Verse 18. _FOR IF THE INHERITANCE_ BE _OF THE LAW_] See the preceding arguments, in which this is proved....
FOR IF THE INHERITANCE - The inheritance promised to Abraham. The sum of the promise was, that “he should be the heir of the world;” see Romans 4:13, and the note at that verse. To that heirship or in...
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...
The promise having once been given, no subsequent enactment like the Law can interfere with it. (Similarly Heb. emphasizes the priority in time of Melchizedek to Aaron.) Even in human affairs, a scrap...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
Brothers, I can use only a human analogy. Here is the parallel when a covenant is duly ratified, even if it is only a man's covenant, no one annuls it or adds additional clauses to it. Now the promise...
NO MORE. Gr _ouketi_, no longer. GAVE. has granted. Greek. _charizomai_. App-184. BY. Greek. _dia_. App-104.Galatians 3:1....
The Gospel a Covenant of Promise (15 18); to which the Law was at once subordinate and preparatory (Galatians 3:19-29) 15 18. The Gospel a covenant of Promise The Apostle proceeds to shew the _certa...
The concluding words of the previous verse suggest the thought -Yes, the promise would be at once invalidated, if the inheritance were dependent on the law". _Law_and _promises, works_and _faith_, are...
15–18. _The relation of the promise to the Law; the latter cannot hinder the former_ “Having shown that faith is older than the Law, he teaches again that the Law cannot become a hindrance to the divi...
ΕἸ ΓᾺΡ ἘΚ ΝΌΜΟΥ κ.τ.λ. I say καταργ. τ. ἐπαγ. _for_ the Law and the promise are so fundamentally different in their nature that if the inheritance promised in the διαθήκη after all springs from the La...
B. SUPERIORITY OF THE GOSPEL TO THE LAW. Galatians 3:15-29 1. Illustrated and proved by the covenant with Abraham. Galatians 3:15-18 TEXT 3:15-18 (15) Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Th...
_ VERSE 18. FOR IF THE INHERITANCE BE OF THE LAW, IT IS NO MORE OF PROMISE._ In Romans 4:14, the Apostle writes: "For if they which are made of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise ma...
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. THE INHERITANCE - all the blessings inherited by Abraham's spiritual children, according to th...
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...
THE INHERITANCE] the blessings promised to Abraham, here understood in the sense of the spiritual blessing of salvation through Christ. OF THE LAW.. OF PROMISE] two contrasted dispensations; salvation...
The false teachers said that the Christians in Galatia needed to obey the *Jewish laws. But God’s blessing does not come as people obey the laws. (‘God’s blessing’ means the good things that God gives...
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...
(15-18) To take an illustration from purely human relations. A covenant once ratified is binding. It cannot be treated as if it did not exist, neither can fresh clauses be added to it. Now the covenan...
The fulfilment of the promise is unaffected by the Law. For it is not dependent upon the Law, or upon the Law and the promise combined (the Law _modifying_ the promise), but upon the promise alone. Th...
CHAPTER 13 THE COVENANT OF PROMISE. Galatians 3:15 GENTILE Christians, Paul has shown, are already sons of Abraham. Their faith proves their descent from the father of the faithful. The redemption o...
The inviolate sanctity of God's earlier covenant in presence of the subsequent promulgation of the Law is here affirmed in virtue of the principle established in Galatians 3:15. Had the inheritance be...
GOD'S WORD WAS PLIGHTED TO ABRAHAM THAT HE WOULD BESTOW THE INHERITANCE ON HIS SEED (NOT ON ALL HIS DESCENDANTS, BUT ON ONE PARTICULAR SEED), AND COULD NOT THEREFORE BE SET ASIDE BY SUBSEQUENT STIPULA...
INHERITORS OF THE PROMISE Galatians 3:11 We are not under ceremonial law, as contained in the precepts of Leviticus. Our Savior has perfectly fulfilled them on the behalf of the Jewish people, whom H...
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...
(21) For if the (n) inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise. (21) An objection: we grant that the promise was not cancelled by the covenant of...
(15) Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. (16) Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises ma...
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...
18._If the inheritance be of the law_. His opponents might still reply, that nothing was farther from their intention than to weaken or disannul God’s covenant. To deprive them of every kind of subter...
