Episode 22: Galatians 3

Today's Meditation is based on Galatians 3 from the Passion Translation

God has opened my eyes to see the meaning of Jesus’ crucifixion. He was revealed to me as the crucified one. And I have received the Holy Spirit as a gift because I believed in the Messiah. My new life began when the Holy Spirit gave me a new birth. So why would I foolishly turn from living in the Spirit and try to finish by my own works?

The lavish supply of the Holy Spirit in my life and the miracles of God’s tremendous power have nothing to do with me keeping religious laws. Rather, he is poured out upon me through the revelation and power of faith!

Abraham, the father of faith, believed God, and the substance of his faith released God’s righteousness to him. As a child of Abraham through faith, I have the same faith as my father! It is on the basis of faith that God has declared me to be righteous.

And so the blessing of Abraham’s faith is now my blessing too! I do not rely on works of keeping the law for salvation, because then I would live under the law’s curse. 

Christ paid the full price to set me free from the curse of the law. He absorbed the curse completely as he became a curse in my place. Jesus Christ dissolved the curse from my life, so that in him all the blessings of Abraham can be poured out upon me. And now through faith I receive the promised Holy Spirit who lives in me.

The covenant between God and Abraham was fulfilled in Messiah and cannot be altered. I receive all the promises because of the Promised One—not because I keep the law!

The was given alongside the promise to show me my sins until the coming of the “Seed,” the promised Messiah. And Jesus fulfilled that law. The law was a jailer, holding me as a prisoner under lock and key until faith set me free. It was my guardian until Christ came so that I would be saved by faith. And now that faith has come, I am no longer under the guardian of the law.

I have become a true child of God by faith in Jesus Christ! Faith immersed me into Christ, and now I am covered and clothed with his life. I no longer see myself and others in our former state because we’re all one through our union with Jesus.

I belong to Christ, so I am now Abraham’s “child” and a true heir of all his blessings because of the promise God made to Abraham!

Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing.

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