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May 7, 1989
Having established his authority as an apostle, Paul wrote to the church in Galatia to redirect their thinking to a theology centered on the crucified and risen Savior. Working through the rhetorical questions posed by Paul, Alistair Begg points to the supernatural union secured by grace through faith in Christ. When we believe in who Jesus is and what He has done, the same promise God made to Abraham is fulfilled through the Gospel with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? zIt was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly aportrayed as crucified. 2Let me ask you only this: bDid you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by chearing with faith? 3Are you so foolish? dHaving begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by1 the flesh? 4eDid you suffer2 so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and fworks miracles among you do so gby works of the law, or by hearing with faith— 6just as hAbraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
7Know then that it is ithose of faith who are jthe sons of Abraham. 8And the Scripture, foreseeing that kGod would justify3 the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, l“In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
10For all who rely on works of the law are munder a curse; for it is written, n“Cursed be everyone who does not oabide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11Now it is evident that pno one is justified before God by the law, for q“The righteous shall live by faith.”4 12But the law is not of faith, rather r“The one who does them shall live by them.” 13Christ sredeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, t“Cursed is everyone who is hanged uon a tree”— 14so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might vcome to the Gentiles, so that wwe might receive xthe promised Spirit5 through faith.
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