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Where can I keep looking at Galatians around it and buy it by Jesus and they just want to make you aware that you can send in questions about at John's talk as about anything else that's being Golden City on Sligh.

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That sounds brilliant Spider-Man.

That's a personal favorite of mine.

Harry Potter.

Lord of the Rings.

Got some really good stories.

But my name is John.

I'm part of the team here and it's everybody we're glad you could join us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was Harry Potter.

Actually, to such an extent.

That was a little bit of a nerd.

So I had like, the memorabilia.

I had the props.

I had the robe.

I would show a picture of that but it's a little embarrassing so I'm not going to

Maybe on my Facebook, but hopefully not.

But the reason I ask this question is because stories are incredibly powerful, you know, they were they impact us and in many different ways in a lot of ways, they form us and and they make us who we are.

So, what's really interesting is, I was reading a book on Christian character formation recently and we talked about this kind of field called narrative psychology it.

So this is a relatively new field and the idea is that this psychologist or setting how the stories we tell about ourselves actually form of us how they affect our Behavior, our identities, even even our memories things of that nature.

In fact, stories.

Are you in parts of our personalities?

One of the leading kind of narrative psychologist.

This guy named Dan McAdam says that he says, wife stories, do not simply reflect personality.

They are personality or more accurately their important parts of Personality along with others.

Looks like dispositional traits in goals and values.

So these things really do impact us.

He's basically just saying, hear the stories.

We tell about ourselves even affect our personalities.

But I don't think it's just the stories we tell about ourselves.

I think it's the stories that we learn to love and cherish.

So recently.

I read a New York Times op-ed by the british-indian novelist Salman Rushdie, and and he actually makes this claim.

He says, I believe that the books and stories we fall in love, with make us who we are or not to claim too much.

The Beloved tale becomes, a part of the way in which we understand things and make judgments and choices in our daily lives.

And I think he's right.

Just a little interesting.

Tidbit.

Spider-Man was my favorite superhero growing up.

And it's interesting that in the comic books.

He was actually biology teacher, will actually was a biology teacher for a little while and I'm not saying those things are correlated.

It is interesting to think about but then of course, think of the power of Disney movies, I mean, what little girl doesn't want to be a Disney princess.

I mean, sometimes I want to be a Disney princess, but even, you know, was the superhero, little boys want to be a superhero, these stories really do affect us, and they do shape us.

But not only that, their shape cultures, they Shake Nations, you know, for example, for the Jewish people, the story of Abraham, their Founding Father actually shaped, then it shipped them to their at their core and you do the Jewish people call themselves that the children of Abraham, they called them, you know, that the guy that they worshipped was the god of Abraham.

This this was an important story that just shipped them to their core.

I mean, we're actually going to see you today is passage is a little bit of a fight over the story.

So the Apostle Paul is actually trying to tell the Galatians that there's some rival teachers who are using the story to Abraham to tell them that they have to do these things and come to find out that the Apostle Paul is going to use the story of Abraham and say, no that's not the case.

It's almond invite him up and he's going to read for us.

Solso Abraham believed in God and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Understand then that those who have faith are children of Abraham scripture for sore, but good to justify the dentist by faith and announce the gospel in advance to Abraham only sessions will be pressed through you.

So those who rely on face, I'll blast along with Abraham of the Manning face for all, who rely on the works of the law and Iraq us.

As it is written, is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law.

Siri no one who realizes on the lawyers Justified before God because of righteousness shall live by faith.

The Lord is not based on face.

On the contrary.

It says the person who does these things will live by them Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by the coming across Perez for it is written, has everyone who I want to hear redeem does in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so we might receive the promise of the spirit.

Well, thank you very much, Tim.

Okay.

So what are we just read?

What in the world is going on?

So just to give you a little bit of Trying to get my script open that we go.

So what's going on here?

So if you remember the Apostle Paul is actually riding to the Galatians because they kind of veered off track on their faith.

During the time.

They were being led astray by these rival teachers, who were basically saying they need to follow the story of Abraham.

In a particular way, has been doing up until this point.

He's been mainly doing two things, and that is kind of showing the authority that he has to speak into their lives and kind of to challenge them.

So this is just an outline of where we've been and where we're going.

So Paul kind of makes the argument.

He's like, look, I have the authority to speak into your, your, your lives, for two reasons.

First.

He saw the Risen Jesus, we actually had an experience of Jesus.

And so, of course, he has a little bit of authority, did to speak on the things of Jesus, but then Paul was also seen as an equal by the apostles who were the leaders of the early church.

Fossils actually confirm that, that Paul wasn't equal, Paul was an apostle.

But then also, Paul tells the story of how he had this confrontation with with Peter.

And if you don't know anything about Peter, Peter was kind of the top heavyweight Apostle of Jesus called him.

The rock that, you know, this this was a big deal that that Paul was able to call out Peter for doing something wrong.

So, of course, if Paul can take on, Simon The Rock Peter, he's going to be able to speak into the spiritual lives of the Galatians.

But now we get to chapter 3 and in chapter 3 this is where Paul starts to give us his argument.

So the other the other teachers were telling the galatian.

Believers.

Look if you truly wanted to be connected to Jesus, if you truly want to have faith in Jesus and been faithful to Jesus.

You actually need to be connected to Abraham.

And what they what they said was to be connected to Abraham, you had to do two things.

You had to follow the Jewish law was called the Torah, and you had to receive the sign of circumcision circumcision.