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INTRO - In state convention Monday morning, the pastor’s conference, Johny Hunt shared that every message should point to the cross.
Pastor Hunt is a great preacher and I figure it’s always a good idea for me to listen to his preaching.
He made an important observation, many people have lost confidence in the gospel.
I thought, “How is this?” and, “Might this explain why hardly anyone ever asked a lost person to sit down with them and enjoy the most basic thing?
Join us for dinner?”
I don’t know about you, but I eat everyday and I was convicted that I’m missing one of the easiest ways to share the gospel.
I took note of the fact, it was clear, I can have a great testimony, but unless I share that story with a lost person, I fail Christ.
What God did in Jesus was the most amazing act of intervention, the most fantastic interaction, the finest involvement among human kind.
What is more is that what God did in Christ was done in person.
In the same way God did something, it is His will that we, too, do something.
If the blessing of God’s-giving Good News is to make it’s way into the world, we must do what God says.
Jesus’ mission was so important to our salvation.
Part of working out your salvation, your orders from heaven, is to share Christ with others.
Something happens when we attempt to share.
It’s the same old problem.
That problem is sin.
Sin gets in the way of God’s blessing.
The first sin, the sin of Adam and Eve, resulted in God cursing the creation.
It happened again among the people of Isreal, and these were the people of God!
Last week we discussed how the people who had the blessing failed and they too came under a curse; the curse of the Law.
The law prevents the blessing, but Jesus took that problem away at the cross.
The cross removed the curse of the Law and today the blessing can flow, does flow through Christ Jesus.
Through the cross, God made a way for His blessings to flow to all people, every nation, in any language, for any tribe or race, and for you and me.
God sent Jesus, who came obediently, so blessings could flow.
Blessings were Blocked — 3:10-12
In Galatians 3:6-9 we note God’s blessings go to those who live with the faith like Abraham, the man of faith.
The Bible teaches the blessing of Abraham was in the mind of God from the beginning.
Recall what we read in Genesis:
The Bible, however, does not go from Genesis to the Great Commission we read about in Mt 28.
The Bible has much to tell us in between these two events; namely a lot about the people Isreal.
Chapters on top of Chapters relate the story of the people of Isreal’ the people who were the offspring of Abraham.
The story of the OT is a bit sad while at the same time on of God’s grace and redemption.
It tells the story of sin and rebellion that led to the curse of the Law:
Paul builds on the idea of the curse demonstrating the Law does not justify and is not faith!
If the Law is not the way to blessing nor the path to justification, then what is it?
We know the answer.
We get blessed and are justified by living a life of faith.
Habakkuk got it:
Like Abraham, the righteous life by faith.
Get this, Paul uses the OT to teach the truth of what the Bible tells us about the Law and the true way to God’s blessing.
Paul tells us Law is not faith.
If Isreal could keep the Law, well then sure it will bless:
But that is the point, nobody can keep the Law!
Isreal didn’t keep the Law and got the curse, that is death through the Law, which landed her out of the promised land, scattered among the nations.
The point of these three verses is Isreal is cursed because of the Law and so is everyone who thinks they can depend on the works of the Law.
This should warn all of us, as Paul is reminding the Galatians, the Law is the pathway to the blessing or life.
Now here this, nobody could fulfill the Law.
The way of the Law could not give life:
This is why we need God’s grace.
The Law makes sin obvious and ends up killing people.
People have attempted all kinds of ways to get out of reckoning with sin.
Moral reform, alining with good causes, even joining a church.
But, the only way to Jesus is by faith and when broken and repenting.
We must come seeking mercy and in need of God’s grace.
Unless we come to Jesus this way, we fool ourselves thinking one might keep the Law’s demand and live by them.
TRANS - Blocked from the blessing, but there is a way.
That brings us to our next point.
Blessings are Bought — 3:13
Caught in a cave with no way out, in prison without chance for parole, trapped under the sea with no air to come up.
These all sound like illustrations for a life without God’s grace.
Their is no way aside divine intervention.
Isreal was like that; not a chance to get right with God.
They were trapped by the Law, scattered among the nations, with only hope God might make for them a way.
The Jewish people waited on a Savior.
The prayed and sang “Oh come, oh come Immanuel.”
And God did send His Messiah as we will see later in this letter:
Paul clearly tells us in v.13 that “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law.”
This is a great verse.
Is does not say He attempted to buy us from the curse of the Law, nor that He made it possible for us to be purchased from the curse of the Law.
Paul clearly says Jesus did what He wanted to and did buy his people; He Himself redeemed His people from the curse of the Law.
He set out to do it and did it!
But just how did Jesus buy His people?
He did it in the most unthinkable, nearly unbearable, way.
Jesus became a curse for us.
For a Jew, for pious, person, this is a terrible thought, blasphemous perhaps.
Jesus was nailed to the tree, the cross and the Law is clear; cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree:
Jesus, our sinless Savior, became sin and for what reason?:
How amazing, how wonderful, what a twist to this, the story told to us through God’s own word, the Bible.
TRANS - Barred from the blessing no more.
Blessings no longer blocked because Christ Jesus bought back all that stood between you and His blessing.
When life is tough and you feel as if it is turning in upon you, when you imagine yourself cursed, run to Jesus, run to the cross and find the curse is truly handled by Jesus at that tree.
That is, today the blessings are available bringing us to our final point before we conclude.
Blessings Now Abound — 3:14
Jesus lifted on the cross and with that, the Law too, is lifted.
What was blocked, now abounds because of the cross.
God’s blessings now flow.
This is what Paul is communicating.
In Jesus the blessing of Abraham now abounds to Isreal and to the Gentiles.
Now that God’s blessing flows, Isreal, and this extends to us today, have the mission to teach the world the story of the Bible.
God’s plan for every NT believer is “be my witness”:
We have the message of reconciliation.
As people turn from sin to trusting in Jesus, they are forgiven and reconciled before God.
As a result, the blessing of God is extended to every nation.
Paul’s unique situation requires him to explain how the death of Jesus opens up a way for the nation of Isreal; the promise of abounding blessing to the remnant Jews comes only by way of the cross.
As Isreal takes hold of Jesus as their promised Messiah by faith, they are renewed by His Spirit.
Christ’s work at the cross overcomes the blessing blocked by the curse of the Law.
Through the cross, by the HS, God pours out His Spirit on Isreal as they respond to Him in faith.
The prophets foretold this time of abounding blessing.
God restores the people by taking away sin and sending the HS.
God pours out His Spirit at Pentecost.
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