1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:03,500 Certainly good to see everybody who has made it here this 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:06,500 morning with us. We're going to be studying and 3 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:12,100 Galatians 3. I was not excited when this 4 00:00:12,100 --> 00:00:14,600 chapter landed on me. You got it. 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,800 I got to be honest with you because this is tough. 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,600 This is a tough chapter. When I read it, I went, what in 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,000 the world are we talking about here, trying to understand and 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 to put it all together and I even, you know, texted waiter, 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,400 you know, earlier this week, he was asking how the study was 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,800 going. I said man this is like a 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,500 72-ounce Tomahawk Steak that I'm trying to ingest in one sitting 12 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:41,600 and it just it's a tough tough. Chapter 4. 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:46,600 It was for me, at least. So I hope I don't Make it more 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,000 confusing than what it is. It's my whole point. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,800 I want to make sure that we understand what the word of God 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:58,900 is teaching us today. I considered using the new Kings 17 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:03,900 James to read out of, but for he's for me and hopefully for 18 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:06,100 the congregation, I'm going to be studying out of the English 19 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:08,100 Standard Version. It's just a little easier for me 20 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:11,000 to read through it. So that's the, that's the 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,500 version that will be up on the screen. 22 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:16,400 So if you are turn to Galatians 3, you can either follow along 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,900 in the in your Bible or I'm going to have it up here on the 24 00:01:18,908 --> 00:01:20,600 screen. So we'll start what read through 25 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,600 verse 25 and then we'll get into our study. 26 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,400 It says there. Oh, foolish. 27 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,400 Galatians who has Bewitched you? It was before your eyes that 28 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,400 Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. 29 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,900 Let me ask you only this. Did you receive the Spirit by 30 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,400 works of the law, or by the hearing with faith? 31 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:47,000 Are you? So foolish. 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,400 Have you begun by the spirit? Are you now being perfected by 33 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,200 the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,300 vain? If indeed, it was in vain, does 35 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,400 he who supplies the spirit to you and works miracles? 36 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,200 Among You do so by works of the law or by hearing with faith 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,500 just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as 38 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:10,100 righteousness. Know then that it is those of 39 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:13,600 Faith who are the sons of Abraham and the scripture 40 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,400 foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith. 41 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,200 Preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying and you shall 42 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,700 all the nations be blessed. So then those who are of the 43 00:02:24,700 --> 00:02:29,700 faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith for 44 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,600 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse for it is 45 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,300 written cursed, be everyone who does not abide by all things 46 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:41,100 written, in the book of the law and do them now, it is evident 47 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:45,000 that no one is Justified before God by the law for the righteous 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,400 shall live by faith. But the law is not of Faith. 49 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,700 Rather the one who does them shall live by them Christ 50 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:55,800 redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for 51 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,100 us for it is written. Cursed, is everyone who hangs on 52 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:03,400 a tree, So that in Christ Jesus, The Blessing of Abraham might 53 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,300 come to the Gentiles. So that we might receive the 54 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:10,600 promised Spirit through faith to give a human example, Brothers, 55 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,100 even a man-made Covenant. No one anoles in, or adds to it 56 00:03:14,100 --> 00:03:17,200 once it has been ratified. Now, the promises were made to 57 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,100 Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say an to the an to 58 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:25,200 offsprings referring to many, but referring to one and to your 59 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,100 Offspring. Who is Christ? 60 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:30,900 This is what I mean. The law which came 130 years 61 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:34,500 afterward does not annul, a covenant previously ratified by 62 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:38,400 God. So as to make the promise void 63 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,300 for, if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by 64 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:46,400 promise but God gave it to Abraham as a promise. 65 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,200 Why? Then the law it was added 66 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,800 because of transgressions until The Offspring should come to 67 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,900 whom the promise had been made and it was put in a place 68 00:03:55,900 --> 00:03:58,000 through Angels by an intermediary. 69 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,600 Now an intermediary. Your intermediary implies more 70 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,000 than one but God is one is the law of in contrary to the 71 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,900 promises of God certainly not for if it'll I'd been given that 72 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:14,100 could give life than righteousness would indeed be by 73 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,700 the law but the scripture imprisoned, everything under 74 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:21,800 sin, so that the Promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be 75 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,400 given to those who believe. There's a lot in that chapter 76 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:29,500 and we'll get to the final verses later on, but there's a 77 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:32,900 lot. I'm going to have 3 points. 78 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:35,000 I'm not going to go verse by verse through the chapter, but 79 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,300 I'm going to kind of give an over arching explanation of. 80 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:42,800 So what this chapter is referring to what it means, what 81 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,500 it means for us. And the first point I want to 82 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:46,600 deal with is Abraham. The second point is going to 83 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,000 deal with Moses and the third point which is the most 84 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,100 important point is going to deal with Christ. 85 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 And so we're going to see how kind of one Builds on another 86 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,500 going through our study. So we'll start with our first 87 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:02,000 point. Which deals with Abraham. 