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Introduction

Well last week we had the blessed opportunity to study the idea of the Judgment seat of Christ and what that looks like for the Christian believer.

And while I did try to get all the way through the message, there were a few topics and questions left unanswered for a few of you.

While I did think about trying to go back through some of the questions that were raised throughout the week, my heart kept going back to Galatians.

This week I thought about going through some of the text that some of you had brought to my attention over the las

So with that in mind this morning, lets open our bibles to the book of Galatians.

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Read and pray.

Let me ask you a question:

When you think about this wonderful plan of redemption that we have in Christ, do you realize that it is all of God?

That this redemption and Christ’ atonement for sin was not something that somehow crept into the plan later on after countless many generations failed.

But instead, God in His riches and His mercy set in motion this plan of redemption long before your time on this earth ever came to be.

Before your mother’s mother ever even had the thought of being a mother, God had set in motion a plan to bring you unto Himself.

Paul here in this passage takes something very familiar to us and he reveals to the Galatians the inner-working promise of God.

And that idea is the idea of a covenant.

Now many of us know what a covenant is although we may not know it by that term.

When you think of the term covenant what probably comes to your mind is the idea of the marriage covenant.

A time when you and your spouse stood before the Lord and made vows both to one another and to the Lord.

Vows which said you would remain faithful to that person.

That throughout all of life’s ups and downs, you would remain beside them, regardless of what life may throw your way.

That in sickness, you will remain beside them through all the trials that will come their way.

That in health, you would remain steadfast and enjoy those seasons of life.

In the midst of poverty or in wealth, you two would be united to one another, for better and for worse, till death when you will then part.

That is what many of us think of when we think of a covenant.

We would think of a Covenant as being between two people or two parties.

An obligation made between two parties where they both faithfully agree to do something for the mutual benefit of one another.

Yet in that idea of a covenant, both people bring something to the table.

In a marriage covenant you have two people professing their love towards one another for the rest of their life.

Both parties benefit from that covenant remaining steadfast.

God will always keep His Word