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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

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

We are studying the book of Galatians and you want to grab your Bible and open it to the book of Galatians to the fifth chapter.

There is a text that I want to address to you that if any text in this book kind of stands alone, it would be this one.

And it's in chapter five verses thirteen to sixteen.

It is a very, very important text.

There's so much in just those very few verses that I'm not going to be able to get anywhere near through it even this morning.

Let me draw your attention to Galatians five in verse thirteen and I'll read down to verse sixteen.

For you are called to freedom brethren.

Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word in the statement, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you're not consumed by one another.

But I say walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

This is a defining portion of Scripture on how we understand freedom in the life of a Christian.

There has been through the centuries actually much discussion about what Christian freedom is.

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