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Galatians 3:10-18

Galatians 3:10-18

Good morning, everyone,

This morning we continue in chapter 3 of Galatians continuing the train of thought that the Apostle Paul was stating.

We learned that we cannot be a fool and that we as followers need to understand that there is no such thing, we can do to add to the gift of being a Believer.

We are not saved by the world, being American, or our jobs.

The amazing awesomeness and mercy of our Heavenly Father is the only thing that keeps us.

Our Creator and sustainers of the earth love us so much that he has provided a way to pay for our transgressions.

We cannot do anything to earn our salvation.

The Believer doing works does not give them their salvation or secure their place in heaven.

This simple act shows their lies and is very harmful.

Doing something so that you get out of hell is not being a Believer but being selfish.

Additionally, we learned that there is one and only True God.

Even though the world is all around us, the culture we live in, money, family, and stuff we wear, and drive tell us to worship these things.

They do not matter.

For example, in the times of the Galatians, it was common to have a specific god that they would worship to provide for the needs of the group.

However, the God they think provides for their needs is not the God they worship.

The God that provides for their needs is the almighty God that created the stars, galaxies, and the sand that we place our toes in is what matters.

The ultimate God makes everything out of nothing, financed the absence of nothing, and is who we are to worship, honor, and glorify him.

This morning our title is The law and our Relationship with our Creator so lets see why we have titled it this.

Lets dive into verse 10-11

Galatians 3:10–11

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Galatians 3:10–11

The Apostle Paul continues to drive to the people of Galatia that anyone that relays on the works of the law is under a curse.

This is a continuation that the following of the law does not save the Believer but can cause them to the point that instead of having a relationship with their Heavenly Father, they have a relationship with rituals, customs, and items that they are required to do daily.

I am trying to say that there is nothing wrong with following the law, but if the law becomes more important than the one that gave us the law, then there is a problem.

The law does not provide salvation but shows us that without the Divine Author of the law, we are doomed to die spiritually and physically.

The curse that the human author is telling us, Inspired by God, is a warning sign that if we follow the law instead of the relationship with God, we will be and deserve a spiritual and physical death.

Sacrifices, lighting candles, and sending money to a non-profit in Africa or China.

We cannot earn or buy forgiveness for our transgressions.

Our relationship with our Heavenly father is more than just believing and having faith that he is the almighty; We human beings want to control everything and not put our trust in someone else.

With a hurricane coming, we see people stockpiling in massive and crazy amounts for things they usually do not buy.

Instead, we need to trust and depend on God that we will be okay.

Only believe what you need and leave the rest for other families and individuals.

You do not need to buy all the water, food, and diapers when there is just one person for all these items.

Where is the trust in our Heavenly father that will take care of us and have us depend on him?

The funny thing about our world is that we think that the more money we earn, the better we are.

We choose to pay all our bills and then give to God what is his, but instead, we need to give God what is his and trust that he will provide all our needs when we need them.

God got us; we do not have to be alone in this situation.

This should be seen as the flashing check engine light that we have in our car, and we automatically decide that we either ignore the light and hope it just goes away with whatever we are doing, or we head on over to our mechanic and hope we do not spend an arm and leg fighting the issue.

Jesus Christ took us to the execution chamber, so we did not have to endure the punishment for our transgressions.

We as humans are sinful, nasty, selfish, and just gross individuals.

If following the law takes the place of what we need and what God wants us to have, we have taken the gift of mercy, grace, and love given to us and quartered it.

We either pay the penalty by Fracturing our spiritual relationship with our Heavenly Father or being thrown into the very pits of hell with enteral torture.

Jesus took our place with the consequences of our sin and transgressions against our Heavenly Father.

The law shows us that either Jesus covers our transgressions, or we cover the transgression.

There is no white lie or half crime; even the little or trivial things mean we must pay for our sins.

I realize that this is not bubbly and heartwarming, but we have a unique, awesome God that sent his son to be there in human form as a baby with stinky dirty diapers and skinned knees.

That same baby grew up with no transgressions as the human version of God named Jesus died on a tree for our sins and transgressions.

Even the white lies, the ones that we tell each other and even when we are speeding on i75 going one hundred miles per hour.

