don't know if you don't pay any attention to the historical context is

00:06:46 – 00:06:49:	that that's not what they were then.

00:06:49 – 00:06:55:	The people to whom Paul took his first missionary journey in Galatia were Celts.

00:06:55 – 00:07:01:	Celts, the same people that are really only extant today in Ireland, in a bits and few

00:07:01 – 00:07:02:	other places.

00:07:02 – 00:07:06:	Basically, when you think Irish, you think Celts, that's who lived here.

00:07:06 – 00:07:10:	Galatia in modern-day Turkey was Celtic.

00:07:10 – 00:07:12:	It was not Arab.

00:07:12 – 00:07:14:	It was not Shemite.

00:07:14 – 00:07:21:	It was Japhethite, and incidentally, the same is true of much, if not all of the Mediterranean.

00:07:21 – 00:07:28:	For example, King Tut, a couple thousand years before, his DNA was Irish, it's Celtic.

00:07:28 – 00:07:31:	He had red hair and blue eyes, and he wasn't the only one.

00:07:31 – 00:07:37:	The pharaohs, in many cases, they had Japhethitic DNA.

00:07:37 – 00:07:43:	They're also, I believe, Shemitic in ancestry, but there's inbreeding, this happens.

00:07:43 – 00:07:47:	The problem is that today when we think, oh, I know what an Egyptian looks like, I know

00:07:47 – 00:07:52:	what a Greek looks like, I know what a Turk looks like, it doesn't apply.

00:07:52 – 00:07:57:	2,000 years ago, many of those people looked different, and it's particularly true of where

00:07:57 – 00:07:59:	Paul was taking his missionary journeys.

00:07:59 – 00:08:02:	When he went to these people, they were Celts.

00:08:02 – 00:08:05:	They had light eyes, light skin, light hair.

00:08:05 – 00:08:06:	They were European.

00:08:06 – 00:08:13:	Now, this only matters because of the very first couplet in Galatians 328.

00:08:13 – 00:08:16:	I'm going to read the whole thing from the ESV.

00:08:16 – 00:08:21:	It's similar in most of the other translations, and I'm also going to give the transliteration

00:08:21 – 00:08:24:	from Greek so you can see that they're the same thing.

00:08:24 – 00:08:29:	In English, it says, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,

00:08:29 – 00:08:34:	there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

00:08:34 – 00:08:41:	And in the transliteration from the 23 words in Greek, neither there is Jew nor Greek,

00:08:41 – 00:08:48:	neither there is slave nor free, neither there is male and female, for you one are in Christ

00:08:48 – 00:08:49:	Jesus.

00:08:49 – 00:08:56:	We'll get into some of the details there because there's one word that's mistranslated

00:08:56 – 00:09:02:	from the Greek in the majority of the modern English and other translations and other languages,

00:09:02 – 00:09:04:	going back to the King James, so it's not just a modern issue.

00:09:04 – 00:09:09:	There's just a sloppiness, and the sloppiness didn't use to matter.

00:09:09 – 00:09:15:	It didn't really significantly change the text, but the modern attacks do make that

00:09:15 – 00:09:18:	change matter, so we'll talk about that in a bit.

00:09:18 – 00:09:22:	I give that text now because the first thing it says is there's neither Jew nor Greek.

00:09:22 – 00:09:27:	Well, when Paul was speaking to the Galatians, there were almost no Jews there.

00:09:27 – 00:09:30:	They weren't Greek either, they were Celts.

00:09:30 – 00:09:31:	They were speaking Greek.

00:09:31 – 00:09:34:	They were part of the empire of the West.

00:09:34 – 00:09:37:	It was first the Greeks and then the Romans.

00:09:37 – 00:09:43:	Their empires were huge, so they were conquering and ruling these lands.

00:09:43 – 00:09:49:	When Paul says Jew nor Greek, he's drawing a distinction that matters, and today we're

00:09:49 – 00:09:51:	told it matters because of race.

00:09:51 – 00:09:57:	It meant something completely different at the time, because when you look at the dispute

00:09:57 – 00:10:04:	in Galatians, the actual problem that Paul was trying to solve by writing this to them

00:10:04 – 00:10:06:	was Judaizers.

00:10:06 – 00:10:11:	The Judaizing heresy had emerged in the church that he had just planted within just a couple

00:10:11 – 00:10:12:	of years.

00:10:12 – 00:10:14:	We talked about that three weeks ago.

00:10:14 – 00:10:19:	There were those who came along from the so-called circumcision party who said, you guys, okay,

00:10:19 – 00:10:20:	you're Christian, now that's great.

00:10:20 – 00:10:23:	You all have to be circumcised, you have to live as Jews.

00:10:23 – 00:10:27:	You have to follow the Mosaic law.

00:10:27 – 00:10:31:	Paul's writing to the Galatians because he's not only horrified, but he's pissed.

00:10:31 – 00:10:33:	He is angry.

00:10:33 – 00:10:39:	I think the fourth chapter, he actually says, in effect, I don't know who it is among you

00:10:39 – 00:10:43:	that is telling you to be circumcised, but he should emasculate himself.

00:10:43 – 00:10:45:	He should castrate himself.

00:10:45 – 00:10:46:	He should chop it all off.

00:10:46 – 00:10:50:	He's saying, this guy's telling you to take off your foreskin, you tell him to take off

00:10:50 – 00:10:51:	the whole thing.

00:10:51 – 00:10:52:	He was angry.

00:10:52 – 00:10:58:	God was angry that these Judaizers had shown up in a church that Paul had just planted,

00:10:58 – 00:11:02:	and these were Christians, and the first words in chapter three that we're going to

00:11:02 – 00:11:08:	read in its entirety in just a minute are, oh, foolish Galatians, who bewitched you?

00:11:08 – 00:11:12:	I highlight this before we read the whole thing because that is a warning to us, too,

00:11:12 – 00:11:16:	as the warning from last week on our apostasy.

00:11:16 – 00:11:20:	We have this nonsense view in our heads that we are somehow immunized from falling into

00:11:20 – 00:11:25:	error because we say we're Christian, we say we believe the Bible, we have a confessional

00:11:25 – 00:11:31:	document in whatever our church body is, and we definitely really hold to that.

00:11:31 – 00:11:34:	Given all those things, how could we possibly be bewitched?

00:11:34 – 00:11:39:	Well, Paul came to these people, and he told them everything, and as soon as he left, someone

00:11:39 – 00:11:43:	snuck in and gave them a different gospel, and they ate it up, they loved it, and they

00:11:43 – 00:11:45:	switched sides.

00:11:45 – 00:11:48:	They were abandoning the Christian faith right behind his back.

00:11:48 – 00:11:53:	When he follows up with the church in Galatia, it's not to congratulate them on their perseverance

00:11:53 – 00:11:57:	in the faith, it's to say, oh, foolish Galatians, who bewitched you?

00:11:57 – 00:12:02:	Who is it among you that has spread this Judaizing heresy that was tearing apart their faith?

00:12:02 – 00:12:07:	It was about the faith that all of this hinges.

00:12:07 – 00:12:13:	When we look at the context of Galatians and you look at everything that's being said,

00:12:13 – 00:12:17:	the particular things that are said today about this one verse become just completely

00:12:17 – 00:12:18:	nonsensical.

00:12:18 – 00:12:23:	They're simultaneously retarded and just absolutely demonic lies.

00:12:23 – 00:12:27:	There's no possibility for anyone who reads Galatians to come to the conclusions that

00:12:27 – 00:12:32:	pastors will try to get you to reach when they just give you the 26 words in English.

00:12:32 – 00:12:37:	Yesterday, just for the sake of curiosity, and so I can make the point today as we're

00:12:37 – 00:12:42:	recording, I read Galatians from start to finish in one sitting, it took me eight and

00:12:42 – 00:12:43:	a half minutes.

00:12:43 – 00:12:46:	I'm a fast average reader, not a speed reader by any stretch.

00:12:46 – 00:12:50:	I would imagine that most of the people listening could comfortably do it in 10 minutes or

00:12:50 – 00:12:51:	so.

00:12:51 – 00:12:56:	I highlight this to say that we're so lazy about saying, oh, I'm just going to read a

00:12:56 – 00:12:59:	verse or I'm going to read part of a verse, or maybe I'll read a chapter, but man, that's

00:12:59 – 00:13:00:	a commitment.

00:13:00 – 00:13:06:	Well, it's typical that the intros to Stone Choir run about 15 minutes before we even

00:13:06 – 00:13:08:	really get into the meat of the subject.

00:13:08 – 00:13:13:	If you have two hours to listen to a Stone Choir episode once a week, you have 10 minutes

00:13:13 – 00:13:15:	to read a book of the Bible.

00:13:15 – 00:13:22:	Just like last week, we said, go read 2 Kings 17-23, probably about the same amount of time

00:13:22 – 00:13:23:	if you did that.

00:13:23 – 00:13:27:	Galatians is going to probably take you about the same amount of time.

00:13:27 – 00:13:30:	Please, after this episode, go read Galatians.

00:13:30 – 00:13:33:	You'll take no more than 15 minutes of your life.

00:13:33 – 00:13:36:	It's God's word that he put there for your benefit.

00:13:36 – 00:13:40:	I say this specifically because when you do that and then you look at the arguments that

00:13:40 – 00:13:44:	are made about Galatians 3-28, they're just garbage.

00:13:44 – 00:13:49:	They're completely insane in addition to being false doctrine, in addition to being evil.

00:13:49 – 00:13:50:	They're just absurd.

00:13:50 – 00:13:55:	No natural reading of the text would arrive at the conclusions that are being shoehorned

00:13:55 – 00:13:57:	into it.

00:13:57 – 00:14:03:	It's only the proof texting of this verse that makes it possible for this deception to occur.

00:14:03 – 00:14:09:	By the end of this episode, what we're going to attempt to do is draw a moat around the

00:14:09 – 00:14:11:	entirety of Galatians 3-28.

00:14:11 – 00:14:16:	We're going to draw a bright line around everything that's permissible for anyone to say about

00:14:16 – 00:14:18:	this verse.

00:14:18 – 00:14:23:	We are going to extend as a challenge of defiance against any teacher who would say anything

00:14:23 – 00:14:26:	differently than we say here.

00:14:26 – 00:14:30:	We are saying to you that they are outside of the Christian faith in whatever they say

00:14:30 – 00:14:32:	that's contrary to what we say here today.

00:14:32 – 00:14:37:	There's a very limited scope of what can be said about this verse.

00:14:37 – 00:14:41:	Anyone who says anything different is going to make one or more of the errors that we're

00:14:41 – 00:14:43:	going to lay out today.

00:14:43 – 00:14:44:	There are a lot of errors that are in the wind.

00:14:44 – 00:14:50:	We're going to talk about a few of them, but principally this is another tool giving episode.

00:14:50 – 00:14:54:	We're going to give you the tools to understand, here's what this means.

00:14:54 – 00:14:59:	Anytime you hear anyone for the rest of your like bring up Galatians 3-28, your ears should

00:14:59 – 00:15:04:	perk up and you should start listening for these errors because in virtually every case,

00:15:04 – 00:15:06:	you're going to find them.

00:15:06 – 00:15:12:	You need to be aware of that because those errors are going to cause serious problems

00:15:12 – 00:15:16:	spiritually for anyone who believes what they say.

00:15:16 – 00:15:20:	The reason I'm going to have an exhaustive list of all the possible errors is that there

00:15:20 – 00:15:21:	are new ones every day.

00:15:21 – 00:15:27:	There are new insane false teachings about this that we can't possibly give you a list

00:15:27 – 00:15:28:	of.

00:15:28 – 00:15:29:	There's always going to be more.

00:15:29 – 00:15:33:	What we can do is say this is literally all that is permissible for anyone to believe

00:15:33 – 00:15:34:	about this verse.

00:15:34 – 00:15:37:	I know it's a bold claim, but we're going to make the case for that today.

00:15:37 – 00:15:39:	This is a simple verse.

00:15:39 – 00:15:42:	As we're doing this episode, we're not proof texting.

00:15:42 – 00:15:43:	We're not trying to pluck this out of context.

00:15:43 – 00:15:49:	We're going to put it in its context so that you understand clearly what is and is not

00:15:49 – 00:15:51:	being said here.

00:15:51 – 00:15:55:	From now on, for the rest of your life, whenever Galatians 3-28 comes up, whenever you hear

00:15:55 – 00:15:59:	these words on anyone's lips, you're immediately going to know, are they saying what the Bible

00:15:59 – 00:16:04:	says about this, or have they completely ignored the context, have they flipped it upside

00:16:04 – 00:16:09:	down and turned it inside out to do something wicked with it.

00:16:09 – 00:16:10:	That's why we're here.

00:16:10 – 00:16:16:	That's why Stonequire exists, because this verse, if this verse were not being maligned

00:16:16 – 00:16:19:	and inverted, this podcast wouldn't exist.

00:16:19 – 00:16:24:	We have done so many episodes where we refer to this because it is the key way in which

00:16:24 – 00:16:26:	Satan is attacking the church today.

00:16:26 – 00:16:29:	This is, again, this is an attack coming from inside the church.

00:16:29 – 00:16:34:	BLM is inverting it in their own words, but in the church, we're seeing inversions that

00:16:34 – 00:16:36:	are far more harmful.

00:16:36 – 00:16:41:	As we go through these today, we want you to be equipped to understand, just like the

00:16:41 – 00:16:47:	heresy episodes on Judaizing and Gnosticism, there's an entire set of heresies surrounding

00:16:47 – 00:16:56:	Galatians 3-28 that, incidentally, all revolve around Judaizing and Gnosticism.

00:16:56 – 00:17:01:	As promised, we will start off by reading Galatians 3, so that you have at least the

00:17:01 – 00:17:02:	entire chapter.

00:17:02 – 00:17:09:	But again, to echo woe, you should go and read the entirety of the letter to the Galatians

00:17:09 – 00:17:12:	at some point this week.

00:17:12 – 00:17:14:	And so Galatians 3.

00:17:14 – 00:17:18:	O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?

00:17:18 – 00:17:23:	It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

00:17:23 – 00:17:25:	Let me ask you only this.

00:17:25 – 00:17:29:	Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

00:17:29 – 00:17:35:	Are you so foolish, having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

00:17:35 – 00:17:40:	Did you suffer so many things in vain, if indeed it was in vain?

00:17:40 – 00:17:45:	Does he who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you do so by works of

00:17:45 – 00:17:48:	the law, or by hearing with faith?

00:17:48 – 00:17:53:	Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness.

00:17:53 – 00:17:58:	So then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham, and the scripture foreseeing

00:17:58 – 00:18:04:	that God would justify the nations by faith, preach the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying,

00:18:04 – 00:18:07:	In you shall all the nations be blessed.

00:18:07 – 00:18:14:	So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

00:18:14 – 00:18:20:	For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed be everyone,

00:18:20 – 00:18:25:	who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.

00:18:25 – 00:18:30:	Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for the righteous shall

00:18:30 – 00:18:32:	live by faith.

00:18:32 – 00:18:38:	But the law is not of faith, rather, the one who does them shall live by them.

00:18:38 – 00:18:43:	Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written,

00:18:43 – 00:18:46:	Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.

00:18:46 – 00:18:51:	So that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations, so that

00:18:51 – 00:18:55:	we might receive the promised spirit through faith.

00:18:55 – 00:19:00:	To give a human example, brothers, even with a man made covenant, no one annules it or

00:19:00 – 00:19:03:	adds to it once it has been ratified.

00:19:03 – 00:19:07:	Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring.

00:19:07 – 00:19:13:	It does not say, and to offsprings, referring to many, but referring to one, and to your

00:19:13 – 00:19:16:	offspring, who is Christ.

00:19:16 – 00:19:22:	This is what I mean, the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant

00:19:22 – 00:19:27:	previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

00:19:27 – 00:19:32:	For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise, but God gave it

00:19:32 – 00:19:34:	to Abraham by a promise.

00:19:34 – 00:19:36:	Why then the law?

00:19:36 – 00:19:40:	It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise

00:19:40 – 00:19:46:	had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

00:19:46 – 00:19:50:	Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.

00:19:50 – 00:19:54:	Is the law then contrary to the promises of God?

00:19:54 – 00:19:58:	Certainly not, for if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would

00:19:58 – 00:20:04:	indeed be by the law, but the scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise

00:20:04 – 00:20:09:	by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

00:20:09 – 00:20:14:	Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming

00:20:14 – 00:20:16:	faith would be revealed.

00:20:16 – 00:20:21:	So then the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified

00:20:21 – 00:20:22:	by faith.

00:20:22 – 00:20:27:	But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you

00:20:27 – 00:20:30:	are all sons of God through faith.

00:20:30 – 00:20:34:	For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

00:20:34 – 00:20:40:	There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female,

00:20:40 – 00:20:43:	for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

00:20:43 – 00:20:51:	And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

00:20:51 – 00:20:56:	I would just like to start off by pointing out a quick grammar point for those who may

00:20:56 – 00:21:01:	have been listening particularly closely to what was literal reading of the Greek at the

00:21:01 – 00:21:04:	beginning of this episode.

00:21:04 – 00:21:09:	Different languages handle negation in different ways.

00:21:09 – 00:21:13:	Many languages do it in a way that sounds unnatural to the English here, it's something

00:21:13 – 00:21:15:	that we don't really have.

00:21:15 – 00:21:19:	German for instance has something similar.

00:21:19 – 00:21:25:	And so for instance, if I were to say there is beer here, I'll butcher the word order

00:21:25 – 00:21:28:	in German just to make it the exact same so it's easier to understand for an English

00:21:28 – 00:21:29:	speaker.

00:21:29 – 00:21:31:	Es gibt beer here.

00:21:31 – 00:21:35:	Now the negation of that would be there is no beer here.

00:21:35 – 00:21:41:	In English we use no, so we sort of drop that article we use no as our negation.

00:21:41 – 00:21:47:	And then is es gibt kind beer here, which would be the equivalent of if we had a negative

00:21:47 – 00:21:55:	form of the article a or an, so not a Greek is closer to that latter bit.

00:21:55 – 00:22:00:	And so what you hear there in the literal reading is oak and then any that the verb

00:22:00 – 00:22:06:	for is that oak is a negative prefix.

