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Galatians 3:1 …foolish Galations who hath bewitched you
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified amoung
you
Galatians 3:2 …received you the Spirit by the works of the
law or the hearing of faith
Galatians 3:5 He that ministereth to you the Spirit and
worketh miracles among you by works of the law or by the hearing of faith
Galatians 3:11-14 no man is justified by the law…for the
just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4) and the law is not of faith but the man
that doeth them shall live in them(Leviticus 18:5, Nehemiah 9:29, Ezekiel
20:11) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law (Deuteronomy 28:
15-66) being made a curse for us for it is written cursed is everyone that
hangeth on a tree (Deuteronomy 21: 22-23) that the blessings of Abraham(Genesis
15: 1) might come on the gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive
the promise of the Spirit through faith
Galatians 3: 16 now to Abraham and his seed were the
promises made He saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy
seed which is Christ (Genesis 15: 5)
In the beginning of the third chapter of his epistle to the
Galatians Paul turns his argument from the false teachers to the believers
themselves.
Paul may be writing in Greek to a church who commonly spoke Greek
but he still thinks like a Hebrew. Considering this we see that by his opening
remarks Paul is shockingly saying that the Galatians are thinking like a person
who denies there is a god. Which is not to say they do not believe there is a
God but only to say they are thinking in the same manner that such a person
would think; for the heart of the matter is they are trusting they must make
themselves acceptable to YHWH when creation is a work of our Elohim alone.
“who has bewitched you” this teaching they had committed
themselves to follow was nothing more than a slight of hand illusion promising
to bring them the life of YHWH. Paul is asking them how can you be deceived to
listen to such a thing when:
1) You have experienced
in yourself the old man of sorrow and desire for sin leading to his own
destruction dying in Messiah. (verse 1)
2) more than this you received and experienced YHWH’s breath
of life in you. How did this life come into you? Was it by some action or deed
on your part or rather did you hear in your heart your need for Him and simply
trust His promise to love you and make you His. (verse 2)
3) When Messiah works the life of YHWH in you and does
amazing things that you can’t explain; is it reward for something that you have
performed or because He said I will be everything you need and you found
yourself relying and depending on and expecting Him to do what He had spoken.
(verse 5)
In verses six through ten Paul argues that Abraham believed
YHWH and righteousness was accounted to him. Was this merely a matter of YHWH
giving Abraham a title of being righteous? No, the word in Genesis means to
weave or interpenetrate. So it is literally YHWH weaving into him His way of
being.
Consider within your own life before coming to the Lord many
of us could lie or steal or curse as a natural part of who we were, but after
these things become unnatural to us. Why did we change our own nature? No it is
imputed righteousness from YHWH living in you.
What did YHWH promise Israel through Moses: Deuteronomy 6:
4-9
hear o Israel (when
YHWH says hear we should know He is giving us truth)…YHWH is our Elohim (not
only is He the power by which all things have been made but specifically He is
our maker)
YHWH is one (He is
not about being with you as Him and you together for that is two, but instead
He makes you Him and Him you because He is one)
thou shalt love thy Elohim with all thine heart, soul, and
might (everything you are is to love Him. What is love? Trusting completely and
giving all that you are to another)
and these words which I command thee this day shall be in
thy heart and though shall teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt
talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way
and when though liest down and when though risest up and though shalt bind them
for a sign upon thy hand and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes…(
most read this and think these are things I must do, but that is not what is
said. This is a declaration of the results of giving all we are to Him in love…He
is YHWH who does not change)
YHWH doesn’t just declare us as being right as a result of
having faith but instead He makes us right as a result of that faith…can you
see
The mistake made at Sinai by the people was that they
claimed we will do all that YHWH said to do…by this they said they would be
their maker…not by insincerity or disagreement but by looking to themselves.
This is the same thing that kept them out of the land for forty years for they
said we are not able to take the land.
This was a faith thing not a obedience thing. We can see
that when they were told they would stay in the wilderness they decided in obedience
to go up but YHWH warns them not to for He was not with them… because their obedience
was a work of themselves and not an action of faith in Him.
These things being said we see Paul shifting gears in verse
11; it is as though he has said if you want to be instructed from the law allow
me to tell you some things these so called teachers have not told you about.
Paul had been a disciple to Gamaliel before His conversion.
It would be the equivalent of having an earned doctorate from every Ivy League
school rolled into one except this school taught only the law of law and
prophets.
After His conversion to become a disciple of Messiah not
only does the Holy Spirit begin to show him the true life in all he has
learned, but also he is taught by divine revelation the things of scripture
that are plainly said but not perceived by the flesh of the first Adam.
Let us consider the things Paul says as he opens class on
the law and prophets.
1)
for the just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4)
first point the law teaches justification by faith
2)
faith but the man that doeth them shall live in
them(Leviticus 18:5, Nehemiah 9:29, Ezekiel 20:11) not if they are known not if
they are learned not if they are agreed with but if they are done they bring
life.
3)
) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the
law (Deuteronomy 28: 15-66) every man has broken the law and the curse is upon
them by their own actions… also the law has no do overs if you have ever broke
it then you have brought yourself into the curse
4)
being made a curse for us for it is written
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree (Deuteronomy 21: 22-23) Messiah as
the only man ever qualified to not suffer the curse took it upon His own
shoulders …the law is not a curse sin is the curse…the law describes life but
because we cannot perform it we are shown that in us is death by that law
5)
that the blessings of Abraham(Genesis 15: 1)
might come…the promise that YHWH is our shield and exceeding great reward comes
on us through Messiah as we trust and rely and expect Him to live His life in
us making us one
6)
now to Abraham and his seed were the promises
made He saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which
is Christ (Genesis 15: 5) the lawyer in Paul brings out that the seed by which
the nations would be blessed is a singular seed which is Yeshua…conclusion
being only in Him can you obtain the promise
I will stop here as I believe I should. I end this post with
this in genesis 15 the word number is the same as the word tell the …I assumed
it was speaking of the multitude of Israel but it speaks of Messiah and all in
Him the word in its full meaning includes the following plus the number of times translators used it… assigned (1), count (17), counted
(6), counts (2), declare (6), declared (2), elapse (1), measuring (1), number
(3), numbered (5), proclaim (1), recount (1), recounted (3), relate (3),
related (9), relating (2), speak (1), state (1), surely (1), taken (1), taken
account (1), talk (1), tell (23), telling (1), told (15), utter (1).
See that YHWH was showing Abraham the unspeakable greatness
of Messiah his seed after the flesh not the multitude.
