Rick realized that these people were almost blind and could not see the prison fence surrounding them. The person replied that they were not in prison. He walked up to one individual and asked him why he was in prison. They were looking for every different between themselves and clearly uncomfortable with the slightest dissimilarity. As he continued to observe, he realized that these people were uncomfortable with those within their own groups. He notices some people walking about, looking for a group in which they felt comfortable. In addition, these groups were segregated by gender, the men joined the same group and the women joined their groups. The whites gathered with whites, the blacks with blacks, and the same with other ethnic groups. As he looked in the prison yard, observed these small groups of people gathered together, he realized that they were segregated by race. Beyond the fence was a well hundreds of feet tall. The sky was dark and dreary, and the prison was surrounded by a tall fence. In one of his divine visions, the Lord took him into a prison yard where he sees many the people gathered into many small groups.
Let me illustrate the theme of Galatians with a story from a book entitled The Call by Rick Joyner. In other words, this epistle demonstrates how a believer conducts himself when walking in the freedom of Christ Jesus as Lord over his life and no longer entangled with the bondages and traditions of man. The third, imperative theme of Galatians is the believer’s outward evidence of his sanctification demonstrated in living a life as a new creature in Christ and walking in freedom from the bondages of this world.
The secondary theme of the epistle of Galatians offers the testimony of the office and ministry of the Jesus Christ in the believer’s sanctification, namely the believer’s liberty through the lordship of Jesus Christ over the Church. Each of these epistles addresses one aspect of this doctrinal foundation as their secondary theme, so that collectively, they deliver the complete doctrinal creed of the church. The Three-Fold Thematic Scheme of the Epistle of Galatians - The primary theme of the nine church epistles is the establishment of the doctrines of the New Testament church.
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