 Amen. Galatians chapter 3. So I think I could preach this sermon 10 times and I think I would get better at it every single time and I would be better at explaining it probably the 10th time. So I'm going to try it tonight. I mean, I just can't spend, you know, 20 days on a sermon. But you could probably spend 20 days on this sermon. Just to try to explain it, to try to explain it in a way that does the chapter justice is a challenge. But I'm going to try to do that this evening. So the Galatians, what is, what's going on here? So Paul is writing to the Galatians. The Galatians are a Gentile nation. Galatia is, you know, somewhere up by Turkey somewhere. It's, you know, it's not, they're not Jews. Okay? They're not Jews. They are Galatians that Paul has preached the gospel to in the past. And then he has found out someone has come into their church or people or a person or whatever and has been preaching a perverted gospel, has been preaching a gospel of, of course, works. Right? I mean, what do we see of all the perversions of the gospel that we see today is the same. So it's all just different twists of works. That's what's happening here. That's why Galatians is such a great book for us because we're going to deal with the same exact things that Paul is explaining away here. You know, and Paul, the nice thing about Galatians chapter 3 and the beauty of Paul is, you know, he could have just said, you know, it's not of works, you know? John 3.16, John 3.36. You could have just, just read off a few Bible verses, but oh no. Oh no. Paul, he goes into this in-depth explanation using, you know, the gospel of the Old Testament and tying it all together with the gospel that he preached to them. And, you know, he's trying to, look, what is he doing? He's persuading them. He's trying to persuade them through the Word of God and through his knowledge of the Word of God. Look at Galatians chapter 3 and verse number 1. Let's step through this. The Bible says, oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath evidently set forth, crucified among you. This only would I learn of you received ye the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. So he goes right into this explanation against works-based salvation, against a gospel of works, so to speak. And he says, look, how did you receive the spirit? He's like, basically he's saying, how did you get saved in the first place? We know we received the spirit, you're sealed by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians chapter 1, when you get saved, he's like, how did you receive the spirit? He's like, did you receive it through the law or did you receive it through faith? He's like, he knows that these people, at least, you know, most of them, the original ones or whatever, he knows they're saved. So he's like, how did you receive the spirit in the first place? He's like, did you get saved through the law or did you get saved through faith? He starts there. Look at verse number 3. Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain? So he's saying, look, are you, you know, you are saved by grace through faith, not by the law. You know, it's not of works. He's like, are you made perfect now? You're going to continue now? Now that you're saved, you're going to start believing in works to make yourself perfect? You're going to change your doctrine now that you're saved? He's like, what's going on? And then he says, he's like, you've suffered so many things. You know, I think about, you know, Christians today or Christians today or churches today, even around the world or whatever, think about all the false Christians today around the world that are persecuted. Look, they're persecuted in vain. They're persecuted in vain because they're not even believing the right gospel. I mean, it's, you know, all you're persecuted, you're giving up everything, you're giving up your life, you're suffering, all for false teaching is what Paul is saying here. Okay, I mean, so many people do that today. Look at Galatians chapter 3 verse 5. He therefore that ministereth to you the spirit and worketh miracles among you, do he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? He said once again, somebody that came out and preached the gospel of the spirit to you, the gospel of faith to you, he's like, he does it, he didn't do that by the law, he did it by faith. Even as Abraham, now we really get into it in verse 6, even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Let me just read a few more verses and then we'll go back to this. No ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Now he could have just left it at these two verses right here. He said Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. So he said, you know, Abraham was saved through belief, that's what he just said. Okay, and then he said, those that believe, you know, they that have that same faith are children of Abraham. Let's go to Galatians chapter 4. I mean that could pretty much wrap it up right there. But no, he's going to just open this thing up and just tie it all together and dig right into it. Look at verse number 8. In the scripture for seeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed. So I want you to underline the gospel unto Abraham. So what Paul is saying here is that Abraham had the gospel preached unto him. That's what the