When we hear the word freedom, we usually think about having the ability to do whatever we want to do, or whatever we think is best.

However, God frees us from our sin and from the law's condemnation, so that we might live in a relationship with Him, and walk an obedience to His Word, even when it's difficult.

In this message from Galatians 4 verses 8-31, David Platt highlights the freedom the gospel brings in terms of our relationship with God.

We no longer live for fading earthly pleasures because we've been freed to live in light of our new Heavenly Home.

This is the Radical with David Platt podcast. Here is David with a message titled, Free to Grow.

Let's see Tiena Sto Biblio, Yosfero, Gracie.

I invite you to turn with me to Galatians chapter 4.

I'll pull out those notes that you have from the worship guide you received when you came in.

This text that we are going to study this morning together in God's Word is a fitting conclusion to the end of this year.

I was thinking back this week over our year together in the Word, and it's been a challenging year.

On a variety of different levels, we've been from sin in the camp to looking at the gospel,

court truths of the gospel, and really asking what kind of gospel have we believed?

We believed a biblical gospel. What does it really mean to be saved?

We've seen how that gospel affects our marriages, families, parenting, and affects the way we approach issues like divorce or homosexuality.

We've seen how the gospel affects the way we walk through suffering, and if that wasn't heavy enough,

then we looked at how the gospel confronts us in our materialism and comfortability in this world,

and looked at what happens to a billion plus people in the world today who have still not heard the gospel.

It's been a heavy year, and a lot of challenging truths that we have seen.

It's fitting that we would come to Galatians 4, which, to be honest, the passage we're going to look at today is a pretty complicated text,

and much like some of the other texts we've looked at in Galatians, but that's not the reason I think it's a fitting conclusion.

Why I think this text, in particular, is a fitting conclusion, is because we're going to see, in the verses we're about to read,

a glimpse that we don't get like this in many other places in the New Testament into the heart of Paul as a pastor,

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