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Galatians 3:1-11 Several things in this passage of scripture that the Bible points out to us! First of all that we are saved bye the Grace of God without any of our works of the flesh, It is from Him and bye Him and unto Him! We are only a recipient of it! We are saved we are saved by faith without any works. Second we are not to live our lives as we are under the Old Covenant but live our life under the New Covenant which demands a life in dependence upon God and not of the law which brings independence from God! 2 Cor. 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. So with these two aspects in mind let us go and look at verses one through two. As we can see from verse one the Galatians were very inconsistent people, they could change their minds and believe one thing one day and another the next! Paul addressed them in chapter one verse six: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. The Judaizers had invaded the Galatian church and prompt their law teaching and stressed the necessity of circumcision to gain and maintain salvation! The Galatian people were quick to believe the message that the Judaizers were preaching. Paul pronounced in chapter one verse nine to let them perish or be accursed and chapter five verse ten pronounced judgment on them, and also in chapter five verse twelve Paul would that they were even cut off which troubled them. So bye these passages we can see how much it bothered the Apostle Paul to preach Law to those who have been saved under the Gospel of the Grace of God, the message which he himself had preached in Galatia. He preached Christ crucified, buried and risen! His message was singular! Now pay attention to verse two. Paul asked them, did you receive the Spirit of God bye faith or bye the works of the law? Undoubtedly when Paul was their preaching the Gospel of the Grace of God many, many people put faith in Jesus Christ. Paul here is trying to put them back in remembrance how they were saved. Did you Galatians experience the joy of salvation bye hearing or working? The Galatians knew the answer within their heart. We who are saved right now know that we are saved by faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified bye faith without the deeds of the law. Let me ask you a question! What is the supreme motive of God in salvation through Divine Grace? Answer! Ephesians two verse seven: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. His purpose is to demonstrate before all intelligences, principalities and powers, celestial beings, and terrestrial beings the exceeding riches of His Grace. We will be trophies of grace through all the ages of eternity! So if the supreme motive of God is to reveal His grace then salvation must be bye grace alone, or the eternal purpose of God must fail. For after Ephesians two verse seven Paul makes this declaration in verse eight: For bye grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works. Lest any man should boast! Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to withdraw it in the presence of human failure and sin. Grace cannot be exercised where there is the slightest degree of merit to be recognized. You see Christ came to pay for the sins of the world and He did! Did not John the Baptist cry out in John one verse twenty-nine: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh way the sin of the world. Jesus Christ paid everyone's sin dept. In the eyes of God everyone has been cleaned up because of the blood that Jesus Christ shed on the cross. But not everyone has had this imputed to him or her, because they have not believed! You can see then how that mankind doesn't go to heaven because he is good and doesn't perish because he is bad! But because of unbelief! " But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justified the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. So you see how condemnation is no longer the sins which men have committed and which Christ has borne to the cross, but rather because of the person rejecting the provision of the Saviour who bore our sins to the tree! We can see that human sin, human obligation; human merit can not co-exist with the salvation of a man bye the grace of God. Every sin that humanity has committed saved or unsaved or that would ever commit was dealt with in perfect divine judgment by Christ at the cross. Sin does not overcome the blood! It is the blood that overcomes sin. So we know in verse two that we receive the Spirit bye the hearing and responding of the gospel message that God has given mankind in this age! In verse three are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? The Mosaic Law stops every man and shows him what he really is! But they are some who teach that now you who are saved must keep the law and you have power to do this now within yourself! There is a great lack of emphasis upon that which teaches a believer how to live the true Christian life. The truth that the grace of God, the very same grace which brings salvation, also teaches those who are saved how to live! One may say I believe in grace but I do not think it should be emphasized too much because this leads to careless living! They have failed to understand Gods work of grace! Its not the grace which leads to sinning but the grace of God which keeps us from sinning as demonstrated bye the Apostle Paul. Growth in spiritual life only comes bye the grace of God. Second Peter chapter three verse eighteen tells us but grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Mosaic system! No it doesn't! It says grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Many believe as the Judaizers at Galatia did, that the Mosaic Law teaches men how to live a godly life! The Mosaic Law was given to Gods earthly people Israel to teach them the conduct he required of them but in giving the law God also with it provided sacrifices as there grounds of mercy when they broke the law! This proves that God knew that the law could not so teach righteousness as to provide godly living! This error that Paul was contending wrote that the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ and when this was done there is no further need for the law as a schoolmaster! Didn't Paul teach us that sin shall not have dominion over you? For ye are not under law but under grace. The law was not expected to produce righteousness in the lives of men but rather self-dependence upon themselves! The law tells men what they must do! At the end of the day a Jew could think in his mind, did I brake any of the commandments today? If so he had to go present a sacrifice but if not he could pat himself on his back and say oh how good I have been today! (Self-righteousness)! So bye this we can see that the law produced independence upon ones self and not upon God! Let us go to verse eleven of chapter three and conclude what Paul said, " But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident for the just shall live by faith." And the law is not of faith but the man that doeth them shall live in them. Under grace God wants every aspect of our lives to be in dependence upon him! The just shall live bye dependence! Dependence upon God includes an understanding of his provision and an attitude of confidence and trust! Ever since the garden man has had the spirit of independence, they plan their lives and act as if though God did not exist! But God wants us to be in dependence into Him for everything! Philip. Four verse nineteen but my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Let us conclude here that which is really implied is a surrendered will to him! For one wise man once said, "Christianity is a series of new beginnings." Each day when we get out of bed we ought the best we know how to surrender to the Holy Spirit bye faith to start our new day! Live in complete and total trust to our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! It's a day bye day responsibility to Christians to be in total dependence to God! If you are not enjoying your Christianity more than you did when you were saved something is wrong! Are you trying to live under a yoke of bondage? Let us keep in mind what Paul was trying to teach the Galatians in chapter three! For he said in chapter two verse sixteen Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: for bye the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

