Okay, we we stopped last week essentially around Galatians three fourteen ish and uh I'd like to start this week in fifteen. It's going to be a bit longer read and uh we're going to go through verse seven of purpose behind that. And as we're reading through, try to see where maybe you think I might see the linkage and see where we're going with this, what the main theme is as we're going through. I'll go ahead and read this out. And if you could read along with me, I'd appreciate it. And as you listen and read, I'm actually gonna start in verse verse thirteen because II think that flows right here. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us or it is written, cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree. So that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles so that we might receive the promised spirit Even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say and to offsprings, referring to many, but referring to one. And to your offspring, who is Christ. Notice what Paul is doing. He is explaining the Old Testament here. This is what I mean, the law which came 430 years afterward does not annul the covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise, but God gave it to Abraham by a promise. Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions. Until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made. And it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Now an intermediary implies more than one. But God is one. Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not. for if Allah had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Now, before faith came, we were held captive under the law, in prison until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came in order that we might be justified by faith. But now, that faith has come. We are no longer under a guardian. For in Christ Jesus, you are all sons of God, sons and daughters of God. Through faith, for as many of Christ have put on Christ. For 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. And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's I mean that the heir is, 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, of a woman born under the law to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. So you are no longer a slave, but a son. And if a son, then an heir through God. I was long and hopefully, we were able to stay attuned during that. But as I was reading that, what popped out? What struck you? Or did you see your connection? Yeah. Verse seven, I've got an air of God through Christ. Okay, through God or through Christ Well, let's see Okay, I read on the ESV with what you know This is amp, go ahead. So I have NLP. He says, now you are no longer a slave like I was when you were a child. And since you were a child, God has made me a piece of him. Okay. What does the, there's, what is it? So I got amplified and then asked me the same theologians, but our common language is the same. It's 4-7. Therefore, you are no longer a slave, bond servant, but a son, and with a son, and also an heir through the gracious act of God through Christ. The NIV says, so you are no longer a slave, but God's child, and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. A child is a rightful recipient of some things, that kind of an heir, you're an heir, have an inheritance as a child. What does it say again? So, if you're a guy, you are no longer a slave, but a son. If you are a son, you are also a slave. So, the King James, it puts in Yeah. Yeah, I'm surprised that you have ESV. Right. I'm So, you are no longer asleep but a son and if a son and god has made you in here. Oh, I don't know. She's one of the numbers next to it. to remind how those numbers Are we just missing Christ out of it? Did we drop? Or is this an interpretation? Or a translation? I thought the King James and the ESV were from the same text. No. It's going to be a text And here's the question. Does that cause an issue with us understanding it? Is is there an issue? Does that cause a difference if it's through Christ or error or as I said, I would say no because it clarifies in the other text. Clearly, it's my faith in Christ, not by the other things for the project. So. OK, James, I'm going to go over here. James, did you see anything in there? No, it's just this blue place. I've got King James breaking here. It says, before thou no more servant, but at the sign of the sun. in the name of god through Christ. How about in in the anything pop out in the in the rest of the text, anything that that came to your mind as as we're going through it. hit you or anything such as again, Galatians, what is Paul trying to get at? What is he fighting against? Jews that wanna keep the law. Okay. Keep Christ. Okay. Did you see that in this writing? What popped out for you in this curriculum? In the very end, he talked about how he gave Abraham a promise. And then, through the next 430 years, he introduced the law. And the only reason why is because there was a contradiction in what he had promised him. That's why he gave them rules. That's what we call law. To keep the promise that he had made with Abraham. I jumped to verse 16, chapter 3, where it says that referring to the Abrahamic covenant, is not to the offspring of Israel continual, it goes to Christ. That's