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Welcome to the Word of the Lord Endures Forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

The word for guardian here is an interesting one.

Pyragogos.

It denoted in Greek culture the adult who had charge of the boys to get them where they were supposed to go

and to protect them from being attacked by sexual predators.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church, past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the Book of Galatians.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God.

In our last study, St. Paul had appealed to the way human contracts work.

One party cannot just willy-nilly change such an agreement on a whim.

Rather, they have legal force once they've been ratified, no adding or

altering without consent. Paul lifts that whole idea up and applies it to the covenant with Abraham.

He first argued that those promises were made to Abraham and his offspring, or better, seed. He insists that the meaning here is not

collective, but singular, to one particular seed, that is, to Christ himself. And this promise was put

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