If you belong to Christ. "Since Christ is the descendant of Abraham, in your union with Christ, you become what He is, and will receive God's promise, as a spiritual descendant of Abraham." [In the Bible, faith means: (1) belief/trust - active, obediential; (2) the obedience which faith produces; (3) the teaching contained in the Good News. Remembering this will help to identify the meaning in a particular context.]
Verse Galatians 3:29. _AND IF YE_ BE _CHRIST'S_] Or, as several good MSS. read, _If ye_ be _one in Christ_. If ye have all received justification through his blood, and the mind that was in him, then...
AND IF YE BE CHRIST’S - If you belong to the Messiah, and are interested in his work. THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM’S SEED - The promise made to Abraham related to the Messiah. It was a promise that in him all...
II. CONTRASTS BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The gift of the Spirit not by the works of the law, but by hearing of faith. (Galatians 3:1)_ 2. Righteousness not bestowed by the law, but by fai...
Inferior, temporary, co-operating such is the distinctive nature of the Law. It had held Israel prisoner, till Christ should come. Or it resembled the slave who led a child to (Christ's) school (1 Cor...
Before faith came we were under guard under the power of the law, shut up and waiting for the day when faith would be revealed. So that the law was really our tutor to bring us to Christ so that we mi...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
HEIRS. See Romans 4:13. ACCORDING TO. Greek. _kata_, as verses: Galatians 3:1; Galatians 3:15....
The selection of the metaphor of Galatians 3:24 is by no means accidental. It suggests and leads up to the grand revelation of Gospel blessedness contained in the peroration to this chapter. The very...
_If ye be Christ's_ If ye are by faith incorporated into Christ, the promised Seed, then by virtue of that living union ye are yourselves Abraham's seed. The paraphrase of Theod. Mops. is remarkable:...
ΕἸ ΔῈ ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. A few “western” authorities assimilate these words to the form of Galatians 3:28. 29. ΕἸ ΔῈ ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. Observe the emphasis on ὑμεῖς. If ye, ye Galatians, Gentiles though...
25–29. See note at Galatians 3:23 (Galatians 3:25) But when that faith came—we believers are no longer under a paedagogue. (Galatians 3:26) For all (not Jews only) of you are sons of God (with full pr...
23–4:7. _The contrast between our former state of pupillage under the Law, and our present state in Christ, full sonship_ This is brought out under two aspects: I. Galatians 3:23-29. The preparative c...
ΚΑΤ' ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΊΑΝ (G2596; G1860) согласно обещанию, ΚΛΗΡΟΝΌΜΟΣ (G2818) наследник. Это не значит, что верующий наследует землю обетованную, обещанную Аврааму, но скорее, что он наследует благословение о...
DISCOURSE: 2069 BENEFITS AND OBLIGATIONS OF BAPTISM Galatians 3:27. _As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor fre...
AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S, &C.— That is, if ye are united by faith to _Him,_ who is the promised Seed, _then are ye the true seed of Abraham,_ and, in consequence of this, heirs according to the promise....
TEXT 3:26-29 (26) For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. (27) for as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. (28) There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there ca...
_ VERSE 29. AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE._...
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. AND HEIRS. So G. But A B C Delta 'Aleph (') f, Vulgate, omit "and." Christ is "Abraham's seed:" ye are "one in...
3 Paul now appeals to the experience of the Galatians themselves. Before the Judaisers came they received the Spirit of God, and suffered for the evangel, and did mighty works quite apart from the law...
JUSTIFICATION IS BY FAITH, NOT WORKS 1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from faith to legal observances, reminding them of the fact that their reception of the Spirit h...
ABRAHAM'S SEED] his spiritual descendants. Not lineal descent from Abraham, but spiritual kinship to him through a faith like his, determines whether we are heirs of the promise made to him....
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 LIVE BY GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS V1 You Galatians are foolish. You behave as if someone has used magic powers to lead...
God had given his laws to the *Jews. But now everyone can receive the good things that God promised to Abraham. *Gentiles do not need to obey the *Jewish laws. And they do not need to become *Jews. Th...
(25-29) But now the Law has been exchanged for the dispensation of faith. Henceforth the old state of pupilage is at an end. We are no longer like children, but adult members of the divine family — _s...
Conclusion of the whole argument. The followers of the Messiah are the true seed of Abraham. The kingdom of the Messiah, which they possess, is the promised inheritance....
CHAPTER 15 THE EMANCIPATED SONS OF GOD. Galatians 3:25 "FAITH has come!" At this announcement Law the tutor yields up his charge; Law the jailor sets his prisoner at liberty. The age of servitude ha...
ὑμεῖς. The emphatic insertion of ὑμεῖς before Χριστοῦ in preference to Χριστοῦ ἐστέ lays stress apparently on the wonderful transformation of men who had been aliens from the people of God into member...