00:22:06 – 00:22:10:	And what that does is it negates the following verb.

00:22:10 – 00:22:17:	And so in English when we translate it, that's why we have neither nor, that nor being uda.

00:22:17 – 00:22:22:	And so when you hear the literal translation of the Greek, that's why it sounds unwieldy

00:22:22 – 00:22:24:	to an English speaker.

00:22:24 – 00:22:28:	But the other thing that I wanted to pull out here and why it's important to understand

00:22:28 – 00:22:35:	or pay attention to the grammar with the particular nuance is that you see that there are three

00:22:35 – 00:22:43:	couplets, neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, not male and female.

00:22:43 – 00:22:46:	Now it is the same underlying word there for neither and not.

00:22:46 – 00:22:50:	It is translated differently within the scope of the term, so the translation is fine, but

00:22:50 – 00:22:54:	it is translated differently in order to make it sound like English.

00:22:54 – 00:22:58:	Some very literal translations don't do that and it sounds very strange to an English

00:22:58 – 00:23:00:	year.

00:23:00 – 00:23:05:	But the important part to notice there is that middle word because the middle word is

00:23:05 – 00:23:08:	in fact different, the connecting word between the terms.

00:23:08 – 00:23:15:	So it is Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, not male and female, because the Greek word there

00:23:15 – 00:23:22:	is chi, the word for and in the pairing of the two sexes.

00:23:22 – 00:23:23:	This is an important distinction.

00:23:23 – 00:23:28:	We'll get into it more later in the episode, but it's an important distinction between

00:23:28 – 00:23:33:	the first two couplets and the third.

00:23:33 – 00:23:38:	There's a difference there in what is underlying this in the nature of these things.

00:23:38 – 00:23:43:	So the first one is ontological, immutable and inherent.

00:23:43 – 00:23:45:	It is dealing with race.

00:23:45 – 00:23:52:	The second is ontological, indirectly so, whereas the first is directly so, but indirectly

00:23:52 – 00:23:57:	ontological because the nature and the status as slave or free flows from things that are

00:23:58 – 00:24:04:	in many cases, not always of course, and that's also important, but indirectly ontological

00:24:04 – 00:24:11:	mutable because this can be changed and inheritable, so not inherent, whereas we get back to the

00:24:11 – 00:24:17:	same sort of nature as the first couplet with the third because it is directly ontological.

00:24:17 – 00:24:20:	The difference between the sexes is an ontological difference.

00:24:20 – 00:24:27:	It is a difference in being, it's a difference in nature and it is indeed immutable and inherent.

00:24:27 – 00:24:31:	And yes, you could say it is heritable, but that is a different thing.

00:24:31 – 00:24:36:	You're talking about biology then, which is involved here, but it's not the entirety

00:24:36 – 00:24:39:	of what is in view.

00:24:39 – 00:24:45:	So that gives you some of the grammatical structure, some of the underlying workings of this, the

00:24:45 – 00:24:51:	underpinnings in order to build a foundation on which to place what we're going to review

00:24:51 – 00:24:56:	in this episode about the nature of this verse and why it is so important and why Satan is

00:24:56 – 00:24:58:	attacking it.

00:24:58 – 00:25:04:	There are many parallel or related verses for this I have about 14 or 15 of them at this

00:25:04 – 00:25:08:	point that I've collected for, I'll probably eventually write something longer on this

00:25:08 – 00:25:14:	particular verse, this subject, but this is the key one.

00:25:14 – 00:25:20:	And one of the ways you can tell this is the key verse is this is the one that's attacked.

00:25:20 – 00:25:22:	Satan is going to attack the thing he wants to destroy.

00:25:22 – 00:25:26:	Now he may get to it in a roundabout fashion at times and he's done that in this case.

00:25:26 – 00:25:32:	He's attacked each and every one of these couplets separately, building up to a direct

00:25:32 – 00:25:37:	attack on this verse because it undermines Christendom, it undermines creation, it undermines

00:25:37 – 00:25:39:	everything.

00:25:39 – 00:25:45:	But this is the important verse because this is the one that's being attacked.

00:25:45 – 00:25:46:	And so this is the one that we need to defend.

00:25:46 – 00:25:51:	We may touch on some of the other verses as well because they do add some nuance.

00:25:51 – 00:25:53:	They're interesting, at the very least.

00:25:53 – 00:25:58:	But by and large, we are going to focus on that's why it's the title of this episode

00:25:58 – 00:26:04:	and why it is the focus of this episode, Galatians 3 28, because it is the core of this entire

00:26:04 – 00:26:06:	matter.

00:26:06 – 00:26:11:	Within these three couplets lies what you need not only to defend the church and God's

00:26:11 – 00:26:17:	creation, but what Satan, if he can subvert them, needs in order to destroy both of those

00:26:17 – 00:26:18:	things.

00:26:18 – 00:26:24:	And that is why you see it so frequently in the mouth of false teachers and false pastors

00:26:24 – 00:26:31:	because they are serving their master by teaching falsely, by ice-egeting as opposed to exegeting.

00:26:31 – 00:26:37:	Ice-egeting is to falsely interpret by ice-egeting this particular passage.

00:26:37 – 00:26:41:	So as I mentioned at the outset, Paul is writing to Galatia.

00:26:41 – 00:26:47:	He's writing to Celts who live in a different cultural context.

00:26:47 – 00:26:48:	But they're Christians now.

00:26:48 – 00:26:50:	They've been given the gospel.

00:26:50 – 00:26:55:	The Judaizing heresy has emerged among them, and they're being told that they need to

00:26:55 – 00:26:56:	begin circumcising.

00:26:56 – 00:27:00:	That's the full context of all six chapters of Galatians.

00:27:00 – 00:27:06:	I want to read again the 29th verse, the last verse in the third chapter.

00:27:06 – 00:27:13:	And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

00:27:14 – 00:27:18:	Now this helps to explain everything that's going on here.

00:27:18 – 00:27:27:	The concept of Abraham's offspring being the key to salvation was the fundamental belief

00:27:27 – 00:27:28:	of the Pharisees.

00:27:28 – 00:27:31:	It was not the faith imparted to them by God.

00:27:31 – 00:27:36:	It was the pharisaical heresy where they believed that salvation was racial.

00:27:36 – 00:27:37:	That was their belief.

00:27:37 – 00:27:41:	The belief of the Pharisees, of most of the Jews.

00:27:41 – 00:27:44:	In that day, the salvation was racial.

00:27:44 – 00:27:48:	That belief in all that stuff was incidental.

00:27:48 – 00:27:54:	But as long as they had Abraham as their father, and then they held to the mosaic code, they

00:27:54 – 00:27:56:	would be saved.

00:27:56 – 00:28:01:	And so much of the Inc's build in the New Testament is throwing them all under the bus,

00:28:01 – 00:28:05:	saying you lying, brutal vipers, everything you're doing here is false.

00:28:05 – 00:28:10:	And so the first couplet, there is neither Jew nor Greek.

00:28:10 – 00:28:17:	It is about races, but it's specifically in the context of the Abrahamic covenant.

00:28:17 – 00:28:21:	Because again, they believed that because they could call themselves sons of Abraham,

00:28:21 – 00:28:24:	they could say they had a claim on salvation.

00:28:24 – 00:28:26:	And so that was what the Judaizers are doing.

00:28:26 – 00:28:30:	It's what the circumcision party was doing, saying, okay, that's great, you're Christians

00:28:30 – 00:28:35:	now, you got to circumcise yourselves, you have to follow the mosaic covenant.

00:28:35 – 00:28:40:	Which was the opposite of what Paul had just taught them as Christians.

00:28:40 – 00:28:43:	We see this also in Matthew 3.

00:28:43 – 00:28:47:	This is right as Jesus is being baptized.

00:28:47 – 00:28:52:	Listen to what John the Baptist says, but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees

00:28:52 – 00:28:56:	coming to his baptism, he said to them, you brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from

00:28:56 – 00:29:02:	the wrath to come, bear fruit in keeping with repentance, and do not presume to say to yourselves,

00:29:02 – 00:29:07:	we have Abraham as our father, for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise

00:29:07 – 00:29:09:	up children for Abraham.

00:29:09 – 00:29:12:	Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees.

00:29:12 – 00:29:17:	Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

00:29:17 – 00:29:22:	This is entirely keeping with the overall theme of Galatians.

00:29:22 – 00:29:25:	Who is a son of Abraham?

00:29:25 – 00:29:30:	Well, again, it was verse 29 say, if you're a Christ, then your Abraham's offspring

00:29:30 – 00:29:32:	heirs according to the promise.

00:29:32 – 00:29:36:	And the airship is something we're going to get to in the third couplet because why is

00:29:36 – 00:29:38:	he talking about sex?

00:29:38 – 00:29:41:	Why did Paul bring up sex in this context?

00:29:41 – 00:29:47:	When you read Galatians, it's one of the most exhaustive treatments of this subject, but

00:29:47 – 00:29:49:	we also find it in Romans 8.

00:29:49 – 00:29:56:	What scripture makes very clear is that every Christian is a son of God.

00:29:56 – 00:29:58:	That is the term that God uses.

00:29:58 – 00:30:03:	Every woman who's listening, every girl who's listening, you are sons of God according to

00:30:03 – 00:30:05:	the promise.

00:30:05 – 00:30:10:	When Paul says, when God says there is no male and female, that's what he's talking

00:30:10 – 00:30:11:	about.

00:30:11 – 00:30:15:	He's saying that salvation is available to all human beings.

00:30:15 – 00:30:18:	Sex has nothing to do with your salvation.

00:30:18 – 00:30:21:	And by what means does salvation come?

00:30:21 – 00:30:24:	It comes as heirs of God.

00:30:25 – 00:30:33:	For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God, for you did not receive the

00:30:33 – 00:30:38:	Spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you've received the Spirit of adoption

00:30:38 – 00:30:41:	as sons by whom we cry, Abba, Father.

00:30:41 – 00:30:46:	The Spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God, and if

00:30:46 – 00:30:51:	children then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with

00:30:51 – 00:30:55:	him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

00:30:55 – 00:31:01:	So repeatedly uses gendered language, and it's not that it's excluding women.

00:31:01 – 00:31:04:	It's not that it's saying, oh, only men are saved.

00:31:04 – 00:31:10:	It's saying that in Christ, when you're saved, you become a son of God so that you may inherit

00:31:10 – 00:31:11:	eternal life.

00:31:11 – 00:31:18:	We are all sons of God and effectively brothers of Christ for the purpose of salvation.

00:31:18 – 00:31:23:	And that's the crux of the entire battle around misapplying Galatians, particularly

00:31:23 – 00:31:31:	verse 328, because every argument that says, well, this is a proof text against race.

00:31:31 – 00:31:34:	This is a proof text against slavery or classes.

00:31:34 – 00:31:40:	This is a proof text against any distinctions among or between the two sexes.

00:31:40 – 00:31:46:	The only way to reach that conclusion is to rob this passage of its sotereological import.

00:31:46 – 00:31:49:	To say this passage isn't about salvation.

00:31:49 – 00:31:56:	When the very passage itself says, for you are all one in Christ Jesus, there's something

00:31:56 – 00:31:58:	we focused on in the past.

00:31:58 – 00:31:59:	We're going to repeat here.

00:31:59 – 00:32:03:	The in Christ Jesus part is what the whole thing hinges upon.

00:32:03 – 00:32:07:	And four is synonymous with because.

00:32:07 – 00:32:08:	Four and because are the same.

00:32:08 – 00:32:14:	They could just as easily say, because you are all one in Christ Jesus.

00:32:14 – 00:32:20:	So in Christ Jesus matters because who's in Christ Jesus is everyone on the planet

00:32:20 – 00:32:21:	in Christ Jesus?

00:32:21 – 00:32:25:	No, almost everyone is outside of Christ Jesus.

00:32:25 – 00:32:29:	Only those who have faith are inside Christ Jesus.

00:32:29 – 00:32:31:	This is talking about saving faith.

00:32:31 – 00:32:36:	Only those who have faith does Galatians 328 apply at all.

00:32:36 – 00:32:42:	So as we said in the racism episode, the notion that somehow the phrase, there is neither

00:32:42 – 00:32:48:	Jew nor Greek, somehow means that races are not real.

00:32:48 – 00:32:53:	Even if that were true, when taken in the context of its sotereological import, it would only

00:32:53 – 00:32:54:	apply to Christians.

00:32:54 – 00:32:58:	It would mean that there are races until you become Christian.

00:32:58 – 00:33:02:	And then once you become Christian, the race dissolves and you cease to be Christian, you're

00:33:02 – 00:33:03:	just a spirit body.

00:33:03 – 00:33:06:	Well, that's Gnosticism.

00:33:06 – 00:33:08:	That is full-born Gnosticism.

00:33:08 – 00:33:13:	We do not change who we are or how God created us.

00:33:13 – 00:33:20:	Because the only way to read Galatians 328 in opposition to races existing is simultaneously

00:33:20 – 00:33:22:	to say that sexes don't exist.

00:33:22 – 00:33:26:	That's the other prong of this battle that we see everywhere today.

00:33:26 – 00:33:31:	It's very common for radical feminists, for some of the most evil people who pretend to

00:33:31 – 00:33:34:	be in the church, but they're wolves.

00:33:34 – 00:33:39:	They will use this as a feminist rallying cry, saying, we're all priests of God.

00:33:39 – 00:33:43:	There's no more distinction of male and female, therefore, there's no such thing as an office

00:33:43 – 00:33:49:	that's specific to a man, because there's no male and female in Christ.

00:33:49 – 00:33:54:	There are really two camps who abuse this passage, those who ignore the in Christ and

00:33:54 – 00:33:56:	those who embrace it.

00:33:56 – 00:34:02:	And so those who ignore it will just focus on there's no races, there are no classes,

00:34:02 – 00:34:05:	there's no sex.

00:34:05 – 00:34:12:	Those who acknowledge that in Christ is present will not do it properly.

00:34:12 – 00:34:16:	They won't do it to glorify God and say, this is about the gospel.

00:34:16 – 00:34:20:	Instead they'll do it to dissolve the church from within, say, okay, well inside the church

00:34:20 – 00:34:23:	there's no male and female, therefore, anyone can be a pastor, anyone can do this, that

00:34:23 – 00:34:28:	or the other thing, because there's no difference whatsoever.

00:34:28 – 00:34:32:	All the other parts in scripture that make clear that that's not true are deliberately

00:34:32 – 00:34:36:	ignored and this is used as a solvent to try to wipe them off the board.

00:34:36 – 00:34:39:	But that's not how God works.

00:34:39 – 00:34:42:	God's word is never set against itself.

00:34:42 – 00:34:46:	A house divided against itself will fall because it's evil.

00:34:46 – 00:34:47:	That's describing hell.

00:34:47 – 00:34:49:	It's describing the devil.

00:34:49 – 00:34:51:	It cannot describe God's things.

00:34:51 – 00:34:54:	All of God's things are a coherent whole.

00:34:54 – 00:34:58:	When we see passages that say things like there is no male and female and then we see

00:34:58 – 00:35:03:	literally everything else in scripture saying the opposite, it's not a conundrum if you

00:35:03 – 00:35:09:	understand the context, which is why as we're beginning, the context of all of Galatians

00:35:09 – 00:35:10:	is salvific.

00:35:10 – 00:35:16:	Again, Paul is addressing the Galatians long way from Judea, a long way from Jerusalem,

00:35:16 – 00:35:18:	long way from most of the Jews.

00:35:18 – 00:35:22:	I don't know how many Jews were there, not many, but there were certainly enough to ban

00:35:22 – 00:35:24:	them to destroy their faith.

00:35:24 – 00:35:28:	We have to tell them, why are you talking about circumcision?

00:35:28 – 00:35:32:	Why do you think that circumcising yourself and living under the law is going to make

00:35:32 – 00:35:34:	you a son of Abraham?

00:35:34 – 00:35:37:	How are you sons of Abraham?

00:35:37 – 00:35:43:	The racial component was a complete denial of the gospel, which is what all of this revolves

00:35:43 – 00:35:44:	around.

00:35:44 – 00:35:49:	See, when men like Cory and myself are called racist and evil and all these things, we're

00:35:49 – 00:35:54:	told that we hate the gospel and we hate other people.

00:35:54 – 00:36:00:	What's actually happening is that the destruction of these passages in service of anti-racism

00:36:00 – 00:36:08:	and anti-feminism and anti-misogyny and anti-slavery, all of those things, when those are drawn

00:36:08 – 00:36:13:	and pointed at the church, the function that they have is to destroy the gospel because

00:36:13 – 00:36:17:	this is a gospel passage, this is a gospel context.

00:36:17 – 00:36:19:	All Galatians is about salvation.

00:36:19 – 00:36:23:	Now it's a rebuke and again, that's crucial.

00:36:23 – 00:36:27:	A church that Paul planted four or five years later, they've gone off the rails.

00:36:27 – 00:36:30:	Oh, foolish Galatians, who bewitched you?

00:36:30 – 00:36:34:	He's looking at them in just disbelief and anger and he actually says, I wish that I

00:36:34 – 00:36:39:	were their face to face so I could use a different tone, but he had to make sure that they understood

00:36:39 – 00:36:44:	how important it was that the Judaizing heresies that they were embracing were endangering

00:36:44 – 00:36:45:	their salvation.

00:36:45 – 00:36:51:	Not a small matter, not a minor detail, not flipping a nor to an end.

00:36:51 – 00:36:55:	They were actually denying the faith by saying that they had to live as Jews because somebody

00:36:55 – 00:36:58:	came along and told them that.

00:36:58 – 00:37:02:	They're always going to be false teachers in the church, always.

00:37:02 – 00:37:06:	Every single one of our churches has false teachers inside it and has a line of them

00:37:06 – 00:37:08:	trying to get in.

00:37:08 – 00:37:09:	Why?

00:37:09 – 00:37:12:	Because that's where the Christians are, it's where the sheep are.

00:37:12 – 00:37:15:	Satan doesn't need to worry about the animals that are outside the sheepfold.

00:37:15 – 00:37:16:	He's already got them.

00:37:16 – 00:37:18:	He's devoured them.

