Would you turn, please, to the book of Galatians.

Somebody say, thank you, Lord, for Galatians.

In Galatians, the third chapter, let's just look in verse 8 for time's sake, because we're going to do this a little differently this passage tonight. He said the scripture, Galatians

3 8, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen

through faith, preached before the gospel

to Abraham, saying in you shall all nations be blessed.

Very significant, like all the things in the word, the scripture said God

preached the gospel, and the Greek here is not just preached the gospel, but preached the gospel and the Greek here is not just preach the gospel but preach the gospel

but preached the gospel ahead of time.

It's a little different word from preaching the gospel.

Preaching the gospel ahead of time.

And he did it to Abraham.

Now what did Abraham here

that you would call the gospel?

Well, we're given a quote, a partial quote,

right here.

In you shall all nations be blessed.

Here, the Holy Spirit calls that the gospel. Right? And, you know, we've been on this,

like we said, for some time now. And the further I go into it, the more I see, how inseparable

what we're looking at in this passage is from what the Bible calls

the gospel. The gospel. Let's keep reading. He said, so then they which be of faith are blessed

with faithful Abraham.

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