All right, let's get into the word. Galatians chapter four today, we will, Lord willing, finish the chapter.

We're going through Galatians chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And our text will be verses 15 through 31.

We'll pick it up where we left off last week. So I'll have your turn there if you're not there already.

And once you do, if you're able, I'll ask you to stand.

You can follow along as I read.

If not, that's all right where you're seated.

Beginning in verse 15, the apostle Paul is really showing us a side to himself in this letter to the churches in the area known at the time as Galatia.

And he's really, I think, hurting.

And he's talking to them about how he once really had a good relationship with them,

but he does not any longer have that relationship with them.

So he says verse 15,

where then is your blessing of me now?

I can testify that if you could have done so,

you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Have I now become your enemy?

By telling you the truth?

Those people, speaking of the Judaizers, are zealous to win you over but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us

so that you may have zeal for them. It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good,

and to be so always, not just when I am with you, my dear children, verse 19,

for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, speaks to the love

that he had for them. How I wish I could be with you now and change my tone,

because I am perplexed about you. Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware

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