00:37:18 – 00:37:21:	It's inside the sheepfold that the sheep exist.

00:37:21 – 00:37:27:	So when these attacks come and they're done in the name of all the good modern religion

00:37:27 – 00:37:33:	things, just keep in mind what they're fundamentally doing when they attack this passage by inverting

00:37:33 – 00:37:36:	it, is they're denying how we're saved.

00:37:36 – 00:37:41:	They're denying how we are saved and part of that is denying how we are created.

00:37:41 – 00:37:43:	Again, this is all Gnostic.

00:37:43 – 00:37:49:	The only way to deny there is Jew or Greek in reality is to become Gnostic to say the

00:37:49 – 00:37:50:	flesh is nothing.

00:37:50 – 00:37:51:	This is evil.

00:37:51 – 00:37:52:	This will all fall away.

00:37:52 – 00:37:58:	In the racist mepsode we treated the fact that when you look at passages like Acts 17-26

00:37:58 – 00:38:03:	and Revelation 7-9 where it talks about the different nations with their boundaries and

00:38:03 – 00:38:08:	it shows the distinct races in heaven before the throne of God, these are natural.

00:38:08 – 00:38:09:	These are created.

00:38:09 – 00:38:10:	They're things that God made.

00:38:10 – 00:38:12:	They're how God made us.

00:38:12 – 00:38:14:	God made me English and German.

00:38:14 – 00:38:18:	I am broadly Northwestern European and nothing else.

00:38:18 – 00:38:19:	Do I like that?

00:38:19 – 00:38:20:	Sure.

00:38:20 – 00:38:21:	Cool.

00:38:21 – 00:38:22:	I'm good at it.

00:38:22 – 00:38:25:	Do I think that if someone is Japanese or Ugandan or whatever that they're worse than

00:38:25 – 00:38:26:	me or less than me?

00:38:26 – 00:38:27:	No.

00:38:27 – 00:38:28:	God died for them.

00:38:28 – 00:38:30:	Do He's given them gifts that I may lack?

00:38:30 – 00:38:34:	But I am proud of what I am and I'm happy with what I am because it's God's gift to

00:38:34 – 00:38:35:	me.

00:38:35 – 00:38:39:	Talking in the past about the fact that I'm average in height, do I like to be taller?

00:38:39 – 00:38:40:	Sure.

00:38:40 – 00:38:42:	Am I going to complain about it because they're upsides?

00:38:42 – 00:38:43:	I like being me.

00:38:43 – 00:38:44:	I know how to be me.

00:38:44 – 00:38:47:	I wouldn't know how to be anyone else and I don't have to worry about because I have

00:38:47 – 00:38:51:	been given one life by God and it's a particular life.

00:38:51 – 00:38:55:	I have a genealogy that goes back to Noah and back to Adam.

00:38:55 – 00:38:59:	I can go more than some people but I don't know all the details and I don't care.

00:38:59 – 00:39:04:	How God made me is the same way that He made each of you.

00:39:04 – 00:39:10:	We all have a uniqueness in how we have been winnowed down through time into the particular

00:39:10 – 00:39:12:	humans that we are.

00:39:12 – 00:39:15:	That is to God's glory that there's so much diversity and variety.

00:39:15 – 00:39:16:	It's amazing.

00:39:16 – 00:39:17:	It's incredible.

00:39:17 – 00:39:20:	Different people have different gifts.

00:39:20 – 00:39:26:	The attack on anti-racism, the attack on the existence of race is a denial of the creator

00:39:26 – 00:39:28:	to say, that's garbage.

00:39:28 – 00:39:30:	There's neither Jew nor Greek.

00:39:30 – 00:39:35:	If you understand what Paul was talking about and to whom he was speaking, the reason he

00:39:35 – 00:39:40:	said Jew was that he was dealing with a Judaizing heresy among people who weren't Jews.

00:39:40 – 00:39:42:	He's like, what does it matter?

00:39:42 – 00:39:44:	You're Celts.

00:39:44 – 00:39:49:	This verse could just as easily say, there is neither Jew nor Irish.

00:39:49 – 00:39:52:	It would make just as much sense, it would be just as true.

00:39:52 – 00:39:55:	More directly applicable to those people in that day.

00:39:55 – 00:39:58:	The Irish by that name didn't exist, they were Celts.

00:39:58 – 00:40:00:	There's neither Jew nor Celts.

00:40:00 – 00:40:02:	That is exactly what it is saying here.

00:40:02 – 00:40:04:	It was particular to that place.

00:40:04 – 00:40:09:	In the Jew part, it was only highlighting the Abrahamic promise and covenant because

00:40:09 – 00:40:11:	they were denying it.

00:40:11 – 00:40:16:	They were denying the true nature of what it means to be a child of Abraham.

00:40:16 – 00:40:21:	John the Baptist explained it, do not presume to say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our

00:40:21 – 00:40:25:	Father for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

00:40:25 – 00:40:27:	This passage says the same thing.

00:40:27 – 00:40:31:	We are made children of Abraham because we have the faith of Abraham.

00:40:31 – 00:40:34:	That is our gift from God.

00:40:34 – 00:40:37:	We become sons of Abraham by becoming sons of God.

00:40:37 – 00:40:41:	It's synonymous and therefore it's not racial.

00:40:41 – 00:40:46:	The first couplet dealing with race is specifically denying that race saves.

00:40:46 – 00:40:47:	We don't think that.

00:40:47 – 00:40:48:	We think the opposite.

00:40:48 – 00:40:51:	There are heresies like Christian identity that believe that.

00:40:51 – 00:40:55:	They think that non-whites, non-Europeans are not human and cannot be saved.

00:40:55 – 00:40:57:	That is blasphemous.

00:40:57 – 00:40:59:	Those people are all going to hell.

00:40:59 – 00:41:03:	That is a wicked and perverted attack on the Christian faith.

00:41:03 – 00:41:08:	We think nothing of the sort because scripture says nothing of the sort.

00:41:08 – 00:41:10:	But it doesn't mean that race doesn't exist.

00:41:10 – 00:41:15:	It boggles my mind that people can't hold two separate simple things in their head.

00:41:15 – 00:41:20:	It can simultaneously be true that your race doesn't save you and that your race still

00:41:20 – 00:41:22:	exists.

00:41:22 – 00:41:23:	How is this hard?

00:41:23 – 00:41:24:	It shouldn't be hard.

00:41:24 – 00:41:25:	It's not.

00:41:25 – 00:41:26:	It's not.

00:41:26 – 00:41:27:	It's a simple thing.

00:41:27 – 00:41:29:	A five-year-old can understand it.

00:41:29 – 00:41:33:	It's only when people get older and their heads are full of lies that suddenly these things

00:41:33 – 00:41:35:	get complicated.

00:41:35 – 00:41:40:	Much of this battle is about explaining simple things simply so that people can get back

00:41:40 – 00:41:42:	to having a simple faith in God.

00:41:42 – 00:41:45:	It's not complicated.

00:41:45 – 00:41:48:	It's the lies that make these things confusing.

00:41:48 – 00:41:54:	So please, as you go through your days, just keep in mind, anyone who's talking about

00:41:54 – 00:42:00:	Galatians 3.28, if they ever talk about it in a way that isn't connected to salvation,

00:42:00 – 00:42:03:	they're a demon, full stop.

00:42:03 – 00:42:08:	They are speaking the teachings of demons because this is a verse about how we are saved.

00:42:08 – 00:42:15:	It's a verse about our sonship with God, how we become heirs of salvation.

00:42:15 – 00:42:18:	That's salvation talk exclusively.

00:42:18 – 00:42:21:	And then once we're saved, we're still a man or a woman.

00:42:21 – 00:42:23:	If you're a woman, you should be happy to be a woman.

00:42:23 – 00:42:24:	I'm happy to be a man.

00:42:24 – 00:42:25:	I know how to do it.

00:42:25 – 00:42:29:	I could never possibly be a woman because God didn't equip me for that.

00:42:29 – 00:42:33:	And the fact that someone can have some delusion in their head to think that, oh, I'm actually

00:42:33 – 00:42:36:	the other thing, that's a Gnostic heresy.

00:42:36 – 00:42:38:	They're departing from the faith that they ever had it.

00:42:38 – 00:42:41:	They can't have it anymore at that point.

00:42:41 – 00:42:46:	But they're denying their Creator actively by saying, I'm not what you made me.

00:42:46 – 00:42:47:	I'm this other thing.

00:42:47 – 00:42:50:	No, you're one particular thing.

00:42:50 – 00:42:52:	And thank God for it.

00:42:52 – 00:42:56:	When someone comes along and says, no, none of those things exist, just know that not

00:42:56 – 00:43:01:	only are they attacking creation, but they're attacking your salvation.

00:43:01 – 00:43:06:	Because the point of attacking this passage is to destroy the gospel.

00:43:06 – 00:43:10:	Galatians is about the gospel, and it's about the Judaizing Gnostic heretics who are attacking

00:43:10 – 00:43:13:	it then, and who are attacking it today.

00:43:13 – 00:43:18:	And when they succeed, as they were succeeding in Galatia, faith is destroyed, and souls

00:43:18 – 00:43:22:	are condemned to hell for eternity.

00:43:22 – 00:43:28:	On the note of this verse being simple, and really the entire book of Galatians is simple,

00:43:28 – 00:43:34:	I would like to divide this in two through an interpretive lens, as it were.

00:43:34 – 00:43:41:	On the one hand, the immediate verse, Galatians 3.28, is very simple.

00:43:41 – 00:43:46:	On the other hand, like much of Scripture, it is also inexhaustible.

00:43:46 – 00:43:53:	God managed to pack a lot of information into not very many words.

00:43:53 – 00:43:59:	Woe mentioned that the word for there in English can also mean because.

00:43:59 – 00:44:04:	I want to emphasize that by pointing out that the conjunction there in the Greek gar

00:44:04 – 00:44:08:	is explicitly causal.

00:44:08 – 00:44:12:	The reason that the beginning, the first part, the first half as it were, not in terms of

00:44:12 – 00:44:17:	size, but in terms of meaning or weight, as it were, is the division between the two halves

00:44:17 – 00:44:19:	of this verse.

00:44:19 – 00:44:25:	The first half must be understood in light of the second.

00:44:25 – 00:44:33:	These things are so because, or you could say, if, and only if, you are in Christ Jesus.

00:44:33 – 00:44:36:	Because it says that you are all one in Christ Jesus.

00:44:36 – 00:44:38:	That is the requirement here.

00:44:38 – 00:44:42:	And so this most certainly does not apply in any way, shape, or form to those who are

00:44:42 – 00:44:46:	outside the church, those who are not in Christ.

00:44:46 – 00:44:52:	However, it is vitally important to understand, and quite frankly it's insane that people

00:44:52 – 00:44:54:	manage to miss this.

00:44:54 – 00:45:02:	Many do it maliciously to subvert things, but some in an innocent fashion miss this fact.

00:45:02 – 00:45:08:	If the three groups, the three couplets, are not real, if they are not actual things, if

00:45:08 – 00:45:14:	they do not have an existence in reality, then the verse is incoherent.

00:45:14 – 00:45:16:	It has no meaning.

00:45:16 – 00:45:17:	It has no import.

00:45:17 – 00:45:22:	It would be utterly pointless for it to be in Scripture, and God does not include things

00:45:22 – 00:45:25:	in Scripture that are pointless.

00:45:25 – 00:45:29:	The reason that it is important, the reason that it matters, the reason that it means

00:45:29 – 00:45:35:	something to say that we are all one in Christ, despite these things, is because these things

00:45:35 – 00:45:37:	are real.

00:45:37 – 00:45:41:	There is a real division between the Jew and the Greek.

00:45:41 – 00:45:45:	There are differences between and among the races of man.

00:45:45 – 00:45:51:	That couplet, that distinction has to be real for it to matter that we are one in Christ,

00:45:51 – 00:45:56:	that we are all one in terms of how we are saved if indeed we are.

00:45:56 – 00:46:03:	And as Woe pointed out, in this context, which in this case I mean the broad context, which

00:46:03 – 00:46:10:	would be the Greek world, the Roman world, and the Jewish world, in that world inheritance

00:46:10 – 00:46:12:	passes to the son.

00:46:12 – 00:46:14:	This is the case in most ancient civilizations.

00:46:14 – 00:46:18:	It's the case in most civilizations until fairly recently.

00:46:18 – 00:46:19:	Women did not inherit.

00:46:19 – 00:46:20:	Daughters did not inherit.

00:46:20 – 00:46:24:	The reason the daughters did not inherit is because a daughter became part of the family

00:46:24 – 00:46:25:	into which she married.

00:46:25 – 00:46:32:	She ceased to be part, legally speaking, of her original family, of her birth family.

00:46:32 – 00:46:36:	And so she didn't inherit from the father because the inheritance went to the sons who

00:46:36 – 00:46:39:	remained part of the family, period.

00:46:39 – 00:46:43:	They carried on the family name, they carried the family forward.

00:46:43 – 00:46:46:	She became part of another family.

00:46:46 – 00:46:53:	And so the word there that we see in verse 29, the word for heirs, Greek, unlike most

00:46:53 – 00:46:59:	cases in English, distinguishes between the masculine form of a noun and the feminine

00:46:59 – 00:47:04:	form and not just in terms of grammatical gender, in this case, in terms of masculine

00:47:04 – 00:47:10:	referring to men who are that noun versus women who are that noun.

00:47:10 – 00:47:14:	It's masculine in the Greek.

00:47:14 – 00:47:19:	I want to be careful here not to imply that you need to know Greek in order to understand

00:47:19 – 00:47:21:	Scripture.

00:47:21 – 00:47:22:	That's not the case.

00:47:22 – 00:47:24:	Anyone who tells you that is lying to you.

00:47:24 – 00:47:26:	Is the Greek language important?

00:47:26 – 00:47:29:	Yes, it is the language that God used to give us Scripture.

00:47:29 – 00:47:32:	And by that I mean both the Old and the New Testament.

00:47:32 – 00:47:37:	And so Greek is important, but you do not need to know Greek in order to read Scripture

00:47:37 – 00:47:38:	and understand it.

00:47:38 – 00:47:44:	There are some things that are accessible only in the Greek like this.

00:47:44 – 00:47:49:	You don't see that that word is masculine if you're looking at only the English.

00:47:49 – 00:47:53:	Now from the balance of Scripture, you would still understand that even if you had only

00:47:53 – 00:47:58:	the English because it says we are sons of God, we become heirs in Christ.

00:47:58 – 00:48:03:	It speaks of that in terms that are understandable simply in English without access to the underlying

00:48:03 – 00:48:04:	Greek.

00:48:04 – 00:48:11:	And, of course, as Woe has pointed out many times previously, there are many software

00:48:11 – 00:48:15:	programs out there including free websites where you can see this information and have

00:48:15 – 00:48:19:	ready access to it even without being able to read Greek.

00:48:19 – 00:48:23:	Because you can probably still read, for instance, if I just hover over heirs, I have

00:48:23 – 00:48:24:	it up in Logos.

00:48:24 – 00:48:26:	If I hover over heirs, it tells me that it is a noun.

00:48:26 – 00:48:27:	It is nominative.

00:48:27 – 00:48:28:	It is plural.

00:48:28 – 00:48:29:	It is masculine.

00:48:29 – 00:48:30:	There.

00:48:30 – 00:48:33:	We can all understand those terms in English.

00:48:33 – 00:48:36:	So I do not want you to think that you need to have Greek.

00:48:36 – 00:48:37:	The Greek is useful.

00:48:37 – 00:48:40:	It is not absolutely necessary to understand Scripture.

00:48:40 – 00:48:48:	But in this case, like I said, useful because I can pull out that heirs is explicitly masculine

00:48:48 – 00:48:51:	in the underlying Greek.

00:48:51 – 00:48:54:	Because we are heirs in Christ.

00:48:54 – 00:48:55:	We inherit.

00:48:55 – 00:48:56:	That is why it says son.

00:48:56 – 00:49:00:	It does not say it because only men can inherit.

00:49:00 – 00:49:04:	It is saying it because in that context only men inherited.

00:49:04 – 00:49:08:	And so in order to inherit, you had to be a son.

00:49:08 – 00:49:14:	And so even those who are female, women are also sons according to the promise.

00:49:14 – 00:49:18:	Because they inherit along with men.

00:49:18 – 00:49:20:	That is why you have the masculine there.

00:49:20 – 00:49:25:	And also one of the reasons we have not male and female.

00:49:25 – 00:49:30:	That distinction with regard to salvation is largely irrelevant.

00:49:30 – 00:49:35:	We've gone over previously some of the ways in which it is relevant tangentially speaking.

00:49:35 – 00:49:38:	And so, for instance, the issue of headship becomes relevant.

00:49:38 – 00:49:44:	Because certainly if you are a woman married to a man who is faithless, you are much less

00:49:44 – 00:49:48:	likely to remain faithful than if you were married to a man who is faithful.

00:49:48 – 00:49:49:	And so headship matters.

00:49:49 – 00:49:52:	Of course, that does flow in the opposite direction as well.

00:49:52 – 00:49:59:	Because wives are also supposed to help their husbands stay in the faith.

00:49:59 – 00:50:07:	But I want to pull out that earlier distinction with regard to the second couplet that I mentioned.

00:50:07 – 00:50:15:	The second couplet is mutable, which distinguishes it from the first and the third.

00:50:15 – 00:50:21:	And the reason that is relevant is partly because of historical context.

00:50:21 – 00:50:26:	And partly because it gives a greater scope to the totality of this verse.

00:50:26 – 00:50:33:	Because if all three categories were immutable, if they were all purely and directly ontological,

00:50:33 – 00:50:40:	then all would be saying is that an ontological, immutable category does not affect your salvation

00:50:40 – 00:50:43:	in a causal way at least.

00:50:43 – 00:50:50:	But because this one is mutable, the scope of the verse is that none of these things.

00:50:50 – 00:50:54:	And you could put in any number of different things in these various parts.

00:50:54 – 00:50:59:	As Woe said, you could swap out Jew and Greek for Jew and Roman, or you could swap it out

00:50:59 – 00:51:05:	for Greek and Scandinavian if you were so inclined, because it's saying that race does

00:51:05 – 00:51:07:	not save you.

