Saturday, July 30, 2005
Gal 3 Grace
Here is tonights text and thoughts I have on it
Gal 3 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
If you read me last time I really did not hit on a phase and that is Receive the Spirit. How does one get to the point of receiving the Spirit? We get the Spirit the time that we find and ask the Lord into our lives. It is part of the package. Jesus and the Spirit come at the same time. It is not a second time where you start speaking in touges and talking gibberish. I am not into the gifts and I am not sure that one can get the gifts in this time. Paul is talking in the passage about getting the gift of Jesus. You did not get them earning them. People are living to earn something that is free.
5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.[1]
Paul looks at the life of Abraham. Did Abraham somehow earn his way to the Lord? He did not. He believed God and it was enough for God to give him righteousness. It is faith that is a gift to get the gift of salvation. Faith knows God is there and living for him. It is not doing a work and earning the salvation or heaven. God in a way gave the Good news to Abe and it has not changed one bit. Abe did what the Lord asked in going to kill his son and God spared the son and gave him a sacrifice, Just like Jesus died for our sins and took our place. God Justified Abe and he Justified is in the blood of Jesus so that we can be right with Jesus and get into heaven.
Note that only the sons of Abe are covered. If you are in Jesus you are a son. If you are trying to earn the trip to heaven your not going to make it so ask Jesus to save you and get right with Jesus.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
Gal 3 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
If you read me last time I really did not hit on a phase and that is Receive the Spirit. How does one get to the point of receiving the Spirit? We get the Spirit the time that we find and ask the Lord into our lives. It is part of the package. Jesus and the Spirit come at the same time. It is not a second time where you start speaking in touges and talking gibberish. I am not into the gifts and I am not sure that one can get the gifts in this time. Paul is talking in the passage about getting the gift of Jesus. You did not get them earning them. People are living to earn something that is free.
5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.[1]
Paul looks at the life of Abraham. Did Abraham somehow earn his way to the Lord? He did not. He believed God and it was enough for God to give him righteousness. It is faith that is a gift to get the gift of salvation. Faith knows God is there and living for him. It is not doing a work and earning the salvation or heaven. God in a way gave the Good news to Abe and it has not changed one bit. Abe did what the Lord asked in going to kill his son and God spared the son and gave him a sacrifice, Just like Jesus died for our sins and took our place. God Justified Abe and he Justified is in the blood of Jesus so that we can be right with Jesus and get into heaven.
Note that only the sons of Abe are covered. If you are in Jesus you are a son. If you are trying to earn the trip to heaven your not going to make it so ask Jesus to save you and get right with Jesus.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
