Well, let me have you guys turn in your Bibles to Galatians chapter. Galatians chapter 4, we're going to pick up in our study of the book of Galatians, you guys are going to need to put your thinking caps on and gird up the loins of your mind because there's allegory in this passage, and Paul is going to quote extensively from the Old Testament. And, but if you will hang with the message, and give yourself to it, gird up the loins of your mind, you will be affirmed today. You will be encouraged by what God says to you through his word.
And the title of the message this morning is listening to the law. Listening to the law, or as Ray Comfort would say, listening to the law. Do you notice that last week? but listening to, the law, we're gonna look at verses 21 through, chapter 5, verse 1, this morning.
So we got a lot of ground to cover. But let me begin, with just a little tiny story from my youth. when I was, I don't even remember the years, but when I was younger, growing up, there was a, a period of time where we lived. and on a military base in Laurel Bay, South Carolina, and there was a bay that basically came right up against the edge of the the complex where we lived, just a little inlet from the ocean, and we would go out there at times during certain times of the year and we would go shrimping there in the bay and Shrimping is where you try to catch shrimp, and we would, we would go out and we'd wait about waist deep and we had shrimp nets and we would cast those and my dad was out there and he's the one that would take us and sometimes we would catch quite a bit of shrimp, but I remember one occasion where we were going from one place to another.
Along the shoreline and it wasn't like a beach type of shore where it's beautiful sand. It was really a mucky marshy area, the where as you walk in the muck you lose sight of your shoe as it sinks into that that muck. And as we had begun our journey over to another area, this, this whole marshy, mucky area was filled with what looked like puddles, water puddles. Some of them were small, some of them were larger, and no sooner had we begun to traverse that mucky terrain that my dad said to me, He said, Whatever you do, don't step where the water puddles are, because some of those puddles are deep....
