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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We are, as you know, in the book of Galatians.

And we're going to go back there this morning so you can open your Bible to Galatians chapter 4.

We come to a passage this morning that is very remarkable.

Unless you have been in the past, been in a church where someone has taught the book of Galatians,

you have probably never heard a sermon on this portion of Scripture.

No one would voluntarily preach on this.

You have to be basically forced into it.

And that is a shame in some ways.

The reason I say that is because there seems to be a lot of confusion about this passage.

It is on its surface complex.

But it also yields incredibly powerful blessing.

It is Galatians 4 verse 21 down through chapter 5 verse 1, which is where this section actually

ends.

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