Galatians 4:8-21 Stop Trying to Teach a Dog to Meow! - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: March 8, 2015

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Life Lessons Referenced
Life Lesson (Galatians 4:10)

When you see yourself as a child of God you will begin to act more and more like a child of God.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:10)

The sinner is not a sinner because he sins, he sins because he is a sinner.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:10)

Who a person is, determines what he does, what he does, does not determine who he is.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:10)

Simply understanding that

-we are loved

and

-we have been adopted by God

will help guarantee our spiritual success.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:10)

If we try to change what we do, without changing who we are, all of those efforts will fail.
If you try to change what you do, without changing who you are, all of those efforts will fail.

God changes what you do, by changing who you are, so all of those efforts will succeed.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:11)

God wants you to be fruitful and multiply. God wants you to walk in spiritual blessings and eternal rewards.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:14)

We all have some weakness in serving God. That is not an excuse not to serve God but a chance for God to show himself strong on your behalf.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:16)

We can often tell what some of our issues are by what upsets us.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:19)

We need to feed our new nature and starve our old selfish nature.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes
Proverbs 23:7 (partial) KJV
as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he
Prov 23:7 (partial) NKJV
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
John 1:12 NKJV
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Eph 2:8-10 NKJV
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Rom 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rom 10:13 NKJV
For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
John 1:12 NKJV
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Rom 8:16 NKJV
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Gal 4:11 NLT
I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing.
Gal 4:11 CJB
I fear for you that my work among you has been wasted!
John 8:58-59 NKJKV
58 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM." 59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 10:28-32 NKJV
28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.  29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.  30 I and My Father are one." 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
2 Cor 5:17-19 NKJV
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Rom 8:16 NKJV
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Phil 2:14-15 NKJV
14 Do all things without complaining and disputing,  15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
1 John 3:1-2 NLT
1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don't recognize that we are God's children because they don't know him. 2 Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.

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