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 nine, 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 might render it.

He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus

so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from

everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established,

so it is in this case. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say,

and to seeds, meaning many people, but and to your seed, meaning one person who is Christ. What I mean in this, verse 17, the law introduced, and this is key,

430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.

It doesn't supersede it. It can't. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer

depends on the promise. But God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise. Why then, verse 19, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator.

A mediator, however, implies more than one party, but God is one. How's everybody doing so far? Are you getting this?

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