Introduction

This is always one of my favorite days each year.
I have has the chance to be in India twice on Independence Day
One was traditional wear we went by the Red Fort and flew kites.
Another was with an older gentleman who spent time in America and we ate fried okra & listened to Willie Nelson
I know tonight hasn’t been full of all the traditions that you might have grown up with but I hope we are at least someone between the two days that I mentioned
I would like to share with you one verse and an explanation of that verse.
This is my primary responsibility at this church. I teach from the Bible. We go from chapter to chapter and book to book.

Context is very important in all reading.

This verse summarizes chapter 4, where the theme is bondage and freedom.
Paul declared that Christ was the great Liberator who set believers free from bondage.
Audience: Christians, followers of Christ, that had come to be Christian even though they had been raised Jewish.
Occasion: False teachers had come into the church and wanted people to believe that their salvation would come from following a list of rules.

Galatians 5:1 “1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

Ask 3 questions. (Something we teach our kids as we learn the Bible.)

Galatians 5:1 “1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

Believers’ sins are forgiven on the basis of Christ’s perfect sacrifice.
Now believers can live in freedom from the law, and they can live in freedom from the consequences and power of sin.
The law’s purpose was to reveal our sinfulness (Romans 3:20) and to bring us to Christ (Galatians 3:24).

Jesus came to earth and lived a life fulfilling all of the law in our place.
Jesus died on the cross as a law breaker. He was not the law breaker we are.
Now we have true freedom from the guilt, shame, and eternal punishment for that sin.

We live everyday rejoicing in our freedom.
We share this good news with others.
We celebrate the fact that we have gained independence from the worst and heaviest of all oppressions. Sin.

Galatians 5:1 “1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

This was just a few minutes in one verse
This truth contained in this book is absolutely life changing
It has incredible stories, teaching, and most important it is how we learn of the character and nature of our Creator God.
We would love to meet sometime over Chai and tell you more stories and answer questions you may have