I am so thankful you are back with me to listen and to learn and to grow in your

faith with the morning mindset. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing the

morning mindset with others. The show listenership continues to grow. That means the

morning mindset families continue to grow and hopefully through what you're learning and hearing the

morning mindset means that believers in Christ are continuing to grow in their

faith. That is the goal of the morning mindset and I praise God for everything he's doing.

All right, let's dig into Galatians chapter four once again. We're going to begin in

verse four and read through verse seven. These are verses we looked at yesterday in the previous

episode, but we want to dig into a little deeper. Paul tells us that when the

fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman born under the law, to redeem those who are

under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons.

I'm going to stop there.

That's probably as far as we're going to get

because there's so much in this passage.

I mentioned yesterday that phrase,

the fullness of time means that in God's viewpoint Jesus came at just the perfect

time. Have you ever wondered about that? Have you ever wondered why he came when he did? Why didn't the father send him

sooner like way back in the time of the judges when things seem to be so bad? Why not

during the time of David? Why not during the time of David? Why not during the time of the exile when the people

of God were in Babylon, captive? You know, there's all kinds of questions about that, but Paul tells us right here, he

came when the fullness of time had come. So when everything had happened, that needed to happen or that God wanted to happen before Jesus came.

He sent forth his son and he describes him here in two different ways, born of a woman and born under the law. Okay now what does that

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