Galatians 3:25
"But after that faith (way) is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster." Again
we're going to ask you to mentally put the word "way" after faith.
Being saved by faith + nothing in what God has said. Once we come to
that place in God's economy in this progressive revelation. Now then the
Hebrews are no longer under a schoolmaster, in the corral or under a
tutor, teachers guidance, as the example of the statutes and ordinances
were. Allow us to explain schoolmaster here. The schoolmaster that Paul
refers to is not in the Jewish economy, but rather the Greek and the
Roman. And what the Greeks and Romans would do is hire a slave or a
trustworthy servant, and that servant/slave was under the demands of the
father to raise that child and tutor that child so that at some
designated point out in the future, somewhere probably between the ages
of 16 - 30 years of age, the tutor would be able to say, "Master this
young man is now ready to come in and work right alone side of you in
your business. He's got everything that he needs to know. He's been
well-tutored, and is prepared." This was all in place until Christ came
on the scene for He was its completion or the fulfillment of the Law. He
operated in full compliance of and to the requirements of the Law.
Remember He told John the Baptist that they were to fulfill all
righteousness, this they did and He continues on to do.
Now
when that father has agreed that indeed the son is ready then an
adoption was instituted. It was not like we think of an adoption of
taking a child from some other union, and legally bring him into
another. That's not what the Scripture word adoption means. It
meant to be placed as a son in full operation of the fathers business,
on an equal basis with him in responsibility, and function and every
other way. Now that's the term schoolmaster that Paul is using
here and what it means. This servant who had been hired to bring this
child to the place where he could step right in and work with the
father. The early church used baptism as a means of adoption, to make
that one a child, now get this; a god-children. All right do you get the
picture? That's what the Law was intended to do for Israel.
It was to prepare them and bring them to the place that when
the Messiah would come they were ready. And in faith they could have
said, "Yes," and a few of them did, but for the most part the nation
rejected their Messiah, the god-child. They had that opportunity to
believe everything that Christ was, had they been ready for it, but they
were not. And so now it comes into our Gentile economy for us and it's
still a valid concept, that the law was given to prepare everything for
the coming of the Messiah, that He could fulfill the work of Cross, as a
god-child. Yes, He had to die, and He had to be buried, He had to be
raised from the dead for our justification. By way of God adopting us as
His God-child. But now we see the Law has been satisfied, it has been
completely paid in full through the work of the Cross, and we now enter
in by faith + nothing. The Law has done it's job, it's done, it's been
crucified, and set off the scene. Isn't that beautiful? YES. And all in
the per-determinate counsel of God. Those who come into this faith
relationship have in fact become God-children. This by way of the cross
of Christ and His last supper.
Galatians 3:26
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." So
we're children of God not by keeping the Law, or the observing of
sabbath days or feast days or observing any particular holidays but by
faith in Christ Jesus. Oh listen, how many millions of so called
Christians are flying in the face of this verse and saying, "Yeah but
I've got to do this or that. I think, we also need to do this." But you
see this verse like all Paul's verses include none of that. We become
the children of God by only one thing and one thing only, and that is by
"Faith in the finished work of Christ." And that of course is what Paul
is implying here. Paul never speaks that just believing that He was the
Messiah. That was back in Peter's gospel and his domain, that was
before these inspirations of revelations (divine illumination) were
given to Paul. When Paul speaks by faith in Christ he's talking about faith in that finished work of redemption. "The
fact that Christ died for us, was buried and rose from the grave for
us, and our having walked through it and that for salvation."
Then by way of divine illumination we're shown that God credits us as
having been in Christ, during the whole operation of the sufferings of
Christ.
That reminds us of another thing many believe. And that is that
we're against the forces of Satan, and it's just about to drive us and
them up the wall. If we have our mind in the wrong place, submitted to
God. We then have to put our mind on the power of the resurrection. And
all of this demonic stuff will flee from us. If we can just get our mind
on the power of His resurrection and forget about the demons. Beloved
do you know that Paul never once as far as we can tell even uses that
word. If he does we want you to show us. He never once used the word
demons as being active in the life of a believer, but rather all he can
talk about is that wonderful power of Christ's resurrection.
Galatians 3:26
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." As
we mentioned when Paul speaks of faith in Christ he's speaking of that
whole finished work of our redemption, which is faith in His death, His
shed blood, His burial, and His resurrection into His ascension. Paul
stresses constantly the power of His resurrection.
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