what it kind of states here in that. It also ties into verse 15, where you can't make any promise just after, you can't go back on your word, you have to wait until the promise has been completed, which, according to the religion, it has through Christ, which makes sense, as Christ delivers us from the law. I think 319 probably sums up everything that this whole system is all about. So therefore, what's the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgression to the seeds should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of the mediator. and then 2021 uh further explains it says the mediator is not a mediator of war but God is one so in order to have a mediator you got to have more than one person. I mean the reason why he brought those to the uh Christ died was to alleviate them from the the tasks of the law. We couldn't we couldn't live up to the to the what the law said, so that if I said you're coming out, except the law then is against the promises of God, God forbid, but there's been a law given with a given life, there is a righteousness that has been by the law, so the law can't give you righteousness, so this is why you came. I cross-referenced, I was just curious where the seed promise was. I think some translations say offspring, some translations say seed. I actually had a really hard time finding that at first. I'm glad I wrote it down, but I'm looking back at some of my cross-references like, where did I get that from anyway? Genesis 22, 16 through 18, what stood out to me was kind of, I don't really have a very developed thought on this, but Abraham received this promise of a offspring right when he he's he's offering Isaac unto death. He's about to receive it. That's intriguing. I just, it was very striking to me that when Abraham received the promise in kind of a context, what was occurring when he received that, and kind of, if you wanted to parallel that, it's pretty seemingly striking parallel to that. Is it 2216? That's what he said. That was really awesome. I want to turn to it. Read it, baby. No, no, go ahead and read it, baby. You want to read it? Yeah. Then the angel of the lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, by myself, the basis of who I am I have sworn an oath declares the Lord that since you have done this this thing and have not withheld for me your son your only son of promise indeed I will greatly bless you and I will make and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heaven and like the sand on the seashore and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies as conquerors through your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have heard and obeyed my voice. So, Abraham returned to his servants and they got up and went with him to Beersheba, Abraham said. So, what do you think about seventeen seven? Seventeen seven? Yeah. Chapter seventeen? Yeah, chapter seventeen verse seven. Will you guys read it? Can you read it? Yeah. I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed, after thee, and thy generation, for an everlasting covenant. And be a God unto thee, and to thy seed, after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed, after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. And I will be with us. And God said to Abraham, thou shalt keep thy covenant, and therefore, thou and thy seed, after thee, and thy generation, He said, this, and then verse 10, that this is my covenant, that you shall keep between me and you as best as you have to be. Every man and child among you shall be circumcised. So when he made his covenant, he did it in stages. And in verse two, he says, I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked to him, saying, and for thee, behold, my covenant is with thee. Thou shalt be a father of many nations. So the whole chapter 17, the covenant that he made with them. Now I'm a little puzzled, because it seems like it's in the book of 17. Because it says, somebody get right there in verse 8, it says, do you see that? And I will be their God. And it goes on and says they, and them, and their. So it's like it's plural in Genesis 17, and singular in Genesis 3, and singular in 22. C.J.V. uses descendants, plural, in 17 and 22. Gregory, you mentioned the word seed. Seed is not seeds. If we're talking about Christ, there's only one seed that's going to come and do this. That's the point we thought made. About in 12, I think, 6. What is 12? What are we associating with Genesis 12? Now, Lord said to Abram, throw from your country, your kindred, your father's house, the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you, I will curse. And in you, all families of the earth shall be blessed. And we drop down to six, Let's keep on going. So Abraham went as the Lord had told him. Lot went with him. Abraham was 75 years old when he departed from Anah. And Abraham took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all the possessions that he got. And the people that they had acquired in Haram, they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And then in verse seven, the Lord appeared to Abram and said, to your offspring, what do other versions say? What does King James Version say? To the seed. Offspring, seed, and descendants. Okay. I will give this land. So he built there an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him. I