Galatians 5:3
"For I testify again (what does that imply? Hey, he's said it more than once before) to every man that is circumcised,
(in other words if you're going to use this legalistic rite of
circumcision as part of your salvation plus my Gospel in what Paul is
implying) that he (that man) is a debtor to do the whole law."
In
like manor or in the same token or vain if we're to exercise the
practice of Holy-days, New Moons and Sabbaths we are held in or with the
same contempt by God because our religious practice has been come to
Him idolatry. For we've put our selves and our practices above what He
has revealed through His Apostle. Now how many men have ever done the
whole Law? Only one and that was Christ Himself. No one has ever been
able to keep the whole Law as it's impossible. So when people think they
can, they're just barking up the wrong tree. Every work or sign, wonder
and miracle Jesus did was under the Law and therefore was a fulfillment
of its requirement. They fulfilled the spiritual requirements not mans
imposed rules or traditions. You cannot somehow or other gain
salvation by doing something, and you're not going to gain salvation by
saying, "Yes I believe Christ died for me and rose from the dead, but
I've also got to do this and that in order to finish the work of the
Cross." God wont have it!
If we do
that then Christ shall profit us nothing. Why? Because God is a jealous
God, that's why. God is jealous of what He has accomplished on our
behalf, and what is that? That at the Last Supper and the Cross He
finished every single demand of God on a sinful person. He would take
all that guilt away from that person in the cup and on His person. Then
the moment he believes and receives the cup in which Christ died and
rose from the dead for our salvation, then he receives Christ's cup. Now
listen, when we really analyze it, isn't it logical? When God
has done so much, when God gave the very best that all of heaven and the
Godhead had to offer. When God sent Him to earth, and put Him through
the rigors of 33 years of life among sinful men. Then He went to the
Cross, suffered and died, and then through the power of God rose from
the dead, and then we say, "Well that's still not enough!"
No wonder God gets upset, no wonder God can consign unbelievers
to Hell. We had a person say, "How can God send good people to such a
horrible place?" we said, "Look, you wouldn't ask that question if you
had a concept of how much God gave to save sinful men. To reclaim what
was lost in the garden when man disobeyed God's voice." See it's those
who cannot understand,( utter disparage and tremendous lost at Adams
choice to follow his wife instead of standing with his Father) the work
of the Last Supper and then the Cross. And how much God literally gave
up on our behalf. And then when it's spurned He has every right that we
can imagine to consign people to a lost eternity. That's why. Now we
hate to see people lost. Or when we hear those who profess to believe
say and do the things that we now know are contrary to God, we hate the
sin but still love and pray for the sinner. We hate to think of a loved
one as being lost, but we can't make excuses for them because we know
that God suffered to such an extent for the salvation of everyone that
when they spurn it there's nothing else that God can do. His hands are
tied - He can't come back and say, "Well I'll give you a second chance."
That's why it's appointed unto man once to die and after that the
judgment. And we'd better take what the Scripture says and believe it.
Now verse 4. Boy this just keeps piling it on doesn't it? It doesn't get
any better, it keeps getting worse.
Galatians 5:4a
"Christ is become of no effect..."
Now
think about that. Here we go through all these different things to
somehow earn salvation by doing this and that, but we've never had any
faith in this Gospel, and what's the end result? Christ is become of no effect.
Now that's sad isn't it? But it is so true. All the accomplished works
have become moot. We stand in our condemned state because we've said as
the fool, NO God!
Galatians 5:4a
"Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law;..." (or legalism, or works, mans idolatrous ego)
A Scripture just came to mind in Romans Chapter 3 so let's turn there for a moment. Oh let's look at it again. Verse 23.
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