Christians don't go back to the law, we go back to the promise.

Dr. Tony Evans says God's promise depends on his faithfulness, not our performance.

God says, I'm going to do this promise.

It's not dependent upon what you do or do not do.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Contracts can be broken, but a promise from God is unfailing.

Today, Dr. Evans unpacks why the covenant God made through Christ can't be nullified by human effort,

and why performance-based religion will

always fall short. Let's join him as he begins. Paul wants to protect the gospel, not only for our

salvation, but for our transformation or sanctification. There were people who were undermining him called Judaizers.

These were Jewish people who were trying to bring Christians back under the law.

And Paul wants them to know that that is not how the Christian life works.

Christ, verse 13, has redeemed us from the curse of the law,

having become a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,

in order that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles

so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through

faith. So he brings up the Spirit again, which is the means of maturity by means of faith.

So the Spirit works by means of our living the Christian life by faith.

So he's going to go a little deeper into this now, beginning in verse 15.

Brotherin, so he's talking to Christians, I speak in terms of human relations, even though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside

or adds conditions to it. In other words, when you finalize an agreement, that's the agreement.

You signed off on it. Why are you telling me this? Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed, to those, to his offspring. He does not say and to seeds. That's very important. I'll tell you why. Plural. He doesn't say to seeds. All he doesn't say to seeds. All he doesn't do that and an S on the word seed.

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