I am a gentile. By birth, of course. But by what Jesus called "new birth" I am now "blessed" with "faithful Abraham!" But that is clearly Jewish in flavor, "Abraham!" Yes, and that is partly why the Apostle Paul wrote these words hundreds … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … PREACHING THE GOSPEL, TO ABRAHAM?
Our Bible Text today is Galatians 3:8 ... "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." This Verse is literally "loaded" … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM
Children of Abraham? That's what Paul claimed, in Galatians 3:7, for every child of God! Everyone who has trusted Jesus God's Son for salvation! "Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham." Again, this … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … AN ANACHRONISM?
Some will disagree with my approach to today's Text, Galatians 3:6. "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." One verse earlier (Galatians 3:5) we were taught (again) that "the hearing of faith," not "the works … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … THE HOLY SPIRIT, HIS PERSON AND WORK
In Galatians 3:5 Paul masterfully links the Holy Spirit of God with the amazing works of God! Then the Apostle teaches us that both phenomena come by "the hearing of faith!" Yes, the Personality (God the Third Person) and the Power (here called … [Continue reading]
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