think it's going to be a different scene than when you talk about it. And, um, what is the last part of the Abrahamic covenant? This text 12 and 12. Yeah. Uh, I think I'll get this one hand. last part of the the national covenant in verse three. In you, all of the families and nations of earth will be blessed. Okay. That's a very common theme. I would ask Haviland. I think we have an answer to that according to Paul but Exactly. No, not E and T Jews born or receiving an inheritance from god in So in Galatians 3.16, when Paul's talking about Abraham and the promises and the seed, which passage in Genesis is he referring back to? The Abrahamic covenant, Deborah, come on. Because when I say Genesis 3, that's when I think of Genesis 3. I think of Genesis 3.15. Where do you think of the Abrahamic covenant? when God made a promise about the serpent and had me question all that, that's where my mind went back to. And so, what I notice here, it doesn't look like if you look through Galatians three quickly, it doesn't look like he kind of specifies. I don't see, does it quote the verse anywhere or? So what are you referencing there? What makes you think of Genesis three verse 16? Because he talks about Abraham, oh, sorry, Abraham, not, nevermind, I'm thinking this is what, scratch that. Now I see what you're going with. You've been talking about giving land versus being a god, that's what I was looking for. I'm up on 17.7, he said I was, there was about a couple between me and me, and I've seen that generation there where they can talk about you being god up to the end, because I've seen that. Oh, well, you're talking about land and the nation. He's talking about one person, the angelic being said, which is Jesus. That's what they have, all the Galatians. Yeah. So when you're talking about Abrahamic covenant, what are you talking about? How are you talking about? But how in Abrahamic covenant on that last part, how is Abraham going to be a blessing to the world, to all the nations? to try his faith and but by his faith and everything he was going to do being obedient. Well, how how is that going to bless the whole world? How is just Abraham being obedient going and making a great nation going to bless the whole world? I'm not sure that you're I will bless those who bless you and him who dishonors you, I will curse. And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So, how is God going to bless all the families of the earth through Abraham? Because the Lord is going to come through his lineage and that's how he's going to bless And so, if he's coming through his lineage, what do we call that? His offspring? His seed? Yeah. Yeah. And that's, in my opinion, that is how Paul is related to that. He's talking about the offspring. and he's relating that back to Jesus. And it's through Jesus that all the families of the earth, all the ethnos, the ethnicities, will be blessed. So why don't we answer the question, what is the blessing of verse 14? Verse 14? Yes. So then, so that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles so that we might receive the promised spirit through faith. If you had to answer the question, what is that blessing, what would your answer be? According to that verse, the reception of the Holy Spirit from God. Of course, Richard, it doesn't start in verse 14, it starts in chapter three. We can see this very clearly if we back up and look at verse 4 5 6 7 8 9 We talked about this last week with Genesis 3 6 just as Abraham believed God was counting him as righteousness Did you write down where that was in your Bible? We talked about writing that down in the margin It was Genesis what? 15. 15. 6. Right? Just so happens that it's verse 6 as well. And then he explains it. Someone read 7, 8, 9. So understand that it is the people who live by faith who are sons of Abraham. Verse 8. The scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith Proclaim the good news to Abraham in advance, saying, In you shall all the nations be blessed. Verse nine. So then those who are people of faith, Jew or Gentile, are blessed and favored by God, along with Abraham the believer. So if you take seven, eight, and nine, what is the blessing of the Abrahamic covenant that the nations receive through faith in Christ? It's staring at you right in the middle of verse eight. Sorry. And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith. It's so unfortunate that the ESV is inconsistent with that uppercase Gentiles and that lowercase nations right there. Because it's the exact same Greek word. It's ethnos in both cases. and why they're not being consistent is so unfortunate. So in the scripture we're seeing that God would justify the nations by faith, preach the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying, in you, all the nations be blessed. So let's again, one more time, what is the blessing of the Abrahamic covenant that the nations receive through faith in Christ? Justification by faith. Right. Justification by faith. You put a token there in Christ. Right. What is, now you have to explain to a brand new believer, new convert, your disciple and a new convert, go ahead and explain the doctrine of justification by faith. How old are they? They are an adult. Yeah, they're an adult. I'm trying to reference a