Sometimes in the course of having a Bible podcast where you just pick a book and you go through every single word and verse of that book no matter how long it takes, sometimes in the course of that, you don't know things.

This is one of those times. A lot of times I don't know things. I sit down at the microphone.

I'm like, huh, you know what?

I'm not actually sure what I make of that.

I'm not going to record just yet.

This might take all day, but I'm going to read and I'm going to thank.

And then I come back to the microphone, you know, late into the evening and put something down on a track here because I'm trying to make sense of it. But sometimes I just, even after put a lot of thought into it, I don't know. I'm

really not sure. And this is one of those passages. I know what Paul is arguing for here in Galatians

three. I'm tracking with the logic of the whole book of Galatians. It's hard at first glance,

but if you slow it down and just think,

you can figure out what he's doing. I think we're seeing it pretty clearly here. Clearly,

Paul is saying that there was a promise that God made to Abraham and that that promise is a heavy

lift on God's part. God is putting in place a redemptive plan. He's doing it

through the descendants of Abraham. God is being merciful in all of this. And Abraham set an

example for all of us by believing God and it was credited to him as righteousness. That promise

is not broken. It hasn't changed. It's absolutely steady. And then Paul is saying, 430 years after

that promise to Abraham, God gave the law to Moses through mediating angels. And that didn't change

anything about the promise. It was added because of certain transgressions. And later,

it would be fulfilled, completed in Christ.

Okay, I think I get it.

So if there is to be life for salvation or right standing before God, if we're able to get that, it's not because of anything we do.

It's because of God's character and his work, just like the deal he made with Abraham.

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