To live under law is to live as a slave.

It is to live a life in spiritual bondage.

But Dr. Tony Evans says Christians haven't been left in bondage.

They've been adopted by grace.

You're not in a master-slave relationship with God.

You're in a daddy-kid relationship with God. This is the alternative

broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Some Christians live life in spiritual slavery, not truly believing God has already set them free.

Today, Dr. Evans explains what it means to be adopted by grace and fully embraced as sons

and daughters of God. Let's join him as he takes us to the book of Galatians to talk about our

new identity in Christ. Paul is writing to the church at Galatia. This is in Turkey, modern-day Turkey,

and he is writing to them because the faith is being undermined by the Judaizers. Jews who are

trying to bring people back under the law.

And Paul wants to write to tell them, that's going backwards.

You're in a new administration now called grace.

Grace is unmerited favor. It cannot be earned. It can only be accessed.

You access grace through faith. Faith accesses grace. What you do out of faith involves works.

So works are tied to faith, they're not tied to grace. So if you get that flow, that's in Ephesians 289, by grace you are saved by faith, not according to your works, so that no man should boast. Then he comes in verse 10, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. So he goes from grace to faith to works. So you can take a mountain

off of your head. You don't have to work to gain God's favor. So he goes further and he wants to

get into what we introduced last time in verse 29 of chapter 3. And if you belong to Christ,

you're Christians, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to the promise. And if you remember, he skips Moses. He says,

no, don't go back to Moses. You are connected to Abraham. Now, you're not connected to Moses.

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