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All right, welcome back to our final day in our study of Galatians

chapter three. We're going to pick it up in verse 19. And so Paul asked a question that he knows

that people are going to ask when we hear that we are saved, not by obedience to the law,

but by faith in Jesus Christ. And here's the question. Why then the law?

And he's going to answer his own question. It was added because of transgressions until the offspring

should come to whom the promise has been made. And it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

Now, an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. Is the law then contrary to the

promises of God? Certainly not. For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness

would indeed be by the law. But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might

be given to those who believe. Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law,

imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then the law was our guardian,

literally in Greek, that means babysitter.

So the law was our babysitter until Christ came in order that we might be justified by faith.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian or babysitter. For in Christ Jesus,

you are all sons of God through faith. For as many of you as were

baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew or Greek, there is neither slave nor free,

there is no male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you are Christ, then you are Abraham's

offspring, heir according to promise. So why the law? Well, the law, and by the law, what Paul means

here, he basically means the Old Testament, the law, the prophets, the writings. So why?

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