
Brother Jim Shaw Ministries
Brother Jim Shaw Ministries, September 18, 2026
Brother Jim Shaw Ministries One Way to Salvation: Redemption, Adoption as Sons, and the Allegory of Hagar and Sarah Brother Jim Shaw preaches from Galatians 4 on the one way to salvation through Jesus Christ, tracing redemption and adoption as sons, Paul's warning against returning to religious ritual, and the allegory of Hagar and Sarah as a picture of two covenants, flesh versus promise. Only One Way to Salvation Brother Jim Shaw opens the broadcast declaring that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, rejecting any notion of religious diversity or exchangeable saviors among faiths. He says a reborn heart is a gift that comes from above, not something manufactured by teaching, inherited from parents, or absorbed from society. Without that experience, he argues, a person's religion would simply match whatever culture they were born into, Muslim, Christian, or Hindu, by accident of birth rather than truth. He describes his own realization that growing up under what he calls a Christian flag was not the same as knowing Christ, admitting he had once been an idol worshiper and a heathen with no real spiritual power. Brother Jim teaches that a true Jew is one circumcised in the heart rather than the flesh, and he tells listeners that Christians share that same identity, marked internally rather than physically. He frames tasting the Holy Ghost as the dividing line between inherited religion and genuine rebirth. Redemption and Adoption in Galatians 4 Brother Jim Shaw reads Galatians 4:3, explaining that before Christ, people were children in bondage under the elements of the world, unable to escape sin because heaven only receives perfect individuals. He defines the word redeem as meaning to buy back, and calls the cross the ultimate sign of love, where God placed his Word in a human body conceived of the Holy Ghost yet still born through a woman. Because Jesus went through every temptation and trial that ordinary people face, Brother Jim says he could serve as the perfect sacrifice sent directly from God. He continues reading that believers receive the adoption of sons, and that God sends the Spirit of his Son into their hearts crying Abba, Father, proof, he says, that there is only one way to salvation and no diversity in how a soul is saved. He adds the verse calling believers no longer servants but sons, and therefore heirs of God through Christ, comparing the cross to Jesus taking a bullet meant for humanity. Freedom From False Gods and Testing the Spirits Brother Jim Shaw invites anyone listening to come before the Lord Jesus Christ and say they believe he died to set them free from the demonic strongholds of life, calling Jesus the captain of salvation for people once held captive. He reads Paul's words to the Galatians reminding them that before they knew God they served things that by nature are no gods, explaining that this describes servicing demons under any religion outside of a true relationship with the Lord. He teaches that believers are told to test the spirits by asking whether Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, since the Word became flesh and dwelt among mankind, walking the planet as a real man. Brother Jim returns to Paul's question of why the Galatians would turn back to weak and beggarly elements after being known by God, framing spiritual bondage as something that can quietly return even after a person has tasted real freedom in Christ. Paul's Warning Against Returning to Ritual Brother Jim Shaw moves into Paul's rebuke of the Galatians for observing days, months, times, and years, reading Paul's fear that his labor among them might have been in vain. He explains that Paul is not condemning church attendance itself but warning against sliding back into rituals, traditions, and good works as a substitute for real faith, calling holy water, candles, and rituals unnecessary once a person is spiritually baptized by the Holy Ghost. He describes how a believer can quietly become a servant to rituals again, mixing flesh and spirit by reasoning that going to church, taking communion, and memorizing Bible verses makes someone a good person regardless of their heart. Brother Jim reads Paul's appeal recalling that the Galatians once received him as an angel of God despite his physical infirmity, and asks pointedly why people who once wanted to pluck out their own eyes for him would now treat him as an enemy simply for telling them the truth. The Allegory of Hagar and Sarah Brother Jim Shaw turns to Paul's allegory of Abraham's two sons, Ishmael born to the bondservant Hagar after the flesh, and Isaac born to the freewoman Sarah by promise, describing them as figures for two covenants. He notes that Sarah was ninety years old when Isaac was born, stressing that faith, not human effort, carried the promise made to Abraham years earlier. Brother Jim recalls that Abraham briefly lost faith and listened to his wife's suggestion to have a child through Hagar instead of waiting on God, warning listeners not to let any voice, even one close to them, pull them away from trusting the Lord. He explains that Abraham eventually had to send Hagar and Ishmael away, calling it a difficult but necessary allegory showing that sin cannot be mixed with the promise, and that believers cannot be married to sin while claiming to be children of promise. He urges listeners to get on their knees and choose to be children of promise rather than children of the flesh. Cast Out the Bondwoman and Close in Faith Brother Jim Shaw reads Paul's command to cast out the bondwoman and her son, since the son of the bondwoman will not share the inheritance with the son of the freewoman, applying this directly to casting out an old sinful nature. He insists that no one's good behavior could have saved them apart from the blood of Christ at the cross, since no other religion or amount of good works removes the debt of sin. He reminds listeners that before being reborn, people are led by fleshly lusts and often measure their own righteousness only by whether they get caught doing wrong. Once reborn, he says, a person cannot escape God's sight, since Christ knows every thought and deed, which he frames as good news for those now living in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ rather than under judgment. Brother Jim closes the sermon with a blessing, after which the announcer returns with the ministry's website, mailing address in Vero Beach, Florida, and phone number for listeners seeking more sermons.






