Days and Seasons
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What is the significance of the Day of Atonement in relation to Christ?
Paul is saying, the whole point of the Day of Atonement that was celebrated every year, century after century after century after century, pointed ahead to the ultimate sacrifice in the blood of the Messiah that would be offered once and for all, never again to be repeated. And after that finished work of Jesus was accomplished, you want to go back to the shadows? You want to go back to those observations? You're not under that obligation now.
You know, it's easy for us in the 21st century to scoff at those early Jewish converts in the Galatian church. They were tempted to add to the gospel as they looked back to the Old Testament ceremonies. But this stands as a reminder to all of us to examine if we have begun to add things to the gospel. Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and this is the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind. If you live near Houston, Texas, I'd like to invite you to Renewing Your Mind Live on Tuesday, March 17. Whether you're a longtime listener or you've only recently discovered this daily program, I want to connect with you and thank you for listening. You'll have an opportunity to meet me and our guest teachers during a night filled with biblical teaching, fellowship, and giveaways as we seek to have our minds renewed according to the Word of God.
You can learn more and register at renewingyourmind.org slash Houston. Well, R.C. Sproul is making his way through Galatians chapter 4 on Sundays, and I'm glad you're with us today. But if you'd like to study all of Galatians with Dr. Sproul, I do encourage you to request his single-volume commentary when you give a donation in support of the proclamation of the biblical gospel to the nations at renewingyourmind.org. If you have your Bible with you, here's Dr. Sproul in Galatians 4, beginning in verse 8.
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 God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn your back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years, I'm afraid that I have labored over you in vain. Brothers, 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 receive me as an angel of God, even 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 I then become your enemy by telling you the truth? They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out. You may make much of them." It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you. I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. Paul begins this section giving us two distinct contrasts. The two contrasts are these, the contrast between freedom and bondage, and between
knowing God and not knowing God. And beloved, the two are inseparably related. If you don't know God in a saving way, you are in bondage. You may think that you're free and enjoy vast liberties in your life, But in the final analysis, if you don't know God in a saving way, you're in chains, and you suffer from severe bondage. That's why it was said, I believe, by Thoreau that most people live lives of quiet desperation. Without Christ is to be without hope. Now, the other contrast is this, that Paul says that you do not know God or you did not know God, and instead you gave service and obeisance to those things which are not God, that is, to idols.
How do early Jewish converts in Galatia struggle with the gospel?
You served and worshiped things that were made by your own hands, things that are creatures, and all the while you did not know God. Now that's sort of perplexing because the apostle Paul, this same apostle, when he wrote his letter to the Romans, begins his study of Romans and the unfolding of the gospel by saying in the first chapter that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and all ungodliness of men.
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