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Welcome to Fellowship Espanol!

We are glad you are here today as we start a new series called Live Sent.

Our mission as a church, the reason why Fellowship exist is “to make disciples who live by God’s Grace and for his Glory at home and across the world.”

How we try to accomplish this is through

Connection - we want to connect people to God through his son Jesus Christ and we want to connect people to the church.

Transformation - the reason why is so people can be transformed by God through his word in safe communities like D-Groups, Bloom, FSM, Fellowship YA

Multiplication - so that together we can live sent and disciple others to connect, transform and multiply.

Through the summer we want to look at what it means to live sent, we will look at different people in Biblical History like Paul.

Esther, Jonah and others to see how they have lived sent.

To start our series we are going to look at Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, our ultimate example of some one who lived sent.

Open your Bible to Gal 4:1-7.

We are jumping in the middle of Paul’s argument to the Galatian church.

The Galatian church was deceived by some false teachers known as the Judaizers, they taught that you needed the Law + the Gospel to be saved.

Paul is making the argument that the function of the Law was to point us to Jesus, it was a temporary guardian until Jesus came, who is the offspring of Abraham, if /when you place your faith in Christ you become one of Abraham’s offspring and heir according to the promise.

What promise?

All the way back in Genesis 12 & Genesis 15, God promised that Abraham’s offspring will be like the stars of heaven and the sands of the earth.

Paul writing to the church in Galatia wants them to understand why Jesus was sent because they have fallen into false doctrine which is enslaving them.

In our passage today we will see why Jesus was sent, why the Spirit is sent and how we should live sent.

Galatians 4:1–5 (ESV)

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, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Digo, pues: Mientras el heredero es menor de edad[a], en nada es diferente del siervo[b], aunque sea el dueño[c] de todo, 2 sino que está bajo guardianes y tutores[d] hasta la edad señalada[e] por el padre.

3 Así también nosotros, mientras éramos niños, estábamos sujetos a servidumbre bajo las cosas elementales[f] del mundo.

4 Pero cuando vino la plenitud[g] del tiempo, Dios envió a su Hijo, nacido de mujer, nacido bajo la ley, 5 a fin de que redimiera a los que estaban bajo la ley, para que recibiéramos la adopción de hijos.

I. Jesus Was Sent To Redeem and Adopt His Children - (Gal 4:1-5)

A. The Example of an Heir

Paul begins with the example of an heir, someone set to receive an inheritance.

Paul says their is no difference between the child who is set to receive an inheritance and a slave.

Why does Paul say this?

Because neither has possession of the inheritance.

Although the son will be, one day the owner of everything, until that day comes, a day set by his father, he is under guardians and managers, just like the slave.

B. In The Same Way

In the same way we were enslaved to what Paul calls the “elementary principles of the world”.

What does this mean?

Based on the context Paul is saying we as human beings our bound by sin, we are sinners because we sin, we rebel against God, we chose our own ways even though they go against God’s revelation, God’s law which is our guardian our manager.

Because we sin we, God’s law condemns us, so we are bound by sin and judgement from God’s law.

But God…

C. But when the Fullness of Time had come...

At just the right time, God sent forth his Son, which is Jesus.

Now here is where we have to pay attention, and see how Jesus lived sent.

What is the first thing Paul says?

1. Born of a woman

Think about that for a minute, The Father, The Son and the Spirit are communing in eternity past, before the foundation of the world and set a plan in motion where God, who is eternal, who created everything, would be born of a woman.

The uncreated becomes part of creation, sent on a mission by the Father.

We learn from Philippians 2 that Jesus being born of a woman does’t mean he gave up his divinity, but that he took on a human body and listen here, because I think this is very crucial to understanding how Jesus lived sent, taking the form of a servant.

Jesus himself says “the Son of Man came to serve, not to be served”.

We see this throughout his life;

a. Jesus Lived Sent by loving and serving others regardless of who they were.

We see this through his interactions with people, especially to those society would throw away as an outcast, sinners, prostitutes, tax collectors, the demon possessed.

b.

Jesus lived sent by being obedient to the will of His Father.

c. Jesus lived sent by having the right attitude and motivations, humbling himself.

Jesus becomes a man and goes through the human experience, he sweats, bleeds, gets tired, gets hungry, goes to the bathroom, suffers, is tempted by satan, experiences the death of loved ones, experiences grief and sadness, experiences loneliness.

d.

Jesus lived sent by setting free those held captive by sin.

e. Jesus lived sent by doing good.

Jesus showed what it was to be truly human, the way God intended, before Adam sinned.

Jesus also humbled himself to live the human experience, to be 100% God, yet 100% man, obedient to the Father.

Jesus is the ultimate example of what it looks like to live sent in a sinful and fallen world.

2. Born Under the Law

The second phrase Paul uses here is “born under the law”.

Which is another astounding statement because the God who created the law, now submits himself to live under the law.

This is very important for the church in Galatia to understand and very important for us to understand.

Jesus had to be born under the law, to live under the law, and to fulfill the law.

That is bring the law to completion because no one else, but Jesus, can live God’s law perfectly.

Jesus born of a woman and born under the law lives the law to perfection.

Why?