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Galatians 4:7-10 Don't look back, you aren't going backwards. - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: February 22, 2015

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Galatians 4)

Wanting to go to church is a sign that God has changed us on the inside.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4)

We have been filled with God's Holy Spirit and that changes everything.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:)

God put the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit, the healing power of God, in your life, to

change you

change the world

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:7)

It is in Christ we find our adoption, our blessings, our forgiveness, our love, our joy and our family.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:7)

By faith we go from sinner to servant to son. That is, without doing works.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:8)

Jesus needs to go from being a Savior, to the Savior, to your Savior.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:8)

Jesus died to so that our adoption could blossom into an inheritance.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:9)

When we trade grace for the law, we are giving up power and purpose, for weak and useless.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:9)

You should be thankful to God.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:9)

You need to keep being thankful, maintain an 'attitude of gratitude' to God.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Matt 6:22-23 NKJV

22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matt 6:22-23 NLT

22 "Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. 23 But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!

Rom 8:14 NKJV

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Rom 8:15 NKJV

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

Rom 8:16 NKJV

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Rom 6:23 NKJV

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom 8:2 NKJV

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Rom 8:37-39 NKJV

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ex 12:1-6 NKJV

1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Rom 1:21 NKJV

because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Rom 1:21-22 NLT

21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.

2 Cor 10:4-5 KJV

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Ex 20:6 NKJV

showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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