What does this phrase mean?<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the law, Shut up unto the faith which should afterwards <\/u>be revealed\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Gal 3:23\u00a0 But\u00a0before faith came<\/u><\/strong>,\u00a0we were kept\u00a0under the law<\/u><\/strong>, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe faith which should afterwards be revealed\u201d is not your faith or my faith. It is \u201cthe faith of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n Gal 2:16\u00a0 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by\u00a0the faith\u00a0of<\/u> Christ<\/strong>, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.<\/p>\n Php 3:9\u00a0 And be found in him, not having\u00a0mine own righteousness<\/u>, which is of the law<\/strong>, but that which is through\u00a0the faith\u00a0of<\/u> Christ<\/strong>, the righteousness which is of God by faith:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let\u2019s examine the context of these scriptures and see if we can grasp what Paul means by this oft-used phrase \u201cunder the law.\u201d This phrase \u201cunder the law\u201d appears twelve times in the New Testament. Obviously this is a very important phrase for us to understand properly:<\/p>\n Rom 3:19\u00a0 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are\u00a0under the law<\/strong>: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.<\/p>\n Rom 6:14\u00a0 For sin shall\u00a0not<\/u>\u00a0have\u00a0dominion<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0over you:\u00a0for ye are\u00a0not under the law<\/u><\/strong>, but under grace. 1Co 9:20\u00a0 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are\u00a0under the law<\/strong>, as\u00a0under the law<\/strong>, that I might gain them that are\u00a0under the law<\/strong>; Gal 3:23\u00a0 But before faith came, we were kept\u00a0under the law<\/strong>, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.<\/p>\n Gal 4:4\u00a0 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman,\u00a0made under the law<\/strong>, Gal 4:21\u00a0 Tell me, ye that desire to be\u00a0under the law<\/strong>, do ye not hear the law?<\/p>\n Gal 5:18\u00a0 But if ye be led of the Spirit,\u00a0ye are not under the law<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Galatians 3 begins with Paul rebuking the Galatians:<\/p>\n Gal 3:1\u00a0 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth<\/u><\/strong>, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Maybe you didn\u2019t catch that. Paul considered the keeping of the law equivalent to \u201cnot obeying the truth.\u201d Redemption is for those who are \u201cunder the law\u201d (Gal 4:5).<\/p>\n What is \u201cthe Truth\u201d Paul refers to here? It certainly was not the law of Moses. The gospel of John tells us what we ourselves should understand about why Paul told these Galatians what their desire to be under the law of Moses indicates and why that desire to be under the law amounted to rejecting the Truth:<\/p>\n Joh 1:17\u00a0 For the law was given by Moses,\u00a0but<\/em>\u00a0grace and\u00a0truth came by Jesus\u00a0Christ<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If one believes that he must keep the law of Moses to be saved, that person is believing a lie! Paul reminds us and the Galatians, that he is the one who introduced them to Christ, and he certainly had not instructed them to perform the \u201cworks of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul\u2019s teaching to the Gentiles is based on higher laws which are given seven different names:<\/p>\n the Law of God (Rom 7:22,25) He\u00a0never<\/u><\/strong> refers to the law of Moses, the old covenant, as anything more than a schoolmaster, a tutor and a governor, to be abandoned upon coming to Christ. While Paul is emphatic about not being under \u2018the law\u2019, his readers knew what this meant: \u201cI myself serve the law of God\u201d\u00a0with \u201cthe mind.\u201d<\/p>\n Gal 3:1\u00a0 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,\u00a0that ye should not obey the truth<\/strong>, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? \u201cWith the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin\u201d (Rom 7:25). Paul equates the keeping of the law with \u201cthe flesh.\u201d In verse 7 he says that those of faith \u201care the children of Abraham.” Verse 8 says the promise, that \u201cin thee [Abraham] shall all nations be blessed\u201d was an allusion to the calling of the Gentiles. \u201c<\/p>\n Gal 3:9 So then\u00a0they which be of faith<\/strong> are blessed with faithful Abraham. \u201cChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law\u201d (vs 13). As far as Paul was concerned, the law has accomplished nothing more than to make us all \u201cguilty before God\u201d, both Jew and Gentile:<\/p>\n Rom 3:19\u00a0 Now we know that what things soever the law saith,\u00a0it saith to them who are under the law<\/strong>: that every mouth may be stopped,\u00a0and\u00a0all the world may become guilty before God<\/u>.