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O Foolish Galatians
Contributed by Leroy Meadows on Jul 14, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: Paul to the church of Galatians
Oh foolish Galatians
Chapter outline
O foolish Galatians who have bewitched you?
Paul represents them as enchanted by the arts, and snares of their seducing teachers.
They did not adhere to the gospel way of justification in which they had been taught, It is not enough to know the truth and to say we believe it, but we must obey it too. We must heartily submit to the gospel and steadfastly abide by, (The Gospel).
Here comes a new doctrine a new commentary church people flock to online stores to get one, a lot of the commentaries is not bible. New translations today are not the gospel. It is a false doctrine. Who have bewitched you? Why are you listening to their garbage, there are so many denominations out there who knows the truth? Let the Holy Spirit lead you guide you into God’s Holy Word.
This doctrine established from the example of Abraham. (6-9)
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Gal.3:6-7
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness Genesis 15:6.
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. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
From the tenor of the law and the severity of its curse. Gal 3 (10-14)
The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose faith fastened upon the word and promise of God, and upon his believing he was owned and accepted of God as a righteous man. The Scripture is said to foresee, because the Holy Spirit that dictated the Scripture did foresee. 3:8 Through faith in the promise of God he was blessed; and it is only in the same way that others obtain this privilege. Let us then study the object, nature, and effects of Abraham’s faith; for who can in any other way escape the curse of the holy law? The curse is against all sinners, therefore against all men; for all have sinned ,Romans 3:23 and are become guilty before God: and if, as transgressors of the law, we are under its curse, it must be vain to look for justification by it. Those only are just or righteous who are freed from death and wrath, and restored into a state of life in the favor of God; and it is only through faith that persons become righteous. Thus we see that justification by faith is no new doctrine, but was taught in the church of God, long before the times of the gospel. It is, in truth, the only way wherein any sinners ever were, or can be justified. Though deliverance is not to be expected from the law, there is a way open to escape the curse, and regain the favor of God, namely, through faith in Christ. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law; being made sin, or a sin-offering, for us, he was made a curse for us; not separated from God, but laid for a time under the Divine punishment. The heavy sufferings of the Son of God, more loudly warn sinners to flee from the wrath to come, than all the curses of the law; for how can God spare any man who remains under sin, seeing that he spared not his own Son, when our sins were charged upon him? Yet at the same time, Christ, as from the cross, freely invites sinners to take refuge in him.
From the covenant of promises, which the law could not disannul. (15-18)