88 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:06,200 And my first point is God's covenant with Abraham shows us 89 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:09,500 the necessity of Faith. God's promise shows us the 90 00:05:09,508 --> 00:05:12,400 necessity of Faith. So if we remember Paul, if you 91 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,700 were here the past couple months, when Wade's been going 92 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:19,800 through the first couple chapters, Paul is writing to a 93 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,800 church where there were some false teachers, these were 94 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,400 called judaizers and these people were claiming okay, you 95 00:05:26,407 --> 00:05:30,000 can believe in Christ, but then you need to be circumcised. 96 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,900 You need to follow Jewish rule or the Jewish regulation in 97 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:36,200 order to be saved. So they were, they were adding 98 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,400 requirements to Salvation, that Jesus had already put in place. 99 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:43,200 And Paul introduces the doctrine doctrine of justification of 100 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,400 Faith at the end of Galatians 2. And then he starts to defend it 101 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,900 in Galatians 3 and fours, which were going to be Studying. 102 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,900 So we basically he's not bringing any new material to 103 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:55,100 this chapter that we're studying today, he's basically 104 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:58,300 reiterating reiterating what he's already started to develop 105 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,900 and he's bringing it to Bear upon the judaizers the false 106 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:03,400 teachers and what they were saying. 107 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:09,600 So he goes back to Abraham and he says okay you guys you 108 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,700 judaizers of talking about circumcision. 109 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,100 So let's go back to where circumcision began The Deal 110 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:18,500 started with Abraham and let's see how that how he was 111 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:21,300 justified and he begins to talk about the promise of God of 112 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,100 Abraham that is received by faith. 113 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,800 If we look in verse 6 of Galatians, 3 and says, just as 114 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,400 Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness 115 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,800 and he's quoting from Genesis chapter 15, Verse 8 of Galatians 116 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,300 3 it says and the scripture foreseeing that God would 117 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:43,700 justify the Gentiles by faith. Preached the gospel beforehand 118 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:47,600 to Abraham saying in you shall all the nations be blessed. 119 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,300 And so if you want to turn your Genesis 12, that's fine but 120 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:56,600 we're going to go back there for a little bit and and pull a 121 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,500 couple points out of there. What Paul is doing here in 122 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:01,800 Galatians 3 is he showing the necessity of faith? 123 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:07,500 He starts in Galatians 3 by giving basically six rapid fire 124 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:10,600 questions to the to the church, in galatia churches, in galatia. 125 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,400 He's basically saying, did you receive all the you would had 126 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,000 observing the law by obedience by your obedience, or by faith? 127 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:20,100 And he's making the case is basically rhetorical questions 128 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:23,900 that he's asking here. And that's when he reaches back 129 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,100 and talks about Abraham. He said, let's talk about 130 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:29,300 Abraham what he's doing. He's building a picture building 131 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:34,300 a case for his explanation. The people of God in the Old 132 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:37,200 Testament began with Abraham, he's the father of the people of 133 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,900 Israel and it all plays out and the New Covenant that we are 134 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:45,000 sons of Abraham. So if we look at Genesis 12, 135 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,700 verses 1 through 2, it says now the Lord said to Abram go from 136 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:51,300 your country and your Kindred and your father's house to the 137 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:54,300 land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great 138 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:58,600 nation and I will bless you and make your name great, so that 139 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,200 you will be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless 140 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,200 you and him who dishonors you, I will curse you and in all the 141 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,800 families of the Earth shall be blessed. 142 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:14,300 The promise that we see there is in verse 2, it says, and I will 143 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:18,300 make a great nation make of you a great nation and I will bless 144 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:21,200 you and make your name great, so that you will be blessings. 145 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,100 That's the promise that was given to Abraham from God. 146 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,200 And that's a big promise, and I don't want us to miss the point. 147 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,600 Abraham had nothing to do with this promise, that was given to 148 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:36,400 him from God. For all, we know Abraham was 149 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,299 made, even a pagan guy who was not seeking after God, but this 150 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:43,600 was initiated by God initiated by God. 151 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,900 So the first part of the Covenant with Abraham here is by 152 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:52,500 Grace God, blesses his people. That's what one of the points is 153 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,500 being made. It's not based on what Abraham 154 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,900 had done, but based on the initiative that the grace of 155 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:00,300 God, God making his Covenant with Abraham. 156 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:02,200 It's not Abraham going to make a deal with God. 157 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,900 It was God coming. To Abraham to make a deal with 158 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:07,700 him or make a covenant with him. I'm sorry. 159 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,300 It's even clearer. We can see that in Genesis 15 160 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:14,500 and what happened is. God said in Genesis 12 All 161 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,800 Nations on Earth are going to be blessed through you Abram. 162 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:19,500 But the only problem is, it didn't have a son? 163 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,200 How is that possible? How are all the nations going to 164 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:23,600 be blessed? If he didn't have a son? 165 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,500 He didn't even have an heir to his family. 166 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:29,900 He's going to have. How's it going to have a line 167 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:31,200 that's going to bless all nations? 168 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,200 When he can't even have a son with his wife, Sarah Genesis 15 169 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,500 verses 1 through 6 says, after these things, the word of the 170 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,900 Lord came to Abram in a vision Fair naughty room. 171 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:47,000 I'm your Shield, your reward shall be very great. 