Sermon Note
Pastor Prince
Every miracle is always given by grace through faith.
Galatians 3:5
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
As you preach the gospel, your part is to share
Go into the world and preach the gospel to every creatures
The gospel must first be preached in Jerusalem
Luke 24:47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
The Lord allowed the Romans to be in power. The Romans built good roads and connect the people.
The universe language was Greek language at that time.
God ordained it to be wisely used before Christ so that the New Testament can be in Greek.
Greek is the most exact and precise language
The word love, there are different words for ℓσνє in Greek
The most important thing for us to realise is God will ordain for the gospel to go round the world.
The gospel of Jesus Christ has gone online. God allowed this to serve the purpose and use this for His glory.
Everyone is compelled to go online. God allowed things to happen and the central of Jesus Christ will go forth. The gospel reach more people and more people are saved.
Matthew 24:38
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark
The battle now is online and to get people’s attention.
As we pray we believe that the Lord will bring the lost online to hear the gospel
Galatians 4:6-7
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
The apostle Paul said we are now sons and no more infant.
When we (Jewish) were infant, God put us under the law.
Galatians 3:24
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Hebrews 5:12
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
The time appointed by the Father
The fundamental principle. When we were children we were under the law
Galatians 4:5 (KJV)
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Spirit of it. Is the ℓσνє. ℓσνє is the fulfilment of the spirit of the law.
Romans 8:4
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
No one has kept the law.
James 2:10
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
God put man under the law and no one could do that and He showed man He did for us by loving us with all His heart His strength and sent Jesus
We need to preach messages that show the ℓσνє of God for people. We loved because He first loved us.
Galatians 4:6-7
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Once you are a son, God sent His spirit into our hearts
Spirit of son towards father
We are born again. The word adopt is not in the original. It is placement. The spirit of sonship. Born of God. Born of the Spirit.
The spirit is the most important thing.
The spirit of His Son is in our heart
Romans 8:15 (ESV)
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Spirit of slavery refers to old covenant saints
The Father is most pleased when we approach Him as our Father.
The name He wants to be known is Father
John 17:26
And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Romans 8:14-15
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
God will lead Pastor as he is preaching
The way we are led by the spirit is the spirit of sonship
Our hearing God’s voice and leading. Most of the time is bearing witness.
Adult sons of God can be led by the spirit
The spirit will never tell you to go against the 10 commandments
The law says an eye for an eye.
When people rub you the wrong way, treat them as sand paper and you will end up polished.
God has mercy on us even before we knew Jesus.
The old is the new concealed. The new is the old revealed.
Luke 24:27
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Romans 10:4 (NIV)
Christ is the culmination (fulfilment) of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
Number 1 the Holy Spirit leads us is to bear witness.
God does not guide a parked car.
You do nothing there is nothing for you to bear witness.
You are a child of God you have this witness.
We are children of God
Children – affectionate term for children
Children want to be disciplined. They want to know you care.
The overwriting principle is ℓσνє.
You can also apply this to your marriage life.
We are led by the spirit
God leads you by bearing witness. Bear witness with an action been executed
Even if you are not sure, take a step of faith
Acts 16:17
This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”
You are a child of God.
Galatians 4:21-30 NLT
Tell me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law actually says? The Scriptures say that Abraham had two sons, one from his slave wife and one from his freeborn wife. The son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt to bring about the fulfillment of God’s promise. But the son of the freeborn wife was born as God’s own fulfillment of his promise.
These two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. The first woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai where people received the law that enslaved them.
And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia, because she and her children live in slavery to the law. But the other woman, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. She is the free woman, and she is our mother. As Isaiah said, “Rejoice, O childless woman, you who have never given birth!
Break into a joyful shout, you who have never been in labor! For the desolate woman now has more children than the woman who lives with her husband!” And you, dear brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, just like Isaac. But you are now being persecuted by those who want you to keep the law, just as Ishmael, the child born by human effort, persecuted Isaac, the child born by the power of the Spirit. But what do the Scriptures say about that? “Get rid of the slave and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
No one can keep the law.
