Today, on Brinuang Your Mind, God didn't have to look at some external

objective standard of righteousness in order to establish the law.

All He had to do was look within at His own character.

So when God reveals His law, He reveals Himself.

And when God requires us to follow His law, it's not because He's some cosmic killjoy.

No, following God's law puts us in harmony with Him for our good.

This week, we're exploring our C. Spol sermon series from the Book of Galatians.

In chapters 1 through 3, Paul makes clear that there is only one gospel,

salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

And as we pick up our study in chapter 3 verse 15 today,

Paul will go back to the Old Testament to explain the purpose of the law.

As we saw the last time together, that Paul was dealing with the very difficult conundrum

of the relationship between the covenant that God made with Abraham.

And then, a few centuries later, he made the covenant with Moses,

or the covenant of Sinai, in which we received the Ten Commandments,

and a whole host of other laws in the holiness code.

And on the surface, it would seem that they are somewhat contradictory.

On the one hand, the Abrahamic covenant gives salvation through the promise of God

that is received by faith, and yet we see with the law of Moses

that blessings and curses are held before us with respect to our works.

And so, Paul was asking, what's the difference?

Did God, in fact, have a plan B?

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