"Grace & Peace"

 Several things in this passage of scripture that the Bible points out to us! First of all that we are saved bye the Grace of God without any of our works of the flesh, It is from Him and bye Him and unto Him! We are only a recipient of it! We are saved we are saved by faith without any works.

Any Amens?

Amen

God bless
4JC

All we do is BELIEVE and receive.

What?  Or should I say WHO?   God!!  and that He loves me too!   AMEN!

Oklahoma Howdy to Ambassador4Christ,

AMEN Brother!!

If man could keep The Law, why was our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, crucified on the cross in our stead?

Jesus Christ, perfect and HOLY, fulfilled the law and took our punishment in HIS own Body. Those who accept HIM as The Lord and Saviour of their lives become HIS Body, the Church which is the BODY OF CHRIST.

Thanks be unto God for HIS unspeakable GIFT!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Are you trying to live under a yoke of bondage? Let us keep in mind what Paul was trying to teach the Galatians in chapter three! For he said in chapter two verse sixteen Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: for bye the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


Amen Brother Amen

Brother Love :)

4JC, LoggedintoJesus, blackeyedpeas and Brother Love Amen & Amen

We are not to live our lives as we are under the Old Covenant but live our life under the New Covenant which demands a life in dependence upon God and not of the law which brings independence from God! 2 Cor. 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Bump!  8)  This is still front page material.  ;D


God bless
4JC

Thanks Bro ;D

Oklahoma Howdy to Ambassador4Christ,

AMEN!, I love the way you expressed that Brother. I read that and several thoughts immediately came to mind.

Who do I want to count on or trust in? Myself or God.

Do I wish to establish self-righteousness or submit myself to the righteousness of Almighty God?

Do I wish to foolishly attempt to save myself, or do I wish to simply accept GOD's GRACE, GOD'S LOVE, GOD'S GIFTS, and seek HIS WILL in love and appreciation?

My answer was like the song, "I surrender all, all to HIM I owe." All of the GLORY is GOD'S GLORY! Thanks be unto God for HIS unspeakable GIFT!

Love In Christ,
Tom

            ;D


True,we are NOT saved by anything we do,but after
we are saved,we are supposed to at least try to do
that it says to do in the Torah(5 books of Moses),&
in the whole Tanach(OT). For in James 2:14 it says.
 14. My Brothers,what use is it for anyone to say he
has belief but does not have works ? This belief is
unable to save him.
  In Rom. 6:1-2 it also says
 1. What,then,shall we say ? Shall we continue in sin
that favor may increase ?
  2.Let it not be !How shall we who died to sin still live
in it.
 After we are saved we are to do what it says in the
Torah. The basis of the NT is the OT,and the foundation
of that is the Torah before someone says it is dead.
  There are MANY still that we are to know from the
OT.MANY untold truths STILL yet in there,waiting
to be discovered,but you will never see them,if you
think the OT is dead,or is of no use anymore.


                 In His Love,
                 Bill  8)   ;D

The truth that the grace of God, the very same grace which brings salvation, also teaches those who are saved how to live! One may say I believe in grace but I do not think it should be emphasized too much because this leads to careless living! They have failed to understand Gods work of grace!

Amen

Your Friend & Brother

Brother Love :)

Oklahoma Howdy to Curious,

One must understand and study the Old Testament to understand the New Testament. If you wish to really appreciate the Gospel of the Grace of God, contrasts, comparisons, and references from the Old Testament are the foundation and hold the keys to understanding many of the most precious truths of God's Grace and Love.

A simple comparison explains my thoughts about why God's children do good works and seek the Will of God in their lives. Under the Law, there was a list of musts or die. Under the Gospel of God's Grace, His children do good works in love, appreciation, and from a grateful heart. I'm positive that God knows the difference between doing something because you feel you must as opposed to doing something because you want to for the Glory of Almighty God.

Maybe this example is overly simple. In scenario number one, you must stand over your child and threaten punishment to get their room cleaned and their chores done. In scenario number two, you come home and find the room cleaned, the chores done, extra things done that were not on the list, and a smiling child who says, "I love you dad - thanks for all you do for me."

I know which one my Heavenly Father wants. If HIS children pray, seek HIS Will, watch, and listen, HE will provide opportunities to serve HIM. That service will be done in love and joy for the Glory of God.

In Christ,
Tom

YES!

Amen Brother

Brother Love :)

DITTO ;D

aw: I will give 2- Amen and YES, Amen.

Quote aw: The BIG DIFFERENCE between the Old and the New is that we have the indwelling Spirit of God that empowers us as the righteousness of the law is fulfilled IN but not BY us. We are to "WALK in the Spirit and then we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh."

aw

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A4C: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN!

One more AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN! for aw

Brother Love :)

Amen Ambassador

The Crusader