This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we continue our journey through Galatians by completing the fourth chapter, talking

about the importance of covenants and how they are relevant to different audiences.

Alright, so Paul has explained to us the purpose of the law, kind of the part it played.

He's been talking to us about the calling that the Jews have in the world, but Paul is

going to keep moving. He has to keep moving all this train of thought keeps raising questions

that Paul has to keep answering. And so he continues to speak to the God-fearing Gentiles

in Galatia who are tempted to convert to Judaism and having made the case that in this new

Jesus reality, everybody who wants to have faith in Christ is a child of Abraham, Benai

of Raham through faith. There is no distinction between gender, social status, covenantable

longing. He said, no Jew nor Greek slave nor free male nor female. He then wants to know

why they would exchange just a pulse. Paul's kind of going in and out. He's got these

waves. He's like really frustrated and angry and then he's like, all right, let's talk

about this. I think it's fired up again. He's like, so why in the world? He's about ready

to get fired up again. So go ahead and give us the first little bit of what we're looking

at here, which is not the beginning of chapter four, but about eight verses.

Normally, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not

gods. But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning

back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over

again? You are observing special days and months and seasons and years. I fear for you

that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

So Paul refers to their former days. Remember, I think an episode or two ago, we talked about

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