00:51:07 – 00:51:11:	In this context, it's saying Jew because the Judaizers were the issue.

00:51:11 – 00:51:15:	But today we have those who will try to say, as Woe mentioned, that your race is what saves

00:51:15 – 00:51:16:	you.

00:51:16 – 00:51:18:	And so you can add any two races there.

00:51:18 – 00:51:19:	Feel free.

00:51:19 – 00:51:22:	It retains the meaning of the verse.

00:51:22 – 00:51:24:	You're slave nor free.

00:51:24 – 00:51:29:	You could swap in working class and upper class.

00:51:29 – 00:51:35:	Because this one is a condemnation of those who would say that is your social standing

00:51:35 – 00:51:37:	or your success in life.

00:51:37 – 00:51:43:	And so there goes the prosperity gospel, among other things.

00:51:43 – 00:51:47:	Those who would say all of these other things that are ultimately irrelevant are what actually

00:51:47 – 00:51:48:	save you.

00:51:48 – 00:51:49:	They're necessary for salvation.

00:51:49 – 00:51:51:	They contribute to your salvation.

00:51:51 – 00:51:58:	A lot of them harken back to and are basically in their essence works righteousness.

00:51:58 – 00:52:00:	This condemns all of that.

00:52:00 – 00:52:05:	And in the ancient context, part of why that is relevant, perhaps more so for the Romans

00:52:05 – 00:52:07:	than for the Greeks.

00:52:07 – 00:52:15:	But many of the ancient cultures viewed success in this life as an indication of favor from

00:52:15 – 00:52:16:	the gods.

00:52:16 – 00:52:19:	And the Jews did this as well.

00:52:19 – 00:52:25:	That is why at certain points in the New Testament, Christ rebukes the disciples when they advance

00:52:25 – 00:52:31:	this idea that, well, this person must be successful because he's a good person or this

00:52:31 – 00:52:38:	person must have been cursed because his parents were bad persons, anything like that.

00:52:38 – 00:52:44:	The Roman case would largely be because some of the public religious rights that were conducted

00:52:44 – 00:52:48:	in Rome were expensive if you wanted to participate.

00:52:48 – 00:52:53:	And so if you were wealthy, you could participate in the religious rights.

00:52:53 – 00:52:55:	And therefore, you were more favored by the gods.

00:52:55 – 00:52:58:	It was a very transactional religion.

00:52:58 – 00:53:03:	You had some of this in the Greek case, but it would partly depend on which gods you were

00:53:03 – 00:53:06:	worshiping in which region.

00:53:06 – 00:53:09:	But this is a condemnation of all of that.

00:53:09 – 00:53:16:	You are not saved by your works just because you have wealth does not mean that you're

00:53:16 – 00:53:17:	saved.

00:53:17 – 00:53:24:	Now, wealth is a gift from God and you are to use it in an appropriate fashion.

00:53:24 – 00:53:29:	He gave you the wealth in order to use it to further good in the world and no, not in

00:53:29 – 00:53:34:	the New World Order sort of sense, but by helping your neighbor and by helping your church,

00:53:34 – 00:53:40:	helping fellow Christians, all of those things, you are given your skills or your abilities

00:53:40 – 00:53:46:	or your assets in order to further things that are important to the church.

00:53:46 – 00:53:51:	They're important to a Christian life that benefit your Christian neighbors.

00:53:51 – 00:53:55:	And so this is a condemnation of those who would say that, no, my wealth means that

00:53:55 – 00:53:57:	God loves me and I'm saved.

00:53:57 – 00:53:58:	That's not what it means.

00:53:58 – 00:54:02:	We know what God says in the pages of Scripture about wealth and how it can be a hindrance

00:54:02 – 00:54:05:	to entering the kingdom of God.

00:54:05 – 00:54:10:	And then when it comes to the third couplet, that condemnation of those who would draw

00:54:10 – 00:54:16:	a distinction between man and woman with regard to salvation, that is a condemnation of a

00:54:16 – 00:54:19:	number of things.

00:54:19 – 00:54:25:	One is that there were some cults in the ancient world that basically said women cannot be

00:54:25 – 00:54:26:	saved.

00:54:26 – 00:54:31:	Women, some of them went so far as say women do not have souls, but there were also including

00:54:31 – 00:54:37:	in the Greek world some who said that women in the next life would become men.

00:54:37 – 00:54:43:	And so it's a condemnation of all of those denials of the good created nature of sex,

00:54:43 – 00:54:49:	that being part of God's creation that is preserved in paradise.

00:54:49 – 00:54:52:	If you are male in this life, you are male eternity.

00:54:52 – 00:54:56:	If you are female in this life, you are female in eternity.

00:54:56 – 00:54:58:	God made you the way you are.

00:54:58 – 00:55:02:	He wants you to be the sex that you are, and you will be that forever, because that is

00:55:02 – 00:55:04:	how he made you.

00:55:04 – 00:55:11:	And the good things that God creates are not destroyed.

00:55:11 – 00:55:16:	So this is an affirmation of the goodness of God's creation, of his created order,

00:55:16 – 00:55:21:	and a condemnation of those who would say that, no, you actually have to be male in

00:55:21 – 00:55:24:	order to be saved, or you have to be male in order to have a soul, or any of the various

00:55:24 – 00:55:26:	things like that.

00:55:26 – 00:55:32:	But again, as I started out saying, it is necessarily the case that all three of these

00:55:32 – 00:55:38:	are real in order for the verse to have any actual meaning.

00:55:38 – 00:55:42:	Because if you say that these are not real, then what does it mean for them to not matter

00:55:42 – 00:55:44:	if you're one in Christ?

00:55:44 – 00:55:50:	What does it mean for something that isn't real, not to matter to salvation?

00:55:50 – 00:55:52:	That's a meaningless statement.

00:55:52 – 00:55:53:	So they have to be real.

00:55:53 – 00:55:58:	So those who deny the reality of race, or the reality of hierarchy, or the reality of

00:55:58 – 00:56:07:	sex are denying, one, God's created order, and so they're tacitly denying God, but two,

00:56:07 – 00:56:10:	they are asserting that this verse has no meaning.

00:56:10 – 00:56:14:	And so in a very real way, they actually subvert their own argument, not that it matters,

00:56:14 – 00:56:19:	because the appeal to hypocrisy never really matters in these discussions.

00:56:19 – 00:56:22:	But they are subverting their own argument, because they say, well, we're all one in

00:56:22 – 00:56:24:	Christ, and so these things aren't real.

00:56:24 – 00:56:30:	Well, if they aren't real, then it doesn't matter that we're all one in Christ.

00:56:30 – 00:56:36:	But you have to pay attention to the false teachers and the false pastors who would

00:56:36 – 00:56:41:	use this in order to subvert the created order, because ultimately, again, they are basically

00:56:41 – 00:56:43:	Gnostic.

00:56:43 – 00:56:48:	The rejection of any part of this is Gnosticism.

00:56:48 – 00:56:51:	You have the rejection of race, which is the rejection of the flesh.

00:56:51 – 00:56:58:	You have the rejection of hierarchy, the created order of things in the world, which is a rejection

00:56:58 – 00:56:59:	of the material world.

00:56:59 – 00:57:03:	That's one of the most hard-line forms of Gnosticism.

00:57:03 – 00:57:08:	And then the rejection of male and female is, again, a form of Gnosticism that was particularly

00:57:08 – 00:57:11:	an issue in some parts of the ancient world.

00:57:11 – 00:57:17:	I think it's important with this second couplet not to completely divorce the slave nor free

00:57:17 – 00:57:20:	from slavery, cross-slavery.

00:57:20 – 00:57:26:	We did an entire episode entirely on the subject of slavery as being morally illicit.

00:57:26 – 00:57:28:	Scripture permits slavery.

00:57:28 – 00:57:29:	This is a fact.

00:57:29 – 00:57:35:	In fact, there are many cases in Scripture where God blesses some men by giving them

00:57:35 – 00:57:36:	more slaves.

00:57:36 – 00:57:40:	That would not be the case if slavery were, per se, sin.

00:57:40 – 00:57:48:	So when the status of being a slave is brought up in Scripture in these passages, it's important

00:57:48 – 00:57:54:	to understand how God treated, I think, another good passage that illustrates that is Ephesians

00:57:54 – 00:57:55:	6.

00:57:55 – 00:57:57:	Paul again writes,

00:57:57 – 00:58:01:	Slaves obey your human masters with fear and trembling in the sincerity of your heart

00:58:01 – 00:58:03:	as you would Christ.

00:58:03 – 00:58:08:	Do not work only while being watched as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ.

00:58:08 – 00:58:10:	Do God's will from your heart.

00:58:10 – 00:58:15:	Serve with a good attitude as to the Lord and not to people, knowing that whatever good

00:58:15 – 00:58:20:	each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.

00:58:20 – 00:58:23:	And masters treat your slaves the same way, without threatening them.

00:58:23 – 00:58:28:	Because you know that both their master and yours is in heaven and there is no favoritism

00:58:28 – 00:58:29:	with them.

00:58:29 – 00:58:35:	And the word favoritism there is usually translated as partiality.

00:58:35 – 00:58:37:	We've talked about partiality in the past.

00:58:37 – 00:58:42:	It's particularly in the context related to this, where social status was treated by

00:58:42 – 00:58:48:	some as a matter that would distinguish whether or not someone received more favors in the

00:58:48 – 00:58:50:	church.

00:58:50 – 00:58:53:	This is what happened in the Epistle of James.

00:58:53 – 00:58:57:	When he condemns the showing of partiality, it's that the rich were given a higher place

00:58:57 – 00:58:58:	in the church.

00:58:58 – 00:59:03:	They were given the best seat and the poor guy was stuck in the back.

00:59:03 – 00:59:05:	And James condemned that.

00:59:05 – 00:59:07:	He said, like, the rich are the ones who drag you in the court.

00:59:07 – 00:59:09:	What are you doing preferring them?

00:59:09 – 00:59:12:	And God certainly doesn't show partiality.

00:59:12 – 00:59:18:	God doesn't care about who has more money or more looks or IQ or any of the rest.

00:59:18 – 00:59:20:	Because you know what?

00:59:20 – 00:59:23:	Whatever good we have, God gave us.

00:59:23 – 00:59:29:	I think that's one of the things that Corey and I will point to Job for, because when

00:59:29 – 00:59:35:	Job came to God complaining, God's response was, basically, who do you think you are?

00:59:35 – 00:59:39:	Where were you when I created the foundations of the world?

00:59:39 – 00:59:45:	He didn't take him seriously as a challenger, because whatever good, whatever blessings Job

00:59:45 – 00:59:51:	had before Satan came and took them away, God gave them to Job.

00:59:51 – 00:59:55:	Whatever you have, whatever I have, whatever good anyone has comes from God.

59:55 – 01:00:00
So the notion, therefore, that, oh, I have this good thing, I'm going to use this to

01:00:00 – 01:00:05:	prove that what I get more salvation, I'm going to take the gifts that God has given

01:00:05 – 01:00:08:	me and then come to God and say, look how good I am.

01:00:08 – 01:00:10:	You need to give me more.

01:00:10 – 01:00:11:	That's insane.

01:00:11 – 01:00:12:	It's just deranged.

01:00:12 – 01:00:18:	And it's the sort of smackdown that Job received from God, because to whatever degree he was

01:00:18 – 01:00:21:	up and he went out of the line, God put him back in his place.

01:00:21 – 01:00:24:	He's like, who do you think you are?

01:00:24 – 01:00:27:	You have no business challenging me.

01:00:27 – 01:00:29:	That's God's attitude.

01:00:29 – 01:00:30:	Whatever we have came from him.

01:00:30 – 01:00:36:	So whether someone's a slave or they're free, if they're rich or they're poor, those distinctions,

01:00:36 – 01:00:41:	not only don't they matter for salvation, but relative to God, in those terms, we're

01:00:41 – 01:00:43:	all exactly the same.

01:00:43 – 01:00:49:	The riches that we have on earth compared to the riches of God, they're not the same

01:00:49 – 01:00:50:	category.

01:00:50 – 01:00:52:	It's not the same type of thing.

01:00:52 – 01:00:57:	And this is part of the nuance in the verse that is just completely wiped away if you

01:00:57 – 01:00:59:	start saying these things are real.

01:00:59 – 01:01:02:	Obviously, it's real if someone has more, someone has less.

01:01:02 – 01:01:07:	If someone's a slave, if they're literally owned by another person, they have a lower

01:01:07 – 01:01:08:	station in life.

01:01:08 – 01:01:10:	There are things that they can't do that others can't.

01:01:10 – 01:01:12:	They don't have freedom.

01:01:12 – 01:01:17:	But when God addresses those with freedom, he chastises them.

01:01:17 – 01:01:18:	He warns them.

01:01:18 – 01:01:22:	He admonishes them, don't treat your freedom as license because it's not.

01:01:22 – 01:01:28:	Whatever blessings we have, whatever freedom we have, it's still enjoined by God's will.

01:01:28 – 01:01:30:	You can't go outside of that.

01:01:30 – 01:01:33:	And so in many cases, those who have more options just make their sin worse.

01:01:33 – 01:01:36:	They make their sin more elaborate.

01:01:36 – 01:01:40:	They're going to get creatively evil in ways that the guy who has very limited means and

01:01:40 – 01:01:44:	very limited scope in his personal life as a slave, he's not going to be able to do the

01:01:44 – 01:01:47:	things that somebody like Andrew Tate will do.

01:01:47 – 01:01:52:	Totally different class in the one who's a slave is going to be far better off.

01:01:52 – 01:01:56:	Even if he's wicked, he's going to be better off because his sins are going to be simpler.

01:01:56 – 01:02:02:	The man who has no limitations makes how far worse for him without God.

01:02:02 – 01:02:08:	And so again, the soteriological context, the fact that this verse is about our salvation

01:02:08 – 01:02:11:	is what makes it interesting, makes it valuable and a blessing.

01:02:11 – 01:02:15:	It's a reason that the epistle of Galatians is beautiful.

01:02:15 – 01:02:21:	It's one of the epistles that opened Luther's eyes to the gospel because he saw arguments

01:02:21 – 01:02:24:	and things that were here that made clear that things he'd been taught in the Roman

01:02:24 – 01:02:27:	Catholic Church were simply not true.

01:02:27 – 01:02:31:	For us to fixate on this verse today is not to get tunnel vision.

01:02:31 – 01:02:32:	It's to highlight.

01:02:32 – 01:02:37:	It's to shine a light on the fact that these are God's treasures.

01:02:37 – 01:02:42:	All these little nooks and crannies of scripture, and when suddenly some verse suddenly starts

01:02:42 – 01:02:48:	getting an outsized attention, or words to, you know, on Twitter I've pointed out that

01:02:48 – 01:02:53:	Imago Dei is something that's used all the time now.

01:02:53 – 01:02:58:	But when you do a Google Ngram search for it, it took off in the last like 10 or 15 years.

01:02:58 – 01:02:59:	But it sounds really Jesusy, right?

01:02:59 – 01:03:02:	It sounds like a super Christian thing to say.

01:03:02 – 01:03:08:	To say Imago Dei in Latin, that new trend, it's a completely new thing.

01:03:08 – 01:03:13:	Now, there's always been discussion of the image of God, but it was in different contexts

01:03:13 – 01:03:15:	than today.

01:03:15 – 01:03:22:	Whenever anyone says Imago Dei today, they're using it as license for bad things, for bad

01:03:22 – 01:03:26:	theology, but they're hiding behind that Jesus dust.

01:03:26 – 01:03:31:	They can put that mask on, and then they can present false doctrine and say, look, I'm

01:03:31 – 01:03:32:	going to see.

01:03:32 – 01:03:33:	And so we got to do this.

01:03:33 – 01:03:38:	And when they say Imago Dei, they're saying you can't execute murders because so many

01:03:38 – 01:03:39:	of them are black.

01:03:39 – 01:03:40:	That makes it racist.

01:03:40 – 01:03:45:	Well, we think the concern is that why are so many blacks murdering?

01:03:45 – 01:03:47:	That's what concerns me.

01:03:47 – 01:03:48:	Why are there murders?

01:03:48 – 01:03:51:	And then why did they predominantly come from certain groups?

01:03:51 – 01:03:52:	That's relevant.

01:03:52 – 01:03:55:	We did a whole episode on that.

01:03:55 – 01:03:58:	Galatians 3.28 doesn't condemn that because it doesn't say there's no such thing as a

01:03:58 – 01:04:00:	black guy.

01:04:00 – 01:04:05:	It says there's no such thing as a black guy being given preferential or disadvantaged

01:04:05 – 01:04:07:	salvation.

01:04:07 – 01:04:10:	Same Jesus, same salvation, same cross.

01:04:10 – 01:04:14:	The differences are how we respond to the message of the gospel.

01:04:14 – 01:04:15:	That's a personal question.

01:04:15 – 01:04:17:	It's not a racial one.

01:04:17 – 01:04:22:	It's not one derived from our sex or from our status or anything else.

01:04:22 – 01:04:26:	For those of you who are listening and are Lutheran, I want to point out that you are

01:04:26 – 01:04:32:	technically confessionally bound to deny that those who are not in Christ have the

01:04:32 – 01:04:33:	image of God.

01:04:33 – 01:04:39:	Our confession states that the Amago Dei is lost in original sin, and it is not restored

01:04:39 – 01:04:44:	except in baptism, except when you are given faith, when you are placed in Christ.

01:04:44 – 01:04:48:	I am less familiar with the confessions of the various Reformed traditions, so I do not

01:04:48 – 01:04:51:	know if you have something similar in yours.

01:04:51 – 01:04:52:	Perhaps some of you do.

01:04:52 – 01:04:57:	I know that the book of Concord denies the Amago Dei to the pagan.

01:04:57 – 01:05:00:	In this case, I just mean unbeliever.

01:05:00 – 01:05:04:	One thing that I hope that comes through in this episode, and I believe that it will given

01:05:04 – 01:05:08:	that we're going to spend about two hours on essentially one verse, although with other

01:05:08 – 01:05:15:	verses pulled in, is just the depth of the wealth that is present in Scripture.

