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Galatians 3:17

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

My point is this--An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside.

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For the Law was given through Moses, love and truth came through Jesus Christ.

God's words were these--'Abraham's descendants shall live in a foreign country, where they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years.

For God set him before the world, to be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness, and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins that men had previously committed;

What follows then? Some, no doubt, showed a want of faith; but will their want of faith make God break faith? Heaven forbid!

I mean this, that every one of you says either 'I follow Paul,' or 'I Apollos,' or 'I Kephas,' or 'I Christ.'

My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the Good News; not, however, in the language of philosophy, lest the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.

What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything?

What I mean, Brothers, is this-The time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,

For, many as were the promises of God, in Christ is the 'Yes' that fulfils them. Therefore, through Christ again, let the 'Amen' rise, through us, to the glory of God.

Remember the saying--'Scanty sowing, scanty harvest; plentiful sowing, plentiful harvest.'

To take an illustration, Brothers, from daily life--No one sets aside even an agreement between two men, when once it has been confirmed, nor does he add conditions to it.

Does that set the Law in opposition to God's promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a Law had been given capable of bestowing Life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to Law.

This is what I have to say--Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.

You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.

Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the Covenants founded on God's Promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.

This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,

I say this to prevent any one from deceiving you by plausible arguments.

All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only aliens and strangers on the earth.

On the one hand, we have the abolition of a previous regulation as being both inefficient and useless

Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes,




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