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Classic Christianity – Book of Galatians P12 (08-21-24)

For Those Living Under Law are Under a Curse

~ Why are people under a Curse when they are living under the law? First off, they are dead, and do not have the Holy Spirit for life. And the word of God says, ‘All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”’ Galatians 3:10 Yet people want to continue living under the law, in spite of what the Word of God says. And they make up different doctrines and belief systems to say that a person is out of fellowship with God, or that God is hacked at you when you do something wrong, and you need to get right with God by confessing it, and asking for forgiveness by God. Catholics go to their confession booths (sometimes) and Protestants live in their virtual confession booths (most of the time), and both are believing in lies. They live in Satan’s lie of a forgiveness vending machine by God when it comes to getting right with God. Pluck in your forgiveness requests to God, and magically out pops forgiveness. To them, God is a responder to their wishes of more forgiveness. After all, it makes them “feel good” to think they are doing something for God that is going to cause God to do something for them. What a bunch of BS (dung). And when you tell some people that they are NOT under law, they get angry at you, and will say things like “Are you saying we can live like the devil?” This is how people always justify their pretend law keeping, as though they are special in the sight of God for their hypocritical law keeping, all the while lying to themselves and others that they keep the law. No one keeps the Law. No one can keep the Law. No one keeps the 10 commandments. No one can keep the 10 commandments. If a person could keep the law, then Jesus died for nothing.

“For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.” Romans 10:4

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh? Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing? Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator. A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law. But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:1-29

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “How do you say I’m saved, but I’m under the law when it says you’re under a curse, because it’s written that if you under the under the law, that Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law? Now, what would that everything include? If you’re under the 10 Commandments, why would you say there’s a difference between ceremonial law and moral law? Does this say that there’s any difference in the two? Is there any place in the Scripture saying in the New Covenant, or any place then there’s a difference in the two? If you’re under the law, you’re under the law, the law is the Pentateuch, the first five books of Moses. If you’re under a part of it, you’re under all of it. So why are we nit picking and pulling over the laws we like and leaving the ones we don’t behind? Why don’t we bring a bull and goat in and sley em, not on Sunday, but on Saturday, why don’t we do that? I mean, that’s a part of the law. Why would we bring tithing over as an example and leave that behind? I’ll tell you why. Paul just told us why, we’re foolish, foolish, idiotic, moronic, Dallasites, we’ve been hypnotized cast an evil spell upon us. We used to see the meaning of Christ’s death as clearly as though we’d waved a place card in front of you. Have you gone mad? And that’s what he’s saying to the Christian world today. If he was here, that would be the message that he’d be given an NRB National Religious broadcaster meeting, not the ones that are given. Putting people under laws. Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law. That’s the law. Now, why is that true? What is the wages of sin under the law? How many sins do you have to commit for you to be dead? One. Well, just today or through your lifetime? Lifetime.” ~ Bob George

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How do you say I’m saved, but I’m under the law when it says you’re under a curse, because it’s written that if you under the under the law, that Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law? Now, what would that everything include? If you’re under the 10 Commandments, why would you say there’s a difference between ceremonial law and moral law? Does this say that there’s any difference in the two? Is there any place in the Scripture saying in the New Covenant, or any place then there’s a difference in the two? If you’re under the law, you’re under the law, the law is the Pentateuch, the first five books of Moses. If you’re under a part of it, you’re under all of it. So why are we nit picking and pulling over the laws we like and leaving the ones we don’t behind? Why don’t we bring a bull and goat in and sley em, not on Sunday, but on Saturday, why don’t we do that? I mean, that’s a part of the law. Why would we bring tithing over as an example and leave that behind? I’ll tell you why. Paul just told us why, we’re foolish, foolish, idiotic, moronic, Dallasites, we’ve been hypnotized cast an evil spell upon us. We used to see the meaning of Christ’s death as clearly as though we’d waved a place card in front of you. Have you gone mad? And that’s what he’s saying to the Christian world today. If he was here, that would be the message that he’d be given an NRB National Religious broadcaster meeting, not the ones that are given. Putting people under laws. Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law. That’s the law. Now, why is that true? What is the wages of sin under the law? How many sins do you have to commit for you to be dead? One. Well, just today or through your lifetime? Lifetime.