172 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:50,400 But Abram said O Lord God, what will you give me for? 173 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,400 I continue childless. And the air of my house is 174 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,700 Eliezer of Damascus. And Abram said, behold you have 175 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:59,100 given me? No Offspring and a member of my 176 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:03,000 household will be my Heir and behold the word of the Lord came 177 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,700 to him. This man shall not be your Heir. 178 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,900 You're very, you're very own son. 179 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:11,200 Shall be rare and he brought him outside and said, look toward 180 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,100 the heaven and Number the Stars. Stars. 181 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:15,800 If you are able to number them, then he said to him. 182 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:22,900 So shall your Offspring be? And here's what Paul quotes he 183 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:26,700 quotes from 15:6 of Genesis. It says, and he believed the 184 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,500 Lord and he counted it to him as righteousness. 185 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,400 So we're going to think about this for a second and what's 186 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,400 going to what's going on and how Abram was receiving this 187 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,200 promise? You know, by Grace God bless his 188 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,300 people and that Grace is expressed in radical promises. 189 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,800 God gave some radical Promises to the, to the children of 190 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,800 Israel in the Old Testament, we can read about and to Abraham. 191 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:52,200 And we see this through Abraham's life and it's evident 192 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:53,800 right here. God just said to Abram, you're 193 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,600 going to have as many descendants as the stars in the 194 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,500 heavens. He doesn't even have a son yet. 195 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,500 That's a pretty big bold promise that he gave Abraham when he 196 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:07,300 didn't even have a son. Not only does he not have a son 197 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:10,700 but he's 99 years old and his wife is Barren. 198 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:12,600 Sarah could not have children. You know, things were not 199 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,000 looking very promising for that, kind of promise to God, to give 200 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,400 to Abraham You know, even when God, you know, was mentioned to 201 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,200 Sarah that she was going to have a son, she laughed at. 202 00:11:22,208 --> 00:11:24,100 You got to be kidding me. I'm gonna have a son. 203 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:28,100 I think any of us would do that, if we were told that at that 204 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:31,600 age, however, the picture was here, it was not, it was not 205 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,800 Abraham or singing or Sarah bringing anything to the table. 206 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:38,000 It's what God was bringing to the table for them in their 207 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,500 lives. Promises by his grace. 208 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:46,100 Now the question is, how will he receive the blessing of God? 209 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:49,000 How will Abraham receive the blessing of God that leads us to 210 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,100 the second part of God's covenant with Abraham Abraham by 211 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:54,100 Grace? God blesses, his people and then 212 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:59,200 through faith, God's people received his Blessing and this 213 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,800 is what Paul is talking about. This is how Abraham receive the 214 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,200 blessing of God, not by earning it or meriting it or doing 215 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:11,600 anything within his power to to gain that from God. he believed 216 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,400 basically what God was telling him, he believed that Abraham 217 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,500 did not do a thing, he believed God. 218 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,300 And that's what verse six set of Paul says. 219 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:26,000 In Galatians, it says in this is what he's quoting just as 220 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,400 Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness 221 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:32,600 righteousness before, God, credited Bree Abraham based on, 222 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,100 not what he has done, but based on what he believed, Abraham 223 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:38,100 believed God, it's what Romans 4? 224 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:42,000 19 through 21 talks about, it says he did not weaken in faith 225 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,300 when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead since 226 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:48,500 he was about 100 years old or even he considered the 227 00:12:48,508 --> 00:12:52,100 barrenness of Sarah's womb, no unbelief made him waiver 228 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:55,400 concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith 229 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,900 as he gave glory to God. Fully convinced that God was 230 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:05,100 able to do what he had promised. That is why it was credited to 231 00:13:05,108 --> 00:13:08,600 him as righteousness. Romans 4 says, the righteousness 232 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,200 of God was credit to him because he believed God had the power to 233 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,700 do what he has promised through faith. 234 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:18,400 And this is what Paul is talking about, what the judaizers, he 235 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,900 says, yes, he was circumcised, but when was he circumcised? 236 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 It's not until Genesis 17 that Abraham gets circumcised. 237 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,900 Paul talks about earlier in Romans 4 verse 10. 238 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:33,000 It says how then was it counted to him? 239 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:34,900 Was it before? Or after he had been 240 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:39,400 circumcised, it was not after but before he was circumcised 241 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:43,100 before he even did that, he was already justified by faith. 242 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:47,300 Not based on what he had done but based on what God had done 243 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:50,100 in his life based completely on his grace. 244 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,300 And this is the picture that Paul is trying to paint her. 245 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,700 He even quotes later in Galatians 3 from habakkuk 2:4 in 246 00:13:55,708 --> 00:13:59,100 the Bible, says there, the just shall live by faith and, you 247 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:05,700 know, there was centuries ago when the Pope in one church had 248 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:08,200 said, you know, they were they were selling basically 249 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:14,100 indulgences for the church. The pope said, there's this, 250 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:19,400 this is special set of stairs at this one church, and if you come 251 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:26,600 and kneel and and kneel and every stair and pay some money, 252 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,700 you climb these stairs, you kiss, every stair, you pray. 253 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:32,100 And when you do that, and you get to the top, all your sins 254 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:35,500 are forgiven. That's not what the Bible 255 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:37,300 teaches. Basically what that was tapping 256 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:39,200 is they were just trying to raise money, is what it comes 257 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,000 down to raising money is what they were doing. 258 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,100 That's not living by faith. That's completely. 259 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:46,600 Contrary to what is taught in the scriptures and the real 260 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:50,500 reality of the scripture teaches us that those who know that they 261 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:53,800 have been saved, leave live completely different lives than 262 00:14:53,808 --> 00:14:56,800 the rest of the world. And this is what was going on 263 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,900 with Abraham his life and the decisions he made were made 264 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,700 because he realized what God was doing it. 265 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:06,400 What God could do and the faith is expressed. 