Bible is saying here. Now look, what is the gospel of Abraham? Is it the same gospel? Is it a different gospel? Turn to Genesis chapter 15. Turn to Genesis chapter 15. And let's look at, you know, what happened here. Okay, let's look at the gospel of Abraham in Genesis chapter 15. Look at verse number 1. How is Abraham saved? We've got to start there. Look at Genesis 15 verse 1. The Bible says after these things the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision saying, Abram, I'm sorry, in a vision saying, fear not Abram, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord God, what would thou give me seeing I go childless? He had no children at this point. And the steward of my house is the lizer of Damascus. And Abram said, behold to me thou hast given me, given no seed and lo, one born in my house is mine heir. He's saying like a servant is going to be the heir to my house. He's going to inherit everything because I have no children. And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him saying, this shall not be thine heir. But he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thine heir. He's like, you know, you're going to have a child of your own flesh, of your own body. And he says, and he brought him forth abroad and said, look now toward heaven and tell the stars that thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness. Look what it says there. It says, and he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness. So Abraham, his faith in the Lord is what, you know, God looked at him as righteousness. Now I'm going to show you, you know, what that gospel unto Abraham actually was as we get a little bit further into this. This is how Abraham was saved just to wrap it up right here. I mean, just to say how was Abraham saved is because he believed in the Lord. Okay, it's just he saved the same way you're saved by belief in the Lord, by trusting in the Lord. Go back to Galatians chapter 3 and look at verse number 8 of Galatians chapter 3. Look at verse number 8 of Galatians chapter 3. The Bible says, And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying, And thee shall all nations be blessed. So here the Bible is saying that all nations, all nations of the world are going to be blessed through Abraham. How is that possible? How is that possible? Look at Galatians chapter 3 in verse number 9. So we've looked at the gospel of Abraham. We're going to look at that a little deeper in a few minutes. But now I want to talk about the blessings of Abraham. How are these nations blessed through Abraham? Look at Galatians chapter 3 in verse number 9. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many are of the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone that continue with not in all things which are written in the book of the law that do them. This is referencing Deuteronomy chapter 27. It's like cursed is everyone that doesn't follow all the law. So look, everyone before they are saved is cursed in this way. Everyone. Because no one follows all the law. For all have sinned and come short all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Verse 11, But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident. He's like it's obvious. It's obvious that no one has kept the whole law. You'll see that as you go out soul winning. That is a universal, almost universal. Unless you find some real wackos out there which you will. But most people know that they have broken the law. That they have broken God's law that they are a sinner. That's usually a pretty easy one to get past with people. It's evident. For the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith. But the man that do with them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. Verse 13, Being made a curse for us. For it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. This is referencing Deuteronomy chapter 21. Saying someone that is hung is not to be left there overnight. It's a curse to be hung. It's a curse to be killed in that fashion. To be hung from a tree. To be hung from a cross like Jesus was. That was a curse. To do that. He was a curse for doing when that happened to him. And that was the whole point. He was a curse for us. Look at verse 14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. That we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. Underline that word promise. Brethren, I speak after the manner of man, though it be but a man's covenant. Yet if it be confirmed, no man disannoleth, or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed, where the promise is made, and he sayeth not, and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. Now turn to Genesis chapter 22. You're like, what? Turn to Genesis chapter 22. So he's talking about the law. It can't make you perfect. You know, the law can't make you perfect. You cannot be justified by the law in the sight of God. That's obvious. He says, that's obvious. You know that. Now he's saying the blessing of Abraham is going to come on the Gentiles. You say, what is the blessing of Abraham? Turn to Genesis chapter 22. We know the gospel. We know the gospel of Abraham. He believed in the Lord. He trusted in the Lord. And it was counted to him for righteousness, just like you trusted in the Lord. And that was counted to you for righteousness because you can't be, as