In Christ Alone
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Galatians 3
Galatians 3
Bewitched..... “misled” “charmed” by flattery or false promises
Evidently set forth........publicly portrayed...
2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
Crucified....Hebrews 7:25 “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
Verse 2......This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
Did you receive the Holy Spirit by circumcision, by baptism, by communion, by church membership, by keeping feast and sabbath days?
Or did you receive the Holy Spirit of God by faith?
Ephesians 1:13–14 “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
Verse 3........You started out by faith and received the Holy Spirit.......do you believe that you are perfected by the fleshly works? You are without understanding!
Verse 4........ “Did you experience so many of all the blessings of salvation from God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit in vain or for nothing?”........ Surely it wasn’t in vain???
Verse 5......You heard our words, believed the message, and God poured out his Holy Spirit among you. The evidence of his presence and power was unmistakable. Moreover, none of this was conditioned on your acceptance of circumcision or your obedience to the law. You have begun in the Spirit, now don’t turn back to the flesh! Even the scars of persecution you bear are trophies of God’s grace. Don’t blow it all by following these false teachers who, like evil magicians, are trying to seduce you from the way of Christ to a counterfeit gospel.”
Verse 6-7......Faith is how we come to God, just look at Abraham......Believers, whether Jew or Gentile are sons of Abraham.
Verse 8-9........OT “Scripture” prophesied that Gentiles would receive the blessing of salvation/justification by faith, just as Abraham did.
Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
Genesis 18:18 “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?”
Genesis 22:18 “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
Those blessings are all poured onto us through Jesus Christ!
Verse 10....If you are trying to earn salvation by keeping the law are under a curse.
James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
Verse 11.....No one is justified by the law!!!!!........Made right before God............
Justification is from Christ not by the law.....Deuteronomy 27:26 “Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: But the just shall live by his faith.”
Hebrews 10:38 “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.”
Verse 12......Leviticus 18:5 “Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.”
No human has kept this fully.....that is why we are cursed!
Verse 13......Christ redeemed us from that curse!!! Becoming cursed for us!.....2 Corinthians 5:21 “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
Verse 14......Christ’s Person and Work is the only way to receive the promise!
Verse 15......Man’s covenant/human covenants, once confirmed, are considered irrevocable and unchangeable!
Verse 16-18........ “Seed”........The True “Seed of Abraham” Jesus Christ!
Just because the law came to Moses, doesn’t nullify the promise to Abraham!
If our inheritance is based on the law, it becomes our work and not a promise!
God has given us that promise through Jesus Christ!
Verse 19-22.......Why the law? It reveals to us our transgressions!
Mediator which is Christ!
If the God desired to make the law our righteousness then it would be of the law......
Only we have all offended in the law then what do we do?
Temporarily and never “once for all” there was the sacrificial law.
The Law has made everyone captive to it......Christ then becomes our justification to those who believe!
Verse 23-29......The law is our schoolmaster (tutor) that leads us to Christ!....
When we believed, then the tutor doesn’t rule us, it is Jesus Christ!
Faith in God through Jesus Christ makes people God’s spiritual children!