266 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,700 This faith is expressed in extreme obedience that Abraham 267 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:14,300 showed. He was Judge, Abraham was 268 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:16,700 justified by faith and what happens after that, after that 269 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:19,700 he was circumcised and even back in Genesis 12 before he was even 270 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:23,000 circumcised circumcised. God, gave him this promise. 271 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 And, and after that promise was made than Abraham packed up all 272 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,900 of his bags, And he said God I'll go wherever you want me to 273 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:34,300 go because of what you've done for me. 274 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:38,700 He leaves his family and all that was familiar to him left it 275 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:42,400 all behind sold. All his possessions and that's 276 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,500 extreme Faith. That's extreme faith. 277 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,700 He went to a foreign land where he was living in tents just 278 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:53,500 trusting in God to lead him every step of the way we get to 279 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:58,200 Genesis 22 Abraham. Finally has that son that God 280 00:15:58,200 --> 00:15:59,700 had promised him which was Isaac. 281 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:03,200 And once he had that song that son, what does God say to him? 282 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,000 God says you take that son, your only son and you go and you 283 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,800 sacrifice him. You build an awful firm, you 284 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,800 take him up to a mountain and you sacrifice that son that I 285 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,700 promise to you. Your Offspring were going to 286 00:16:16,708 --> 00:16:22,600 come from. now, if I'm Abraham, I'm thinking How many roadblocks 287 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,000 are going to put in front of me before I get this promise that 288 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,600 you're telling me about but Abraham has that radical Faith 289 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,000 where he's going to do whatever God tells him to do. 290 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,600 So Abraham does it or he almost does it until God stops him and 291 00:16:36,608 --> 00:16:39,700 he takes his and he raped to the mountain and raises the knife 292 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:44,600 over his son and and God, of course, stops in the provides a 293 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,400 ram for him, that's living by radical Faith. 294 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:52,000 Listen to Genesis 22, 15 through 17, it says, and the angel of 295 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,100 the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said 296 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,800 by myself, I have sworn declares the Lord because you have done 297 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,000 this and have not withheld, your son, your uncle Only son, I will 298 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,300 surely bless you and I will surely multiply your Offspring 299 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:10,800 as a stars of the heaven, and as a sand, that is on the seashore. 300 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:14,599 When I read this, something, caught my attention. 301 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:17,599 I read this verse and I went, you know, we've been talking to 302 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:21,099 all along about how this was all by grace, through faith and God 303 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:23,599 says, to Abraham because you did this. 304 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:28,500 Now I'm going to bless you and if if we're not careful we can 305 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:32,400 we can see that that doesn't quite aligned with living by 306 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,500 faith. You know, at that point was 307 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,500 Abraham earning the blessing of God and the answer is certainly 308 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:41,000 not. He was not earning the blessing 309 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,800 of God. Basically, Abraham was living by 310 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,600 his faith and it's the same picture. 311 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:50,600 We he's got a promise from God. He's got trust in God, he's 312 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,700 believing in God. And his life is the outworking 313 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,400 of that Faith. The outworking of what God has 314 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,400 done for him. It's not trying to earn 315 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,500 salvation and Hebrews 11. We get to the hall of faith and 316 00:18:05,508 --> 00:18:08,700 these Heroes of Faith were doing extraordinary things. 317 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:13,900 Hebrews 11 33 through 38, it says who through faith conquered 318 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:17,500 kingdoms enforce, Justice obtained, promises stopped, the 319 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:19,900 mouths of lions. Quenched, the power of fire 320 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:22,000 escaped. The edge of the sword were made, 321 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,300 strong out of weakness, became Mighty, and War. 322 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:29,500 Put forward armies to flight, women receive back there dead by 323 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:33,600 Even some were tortured refusing to accept release so that they 324 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,200 might rise again to a better life, others suffered mocking, 325 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,800 and flogging and even chains and imprisonment they were stoned. 326 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,200 They were sawn into they were killed with the sword. 327 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:48,200 They went about in skins of sheeps and goats destitute 328 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,600 Afflicted, mistreated of, whom the world was not worthy. 329 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,600 People lived by grace through faith live extremely different 330 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,800 lives than the rest of the world. 331 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,300 Old completely different lives because they believed God and 332 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:06,600 they don't know, they need the stuff of this world. 333 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:10,300 They know that they don't, this stuff that we have doesn't need 334 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:12,200 to be held on to, we don't need to. 335 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,300 We don't need any of that thing, because we know God is good, and 336 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:20,800 God is all sufficient, and God can provide whatever we need, he 337 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,700 is enough. So these people believed in God, 338 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:28,100 and that belief, they believe that he's enough for him, they 339 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:29,900 were not saying, well, I've got all this. 340 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,500 Is Grace through faith, you know, so I can just indulge in 341 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:39,100 all the sin that I want to. And all the things that this 342 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:41,500 world has to offer, we can do that because of the grace of 343 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:44,300 God. That's not living by grace 344 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:46,100 through faith and people who live like that. 345 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:51,000 Know, so little of Grace and so little of faith So Abraham 346 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,500 received the blessing of God by grace through faith that leads 347 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:55,400 us to the second point, which is Moses. 348 00:19:56,700 --> 00:20:02,700 God's covenant with Moses. What we need to understand. 349 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:08,300 Is this Covenant with Moses? What the judaizers were saying 350 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:11,100 back in Galatians? 