we just read in these few verses, you can't be. Look, it's impossible for you to be justified in the sight of God, because that's the only sight that matters, folks. You might think you're pretty good. That's the problem with everybody out there. Everybody out there, they're like, oh, you know, you just got to live a good life and all this stuff. And you know what, they're probably pretty nice people. Maybe some of those are pretty nice people. But it doesn't matter. It's not their sight. It's not our sight. It's the sight of God. It's impossible. It's impossible. So let's look at the blessings. It says that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. You say, how is the blessing of Abraham? What does that have to do with Jesus Christ? This was Abraham. Look at Genesis 22. Look at verse 1. First of all, we got to read a little bit of context here. This is when God tested Abraham. And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham. Tempt just means test. It doesn't mean like he tempted him to sin or something. God will never tempt you to sin. This is just another word. It's a synonym for he's going to put Abraham through a test here. And look, Abraham didn't have a son. Now he has a son. God fulfilled that promise. And Abraham now has a son, Isaac. It's his only son. It's his only son with his wife. And he said unto him, Abraham, and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and claved the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place which God had told him. Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together. And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father and said, My father, he said, Here I am, son. And he said, Behold, the fire in the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? So Isaac is obviously old enough here to understand that they're missing something. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together. Now look, many times, and we're going to start to see this, many times the New Testament helps us understand the full meaning of the Old Testament, where a normal person like myself or yourself could not just read the Old Testament without the New Testament here and understand the full meaning of it. We might get, you know, partial meaning of it, but now we get some real deep, full meaning of the New Testament here, or the Old Testament. Look at Genesis 22 verse 15. Now he's up there, he's about to carry out this test that God has given him to sacrifice his only son. And there's no indication here, by the way, that Abraham had any doubts or questioned God when he was going to do this, you know, seemingly extreme thing for the Lord. Look at verse 15. More evidence, by the way, that Abraham believed the Lord. More evidence that Abraham, you say, believed the Lord in what? Well, everything, obviously. He trusted God in everything here. Look at Genesis 22, 15. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven a second time and said, By myself have I sworn, say, at the Lord, for because thou hath done this thing and hath not withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. Underline his there. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice. This is showing the deeper meaning of the promise made to Abraham right here. Go back to Galatians 9. Keep your place in Genesis 22. So the Bible says, So they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. So, I mean, look, did Abraham have many descendants? Yes, he did. Did he have many descendants? Yes, he did. All nations, but all nations are blessed through the seed of Abraham. Look, that only makes sense if that seed is Christ. So that is what Galatians 3 is telling us here, is that that seed, that true meaning of what that seed of Abraham is and how those blessings are carried through to the Gentiles, that, and look, Abraham knew this here. That's what the Bible says in Galatians 3 when it says the gospel is preached unto Abraham. It says that your seed, you know, this Messiah, this Messiah, this seed will bless all the nations of the earth. Look, you can't even say that that makes sense if you're talking about just a physical descendants of Abraham. I mean, you can't say that, you know, I mean, the Israelites in the Old Testament had a hard time, you know, getting blessings on themselves, much less blessing other nations. The only way that this makes sense, and of course Galatians 3 explains it to us, is that, you know, they were blessed through the Messiah. They were blessed through Christ. How are they blessed through Christ? They were blessed through the same way that Abraham was saved. They were blessed through getting what? Getting righteousness. How did they get it? Same way Abraham got it. Through belief. Through trusting the Lord. Verse 9. So then they which be of faith are blessed. It says they which be of faith, not they which follow the law, or they which do good works or whatever. It says they are blessed with faithful Abraham. That is the gospel that was preached unto Abraham that he believed and that is what was counted to him for righteousness. I mean, he had many descendants, yes, but this is the meaning. This is the seed. The seed is Christ. This was the promise. The promise to Abraham right here. There were many promises given to Abraham. There's covenants, you know, given to Abraham. And look, turn