Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

I'm crazy about our guests for the next two days. This powerhouse leader, Bible study teacher,

and mentor Jada Edwards, brought the heat to

the if conference stage this year, which is where I saw her for the first time, and I knew then

I had to have her on the show. She brings us a powerful word in her guest-hosted show today,

and tomorrow too, plus we have some fun in our interview about, among other things, her new Bible study with two other women I deeply respect, Casey Van Norman and Nicole Johnson called Known by Name, a study of Rahab.

So much goodness from this godly lady truly free in

Christ where Paul tells us that once we were under the custody of the law, the law served

its purpose. It was a guardian like a tutor to us. But now we are sons of God through faith

in Christ Jesus, through the promise of Abraham. And so he is walking in Galatians through

this contrast between slavery and sonship. And when I first started reading this and studying,

I thought, well, of course, if I'm a believer, I know I'm not a slave, I know I'm free. But the

Galasian church were believers too. So I started wondering why Paul needed to give them this message.

And truly, they had begun to creep back into some old behaviors, even though they had this new freedom in Christ.

And specifically, they were under the influence of Judaizers, some Jewish leaders who grew up Orthodox Jews but had become Christians, had become

Christ followers, but now we're starting to mix back ceremony, a lot of things like circumcision,

mixed that in and say you need Jesus plus some of these rituals. And so the Galatians were

falling under this kind of legalistic rule-based Christianity. And Paul was outraged. And as I read through

this particular letter, his passion for this church, he's not soft-stepping it. It is like he's trying

to snatch them up and shake them and look them in the eyes and say, this is bigger than just you

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