Galatians 3

(1) Oh foolish Judeo-Christians, who has tricked you into not obeying the truth. Who has cast a spell over you? Have you been reading the Kosher Times newspaper or watching too much television? You all know plainly about Jesus Christ, and why he was crucified.

(2) Here is what I want to know, did you receive the Holy Spirit by the rituals of the Levitical Priesthood, or by the preaching of the gospel. Was it from the Pharisees or the Apostles?

(3) How could you be so stupid. Are you so foolish that you think that you can become a Christian then become perfected by, if not already circumcised, by being circumcised. Well that's the way Pharisees taught then, now I might ask you this.

(4) Have you suffered many things in vain in your modern search for perfection. Plastic surgery? Hair transplants? Breast enlargements? We didn't have these in my day. But, are they any more effective in achieving righteousness than circumcision?

(5) The minister that brought the Holy Spirit to you and worked miracles in you, did he do it by rituals, or by the preaching of the gospel?

(6) Genesis 15:6 says, Abraham believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

(7) Therefore, those which are of the Christian faith are also the children of Abraham.

(8) The scripture foretold that God would justify the Gentiles through faith. Genesis 12:3 says, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." Also Genesis 18:18, "Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?"

(9) So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

(10) Those of us that have sinned, and all have sinned, are under the curse of the law. All who depend upon observance of the law for salvation end up under a curse, for it is written in Deuteronomy 27:26, "Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen."

(11) Since all have sinned, no one is without guilt in God's sight. It should be obvious that no one is justified in God's sight by keeping the law. Habakkuk 2:4 tells us this, "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith."

(12) And in Leviticus 18:3 -5, "After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord. The law is not just ten suggestions, it is not a concept to think about. Rather it is something you do, a standard of Christian conduct.

(13) When you break the law you have to pay the penalty. But, Christ paid the penalty for our lawlesness for it is written in Deuteronomy 21:22-23, "(22) And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: (23) His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

(14) He paid the penalty so that the blessing promised to Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

(15) Brethren, look at man's law, if two parties enter into a contract, once that contract is signed and sealed, no one can add or take anything from it.

(16) Now a promise by covenant is that way. God made promises to Abraham. This particular promise was not to 'seeds' but to 'seed'. Not to many 'seed' but to one 'seed'. This 'seed' is Jesus Christ.

(17) This covenant concerning Christ was made four hundred and thirty years before the events at Sinai. My point is this, these later events can not nullify the earlier promise to Abraham.

(18) Is the promised inheritance by law, (either by observing rituals such as circumcision or other law keeping) or is it by promise? You can't have it both ways. Well, it is by promise.

(19) So why did Israel observe the rituals of the law and sacrifices of the Levitical Priesthood? Well, they were added to because of transgressions, a temporary 'fix' to last until the 'seed' should come. Moses was the mediator of this system of rituals.

(20) Now, with the Abrahamic covenant there was no mediator because only one party was involved. God made promises on his own.

(21) The law promised curses whereas the Abrahamic covenant promised blessings. Does one contradict another? If there were a system of law that would grant eternal life, then salvation would have been by the law.

(22) The scripture shows that we are all condemned under sin. This so that salvation might be given only to them that believe in Jesus Christ.

(23) Before faith came our conduct was held in check and regulated by the law. We did not know what was to be revealed.

(24) The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ that we might be saved by faith.

(25) But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

(26) With faith we have no need to be under supervision of a schoolmaster. Each of you is is a son of God because of your faith in Jesus Christ.

(27) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

(28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all have the same status in Christ Jesus.

(29) And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. What was promised to Abraham was inherited by Christ. He passes it on to you.