to Genesis 17. There's a covenant that was made with Abraham. There was a covenant, a deal, made with Abraham. Look at Genesis 17. Let's look at another one. But this one idea, this one promise made to Abraham that this seed would be Christ and that all nations of the earth, through belief in that Christ, through faith in that Christ, that is the gospel preached unto Abraham and that is how he will bless all nations of the earth. But let's just look at the covenant of Genesis 17. Look at verse number one. I don't know why people get so confused about this covenant. It's very simple. It's laid out several times in the Bible and it's just repeated. Every time they break it, it's repeated again and again and again in the Bible. And when Abraham was 90 years old and nine, the Lord appeared unto Abraham and said unto him, I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply thee exceedingly. We see another promise there. And Abraham fell on his face and talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name be any more called Abraham, but thy name shall be called Abraham. For a father of many nations, have I made thee. And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant, a deal between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. That has everlasting implications for Christ right there too. But it also has, you know, immediate, you know, just you're going to get this land right here. You know, it's a covenant. And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger and all the land of Canaan. This is a specific deal here. Okay, this is a specific deal for an everlasting possession. And, and means, here's the deal. And I will be their God. Look, the covenant here, the covenant with the land is very simple. He's like, you do this and I will do this. And if you keep reading Genesis chapter 17, it talks about, you know, circumcision and all these different things that they have to do. And if they don't do those things and he's not their God anymore, you know, that's it. You're done. No more land. You know, you're going to be thrown out. I mean, that's what Moses and Joshua and everybody taught the whole time. But look, it goes on to talk about, you know, breaking the covenant and being cut off from the people. Okay? But pretty much the entire Old Testament is about this covenant being breached. And we see what happens when it's breached. And look, it wasn't breached by God. As a matter of fact, God constantly, I mean, we just got through the book of Judges. God is constantly trying to fix the breaches of this covenant. But it was a deal between God and man with this land thing. But look, go back to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3 is just talking about a promise here. It's not talking about, you know, the land covenant. Okay? God is saying, I will do this. He's saying, I will do this. He promised Abraham this. It's kind of like the promise of Sarah, you will have a son. He just told her that. So we see that the greatest promise given to Abraham, look at verse 17. Look at, you know, this is what Paul, I'm sorry, in Genesis chapter 22, in verse 17, let me read it again for you. This is what Paul is talking about in Galatians chapter 3, 16, right here. He says that in blessing, I will bless thee. In multiplying, I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and the sand which is upon the seashore. And thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice. This can only be talking about Christ. It is the only way that this fits, this makes sense. Christ is the seed. And the promise of all the nations of the earth being blessed and this seed being Christ. Look, all the nations of the earth being blessed. This is why Paul is bringing it up because like including the Galatians, including who he's talking to, he's like, look, it's you. This is why you need the New Testament and the Old Testament to complete God's perfect word. By the way, to explain his perfect plan because it all matches together perfectly. They are heirs of Abraham under this promise. But they're Gentiles. They would never think that they are heirs of Abraham. That's a Jewish thing. What are you talking about? He's like, no, through faith. And through the gospel preached unto Abraham which is the same gospel that was preached unto you, you are heirs of this same promise. It fits exactly. Turn to Matthew chapter 3. I mean, it fits exactly what Jesus taught too. Jesus was saying the same thing. I wonder how many people actually caught all the things that these people were saying, Jesus and Paul and all this when they were actually saying it. And they didn't have this Bible sitting in front of us like we have today. That's just what a blessing that it is that we can have God's complete word in front of us. Look at Matthew chapter 3 in verse number 9. Look what Jesus said. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our Father. He's talking to the Pharisees. They're like, oh, we're Abraham's children. They're all prideful because they're Jews basically is what he's saying. We have Abraham to our Father. Look, the Jews today shouldn't be all prideful that they're Jews either. Because why? Because for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Jesus is saying exactly what Paul is saying in Galatians chapter 3. He's like, children of Abraham are just anyone that has the faith in the same gospel that we're all preaching together here is what he says. Look at Romans chapter 2. Look at Romans chapter 2. We studied through the book of Romans and we saw this again and again and again. You know, Paul laying this out for the Romans. More Gentiles, right? The Romans are again Gentiles. The Bible says in Romans 2.28, for he is not a Jew which is one outwardly. Neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. Look, I don't understand why this is so misunderstood today. The Bible here is saying, but he is a Jew, verse 29, which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit. In the spirit means of faith, not of works. And not in the letter whose praise is not of man but of God. Not in the letter, a letter of the law. He's like spirit, letter of the law. It's opposites. He's saying that you're a Jew if you're one inwardly. Faith, that's how Jesus says I'm able to raise up children of Abraham like these stones. He's like it has nothing to do with who your father's father was. Nothing. It's about the belief that you have. That's what it is. Look, this is the deep dive doctrine that Jesus was teaching Paul in Arabia for three years. This is the stuff right here. Look, Paul knew the Old Testament. He knew the Old Testament. Jesus was simply putting it all together for him. Paul knew, he was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. He knew what the Old Testament said and Jesus was just putting the puzzle together for him and explaining how it has just all played out and this was always the plan from the beginning. That's what Jesus was explaining and what Paul is telling the Galatians. And then Jesus told Paul in Arabia he's like, look, this was the plan. It just played out. It was going to be the tool to deliver this message. I mean, Jesus was the nail. Paul was the hammer. Think of it that way. To drive this thing home. To get this message to what? To all nations. To all nations. Well, you say what? Yeah, it's gotten to all nations. For sure. So look, back to relating this all back to Galatians where we've been so far. Abraham's Gospel, number one. Abraham's Gospel was through faith. Abraham's Gospel that we just read about, the Gospel of Abraham was through faith. It's the same Gospel as yours. All nations are blessed through Abraham by that same faith. By the exact same faith. The means of this blessing was the seed of Abraham which was Christ. That's the means of the blessing. And anyone with that same faith is an heir of Abraham. That's what we've seen so far. Paul then continues. He says this plan. Look at Galatians chapter 3 in verse number 17. He says this plan for the salvation of all nations. Look at verse 17. And I say this. That the covenant that was confirmed before God in Christ, which was 430 years after, cannot dissonnel. So he's saying, he's saying right here, he's saying the covenant that was confirmed before God in Christ. He's like this promise that was made to Abraham through Christ he's like the law can't dissonnel it. He's like the law didn't even exist then. He's like the law wasn't even there. The law wasn't given for 430 more years. So how in the world if Abraham who had this promise of this seed of Christ to come from him to bless all nations through him, through the Messiah would come to him, how in the world would it suddenly go to the law and then back to Christ and then back. People believe that though. People believe that. He's like the law but they can't believe that because of this verse right here. Because it says the law which wasn't even there, I mean forget the fact that the law wasn't even there. It says the law can't dissonnel it. It says the law, I mean forget the fact that 430 years would pass before the law actually came to Moses. Forget that. It says the law can't dissonnel the promise. End of dispensationalism. Right there. That's it. It cannot dissonnel that it should make the promise correct. I mean what? It's not that complicated. It's like look, here's this great promise that God gave and then the law came 430 years later. So right away logically you're like okay well it's strange that the law wasn't even there and people believe that the law saved people in the Old Testament and the law wasn't even there at that point but even if you want to believe some weird grace works, grace works works, guy in the cross, grace everybody else works, backwards, forward I mean even if you want to believe that kind of hoop jumping weirdness you can't because of verse 17 here. Because the law can't dissonnel the promise given to Abraham. That's it. I mean how do we know that the law can't because the Bible just said so. So you have to like not the whole Bible has to be true. So you have to not believe certain parts of the Bible. The law can't dissonnel it. Because if it did what would happen? It would make the promise of none effect. It would make the promise worthless. So the promise of Christ came before the law was even given and it can't be cancelled by it. It's very simple. That's a great verse. That's a great verse, Galatians 3, 17. So look it's more proof by the way that salvation has always been the same. It's simple. There's not Old Testament God, New Testament God, Old Testament Salvation, New Testament Salvation Salvation is by works, grace period church period. It's