verse right now. Use words. When we talk about that, Jesus who came from uh from Okay now you told me about the narrative of Jesus now explain the doctrine of just in case of my faith What you told me there is the story of Jesus. I Did you explain the doctrine just in case you might think? But with that story, you would realize that if you are thinking that you can make it on your own, that for the law that we were saying in what we're talking with right now, that you don't need Jesus. Okay, now we're getting somewhere now we're again look at verse number six Three six Six, verse six, just right above it, 3-6. Just as Abraham believed God in the end, counter to him as what? Righteousness. Righteousness. So if you have a Bible and you make notes on it, circle righteousness and circle justify. So that you see that those are synonyms. So the doctrine of justification by faith for all of our, high schoolers that are in here. This is the entire Protestant Reformation. This is Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg in October of 1517. And he was fighting the Roman Catholic Church on this entire doctrine. Am I justified by faith and faith alone in Christ, or am I justified with a combination of holy sacraments from the Holy Roman Catholic Church and Christ. And this is where you hear like sola scriptura, all the solas, Christ alone. And so this is the battleground. And Paul is making the strongest argument concerning how is a man or woman declared righteous? Or how is a man or woman declared just? We know what unjust is. We know what unjust is. That person, that was a very unjust thing. What do we mean by that? It was unjust. Right. I'm gonna walk right over there and snatch his hat off and make it my own. Is that a just thing to do? Why not? Why not? Because I'm on it. I didn't pay for it. I just took it. That's unjust. Right. It's wrong. It's stealing. Whatever you want. So when you're declared just, what are you? When you're declared just, what are you? Right. Yes. You're right. You're right with God. So, it's more than just having my sins forgiven. Why is it more than just having my sins forgiven? Well, we have an example of David where he had his sins forgiven but and by norms, we find in Hebrew things kind of righteous but like I said, at the time when he had that, he wasn't righteous at that time. Why is it more than just having my sins forgiven Because we put on Christ we've become God sees Christ's righteousness in us, right? So it's more than just a negation. I Okay, it's more than just negation. Young people, do any of you guys have a debit card? No? No debit card, nothing. Okay. All of us that are old in here can remember when we bounced a check before. I got in trouble bouncing checks when I was in my 20s. Okay, this is way before they had the computer validations. So you just walk into a place, and on the honor system, you would just say I had money in my bank and buy the check. And you don't have any money in there. James, you remember this, you were like, you had one of the original checkbooks, right? And you could get negative. You could get negative. You owed the bank $332 in late fees and all that. Well then, if I make a $332, you just bring me to zero. But I'm still broke. So that's getting my sins forgiven is bringing me to zero. But Christ doesn't stop there. He doesn't stop there, he makes a deposit. See, getting my sins forgiven is like, okay, now I no longer owe any money, my sins are forgiven. Right, so now I'm zero. But no one would say I'm rich, because I'm at zero. But through Christ, I not only get my sins forgiven, I get a deposit, which is his spirit. No, his righteousness. I get Christ's righteousness so that God no longer looks at me as neutral, that is to say that my sins are only forgiven. God sees me as righteous in Christ Jesus. So not only are my sins forgiven or my transgressions forgiven, That's bringing me back to zero, okay? I don't owe the bank any more money, but I have no money in my account. Jesus not only brings me back to zero, he deposits into my account. Righteousness, exactly. And the fancy word for it is imputation, imputed. That is to say that it goes from him to me. This is, what we're reading this chapter along with Romans is the most foundational two chapters in the entire New Testament on this doctrine. And what Paul is trying to show us here is that the source of this doctrine of justification by faith is the Abrahamic Covenant. And that covenant predated the law. Right, he says the numbers. He says, and to your offspring who is Christ, verse 17, this is what I mean, the law, he's talking about Mount Sinai, which came 430 years afterwards. So he's actually giving us a marker. He's saying, this is when Abraham got this promise of your offspring, all the nations of the earth will be blessed, and 430 years later is when God gave Moses the law, 400 years later. So this predates the law. This promise was given before God gave the law. This is what I mean, the law which came 430 years afterwards does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God." What is he saying by that statement? What does he mean by that? The law which came 430 years afterward does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God. That's right. So he's saying, even though God gave a law after that, 