01:05:15 – 01:05:21:	If we can spend this much time and discuss this many different aspects of a single verse,

01:05:21 – 01:05:25:	it should be very clear that you can read Scripture for a lifetime and never exhaust

01:05:25 – 01:05:26:	it.

01:05:26 – 01:05:31:	You could read a single book in Scripture for a lifetime and never exhaust it, which again

01:05:31 – 01:05:33:	is very clear proof.

01:05:33 – 01:05:34:	This is the word of God.

01:05:34 – 01:05:36:	You couldn't do that with any other book.

01:05:36 – 01:05:41:	If you read whatever your favorite book is, pick your favorite science fiction book, great

01:05:41 – 01:05:46:	piece of historic literature, whatever it is, you could exhaust it in 20 years, regardless

01:05:46 – 01:05:48:	of what it is.

01:05:48 – 01:05:50:	You cannot do that with Scripture.

01:05:50 – 01:05:56:	You will always be able to find more and a deeper meaning, a deeper understanding when

01:05:56 – 01:06:00:	you return to Scripture no matter how many times you've read it.

01:06:00 – 01:06:07:	On that note, I want to pull out something from Galatians 3.28 that will make some of

01:06:07 – 01:06:11:	you very happy and perhaps annoy some of you a little bit, but in this case, I wish to

01:06:11 – 01:06:15:	make very clear to you that this is actually important in this case.

01:06:15 – 01:06:22:	In many cases, you will find those who interpret Scripture who will attempt to find chiasms,

01:06:22 – 01:06:28:	chiasmus everywhere because it is one of the forms of writing.

01:06:28 – 01:06:33:	It is one of the little tools in the Shemitic toolbox that's just popular in that part

01:06:33 – 01:06:34:	of the world.

01:06:34 – 01:06:38:	And so you will find it in the pages of Scripture.

01:06:38 – 01:06:45:	And notably, it does appear both in the Jewish context and in the Greek world.

01:06:45 – 01:06:49:	And so it makes perfect sense that you would find it also in the Greek of the New Testament.

01:06:49 – 01:06:57:	In the case of the Germanic world, so also the Celts, incidentally, you're going to find

01:06:57 – 01:07:01:	less chiasmus and more parallelism.

01:07:01 – 01:07:08:	Now to be clear, to make sure that you understand what is I'm saying, if you have a structure

01:07:08 – 01:07:16:	of a particular chunk of text that you have a thought and then another thought, let's

01:07:16 – 01:07:20:	just go with two thoughts formulated two different ways.

01:07:20 – 01:07:25:	So you have A, A prime, B, B prime, two different thoughts formulated different ways.

01:07:25 – 01:07:30:	To the Shemitic mind, you are going to write that in a chiasmic structure, which is to

01:07:30 – 01:07:37:	say that you are going to have A, B, B prime, A prime.

01:07:37 – 01:07:43:	You're going to have it inverted as it were, whereas to the Germanic mind, this includes

01:07:43 – 01:07:48:	those of us who speak English, you are more accustomed to seeing parallelism.

01:07:48 – 01:07:52:	So A, A prime, B, B prime.

01:07:52 – 01:07:55:	That's the sort of comparison that we expect.

01:07:55 – 01:08:03:	However, in this case, neither one of those appears here in Galatians 328, because that

01:08:03 – 01:08:08:	second couplet basically subverts all expectations.

01:08:08 – 01:08:13:	So if you had, say, a Pharisee reading this, he would see there's neither Jew nor Greek.

01:08:13 – 01:08:18:	Well, that's going to annoy him, but if he gets over that and keeps reading, neither

01:08:18 – 01:08:20:	slave nor free.

01:08:20 – 01:08:22:	Okay, that's fine.

01:08:22 – 01:08:28:	Those two, the first and the second alone, that would be chiasmic to a Pharisee reading

01:08:28 – 01:08:29:	this.

01:08:29 – 01:08:34:	Because how he would read this is he would read it, the Jew is free, the Greek is a slave.

01:08:34 – 01:08:35:	Great.

01:08:35 – 01:08:36:	I agree with that.

01:08:36 – 01:08:38:	That's, I like that.

01:08:38 – 01:08:43:	But then he would get the third part and the problem is inherently having three parts

01:08:43 – 01:08:48:	you can't form a chiasmic structure in this way, because it would be A, B, C, C, B, A

01:08:48 – 01:08:50:	is how you would do that.

01:08:50 – 01:08:56:	But he gets to it and goes, okay, the Jew is free, but now we have the third one.

01:08:56 – 01:08:59:	We can't form a chiasm here, and it's inverted.

01:08:59 – 01:09:05:	You can't do parallel either, because you'd be expecting, you know, the Jew is free and

01:09:05 – 01:09:06:	male.

01:09:06 – 01:09:11:	And I'll get into that more in a second here, and the Greek is a slave and female.

01:09:11 – 01:09:12:	It's not a chiasm.

01:09:12 – 01:09:13:	It's not parallel.

01:09:13 – 01:09:17:	So it subverts the expectations for both groups.

01:09:17 – 01:09:22:	And another place that scripture does this is a related passage to Galatians 3.28.

01:09:22 – 01:09:26:	This is one of the passages that I want to bring in from outside Galatians, as it were.

01:09:26 – 01:09:27:	Colossians 3.11.

01:09:27 – 01:09:35:	Here, there is not Greek and Jew circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, skithian, slave

01:09:35 – 01:09:39:	free, but Christ is all and in all.

01:09:39 – 01:09:43:	And so you can obviously see very similar to Galatians 3.28.

01:09:43 – 01:09:52:	But here you actually have two chiasms, because you have Greek and Jew circumcised and uncircumcised.

01:09:52 – 01:09:57:	And so the Jewish reader is going to say, okay, so the circumcised Jew and the uncircumcised

01:09:57 – 01:09:58:	Greek.

01:09:58 – 01:09:59:	Great.

01:09:59 – 01:10:06:	Then you'll get to the second chiasm, barbarian, skithian, slave free.

01:10:06 – 01:10:12:	For those who do not know, the skithians at this time in this cultural context were considered

01:10:12 – 01:10:18:	the absolute worst of the barbarians, the most feral, uncivilized people on earth.

01:10:18 – 01:10:23:	And so it's saying barbarian and the worst of the barbarians.

01:10:23 – 01:10:27:	Here's where you have the problem for the Jewish reader, because the Jewish reader will

01:10:27 – 01:10:33:	look at it and go, wait a minute, this chiasm taken together with the first is comparing

01:10:33 – 01:10:38:	Jews to the worst possible barbarians.

01:10:38 – 01:10:44:	And not only that, but it's saying that the Jews are slaves.

01:10:44 – 01:10:49:	And so there's a critique there that you see in Paul when he's writing this.

01:10:49 – 01:10:55:	It's implicit, it's not explicit, but it is there if you understand the literary forms

01:10:55 – 01:10:58:	that are common to these peoples.

01:10:58 – 01:11:06:	But to return to Galatians 3.28, one of the things that you will miss in Galatians 3.28

01:11:06 – 01:11:11:	if you do not have the background context, the historical context, is that this is an

01:11:11 – 01:11:15:	explicit polemic.

01:11:15 – 01:11:19:	If you want to say it's an implicit polemic, then it is right on the line, it is as strong

01:11:19 – 01:11:24:	of an implicit polemic as you can make without it being explicit, because it doesn't explicitly

01:11:24 – 01:11:26:	mention the Talmud.

01:11:26 – 01:11:33:	This is the inversion of a prayer that Jewish men traditionally pray as part of their morning

01:11:33 – 01:11:35:	prayers.

01:11:35 – 01:11:40:	And so that inversion in the second couplet is an important part of this condemnation,

01:11:40 – 01:11:45:	of this polemic against the Jewish prayer, but now I'll read you the translated text

01:11:45 – 01:11:49:	of the Jewish prayer.

01:11:49 – 01:11:54:	There are three blessings that Jewish males traditionally pray as part of their morning

01:11:54 – 01:12:00:	blessings as part of this specific prayer within those blessings.

01:12:00 – 01:12:06:	The first is, blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has not made me

01:12:06 – 01:12:11:	a goy, which is to say a non-Jew, a Gentile.

01:12:11 – 01:12:17:	The second, blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has not made me

01:12:17 – 01:12:19:	a slave.

01:12:19 – 01:12:25:	And the third, blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has not made

01:12:25 – 01:12:28:	me a woman.

01:12:28 – 01:12:33:	This is the Burkot Hashakar, if you want to look up the prayer and manage to spell all

01:12:33 – 01:12:36:	the phlegm that I just got on my mic.

01:12:36 – 01:12:41:	But these three blessings that are traditionally prayed by Jewish males as part of their morning

01:12:41 – 01:12:47:	prayers are a rejection of God's created order.

01:12:47 – 01:12:53:	They're a rejection of God's created order because they're not praying, thank you, God,

01:12:53 – 01:12:55:	for making me what I am.

01:12:55 – 01:12:56:	That's fine.

01:12:56 – 01:13:00:	Go ahead and pray to God, thank you for making me male.

01:13:00 – 01:13:02:	Thank you for making me German.

01:13:02 – 01:13:06:	Thank you for making me whatever the thing is about which you are thankful.

01:13:06 – 01:13:07:	That's fine.

01:13:07 – 01:13:11:	You should be thankful for what God has made you, what God has given you.

01:13:11 – 01:13:15:	Because don't forget that your attributes are also gifts from God.

01:13:15 – 01:13:18:	Everything you have is a gift from God.

01:13:18 – 01:13:22:	The problem with how this is prayed, partly it's the intent behind it, but you can see

01:13:22 – 01:13:24:	the intent in the wording.

01:13:24 – 01:13:28:	Because it's not thank you for making me, it's thank you for not making me.

01:13:28 – 01:13:34:	These groups, a member of this group that is lesser than I am.

01:13:34 – 01:13:39:	This is the prayer of the Pharisee versus the publican, or the tax collector, whatever

01:13:39 – 01:13:40:	you want to call the gentleman.

01:13:40 – 01:13:45:	This is the prayer of the man who stands up in the synagogue or who stands up in the temple

01:13:45 – 01:13:50:	and says, I am so much better than everyone else, thank you God for making me so holy

01:13:50 – 01:13:53:	and great.

01:13:53 – 01:13:58:	Thank you for not making me like the rest of these sinful wretched people who are surrounding

01:13:58 – 01:14:02:	me and making the building smell bad.

01:14:02 – 01:14:06:	This is not a prayer of humbling oneself before God.

01:14:06 – 01:14:08:	This is a prideful prayer.

01:14:08 – 01:14:12:	It's not even really a prayer, it's an insult to God's face.

01:14:12 – 01:14:18:	And so this verse in Galatians is a polemic against this prayer.

01:14:18 – 01:14:24:	It is a polemic against the Jewish religion, against Judaism, which is not Christianity,

01:14:24 – 01:14:32:	which is related to Christianity only insofar as it is a perversion of Christianity.

01:14:32 – 01:14:39:	This verse in Galatians specifically condemns it and does so in part by using the exact

01:14:39 – 01:14:41:	same three couplets.

01:14:41 – 01:14:42:	Because that's what we see.

01:14:42 – 01:14:46:	Thank you for not making me a goi and it says doesn't matter, Jew or Greek.

01:14:46 – 01:14:47:	Thank you for not making me a slave.

01:14:47 – 01:14:50:	It doesn't matter, slave or free.

01:14:50 – 01:14:51:	Thank you for not making me a woman.

01:14:51 – 01:14:56:	It doesn't matter male or female, but it also inverts that second one.

01:14:56 – 01:15:01:	And so you have Jew slave male instead of what these Jewish males who pray this prayer

01:15:01 – 01:15:06:	in the morning would expect, which is Jew free male.

01:15:06 – 01:15:12:	And so it's just one of those layers to bear in mind when you read Galatians.

01:15:12 – 01:15:18:	And just to think about the depth of what is put into Scripture for us and sure if you

01:15:18 – 01:15:23:	don't understand the historical context of this, you will still understand the meaning

01:15:23 – 01:15:27:	of the verse because the meaning is there right on the face of the thing.

01:15:27 – 01:15:33:	It says you were all one in Christ Jesus, so these things so teleologically do not matter.

01:15:33 – 01:15:37:	That's blunt from the face of the text in Galatians 3.

01:15:37 – 01:15:43:	But you get this additional depth of meaning here of the condemnation of the polemic against

01:15:43 – 01:15:44:	false religions.

01:15:44 – 01:15:51:	And it just shows you how much there is in Scripture to be discovered for those who spend

01:15:51 – 01:15:54:	the time to meditate on God's Word to study God's Word.

01:15:54 – 01:16:00:	He has given us an immense wealth in His Word, and we should be very thankful for it.

01:16:00 – 01:16:06:	And another one of those details that stuck out to me a couple of years ago was the fact

01:16:06 – 01:16:12:	that these three couplets are not and, and, and, nor, nor, nor.

01:16:12 – 01:16:14:	It's nor, nor, and.

01:16:14 – 01:16:20:	I saw some discussion online, and for some reason I noticed that the ESV translates this

01:16:20 – 01:16:23:	correctly even though a number of others don't.

01:16:23 – 01:16:27:	And somebody else had quoted a different one, and they said nor, nor, nor, and I thought,

01:16:27 – 01:16:32:	I think my Bible says differently, but of course I didn't do what we condemn here and

01:16:32 – 01:16:34:	say, well, my Bible says this, so you're wrong.

01:16:34 – 01:16:38:	I said, well, I'm going to look at the Greek and see, like, clearly somebody dropped a compound

01:16:38 – 01:16:40:	word somewhere, who was it?

01:16:40 – 01:16:46:	And it turned out that King James and a number of others use a nor.

01:16:46 – 01:16:52:	They make all three of these couplets parallel, and that's not what the original language did.

01:16:52 – 01:16:59:	As I said earlier, it doesn't really change the purpose of, like, the text works either way

01:17:00 – 01:17:01:	in its own context.

01:17:02 – 01:17:08:	So when you're treating Galatians properly and you're treating it as a soteriological passage,

01:17:09 – 01:17:15:	it's totally fine if a nor is there instead of an and for male nor female instead of male

01:17:15 – 01:17:17:	and female, which is correct.

01:17:18 – 01:17:20:	It doesn't really change it.

01:17:20 – 01:17:21:	I want to say that explicitly.

01:17:21 – 01:17:24:	I'm not saying, oh, no, those, those Bibles are all terrible.

01:17:24 – 01:17:25:	They're, they're wrong.

01:17:25 – 01:17:27:	They have this terrible corruption.

01:17:28 – 01:17:29:	It's a mistake.

01:17:29 – 01:17:30:	It's clearly a mistake.

01:17:30 – 01:17:31:	It's not ambiguous.

01:17:31 – 01:17:35:	They are wrong, but it doesn't damage your understanding of this passage.

01:17:35 – 01:17:40:	If you're just treating the passage the way it should be treated, which is this is about salvation.

01:17:40 – 01:17:41:	Doesn't matter if you're Jew or Greek.

01:17:41 – 01:17:43:	Doesn't matter if you're slave or free.

01:17:43 – 01:17:45:	It doesn't matter if you're male or a female.

01:17:46 – 01:17:52:	But as Cory was just saying, there's a, there's a depth in a richness to the way God presents

01:17:52 – 01:17:58:	these things, that when this came under attack, that's when I started looking.

01:17:58 – 01:18:02:	And I think that Cory and I first discussed this because we were talking about Galatians

01:18:02 – 01:18:05:	as we realized just how important this was.

01:18:05 – 01:18:12:	Like not that the difference of that one word is groundbreaking or earth shaking, but it's notable.

01:18:12 – 01:18:13:	God said one thing.

01:18:13 – 01:18:15:	Let's leave it the way he said it.

01:18:16 – 01:18:21:	And then when you start looking at the attacks and keep in mind, what are the attacks today?

01:18:21 – 01:18:25:	When you get outside what a Galatians 3 28 says, what God says,

01:18:26 – 01:18:30:	and you start looking at what evil men are doing with it, what do they say?

01:18:30 – 01:18:31:	They say there are no races.

01:18:31 – 01:18:33:	They say that there are no sexes.

01:18:33 – 01:18:36:	There's no distinction between male and female.

01:18:36 – 01:18:37:	We're absolutely the same.

01:18:37 – 01:18:38:	We're interchangeable.

01:18:39 – 01:18:40:	We're just, we're fungible.

01:18:40 – 01:18:42:	We're human beings.

01:18:43 – 01:18:44:	That's clearly false.

01:18:44 – 01:18:50:	And then in that context, when someone is trying to attack the created nature of reality,

01:18:51 – 01:18:55:	this distinction becomes important where it never mattered for,

01:18:55 – 01:19:00:	for, you know, ever any hundreds of years people have been mistranslating that one word.

01:19:00 – 01:19:02:	It didn't make any difference.

01:19:02 – 01:19:05:	But in the 21st century, it does because as Cory said earlier,

01:19:05 – 01:19:12:	there is an ontological distinction between a Jew and a Greek or a Jew in a Kelt.

01:19:13 – 01:19:17:	Just as there's an ontological distinction between a man and a woman,

01:19:17 – 01:19:18:	that is according to their nature.

01:19:19 – 01:19:21:	It's not an accident.

01:19:21 – 01:19:23:	It is how God made you.

01:19:24 – 01:19:26:	So those are similar in that way.

01:19:26 – 01:19:30:	You are made whatever race you are, whatever mix of races you are,

01:19:30 – 01:19:32:	you're made one sex.

01:19:32 – 01:19:34:	You're either male or female.

01:19:36 – 01:19:41:	Yet the distinction between male and female is sufficiently different

01:19:41 – 01:19:47:	from even the ontological distinction between a Greek and a Jew or a Jew in a Kelt.

01:19:48 – 01:19:51:	That God treated it slightly differently.

01:19:51 – 01:19:54:	And this is when I started to hone in on it and Cory and I had really interesting discussions

01:19:54 – 01:19:58:	around, yeah, this is, here's what's actually going on here because

01:20:00 – 01:20:02:	the Jew in the Greek and the context of the verse,

01:20:03 – 01:20:05:	God's saying it doesn't matter for your salvation.

