Galatians 3 (CLV)
1 O foolish Galatians! Who bewitches you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was graphically crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you get the spirit by works of law or by hearing of faith?
Do you know why the Galatians were being foolish? Let’s look.
“nevertheless,
knowing that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus,
so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law; since by works of the Law no flesh will be justified. But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Far from it! For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a wrongdoer. For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.””
Galatians 2:16-21 NASB2020
nevertheless, knowing that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and no
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Wow look. The Galatians were being fooled by the Jews to continue to keep the law which was the ongoing argument that Paul had with the early churches. Basically what you are trying to do.
(CLV) Ja 2:22
You are observing that faith worked together with his works, and by works was faith perfected.
Already talked about James in my last post. James is talking about validating the faith through sanctification NOT about earning faith by works.
3 So foolish are you? Undertaking in spirit, are you now being completed in flesh? 4 So much did you suffer feignedly? Since, surely, it also is feignedly!" 5 He, then, who is supplying you with the spirit, and operating works of power among you-did you get the spirit by works of law or by the hearing of faith, 6 according as Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness?
Why didn’t you continue posting the verses that follow?
“The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then, 7
e of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer. For all who are of works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the Law, to do them.” Now, that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “the righteous one will live by faith.” However,
the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “The person who performs them will live by them.”
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles,
so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”
Galatians 3:8-14 NASB2020
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU.” So then, those who are of faith are
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Your arguments for the law ends here. You could not possibly defend keeping the law after Paul’s complete refutation of your argument.
(CLV) Gn 26:5
inasmuch as your father Abraham hearkened to My voice and kept My charge, My instructions, My statutes and My laws.
(CLV) Ja 2:22
You are observing that faith worked together with his works, and by works was faith perfected.
(CLV) Ja 2:23
And fulfilled was the scripture which is saying, Now "Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness," and he was called "the friend of God."
(CLV) Ja 2:24
You see that by works a man is being justified, and not by faith only.
Discussed already above.
7 Know, consequently, that those of faith, these are sons of Abraham." 8 Now the scripture, perceiving before that God is justifying the nations by faith, brings before an evangel to Abraham, that In you shall all the nations be blessed." 9 So that those of faith are being blessed together with believing Abraham. 10 For whoever are of works of law are under a curse, for it written that, Accursed is everyone who is not remaining in all things written in the scroll of the law to do them."
Where is this written?
(CLV) Dt 27:26
Cursed be the one who is not carrying out all the words of this law to do them. Then all the people will say: Amen!
And yet you continue to pick and choose the verses that seem to agree with you.
Interesting. Let's read on.
The very next verse in this book:
(CLV) Dt 28:1
It will come to be if you should hearken, yea hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, to observe and to do all His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, that Yahweh your Elohim will give you supremacy over all the nations of the earth.
(CLV) Dt 28:2
And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you in case you should hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim.
Paul isn't telling us anything new. Is it YHWH's law that is cursed?
Yes. Why would Jesus have to redeem us from the law? The spin that you are putting here is beyond belief.
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—”
Galatians 3:13 NASB2020
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE”
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What part of He redeemed us from THE CURSE OF THE LAW is not clear? The law is the curse that Christ became a curse to redeemed us from by His sacrifice on the cross. This is crystal clear.
(CLV) Ro 7:12
So that the law, indeed, is holy, and the precept holy and just and good.
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—”
Galatians 3:13 NASB2020
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE”
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“Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,”
Romans 8:1-3 NASB2020
Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law c
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So a few verses later Paul calls the law weak and ineffective. You are missing what Paul is teaching.
Or is it disobedience to YHWH's law that brings the curses?
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
Paul is describing the purpose of the law BEFORE Christ came.
“What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is by faith; however, Israel,
pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though they could by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,”
Romans 9:30-32 NASB2020
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is by faith; however, Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arriv
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(CLV) Hb 10:28
Anyone -repudiating Moses' LAW is dying without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
(CLV) Hb 10:29
Of how much worse punishment, are you supposing, will he be counted worthy who tramples on the Son of God, and deems the blood of the covenant iby which he is hallowed contaminating, and outrages the spirit of grace?
“For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has ignored the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severe punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?”
Hebrews 10:26-29 NASB2020
Anyone who has ignored the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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Verse 29 contrasts the punishment brought under the law, verse 28, with the punishment of trampling over Christ. The point here has nothing to do with the law but to show the present punishment of those that continue to sin willfully. These verses do not help you.
11 Now that in law no one is being justified with God is evident, for the just one by faith shall be living." 12 Now the law is not of faith, but who does them "shall be living in them."
Right which is not a good thing given the fact that the law is cursed.
(CLV) 1Jn 3:9
Everyone who is begotten of God is not doing sin, for His seed is remaining in him, and he can not be sinning, for he is begotten of God.