430 years later, there's nothing that God did that removed that promise of justification by faith to the nations through an offspring. And now what he's doing is he's provided this incredible clarity to all these Jews who are struggling with going back to the law that you don't find justification through the law, you find it through Abraham, and in particular, through his offspring, that is, the Christ. He says, so as to make the promise void. Verse 18, for if the inheritance came by the law, it is no longer by what? By promise. So again, we use that big word again, all our high school kids in here, juxtaposition, juxtaposition. What are the two things that he's juxtapositioning here? Law is one. Yep, the law is one, and what's the other one? The promise. The promise, exactly, the promise. So here's the law, here's promise, and then directly under law, directly under law, and then directly under promise, You know, see, he's comparing and contrasting these two things here. And do you want to be judged by a promise or through the law? And it's also nice he's actually separating them at different items rather than if they are just one. Like, they would probably want to think of it as the law just came under the Abrahamic covenant, so therefore they're joining up and all the same, they know there's a separation between these two items. Yeah, you're right, Josh. So look at verse 19. It opens with this rhetorical question here. Why then the law? Everyone wants to know. Well, if we're not going back to the law, if we're going back to the promise that preceded the law by 430 years, then the reasonable question is, why in the world then did God give Israel the law? If it's not about the law, if it's really about the Abrahamic covenant and the promises internal to that covenant, then verse 19 says, why then the law? And what's Paul's answer? Is there a teenager that can answer that question? Just looking at your Bible, how would you answer that? Why then the law? Why was it added? It was added, anyone that has a Bible, any teenager that has a Bible, you can look. Verse 19. They all have phones, every phone's got an app on it. Except for Noah, right? He doesn't have a phone. It was added because of what? Transgressions. Let's ask this simple question, Gene. Why do we have these white signs with numbers on all the roads? Why can't we just say to all human beings, drive a safe speed? Right, why can't we just say to all human beings on the road, just always drive safely? Right, because that's what he's saying right here. Right, we are inherently transgressors. Because of transgressions. And then he actually gives us a timeline. Until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made. And it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. And now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. Verse 21, there's a law contrary to the promises of God. And he answers his own question. Right, for if a law had been given that could give life, if that was possible, and the answer is what? Then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise by faith of Jesus might be given to those who believe. So we learn here that it was always God's plan to save human beings by what? By faith. It was always God's plan. If you guys are ever in a Bible class at Fayetteville, And you're ever having a conversation about how did people in the Old Testament get saved? That is a common question that comes up. How did people in the Old Testament get saved? There's only one acceptable answer. By faith. By faith. There's only one acceptable answer. By faith. It's always been by faith. So then what's changed? No. Yeah, actually, no. Yeah Their faith was in whatever the promise was at that given time So who brought up Debbie brought up Genesis 315? But you did yeah, so if we ask the question how did Adam get saved how did Eve get saved What would the answer be? In what promise? What promise? The promise that our Messiah was coming? Right, but what promise? Let's work it down. I saw some multiple answers. What? The seed promise, right? She doesn't even know a gender. There's not even a gender specified there, is it? No. An offspring of the woman. But does it? Is the pronoun there because of what we know in the future? Yeah. And that's what she got saved in. That's it. Let's go different. What did Noah get saved? Come on, one of the four of you guys over there. Ella Kay, you're crazy smart. I heard you're wicked smart. How did Noah get saved? How? No, not you, Noah. Noah, 4,000 years in, 3,000 years in. By faith in what? What promise? What promise? Come on, we ought to be able to do this. What did he have to have faith in? That this wooden contraption that no one had ever seen before in the history of humanity could float. That would necessitate the reason for building this thing for decades upon decades. I mean it was a lifetime of what? Obedience. Obedience all based on what? Faith. I go you see you tomorrow doctor for this pain and this pain and all over and you give me a pill. I'm getting ready to demonstrate faith. How? What do you guys answer? How am I gonna demonstrate faith? Exactly. Based on whose word? Her word. I'm not going to you. He doesn't have any credibility. He doesn't have any credibility, right? He's a pilot. Doesn't prescribe drugs. See the