Hey, everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. And do you remember the thing from your civics class, well, if you're an American at least, that talked about this provision in the supreme law of our land about no ex post facto laws? Remember that one? I think it's one of those. It's just got such a nice rhythm to it. I mean, it's Latin,

sticks in your brain. Maybe you forget a lot of the other things, but ex post facto,

you sound real smart. And it's like, I remember that one. If you remember it, you know that the deal with the Constitution prohibiting ex post facto laws. The deal there is that you can't go and

write a law after the fact, and now somebody's guilty of that law that you just wrote. So let's say that I don't like pickleball, and I become the president of everything,

and I get a Congress and a Senate who's willing to play ball with me, and I'm like, we're going to

retroactively make pickleball illegal forever because I hate that noise. Also, you're taking up all of my tennis courts.

So past the law, we got a whole bunch of sad tennis players gathered around me in the Oval

office who are disappointed by the effect that pickleball has had on their lives and they're all

clapping together and they're wearing their headbands

and their wristbands and they're real short shorts and everything. They got weird bulges in

their pockets where their tennis balls are. But they're all really excited because I signed the

law that makes pickle ball illegal, effective forever ago. Well, you can't do that. Our Constitution

makes it so you can't do that. You can't

make people guilty of a law that hasn't happened yet. Likewise, we are in the middle of a little

aside in Galatians chapter 3 where Paul is using an example from everyday life, the

example of a contract, a deal that is binding to find a touchpoint, a common point for his audience to be like, hey, we all understand how this works.

We're talking ultimately here in Galatians about what the deal is between God and man.

And there's a couple of really big deals that are in view. Anytime we have that

discussion, it's the covenant that God made with Abraham. And then 400-ish years after the fact,

it's the covenant that God made with Moses. So Paul's getting relatively esoteric here in Galatians

315. Yesterday, we imagine that he's flipping his hat around backwards

in his chair and he's sitting there like the cool youth pastor, the cool teacher. He just wants to

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