Amen. Amen. God's on the move. Amen, church. It's good to celebrate God's faithfulness to his church. And God is on the move through the Church of 1122. And I'm glad that you're here.

We are in the 14th week of a study through the New Testament book of Galatians. And so it's fitting that we celebrated Independence Day as a country this weekend.

I hope you had a great time celebrating with family and friends and doing all the things, fireworks and barbecue ribs, whatever it is you do.

I hope you did it well.

The book of Galatians is historically known as the Christian's Declaration of Independence.

And so it fits that we're finishing it up this weekend.

It's my honor to be able to close out the study in Galatians.

And so if you have your Bibles, you can go ahead and open those up.

If you don't have your Bible, there's one near you and a seat back in front of you or around you.

It's blue.

You can take that home if you don't have a Bible that's our gift to you I'm

gonna pick up here in a few minutes and at the end of chapter 5 of Galatians but

between here and there I want to give you five verses from Galatians that are like a

recap of what we've studied so far in the book and you can highlight these and

keep them close so when you come back to Galatians, you'll remember kind of

the heart and the premise of the book. And it starts in Galatians chapter 1, verse 10. The Apostle Paul

writes this. He says, for am I now seeking the approval of man or of God? Or am I still trying

to please man? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond servant or a servant of

Christ.

Is there anybody here who's ever been through the stage of life where you've lived and you've put your happiness in someone else's hands?

Where you've said, hey, my purpose in life is to make other people happy.

If I can just please others and others are pleased with me, then I will fully and finally be content. If anybody's ever lived that way for any period of time,

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