The idea of new toys and the excitement it brings is exhilarating. To some most kids it is all they can think of and to some adults it becomes an obsession. When one becomes of obsessed with something it becomes their bread and butter; it is all they think off. To some, a new toy is like a spell; a fascination, something that alters their perspective.\u00a0 As Christians we must be careful with the things that fascinate us in the church and in life. New toys might not be so good if they make us to abandon other things that are important. The church of the Galatians went through a fascination moment where they found them selves moving away from something important in their lives; their faith.<\/p>\n
Galatians 3:1-3<\/p>\n
3\u00a0<\/span>You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.<\/span> 2\u00a0<\/sup>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?<\/span> 3\u00a0<\/sup>Are you so foolish?<\/span><\/p>\n Bewitch- to enchant, cast a spell, fascinate,<\/p>\n Something that seemed more powerful fascinated the Galatians brothers to leave the faith. Paul needed to understand what was it, because the faith in Christ is a powerful agent that converts the soul and binds it to the Love of God (Ro. 8:35). The faith in Christ puts a hope that satisfies the soul (Ps. 107:8-10). Their dedication status changed because something happened in their lives. Now, things don’t happen in our lives unless we freely allow them. Paul noticed that the church of Galatians became intrigued of something that was not the gospel and it was troubling; they had turned back to the work of circumcision to avoid the persecution that came from the cross, an easier faith. Now, dedication to the Lord the people of ancient had to pay a price (Lev. 27:2). They were required to pay monetary depending the gender and age of the person if they wanted to be dedicated to the Lord. After a while people wanted to voluntarily be dedicated to the Lord and to the things pertaining to him (2Chr. 31:18). The people of God in 2 Chronicles dedicated themselves to bringing offerings to the house of God to the point that they needed to build store houses. When one is dedicated to something they do not stop or get deviated from their mission. \u00a0Unlike Samson, who like the Galatians church became bewitched with an easier dedication (Jud. 16:17). From birth, Samson was dedicated to God and some signs to which revealed him; his hair. We must consecrate our selves to the Lord and not allow ourselves to be bewitched (Jos.3:5).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The idea of new toys and the excitement it brings is exhilarating. To some most kids it is all they can think of and to some adults it becomes an obsession. When one becomes of obsessed with something it becomes their bread and butter; it is all they think off. To some, a new toy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}