Immanuel; God With Us December 22 2024

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Greetings Brethren, It is our intention this Lord’s Day before Christmas to set forth the blessedness that the incarnation of Christ secured for us who are in Christ, that “God is with us.” We consider the implications and the benefits that we enjoy as believers of Jesus Christ, due to the event that took place that first Christmas day. The statement that says it all to us is Matthew 1:23, “‘Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ‘God with us.’”                 We always appreciate hearing from you, receiving your feedback, including questions.  Our own church family is also encouraged to hear that our ministry is assisting others in knowing our Lord and His Word more fully and clearly.  May He bless you in your service to the people of His kingdom.  We would hope and pray that if you find these notes to be true to the Word of God, you will distribute them to others within your church and community.  We are grateful that many who receive our notes weekly are pastors in many parts of the world.  Please pray that our Lord will bless His Word that He has enabled us to make known and distribute to His people.                 Quite a number of brethren who receive these weekly notes have informed me that they copy and distribute these notes for others on a weekly basis.  Of course we welcome this effort and we thank the Lord that He blesses His Word and multiplies the seed sown in many places that we had not anticipated.  Please let me know of your distribution of them to others.  This will encourage both me and our church folks who enable me to send them to you.  However, if you do this, and we could make it easier for you, we would be happy to email these notes directly to those for whom you provide them.  Send me their email addresses and I will add them to our weekly mailing list.  We always appreciate hearing from you, if you have found spiritual benefit from this weekly ministry of our church.  We are quite overwhelmed and grateful to our Lord for the rather broad dissemination of these sermon notes in recent years.  We are blessed with today’s technology to be able to air every Sunday on YouTube our Sunday sermon (July 7, 2024 - September 08, 2024) will be beginning at approximately 10:15 AM (EST-eastern standard time) . See https://www.youtube.com/results? earch_query=%E2%80%9CThe+Word+of+Truth%E2%80%9D+with+Dr.+Lars+Larson. We always appreciate hearing from you, receiving your feedback, including questions.  Our own church family is also encouraged to hear that our ministry is assisting others in knowing our Lord more fully and clearly.  May He bless you in your service to the people of His kingdom.  We would hope and pray that if you find these notes to be true to the Word of God, you will distribute them to others within your church and community.  We are grateful that many who receive our notes weekly are pastors in many parts of the world.  Please pray that our Lord will bless His Word that He has enabled us to make known and distribute to His people. Further material: https://thewordoftruth.net/ https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=fbcleominsterma https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeXlbuuK82KIb-7DsdGGvg

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Good morning, Pastor Jason will read for us Galatians chapter 4, our
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New Testament reading. And here the apostle further speaks about the blessing and privilege we have in the new covenant in Christ, and this is in contrast to those living under the old covenant, the
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Mosaic covenant, the covenant of works, but rather in grace we have life in Christ.
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Jewish people under the Mosaic covenant who had not believed on Christ alone for salvation.
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Galatians chapter 4. Galatians 4,
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I mean that the heir 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.
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God sent forth his son born of 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
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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.
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Formerly when you did not know God you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods but now that you have come to know
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God or rather to be known by God how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world whose slaves you want to become once more you observe days and months and seasons and years
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I'm afraid I may have labored over you in vain brothers
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I entreat you become as I am for I also have become as you are you did me no wrong you know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first and though my condition was a trial to you you did not scorn or despise me but received me as an angel of God as Christ Jesus what then has become of your blessedness for I testify to you that if possible you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me have
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I am present with you my little children for whom I'm again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you