<\/strong> The promises to Abraham are only through his singular seed, Christ (vs 16). The physical promises – land, good health, wealth, etc. – don\u2019t even enter into the equation: \u201cFor if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise\u201d (vs 18).<\/p>\n Gal 3:16\u00a0 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. So, why the law? It was added to demonstrate how evil WE are, to give us<\/u> the knowledge of sin,\u00a0and to make sin appear exceedingly sinful:<\/p>\n Gal 3:19\u00a0 Wherefore then\u00a0serveth<\/em>\u00a0the law?\u00a0It was added because of transgressions<\/strong>, [only]\u00a0till<\/u>\u00a0the seed should come<\/strong>\u00a0to whom the promise was made;\u00a0and it was<\/em>\u00a0ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For those in Christ though, it is only \u201ctill the seed should come to whom the promise was made\u201d (vs 19). The law itself is not against the promises of God. Prophecies of the promises are within the law, but: \u201crighteousness is\u00a0not<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0by the law\u201d (vs 21). \u201cBut (since righteousness is not by the law), the scripture hath concluded all (Jew and Gentile) under sin (\u201cby the law is the knowledge of sin\u201d \u2013 Rom 7:7) (so) that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe\u201d (vs 22).<\/p>\n Gal 3:21\u00a0\u00a0Is<\/em>\u00a0the 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. There is the answer to our question. Where are we all before we come to know Christ? \u201cBut\u00a0before faith came we were kept\u00a0under the law<\/u><\/strong>, shut up unto the faith that should AFTERWARDS be revealed\u201d (vs 23). That\u2019s pretty clear language. The scripture concludes\u00a0all under sin<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0(vs 22), under the law\u00a0until faith comes<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0and delivers us from the law (vs 23). So, the law serves as the means to show us\u00a0how exceedingly sinful our sin is and thereby brings us to recognize our need for Christ. Is there anyone who doesn\u2019t know Christ?\u00a0No one is born knowing Christ. We are all dragged to know Him (Joh 6:63) and brought to comprehend our necessity for Him by being \u201cunder the law.\u201d<\/p>\n Once we come to know Christ, we become aware of Matthew 5 and the new law, \u201cthe law of Christ\u201d (Gal 6:2), and we no longer need the schoolmaster who brings us to Christ. No one associated with the teachings of Matthew 5 has any need for the law of the old covenant.<\/p>\n Luk 16:16\u00a0\u00a0The law and the prophets were [only]\u00a0until <\/u>John<\/strong>: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.<\/p>\n Joh 1:17\u00a0 For the law was given by Moses,\u00a0but\u00a0grace and truth<\/u>\u00a0came by Jesus Christ<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The laws of the old covenant become as obsolete and redundant as the sacrifices, holy days, clean and unclean meat laws and all the statutes and judgments. In Christ all the law is fulfilled and is now decaying, waxing old and is vanishing away:<\/p>\n Heb 8:13\u00a0 In that he saith, A new\u00a0covenant,<\/em>\u00a0he hath made the first old. Now that\u00a0which decayeth and waxeth old\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0ready to vanish away<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All those \u201ccommandments contained in ordinances\u201d are, in Christ, being \u201cabolished.\u201d They are all types and shadows of spiritual realities which we have now obtained in and through Christ. There are no exceptions. Christ (love) has fulfilled the law for all those who are in Christ, both Jews and Gentiles:<\/p>\n Eph 2:15\u00a0 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even<\/em>\u00a0the law of commandments\u00a0contained<\/em>\u00a0in ordinances; for to make in himself\u00a0of twain<\/strong>\u00a0[Jews and Gentiles]\u00a0one<\/u>\u00a0new man<\/strong>,\u00a0so <\/em>making peace;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Those who do not yet know Him NEED the law as surely as a fetus (nepios<\/em>) needs an umbilical cord. This is what Paul means when he says \u201cthe law\u2026is good\u2026when used lawfully\u201d – meaning that one must come to know that \u201cthe law is NOT for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient\u2026\u201d (1Ti 1:8,9). In Christ, we are no longer \u201clawless.