3 was okay, Abraham. 351 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:13,600 We understand Abraham, you know, Faith with Abraham. 352 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:17,600 We see that but then God gave a covenant with Moses that involve 353 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,300 law. And the judaizers were saying, 354 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:23,900 you know, God used to operate with his People based on grace 355 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:25,600 through faith. But now, he's put into place 356 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,500 this law that we need to follow. So Moses here, he tells us what 357 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:32,900 we need to do, what we need to do with all that. 358 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:36,500 We need to follow this law to to be able to be in good, graces 359 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:39,500 with God. So what they were saying was 360 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:43,500 basically that what Moses did trumped what Abraham had done 361 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,700 and that is not the case. That's what these judaizers were 362 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:48,300 saying. And what we need to realize is 363 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:51,800 that God's covenant, with Moses does not contradict his Covenant 364 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,500 with Abraham instead, God's covenant, with Moses 365 00:20:55,500 --> 00:21:02,700 compliments, his Covenant with Abraham God is not contradicting 366 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:05,500 himself. This is what Paul in Galatians 3 367 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:10,000 15 vs. 15, 16 17 is talking about he said this does not 368 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,700 nullify what happened with Abraham in fact what God did 369 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:16,000 with Moses helps us understand better what God had done with 370 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,700 Abraham. They complement one another. 371 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,300 So with Abraham, God's promise shows us the necessity of faith. 372 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:30,400 And with Moses God's law shows us the futility of the flesh. 373 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,900 And that's a big set in. So I want to try to explain that 374 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:36,400 a little bit. God's law shows us the futility 375 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,000 of the Flesh in curing, Galatians 3, Paul mentions the 376 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,800 law over and over and over again. 377 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,900 Now, sometimes the New Testament when it when we see the word law 378 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:47,800 mentioned, it talks about maybe just the Old Testament, maybe 379 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,000 talks about, Just the Ten Commandments sometimes. 380 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,400 It's even talking about just the will of God or the authority of 381 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,400 God. But but specifically here, He's 382 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,300 referring Paul is referring to the Kent Commandments and the 383 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:06,200 requirements that were given to Moses back in Exodus and we see 384 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,200 in Leviticus numbers and Deuteronomy the whole picture of 385 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,000 the Old Testament. That's what Paul is referring 386 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,900 to. It's not talking about just the 387 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:15,200 word of God in general. All this. 388 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,700 It's talking specifically about the Covenant that God had made 389 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:25,300 with his people in Moses day. So what happens in Galatians 3, 390 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:29,500 and verse 10? He kind of goes back and forth 391 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,600 from verse 10 to about 25. He starts talking about what the 392 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,600 law can do. The law can't bring life. 393 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,400 Paul says the law can't bring Salvation the law, can't bring 394 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,200 righteousness, the law, can't do any of these things. 395 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,000 The picture here will Paul is talking about is basically 396 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,700 showing the in Attica, sweet and adequacy of the law and the 397 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:54,400 weakness of the law and the futility of the Flesh and in a 398 00:22:54,408 --> 00:22:57,400 couple different ways. First of all, the law shows us 399 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,200 that we have all disobey God. Galatians 3:10 says for it is 400 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,500 written cursed, be everyone who does not abide by all things 401 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:10,700 written in the book of the law where he's quoting from. 402 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:15,300 Here is Deuteronomy 27. It says back there, anyone who 403 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:18,300 does not follow everything in the law is cursed. 404 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,100 The law demanded. Perfect obedience. 405 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,700 That is what Jesus would say. In Matthew 5, in The Sermon, on 406 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:30,100 the Mount, he's talking about the Old Testament, he gets to 407 00:23:30,108 --> 00:23:33,800 the end and he says be perfect. Therefore as your heavenly 408 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,100 father is perfect and that's the standard. 409 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:40,700 Jesus is the standard of perfection, we disobey the law 410 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:43,900 of God and the law confronts us with the fact that we cannot 411 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:48,700 obey it perfectly, not one of us in this room can so what the 412 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:51,100 Lord is doing here is a couple of different things. 413 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,500 First the Old Law, exposes our sin. 414 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:01,300 The law exposes our sin. It brings sin are in our hearts 415 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:03,500 to light, Romans 6 & 7, talks about this. 416 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,200 What the law does, is it confronts us with the commands 417 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,200 of God and brings the sinful heart? 418 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,900 That is that we all have in US, it brings it to life and exposes 419 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:16,000 our sin. If there was no law, we wouldn't 420 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,100 know that we were sinning in the law, brings that to the surface. 421 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:21,200 So we know that we're imperfect and we need to do something 422 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,400 about it. Not only does it allow expose 423 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,200 our sin but the law actually intensifies, its inner it makes 424 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,400 it worse. In chapter or a verse 19 of 425 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,100 chapter 3. In Galatians here, it says the 426 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:37,400 law was added because of transgressions I don't have time 427 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,700 to get into all the language there. 428 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:41,000 But basically, Paul is saying that the law increases 429 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:45,000 transgressions, the more laws you at or transgressions are 430 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,500 going to have add another law. You're going to have another 431 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:50,200 transgression, it intensifies it. 432 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:53,200 It's the same thing that he says in Romans 5 verse 20, now the 433 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,600 law came to increase the trespass. 