Sermon Tone Analysis

We’re going to *continue* the teaching from the *book of Galatians*.

*I) *Let’s pick up with *GAL 3:15-16*

*A) *Here in *(V 15)* *Paul begins* an *analogy* (or a *comparison*) *between* the *Abrahamic Covenant* *and a legal agreement*.

*1) **Paul’s* *trying to make* the *Covenant God made with Abraham* *clear* *by bring it down to human terms*.

*(a) *So *he begins* *to compare it to a covenant* (or a *contract*) *drawn up between 2 individuals* on earth.

*2) **(Galatians 3:15)* From the *NIV* says, *“Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life.

Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.”*

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*(a) **What Paul’s saying* here *is* that *once a covenant* (*contract*) is *drawn up between 2 people* *and* *both* parties *agree* to it *and* “*Confirmed*” (which means “*Made valid*”) (today *signed*) *IT CANNOT BE CHANGED* without the agreement of both parties.

*3) *So what *Paul* is *saying* is that *this rule* also *applies to the Abrahamic Covenant*.

*B) *Let’s read *GAL 3:16* again.

*1) **The covenant was not made up between* the Lord *Jesus* Christ *and* *US*, but it was made *up between* *Abraham* *and* *Jesus*.

*(a) **We’re not mentioned here* and *if we were to stop here* *it would look like* *we were left out of the covenant*.

*(i) *But *thank God* the *Bible doesn’t end here*.

*2) *I’m getting *a little ahead of myself* here but look down to *GAL 3:27-29*

*3) **Abraham* was the *1st* *Jew*, *but what made Abraham a Jew*?

*(a) *The *answer* to that is *found in* *GAL 3:6*

*(b) *But *who are the heirs or descendants of Abraham*?

*(i) **GAL 3:7*

*C) **The true Jew* *is not a natural seed*, *but a spiritual seed*.

*1) **That’s not to put down the Jewish nation in any way*, *they are God’s chosen people*.

*2) **But in the spiritual sense* (*scripturally*) *the true seed of Abraham* *are those* *that have put there faith in* the Lord *Jesus* Christ.

*(a) *Turn with me to *2COR 5:17*

*(i) **Paul* is *talking about* *what* has *taken place* *on the inside* *of a person* that has *received* *Jesus* as *Lord and savior*.

*(ii) **You’re not brand new of the outside*.

You *still look* the *same* on the outside.

There *may be* a new *glow* *to you*, *but* you’re *still* the *same* on the *outside*.

*(b) **The change has taken place on the INSIDE*.

Your *spirit* is now *brand new*.

*(i) **Jesus said* *to the UNBELIEVING* in *(JOHN 8:44) **“Ye are of your father the Devil.”

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*(ii) **Their unbelief* *made them descendants of Satan*.

*(iii) **They took on the NATURE of their father*, which was *Satan*.

(*John* also *makes **reference* to the *children of the Devil* in *1JOHN 3:10)*

*3) **What was it that caused* *the miracle of a recreated spirit* *on the inside of you*?

*(a) **What was it that caused you to change from Satan being your father* *to God being your Father*?

*(b) **Faith in* the Lord *Jesus* Christ.

*(i) **No longer* *are we the descendants of Satan*, *now we are the descendants of God*, the *children of God*.

*4) **The Christian really has the best in 2 ways*.

*(a) **Because of our faith* *WE ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM*, *partakers of the Abrahamic Covenant* *and* the *Blessings of Abraham*.

*(i) **(Galatians 3:7)* From the *NIV* says, *“Understand, then, that those who believe (have faith) are children of Abraham.”

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*(b) **But the Bible also says* that *we are the CHILDREN OF GOD*, *which makes us* *HEIRS of GOD and JOINT HEIRS with the Lord Jesus Christ*.

*(i) **(Galatians 3:26)* Says, *“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”*

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*(ii) **So we are the seed of Abraham* *and* *the Children of God* *by faith*.

*D) **GAL 3:17-18*

*1) **Paul says* that *the LAW came 430 years after the promise was given to Abraham*.

*(a) **The law cannot disannul the promises of God* *making them of none affect*.

*(i) **Paul goes on to add* *in* *(V 18)* *that if the inheritance and the promises of God came by the Law*, *then why did God give the promise*.

*(ii) **But God did give the promise of the inheritance* *and* the *blessings to Abraham*.

*(b) **Then why did God give the Law*?

*2) **GAL 3:19-25*

*(a) **Why was the Law given*?

*To bring us to Christ*.

*(i) **The law revealed* to us *that before we had Jesus in our lives* *we are under sin* *and the penalty of sin is death*.

*(ROM 6:23) *

*(ii) **It also reveals that we need to be saved from* this *Law of SIN and DEATH*.

*AND IT POINTS US TO Jesus* *THE SAVIOR*.

*Galatians#8 Gal 3:15-3:25.docx*

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