Paul was an excellent
Jewish lawyer and debater, and God had shown him amazing truths that the
Judaizers had never considered. They thought the law was the end-all,
be-all of their existence. He showed them that it could not override
or overrule the covenant God made
with Abraham centuries earlier. That covenant, between God and Abraham and
Abraham’s seed (singular, not plural
– Christ) could not be altered by the law given through Moses centuries later.
There were no “if’s” in God’s covenant, either. It was entirely of grace, and the law had a
terminus point, “until the Seed
(Christ) shall come,” my commentary said.
The Judaizers saw conflict
between the two, while Paul saw cooperation. The law could not give life, but they were worshiping it as if it could. All it could was reveal sin. It was acting
much like a child guardian slave that people were used to seeing back then –
instructing the children and even disciplining them – but the slave was never
the father of the children he guarded. He trained
them for adulthood. That’s what the law did as well. It trained
them to be adult sons of God. Through Christ,
we become heirs and adult sons of God,
not through the law, and that makes us Abraham’s seed as well.
Father, thank You for reminding me that I am an adult son in Your family – an heir of Yours! Help me, as my commentary said, to draw on my inheritance. Remind me often that I am Yours!
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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