\u201d In Christ sin no longer dominates our \u2018new man\u2019:<\/p>\n Rom 6:11\u00a0 Likewise\u00a0reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin<\/strong>, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. We are simply under a changed law, a law as high as Matthew 5 is above Exodus 20. Those in Christ, on the other hand, just as surely must cut that umbilical cord and begin taking in a more mature form of nourishment. Until they do, they will still be \u201cunder tutors and governors\u201d\u00a0and will never be more than a \u201cslave\u201d to \u2018[their] own righteousness which is of the law\u201d, the most insidious of sins, the sin of self righteousness:<\/p>\n Eze 33:13\u00a0 When I shall say to the righteous,\u00a0that<\/em> he shall surely live;\u00a0if he trust to\u00a0his own righteousness<\/u>, and commit iniquity<\/u><\/strong>, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his [self-righteous] iniquity that he hath committed,\u00a0he shall die for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mat 7:22\u00a0\u00a0Many<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils?\u00a0and in thy name done many wonderful works?<\/strong> \u201cThe adoption of sons\u201d will make him \u201clord of all\u201d only when he comes out from under the \u201cschoolmaster, governor and tutors\u201d (Gal 4:1,2).<\/p>\n The law, the \u201cschoolmaster\u201d, will always serve as a tutor and governor to \u201cbring us to Christ.\u201d Each generation of the \u201cpredestinated…children of promise\u201d will be brought to see that they need a Savior through their own self-righteous, \u201croad-to-Damascus\u201d experience. We are all struck down and made to see our sins as only God is capable of accomplishing.<\/p>\n Joh 6:44\u00a0 No man\u00a0can<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0come to me, except the Father which hath sent me\u00a0draw<\/u><\/strong> [G1670: helkuo<\/em>, drag] him<\/strong>: and I will raise him up at the last day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It has never been and never will be anything less than a \u201cfiery trial.\u201d So \u201cthink it not strange\u201d when the fiery trials come (1Pe 4:12).<\/p>\n Once again, here in Galatians 4:4, being \u201cunder the law\u201d is equated with being under sin: \u201cBut after that faith\u00a0[Christ]\u00a0is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster\u201d (Gal 3:25).<\/p>\n Now let us consider the meaning of:<\/p>\n Gal 4:4 When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His son, made of a woman, made under the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We have just stated that \u201cunder the law\u201d is the same as being under sin. It is most insidious because we are under the deception that \u201c[our] own righteousness, which is of the law\u201d will be acceptable to the Lord:<\/p>\n Php 3:9\u00a0 And be found in him,\u00a0not<\/u><\/strong> having\u00a0mine own righteousness, which is of the law<\/strong>, but that which\u00a0is through\u00a0the faith of Christ<\/u>,\u00a0the righteousness which is of God by faith:<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Galatians 4 simply continues on with the concept of being under a schoolmaster:<\/p>\n Gal 4:1 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child [Greek:\u00a0nepios<\/em>]\u00a0differs nothing from a servant, though he be Lord of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Those are Paul\u2019s words of warning to all those who observe the days, months, times and years of the law. That warning includes keeping the days, months, times and years of the Gentiles. He asserts that\u00a0in so doing\u00a0you are denying yourself your inheritance. One \u201cdiffer[s]\u00a0nothing from a servant\u00a0[slave]\u201d as long as we remain under the law.<\/p>\n Gal 4:2\u00a0 But [you are] under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. The English word \u2018elements\u2019 here in verse three in the phrase \u201cwe, when we were children in bondage under the elements of the world\u201d, is G4747 \u2018stoicheion<\/em>\u2019. It is the exact same Greek word meaning the same thing which we find in verse 9 where it is repeated that being under \u2018stoicheion<\/em>\u2019 places us \u201cin bondage under the elements of the world.\u201d Then verse 10 specifically defines what those elements of verse nine are:<\/p>\n Gal 4:9\u00a0 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the\u00a0weak and beggarly elements [stoicheion<\/em>], whereunto ye desire again\u00a0to be in bondage<\/u>?<\/strong>\u00a0[And what \u2018bondage\u2019 does the holy spirit have in mind?] In case you didn\u2019t grasp that, Paul said that those who were under the law and were redeemed by Christ had been \u201cunder bondage to the elements of the world.