A Galatians 3 study;
If you don't know the answer, the verses below will inform you. What is important is that Yahusha died in public on a wooden cross. This was in fulfillment of Old Testament Law. Yahusha said, it is finished. Therefore we no longer need to sacrifice. But if we love Him, we will do His will.
Brothers, I speak in human terms: even though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things for nothing—if indeed it was for nothing? So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
Our flesh will always be imperfect. Notice that the word provide is not past tense as in provided. It's plural as in provides, as in an ongoing process. Grey Matter Religion would have you believe that it's by their works your flesh is perfected.
Just as Abraham believed Elohiym and it was counted to him as righteousness, so know that those who are of faith, those are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that Elohiym would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer. For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to do them.”
In ancient Israel, sins inherited the land of their father. The eldest son received a double share. I believe this is why the masculine pronoun was used. Today women receives equally when it comes to the Word of Yahuah Elohiym. To make the Law your God is to reject being saved by faith. To receive the blessing of Yahusha Hamashia paying the penalty for sin, you receive salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Fire.
Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident, for “The righteous shall live by faith ". However, the Law is not of faith; rather, “He who does them shall live by them".
Living by the Law is the work of the flesh. Corrupted flesh cannot save corrupted flesh. That's like a drowning man trying to pick himself up out of the water without anything to cling to. The saved cling to the Word of Yahusha Hamashia by faith.
Hamashia redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Hamashia Yahusha the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
When Yahusha Hamashia laid down His blessing and received our death penalty, those who follow Him received the Blessing of Abraham through Him.
Brothers, I speak in human terms: even though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.
Today when there is a contract between two people and documented, nobody can change it. It must be fulfilled. Paul the apostle used this as an illustration.
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Hamashia. And what I am saying is this: the Law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by Elohiym, so as to abolish the promise.
This is saying that the contract between Yahuah Elohiym and Abraham has not been invalidated because the Law came through Moses. Therefore the non-Israelites still have the promise of blessings given to Abraham.
For if the inheritance is by law, it is no longer by promise, but Elohiym has granted it to Abraham through promise.
There is no blessing though the Law.
Why the Law then? It was added because of trespasses, having been ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made. Now a mediator is not for one person only, whereas Elohiym is one.
After Egypt, the Israelites had been corrupted. They were acting like Egyptians. Walking like an Egyptian included trespassing into sin. Therefore the Law was handed down through Moses.
Is the Law then contrary to the promises of Elohiym? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed be by law.
Living by the Law of Moses does not create Life. It prevents a nation from becoming corrupted.
But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Yahusha Hamashia might be given to those who believe.
What the Sins of Adam and Eve have done is to condemn everyone eternally. The promise of a Savior and blessing though Abraham has opened up a way to become saved by Faith. Only those who have faith in Yahusha Hamashia has life eternal.
But before faith came, we were held in custody under the Law, being shut up for the coming faith to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our tutor unto Hamashia, so that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
When someone who was blessed by Elohiym died, they were held in Hell, subdivision called Abraham's bosom. You live by the Law in life and in death. Law was mankind's tutor. Today corrupted people want to have the power of the Law to tutor people in their corrupted imagination. The Law of Moses was a tutor leading to Faith in Yahusha Hamashia. Now that Faith in Yahusha Hamashia arrived, Law is not our guide, Faith in Yahusha Hamashia is. This is where by having Faith in Yahusha Hamashia, your mind is Free to not be manipulated by narcissistic politicians.
For you are all sons of Elohiym through faith in Hamashia Yahusha. For all of you who were baptized into Hamashia have clothed yourselves with Hamashia.
Faith is like a liquid. A small trickle of Faith can turn into a powerful river, strong enough to move a mountain. The headwater of Faith is Elohiym and the Sea of Faith is Elohiym. By Faith we are clothed in Hamashia.
The question is, how is a person clothed in the Messiah? Perhaps asked like this. How is a person clothed in the anointed one? It is something you cannot see or touch. It is His Spirit you are clothed in. If a sister is seen in her brother's clothing, she looks like her father's son. We are anointed and clothed by Yahusha's Spirit.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Hamashia Yahusha. And if you belong to Hamashia, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.
