Thursday, September 24, 2015

Belong to Christ. 9/24/15


Day 265- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Gal.3

Galatians 3

Faith or Works of the Law

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?[a] 4 Have you experienced[b] so much in vain—if it really was in vain? 5 So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[c]

7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”[d] 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”[e] 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”[f] 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”[g] 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”[h] 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

The Law and the Promise

15 Brothers and sisters, 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. 16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”[i] meaning one person, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.

19 Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator. 20 A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.

21 Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. 22 But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

Children of God

23 Before the coming of this faith,[j] we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. 24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

The Lamb disposition September 23rd

“And I said to him, Sir, you know. So he said to me, These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” REVELATION 7:14

The blood of the Lamb! The source of the blood is His Person. The nature of His Person is that of a Lamb. The Lamb nature, or disposition, includes the meekness, the innocence, and the sub- mission of the Lamb. Isaiah 53:7 says, “He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.” He did not open His mouth. This reveals the absolute submission of the Lamb nature. The blood of the Lamb is the blood of this soul-life that was totally submitted to the Father. This is the disposition of His soul. He made no choices on His own. HelivedonlybytheFather’slife,ruledinwardlybytheFather:“The Father works and I work. I only do what My Father does.”

The innocent Lamb, who laid down His life, eventually becomes the chief figure in the book of Revelation to fight all the battles and to bring in God’s administration. It should be that the one who represents God and rules for God is the one who inwardly is like the Lamb in disposition, submitted to the Father. All the problems we pass through are tests on us, to bring forth the Lamb’s disposi- tion. Everything is a test. The oppositions, the hurts, the mis-understandings, the tearing down — these are all testings on us. Eventually you can react, you can write others off, you can be bitter, you can be hurt, or you can merge with the Lamb disposition and tell Him, “Lord, You have not made one mistake. There is not one thing that is not included in the all things working together for good.” You submit to be delivered from all the touchingness of the self-life and its reactions.

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