Galatians prior to the prophecy update in our study through the Bible.

We go book by book and chapter by chapter and verse by verse.

That way we don't miss anything and it also doesn't allow me as the pastor to only teach on my pet topics.

I can assure you that the text before us today is such a passage that I wouldn't touch

with a 10-foot pole.

It is really gnarly, and so chapter 3, we'll finish it Lord willing today.

And our text will be verses 6 through 29.

So if you're able, I'll ask you to stand. If not, that's all right, but from where

you're seated or standing, you can follow along as I read. The Apostle Paul continues in his

letter to these churches in the area or the region known at that time as Galatia.

And he says verse 6, so also Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Actually Paul is quoting Genesis chapter 15 verse 6, which we're going to talk about here shortly.

Verse 7, understand then that those who have faith are children of Abraham.

Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and announce the gospel in advance to Abraham.

All nations will be blessed through you. Again, he's quoting Genesis.

So, verse 9, those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith, for all who rely on the works of the law

are under a curse. As it is written, curse it is everyone who does not continue to do everything

written in the book of the law. Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God

because the righteous will live by faith. The law is not based on faith. On the contrary,

it says, the person who does these things will live by them.

Christ, verse 13, redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

For it is written, cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole or a tree as some of your translations

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