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Fairy Tales
When you think of a fairy tale what do you think of?
Most of us envision the Disney versions that we grew up with.
Something has happened, and
Cute
Flowery cartoons.
Very innocent.
There’s a curse, but it’s nothing serious.
It’s mostly a plot device to move the story.
Yet, are you aware of how much Disney cleaned up these old stories.
Had Disney told these stories the way they were originally told … they certainly wouldn’t be kids stories.
They would have been horror movies.
For example, think of Cinderella.
Cinderella loses her glass slipper.
After the ball, the prince and his steward travel the country, trying to fit the glass slipper on maiden’s foot who it belonged, trying to find the one that stole his heart.
When he came to Cinderella’s house, he first went to her step sisters.
One step sister cut off her toes to fit into the slipper.
The other sister cut off her heel to fit into the slipper.
Oh and the happily ever after?
At the wedding the stepsisters were there, but birds pecked out their eyes.
Sounds more like an Alfred Hitchcock movie then the fairy tale we watched.
Or there is The Little Mermaid.
You know the story, a mermaid falls in love with a human prince.
She gives up her voice in order to get legs and try to win his love.
What we never learned is that with those legs came extreme pain.
A draw back was every step she made felt like she was walking on shards of glass.
As far as the Little Mermaid’s happily ever after … it’s not there.
In Hans Christian Andersen’s version, the prince doesn’t marry Ariel, he marries someone else.
She ends up throwing herself into the sea and turning into sea foam.
Sounds like one of those depressing psychological thrillers.
How about Snow White?
You have Snow White, and an evil queen.
The evil queen asks a hunter to take Snow White into the forest and kill her.
This happened in the cartoon.
What didn’t happen is that the witch asked for the hunter to bring back Snow Whites lung’s and liver.
He ends up not killing her.
But to fool the witch into thinking he did, he brings back a boar’s lungs and liver.
The witch eats the lungs and liver thinking they are Snow White’s.
That’s certainly disturbing.
The queen tries to kill Snow White a couple times.
In the end Snow White is given a poisoned apple, but she chokes on it and it gets lodged in her throat and she passes out.
She is put into glass coffin.
The handsome prince comes by, sees her in the coffin and wants to take her away … in the coffin.
Like she’s some kind of trophy to put on display.
Or if you know Star Wars, like Lando in Jabba’s Palace.
While she is being moved, the carriers trip, causing the poisoned apple to become dislodged from her throat.
Snow White wakes up, and marries the prince.
But wait, there’s more.
At the wedding the evil queen is invited.
But she is punished by being forced to wear burning-hot iron shoes and dance still she dies.
We have grown up with the cute Disney version of fairy tales, and are completely unfamiliar with the dark and deadly side to them.
We think of fairy tales as innocent.
We have been looking at Galatians.
Paul who appear to have been put under a curse.
And not a Disney version of a curse.
But an ugly Hans Christian Anderson version of a curse.
Paul is responding to the curse that has struck the Galatians.
Let’s read about the curse and the cure of the Galatians.
We are in .
Read Galatians 3:1-5.
I hope you hear the outrage in Paul’s words here in .
When I read about Cinderella’s step sisters cutting off their toes and heels, I thought:
What’s wrong with you guys.
How could you do that.
It’s ugly.
It’s disturbing.
It’s angering.
Paul is asking, “What’s happened to you?”
He says, “Who has bewitched you?”
I think of the old show, Bewitched.
Samantha was a witch, and she’d wiggle her knows, and things would happen.
Strange things would happen.
Paul’s wondering, “Did Samantha wiggle her nose at you?”
How did you fall under this curse?
The Galatians are Christians.
In he says, “You were running well.
Who hindered you from obeying the truth?”
You started so good … and something happened.
Somewhere along the way they stopped living by the Gospel.
Somewhere alone the way, they stopped living in faith.
They stopped living under the refreshing power of the Gospel and living under the works of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
And instead, they’ve started living by works, by the law.
In an effort to be religious, they’ve
And I think of us.
I think of you.
I’ve heard Christians sometimes say they don’t feel the passion like they used to feel.
Think back on your conversion.
Think about what it was like when you first became a Christian.
It was exciting.
It was scary.
It was exhilarating.
And it’s been a long time since you had a thrill in your Christian life.
And like the Righteous Brothers song, “You’ve lost that loving feeling … whoah that loving feeling.”
And this is where people get into trouble.
They’ve lost that loving feeling, and they are trying to get it back.
In an effort to spice up their spiritual life, they try something new.
They change churches.
They change friends.
Sometimes, they even start drinking, or using something to alter their psyche.
They think that these actions are the cure to their curse.
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