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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now, for this morning in our time in the Word of God, we want to return to the book of Galatians, Galatians,

an epistle, a letter written by the great Apostle Paul to some churches in a region called

Galatia, around the Mediterranean.

We have been many months in this wonderful book and we have covered a lot of ground.

We're going to slow down a little bit now over the next few weeks because we have finally

come to verse 19 and 20.

And I want to look carefully at these two verses because I think they have some rather

mammoth implications for us individually and for the church at large in our day.

Galatians chapter 4, let me just read verses 19 and 20.

My children with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you.

But I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone for I am perplexed

about you.

Paul had poured his life at no small risk into the establishment of the churches in Galatia,

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