Category: Galatians
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The Law Is Good, Faith Is Better
(Galatians 3:20-22) If you have read any of my posts concerning the law, that is, the laws of Moses, you might think that I am opposed to the law. But nothing could be further from the truth. The same could be said about many of the writings in the New Testament, especially the writings of…
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Why The Law?
(Galatians 3:19) We know as Christians that God promised to Abraham that he and His offspring would inherit the world. This covenant, based on the righteousness by faith that Abraham had, was the covenant that we hope to attain today. In fact, that covenant to Abraham forms and underpins what we know as the New…
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Ratifying the New Covenant
(Galatians 3:15-18) A covenant is the same thing as a will. It is put in place to define what will happen after a certain condition or situation occurs. To ratify something is to bring it into effect. In the case of a will, the condition that ratifies the will is the death of the individual…
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Redeemed From The Curse of the Law
(Galatians 3:13-14) We read in the book of Romans chapter 7 that Paul says, “So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.” (Romans 7:12) And then we see also that Jesus says, 17 “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come…
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Righteous By Faith
(Galatians 3:11-12) In the time before the coming of Christ, the Israelites were God’s chosen people. He gave them the law to follow for the purpose of understanding His will and to rein in the tendencies of man towards sin and sinfulness. But man failed. Man could not keep the law, and so their righteousness…
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Curse Of The Law
(Galatians 3:10) If ever there was a verse in the Bible that should lead us to seek the freedom from law that is offered through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is this verse. It reads as follows. For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it…
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Blessings of Faith
(Galatians 3:4-9) We see today so many Christians and so many churches who are bound up under the confines of the law. They believe that they MUST keep the law and worship under the law to be saved. This is in spite of the fact that most of them also give praise to God and…
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Bewitched
(Galatians 3:1-3) Occasionally when we read the text of the Bible, we come across some issues with translation, where the original Greek text is quite different to the English translation. In verse 1 there are several extra words in about a quarter of the translations that are missing from the others. There are also a…
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Why Christ Died
(Galatians 2:21) A question that is often raised is why it was necessary that Jesus Christ died. We know and understand that He did die to save us from sin and to set us free from the law, but this last verse of Galatians chapter 3 gives us an amazing insight into why Christ died.…
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Submitting To Sin
(Galatians 2:17-20) In many places in the New Testament we see that as Christians we have been set free from sin and set free from the law. This freedom in the truth is one of the primary purposes of Jesus coming to the world and dying for our salvation. For many Christians though, they find…
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No Justification By Works Of Law
(Galatians 2:11-16) This section of scripture is an eye-opener for anyone who thinks that they can be righteous in the sight of God by keeping the works of the law. In this section it is made evident that there is no justification by works of law, and in fact in some cases the works of…
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Freedom Is In Jesus Christ
(Galatians 2:3-10) Christianity possesses the greatest power on earth. Within the teachings of Christianity are all of the things you need to know to set you free, because freedom is in Jesus Christ. Apart from Christ there is no freedom and there can be no freedom. Apart from Christ there is only bondage and slavery.…
