Turn with me in your Bibles to Galatians chapter 3 verses 23 through 29 and follow along as I read that for you.

Galatians chapter 3, starting at verse 23.

Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. So that the law was

our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian. For in Christ Jesus,

you are all sons of God through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,

there is neither male nor female.

For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring.

Errors according to the promise. I promised you last week that I would pick up at 1st Timothy 2.13 and 14 and I will. I thought that the message would develop into Galatians 3 and it didn't

Therefore I'm not going to say anything about what John just read, except this.

Galatians 328, there is neither male or female does not mean there are no role

distinctions in marriage and in the church and I think in one sentence the easiest way to demonstrate that would be to say that if you deny it, you will wind up affirming homosexuality.

I have watched my friends from seminary, I have watched evangelical leaders move

in exactly that direction. If you take that verse, there is neither male nor female to its logical conclusion along those lines, you will affirm lesbianism and you will affirm homosexuality in the end which the Bible clearly indites as sin. What it means when it says

there is neither male nor female is not that you can marry a man if you're a man because there's no difference

between a man and a woman or that you can marry a woman if you're a woman because there is no difference

between a man and a woman.

It means that before God you stand on level ground. You are equally saved, equally

heirs, equally clothed with Christ, equally baptized into Christ, equal heirs of the kingdom, equal full of joy, and many other ways

that I've tried to lay open in the past.

That's the end of my sermon on Galatians 328.

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