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Moses trumps Abraham!
Paul, knowing the argumentative mind of the Judaizers he anticipates their rebuttal.
He knows they will concede the truth concerning Abraham but what about the Law giver, Moses.
Moses trumps Abraham!
They will argue that grace through faith existed until the Law was given.
They will say that “Moses trumps Abraham”.
Key Truth: God’s covenant with Moses does not contradict His covenant with Abraham; instead, God’s covenant with Moses complements His covenant with Abraham.
God’s covenant with Moses
Paul in Galatians 3, in speaking of the Law is referring to the commandments and the requirements that were given to Moses back in Exodus and seen in Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
God’s covenant with Moses
Beginning in verse 10 and concluding in verse 25 Paul talks about what the Law cannot do.
It can’t bring life, salvation, and righteousness.
Look at v. 19
God’s law shows us the futility of the flesh.
The purpose of the law is to show us the futility of the flesh.
The word “flesh”; this is our sinful nature, is the flesh.
It’s the part of us that does not want Christ.
Before we come to faith in Christ, we are dominated, controlled by the flesh, by the sinful nature.
God’s law shows us the futility of the flesh.
The flesh says, “I’m the authority in my life.
I call the shots, and I know what’s best; nobody needs to tell me what to do.
God’s law shows us the futility of the flesh.
We’ll see later on in Galatians how the flesh wars with the Spirit in the believer.
However, the picture here Paul is talking about is how the law shows us the weakness and the futility of the flesh in several different ways.
We all disobey the law of God.
First of all, the law shows us that we all disobey the law of God.
This is Galatians 3:10.
The law demands perfect obedience.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says
That’s the standard: perfection.
We disobey the law of God.
The law confronts us because we can’t obey it perfectly.
Not one of us in this room can.
The law exposes our sin.
So, the law is doing a couple of different things here.
First of all, the law is exposing our sin.
His commands confront our hearts.
Not only does the law expose our sin, but the law actually intensifies our sin; it makes it worse.
The law intensifies our sin.
This is what Paul says in Galatians 3:19.
He says,
The law intensifies our sin.
The law was given to restrain men's transgression by clearly revealing God’s holy standard.
God had to give us His standard so we would not destroy ourselves before the Messiah came.
The law intensifies our sin.
But the law is also added because of transgressions in another way; the law also excites man’s innate rebellion by revealing a standard, showing us more clearly our need for salvation in Jesus.
Paul is saying is the law increases transgressions.
In Galveston, Texas, a hotel on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico put this notice in each room - "No Fishing From the Balcony" Yet every day, hotel guests threw in their lines to the waters below.
Then the management decided to take down the signs--and the fishing stopped!
The Law shows sin and stimulates sin!
We all deserve the wrath of God.
The law intensifies and exposes our sin, which confronts us with a cruel, harsh, stunning reality.
Not only do we disobey the law of God, but as a result, we all deserve the wrath of God.
We stand cursed beneath the law.
This is what the law confronts us with: you and I are cursed before God.
The law was given to show us that because we disobey the law of God, every one of us stands beneath the curse of the law.
We’re cursed.
What does that mean?
We stand condemned before God.
This was the whole point of the law.
The principal point of the law is to make men not better but worse.
It shows men their sin so they may be humbled, terrified, bruised, and broken.
And by this means, may be driven to seek grace.
What does every sin deserve?
Every sin deserves God’s wrath and curse, both in this life and in the future.
We stand condemned before God.
Do you know what’s most scary about that verse, though?
It doesn’t say, “Cursed are the atheists, or the agnostics or cursed are the pagans who just run off in immorality.”
It says, “Cursed are the people who try to obey God.”
We stand condemned before God.
Does that make you feel hopeless?
That’s what it’s supposed to do.
We're missing the point if it doesn’t make us feel that way.
That’s what the law does.
It says, “Stop trying because you’re not getting it right.
Why?
Because you can’t.”
We stand condemned before God.
The law was not given to save us but to show us our need of a Savior.
The law was given to show you that you’re disobedient to it, and as a result, you stand under the curse and condemnation of God.
Why is he telling us this?
The reason comes in
We stand condemned before God.
We’re like prisoners chained by the law.
The law exposes our sin at every turn, and the law intensifies our sin, and there’s nothing we can do.
We can’t get out; we are under His curse and His condemnation.
We can’t do anything.
The harder we try, the worse it is
We stand condemned before God.
So, the law was put in charge to lead us to who? Christ, that we may be justified by faith.
So, here’s the picture: Here, we’re sitting chained in our sin and unable to obey God or be right before God based on anything we do.
We stand condemned before God.
We’re cursed, condemned in our sin, and Christ is completely righteous here.
He has no sin in Him.
He is a lamb without blemish or defect.
He is right before God, He alone, and He steps in, saying, “I’ll take the curse for you, and I’ll take condemnation for you.”
God’s covenant through Christ.
God’s Son shows us the price of freedom.
The whole point of the law has been to send us on our faces before Christ, saying, We need you to save us.
Jesus fulfills the law of Moses.
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