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All right, day two, Galatians chapter five, we're going to pick

it up in verse two. Paul says, look, I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision,

Christ will be of no advantage to you. In other words, again, in the church of Galatia,

some Judaizers had moved in,

and they were teaching the church that belief in Jesus, life, death, and resurrection was not enough

to save you. You had to add this religious ritual that was a symbol of God's covenant with

the nation of Israel, that you had to be circumcised first in order

and in addition to what Christ has done for you. And so what Paul is saying is that if you accept

that, if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage of you because what you're saying

to him is when you pushed up on your nail pierce feet and says it is finished, you did not

completely finish the work. You did not fully redeem me. You did not fully pay for my sin.

Now I have to do something to add to what you are doing. And so if you accept circumcision,

Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is

obligated to keep the whole law. Then he says in verse four, you are severed from Christ. This is an

intentional pun. The word here severed means to be cut off. And so again, we're going to talk about this

tomorrow, but this phrase is a little offensive

and a little vulgar. What he's saying is, if you think it's Jesus plus anything, then you have

completely missed everything about the gospel. He says, you are severed from Christ. You who would

be justified by the law, you have fallen away from grace.

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