How did the Spirit come to any of us. This is an important introspective question. What did any of us do earn the gift of the Spirit. What works did you perform to get the Spirit and are you still performing those works to keep the Spirit? Because if you performed specific works to get it, you have to do those works regularly to keep or to get it back, depending on how you look at it. So this is what it comes down to is any preacher any Pastor any leader any denomination any Gathering group party of people that describe articulate outline number a set of steps that need to be completed in order for someone to receive the gift of grace and the spirit of Christ that's a false gospel and Paul has gone through Great Lengths in the first two chapters the first portion of this letter to establish his credentials so that he can make this point and this is where as a church we have to wrestle a little bit and this is where as your pastor I have been wrestling considerably because for those of you that know my background and know the teachings with which I had been raised what Paul is saying here is heresy. If I were to say this plainly there would be many individuals and my family many friends many Associates that would really question me and would question my faith in the direction that we are going in as a church because this is absolutely contrary to what I was taught when I was raised in the church. But here we are and this is what we must struggle and consider what is Paul actually saying and what do we believe?


NT Wright on the Book of Galatians and Ethnic Identity, 14:02 min - "pahee-dag-o-gos" (a tutor i.e. a guardian and guide of boys. Among the Greeks and the Romans the name was applied to trustworthy slaves who were charged with the duty of supervising the life and morals of boys belonging to the better class. The boys were not allowed so much as to step out of the house without them before arriving at the age of manhood.) - booster rocket analogy - Galatians 3:24