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 THE INHERITANCE BE OF THE LAW,.... By the inheritance is meant, either the eternal inheritance, everlasting life and happiness in heaven, which is the gift of God through Christ, and not attain...
For if the inheritance _be_ of the law, _it is_ no more of promise: but God gave _it_ to Abraham by promise. Ver. 18. _Gave it to Abraham_] Gr. κεχαρισται, freely gave it. What is more free than a gi...
Gal. 3:17, 18. "And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of...
_And this I say_ What I mean by the foregoing example of human covenants is this; _The covenant that was confirmed before of God _ By the promise itself, by the repetition of it, and by a solemn oath,...
THE INHERITANCE; of the spiritual blessings promised to Abraham and his seed. BY PROMISE; that the blessing should come, through Christ, to all who believe on him. As this promise was made and ratifi...
FOR IF THE INHERITANCE BE OF THE LAW, IT IS NO MORE OF PROMISE; BUT GOD GAVE IT TO ABRAHAM BY PROMISE. The apostle here offers the mystery of God in a human parable, incidentally addressing the Galati...
Paul argues finally from the promise of the inheritance made to Abraham:...
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...
The promise was not part of law. It was before the law. It was for all who have the faith of Abraham. Why did God give the law? 1.It was ADDED to existing law 2.Because of sin in Israel 3.To bring...
15-18 The covenant God made with Abraham, was not done away by the giving the law to Moses. The covenant was made with Abraham and his Seed. It is still in force; Christ abideth for ever in his perso...
IF THE INHERITANCE of the heavenly Canaan, typified by the earthly Canaan, the promise of which was made to Abraham, _be_ to be obtained _by the_ fulfilling of the _law, _ and yielding obedience to it...
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise. [Brethren, I wish to use an illustration taken from our daily business life, viz.: that o...
Galatians 3:18 For G1063 if G1487 inheritance G2817 of G1537 law G3551 longer G3765 of G1537 promise G1860 but...
‘For if the inheritance is of the Law, it is no more of promise. But God has granted it to Abraham by promise.' The later inheritance, to be obtained by fulfilment of the Law, was dependent on fulfill...
Galatians 3:18. If ‘the inheritance,' _i.e._, all the temporal and spiritual blessings promised to Abraham and culminating in the Christian salvation (comp. the word ‘inheritance,' Matthew 5:5; Acts 2...
_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...
THE INHERITANCE (η κληρονομια). Old word from κληρονομος, heir (κλερος, lot, νεμομα, to distribute). See on Matthew 21:38; Acts 7:5. This came to Israel by the promise to Abraham, not by the Mosaic...
Galatians 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? This only would I lea...
Paul, writing, to those changeable Galatians, who had so soon deserted the faith, says to them in this chapter Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,_ Paul writes as if they had come under some kind of witchcraft, and been deluded by it. This seemed to astonish the apostle, so he cries o...
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 IF. "If you earn it, it is not a free gift! If it is through The Law, it cannot be through God's promise!" HOWEVER. Abraham proves the point! See Galatians 3:9....
_For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise._ LAW AND PROMISE I. The law was restricted and conditional--“added because of transgression”: the promise was absolute and unconditio...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:15 A covenant or a will cannot be changed. The promises made TO ABRAHAM AND TO HIS OFFSPRING were not changed when God gave Moses the law....
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 the inheritance be of the law._ If our heritage of righteousness be of the law of Moses, then it is not of the promise. But this is false, for God promised this righteousness to Abraham and to his...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:17. THE COVENANT, THAT WAS CONFIRMED BEFORE OF GOD IN CHRIST, THE LAW CANNOT DISANNUL.—From the recognised inviolability of a human covenant (Galatians 3:1...
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...
Galatians 2:21; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:12; Galatians 3:16;...
In the analogy of verse 15 there was contemplated the double possibility of invalidation or addition. With relation to God's promise, the Judaisers insisted on addition; since, while they preached fai...
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...
And again — This is a new argument. The former was drawn from the time, this from the nature, of the transaction. If the eternal inheritance be obtained by keeping the law, it is no more by virtue of...