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If you are new to faith in Jesus, and you have read some of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians, you might be thinking that as you are a child of Abraham and an heir to the promise and covenant which God made with Abraham, that you don’t have to observe God’s laws. We’ll see if that is true, because we don’t want you missing out on Abraham’s blessing.
So let’s get started in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, chapter three and verse seven:
Gal 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which be of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
So that’s good. If you have faith in Jesus, you are a child of Abraham. Paul means that all of the Godly inheritance of Abraham is now yours. You don’t inherit the land of Canaan, but you do enter into fellowship with the Almighty.
Now let’s go to verse seventeen. Paul writes this:
Gal 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
But which law was given four hundred and thirty years after the covenant? Was it the moral law, ‘thou shalt not steal’, ‘thou shalt not commit adultery’ and so on? Let’s see.
God made his covenant with Abraham in Genesis chapters fifteen and seventeen. Abraham’s grandson Jacob, renamed Israel, took his sons and their families into Egypt in Genesis chapter forty-six. They grew there into a nation. In the Exodus, Moses led them out of Egypt. On Mount Sina-i (NB: it’s not pronounced ‘Sine-ee-aye’) God revealed to Moses sacrifices, rites and ceremonies.
Between the Covenant with Abraham and Mount Sinai four hundred and thirty years had elapsed. But the moral and civil law was already in place at the time of Abraham. You can read in Genesis and in the book of Job, who lived around the time of Abraham, that they understood God’s laws against adultery, idolatry, theft, murder, sodomy, false witness, breaking a promise, keeping back a man’s wages, robbery, violence and covetousness perfectly well.
Both in the book of Job and in Genesis we read about respect for elders and fathers, of care for the poor, about weights and measures, of not favouring persons in judgment, of inheritance and more. God’s moral and civil law was already in place at the time of the Covenant. The moral and civil statutes Moses received on Mount Sinai were merely restatements of what was already well-known to them.
Eliphaz, one of Job’s comforters, even said to Job:
Job 22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from His mouth.
That makes no sense unless the moral law of God was already known. So the ‘law’ Paul is referring to is the sacrificial law. It is that law that was ‘added because of transgressions’, to atone for sin until Abraham’s seed, that’s Jesus, would come and by his sacrifice show us a better way.
What does this mean for you? Well, your faith in Jesus Christ has justified you and washed you clean before the Father. It has made you an heir and a child of Abraham. But it has not abolished God’s moral law or your responsibility to keep it.
God’s word says, in Genesis chapter eighteen:
Gen 18:19 For I know him (that’s Abraham), that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
So you see that by studying and keeping God’s law and walking in his way, acting with justice and judgment, you become a true child of Abraham and make sure of the blessing which God bestowed upon him.
Hey, now you have forgiveness of sins, the new life of Christ, the Covenant, the promise, and the blessing of Abraham. Have a great day. And if this Nanosermon blessed you, please share it. 3:20
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