Amazing what the Holy Spirit can do. But then we continue to sin, not willfully or constantly. You should stop quite mining verses. Do you still sin Hark? I know I do and I confess them daily.
“If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.”
1 John 1:8-10 NASB2020
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is
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13 Christ reclaims us from the curse of the law, becoming a curse for our sakes, for it is written, Accursed is everyone hanging on a pole,
(CLV) 1Jn 2:1
My little children, these things am I writing to you that you may not be sinning. And if anyone should be sinning, we have an Entreater with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just.
The verses really don’t help you. We have an advocate if we sin BECAUSE He redeemed us from the curse of the law. The law IS the curse. The verse is crystal clear.
14 that the blessing of Abraham may be coming to the nations in Christ Jesus,
Israel
that we
Israel
may be obtaining the promise of the spirit through faith." 15 Brethren
Israel
(I am saying this as a man), a human covenant likewise having been ratified, no one is repudiating or modifying it."
The covenant stands in its' entirety.
This speaks about the church not about Israel. The unbelieving Jews missed their chance when they rejected the Messiah.
“For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world
was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then faith is made void and the promise is nullified; for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.”
Romans 4:13-15 NASB2020
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then fai
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Those that are of the law are NOT heirs of the promise otherwise faith is void. The old covenant is obsolete. Jesus fulfilled it.
16 Now to Abraham the promises were declared, and to his Seed. He is not saying "And to seeds,as of many, but as of One: And to "your Seed,which is Christ."
How does Messiah define seed?
(CLV) Lk 8:11
"Now this is the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Wrong seed. The seed in Luke 8 is the word of God which has nothing to do with genealogy.
In the beginning was the word...
17 Now this am I saying: a covenant, having been ratified before by God, the law, having come four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not invalidate, 18 so as to nullify the promise. For if the enjoyment of the allotment is of law, it is no longer of promise. Yet God has graciously granted it to Abraham through the promise." 19 What, then, is the law? On behalf of transgressions was it added, until the Seed should come to Whom He has promised, being prescribed through messengers in the hand of a mediator." 20 Now there is no Mediator of one. Yet God is One. 21 Is the law, then, against the promises of God? May it not be coming to that! For if a law were given that is able to vivify, really, righteousness were out of law."
The word is Christ. You have a horrible translation. This verse sats exactly the opposite of what you are claiming. The inheritance is NOT based of the law.
“For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.”
Galatians 3:18 NASB2020
For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.
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YHWH's law is not against grace.
22 But the
scripture locks up all
together under sin,
...because all have sinned.
The Law of Sin
that the promise out of Jesus Christ's faith may be given to those who are believing.
Faith
(CLV) Gn 15:6
Now Abram believed on Elohim, and He reckoned it to him for righteousness
(CLV) Gn 26:5
inasmuch as your father Abraham hearkened to My voice and kept My charge, My instructions, My statutes and My laws.
(CLV) Ja 2:22
You are observing that faith worked together with his works, and by works was faith perfected.
(CLV) Ja 2:23
And fulfilled was the scripture which is saying, Now "Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness," and he was called "the friend of God."
(CLV) Ja 2:24
You see that by works a man is being justified, and not by faith only.
Obedience to YHWH's Law is the fruit of faith.
23 Now before the coming of faith we were
garrisoned under law, being locked up together for the faith about to be revealed."
Under The Law of Sin and Death. See: Paul on the Law Romans Chapter 8
24 So that the
law has become our escort to Christ, that we may be justified by faith."
"Has become," not "used to be."
How do we come to Messiah?
Torah? The Law of Sin and Death?
25 Now, at the coming of faith,
we are no longer under an escort,
Through faith YHWH works through us. This is demonstrated repeatedly throughout the Gospels.
Faith in him frees us from the bondage of the Law of Sin. See: Paul on the Law Romans Chapter 7
26 for
you are all sons of God, through faith in Christ Jesus."
(CLV) 1Jn 3:9
Everyone who is begotten of God is not doing sin, for His seed is remaining in him, and he can not be sinning, for he is begotten of God.
What is sin?
(CLV) 1Jn 3:4
Everyone who is doing sin, is doing lawlessness also, and sin is lawlessness.
27 For whoever are baptized into Christ, put on Christ, 28 in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus." 29 Now if you are Christ's, consequently you are of Abraham's seed, enjoyers of the allotment according to the promise."
Hallelu YAH!
Missing the mark much?
“But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the Law, being confined for the faith that was destined to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our guardian to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.”
Galatians 3:23-25 NASB2020
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the Law, being confined for the faith that was destined to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our guardian to lead us to Christ, so that we
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Your interpretation of these verses is contrary to what it clearly says. The law was a guardian. Christ came so that we could be justified by faith. We no longer need a guardian so the law is obsolete. This is crystal clear. What a hermeneutical nightmare.