01:20:05 – 01:20:06:	Absolutely true.

01:20:08 – 01:20:12:	The anti-racist says, well, that means that there are no races, which is absolutely false.

01:20:13 – 01:20:17:	Yet at the same time, it's true that a well-behaved Jew,

01:20:17 – 01:20:21:	completely separated from whatever problems that group has.

01:20:21 – 01:20:25:	If they're well-behaved and they believe God and just did the right things,

01:20:26 – 01:20:30:	whatever differences they had from Greeks who were similarly faithful to God,

01:20:31 – 01:20:32:	it wouldn't be that much.

01:20:32 – 01:20:34:	It would be the things that we call ethnicity.

01:20:34 – 01:20:38:	They would have maybe different food, different music, different language,

01:20:38 – 01:20:41:	but they would all basically behave in similar ways.

01:20:42 – 01:20:44:	Some would be better at some things and worse at others.

01:20:44 – 01:20:51:	Jews seemingly, at least today, tend to have more gifts and creative endeavors sometimes.

01:20:51 – 01:20:55:	I don't know if there have been a lot of impactful Greek people lately,

01:20:55 – 01:20:59:	but again, going back to what we said earlier, the Greeks today

01:20:59 – 01:21:00:	aren't the same as the Greeks then.

01:21:00 – 01:21:01:	It doesn't matter.

01:21:01 – 01:21:05:	If the two different races, whatever two races you want to distinguish from each other,

01:21:05 – 01:21:06:	they're somewhat similar.

01:21:07 – 01:21:10:	If they're behaving and they're doing what God wants,

01:21:11 – 01:21:13:	they're going to have enough similarities that they could get along.

01:21:13 – 01:21:14:	It would be okay.

01:21:14 – 01:21:17:	I would never say that they were interchangeable,

01:21:17 – 01:21:21:	but I think that one of the distinctions we have today that illustrates this is

01:21:21 – 01:21:24:	Western cultures in Japanese culture.

01:21:24 – 01:21:29:	When we first came in contact with them before we screwed them up by Westernizing them,

01:21:30 – 01:21:32:	there were some things that were very weird and very different,

01:21:32 – 01:21:35:	and they're still weird and different because they're Japanese.

01:21:35 – 01:21:36:	They're alien to me.

01:21:37 – 01:21:38:	I don't think that's bad.

01:21:38 – 01:21:39:	It's just that they're very different.

01:21:40 – 01:21:43:	There are certain things about the Japanese in particular,

01:21:43 – 01:21:47:	even among all Asians, that I think many Westerners, when they look at it,

01:21:47 – 01:21:49:	they find certain things that they do very laudable.

01:21:50 – 01:21:57:	When Japan got into Scotch in the early 80s, they bought up a bunch of Scotch distilleries,

01:21:58 – 01:21:59:	but they didn't change what they were doing.

01:21:59 – 01:22:05:	They just made them even better because they fell in love with whiskey, with spirits.

01:22:05 – 01:22:11:	They already had sake, but what they found when they had this love affair with whiskey

01:22:12 – 01:22:17:	was it's really, in a way, a very Japanese thing to distill something in nature to its essence

01:22:18 – 01:22:23:	and then to wait patiently for it to transform into something sublime

01:22:23 – 01:22:24:	with all these very subtle distinctions.

01:22:25 – 01:22:27:	It's a very Japanese thing culturally.

01:22:27 – 01:22:30:	They just took to it like, yeah, this is Scotch stuff.

01:22:30 – 01:22:30:	We love it.

01:22:30 – 01:22:31:	We love Scotch.

01:22:32 – 01:22:36:	They made it their own in a very, very subtle way.

01:22:37 – 01:22:43:	There is an overlap, even from vastly disparate races and cultures, yet there was an overlap

01:22:43 – 01:22:49:	and appreciation of that particular thing that was complete harmony between two people

01:22:49 – 01:22:51:	that had been scattered for thousands of years.

01:22:52 – 01:22:59:	That's an example where, although the Scots and the Japanese are not remotely the same

01:22:59 – 01:23:03:	or remotely interchangeable, nevertheless, there's a certain overlap in

01:23:06 – 01:23:07:	the type.

01:23:07 – 01:23:11:	The best of the Scots had something that was also the best of the Japanese.

01:23:11 – 01:23:14:	Even if they came at it from some different angles,

01:23:14 – 01:23:18:	they were still doing something beautiful that was mutually intelligible.

01:23:19 – 01:23:24:	Now, I highlight this in terms of races because when God distinguishes, there is no

01:23:24 – 01:23:32:	neither Jew nor Greek and then says there is not male and female, that's a distinction in kind.

01:23:32 – 01:23:36:	Because what I just said about the Scots and the Japanese,

01:23:36 – 01:23:38:	you cannot say about men and women, period.

01:23:38 – 01:23:48:	There's no version of womanhood that can have that sort of harmonious interaction with manhood.

01:23:48 – 01:23:53:	There's appreciation, but it's an appreciation as alien in some sense.

01:23:54 – 01:24:00:	The ways that man and woman complete each other are because we're both missing something.

01:24:00 – 01:24:06:	Adam was perfect in the garden and he was not complete and kill until God created Eve.

01:24:06 – 01:24:08:	Even in his perfection, he was incomplete.

01:24:08 – 01:24:10:	There wasn't enough without her.

01:24:12 – 01:24:16:	And then when God created Eve, he said at last, this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.

01:24:16 – 01:24:18:	He was like, yeah, this is it.

01:24:18 – 01:24:25:	And from that day until today, when a man finds a woman and loves her the same way that Adam loved

01:24:25 – 01:24:27:	Eve, it's the same feeling.

01:24:27 – 01:24:29:	You're like, I was missing something and now I have it.

01:24:30 – 01:24:33:	But it's not the way the Japanese discovered scotch.

01:24:34 – 01:24:37:	It wasn't, okay, I'm going to take this and make my bone and I can go off in my corner.

01:24:37 – 01:24:41:	No, they have to exist together for it to work.

01:24:41 – 01:24:46:	Men and women have to exist together as a one flesh union for any of it to work.

01:24:47 – 01:24:49:	When they're separated, they're their own separate things.

01:24:50 – 01:24:55:	So the distinction with this one changing a nor to an and when God did that,

01:24:55 – 01:25:01:	and he said there's no male and female, he was respecting that not only are they distinct,

01:25:01 – 01:25:05:	but that they are maintained in their distinction at all times.

01:25:05 – 01:25:09:	We talked about this in the Gnosisism episode, when you are resurrected from the dead

01:25:10 – 01:25:15:	as a Christian, even though you are soteriologically a son of God, even if you're a woman listening,

01:25:16 – 01:25:17:	you're going to be raised a woman.

01:25:17 – 01:25:18:	It doesn't change who you are.

01:25:18 – 01:25:19:	It doesn't change your nature.

01:25:20 – 01:25:24:	It's solely for the purpose of inheritance of salvation that you're a son of God.

01:25:24 – 01:25:27:	That's a blessing from God because it's how he says he does it.

01:25:27 – 01:25:28:	We don't have to understand.

01:25:28 – 01:25:32:	We have to second guess like, okay, you said it, I believe it, praise the Lord.

01:25:32 – 01:25:33:	That's the end of the discussion.

01:25:34 – 01:25:36:	Nothing else about you as a woman has changed.

01:25:36 – 01:25:39:	You're still a woman and when you're resurrected from the dead,

01:25:39 – 01:25:42:	your female body is going to be perfected.

01:25:42 – 01:25:44:	Whatever is wrong with it now is going to get fixed.

01:25:44 – 01:25:49:	You're going to be perfect and you're going to be a woman for eternity because that's what you are.

01:25:49 – 01:25:53:	You're not going to be some spirit body that's some asexual

01:25:54 – 01:25:55:	in between.

01:25:55 – 01:25:56:	You're not going to be an angel.

01:25:57 – 01:25:59:	Cori and I are going to be raised as men.

01:25:59 – 01:26:01:	It's what we are because it's how God made us.

01:26:02 – 01:26:07:	And so there's one small word here of nor versus and.

01:26:07 – 01:26:12:	It didn't matter in the context, but it does matter today because it's yet another of the

01:26:12 – 01:26:17:	thousand different examples in scripture where God makes clear that men and women are different

01:26:17 – 01:26:19:	in a unique and special way.

01:26:19 – 01:26:20:	That's a blessing.

01:26:20 – 01:26:25:	And just as with the other couplets in this, it's not to denigrate one.

01:26:26 – 01:26:30:	The distinction that there's no distinction between Jew and Greek, slave or free male

01:26:30 – 01:26:34:	and female, is not to say one over the other.

01:26:34 – 01:26:38:	It's say that before God, we're all the same in terms of salvation,

01:26:38 – 01:26:41:	but we don't lose who He created.

01:26:42 – 01:26:42:	He created you.

01:26:42 – 01:26:43:	He created me.

01:26:43 – 01:26:44:	We're different.

01:26:44 – 01:26:46:	That's a good thing.

01:26:46 – 01:26:47:	I wouldn't want anybody else to be like,

01:26:47 – 01:26:48:	you know, what's the point?

01:26:48 – 01:26:50:	There's one of me is more than enough.

01:26:50 – 01:26:53:	The variety that God has created is awesome.

01:26:53 – 01:26:55:	It's something that we should celebrate.

01:26:55 – 01:26:57:	Like we should celebrate diversity.

01:26:57 – 01:26:58:	That shouldn't be.

01:26:59 – 01:27:05:	It kills me that something that's actually a beautiful part of God's creation has turned

01:27:05 – 01:27:11:	into the solvent that's destroying faith and is destroying creation simultaneously.

01:27:11 – 01:27:15:	Because if not for that, we could actually appreciate foreign food.

01:27:16 – 01:27:20:	That's one of the reasons the Europeans explored and conquered the planet,

01:27:20 – 01:27:22:	was looking for spices.

01:27:22 – 01:27:25:	You know, the jokes online today is that white people don't spice their food.

01:27:25 – 01:27:30:	Well, we literally conquered entire continents looking for spices for food.

01:27:30 – 01:27:31:	So get real.

01:27:31 – 01:27:32:	We have good food.

01:27:32 – 01:27:34:	We know how to make it and we know how to find recipes.

01:27:34 – 01:27:37:	But if someone else does something great, awesome.

01:27:38 – 01:27:41:	When someone does something different, like the scotch,

01:27:41 – 01:27:45:	the Scottish making scotch and the Japanese discovering it, that's great.

01:27:45 – 01:27:49:	And Japanese whiskies now, as they've been developing over the last many decades,

01:27:49 – 01:27:53:	but especially in the last 30 years, 40 years, they're sublime.

01:27:53 – 01:27:57:	And they're distinct in a way that's very subtly Japanese,

01:27:57 – 01:27:59:	that's different than scotch or American whiskey.

01:27:59 – 01:28:00:	And that's beautiful.

01:28:00 – 01:28:05:	There's one more amazing whiskey in the world because the Japanese made it their own.

01:28:05 – 01:28:07:	That's the kind of diversity I celebrate.

01:28:07 – 01:28:10:	I don't want the Japanese to be wiped out of existence

01:28:10 – 01:28:14:	by being replaced by other races because what they're good at would be gone.

01:28:15 – 01:28:17:	I don't want women to cease to exist.

01:28:17 – 01:28:20:	I want everything that God wants to create to be sustained.

01:28:20 – 01:28:26:	And for us not to mess it up in discussing Galatians 328 for a couple of hours

01:28:26 – 01:28:30:	is precisely because the world, including within the church,

01:28:31 – 01:28:33:	is not immunized against making these errors.

01:28:33 – 01:28:35:	Obviously, the world is going to be evil.

01:28:35 – 01:28:39:	But when we find the evil coming inside the church and attacking God's creation,

01:28:39 – 01:28:41:	that's when it's our problem.

01:28:41 – 01:28:45:	When we see our own pastors and our own teachers spreading

01:28:45 – 01:28:51:	Judaizing heresy and Gnostic heresies and this other filth, the up-ends creation,

01:28:51 – 01:28:54:	by denigrating each other, we have to go after it.

01:28:54 – 01:28:57:	We have to defend it because there's no one else to do it.

01:28:57 – 01:29:00:	Paul's not going to write any more epistles to us.

01:29:00 – 01:29:02:	Can you imagine what the epistle to the Americas would be like?

01:29:03 – 01:29:08:	Oh, foolish Americans who bewitched you would be the least of the problems in there.

01:29:08 – 01:29:10:	Paul would be spitting fire.

01:29:10 – 01:29:11:	It would be banned.

01:29:11 – 01:29:12:	You want to talk about banned books?

01:29:12 – 01:29:14:	If Paul wrote an epistle to America,

01:29:15 – 01:29:19:	he would never be allowed to see anyone on the Internet because he would tell the truth.

01:29:19 – 01:29:21:	He would tell us what God thinks of the things we're doing.

01:29:22 – 01:29:26:	And the Galatians are in far better shape than the churches of our day.

01:29:27 – 01:29:33:	So that's why I said earlier, the passage of John speaking to the Pharisees,

01:29:34 – 01:29:37:	their attitude where they presume to say to themselves,

01:29:37 – 01:29:42:	we have Abraham as our father, that's the attitude of every church body today.

01:29:42 – 01:29:45:	And I'm particularly talking about the conservative ones,

01:29:45 – 01:29:48:	the ones that have historic confessions,

01:29:48 – 01:29:53:	the ones that have tradition that have preserved the things that were inherited from of old.

01:29:53 – 01:29:56:	And they say, I believe the Bible, I'm this and I'm that.

01:29:56 – 01:30:00:	When these things happen, when Galatians 3.28 comes under attack,

01:30:00 – 01:30:01:	where are they?

01:30:01 – 01:30:02:	Are they joining in the fight?

01:30:02 – 01:30:04:	Are they splitting the difference?

01:30:04 – 01:30:07:	Are they saying, well, I'm going to hold the line on traniism,

01:30:07 – 01:30:09:	but yeah, we got to stop racism.

01:30:09 – 01:30:11:	You can probably guess some of you who I'm talking about with that.

01:30:11 – 01:30:13:	That's very common.

01:30:13 – 01:30:18:	The boomer stalwarts of the old generation and of the new religion,

01:30:18 – 01:30:22:	they will happily burn down half of this verse to try to defend the rest.

01:30:23 – 01:30:26:	And everyone wants to give them credit for sitting on their laurels when

01:30:26 – 01:30:29:	all they're going to be remembered for is the evil they're doing today.

01:30:29 – 01:30:32:	When we have guys who did good things in the past

01:30:32 – 01:30:36:	and may openly embrace doxers against men in their own churches

01:30:36 – 01:30:38:	and for once I'm not talking about myself here,

01:30:40 – 01:30:41:	this is bad news.

01:30:41 – 01:30:46:	When it takes podcasters to say, hey, maybe Galatians 3.28 matters,

01:30:46 – 01:30:47:	the church is in real trouble.

01:30:48 – 01:30:50:	I was telling Cory, we were doing prep,

01:30:50 – 01:30:55:	I pray every day that we will eventually succeed in making this podcast obsolete.

01:30:55 – 01:30:57:	I don't have to talk about this stuff.

01:30:57 – 01:31:00:	I want it to be so common and for us to equip so many men

01:31:00 – 01:31:04:	that anytime I get up and see some new horror,

01:31:04 – 01:31:06:	I see 500 guys piling in and saying what I would say.

01:31:07 – 01:31:09:	Because the things that we have to say about these matters,

01:31:10 – 01:31:11:	they're not particularly clever.

01:31:11 – 01:31:13:	We're just paying attention.

01:31:13 – 01:31:15:	It's literally just paying attention.

01:31:15 – 01:31:21:	I've been very frustrated recently with the illiteracy of even intelligent men

01:31:22 – 01:31:27:	where things like our distinction of because and for being causal

01:31:27 – 01:31:31:	and that actually mattering for the sake of Galatians 3.28.

01:31:31 – 01:31:35:	If you don't understand the causality inside this verse,

01:31:35 – 01:31:37:	you're illiterate and you're a fool and you don't understand anything.

01:31:38 – 01:31:39:	And I don't say that to be mean.

01:31:39 – 01:31:44:	I say that as a warning that if you're just gliding through the text

01:31:44 – 01:31:46:	and you're not actually understanding what's said,

01:31:47 – 01:31:49:	best case, you just don't draw any conclusions.

01:31:50 – 01:31:53:	But you're also not equipped when a false teacher comes along

01:31:53 – 01:31:58:	and tries to separate the three couplets from the causality.

01:31:58 – 01:32:02:	Because the in Christ causality in this passage is the whole thing.

01:32:03 – 01:32:05:	It only applies in Christ.

01:32:05 – 01:32:07:	It doesn't apply outside of Christ.

01:32:07 – 01:32:09:	It shouldn't take us pointing that out.

01:32:09 – 01:32:12:	Everyone should be saying the same thing because it's not a hard problem.

01:32:13 – 01:32:15:	But apparently it's hard for people to pay attention.

01:32:15 – 01:32:18:	So one of the things we beg people, just pay attention,

01:32:18 – 01:32:21:	is Corey said earlier, it's not about reading Greek.

01:32:21 – 01:32:22:	I don't know Greek.

01:32:22 – 01:32:23:	I'm never going to learn Greek.

01:32:23 – 01:32:23:	I don't want to.

01:32:24 – 01:32:26:	The more Corey learns, the less I need to care.

01:32:26 – 01:32:30:	Because I have one more guy I can ask questions about these things.

01:32:30 – 01:32:30:	That's fine.

01:32:30 – 01:32:31:	I've solved the problem.

01:32:31 – 01:32:32:	I can ask someone who knows.

01:32:34 – 01:32:36:	It doesn't need to be complicated.

01:32:36 – 01:32:39:	Just believe what's actually there, but believe all of it.

01:32:39 – 01:32:42:	When God said not a jot nor a tittle will fall away.

01:32:43 – 01:32:47:	That was about the stuff, about the little details,

01:32:47 – 01:32:50:	the smallest letter, the smallest mark, the tiny details.

01:32:50 – 01:32:54:	If those are important enough for God, maybe we should pay attention.

