2.  Teaching assignments

3. THE BREAKERS

5.  One day it will be his…but in experience, he is just a child. He may be the legal heir, he may be the master and the owner of everything, it may already be his by right if his father has died.

7.  ALL CULTURES HAD PEDAGOGUES FOR EARLY YEARS TRAINING IN EDUC. AND MORALS  JEWISH: AGE 12: BAR MITZVAH…SON NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW  GREECE : AGE 18: MADE A CADET OF THE STATE FOR TWO YEARS FOR SOME FORM OF GOVT SERVICE  ROMAN: BETWEEN 14 AND 17 FATHER WOULD TAKE HIM TO THE FORUM AND INTRODUCE HIM TO PUBIC LIFE.

8.  Paul is going to present an analogue between one who is LOST, and one who possesses SALVATION….  A CHILD UNDER A PEDAGOGUE VS  A MATURE INDIVIDUAL (ONE WHO HAS BEEN SAVED BY GRACE).  READ GALATIANS 4: 1-7

9.  WHAT DO GUARDIANS/STEWARDS ASK OF THE CHILD?  COULD THERE BE PENALTIES?  WHAT CAN THE CHILD NOT DO?  NOTICE WHEN THE “PEDAGOGUE” JOB WAS DONE

10.  WHAT ARE THE “ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD”?  WHY DID PAUL USE THIS TERM?

11.  WHAT ARE THE “ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD”?  WHY DID PAUL USE THIS TERM?  BASIC ELEMENTS AND RITUALS OF HUMAN RELIGIONS (J. MacArthur)  JEWS: GENTILES: THE MOSAIC LAW CONSCIENCE (Centered on man-made systems of works…) BOTH RESULTED IN AN INDIVIDUAL BEING IN BONDAGE

12.  IN GOD’S VIEW, IT WAS TIME TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MATURITY.  WHAT TIME WAS IT? (GOD let HIS people know the exact time in history … in what Book of the Bible?)

13.  IN GOD’S VIEW, IT WAS TIME TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MATURITY.  WHAT TIME WAS IT? (GOD let HIS people know the exact time in history … in what Book of the Bible?)  DANIEL 9: 25-26.

14.  I.E. WHICHEVER LAW YOU WERE IN BONDAGE TO:  JEW: MOSAIC GENTILES: MANMADE/CONSCIENCE PAUL NEVER TALKS ABOUT THE “VIRGIN” BIRTH, PER SE, BUT TO THE WORDS “BORN OF A WOMAN”, I.E. EMPHASISING GOD BECOMING A MAN. PAUL EMPHASISED BORN UNDER THE LAW (HE COMPLETELY KEEP ALL ELEMENTS OF THE LAW (AS GOD DEMANDED FOR REDEMPTION)

15.  PAUL IS VERY CLEAR…  JESUS (GOD’S SON) BECAME A MAN FOR THE PURPOSE TO DIE….. (GOD’S PLAN),  IN DYING, ALL WHO REPENT AND PUT THE FAITH IN HIS DEATH, BURIAL, RESURRECTION … IN YOUR PLACE…  BECOMES REDEEMED…  AND IMMEDIATELY HAS “MATURITY” (FREEDOM)

16.  We own the BREAKERS…  Better than that: WE BECOME SON’S OF GOD… I.E. INTIMATELY RELATED.  ADOPTION IS THE LEGAL PROCESS WHEREIN THE ADOPTIVE PARENT TAKES A CHILD INTO HIS FAMILY WITH ALL IT RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.

17.  INTIMACY WITH FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT… WHY?  Do you talk with the Father with intimacy?  Openness, Call HIM dear, et al.

18.  Vs 6: and because you are a son, GOD has sent forth the SPIRIT of HIS SON, into your hears, crying out, ABBA FATHER”  Abba, intimate family term…  WE HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT FOREVER RESIDING IN OUR HEARTS.  THE RIGHTS AND BENEFITS OF MATURITY ARE SEVERAL AND ALL AWESOME.

20.  WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN HEIR OF GOD?

21.  IF MATURITY (FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST) BRINGS ALL THESE BENEFITS… WHAT STUPIDITY TO WANT TO RETURN TO BEING A CHILD UNDER A “PEDAGO- GUE”…..  (NEXT WEEK)

22.  I know that I know that my life is redeemed I know I have found what some only have dreamed I hold in my heart the pearl of great price Dear God, hear my cry I want to know Christ Repeat Chorus

23.  I want to know Christ I keep Him before me I lift up my eyes I drink in His glory I press toward the goal His goodness unfolds March on, oh my soul I want to know I want to know Christ

24.  I know that my path is the way of the cross So I count what I gain and forget what I've lost In pain there is joy In death there is life Dear God, hear my cry I want to know Christ

25.  I want to know Christ I keep Him before me I lift up my eyes I drink in His glory I press toward the goal His goodness unfolds March on, oh my soul I want to know I want to know Christ

26.  And the things that entangle me I lay them down All the treasures and trophies of life Let them be lost Only let me be found in Christ For I want to know Yes I want to know

27.  I want to know Christ I keep Him before me I lift up my eyes I drink in His glory I press toward the goal His goodness unfolds March on, oh my soul I want to know I want to know Christ

28. IN CHRIST  us RESURRECTED CHRIST ADOPTED AS SON HOLY SPIRIT JOINT HEIR INTIMACY FAITH EPH. 2: 8-9