The Lord is concerned when his people are in slavery and cannot worship him.

##Let my people GO!! EXODUS 4:23, 5:1, 8:1,8,20, 9:1 (V2 Don’t hold them back),13.

##Opposition to Worship – Exodus 8:28 – Pharaoh said he would let them go, but  not very far.

••Exodus 3:7-9, 19-22
–God is concerned when people suffer and can’t worship✓✓
–The Israelites were to plunder their En ✓ ✓
–Pharaoh had to be compelled by a mighty hand to let the people Go.

••‭Galatians 1:3-4 NIV‬  Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, [4] who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ✓

••Colossians 1:13 NLT [13] For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son,

## Exodus 6:5 God remembers his covenant with Abraham

••‭Galatians 3:8-9 NIV‬ [8] Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” [9] So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.✓✓

••‭Galatians 3:14 NIV‬  [14] He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
✓Romans 11:17-21 (THE OLIVE TREE)

••Exodus 12:31-32, 35-36, 41-  The exodus, they obey Moses and plunder Egypt, and all divisions leave Egypt.

••Luke 11:14 – 21 / Matthew 12:22-29

## Am no longer a slave to fear

Predestination ##

••‭Galatians 3:22 NLT‬  [22] But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ. ✓

••‭Galatians 3:10, 13 NLT‬ [10] But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” ✓ [13] But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” ✓

••‭Galatians 3:26 NIV‬ [26] So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,

••‭Galatians 3:27-29 NIV‬ [27] for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. [28] There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

••‭Galatians 4:3-7 NIV‬ [3] So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. [4] But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, [5] to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. [6] Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” [7] So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
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••‭Galatians 4:28-31 NIV‬ [28] Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. [29] At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. [30] But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” [31] Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Life by the Spirit##:

••‭‭Galatians 5:1 NIV‬  [1] It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

••‭Galatians 5:24 NIV‬ [24] Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
••‭Galatians 6:14 NIV‬ [14] May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

•• ‭Galatians 2:20 NIV‬   I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

##Do you bear the Marks of Jesus??

••Galatians 6:17 NIV [17] From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

Exodus 21:2-6  – A servant for life had a mark.