434 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:00,200 So, the law intensifies has and exposes our sin. 435 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,500 And as a result, confronts us with the cruel harsh, stunning 436 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:08,400 reality, not only do we disobey the law of God, but as a result, 437 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,800 we all deserve the wrath of God. The verse 10 of Chapter 3 of 438 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,300 Galatians. It says, for all who rely on 439 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:19,700 works of the law are under a curse for it is written cursed, 440 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:23,500 be everyone who does not abide by abide, by all things written, 441 00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:25,900 in the book of the law and do them. 442 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,200 We stand cursed beneath the law cursed. 443 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,000 This is what the law confronts us within. 444 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,300 The fact that you and I are cursed before God, we're still 445 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:37,900 talking about the law of Moses here. 446 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,300 We need to understand that and this is where Moses helps out. 447 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,800 When we read about Moses in Deuteronomy 27, which Paul is 448 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,200 quoting here, and what happens is he saying when you go to the 449 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,100 land, you're you're going to go beyond the Jordan and there's 450 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:58,700 going to be two mountainsides. And half of the tribe you're 451 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:01,200 going to put on one mountain side and the other half. 452 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,600 You're going to put on another mountain side and you guys are 453 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,100 going to face each other. And what Moses God tells Moses 454 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,400 to do is half of these people on One. 455 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,100 Mountainside are going to pronounce blessings And the 456 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:16,800 other side is going to respond to that. 457 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:19,100 We can read this in Deuteronomy 27. 458 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:23,200 The other half is going to pronounce curses. 459 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:25,900 The other one's going to pronounce blessings so imagine 460 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:28,100 you can you know we can see a seen thousands of people gather 461 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:31,300 on to Mountain sides. One side saying cursed is anyone 462 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:36,100 who does not obey his father and mother the other side replies. 463 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:40,900 Amen. Then they say, cursed is 464 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,400 everyone who leads the blind astray. 465 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:47,100 The other side says, amen, cursed is the one who does this 466 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:49,900 curse, is the one who does this, and they're yelling out a men's 467 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,000 cursing. Them blessings back and forth 468 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:57,200 that we can read about And the law was given to show us because 469 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,200 we disobey the law of God, everyone stands beneath the 470 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,600 curse of the law. So, what is this curse mean? 471 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:06,600 What does it cursing mean that we can read? 472 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,900 About cursed means that we stand condemned before. 473 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:13,300 God. The whole point of the law, 474 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:14,800 that's the whole point of the law. 475 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,400 It was not good to be standing before a holy God and to be 476 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,900 confronted with sin, it's not a good thing. 477 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:24,500 Because now to be confronted with the law because the law 478 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:27,900 exposes our sin before a holy God, we're standing there before 479 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:34,900 God, who is dead set against send hates, it can't can't even 480 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:42,900 be associated with it. You turn Li hates it and we're 481 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:45,900 covered with it. And that law has confronted. 482 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:48,600 That and right here, in verse 10, it says, cursed be, everyone 483 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,600 who does not abide by all things written, in the book of the law 484 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,100 and do them. When we see that we read a verse 485 00:27:55,100 --> 00:28:00,500 like that, it should cause us to go into some sort of a Panic 486 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:03,400 mode, I guess you want to say, we're cursed before. 487 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,200 God, what do we need to do about that? 488 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:08,200 Where are we? What do we have to do? 489 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,200 What do we need? What can we, who do we go to? 490 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,400 How can we be saved? You know, there's an urgency 491 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,300 because we're cursed before God. So what do we do about that? 492 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:29,800 So also to what I noticed about this kind of a scary thought to 493 00:28:29,808 --> 00:28:31,700 me. It says, it doesn't say cursed 494 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:36,700 are the atheists or agnostics or pagans? 495 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000 no, it says, cursed are the people who try to obey God, 496 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,500 That's kind of a scary thought. Cursed are those who trying to 497 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:50,600 bring the law of life into their the law into their life thinking 498 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,000 that it's going to bring them life. 499 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,400 Cursed are those who, you know, when you use current 500 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,000 terminology, you know, Kershaw those who, you know, I read my 501 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,500 Bible, so many times a week, I do the best raising my family. 502 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:07,500 We go to church three, four times a week, whatever. 503 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:10,100 Maybe we do. All we can we're studying every 504 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:10,800 night. We're praying. 505 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,300 Every day were working, working, working working. 506 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,700 And in every 10 that we try to do that, the law says, guilty, 507 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,000 you're still guilty over and over again. 508 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,400 Guilty guilty this year guilty next year, the harder you try, 509 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,300 you're still guilty. It doesn't, you know, that makes 510 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:35,400 us feel hopeless, right? That's what it's supposed to do. 511 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,000 That's the whole point of the law, it doesn't make us feel 512 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,900 that way, if it doesn't make us feel that way, then when they 513 00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:45,100 were missing the point, it says, stop trying to do these things 514 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,700 to earn favor towards God because you're not going to get 515 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,700 it right, period. Everything you do. 516 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:52,000 You're not going to get it right? 517 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,300 The law was given to show that you are disobedient to it. 518 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:59,800 And as a result, we stand under the curse and condemnation of 519 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,500 God. And that's the purpose of the 520 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,900 law that Paul is showing us here. 521 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:08,000 So, why is Paul telling us this? And some of the reasons, coming 522 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,400 Galatians, 3, verses 22, 23 and 24. 