all the same. It's all the same. I mean that's stuff. You'll have somebody explain that stuff to you and it's just really confusing. And they don't even understand it themselves. It's confusing. And here's the thing it's not in the Bible. So there you go. It's not in the Bible and Galatians 3, 17 just blows it away. So look and he just says it again in Galatians 3, 18. For if the inheritance be of the law it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise. Said it was a promise. And if it's of the law it's not by a promise. So it can't be cancelled 430 years later. Where for? So then we just kind of end that right there. Dispensationalism dead. Gospel the same the whole time. Now we go into verse 19. So now Aaron's like okay you got me. He's like what's the point of the law then? I mean it's pretty much worthless. It doesn't get you saved. I mean what's the point? Well he's going to explain that to you now. Look at verse 19. Where for then serve it the law? He's like what good is the law then? He's like I have destroyed the idea that the law has anything to do with you being saved. What good is 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. What in the world? They say that that's one of the most confusing verses in Galatians. But it's really not that confusing. So first of all he's like where is where then serve it the law? He's like what's the point of the law? The main point of this verse is this. Because of transgressions. That's the main point. The law was a management tool. The law was a management tool to get them to the point of Christ. That's what the law was for. It was a pragmatic device to keep the people in the land basically. And it didn't even work because the people were so bad. But the promise, like I said the promise of the land, that's what we looked at. That was always dependent on obedience to God. The law was simply a management tool. Now, what is this? And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Okay, let's look at this for a minute. First of all, it was the law was ordained by angels, let's put that, park that one for a second, in the hands of a mediator. In the hands of man. Most people would attribute this to Moses. Because God gave the law to Moses. God gave the law to the man, the mediator, his mediator that he gave the law to which was Moses in Exodus. Now look, turn to Acts chapter 7 and verse 53. And apparently, when God gave the law to Moses to that mediator apparently there was angels involved. You say, how do I know that? Well, I don't know because the Bible says so. You say, well, I read Exodus and it doesn't say where are the angels and what they're doing. They're somewhere. In some process, they were there. Look at Acts chapter 7. Look at verse look at verse 52. The Bible says, which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted and have they slain and showed before the coming of the just one of whom you have now been betrayers and murderers. Talking about the prophets, the Old Testament prophets who received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it. There it is. There's angels in there somewhere. There was angels. Look, you know what angels are? Turn to Hebrews chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2. We'll just read one more and then I'll just explain it to you. Look at Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 2. Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 2. Again, talking about the law and receiving the law for if the word spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? So here, once again, seeing that the angels are involved in the giving of the law to Moses somehow. You know what angels are? They're God's messengers. You know how many times it will say that an angel is speaking? You know what the angels are speaking? God's words. The angels are delivering not their words. They're delivering the words of God. That's the perfect sense that angels would be now do I have to come up with some weird doctrine that says, you know, there was four angels that walked on Moses' left side and the angels actually wrote on one of the tablets. You know, I mean, you don't have to get into all that weird stuff. I mean, the Bible doesn't even say, you know, they were involved in the process somehow. It doesn't make sense that, you know, if you know, there are angels everywhere around the prophets that they couldn't even see that God when he's on the mountain, given the law to Moses and the angels are with him there, I mean, why is that such a stretch? So, I mean, that's what the Bible says, that's what happened. Alright, so look, the point is, I mean, that explains that verse. I mean, a lot of people just read that and they're just like, what is that about? But it basically just says that it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. So, it's talking about the law. The law was, you know, ordained. It was a management tool and it was given to a mediator, a man, and it was ordained by angels. It was God helped, was helped by angels to give it to man. And, you know, Moses was the main man that, you know, received the law at the beginning, okay? So, look, this was, the point is, it was a management tool and this was a two-way agreement. We already looked at that. You do this, you stay in the land, okay? However, the promise to Abraham and his seed was