If we think that just following a set of rules, laws, and regulations will save us, we are instead having a relationship with what was meant to show us that we need our Heavenly father.

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Galatians 3:12–14

The people of Galatia struggled with the concept and idea that the law was not their faith.

Following the law does not give you the confidence you have with your Heavenly Father but the person that follows the rule that lives them.

For Example, following the Ten Commandments does not give me my faith, but I show my faith by following the Ten Commandments.

You do not know that I am a follower of Christ by not stealing but showing my relationship with my Heavenly Father.

Moses hit the nail on the head in

Leviticus 18:5

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Leviticus 18:5

Moses is showing us precisely what the Apostle Paul is telling us: following the law does not give us grace or mercy for our transgressions.

Still, it provides a way to have a relationship with our Heavenly Father.

For example, I do not wear my seatbelt because it is the law, but I want not to get seriously hurt if I survive the accident and cause hardship to my family and church.

We do not follow the Ten Commandments because we are told to but because we grow deeper in our relationship by following the commandments.

You cannot have a relationship with your Heavenly Father if you lust over your neighbor’s wife, kill the husband, and then steal everything inside the house and all the assets.

And guess what?

After you have broken at least three of the Ten Commandments that our Heavenly Father sent down with the tablets, you decide to attend church.

You are a Sunday Christian because you think you are covered sometimes if you follow the commandments.

However, following the commandments of the other seven that you did not break does not guarantee your salvation.

Instead, it is the relationship with your father.

I am not saying at all; I mean this completely: it is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

If you are genuinely saved and love god with a relationship, you would not be breaking all these laws from our Heavenly Father.

God knows that we are fallible, messed-up individuals.

We were not saved by following the commandments but by having a relationship.

He walks in the park, sitting by the pool and listening to his word, listening to a sermon while at work, and pondering what God's word is saying over the sound of clapping and banging bread trays.

The point is that we could follow the law and be robots, but we would not be any different from the Judaizers.

The same individual following the law is doing what is written, but what is the condition of their heart?

Do they hear God’s voice in nature when they watch their church family worshipping on Sunday Morning?

There is something so calming and peaceful about singing, worshipping God, and seeing everyone truly honor and worship their Heavenly Father.

The second part of verse thirteen mentions the wording of “Cursed upon a tree, “which when I first read this, I was confused but also knew that this meant the cross and the amount of death and sacrifice that Jesus endured to take the consequences of our sins and transgressions that we committed.

The critical thing that we must remind ourselves constantly is that without Jesus paying the price of our mess ups, the sticky tar of sin and transgressions that we place at the feet of our father.

Who remembers when they were kids, messed up, and their parents caught them?

This whole passage is about realizing that we need a relationship with our father instead of just following a blind set of laws or regulations that were set forth.

One of the intriguing aspects you do not think about is that sin began in the garden of Eden by eating the fruit from the tree of Knowledge and ended with Jesus dying on a tree by the Romans.

However, this was not the end but just the beginning because Jesus rose from the dead.

Death could not even stop the son of God, and enduring the pain, suffering, and fracture from the father save us from ourselves and our sins.

No one is entirely sinless, whether you are a little girl or an older adult at the grocery store.

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Galatians 3:14

Abraham was the father of Judaism and was promised by God that all his children and many generations would be cared for.

He started all of it, and Jesus was the Human that paid the price on the cross after being beaten within an inch of his life, humiliated in front of the streets of Jerusalem, and then forced to drag a burdensome wooden Roman cross.

We know all of this, but what is the point of us singing songs and spreading the Gospel without this truth?

Jesus paid the price so that we do not have to, but more than that, it was a way to cement our relationship with our Heavenly father.

We are all sinners, including our children, spouses, and everyone we interact with.

We receive our gift of salvation through faith that God has given us and not by following laws or regulations.

We have only actual Law: to love our Heavenly Father with all our hearts, souls, and minds.

The Apostle Paul is mentioning and talking about something we covered exceedingly early in the year in

Genesis 12

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Genesis 12:1–3

The blessing we received was not because of what we have done but what has been given to us by our Heavenly Father.

God never said that if you make the sacrifices, you will be saved but instead told the people of Israel that their transgressions would be covered for a year.