523 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:17,500 It says, but the scripture imprisoned, everything, under 524 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,200 sinned imprisoned, everything and then we get down to verse 525 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,100 23, it says now, before Faith came, we were held captive under 526 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:29,200 the law. So God through the word says, or 527 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,300 Paul is saying, here were like prisoners chained by the law. 528 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:34,900 The law exposes our sin at every turn and the law. 529 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:37,300 Intensifies has our sin and there's nothing we can do were 530 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:40,800 chained or chain before God. We can't get out were under his 531 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,200 Kirsten, his condemnation, we can't do anything the harder, we 532 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,700 try the worse. It is, Paul says, in verse 23. 533 00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:50,100 Now, before Faith came, we were held captive under the law in 534 00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:53,000 prison until the coming. Faith would be revealed. 535 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:59,100 So, the law was put in charge to lead us to who to Christ that we 536 00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:04,000 might be justified by faith. So here we are sitting in our 537 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,200 change, in our sin and in our ability to obey, God completely 538 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,300 or be right before. God based on anything that we 539 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:15,900 do, there's nothing that we could do to be in. 540 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:19,500 Good graces with God, we're cursed condemned. 541 00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:25,500 And here stands Christ and he is completely righteous. 542 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,800 He has no sin in him. He is a lamb without blemish or 543 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,100 defect. He is right before God, he 544 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:36,500 alone, and he steps in and he says I'll take that curse for 545 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,700 you. All Barrel. 546 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:43,900 That's in I'll take the condemnation for you. 547 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,300 So now we're approaching the third most important point. 548 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,400 The first point God's covenant with Abraham what shows us the 549 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,300 necessity of Faith. The second Point, God's 550 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:56,700 covenant, with Moses shows the futility of the Flesh and the 551 00:31:56,700 --> 00:32:01,900 third point of Galatians 3, God's covenant through Christ. 552 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,400 Christ shows us the price of Freedom, the whole point of the 553 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,900 law has been to show us that we need Christ. 554 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:13,300 We need him to save us. We need him in our lives. 555 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:15,200 We need him to do what we can't do. 556 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,600 We need him Jesus, fulfills the law of Moses. 557 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:25,800 That is everything. The Old Testament was building 558 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,000 to everything was pointing directly to Christ. 559 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,900 All the ceremonial laws, all the rituals of the sacrifices that 560 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:34,500 they would do all these different things. 561 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:38,000 The who book of Hebrews says they are all Shadows pointing to 562 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,300 one some substance and that substance is Christ. 563 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:44,700 Romans 10:4 says Christ is the end of the law. 564 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:49,300 Matthew 5 says that Jesus says, there, I come to fulfill. 565 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:52,800 I came to fulfill the law to complete with the law Jesus. 566 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:55,700 This fulfills the law of Moses. How did he do that? 567 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,100 Number one, Jesus fulfilled, the law by obeying, the law of God 568 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:06,500 for us. He lives right righteously by 569 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,700 faith perfectly righteous and there's no other person in the 570 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:12,200 Bible and no other religious teacher in the history of the 571 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,200 world that can claim righteousness. 572 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,700 Before God, based on their own Merit, only Christ. 573 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000 He and obeyed the law of God for us. 574 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,700 But not only, did he obey the law of God he endured the wrath 575 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:28,100 of God, instead of us. He endured the wrath of God. 576 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:33,100 Instead of us Galatians 3:13 says there that he was. 577 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:36,200 He redeemed us Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by 578 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:41,800 becoming a curse for us. Those two words are for us, I 579 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,200 threw the most beautiful words in the Bible. 580 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:51,100 That we can read about. For us for you, for me, for the 581 00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:53,300 person sitting next to you Christ. 582 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:57,300 Did that for us? He became the curse for us. 583 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,500 He died for us. He shed his blood for you and I 584 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,800 he died for you and I gave his life for you and I and he took 585 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,000 that Rod wrath of God. Do to us on himself. 586 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,300 He redeemed us, and that's a word that Paul uses here and 587 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:18,800 that was a word that was used in that day to describe how you 588 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,300 would pay the price to buy his slave. 589 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:23,900 So you could set him free redeemed, paid the price, he 590 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:28,500 took the curse upon himself. So what do we say to that? 591 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:32,699 One, hymn writer said nothing in my hand. 592 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:37,600 I bring simply to thy Cross Lake clean naked, come to thee for 593 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,100 dress helpless, look to the for Grace. 594 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,800 Val, I to the Fountain fly Wash Me savior or I die. 595 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,199 Some of you might recognize that that's Rock of Ages beautiful 596 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,500 words. That's what the law does. 597 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:55,900 The law says, you have got to have Christ you need Christ. 598 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:57,700 You desperately, need him, use Everything. 599 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:04,300 Jesus also completes the promise to Abraham He is the seed and we 600 00:35:04,308 --> 00:35:07,900 look at verse 19 of Galatians. 3, it says, it's talking about 601 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:10,200 the law. It was added because of 602 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,800 transgressions until The Offspring should come to whom 603 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,800 the promise had been made to. Who is that scene? 604 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:20,700 We go back up to verse 16 and it says, now the promises were made 605 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:23,500 to Abraham and to his offspring. It does. 606 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:27,400 And it does it does not say into offsprings referring to many, 607 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,600 but referring to one and to your Offspring, who is Christ? 608 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,100 So this is why when we get to the Book of Matthew, he starts 609 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:40,300 with a bunch of names. We read a bunch of names and 610 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:43,800 lineage of Jesus, how Jesus came from Abraham. 