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Galatians 4:1-7 We are Family - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: February 1, 2015

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Galatians 4)

God is the One who opens and closes doors of opportunity for us.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4)

We here at the Bridge want to help you walk in the fullness of your calling, using your gifts for God and others.

Life Lesson (Galatians 4:7)

Simply understanding that we are loved and we have been adopted by God will help guarantee our spiritual success.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Matt 17:21 NKJV

"However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."

Matt 21:22 NKJV

"And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

Jude 20-21 NKJV

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Rom 8:26 KJV

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

1 Cor 14:14 NKJV

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

1 Cor 14:14 NLT

For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don't understand what I am saying.

Matt 28:18-20 NKJV

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Matt 11:28-29 NLT

28 Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

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.

Gen 1:22 NKJV

And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply,

Gen 1:28 NKJV

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply;

Gen 8:15 (partial) NKJV

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

Gen 8:17 (partial) NKJV

"be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

Gen 9:1 NKJV

So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Gen 9:7 NKJV

"And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it."

Gal 4:4 NLT

But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.

Gal 4:5 NLT

God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.

Gal 4:6 NLT

And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, "Abba, Father."

John 8:19 NKJV

Then they said to Him, "Where is Your Father?"

John 8:39-41 NKJV

39 They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father." Then they said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father — God."

John 8:42-44 NKJV

42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Rom 8:37-39 NKJV

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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