\u201d This is just another scripture telling us that clinging to the law is like clinging to sin; not because the law is sin, but because \u201cby the law is the knowledge of sin\u201d (Rom 7:7). It is through sin that we die. \u201cThe wages of sin is death\u201d (Rom 6:23). It is also \u201cthrough death\u201d that we receive life:<\/p>\n Heb 2:14\u00a0 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that\u00a0through death<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So life comes \u201cthrough death\u201d, death comes through sin, and sin comes through the law. Are we saying, then that Christ as stated in this verse, was \u201cmade under the law\u201d, was made sin??? That\u2019s right, Christ\u00a0was<\/u>\u00a0sin:<\/p>\n 2Co 5:21\u00a0 For he\u00a0[God]\u00a0hath made him\u00a0[Christ]\u00a0to be sin<\/u>\u00a0for us,\u00a0who knew no sin<\/u><\/strong>; that we might be made the righteousness of God IN HIM<\/u><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That\u2019s why all of ancient Israel\u2019s sacrifices had to be \u201cspotless\u201d and \u201cwithout blemish.\u201d Ancient Israel typifies the world without Christ, and their sacrifices typify our \u201cspotless\u201d, \u201cblameless\u201d, \u201cwithout blemish\u201d, sacrifice \u2013 Jesus Christ, the son of God.<\/p>\n Paul continues to demonstrate the function of the law:<\/p>\n Gal 4:21\u00a0 Tell me,\u00a0ye that desire to be under the law<\/strong>, do ye not hear the law?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The obvious answer to this question is, “No, they do not hear the law\u201d or the Galatians would not be submitting themselves to the law which prophesied\u00a0of a \u201cNew covenant, not according to the covenant [the Lord] made with [their] fathers\u201d:<\/p>\n Jer 31:31\u00a0 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a\u00a0new<\/u>\u00a0covenant<\/strong>\u00a0with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: The reason the first \u201ctables of stone\u201d were thrown down and destroyed was to signify that those tables of stone typify the stony heart we have under the self-righteousness we have when we are under the law of Moses. That \u201cheart of stone\u201d is destroyed and is replaced with a soft \u201cfleshy heart\u201d meaning a heart that is dominated by the Lord\u2019s spirit which He gives to those to whom He gives it:<\/p>\n Eze 36:26\u00a0\u00a0A new heart<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0also will I give you, and\u00a0a new spirit<\/u>\u00a0will I put within you<\/strong>: and\u00a0I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.<\/strong> The rest of the fourth chapter of Galatians reveals the hazards of placing oneself under the law. Let it be noted that what the apostle warned would happen to those who place themselves under the law is exactly what has happened to the physical nation of Israel and to the apostate Christian church, which to this day continues to situate itself along with the apostate nation of Israel, \u201cunder the law\u201d while at the same time proclaiming its freedom from it.<\/p>\n In verse 22, Paul tells us that Abraham\u2019s two wives typify those in the church who place themselves under the old covenant on the one hand, and those who are under the new covenant on the other hand.<\/p>\n The two wives were Sarah, Abraham\u2019s only true love and his real wife all along. The other wife was given to him by Sarah!<\/p>\n In this allegory, Abraham, the father of the faithful, represents Christ and the wives signify the two vastly different churches which bear His name;<\/p>\n 1. Those under the law, \u201cfallen from grace\u201d, believing that a physical Jew is a Jew (Rom 2:28-29). Paul informs us that such people, though physically descended from Jacob, nevertheless amount to nothing more that Hagar, and her son, \u201cthe son of the bondwoman\u201d. May the Lord give you eyes that see as you read these words:<\/p>\n Gal 4:21\u00a0 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? If we are IN CHRIST, we are \u201cAbraham\u2019s seed and heirs according to the promise\u201d and\u00a0we<\/u>\u00a0are\u00a0\u201cthe children of the freewoman\u201d (Gal 3:29). If we are Abraham\u2019s seed \u201cwe, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise\u201d; \u201cthe adoption\u201d (Gal 4:25); \u201cthe glory\u201d (Rom 2:7, 10; Rom 8:18; 2Co 3:8); \u201cthe new covenant\u201d (2Co 3:6); the giving of the new spiritual law \u201cafter the inward man\u201d (Rom 7:6, 22); \u201cthe service\u201d (Rom 12:1) and the promises (Gal 3:16, 29).<\/p>\n Take careful note of who this true wife of Abraham becomes as Paul draws this allegory. Only those with spiritual eyes are capable of following the mind of God as clearly expressed in this chapter.<\/p>\n As God sees it, those under the law (those who believe that \u201cthrough the deeds of the law some flesh can be saved\u201d, are the bondwoman and her son. \u201cJERUSALEM that now is and is in bondage with her children\u2026is Agar (Hagar).