01:32:55 – 01:32:57:	And it doesn't mean obsessing.

01:32:57 – 01:33:00:	We're giving this verse more attention than we give most verses,

01:33:00 – 01:33:06:	precisely because Satan has a spotlight pointed at Galatians 3 28.

01:33:06 – 01:33:10:	Because with things like BLM, he's driving a truck right through it.

01:33:11 – 01:33:14:	He's showing us what matters.

01:33:14 – 01:33:16:	You could be completely a deaf mute,

01:33:16 – 01:33:19:	and you could still feel the vibrations from this attack.

01:33:19 – 01:33:22:	That's how clear it is that these types of things

01:33:23 – 01:33:24:	are what matters to hell.

01:33:24 – 01:33:27:	And if they matter to hell, they have to matter to heaven.

01:33:27 – 01:33:29:	Even pagans understand this.

01:33:29 – 01:33:31:	There are a lot of men who are seeking out God,

01:33:31 – 01:33:34:	because when they see evil in the world,

01:33:34 – 01:33:36:	they understand that there has to be an opposite of that.

01:33:36 – 01:33:41:	And when Christianity historically has been the place where it was claimed we had that,

01:33:41 – 01:33:43:	they come looking at Christian churches.

01:33:43 – 01:33:44:	And unfortunately in most of them,

01:33:44 – 01:33:47:	they find people attacking Galatians 3 28,

01:33:47 – 01:33:49:	just like the global religion,

01:33:49 – 01:33:52:	saying there are no races, there are no sexes,

01:33:52 – 01:33:54:	slavery is bad, classism is bad,

01:33:54 – 01:33:55:	there are no distinctions.

01:33:55 – 01:33:56:	We're all equal, man.

01:33:58 – 01:34:00:	Anyone who doesn't know God yet,

01:34:00 – 01:34:02:	but knows that those things are lies,

01:34:02 – 01:34:04:	is going to keep looking for God elsewhere.

01:34:04 – 01:34:06:	Because the very people who told me,

01:34:06 – 01:34:07:	I know about Jesus, let me tell you about them.

01:34:07 – 01:34:09:	When the first thing that they say is a lie,

01:34:10 – 01:34:13:	the intelligent man who doesn't know God is just going to keep walking,

01:34:13 – 01:34:14:	like, no, that's more the same.

01:34:15 – 01:34:17:	I don't know about their Jesus,

01:34:17 – 01:34:19:	but I know this is a crock of crap.

01:34:19 – 01:34:20:	I want none of that.

01:34:21 – 01:34:23:	That's why this stuff is consequential.

01:34:23 – 01:34:24:	It's not just fiddly,

01:34:24 – 01:34:27:	and it's just not just about nores and ands,

01:34:27 – 01:34:28:	and obsessing with one verse.

01:34:29 – 01:34:34:	It's when you betray the gospel by subverting creation and its creator,

01:34:34 – 01:34:37:	you make it impossible for the gospel to be spread

01:34:37 – 01:34:39:	to those who God is trying to reach in these days.

01:34:41 – 01:34:43:	Woe saying jot or tittle reminds me of

01:34:44 – 01:34:46:	one of the ways that I have taken to saying that.

01:34:46 – 01:34:48:	And for those who don't know,

01:34:48 – 01:34:51:	it basically just means the smallest parts of writing.

01:34:52 – 01:34:54:	The tittle, an example of that being the dot on an I.

01:34:56 – 01:34:59:	One of the ways that I've liked to say that is either iota or yod.

01:35:01 – 01:35:04:	And the reason that I like that is because it highlights the two languages

01:35:05 – 01:35:08:	that God used in order to transmit his word.

01:35:08 – 01:35:11:	Because the yoda is the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet,

01:35:12 – 01:35:15:	and the yod is the tenth letter and the smallest letter

01:35:15 – 01:35:17:	in the Hebrew alphabet.

01:35:18 – 01:35:21:	And so we have a promise from God,

01:35:21 – 01:35:24:	this the promise that neither jot nor tittle will pass away,

01:35:24 – 01:35:27:	of course, is a promise from God about scripture

01:35:27 – 01:35:29:	being transmitted to us without losing anything.

01:35:31 – 01:35:34:	And so today we can say that not an yoda will be lost.

01:35:36 – 01:35:38:	And we already see historically,

01:35:38 – 01:35:41:	he fulfilled the promise, if we say yoda or yod,

01:35:41 – 01:35:43:	of a yod not being lost.

01:35:43 – 01:35:46:	Because when scripture was translated,

01:35:46 – 01:35:49:	when it was transmitted from the Hebrew into the Greek,

01:35:49 – 01:35:50:	nothing was lost.

01:35:51 – 01:35:56:	We have God's perfect word without anything being lost

01:35:56 – 01:36:01:	as he promised in the Septuagint with regard to the Old Testament.

01:36:01 – 01:36:04:	And that's why I will continue to say yoda or yod,

01:36:04 – 01:36:06:	despite the fact that very obviously,

01:36:07 – 01:36:10:	we are going to emphasize the use of the Greek

01:36:10 – 01:36:12:	instead of the Hebrew in the Old Testament.

01:36:12 – 01:36:14:	We'll get into that more in the future.

01:36:16 – 01:36:19:	But I want to emphasize something that Woe said about

01:36:19 – 01:36:23:	that third couplet in Galatians 328.

01:36:25 – 01:36:26:	If you start with the first,

01:36:28 – 01:36:32:	let's pick two examples, the French and the Japanese.

01:36:33 – 01:36:36:	If there were no Japanese, would the French still be French?

01:36:37 – 01:36:38:	The answer is yes.

01:36:38 – 01:36:40:	And the inverse is also true.

01:36:40 – 01:36:43:	If there were no French, the Japanese would still very well be Japanese.

01:36:44 – 01:36:47:	If there were no slaves, would there still be freemen?

01:36:48 – 01:36:48:	Yes.

01:36:49 – 01:36:51:	If there were no freemen, would there still be slaves?

01:36:52 – 01:36:53:	Yes, again.

01:36:54 – 01:36:56:	I could go into greater depth on why that one is true,

01:36:56 – 01:36:57:	but we'll save that for another time.

01:36:59 – 01:37:01:	But this does not apply to male and female.

01:37:02 – 01:37:07:	You cannot have man without woman, and you can't have woman without man.

01:37:08 – 01:37:14:	Because as Woe mentioned, even though Adam in the garden was perfect,

01:37:14 – 01:37:19:	he walked with God, God said it is not good for man to be alone,

01:37:19 – 01:37:21:	because Adam was not complete.

01:37:22 – 01:37:24:	Man without woman is not complete.

01:37:24 – 01:37:26:	Woman without man is not complete.

01:37:26 – 01:37:29:	And so that is why there is male and female.

01:37:32 – 01:37:36:	And that highlights another thing that I want to say about this verse,

01:37:36 – 01:37:39:	this verse, this is one of those times in Scripture

01:37:40 – 01:37:42:	where you can actually say the exact opposite of the verse

01:37:44 – 01:37:47:	in terms of the literal wording, and it's still be true.

01:37:49 – 01:37:51:	Now that is only the case if you ignore that final clause,

01:37:52 – 01:37:55:	because if you pay attention to the final clause, then you can't do this.

01:37:56 – 01:37:59:	But without that final clause, you can say and have it be entirely true and

01:37:59 – 01:38:03:	consonant with Scripture, there is Jew and there is Greek.

01:38:04 – 01:38:05:	There is slave and there is free.

01:38:06 – 01:38:08:	There is male and female.

01:38:08 – 01:38:12:	Because that is what the verse again, as I said earlier, is saying.

01:38:12 – 01:38:15:	It's saying these are real categories, these are real things.

01:38:15 – 01:38:21:	These are part of the created reality as God intended it, as God made it.

01:38:22 – 01:38:27:	And so that is why it matters that if you are in Christ, again, causal,

01:38:28 – 01:38:31:	if you are in Christ, then you are all one,

01:38:31 – 01:38:34:	and these things do not matter soteriologically.

01:38:36 – 01:38:39:	But I just wanted to emphasize that difference of that third couplet,

01:38:40 – 01:38:46:	and the reason for the difference is because both male and female are necessary for the

01:38:46 – 01:38:48:	totality that is humanity.

01:38:49 – 01:38:53:	You cannot have one without the other, whereas with the other two couplets,

01:38:53 – 01:38:57:	you can very well have one and not the other at any given time in any given place.

01:38:58 – 01:39:05:	Now that we've drawn a clear line around the proper context of this verse,

01:39:06 – 01:39:10:	I hope that everyone who's listening who agrees with our arguments,

01:39:10 – 01:39:12:	I'm not sure how someone could disagree.

01:39:12 – 01:39:16:	But if you agree with them, if they're sound to you, know this.

01:39:17 – 01:39:21:	There is no possible claim that can be made about this verse that we have not addressed here.

01:39:22 – 01:39:26:	Anything else must necessarily defy some portion of this.

01:39:27 – 01:39:29:	Either denying that this is about salvation,

01:39:29 – 01:39:35:	or denying that it's about the ontological nature of created reality.

01:39:35 – 01:39:38:	God's creation is material.

01:39:38 – 01:39:40:	It has particulars.

01:39:40 – 01:39:42:	They include race.

01:39:42 – 01:39:43:	They include sex.

01:39:43 – 01:39:47:	And indeed, they do include things like slavery and class.

01:39:47 – 01:39:52:	There are some men who are simply not fit for anything other than the lowest stations.

01:39:52 – 01:39:56:	And to say that, everyone's like, oh, that's so mean.

01:39:56 – 01:39:57:	Why would you want to do that to them?

01:39:58 – 01:40:03:	There's nothing that's harder on a man than not knowing his place in the world.

01:40:03 – 01:40:04:	I don't know what I should be doing.

01:40:04 – 01:40:06:	I don't know what I want to do.

01:40:06 – 01:40:07:	I don't belong.

01:40:07 – 01:40:09:	I don't have any sense of self.

01:40:10 – 01:40:13:	That's something that's common in all times and places,

01:40:13 – 01:40:16:	especially for younger men, just trying to figure things out.

01:40:16 – 01:40:22:	Now, it's worse today because we're no longer inheriting the occupations of our fathers.

01:40:22 – 01:40:25:	It used to be that if your dad is a tanner, you're a tanner.

01:40:25 – 01:40:29:	If your dad made stained glass windows, you make stained glass windows.

01:40:29 – 01:40:30:	That's just how it worked.

01:40:32 – 01:40:37:	When that went away, young men ceased to really understand, well, what do I do?

01:40:37 – 01:40:39:	Whenever I was like, oh, you can do anything you want.

01:40:39 – 01:40:40:	You can be anything in the world.

01:40:40 – 01:40:42:	Well, that's nonsense.

01:40:42 – 01:40:45:	The overwhelming majority of men can't be anything they want to be.

01:40:45 – 01:40:47:	They're going to be good at a few things.

01:40:47 – 01:40:51:	They'll be mediocre at a fair number, and they'll be bad at a whole bunch.

01:40:51 – 01:40:55:	And the best they can do is to try to find something

01:40:55 – 01:40:57:	that they'll either be mediocre or really good at,

01:40:58 – 01:41:01:	and hopefully they can feed a family with it.

01:41:04 – 01:41:06:	The fact that there are men who are not good for anything,

01:41:06 – 01:41:09:	except for the lowest stations in life,

01:41:10 – 01:41:14:	if it's how they're made, if it's what they are,

01:41:14 – 01:41:17:	then to deprive them of even that is worse than not.

01:41:18 – 01:41:23:	If a man is only good for flipping burgers or fries or digging ditches,

01:41:23 – 01:41:26:	whatever you want to say is the lowliest thing.

01:41:26 – 01:41:28:	I don't say any of those things would be insulting.

01:41:28 – 01:41:31:	My paternal family was ditch diggers for generations.

01:41:31 – 01:41:34:	That was the family business, digging ditches.

01:41:34 – 01:41:35:	It's hard work.

01:41:35 – 01:41:36:	I'm glad I didn't do it.

01:41:36 – 01:41:38:	I'd be bad at it.

01:41:38 – 01:41:41:	But the fact that when we look at these things,

01:41:42 – 01:41:45:	we don't have a sense anymore of what we should do,

01:41:45 – 01:41:49:	hurts everyone, and especially hurts the man who isn't equipped for much.

01:41:50 – 01:41:50:	To say, you know what?

01:41:51 – 01:41:53:	You're going to be a janitor.

01:41:53 – 01:41:54:	You have an ADIQ.

01:41:54 – 01:41:56:	You can't even live on your own,

01:41:56 – 01:41:56:	but you know what?

01:41:56 – 01:41:58:	You can be a good janitor.

01:41:58 – 01:41:59:	Here's the mop.

01:41:59 – 01:41:59:	Here's the bucket.

01:41:59 – 01:42:01:	Here are the floors.

01:42:01 – 01:42:02:	Go to these rooms in this order.

01:42:03 – 01:42:04:	Go from wall to wall.

01:42:04 – 01:42:06:	When it looks like this, you're done.

01:42:06 – 01:42:08:	Someone who's retarded can do that.

01:42:08 – 01:42:11:	They're actually capable of doing a job like that.

01:42:12 – 01:42:14:	When you say, oh, no, you can do way better than that.

01:42:14 – 01:42:15:	No, they can't.

01:42:15 – 01:42:18:	If that's the best they can do, if that's their station in life,

01:42:18 – 01:42:19:	don't rob them of it.

01:42:20 – 01:42:25:	And so just as women have been robbed in the last century, certainly,

01:42:25 – 01:42:27:	and the last few generations by feminism,

01:42:27 – 01:42:29:	they've been deprived of motherhood.

01:42:29 – 01:42:32:	They've been deprived of the very thing that God made them for.

01:42:32 – 01:42:35:	They've been told, no, you need to compete with men in the workplace.

01:42:35 – 01:42:39:	You need to go get the same jobs as them, have the same crummy hours,

01:42:40 – 01:42:43:	same miserable political fighting all day long.

01:42:43 – 01:42:47:	You have to go up against them and compete on their terms.

01:42:47 – 01:42:51:	And anytime it doesn't work as well for you and you're unhappy,

01:42:51 – 01:42:52:	well, that's men's fault too.

01:42:53 – 01:42:55:	It will never have anything to do with the fact that a woman is in a place

01:42:55 – 01:42:59:	she doesn't belong, doing something she doesn't want to do,

01:42:59 – 01:43:02:	and is giving up on the thing that she does actually want to do,

01:43:02 – 01:43:03:	even if she doesn't know it.

01:43:04 – 01:43:05:	And it's tragic today.

01:43:05 – 01:43:11:	You see a lot of videos on TikTok that shows up elsewhere on the internet

01:43:11 – 01:43:14:	where girls say, I just figured it out.

01:43:14 – 01:43:16:	I'm 30, 35.

01:43:16 – 01:43:20:	I realize I want babies and here I am with this house and this career

01:43:20 – 01:43:23:	and I've done all this stuff and I'm not happy with any of it.

01:43:23 – 01:43:24:	I just want kids.

01:43:25 – 01:43:27:	She should have been told that when she was 15.

01:43:28 – 01:43:33:	She shouldn't have gotten all those years into her life before no one told her

01:43:33 – 01:43:35:	and she had to figure out on her own what she really wanted.

01:43:36 – 01:43:41:	So when Satan attacks a passage like Galatians 328,

01:43:41 – 01:43:45:	so there's no male and female, the or in the end doesn't matter anymore.

01:43:45 – 01:43:48:	Because when he's going after it, he's saying that we're interchangeable.

01:43:49 – 01:43:53:	He's saying that you go girl and girl bosses and all that stuff

01:43:53 – 01:43:54:	is going to work out for him.

01:43:54 – 01:43:55:	It just doesn't.

01:43:55 – 01:43:57:	It absolutely doesn't.

01:43:58 – 01:44:02:	And anyone who's deceived into believing that it does ends up worse off for it,

01:44:03 – 01:44:07:	and then you have guys on the internet pointing and making fun of them for it.

01:44:07 – 01:44:10:	And to some extent, it is necessary to have negative examples.

01:44:10 – 01:44:12:	Say, look, don't turn out like this person.

01:44:12 – 01:44:17:	But unfortunately, there's a lot of Schadenfreude and cruelty involved,

01:44:17 – 01:44:18:	which there shouldn't be.

01:44:19 – 01:44:22:	If someone screws up, let them be a lesson to others.

01:44:22 – 01:44:27:	And let that lesson come down to the younger generations who can avoid making all the mistakes.

01:44:27 – 01:44:33:	When Satan comes after this verse, when he comes after these distinctions,

01:44:33 – 01:44:36:	when he says that Africans are interchangeable with Europeans,

01:44:37 – 01:44:40:	when people with an average IQ of 85 are interchangeable

01:44:40 – 01:44:43:	with people with an average IQ of 100, he's lying to him.

01:44:43 – 01:44:45:	Everyone's being lied to.

01:44:45 – 01:44:46:	We're not interchangeable.

01:44:46 – 01:44:48:	We can't do the same stuff.

01:44:49 – 01:44:52:	And when that lie is told, it's everyone up for failure.

01:44:52 – 01:44:57:	Because suddenly you have Boeing miss drilling holes because of their diversity efforts.

01:44:57 – 01:45:02:	And you have white guys who'd have a good paying job on a factory line.

01:45:02 – 01:45:07:	They can't feed their families because some diversity hire got the job instead.

01:45:07 – 01:45:10:	And planes fall in the sky and everyone complains about it.

01:45:10 – 01:45:11:	And like, it's inevitable.

01:45:11 – 01:45:13:	You had someone doing something they're not equipped to do.

01:45:14 – 01:45:15:	What do you think is going to happen?

01:45:16 – 01:45:18:	I couldn't be a mother.

01:45:18 – 01:45:19:	I couldn't run a nursery.

01:45:19 – 01:45:20:	I'd lose my mind.

01:45:20 – 01:45:21:	It's just preposterous.

01:45:21 – 01:45:25:	The notion that I could do the things with small children,

01:45:25 – 01:45:30:	the women, all girls are virtually all equipped for just naturally.

01:45:30 – 01:45:31:	It's alien to me.

