Go to Galatians, please, third chapter this evening, Galatians 3.

We've been on this subject for a few weeks now about being redeemed from the curse of the law.

You about had all of that you want to hear?

No.

Yeah, me neither.

That is some good eating, right?

Is the truth about that.

Galatius 3 and 6 says, even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

It's important to know that everything that happened with Abraham has nothing to do with the law.

There were no Ten Commandments,

there were no statutes,

there were no ordinances of the temple sacrifice or tabernacle,

none of that existed yet.

And he was counted righteous not because of the works that he did, but because he had faith.

Does that sound familiar?

It was a type of the new birth and the new covenant.

Which is why it goes on to say, verse 7, know ye therefore that they which are of faith,

that's us, the same are the children of Abraham.

We're told to walk in the same steps of our father Abraham.

Verse eight, the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,

preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying in you shall all nations be blessed.

Now, Galatians, the emphasis in this little book, six chapters, is among other things,

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