611 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,600 He lived perfectly righteously by faith in the lines of 612 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,100 Abraham. He fulfills, the promise that 613 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,800 was made all the way back in. Genesis 12 through him, all 614 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,600 nations of Earth will be blessed and his death, his resurrection 615 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,100 from the grave. We hear can see can be credited 616 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:02,100 righteousness before God, because of Jesus. 617 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:03,900 We have received the blessing of God. 618 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,700 Christ, completes the promise of Abraham, Everything that we see 619 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:12,800 in Abraham points directly to Christ by Grace, he gives us 620 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,100 salvation. Paul is saying here in Galatians 621 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:21,000 3, what are you going to do based on all this stuff? 622 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,500 You know, what do you do to earn your salvation in light of this 623 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:26,900 gigantic picture that Paul has just taught the Galatians? 624 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:29,800 What are you going to do? Are you thinking that being 625 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,000 circumcised is going to make that big of a difference? 626 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:37,900 No, he's saying don't add to what Jesus has done for you 627 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:40,500 guys. Don't do it. 628 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:44,900 He is all that we need, you know, Christianity is not a 629 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:48,800 systematic way to make our life, better to work in to follow to 630 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,300 make all these principles to make our life better. 631 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:54,100 It's not how to be more moral of to be more good. 632 00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:55,900 It's not the point. The point of Christianity is 633 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,700 that it's not what we can do and make ourselves a better life. 634 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:02,600 You know, I want to make myself have a better life. 635 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,100 That's not what it is. It's to have a new life. 636 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,800 Everything in the past is gone, we're living a completely new 637 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:13,500 way based on what Jesus has done for us, crucify yourself, Slayer 638 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:14,800 self. That's what he said in Juice. 639 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,500 Galatians, 2 verse 20 Crucified with Christ. 640 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:24,700 I no longer live myself dead instead. 641 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:30,500 Christ lives in me. By Grace, he give salvation to a 642 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:33,600 to us, through faith. We received his spirit in US, 643 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,000 Galatians 3 14 says, so that in Christ Jesus. 644 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,100 The Blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles. 645 00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:43,600 So that we might receive the promise Spirit, through faith 646 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,100 Not only are we looking to the righteousness of Christ in 647 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:50,700 heaven as a basis by which we stand before. 648 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,500 God, the acts of the spirit of Christ is actually in US. 649 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:58,100 Put into us. And when that happens, that's 650 00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:00,200 what radically changes Our Lives. 651 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,400 Not from the outside in, but from the inside out because we 652 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,800 are believing, and trusting and have faith, that Jesus and God 653 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,600 are going to do what they are going to do. 654 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:13,500 Our lives aren't look completely different than they did in the 655 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:18,600 past. We'll see more and more of that, 656 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:23,700 as we still complete our study through Galatians, It'll point 657 00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:27,400 to some more of those. So, so for all that, maybe our, 658 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,600 you know, our church members here, Christians here, you know, 659 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:34,400 we struggle for years, having trying to make get it right, you 660 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,100 know, I'm gonna try harder this time. 661 00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:37,900 I'm going to, I'm going to struggle. 662 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:40,900 Yeah, I'm struggling or wrestling for a victory or a win 663 00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:44,700 over some particular sin that we may be dealing with, and we just 664 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:49,000 can't find that piece sometimes. With the struggles that we have 665 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:51,500 try harder this year, next year. Next year. 666 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:56,100 Next year, next year. We need to start stop relying on 667 00:38:56,100 --> 00:39:01,300 ourselves to make these changes. I now outward works and look to 668 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:03,900 heaven and see the righteousness of Christ and know that we are 669 00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:07,100 counted righteous simply by following the instructions that 670 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:10,100 we have had laid out before us by Christ himself. 671 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,700 And that's an astounding awe-inspiring truth that that 672 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:16,000 the galatian book of Galatians shows us. 673 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:23,800 So how do we get into Christ? Thankfully, Paul shows us how in 674 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,100 verses 27 through 29 of this chapter. 675 00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:31,900 It says, for as many of you as were baptized into Christ. 676 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:35,900 Have put on Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek. 677 00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:39,400 There is neither slave nor free. There is no, you have no male 678 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,800 and female for you are all one in Christ. 679 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,300 Jesus. And here's a key verse this 680 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:45,900 might sum up. We were talking about with 681 00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:50,200 offsprings and if you are, Christ's, then you are. 682 00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:54,300 Abraham's offspring heirs, according to the promise. 683 00:39:57,100 --> 00:40:01,000 Amazing chapter. Really it really kind of 684 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,700 encapsulates, the whole picture of the Bible starting way back 685 00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:08,000 in Genesis. What all had happened coming to 686 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,200 Jesus at that point in the New Testament and Paul really just 687 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,900 kind of lays it out. If you have time you want to 688 00:40:14,908 --> 00:40:17,100 read it again on your own. It might hopefully it makes a 689 00:40:17,107 --> 00:40:21,100 little more better sense than what it did originally. 690 00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:28,800 So I hope I haven't muddied the waters are or confused anybody 691 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,400 but Paul really shows us the importance of Christ. 692 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,000 And we are baptized into Christ. Having put him on. 693 00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:39,600 So do you believe that Jesus is the son of God? 694 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:46,400 if so, and you need to repent of your previous way of life and 695 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,200 change your life now live by faith because of what he's done 696 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:54,000 for you live, according to his work and we confess his name, 697 00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:58,500 Firming that he is the Son of God and then we are baptized in 698 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:02,200 immersion of water baptized into Christ and he has us to his 699 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,600 church. 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