And so, folks again, I’m just getting back to this thing. What can the law do for you? Kill you. Kill you. What did? What was the purpose of the law? To show you your dead. So that you would what? Turn to the only one who came to give you life. I came that you might have what? Life he isn’t talking about, just joyful times. I came to give you life because you’re dead and you don’t get life through the law. Now, again, same thing they accused Paul of. Are you saying? I love that. Are you saying? We get that on the radio. Are you trying to say? No, I’m not trying to say. I’m saying it. And that’s what you’re always getting. But why? We don’t understand the message you’re trying to say, should we should go on sinning so the grace can abound? Well, those questions get asked today. Same dumb questions get asked today that were asked 2000 years ago, why? Paul just explained it foolish. Don’t understand the fact that under the law, you’re a goner. Don’t understand the fact that of our total depravity, that we’re born into this world as a fallen creature. Don’t understand that. Don’t rejoice in the fact that God has pulled us out of darkness in the light that he’s pulled us out of this fallen condition into a brand new creature in Christ that we were born into this world as an old caterpillar crawled out on the ground, and he metamorphosized us into a butterfly that can fly, and we don’t appreciate that. We take it for granted. You. Because we’re used to playing religion instead of enjoying a new life.

And so he’s saying to us, Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law. Clearly. Look at this, folks. Clearly. He ought to say, clearly you ought to see this. No one is justified before God by the law. No one. How many of us have tried? Why? Because the righteous will live by faith. You become righteous in the sight of God when you put your faith in Jesus. The law is not based on faith. That ought to be another clue to us, the law is not based on faith. Do we realize that? If you’re under the law, you don’t need faith, don’t need faith, and without faith, what is it? Impossible to please God. Under the law, there is no faith, impossible to please God. People are in the law. Think they’re pleasing God. Again, do you hate the law? No law is good. It’s holy, it’s righteous. What’s wrong with it? When it flows through this old thing it kills me. Here’s the problem, the righteous, He says, will live by what? By faith. Faith in who? Faith in the one who made you righteous. Who is that? Jesus. And that’s why it says that we come to Christ, you and I are clothed in the righteousness of Christ Jesus. What does that mean? When God looks at you, what does he see? The righteousness of Christ Jesus. He doesn’t see you and me. He sees the righteousness of Christ, Jesus.

The law is not based on faith. On the contrary, who man who does these things will live by them. If you’re going to be under the law, live under it. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. What is the curse of the law? What is it? Death. He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. The curse of the law is death. He died for us. He took the punishment of the law on himself, entered into our spiritual death with us. Did he have to do that? No, He was sinless. He was God. He never was going to sin, but he chose to become sin in order to enter into my death with me, so that what? I could choose to enter into His resurrection with him, come alive with him. That’s the meaning of the resurrection. He came alive so that I could come alive. That’s a good identity. He came and identified with me in my death so that I could identify with him in his resurrection. So Christ redeemed us from the death coming from the law by becoming death for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. Now, he redeemed us.

Now, folks, how many of you remember redemption stores? How many of you old enough to remember green stamps? All right, you remember those now, what’d you do with those green stamps? You went to a redemption store, didn’t you? And what’d you do with those worthless green stamps? Well, you turned them in and got a toaster. Now, those stamps are worthless. You couldn’t buy anything with them if you wanted to you didn’t go to the movie theater and hand them some green stamps. So it’s a redemption. What’d you do? Turn in something worthless and got something of value. What did Christ do for us? He redeemed us. We turned ourselves into him. I gave him everything that I was nothing, and he gave me everything that he is, and that’s everything the exchange of life. I gave him my sins. He gave me his righteousness. I gave him my death. He gave me his life. It’s an exchange of life. So don’t ever expect your life to change until you experience the exchange, the exchange of your life for his. So Paul could say the old man Paul’s dead. Nevertheless I live. Yet it’s not I, but it’s Christ who lives in me and the life that I live in his flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, the One who loved me and gave himself for me.

So he says he redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ, Jesus, so that by faith, we Gentiles too might receive the promise of the Spirit. Now was that news to the Hebrew? Of course it was. Did they like it? No, but it was truth. And that was the message that Paul God revealed to Paul, and Paul was the administrator of to the Gentile world. Now brothers he said, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case, the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.

