Leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. I get it. It's annoying. Everybody

asks, but I'm going to tell you why. When you give us a positive review, what that does is it

triggers the algorithm so that our podcast shows up on more people's news feeds. You and I both know

that this ministry is willing to talk about things that most ministries aren't. We need

this content for the glory of God to reach more people's ears. It is this impulse that Paul

speaks to at the start of this chapter, Israel, and in fact, all of humanity was in slavery in the

old creation.

Mankind was under guardians and stewards.

Who were they?

The answer has already been given by Paul in Galatians chapter 3, verse 19.

The law was appointed through angels.

And then again later in Galatians 4 verse 8, Paul points out that the Gentiles worship what are by nature not gods. In 1 Corinthians, chapter 10 verses 19 through 22, the Gentile pagan worship was worship of demons.

The Babelic old creation was one in which humanity was subject to the heavenly host,

and Christ has redeemed both Jew and Gentile from this slavery. The elementary principles of the

world of Galatians 4.3 is this social, political, and religious order. Israel's, of course,

was different. The law was divinely given and good and righteous, but it was unable and never intended to redeem humanity from this

bondage. Only Christ could do this, which leads Paul directly to Galatians 44, that the time was finally fulfilled,

and the father sent forth the son to be born of a woman, fully man, and born under the law,

within the elementary principles of the world, to redeem those under the law, and to make

them heirs of the world with him.

Thank you. to make them heirs of my forte with, you know, the unhinged 40-N type stuff.

But it's, of course, biblically true.

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