Part 3 | Encanto and Finding Your Rightful Place In The Family

SERIES THEME: The entertainment world mesmerizes us and continues to influence us in ways we see and do not see, both for good and for bad. Join us as we talk about some of todays most popular shows and influential characters in Binge Worthy. While we may all disagree with the content of these options, we can speak both to the reality of the human condition they express and how God’s Word interacts with the people on screen who we often see in ourselves.

From Galatians 3:1-14

📖 Galatians 3:1-3 (NIV) You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? 

Finding Your Rightful Place in the Family begins with:

1. Addressing Your to .

📖 John 1:12-13 (CEV) Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God. 13 They were not God’s children by nature or because of any human desires. God himself was the one who made them his children

📖 Galatians 1:15-16 (NIV) But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. 

📖 Galatians 5:9 (NLT) This false teaching is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough

Finding Your Rightful Place in the Family begins with:

2. Combating with

📖 Galatians 3:4-6 (NIV) Have you experienced[b] so much in vain—if it really was in vain? 5 So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Finding Your Rightful Place in the Family begins with:

3. what has been to you.

📖 Galatians 3:7-9 (NIV) For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 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.

📖 Romans 4:18-24 (NIV) Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” d 19Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” 23The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead

📖 James 4:4-5 (NIV) You adulterous people, a don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ?

📖 James 4:6 (NIV) But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”  7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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4. you can not it.

📖 Galatians 3:10-12 (NIV) For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”

📖 Galatians 5:4 (NIV) You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 

📖 Galatians 5:10 (NIV) I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty.

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5. to your .

📖 Galatians 3:13-14 (NIV) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”[h] 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

📖 John 15:13 (ARA) “There is no greater love than this: that a person would lay down his life for the sake of his friends.” 

📖 1 John 3:16 (NIV) By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 

📖 1 John 4:13 (NIV) This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

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