a one-way promise. It was just a one-way promise. Now, this is what I really want you to understand here. Galatians chapter 319 is explaining the purpose of the law and how the law was given through this mediator that was a man, that was Moses. Now, look at Galatians chapter 3 and verse 20. Now, a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. So, the point is, is that when taken with Galatians chapter 319 and verse 20, let me read them both, 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, now, a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. So, here is what he's saying is a better deal. Turn to Hebrews chapter 8. Turn to Hebrews chapter 8. So, you're saying a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one, but God is one. Go to Hebrews chapter 8 and verse number 6. The law was a management tool to keep the people. The promise is better. The promise is better. Now, look at Hebrews chapter 8 and verse number 6. The entire book of Hebrews is how Christ is the better deal. Christ is the better sacrifice. Christ is the better priest. There was all these things that were a picture of things to come in the Old Testament. The sacrifices, the blood of bulls and goats, the priests that would do the work of the sacrifices, but Christ is better than all that. He's a better sacrifice. He's a better priest. Look at Hebrews chapter 8 and verse number 6, but now he has obtained a more excellent ministry by how much more is he the mediator of a better covenant? It's a better deal and he's a better mediator. It's what he's saying. He's like, it's a better deal which was established upon what? Better promises. Look, Christ is the mediator. Moses was given the law. It was a management tool. We're going to watch these people together and get them to Christ, basically. But Christ is the mediator. He's the mediator and there will never be another one needed and this is once again, it's the promise. It's the promise. God handles this covenant. A covenant is usually between two people, right? A covenant is between two people, but here's why it's a better deal and it's a better promise. You've got God and the nation of Israel, right? You do this and I'll do this. I'm your God and you can stay in the land. It's two parties here, but here's the beauty of this covenant. God is one. God is both parties. God made the promise and God the Son fulfilled it. That's the beauty of Galatians chapter 3, 18 and 19 is, yeah, there's a covenant, but here's a better one. And there's a mediator, but here's the better one. God is one. God did both sides of it. He made the promise. God the Father made the promise and God the Son fulfilled it. That is the beauty of what Paul, I mean you understand what he's doing in Arabia for three years now? It makes sense, right? God is explaining this deep doctrine to Paul. Look at Galatians 3, 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? Again, he says look, okay, I believe you, this is the best promise. God forbid, he says, for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteousness could have been by the law. Look, he's saying is the law against the promise of God? He's like, no, God forbid, the law couldn't give life. The law couldn't give righteousness. The law, look, the law can't make you perfect is what he just said. And it makes sense if you're a logical thinking person and you realize that you're a sinner and you realize that you sin. Look, the law can't make you perfect. Can the law, can you get better at keeping the law? Yes. Could you ever fix that you never that you messed up the law in the past? No. The law can't take away the fact that you've already broken it. You know, it's, you know, verse 22 but the Scripture have concluded all under sin that by the promise that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that belief. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. He's like, look before you believed you were kept under the law. Turn to John 3. Turn to John 3 36. Before you believed, before faith came, before faith came to you, you were under the law. You were under the law and you were shut up to that which afterwards you were not shut up to. Look at John 3. He that believeth on the Son, hath ever lasting life. You know, put that aside for a minute and look at the part that you never look at. And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God comes on him. No, it says the wrath of God abideth on him. Look, folks, it didn't come upon you. The wrath of God to those that didn't believe, it didn't come upon them. It was already there. The wrath of God is upon those now. It's presently there upon those that don't believe. That's what Paul is saying when he says that, you know, you were kept under the law before faith came. Before faith came. Before you got saved, you were under God's wrath. You were under the law. And guess what? Righteousness cannot come by the law. So before you believed, before you got saved, you were in trouble. So if you ever had that feeling, like, you know, man, I got saved, like, whew. That was close. You're right to have that feeling. Because if you got saved, especially later in life, I mean, anyone could really say this, but especially later in life, I mean, look, you had the wrath of God on you. You were walking around. I mean, think about how scary that is. You're all saved here tonight. But think about how scary that is. You were walking around on this earth with the wrath of God abiding on you before faith came. Before you got saved. It's scary. And it should be. But that's what the Bible says. Look at Galatians 3 24. Wherefore? Now he goes into even more detail of the use of the law. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. Look, it shows us that scary situation of that wrath abiding on us. That's what the law shows us. The law shows us our guilt. It's our schoolmaster. It's our teacher to bring us to Christ. To bring us to that faith. Look, the law can't save you. But it can show you that you need to be saved. That's what the Bible is saying here. That we might be saved. That we might run to be justified by faith, it says. But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For you are all the children of God by faith. In Christ Jesus. Great verse there. For as many as you have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Well, you have to be baptized to be saved. Turn to Acts chapter 2. What just happened here? Look at Acts chapter 2. Look at Acts chapter 2 verse 38. If I had a million, you know, if I had a penny for every time, you know, somebody quoted this verse to me by saying you have to be baptized to be saved. But let's see what it says. Let's just actually read it. We get Acts chapter 2 and verse 38. And then Peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of the Christ, Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. So look, I mean, he says repent, which means what? I mean repent. It doesn't say repenting your sins. We know that. We're not going to get into that. Repent means turn from what you believe before and believe on Christ. So this person just in that one word repent saved. How do I know that? Because many places in the Bible, dozens and dozens and dozens of places in the Bible it just says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and now shall be saved. So those verses would all be true or would all be false if you had to be baptized as well. This verse could just as well say look, baptism is a good thing. Baptism is something you should do after you get saved. Baptism is a great ordinance in the Bible. It's a great, obedient thing to do once you get saved. But look, it could say repent and install carpet and you'll be saved because he that repents and puts away chairs will be saved. He that repents and changes the tire on his car will be saved. All those things are true because repenting, believing is what saves you. So that's why you'll have a couple verses that say that repent and be baptized, repent ye and be baptized. As long as you have all those verses out there that say believe on and you're saved that's what is necessary to be saved. It's a very short, logical test. Go back to Galatians chapter 3. Look at verse 28. Look at Galatians chapter 3 and verse 28. The Bible says there is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female. For you're all one in Christ Jesus. He's saying all these things of the flesh mean nothing as far as salvation goes. He says, you know you are all heirs in verse 29 and if you be Christ then he wraps it up again. Now instead of just saying those two verses back in verse number I don't have it open with me right now but let me go back there real quickly. Instead of just you know saying those two verses in verse number 9 and verse number 6 and 7 and just ending the chapter now he goes to that whole dispensation about the blessings of Abraham about the seed of Abraham about the gospel of Abraham then he ends it with pretty much the same statement saying if you be Christ then your Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Your Abraham's seed meaning you know in that case you're in air so seed has a double meaning but the gospel of Abraham was talking about the seed being Christ and the seed being the savior of the world and people that have faith on that that's how all nations are blessed. So in this case he's saying look you want to be Abraham's seed you have faith in Christ and then your heirs according to the promise. There's a lot of promises but this is the promise given to Abraham that one that covenant that God covered both ends of that covenant that God made the promise God the Father and God the Son fulfilled. So look the gospel is the same what did we learn the gospel of Abraham is the same gospel that we have all nations are blessed through this faith through this faith that Abraham had that's through that seed the means of that blessing is the seed which is Christ anyone with that same faith is an heir is a seed of Abraham is an heir of Abraham the law required a mediator which was Moses but Christ is the better mediator Christ is the mediator he's the better priest he's the better sacrifice he's the better mediator of Hebrews right there so look this is a great a great chapter and it's just a great dispensation against works-based salvation using an explaining an explaining Abraham and the promises and the covenants that were given to him and it really shows you what Abraham understood and what Abraham believed when the Bible says that he believed God that he trusted in God he knew exactly what God was planning for him and he trusted in that and he was saved let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer