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{ Chapter 3: Covenant, Not Contract }

PAUL DEFENDS THE UNITY of the CHURCH by: - Emphasizing the COVENANT God made with ABRAHAM

- Reminding the Galatians that the PROMISE God made was FULFILLED in Jesus, and ALL of us access it by FAITH

You witless Galatians! Who has bewitched you? King Jesus was portrayed on the cross before your very eyes! There’s just one thing I want to know from you. Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of Torah—or by hearing and believing? You are so witless: you began with the Spirit, and now you’re ending with the flesh?

GALATIANS 3:1-3

It’s like Abraham. ‘He believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.’ So you know that it’s people of faith who are children of Abraham. The Bible foresaw that God would justify the nations by faith, so it announced the gospel to Abraham in advance, when it declared that ‘the nations will be blessed in you’. So you see: the people of faith are blessed along with faithful Abraham.

GALATIANS 3:6-9

My brothers and sisters, let me use a human illustration. When someone makes a covenanted will, nobody sets it aside or adds to it. Well, the promises were made ‘to Abraham and his family’. It doesn’t say ‘his families’, as though referring to several, but indicates one: ‘and to your family’—which means the Messiah.

GALATIANS 3:15-16

This is what I mean. God made this covenanted will; the law, which came 430 years later*, can’t undermine it, and make the promise null and void. If the inheritance came through the law, it would no longer be by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

GALATIANS 3:17-18

You see, every one of you who has been baptized into the Messiah has put on the Messiah. There is no longer Jew or Greek (ETHNIC barriers) ; there is no longer slave or free; there is (SOCIAL STATUS barriers) no ‘male and female’ (GENDER barriers); you are all one in the Messiah, Jesus.

GALATIANS 3:27-29

And, if you belong to the Messiah, you are Abraham’s family. You (ALREADY) stand to inherit the promise (SO ALL THISCIRCUMCISION/LAW STUFF IS NOW UNNECESSARY!)

GALATIANS 3:27-29

{ Chapter 3: Covenant, Not Contract }

CONTRACT FAITH vs. COVENANT FAITH

CONTRACT FAITH vs. COVENANT FAITH- Legal exchange: goods/services


- Based on lack of certainty/trust



- Asks questions like:

* How certain am I that…? * How can I be sure that…? * What’s the max/minimum I can do/not do & still...?





- Relational exchange: vows






- Based on commitment/trust








* Am I willing to commit…? * Will I choose to love if…? * How can I be a better covenant partner?








* Am I willing to commit…? * Will I choose to love if…? * How can I be a better covenant partner?

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