Galatians 3:10
The Righteous Shall Live by Faith
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
The righteous by faith shall live.
Galatians 4:23
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Human attempt. Human effort
Genesis 17:1 NLT
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.
Issac was born when Abraham and Sarah was not able naturally
Sarah received strength to conceive seeds and it caused her to be youthful and renewal of youth.
Sarah was beautiful at the age of 89!
God renewed her youth so much so that the king wanted her
Daughters of Sarah
Sarah is the only woman in the bible who had her youth renewed in her old age.
Never say you are old.
Ought not this woman be renewed in her strength and youth like the eagles!
Gal 4:24 NLT
These two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. The first woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai where people received the law that enslaved them.
Gal 4:27 NLT
As Isaiah said,
“Rejoice, O childless woman,
you who have never given birth!
Break into a joyful shout,
you who have never been in labor!
For the desolate woman now has more children
than the woman who lives with her husband!”
Rejoice! Rejoice over the finished work!
Isaiah 54:2
“Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
Prepare for the miracle. Prepare for the growth! More than Hagar
God do everything for you and in you
It will be spontaneous in your heart
Just like Issac, you are born supernaturally
What is impossible with man is possible with God!
Issac was born out of promise
All you need to do is to show up.
We are all children of promise.
Gal 4:28-29 NLT
28 And you, dear brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, just like Isaac. 29 But you are now being persecuted by those who want you to keep the law, just as Ishmael, the child born by human effort, persecuted Isaac, the child born by the power of the Spirit
It is always the child of the law persecute the child of grace
Their mama is Mount Sinai
Our mama is Sarah. The true wife of Abraham
It is people who share the same heavenly Father but not the same mother.
“But what do the Scriptures say about that? “Get rid of the slave and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the free woman’s son.””
Galatians 4:30 NLT
Luke 15:24
for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
People who are legalistic don’t understand the sound of music
Luke 15:29
So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.
He used the word “never”
He has no closeness with his father. He feels ill at ease with the presence of his father. He was trying to qualify for his blessings.
Luke 15:31
“And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.
His father called him “son”
“Your brother”
He called his brother “this son of yours”
But his father called him “your brother” and called him “son”
Son here is child (not adult, and thus can’t inherit at that point)
You cannot inherit with a spirit of slave
We are dead to the law
We are dead to sin
Hebrews 5:12-13
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
When you hear the word righteousness, what do you think?
You think is something you must do or to receive?
Righteousness is a gift
Hebrews 5:13 NET
13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant
We must understand righteousness is a gift
Romans 5:17
For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
The body of Christ is coming into maturity
Song of Songs 4:2
Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep
Which have come up from the washing,
Every one of which bears twins,
And none is barren among them.
Genesis 21:8-10
Hagar and Ishmael Depart
(Gal. 4:21–30)
So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.”
Ishmael was 13 years older than Issac
“But what do the Scriptures say about that? “Get rid of the slave and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the free woman’s son.””
Galatians 4:30 NLT
We cannot inherit anything God has as long as we are in the law
Our challenge comes from the people who share the same Father but different mother
The body of Christ comes into maturity
Weaned – Gamal
Gimel
Gamal means to deal bountifully to reward to supply
Abba – we are all stepping into the door of grace
God is dealing with you bountifully
By opening the door bountifully to grace
The very first mentioned of ℓσνє in the bible
Take your son (Issac) your only son the son you loved
The Father gave up His Son for us.
See how the Father loves us
Now we know He loves us because He did not withheld His Son the only Son the Son He loves.
When she heard the servant talked about Issac, she fell in ℓσνє with him. She fell off her camel and into Issac.
When we rapture the body is more real than this body
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Make sure we have the same mother. It has to be Sarah and not Hagar
