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 or Holy days this is to say festivals but by faith in
Christ Jesus. Trusting the Redeemed of all man-kind, being receptive of Him in spirit and truth. 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. Or
God will get the Glory no matter what." Hog
wash! That is nothing but vain reasoning, the same reasonings that got the Jewish scholars in hot water in the first place.
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."
Which is all inclusive of the Last Supper, garden cup (the cup of self denial, the denial of reasoning's) on through His
ascension. And that of course is what Paul is implying here. Paul
never speaks that just believing that He was the Messiah. Or the “I
love the Lord or I love Jesus”,
for the LORD knows our heart and has said that those who say such are
giving Him lip service only (Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 15:8, Mark 7:6).
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 all that
lead up to and includes the 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."
(1 Corinthians 15:1-4 to then be empowered to say with Paul Galatians
2:20) 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.
Saul of Tarsus, who became
Paul, then was called to reveal the revelation of Christ and His new
administration both to the Hebrews and to the Gentiles. As the second Adam, Christ is now the legal parental head of all those who by way of divine revelation become His hairs in accord with Psalm 2 verses 7-8. But the Hebrews
rejected not only Paul and his message (three times as recorded in
Acts) but they did also Peter twice and Stephen when they stoned him.
Remember that it says that Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit,
so when he was speaking Who was it that was actually speaking through
him? The Holy Spirit, the Holy Father of spirit, who is none other than Christ Himself.
From here we'll allow the
scriptures to speak for themselves.
Matthew 11:29
“Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your souls.” And now
1Corithinas 11:29
“For he that eateth
and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation* to himself,
not discerning the Lord's body.”
*From
here we could look at Ecclesiastes chapter 8, or Galatians chapter 4
verse 4. In Ecclesiastes we find the rehearsing of vanity, but in
chapter 8 when we apply ourselves to hearing this what do we find,
and especially in verse 5:
Ecclesiastes 8:1-14
“Who is as the wise
man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom
maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be
changed. I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in
regard of the oath of God. Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand
not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. Where
the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What
doest thou? *Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing:
and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. Because to
every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man
is great upon him. For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who
can tell him when it shall be? There is no man that hath power over
the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of
death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall
wickedness deliver those that are given to it. All this have I seen,
and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun:
there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place
of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so
done: this is also vanity. Because sentence against an evil work is
not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is
fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred
times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be
well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not
be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are
as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. There is a vanity
which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it
happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked
men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I
said that this also is vanity.
Now back to Galatians:
Galatians 4:4-5
“But when the fulness
of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made
under the law (Genesis 3:15), To redeem them that were under the law (all the sons of the first Adam who poses the seed of woman, the ontological seed of Christ), that we might
receive the adoption of sons.”
When we receive a discerning
heart or a newly birthed spirit, we'll keep the commandment and shall
feel or know no evil because as being One with Christ there is no
guile or vanity, for even that is laid upon the cross. And do you see
and hear what is here revealed? “When the fulness of the time
was come”, which
is in agreement to what was stated elsewhere. Christ as the promised seed came at the appointed time or season as the fulness or completion of that period.
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