BUT NOW WE ARE NO LONGER CHILDREN. YE ARE ALL SONS OF GOD: AT YOUR BAPTISM YE PUT ON CHRIST, AND WERE INVESTED WITH SPIRITUAL MANHOOD: ALL PREVIOUS DISTINCTIONS OF CREED OR RACE, OF POSITION OR NATURE...
THE LAW LEADS TO CHRIST Galatians 3:20 The Mosaic law was not designed to be the final code of the religious life, but to prepare the soil of the human heart to receive Jesus Christ in all the fullne...
Here begins the second division of the epistle, in which Paul deals with the doctrine of liberty. He begins with the exclamation, "O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you?" He then inquired, Did they...
REFLECTIONS Oh! the weakness of the Galatians, to be looking unto Christ only in part; and for a moment to fancy, that having began in the Spirit, they could be made perfect in the flesh. And is there...
(21) Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (22) But the scripture ha...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
29._Then are ye Abraham’s seed_. This is not intended to convey the idea, that to be a child of Abraham is better than to be a member of Christ, — but to repress the pride of the Jews, who gloried in...
What a loss, dreadful and irreparable, to lose such a Christ, as we, under grace, have known Him; such a righteousness; such a love; the Son of God our portion, our life; the Son of God devoted for us...
FOR IF YE BE CHRIST'S,.... Or seeing ye are his, not by creation only, but by the Father's gift to him, by the purchase of his own blood, by the power of his grace, making them willing to give up them...
And if ye _be_ Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Ver. 29. _Heirs according_] Heirs are kept short in their under age, and sometimes forced to borrow of servant...
_For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ_ In consequence of your believing in him with your heart unto righteousness, and have thereby testified and professed your faith in him; _have put...
CHRIST'S; united to Christ by believing on him. ABRAHAM'S SEED; for the one seed of Abraham to whom the promise was made is Christ, verse Galatians 3:16. All, then, that are united to Christ by faith...
AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE. The apostle here completes his discussion as to the purpose of the Law by holding before the Galatians an example...
The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed:...
FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING (vs.1-9) "0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as Paul considers the principles and tremendous issues involved, that he speaks out...
26-29 Real Christians enjoy great privileges under the gospel; and are no longer accounted servants, but sons; not now kept at such a distance, and under such restraints as the Jews were. Having acce...
Lest these Galatians should be discouraged, because the promise was made to Abraham and his seed, and they were not the seed of Abraham; he tells them, if they were Christ s, that is, if they truly be...
And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise. [The promise was given to Christ, the seed of Abraham, and if ye are Christ's, then are ye in him heirs of that promise....
Galatians 3:29 And G1161 if G1487 you G5210 Christs G5547 then G686 are G2075 (G5748) Abrahams G11 seed...
‘And if you are Christ's then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.' The idea of being ‘clothed with Christ' and indwelt by Christ is now connected back with the promise given to Abr...
Galatians 3:29. AND IF YE ARE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED, HEIRS ACCORDING to premise. The final conclusion of this profound, comprehensive, varied, and terse reasoning, in proof of the asser...
_The Educational Mission of the Law_. Paul now assumes a milder tone, and reasons with the Galatians from the common dealings of men. Even a human covenant is sacred and cannot be set aside, much more...
IF YE ARE CHRIST'S (ε δε υμεις Χριστου). This is the test, not the accident of blood, pride of race or nation, habiliments or environment of dress or family, whether man or woman. Thus one comes to...
3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?_ These Galatians thought that...
CONTENTS: Gift of Spirit by faith apart from law-works. Man under law-works is under the law curse. Christ bears the law curse that we might have the faith blessing. The true intent of the law. CHARA...
Galatians 3:1. _Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you:_ εβασκανε, who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and sought by ingenious malice to draw you from the trut...
_For we are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus._ LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FRATERNITY “Liberty, equality, and fraternity,” is the three-fold watchword of the masses in modern society. The...
CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER S. Paul proceeds to prove by five reasons that we are justified not by the law, or the works of the law, but by Christ. I. The first proof is drawn (ver. 2) from e...
_If_ _ye be Christ's._ Ifyou are members of the Head, and are the mystical body of its Spirit, then, as Christ is, so are ye Abraham's seed, and hence inheritors of the righteousness promised to Abrah...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:26. YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD.—No longer children requiring a tutor, but sons emancipated and walking at liberty. Galatians 3:28. YE ARE ALL ONE IN C...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 3:1 O FOOLISH GALATIANS (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present behaviour, not any lack of intelligence on their part in general...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Galatians chapter three. Background: Paul the apostle had been in the area of Galatia. Galatia was a general area like a county or a state. It was not a city. There...
1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 3:23; 2 Corinthians 10:7;...
THE CROSS AND ITS OBJECTIVES Galatians 3:10; Galatians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible and spiritual study. Apart from Christ's Calvary work we have...
If ye are Christ's — That is, believers in him....
That is, "If ye be Christ's servants and subjects, then are ye the true seed of faithful Abraham, and heirs of the blessing, according to the promise made to him and to his seed." This our apostle ass...