\u201d Hagar was the mother of Ishmael, the rejected son of Abraham, who is called \u201cthe father of the faithful.\u201d Abraham\u2019s physical, fleshly descendants are \u201cthe bondwoman and her son\u201d who were cast out (Gal 4:25-31).<\/p>\n Gal 4:25\u00a0 For this\u00a0Agar<\/strong> is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is,\u00a0and is in bondage with her children<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Paul\u2019s teaching here is diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christendom. Much of Christendom teaches that since \u201cthe gifts and calling of God are without repentance\u201d (Heb 11:28), therefore Christ must remarry his divorced wife as soon as he returns. That is tantamount to teaching that the first Adam in the flesh can inherit the kingdom of God. Christ is already married to another. He is married to those who \u201care become dead to the law.\u201d<\/p>\n Rom 7:4\u00a0 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;\u00a0that ye should be married to another, even<\/i><\/span> to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If Christ returns and remarries physical Israel, he would be an adulterer:<\/p>\n Rom 7:4\u00a0 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even<\/em>\u00a0to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Insisting that Christ remarry physical Israel not only makes Him an adulterer, but it also flies in the face of the spiritual types of the old covenant:<\/p>\n Deu 24:4\u00a0 Her former husband, which sent her away,\u00a0may not<\/u> take her again to be his wife<\/strong>, after that she is defiled; for\u00a0that\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0abomination before the LORD<\/strong>: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee\u00a0for<\/em>\u00a0an inheritance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Such a false doctrine negates dozens of old covenant statements concerning Israel of which the following is typical:<\/p>\n Amo 8:2\u00a0 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cSummer fruits\u201d are contrasted with \u201cthe firstfruits unto God and the Lamb\u201d:<\/p>\n Rev 14:4\u00a0 These [144 thousand (vs 1)] are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men,\u00a0being<\/u><\/em>\u00a0the firstfruits<\/u>\u00a0unto God and to the Lamb.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe end is come upon my people\u201d means what it says \u2013 the end of the year, signifying the end of the ages; the \u201cGreat White Throne Judgment\u201d and \u201cthe Lake of fire\u201d, when there will be \u201cno more death\u201d (Rev 20:14-21:4). Any doubt about the timing of the salvation of Israel should be made clear by simply reading and believing:<\/p>\n Eze 16:55:\u00a0
\nRom 6:15\u00a0 What then? shall we sin, because\u00a0we are\u00a0not<\/u>\u00a0under the law<\/strong>, but under grace? God forbid.<\/p>\n
\n1Co 9:21\u00a0 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God,\u00a0but under the law to Christ<\/strong>,) that I might gain them that are without law.<\/p>\n
\nGal 4:5\u00a0 To\u00a0redeem them<\/strong>\u00a0that were\u00a0under the law<\/strong>, that we might receive the adoption of sons.<\/p>\n
\nGal 3:2\u00a0 This only would I learn of you; received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nthe Law of Christ (1Co 9:21; Gal 6:2)
\nthe Law of the Spirit (Rom 8:2)
\nthe Law of Faith (Rom 3:27)
\nthe Law of Liberty (Jas 1:25)
\nthe Law of Righteousness (Rom 9:30-31)
\nand the Law of Life (Gal 3:11, 6:8)<\/p>\n
\nGal 3:2\u00a0 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
\nGal 3:3\u00a0 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nGal 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, cursed is everyone that continueth not in ALL THINGS which are written in the book of the law to do them.
\nGal 3:11 \u2026no man is justified by the law, (for) the just shall live by faith;
\nGal 3:12\u00a0\u00a0And the law is\u00a0not<\/u>\u00a0of faith<\/strong>: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
\nGal 3:13\u00a0\u00a0Christ hath redeemed us from\u00a0the curse of the law<\/u><\/strong>, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0every one that hangeth on a tree:
\nGal 3:14\u00a0\u00a0That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles <\/strong>through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nRom 3:20\u00a0 Therefore\u00a0by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified<\/strong>\u00a0in his sight: for by the law\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0the knowledge of sin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nGal 3:17\u00a0 And this I say,\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0the 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.