Now let’s go back for a minute on this. No one can set aside or add to a human covenant. Now, what is a covenant? A covenant is a will. Now, if I have a will, can you add to it? Can you subtract from it? Can you set it aside, if it’s been duly established? When I die and you sit in the attorney’s office and you’re not in there, can you change it? Can you alter it? It has been duly established. What does that mean? It’s in concrete. And if I don’t give you the Cadillac, you’re not getting the Cadillac. And so he’s saying to us, is just as no one can set aside or add to your will, that’s what a covenant is. Is a will. We call it the testament is a will, the old will, the new will, the Old Covenant, the New Covenant all the same. So no one can set aside or add to a will that has been duly established. So it is in this case, the promises were spoken to Abraham and his what? Seed is seed plural or singular? If it was saying, if it was plural, what would it say? Seeds. Did it say Seeds? Said Seed. So we’re talking about a person, the Scripture does not say and to seeds, meaning many people. But it said to your seed, singular meaning one person who is what? Christ. So the promises that were given to Abraham were given to Abraham and to Jesus, his seed. Now what I mean is this, the law introduced 430 years after Abraham does not set aside the covenant that was previously established by God, and thus do away with the promise. So what he’s saying here is that this promise has not been set aside by the law that was introduced 430 years after the promise. It wasn’t set aside. In other words, when he added the law, he didn’t set aside the promise. For if the inheritance, if your inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise. But God, in His grace, gave it to Abraham through a promise. Well, what then was the purpose of the law? We got it. What was the purpose? Isn’t it wonderful that that question was asked, what then was the purpose of all of this law? If the promise was given to Abraham 430, years before the law was introduced, and the law does not supersede the promise, what in the world was the purpose of it? Makes sense, doesn’t it? Well, he says, Okay, I’ll answer it. The law was added because of sins, transgressions, until. Now, when you have an until, what does that show you? What are two words you could use with an until, before and after. Thank you Ellen, before and after, until you got something before, until something else came along, you had an old Victrola, until CDs came along and something else would come along and replace those. It’s a contrast. So the purpose of the law was added because of sins until the seed, who’s the seed? Jesus.

Okay, so let’s read it. The law was added because of sins until Jesus, to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels, by a mediator, a mediator, however, does not represent just one party, but God is one. It represented two parties, God and man. But God is one. He’s the initiator. He’s the one who made the will and the promise. And so what he’s saying. Saying, here is, go back up here, he’s saying that the law was given until Jesus came. Are we all together on this? Until Jesus, for all of those years prior to Jesus, were they? Was that? Were they under the law? Well, then how were people saved back in those days? By faith in the promise. Promise hadn’t come yet, but they knew it would save by faith in the promise. Were they saved the same way we were, with spiritual regeneration, like we have? No way. No one was saved like we are today, until the day of what Pentecost. No one, prior to the day of Pentecost, was ever born again, of the Spirit permanently like we are. So we’re not only a new creation in comparison to who I was before I was saved. I’m a new creation on this side of Pentecost, in regard to all the other people that had ever been born in the world, we’re new creatures. The Spirit of God had never been given to a man ever before, until the day of Pentecost, that could not be destroyed, the Holy Spirit came upon Old Testament saints for divine service, and then left them. That’s why in David’s prayer, he prayed, Lord, don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. But the kind of salvation that we have today, which is eternal, was never in effect until the day of Pentecost. Now, what did he have to do before he could give you and me that life? What had to be done in order to give you and me eternal life? He had to deal eternally with the cause of death.

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Let’s say, as an example, that cancer was the only disease in the world. Let’s just say that it almost appears that way, sometimes only disease in the world that killed people. And some doctor came along, and they got their heads together, they figured out a way to raise people from the dead. And he said, Hey, that’s neat, Doc, you can really raise people from the dead. Yeah, no problem at all. Fantastic. Hey. Incidentally, what killed him? Cancer. Cancer. Killed him. Have you cured cancer? No, no, we haven’t cured cancer. Well, then what do you want to raise him from the dead for? Because you raised Him from the dead and you haven’t cured cancer, they’ll just die again. Well, what are you going to do then? Well, raise him again. So you got a Dracula theology, dead one day alive, the next, dead and alive. Dead and alive. Why? You haven’t cured the cause of death. So in order to give you and me eternal life, he had to deal eternally with the cause of spiritual death. What was the cause of spiritual death? Sin, not only before the law, but sin under the law to for the for the first time, to point out to you how sinful you were, and that the consequence of sin is death, which was never understood prior to the law. So do you see all of this, this marvelous plan of God unfolding in front of our face, of how he set everything into motion? There was a promise before the law. I gave the Law 430 years later, because nobody was understanding what sin was. No one was understanding the consequence of sin. So I put into effect the law to show you your condition of death, so that you would turn to Jesus when the seed came for life. The law was put into effect.

