Jesus Christ Alone Is The Way To God. Jesus Is God.

Continuing in Galatians we see Paul in much travail as many of the Galatians were listening to false teachers. They were were leading them into false teachings that they were to keep the Law for salvation. Paul gives an example of how an heir is no better than a slave until his father gives the inheritance to him. If we are a child of God through faith, we are also an heir because of what God did. He sent his Son to pay for sin.

The reason Paul wrote to the Galatians is they were falling away. They were leaving the truth and turning back to "powerless and bankrupt basic principles".

Brothers and sisters, God hates the mixing of good and evil. The Galatians were mixing the keeping the Law and salvation through Christ. This is very evil as it means the death of the Son of God and his taking the wrath of God for sin, is not enough.

Are you "mixing" by continuing to live a life of sin and counting on grace? Are you counting on your good works and Jesus sacrifice? Neither grace or good works will save you. We are to place our faith in ONLY what Jesus did on the cross and to stop sinning. If we sin we are to confess it and turn from it.

• 1 John 1 tells us "5This is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness—none at all! 6If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth. 7But if we keep living in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and we’re not being truthful to ourselves. 9If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say that we have never sinned, we make him a liar and his word has no place in us.

In verse 8 below, Paul speaks to us that "in the past, when we did not know God, we were slaves to things that are not really gods at all".

We are to make our calling and election sure. Today is the day of salvation. Repent of sin and follow Christ.

Galatians 4 ISV

1Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything. 2Instead, he is placed under the care ofa guardians and servant managers until the time set by the father. 

3It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.b 4But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law, 5in order to redeem those who were under the Law, and thus to adopt them as his children. 6Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into ourc hearts to cry out, “Abba!d Father!” 7So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

8However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.e 

• 9But now that you know God, 
• or rather have been known by God, 
• how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles?f 
• Why do you want to become their slaves all over again? 
• 10You are observing days, months, seasons, and years. 
• 11I am afraid for you! 
• I don’t want my work for you to haveg been wasted!

12I beg you, brothers, to become like me, since I became like you. You did not do anything wrong to me. 13You know that it was because I was illh that I brought you the gospel the first time.