Lesson 2910

(Lesson 2910)(12-18-19) Galatians 3:15-21
    “ 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. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 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 none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 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.”

   In today’s quote, Paul declared that the old law, which came four hundred and thirty years after God’s covenant with Abraham, was NOT put in place as the fulfillment of the promise to provide a means of eternal salvation for the lineage of Abraham, but rather the law was imposed as the means by which the sins of the Jews would be exposed.
    Just as it concerns every human being today, the Jews of old were not capable of obeying ANY established set of rules to avoid sin; Therefore, Jesus was sent, as God had promised Abraham, to live the perfect life so as to fulfill the entirety of the old law so that through faith in that same Jesus, we, both Jews and Gentiles, are no longer responsible for our sins and indeed live with the promise of everlasting life.~