Now it goes ahead to say, then, is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not. For if a law had been given that could impart life. Now you’re getting down to the meat of the gospel, which is life. If a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come through the law. Could the law impart life? No. So no righteousness. But the Scripture declares this. Now look at this, folks, that the whole world is a prisoner of sin. We’re all on death row, so that what? What was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to all who believe. The Scripture declares the whole world is a prisoner. So that what was promised, which is salvation by faith, might be given to those who believe before this faith came. Now, folks, that is before Jesus came, 2000 years ago, and that is before Jesus came into your life, same thing before Jesus came and you exercised faith in Him, you were a prisoner under the law, held as a prisoner until faith was revealed under the law dead in Christ alive, the whole issue of the Gospel, the whole world. That’s you and me. I was a prisoner of sin so that what was promised to Abraham might be given to me through faith in Jesus Christ. Before this faith came, you and I were held prisoners by the law. We’re in jail, locked up until faith should be revealed.

This week, we got a telephone call from I cannot remember that guy’s name. Is it Fain? I think it’s Fain. You saw the article in the newspaper on death row for 18 years, and DNA set him free. He has been in touch with us for well over eight years. He came to Christ through the radio. We’ve sent him materials. Ed Hecht has counsel numerous times, and the last, first person that he called after getting out was us to thank us for what we had done in his life. I asked him, How do you sit in an eight by eight cell for 18 years? He said, without Christ, I could have done nothing. DNA saved him. Now what was he? He was a prisoner. He was locked up until what truth was revealed, and when truth was revealed, he was set free. And it’s a perfect picture of that.

And so we have to understand that the law was put in charge for the purpose of leading us to Christ. That’s its purpose. How come? So that we can be justified under the law? No by faith in Jesus, and now that faith has come, now that you’re in Christ, you are no longer under the supervision of the law. You’re all sons of God through faith in Christ, no longer under the supervision of the law. Who are you under the supervision of? The Holy Spirit of God living in you. The Holy Spirit of God that Jesus said, I’ll send him to you, and He will lead you into what? All truth. So what are you guided by today? The Holy Spirit, the Bible says don’t commit adultery. The Holy Spirit says Quit looking with lust in your heart. Holy Spirit says don’t murder. Or the law says don’t murder. Holy Spirit says Quit being angry. Don’t let the sun go down your anger, it deals with the underneath the skin, down where we live. The law deals with exterior. The Holy Spirit deals with the interior. And now that faith has come, you’re no longer under the supervision of the laws written on stone, but you’re under the supervision of the Holy Spirit of God written on your heart. People think, well, if you take the law away, you don’t have any guidelines. No, just God’s all just, just God living in you is all you got. You realize, folks, the dynamic of this of Christ, Jesus, the God of this universe, living inside of you and me and guiding us into all truth, is that a miracle? And we want to get all hopped up over our toe, getting grown back on or something, or get hopped up because we had something. Now we don’t have it. Hopped up with physical disease, and now I don’t have it. Man, the greatest miracle that you and I will ever experience in our lives, the miracle the day God came to dwell inside of you and me, and there’ll be nothing that can ever touch that. If we all want to be rejoicing in miracles, we ought to be rejoicing in the miracle of new birth. You’re all sons of God through faith in Christ, Jesus, that’s your identity, a child of the living God. And I think it’s worth rejoicing, don’t you?

Well, let’s pray together, Father, there really isn’t any words that we can say that would be adequate to express the appreciation that we have in our hearts for what you’ve really accomplished for us and through us. I don’t think there’s any way that we can truly appreciate that in its maximum. I think it’s only one of these days as we go to meet you face to face and see the things that you’ve saved us from that will be eternally rejoicing in you. You’ve taken us from a condition of death, raised us into a newness of life. And given us your Spirit to guide us. We’re so deaf to your voice, we sometimes wonder if we even have ears to hear we go out and do things that destroy our own bodies. Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit of God, and we fill it full of drugs and booze and smoke and everything under the sun for the purpose of destroying your temple. We look at buildings, it’s easier to look at say, Oh, there’s the temple, there’s the church. No, it isn’t. You are. We take our bodies where you do not want us to go. Our minds are so rebellious, and yet you love us perfectly, and your Spirit is always there, striving with us to bring us back to the heart of God to say we’re children of the living God. Why not live like it? Why not learn to think like it and act like it? And Father, I pray that these things will embed our hearts, because the power of sin is in the law, and as long as we’re under the law, we’re going to be under the power of sin, led no longer by the Spirit, but by the law that kills. And so we want to be free, not free to go gratify the desires of this stupid flesh of ours, but free to walk in the newness of life that has been given to us and for us in Christ, Jesus, and it’s in his name that we pray and for his sake in Christ’s name. Amen.

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