THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL.

Galatians 3: 29

‘In Christ we are the seed of Abraham.'

In our reading from Galatians Paul is still expounding ‘the truth of the gospel’,

namely that salvation is a free gift of God, received through faith in Christ crucified,

irrespective of any human merit.

He is emphasizing this, because the Jews could not accept the principle of ‘faith alone’.

They insisted that men must contribute something to their salvation. So they were adding

to faith in Jesus ‘the works of the law’ as another essential ground of acceptance with God.

Paul emphasizes the fact that God’s plan of free salvation is from the Old Testament.

HISTORY

Paul takes us back to about 2000 BC, to Abraham.

God called Abraham to leave his land and “go unto a land that I will show you”.  God promised Abraham

that He would give him an innumerable ‘seed’ and through this seed all the families of the earth would be blessed.

In verse 29 we read that we are the seed of Abraham and therefore heirs according to the promise.

CONCLUSION

If we are under the law, we will remain in bondage. We will have no knowledge of forgiveness; but if we are in Christ,

we are set free. We are children of the ‘promise’.  We have been set free from guilt and condemnation.               

The Message of Galatians