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All right, welcome back to The Daily Blade. We have made it in my time together all the way

to Galatians chapter four. That is where we will spend the week. Day one, Galatians 4, verse

one. Now, what you've got to remember here, I know there's been a gap in between me talking,

but you've got to remember that by the time you get to Galatians chapter 4,

that Paul is talking about the role of the law in our lives as a babysitter or a guardian that

had had a point and a purpose. It was to make sure that we made it to the point where we could hear

the gospel and be free to be children of God. It was also there to tell on us, to point out all the ways in our lives to help us realize that we are sinners.

With that in mind, Paul continues in the letter, chapter four, verse one.

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave.

In other words, you were not free when you were

children under the care of a guardian. Even though you're going to be the heir and everything that

your parents has is supposed to be yours one day, you're not that yet because the guardian or the

babysitter is in charge of you. He says, so I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child,

is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything. But he is under guardians and

managers until the date set by his father. In the same way, we also, when we were children,

were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

That means before you came to know Christ, you and I were slaves to the enemy.

We were slaves to our flesh.

We were slaves to the ways of this world.

And before Christ came, the people of God were under the law as a babysitter, preparing us for

the Messiah that would come and fulfill that law.

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