01:45:32 – 01:45:35:	At scale, if I had one kid or two kids, I could handle it.

01:45:35 – 01:45:38:	But the things that we're good at are distinct.

01:45:38 – 01:45:39:	And that's okay.

01:45:39 – 01:45:40:	It's a blessing.

01:45:40 – 01:45:43:	That's part of the actual godly diversity that we've been given.

01:45:44 – 01:45:48:	Every attack that happens in the world against that makes the world worse.

01:45:48 – 01:45:50:	That makes daily life worse.

01:45:50 – 01:45:53:	Forget even the false doctrine.

01:45:53 – 01:45:57:	Forget destroying salvation by denying the Creator.

01:45:57 – 01:45:58:	It just makes everything worse.

01:45:59 – 01:46:00:	That's also part of this argument.

01:46:00 – 01:46:02:	It's not the main argument here, but you know what?

01:46:03 – 01:46:08:	When all these attacks on Galatians 3.28 are provably and measurably making

01:46:08 – 01:46:14:	the world we live in a worse place, that's an indication that maybe we're up against God.

01:46:14 – 01:46:17:	Or maybe we're doing something that God says not to do.

01:46:17 – 01:46:20:	And we're believing the opposite of what he says.

01:46:20 – 01:46:24:	Because whenever you find people obeying God and doing what he says to do,

01:46:24 – 01:46:25:	you find God's blessings.

01:46:26 – 01:46:29:	Not in the way we were talking about earlier, where we're trying to measure whoever has the

01:46:29 – 01:46:32:	most money must be the most blessed by God.

01:46:32 – 01:46:33:	That's not the point.

01:46:33 – 01:46:38:	Sometimes having wealth, having a lot of stuff as a test,

01:46:38 – 01:46:40:	and it's a test that a lot of people fail.

01:46:40 – 01:46:42:	It could be a blessing if they were faithful,

01:46:42 – 01:46:46:	but when they have a lot, the way that they use it and how it preoccupies them,

01:46:47 – 01:46:49:	takes them further away from God.

01:46:49 – 01:46:52:	Whereas if they had less or had nothing, they would be better off.

01:46:53 – 01:46:57:	I want people to remember that this verse, whenever you hear someone talking about it,

01:46:57 – 01:47:00:	if they talk about it in ways that aren't about salvation,

01:47:00 – 01:47:04:	if they talk about it in ways that attack, how God created everything,

01:47:05 – 01:47:06:	they're from hell.

01:47:06 – 01:47:07:	Full stop.

01:47:07 – 01:47:12:	I don't care who they are, what their reputation is, how much you like them,

01:47:12 – 01:47:14:	how much else they've gotten right in the past.

01:47:15 – 01:47:16:	The Galatians got stuff right.

01:47:17 – 01:47:19:	Paul planted the church in Galatia.

01:47:19 – 01:47:21:	They had sound doctrine.

01:47:21 – 01:47:24:	They could have only possibly had sound doctrine because their teacher

01:47:24 – 01:47:26:	was an apostle of Jesus Christ.

01:47:26 – 01:47:30:	It was when someone else snuck in and bewitched them,

01:47:30 – 01:47:32:	and fed them teachings of demons,

01:47:32 – 01:47:34:	and they believed them too because they couldn't tell the difference.

01:47:35 – 01:47:37:	We are no better than the Galatians.

01:47:37 – 01:47:39:	We're no better.

01:47:39 – 01:47:43:	We're worse in every demonstrable way, because we are arrogant.

01:47:43 – 01:47:45:	We are the Pharisees.

01:47:45 – 01:47:48:	We're the ones who say that we have this confession.

01:47:48 – 01:47:49:	We have this logo.

01:47:49 – 01:47:50:	We're Christians.

01:47:50 – 01:47:51:	We're immune from that.

01:47:51 – 01:47:52:	No, we're not.

01:47:53 – 01:47:59:	The four-part series culminating in apostasy laid bare that we are not immune.

01:48:00 – 01:48:03:	Not only are you not immune, but it's happening before our eyes.

01:48:03 – 01:48:05:	And this verse is one of the chief ways it's happening.

01:48:06 – 01:48:08:	Don't let it happen among you.

01:48:08 – 01:48:10:	When you hear somebody bring it up, test what they're saying.

01:48:10 – 01:48:15:	And if they're not talking about how this verse in Galatians is a celebration

01:48:15 – 01:48:19:	of how God saves us from sin, death, and the devil,

01:48:19 – 01:48:23:	if they want to try to make it about reordering this life,

01:48:23 – 01:48:26:	saying that the Christian life no longer has sexes,

01:48:26 – 01:48:28:	that you don't need to be husband and wife anymore,

01:48:28 – 01:48:30:	you don't need to have distinctions,

01:48:30 – 01:48:33:	we can all just mix together and be one, they're from hell.

01:48:34 – 01:48:39:	Because everything, every single thing that will come downstream from those teachings

01:48:39 – 01:48:42:	is evil and does harm, period.

01:48:44 – 01:48:48:	When Satan came to Christ in the desert in order to tempt him,

01:48:49 – 01:48:51:	he did it by quoting scripture.

01:48:52 – 01:48:54:	And he didn't even misquote scripture.

01:48:55 – 01:48:59:	Really, he quoted scripture in a way that was misleading.

01:49:00 – 01:49:05:	It is possible to use basically any good toward a wicked end.

01:49:06 – 01:49:10:	It is possible to abuse things that are good in themselves

01:49:10 – 01:49:13:	in order to use them to achieve evil.

01:49:14 – 01:49:15:	That's what Satan does with the law.

01:49:16 – 01:49:18:	God's law is perfect and good.

01:49:19 – 01:49:21:	It is used to kill us because we are sinners.

01:49:22 – 01:49:26:	And incidentally again to remind you of what we've gone over before,

01:49:26 – 01:49:28:	we sin because we are sinners.

01:49:28 – 01:49:30:	It is not that we are sinners because we sin.

01:49:31 – 01:49:34:	The causation matters there because original sin matters.

01:49:34 – 01:49:36:	But we've covered that previously.

01:49:38 – 01:49:40:	So for this verse here in Galatians,

01:49:41 – 01:49:44:	Christians need to pull out two sets of truths.

01:49:45 – 01:49:48:	The one is what it says on its face.

01:49:49 – 01:49:52:	But you must be careful to recognize as Woe just said

01:49:52 – 01:49:55:	that it is in the sotereological context only.

01:49:56 – 01:49:59:	And so there is neither Jew nor Greek,

01:49:59 – 01:50:02:	which is to say race does not matter to salvation.

01:50:02 – 01:50:04:	There is neither slave nor free.

01:50:04 – 01:50:08:	Which is to say your position socially or hierarchically

01:50:08 – 01:50:10:	does not matter to salvation.

01:50:11 – 01:50:12:	And there is not male and female.

01:50:12 – 01:50:16:	Which is to say your sex does not matter to salvation.

01:50:18 – 01:50:21:	That is the first set of truths that you must pull out of this.

01:50:22 – 01:50:25:	And you must be careful to remember that four is causal.

01:50:27 – 01:50:30:	If and only if you are in Christ Jesus,

01:50:30 – 01:50:32:	then these things do not matter.

01:50:33 – 01:50:35:	Because that is the core of the Christian faith.

01:50:35 – 01:50:40:	The core of the Christian faith is that you are saved by faith alone.

01:50:40 – 01:50:42:	You are not saved by your works.

01:50:43 – 01:50:46:	I know that some who are listening are going to be up in arms,

01:50:46 – 01:50:48:	but that is the core of the Christian faith.

01:50:48 – 01:50:50:	There is no avoiding that.

01:50:50 – 01:50:51:	Well, what about James?

01:50:51 – 01:50:53:	That is about the and then what?

01:50:54 – 01:50:56:	Which is part of what this podcast is.

01:50:56 – 01:50:57:	It's the and then what?

01:50:57 – 01:51:01:	How do I live a Christian life now that I'm a Christian?

01:51:01 – 01:51:05:	Good works will necessarily flow from a living faith,

01:51:06 – 01:51:08:	but you are not saved by those works.

01:51:08 – 01:51:10:	Those works do not contribute.

01:51:11 – 01:51:14:	What does Scripture say of those who would be justified by the law?

01:51:14 – 01:51:17:	You are damned if you would be justified by the law

01:51:17 – 01:51:19:	because you are severed from Christ.

01:51:21 – 01:51:25:	And so this verse is purely in its literal wording

01:51:26 – 01:51:27:	about soteriology.

01:51:27 – 01:51:29:	It is about salvation.

01:51:29 – 01:51:33:	And so those first truths, that first set of truths that you must pull out

01:51:34 – 01:51:36:	are about salvation.

01:51:36 – 01:51:41:	The second set are the exact inverse of the literal wording.

01:51:42 – 01:51:45:	Because again, as I mentioned multiple times in this episode,

01:51:46 – 01:51:53:	this verse is coherent if and only if these couplets are real things.

01:51:54 – 01:51:58:	And so as a Christian, you must pull out race is real

01:51:58 – 01:52:00:	because there is Jew and there is Greek.

01:52:00 – 01:52:01:	Those are real things.

01:52:02 – 01:52:06:	That they are real is why it matters that they do not matter

01:52:06 – 01:52:10:	in order to be saved with regard to salvation.

01:52:11 – 01:52:12:	There is slave and there is free,

01:52:12 – 01:52:15:	which is to say that hierarchy is real.

01:52:15 – 01:52:18:	There is a real social hierarchy.

01:52:19 – 01:52:22:	God has created different men with different gifts.

01:52:23 – 01:52:27:	And that creates all of our hierarchies in civilization.

01:52:28 – 01:52:31:	It creates betters and lessers.

01:52:31 – 01:52:34:	It creates those with greater talents and those with lesser talents.

01:52:35 – 01:52:37:	That is not to say they are lesser men.

01:52:37 – 01:52:38:	That is a different thing.

01:52:39 – 01:52:42:	It is to say that some men are more capable than others.

01:52:45 – 01:52:47:	And so there is slave and there is free

01:52:48 – 01:52:51:	with regard to the natural order of things.

01:52:51 – 01:52:54:	And finally, there is male and female.

01:52:55 – 01:52:58:	And that is a very real distinction.

01:52:58 – 01:53:00:	You are one or you are the other.

01:53:01 – 01:53:04:	And so you are either male or female.

01:53:05 – 01:53:06:	The exclusive or in English.

01:53:07 – 01:53:09:	You cannot be both.

01:53:09 – 01:53:10:	You must be one.

01:53:11 – 01:53:14:	And so anyone who attacks any of those three truths

01:53:15 – 01:53:18:	is attacking scripture, is ultimately attacking God,

01:53:18 – 01:53:22:	is anti-Christian, is a false shepherd, is a wolf.

01:53:23 – 01:53:25:	So if anyone tells you that if you are male,

01:53:25 – 01:53:27:	oh you can be female today if you choose to be, no.

01:53:29 – 01:53:31:	And we did not go over this in the episode,

01:53:31 – 01:53:34:	but those same words in Greek can be masculine and feminine.

01:53:35 – 01:53:37:	So if you are a male you are masculine.

01:53:37 – 01:53:38:	If you are a female you are feminine.

01:53:39 – 01:53:42:	So if someone tells you as a male you can be feminine, that is a wolf.

01:53:44 – 01:53:46:	The second one going in reverse order.

01:53:47 – 01:53:50:	Hierarchy is part of God's created order.

01:53:51 – 01:53:56:	So those who seek to subvert it are seeking to subvert God's created order.

01:53:56 – 01:53:58:	What we have today is atomization.

01:53:58 – 01:54:04:	We have so many individuals who have taken themselves to be purely individuals.

01:54:04 – 01:54:05:	I stand alone.

01:54:05 – 01:54:06:	I am my own thing.

01:54:06 – 01:54:07:	I am an island unto myself.

01:54:10 – 01:54:13:	All of this stems ultimately, of course, from pride.

01:54:14 – 01:54:17:	The declaration that God's created order does not matter,

01:54:17 – 01:54:19:	and I can be and do whatever I want.

01:54:21 – 01:54:22:	And that's simply not true.

01:54:24 – 01:54:25:	We already went over that.

01:54:25 – 01:54:27:	If you're male you're male, period.

01:54:27 – 01:54:28:	Forever.

01:54:28 – 01:54:29:	You will be male in eternity.

01:54:32 – 01:54:35:	The gifts that God gave you, you have no control over those.

01:54:37 – 01:54:41:	He decided how intelligent to make you, how tall to make you.

01:54:41 – 01:54:46:	All of these things are from God because everything you have is a gift from God.

01:54:47 – 01:54:51:	And so a rejection of those things is a rejection of the created order,

01:54:51 – 01:54:53:	is a rejection of the Creator.

01:54:54 – 01:54:59:	And finally, one of the ones that has most stridently attacked these days,

01:54:59 – 01:55:01:	not that hierarchy isn't certainly, but

01:55:04 – 01:55:07:	the simple fact that God created the races of man.

01:55:08 – 01:55:10:	We see that all throughout Scripture,

01:55:10 – 01:55:13:	we address this in multiple episodes, many episodes at this point.

01:55:13 – 01:55:15:	We did a series on race.

01:55:17 – 01:55:18:	Race is a very real thing.

01:55:18 – 01:55:21:	It is part of God's created order.

01:55:21 – 01:55:23:	And to reject it is to reject God.

01:55:24 – 01:55:27:	And so one of the truths that a Christian must pull out

01:55:27 – 01:55:31:	from this verse in Galatians is that there is Jew and there is Greek.

01:55:32 – 01:55:36:	Drop in any national term you want there.

01:55:36 – 01:55:39:	There is Japanese and there is French.

01:55:39 – 01:55:40:	There is German.

01:55:40 – 01:55:41:	There is Russian.

01:55:41 – 01:55:41:	There is American.

01:55:43 – 01:55:44:	These things are real and they exist.

01:55:46 – 01:55:52:	We cannot reject either on the one hand that these things do not matter in terms of salvation

01:55:52 – 01:55:56:	because that is to reject salvation by faith alone.

01:55:57 – 01:56:02:	And we cannot on the other hand reject that these things are real and part of the created order

01:56:02 – 01:56:06:	because that is to reject the first clause of the Creed.

01:56:06 – 01:56:09:	It is to reject God the Father is Creator.

01:56:09 – 01:56:13:	It is to reject what He has done in this world and stated,

01:56:13 – 01:56:15:	this is my work.

01:56:15 – 01:56:16:	This is true.

01:56:16 – 01:56:21:	You must believe it because you cannot deny the creation without denying the Creator.

01:56:22 – 01:56:24:	Those are one and the same.

01:56:26 – 01:56:31:	And so for the Christian, we must pull out both the negative truth from this

01:56:31 – 01:56:33:	and the positive truth, so to speak.

01:56:34 – 01:56:36:	And this isn't just a command.

01:56:36 – 01:56:40:	This isn't just you must absolutely do X, Y, and Z.

01:56:42 – 01:56:47:	This is God's word to us, His truth, and there is blessing in believing that.

01:56:47 – 01:56:52:	Because I mentioned today we have so many individuals who feel atomized,

01:56:52 – 01:56:54:	who feel separated from everything.

01:56:54 – 01:56:59:	You have women who realize in their thirties or forties or God forbid their fifties

01:56:59 – 01:57:00:	that they wanted to have children.

01:57:00 – 01:57:04:	Because certainly by the time you're in your fifties, it's too late.

01:57:05 – 01:57:08:	Yes, there's the occasional outlier, but it's very seldom.

01:57:11 – 01:57:15:	If we live our lives in accord with what God has designed,

01:57:15 – 01:57:19:	in accord with the way that He has made us, we are going to have happier lives.

01:57:20 – 01:57:25:	And so saying that anyone can do anything is just lying to people and making them miserable.

01:57:25 – 01:57:26:	That's from Satan.

01:57:26 – 01:57:28:	That's a subversion of hierarchy.

01:57:28 – 01:57:31:	He is the one who wants to sow chaos and discord.

01:57:32 – 01:57:34:	That is not what God does.

01:57:35 – 01:57:36:	God is a God of order.

01:57:38 – 01:57:39:	This is His order.

01:57:40 – 01:57:41:	We see it in this verse.

01:57:42 – 01:57:43:	We see it in creation.

01:57:43 – 01:57:47:	Because the truth isn't just here in the special revelation that is Scripture.

01:57:47 – 01:57:49:	It's out there in the world too.

01:57:49 – 01:57:52:	All of these things can be known from natural revelation.

01:57:53 – 01:57:55:	And all of our ancestors knew them.

01:57:55 – 01:58:02:	And so what we want, not just for those who are listening and not just for those who agree with us,

01:58:03 – 01:58:09:	but for all Christians in all places, and all peoples we want to be Christian, of course,

01:58:11 – 01:58:16:	we want people to live in accord with what God has created.

01:58:16 – 01:58:18:	Because that is the best way to live.

01:58:19 – 01:58:21:	That is, in fact, the only way to have a good life.

01:58:22 – 01:58:27:	And so, yes, on the one hand, if you just recognize these truths, you will have a better life.

01:58:27 – 01:58:33:	Because God does bless you when you live in accord with the nature He has given you.

01:58:34 – 01:58:37:	But the fullness of that blessing is when you are in Christ.

01:58:38 – 01:58:44:	And so it is when you have faith, when you are an offspring of Abraham, an heir according to promise.

01:58:45 – 01:58:51:	And so, again, we encourage you to go and read the fullness of the letter to the Galatians.

01:58:51 – 01:58:53:	It'll take you 10, 15 minutes.

01:58:54 – 01:58:55:	See God's blessings.

01:58:55 – 01:58:57:	See why this matters.

01:58:57 – 01:58:59:	See what God says in His words.

01:59:00 – 01:59:02:	You are what God created you to be.

01:59:03 – 01:59:08:	Whether it's a Jew or a Greek, slave or free, whatever talents, abilities,

01:59:08 – 01:59:12:	wherever in the hierarchy He's placed you, and whether you are male or female,

01:59:14 – 01:59:16:	that is what God created you to be.

01:59:16 – 01:59:17:	That is a good thing.

01:59:18 – 01:59:20:	Live your life accordingly.