Galatians 3 You foolish Galatians! WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, ARE YOU NOW TRYING TO ATTAIN YOUR GOAL BY HUMAN EFFORT? Have you suffered so much for nothing-if it really was for nothing? Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard? Two Laws: One based upon death, one built upon eternal Life through a Faith relationship with God and knowing Him as a friend. Two very distinctly different laws and yet coming from and being a part of God’s will in working out His ultimate plan of salvation seen from the creation of this earth and then in the re-creation of the sons of God. One Law that has no beginning or ending and one lesser law to bring Israel back to a place of reference to see the greater and more perfect Law working within them. Let there be no doubt in any mind. This greater Law cannot be seen or understood without spiritual eyesight and through a deliverance from the chains that have bound so many in a merry-go-round of traditional circular thinking that continually brings people back to the same starting point every time. Sadly, no matter how far many feel they have moved forward in truth, they continue to use circular thinking in the way they act, react to and define life in general (let alone how they interpret and define Scripture.) This kind of reaction inhibits discussions about the Word of God and causes most to be held back or stunted in their spiritual growth. Instead of searching for new and higher ground, they become convinced to study only those things handed down by the church through the ages instead of advancing forward into the Kingdom of God. In other words, one cannot argue or discuss the law from an old viewpoint or doctrinal position and hope (without a great struggle) to see much more than they have seen before. It is not that they will not see ANYTHING about the subject they had not seen before, but what they call new light or understanding will only be rehashed doctrine of the past. The only new light that is to be seen is that which takes one on a Spiritual Journey were the old man is cast off and a TOTALLY NEW MAN has taken it’s place and God is the ONLY ruler in the life. Consider Abraham: He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: All nations will be blessed through you. So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. This is not a non-descript kind of faith based upon any denominational definition or doctrine, but is a definite and clear view of the Word of God and His will for His people. This Faith is built upon a knowledge base of evidence given and experiences had by the child of God in their daily walk with Him. It is based upon knowledge received by a clear understanding of the Word of God through a personal and up-close relationship with God. At the same time, it is not built upon emotional highs and lows or through a willingness to agree-to-disagree and still be friends (for disagreements have NEVER caused friendships.) It is not based upon a false idea of a type of unity that allows all religions to come together and worship one common God who, in the end, causes them to disagree with each other and returns them to their perspective places of worship separately while holding different doctrines on the same subject. It is not based upon an idea of having as many questions as there are supposed answers for in the Word of God (which shows either an unwillingness on their part to study and find themselves approved, or an unwillingness of God to give to them whatever they ask of Him as He has promised He would.) Either way, it portrays an unholy and false relationship built upon doctrines of Satanic design. God is not yin-yang in nature (both good and bad) yet many, if not most, picture Him in that context because of what has been preached of a God with a dual personality. And sadly, this idea has been brought on largely through the teaching of the law of death over the Law of Life. The law of Moses and the laws of men are not those kinds of laws that can give eternal life. Only that Living Law that came from God can do that. ALL WHO RELY ON OBSERVING THE LAW ARE UNDER A CURSE, FOR IT IS WRITTEN: CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT CONTINUE TO DO EVERYTHING WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW. Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH. The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, The man who does these things will live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. TWO LAWS, one small ‘l’ and one capital ‘L’, this is not two laws within one law, but is two separate laws (one dealing in death and the other in Life, one dealing with sin and one dealing in righteousness.) The law of death cannot give life and the Law of life cannot promote death. The Law of Life cannot be born out of or be upheld by a law or idea that is based upon death. And that Law that is Life cannot give birth to or uphold a law that can only bring death. If we demand to see the God of Life through a law that was upheld by its power base of death (for the law breaker died because of disobedience) then that is just what we will see. But if we will allow the Law of Life to reign in our bodies, then the very mysteries of God will be revealed and the storehouse of heaven will be opened to see how we must advance beyond the law of death and participate in the Law of Life as Paul understood it and lived it in His life. Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say and to seeds, meaning many people, but and to your seed, meaning one person, who is Christ. What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise. It could not be said in any clearer tones. God did not change at Mt. Sinai. The Law of Life was established from the beginning and spoken to father Abraham, but not through a law given at Mount Sinai based upon the principle of death to the disobedient, but instead upon the Promise (the Promised One, who is Christ.) And that Promise could not be made void by a law written on stone tablets. If that law at Mt Sinai had made void the God of heaven, then the Law of Life would have been brought to an end and the claim of Lucifer that God is a liar would have been true (and of course that would have made the creation (tablets of stone taken from the earth) greater than the One who created it in the first place.) So why was the law at Mt. Sinai (written by the very hand of God) introduced to Abraham’s grandchildren? What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until THE SEED (Jesus Christ) to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator. A MEDIATOR, HOWEVER, DOES NOT REPRESENT JUST ONE PARTY; BUT GOD IS ONE. The law that was added at Mt Sinai was based upon sin and continual mediation and repentance. It required a human mediator (a Levite priest) to officiate before God on behalf of the people. But the Promise (God) is only One. For as it is said; A mediator, however, does not represent just one party, but God is One. And since God is One then there cannot be the kind of mediation that has been preached from churches all over this world of a God that begs God to forgive humanities evil condition. Our Savior and God is not the kind of priest that has been offered up by ministers and priests of this world that has provided a view of worship that requires mediation or some kind of representation of someone standing in between God and man. That kind of priesthood was given to Israel to show them how far they had fallen away from the kind of relationship that God wanted to have with His people. But the Priesthood of God is of a whole different order and kind. God is a Melchizedek Priest. That is a Priesthood that is not of this world nor of this creation. Thus the Messiah would say over and over again that He was not of this world (nor could He be if He was a Melchizedek Priest.) And there is still another point to ponder. The law at Mt Sinai was not added because of one man’s sin (Adam) but was introduced because God’s people (Abraham’s grandchildren, the Israelites) had forgotten Him and had become slaves to sin (Satan.) And now, that with which they were already all too familiar (the ever constant threat of death) would be used in order to bring them through the baby stage of learning so that they would cease from their evil habits and seek to know God as their friend as did father Abraham. But sadly they did not achieve that kind of a relationship with Him. Yet it does not mean that it is impossible. Others became friends of God throughout history (even though the majority did not.) That goal is still achievable and is reached every day by those who are called according to His purpose. Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But the Scripture declares that the whole world (those who the law was given to) is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe. Many question at this point as to whether or not the small ‘l’ law is opposed to or set against the capital ‘L’ Law. The only way that could occur is if both could give the same thing. But one is based on death, while the other gives Life. One is a Promise, while the other is conditional. One is based on unrighteousness while the other deals with righteousness. Two laws. One bringing salvation to the world, while the other would be used to teach those who had forgotten God to look up and see their salvation. These words in scripture are there that we might learn from them and not repeat the same mistakes of the past. It is there for OUR admonition and OUR learning. Praise God. But sadly most will not look, and if they look they will not see. Instead most see tradition as something that is worth more than the knowledge that one may receive from God. And just like so many who have gone before, death and destruction is their lot and law is their life. These kind are ever searching for the simple things of God ie: Faith, Love, Mercy, Kindness, Gentleness, Meekness and Lonsuffering. They look and look and search but never see the Way, the Truth and the Life. Instead they become prisoners of laws and decrees. Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. SO THE LAW WAS PUT IN CHARGE TO LEAD US TO CHRIST THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. NOW THAT FAITH HAS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW. Faith does not come by ignorance. When God comes into a person’s life He brings with Him what He is, Truth, Faith, Knowledge, Righteousness, Salvation, etc, and as long as we claim to have God in our lives then we will have all those things. Thus we will show by the way we act and speak as to whether we really do have God in our lives or not. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abrahams seed, and heirs according to the promise. The Galatians had been lied to by those who thought they were the leaders of the church of God. But now they were presented with the reality of the Truth, that there is no Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. This news was a declaration of freedom from all the entanglements of a way of life bound by laws and decrees. This was what Messiah had spoken about who the real Israel of God were. And for those who listened and had eyes to see, they were made heirs according the Promise given to Abraham.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:44:07 +0000
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