Who's Your Daddy?

Introduction

WHAT DOES WHO'S YOUR DADDY MEAN?

Someone asking Who’s your daddy? isn’t looking for an answer: They’re making a point about how great they are. It’s a sign of male dominance, insinuating the listener is a mere child.

Who’s your daddy? is a slang expression used to show dominance over someone else in an aggressive, playful, or sexual way.

Transition To The Body

Judaizer’s trying to control the Galatian believers through the circumcision and the law.

Troubling the people- Gal. 1

So called influential pillars & people of the church- Gal. 2

But the Church ought to have unity without conformity…

Body

Formation Of The Faith (Gal. 3:23-24)

Guarding of the Children Until Faith’s Arrival (vv23-24)

"When we read the Mosaic law we can see how every aspect of Jewish life was restricted, restrained and confined by the law. In this sense the law was a jailer over the Jews."

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Not the same as Christian formation!

Galatians 3:24 (IVPBBCNT): 3:24. “Put in charge” (NIV) is better translated “tutor” (NASB) or, better still, “guardian.” The slave assigned to this role would watch out for the student on his way to school and help him with his manners and schoolwork, but he was not the teacher himself. Children sometimes resented but often grew fond of their slave guardians and later freed them. Such guardians were also normally better educated than the free masses; the image is not intrinsically demeaning. But it was hardly the way most other Jewish teachers would have described the law. (They occasionally describe Moses as Israel’s “guardian” till Israel grew up. Philosophers spoke of philosophy as a “moral teacher,” and Judaism spoke of the law as a “teacher.”)

Galatians 3:23–25 (Galatians): The temporary function of the law is also described by the image of a disciplinarian. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ (v. 24). The NIV here is more a loose paraphrase than a word-for-word translation. The NRSV is an excellent, literal translation of this phrase: “Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came.” Behind the English word disciplinarian is the Greek word paidagōgos, from which we derive pedagogue.* The first meaning listed in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary for pedagogue is “a teacher of children or youth”; the second meaning given is “one (as a slave) having charge of a boy chiefly on the way to and from school in classical antiquity.” In Paul’s day the pedagogue was distinguished from the teacher (didaskalos). The pedagogue supervised, controlled and disciplined the child; the teacher instructed and educated him.

A fascinating dialogue between Socrates and a boy named Lysis highlights this distinction. Socrates begins the conversation by asking Lysis, “Do they [Lysis’s parents] let you control your own self, or will they not trust you in that either?”

“Of course they do not,” he replied.

“But someone controls you?”

“Yes,” he said, “my pedagogue here.”

“Is he a slave?”

“Why certainly; he belongs to us,” he said.

“What a strange thing,” I exclaimed: “a free man controlled by a slave! But how does this pedagogue exert his control over you?”

“By taking me to the teacher,” he replied.

Josephus tells us of a pedagogue who was found beating the family cook when the child under his supervision overate. The pedagogue himself was corrected with the words: “Man, we did not make you the cook’s pedagogue, did we? but the child’s. Correct him; help him!”

These examples of the use of the term pedagogue in Greek literature point to the common perception of this figure in the Hellenistic world: he was given the responsibility to supervise and discipline the conduct of children.

But Through Jesus Christ we have/obtain

Freedom Of The Faith (Gal. 3:25)

Illustration: The day most if not every teenager looks forward too…. Becoming an adult

John 8:34–38 ESV

34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

Fraternity (or Family) Of The Faith (Gal. 3:26-28)

Con- word-forming element meaning "together, with,"

1 : a group of people associated or formally organized for a common purpose, interest, or pleasure: such as

: a fraternal order or men’s student organization & name consisting of Greek letters

Adopted into the Family Faith (v. 26)- What?

Galatians 3:26 ESV

26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

How? In Christ Jesus through faith.

If adopted, then their is a parent who did the adopting. But the child must accept the parent

Cleaned & Clothed With Christ (v27)- How?

Galatians 3:27 ESV

27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Illustration: parents clean & clothe their children.

Cleanliness & condition clothes help the DCFS to determine if children are being properly cared for

What clothes does the world see you (or the church as a whole wearing)?

Galatians 5:1 ESV

1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13–17 ESV

13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Galatians 5:19–26 ESV

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Unity of the Family of Faith in Christ Jesus -(v28)- For?

Galatians 3:28 ESV

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

One- a single person or thing, with focus on quantitative aspect, one

One- in contrast to the parts, of which a whole is made up

Ephesians 4:5–6 ESV

5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Illustration: DNA or Distinguishing features of the family of Faith

Matthew 5:16 ESV

16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Father (Daddy) Of The Faith (Gal. 3:29-4:7)

Galatians 3:29–4:7 ESV

29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. 1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Regarding Abraham & What Jesus has made possible

Heirs of the promise- God is a promise keeper

Numbers 23:19 ESV

19 God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Redeemed for Adoption

Holy Spirit In Our Hearts

Crying: Abba! Father!

Illustration: Not every child can call me father, but now my children....This means something....

Matthew 23:9 ESV

9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Transition To The Close- Covered by the Blood of Jesus Christ

Illustration: Saved By The Fleece by Peter Grant once said in a sermon:

If you go to Scotland or anywhere there are a lot of sheep, sooner or later you will see a little lamb running around the field with what looks like an extra fleece tied onto its back. There are little holes in the fleece fore its four legs and usually a hole for its head. If you see a little lamb running around like that, that usually means its mother has died

Without the protection and nourishment of a mother, an orphaned lamb will die. If you try to introduce the orphaned lamb to another mother, the new mother will butt it away. She won’t recognize the lamb’s scent and will know the new baby is not one of her own lambs.

But thankfully, most flocks are large enough to have a ewe that recently lost a lamb. The shepherd skins the dead lamb and makes its fleece into a covering for the orphaned lamb. Then he takes the orphaned lamb to the mother whose baby just died. Now, when she sniffs the orphaned lamb, she smells her own lamb. Instead of butting the lamb away, she accepts it as one of her own.

In a similar way, we have become acceptable to God by being clothed with Christ.

Close- Our Faithful Father & LORD Jesus Christ

Galatians 4:4 ESV

4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

Hebrews 10:5 ESV

5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;

Romans 12:1–2 ESV

1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Luke 23:34 ESV

34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Luke 23:46 ESV

46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.