\nGal 3:18\u00a0 For if the inheritance\u00a0be<\/em>\u00a0of the law,\u00a0it is<\/em>\u00a0no more of promise: but God gave\u00a0it<\/em>\u00a0to Abraham by promise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nGal 3:22\u00a0 But the scripture hath concluded\u00a0all under sin<\/u><\/strong>, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
\nGal 3:23\u00a0\u00a0But before faith came, we were kept\u00a0under the law<\/u>, shut up unto the faith which should\u00a0afterwards<\/u>\u00a0be revealed.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nRom 6:12\u00a0\u00a0Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body<\/strong>, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
\nRom 6:13\u00a0 Neither yield ye your members\u00a0as<\/em>\u00a0instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members\u00a0as<\/em>\u00a0instruments of righteousness unto God.
\nRom 6:14\u00a0\u00a0For sin shall not have dominion over you:\u00a0for ye are not under the law<\/u>, but under grace.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nMat 7:23\u00a0 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity [Self-righteousness].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cUnder the Elements of the World\u201d<\/h4>\n
\nGal 4:3\u00a0 Even so we\u00a0[Paul himself when he was under the law]\u00a0when we were\u00a0children<\/strong>\u00a0[G3516: nepios<\/em>, infant, toddler, under the \u201cschoolmaster\u201d]\u00a0were in bondage<\/u>\u00a0under\u00a0the elements<\/u> of the world<\/strong>:
\nGal 4:4\u00a0 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman,\u00a0made under the law<\/strong>,
\nGal 4:5\u00a0 To redeem them that were\u00a0under the law<\/strong>, that we might receive the adoption of sons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nGal 4:10\u00a0\u00a0Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.<\/strong>
\nGal 4:11\u00a0\u00a0I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain<\/u><\/strong>.
\nGal 4:12\u00a0 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I\u00a0am<\/em> [Do not submit yourselves to this \u201cbondage\u201d;\u00a0for I\u00a0am<\/em>\u00a0as ye\u00a0are<\/em> [delivered from such \u201celement of the world\u201d]:\u00a0ye have not injured me at all [You are injuring only yourselves].<\/p><\/blockquote>\nChrist Became Sin and Death<\/h4>\n
\nJer 31:32\u00a0\u00a0Not<\/u>\u00a0according to the covenant that I made with their fathers<\/strong>\u00a0in the day\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
\nJer 31:33\u00a0 But this\u00a0shall be<\/em>\u00a0the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD,\u00a0I will put my [new Matthew 5-7] law in their inward parts<\/u><\/strong>, and write it [Matthew 5-7]\u00a0in their hearts<\/u><\/strong>; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nEze 36:27\u00a0\u00a0And I will put my spirit within you,<\/strong>\u00a0and cause you to walk in my [new spiritual] statutes<\/strong>, and ye shall keep my [new] judgments, and do\u00a0them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n2. On the other hand there are those in Christ who know what grace is and what it does. It is only those who are not under the law who are now \u201ccounted for the seed\u201d and who are now \u201cthe son of the freewoman\u201d even though they are not physically descended from Jacob.<\/p>\n
\nGal 4:22\u00a0 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
\nGal 4:23\u00a0 But he\u00a0who was<\/em>\u00a0of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0by promise.
\nGal 4:24\u00a0 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
\nGal 4:25\u00a0\u00a0For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children [Not one \u2018Christian minister in a thousand believes this verse of scripture].<\/strong>
\nGal 4:26\u00a0 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
\nGal 4:27\u00a0 For it is written, Rejoice,\u00a0thou<\/em>\u00a0barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
\nGal 4:28\u00a0 Now\u00a0we, brethren [Gentile Galatians], as Isaac was, are the children of promise<\/strong>.
\nGal 4:29\u00a0 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born<\/em>\u00a0after the Spirit, even so\u00a0it is<\/em>\u00a0now.
\nGal 4:30\u00a0 Nevertheless what saith the scripture?\u00a0Cast out<\/u> the bondwoman<\/strong>\u00a0and her son [Those who are under the law]: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.<\/strong>
\nGal 4:31\u00a0 So then, brethren,\u00a0we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n