Sermon NotesNot long after a wealthy building contractor had finished building a prison in New York called “The Tombs,” he was found guilty of forgery and sentenced to several years in the prison he had built! As he was taken into a prison cell of his own making, the contractor said these words: "I never dreamed when I built this prison, that one day I would be an inmate." Sin is like building a prison with your own hands, not knowing that one day, you will be an inmate. The last verse of our passage today says, “the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin” (Galatians 3:22 NLT). The very thing I thought would bring me freedom and happiness had chained me up and locked me ...

Sermon NotesWhat is the main problem that all humans have? Sickness, hunger, money, death? Let’s think about that as we study today’s passage; it gives us the solution. What the Bible teaches in today’s passage was responsible for an entire reformation in Christianity. It changed the world. Maybe you’ve heard of Martin Luther; listen to how he described himself: “swallowed up in darkness, held in chains made by the Law, until Galatians set me free.” He is referring to this passage. He studied it. And so, the reformation started. And the world was changed. This passage can be the key to your freedom, as it was for Martin Luther and for millions of ...

Sermon NotesThe news headline of August 25, a little over a week ago: “Family horrified as extremely dangerous 18ft python slithers into their New Hampshire home. Photos capture the terrifying moment an 18-ft-long python tried to get into a house through an open bedroom window. The "very dangerous" 84-pound snake was spotted by neighbors as it slithered across a roof before forcing its way through the upstairs window. Worried residents inside managed to use a broom handle to fight off the albino Burmese Python, poking it back out before it fell twenty feet onto the hood of a car below, landing with an "almighty ...