Turn please to Romans chapter 7 and Galatians 3. In other words open your

Bibles to Romans 7 and then put your little string marker thing or a bulletin or something at Galatians 3. So you can

flip over Galatians 3 and let me tell you thank you for bringing your

Bibles. I really appreciate you bringing your Bibles. I think it's a good habit to get into to bring our

Bibles and to turn to scripture and it helps us to read our Bible I think during

the week. We're in a series called Overwhelmed by Grace.

And where this is the third message in the series.

I decided to do a little test.

I said to my wife, this was a few years ago when I was preaching on Grace probably about five years ago

I said I want to ask you a doctrinal question that's a big word doctrinal question so

it kind of put her on edge you know know, and so she said, okay, I said, are we under the law?

Real quickly, she said, no.

And so then I wanted to mess with her a little bit, you know, so I said no and then she went,

well, sort of.

So I said, Sort of.

So I said, sort of?

She said, well, not really.

So I said, not really? And she said, oh you're the preacher, you tell me.

And I thought about what she said, and thought you know what that's that's the problem right there

What she said she didn't realize it what she said that's the problem we the preachers haven't told you.

We are very confused in the church about law and grace.

And so I'm asking a very simple question,

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