difference? So you can literally go to every Old Testament character, and you can look at their lives. And you can see, oh, that's what God expected in that faith in. Oh, that's the promise. And they're not the same. They're different. Every story is different along the way. Moses has an encounter with a burning bush. He goes to investigate it, and this bush is not burning up. Most bushes burn up. And then a voice starts talking to him out of a bush? That's a moment of what? He doesn't decide, doesn't he? He doesn't decide. He's got a why in the road. Am I going to believe this voice or am I not? And this is the argument that Paul is making. It's one of the most important chapters in the entire Bible. Gene, it's gotta be in the top 10. It's like a John 3 chapter with born again. It's like one of those giant chapters of this is what Martin Luther and the Pope were arguing about. This is what the Church of England and Roman Catholic Church were arguing about. Are we justified by faith and faith alone, or is it my infant baptism? Is it my holy communion? Is it my marriage? Is it my church membership? Is it the confessions to the priest? This is the argument that he's making here. So what does he mean when he says we are no longer under a guardian? I'm in verse number 20. He says the law was our guardian until Christ came in order that we might be justified by faith But now that faith has come we are no longer under a guardian for in Christ Jesus You are all sons of God through faith What does he mean by we're no longer under a guardian? Yep guardian would be the law so what does he mean by that? I'm I guess I'm like literally thinking of a guardian, a tutor. What was the other word? Schoolmaster, right? Schoolmaster. Yup. So, something else is not instructing. It's kind of, you're not guided by some, another individual, whether you're in faith, but it's a guiding. The guardian puts limits on it. And we're no longer under the guardian of the law. Pastor, would it be fair to say that the law would protect us from God's wrath? That's how we would act as a guardian. Right, so your whole family is a bunch of bowlers. Have you guys ever bowled before? Yes? Yes? A little bit? Okay. Has anyone ever bowled where they put the tubes in the tubes, the bumpers, right, the guardrails. That's wonderful bowling, why? Right, I never ever got her ball. All right, now, somebody tell me how that relates. What's those, what'd y'all call them, bumpers? Right, okay, what is that in our verse? That'd be the law. That'd be the law, exactly. And it keeps me from getting into the what? Into the gutters. Into the gutters, right. And I really, all my ball does is it bounces to that one, then it bounces to that one, it bounces to that one, and it just goes back and forth. And what is Paul saying? That was the purpose of the what? Exactly until It just kept Israel kind of in a safe spot so that they could what Yes, exactly Exactly in vacation Bible school. I'll take one of the markers and I'll say that's the DNA of Jesus. I And I show that we're passing this down from generation to generation, and we've gotta keep the DNA of Jesus alive. So can David get killed by Goliath? No, he can't, because he hasn't had a what? Son, and only until he has a son can David what? Die, exactly. And that's what the law did for Israel. It kept those people alive until the promisee from Genesis 3.15 was born. So we can think of like the ball, going back to our bowling analogy, right? We can think about the gutters as being depth. and we can drop the ball at the very top line, not actually bowling, but just prop it, you've seen someone do that, and it just bounces away going back and forth, and the gutters are just keeping the Messiah from getting into the gutter, as it goes from generation to generation, until finally it hits the pins, and that would be like the incarnation, that would be like the birth, that would be like the culmination. Well, now that the ball's down there and it's knocked down the pins, do I need the gutters anymore? No, because the ball has accomplished what I want it to accomplish. Well, we're done. I didn't realize we passed time. I want to go with that, if I can. The reason I went on to chapter four is because it carries that on. And specifically, what are you talking about? It says in verse two, but he is under guardian, talking about the child, the slave. He is under a guardian and managers until the date set by his father. right? Right. And that's like the uppercase H uppercase F right there. It's not defined. Exactly. And and that that when and because he didn't follow that within due time in the fullness of time. Uh god sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who were under the law. Yeah. And and that's that's why I included that in that we are we're under the law, the guardian of the law until god determined the right time to send Jesus and now, because of Jesus, we're no longer under the law. Yeah. Amen. Shall we close our prayer? Father, I thank you for this time together. I thank you for allowing us to have this good discussion but most of all, I praise you and I thank you for sending your son to die on the cross for our sins that we may believe and become heirs to you and righteous in your eyes. We praise you for all that and help us to live the life that