Galatians 3:4-6

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 『Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 』 (Galatians 3:4-6)

This belief is "faith in the hundred age" that Abraham was considered righteous in Romans 4. In Chapter 3:2-3, 『This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 』 It is said that receiving the Holy Spirit by faith is the same as deciding that Abraham is righteous by faith in the age of one hundred.

When Abram heard God's voice, he left Ur in the Chaldeans, and from that time on, he experienced God. God promised, because He made the beast split, and the fire from heaven lifted the torch through the split beast. And I will give you the land.” Abram responded, “How can I believe it?” That's what I promised with this torch. And Abram has a spiritual experience with a heavenly priest called Melchizedek. Nevertheless, he does not believe in God's promises and is giving birth to Ishmael.

Even if you read the Bible, hear God's voice directly, and experience the spiritual experience of meeting Melchizedek, humans will not change. God waited until Abraham was 100 years old (Ishmael was 12 years old) to could not come from the flesh. When Abraham was unable to do anything, God appeared and said, "Abraham, I will give you the promised child next year." He laughed inward and replied, "I am a hundred years old (and his wife is ninety years old), and how shall I have children, let Ishmael live?"

Abram had only had fleshly thoughts until the age of 99. After all, he doesn't believe the word of God. In that year, God commanded Abram to be circumcised. Circumcision is the removal of the body and the promise of the seed.
In verse 22, 『But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 』Abraham was a promise at the age of 100, but the interpretation is found in 3:16. 『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. 』 This is Paul's interpretation.

No matter how much you read through Genesis, you would think of Isaac as his descendant. It is not Isaac, but the promise of Christ to come. Abraham thought, "It is Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, not by blood and the will of man." So, the Bible confined everything under sin. Even Abram was imprisoned even after hearing the voice of God and meeting Melchizedek until then. Faith in which Abraham believes in God's promises, does not trust in himself, and believes in himself becoming dead, is the faith that escapes from sin. This is the same faith that enters Canaan during the Exodus.

Ten spies said, "If you enter, you die." They are snake bites. There is a lie on the tongue. Caleb said, "It's a promised land." He held onto God's promise.

Similarly, when Abraham was 100 years old, he held onto God's promise. Until the age of 99, it is the same belief as ten spies. Until this time, Abraham did not accept God's covenant. Paul writes Galatians 1-3 and then speaks of faith. In verse 23, 『But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. "Faith must come. This is a gift.

It is the faith of the elect. Paul said this long in Romans. Until chapter 6, he says, "People are slaves of sin." In Romans 7:1-2, "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 』

He explains the law in a relationship between husband and wife. Sin is the relationship between the master and the slave. So, humans cannot overcome sin. In essence, they are children of wrath. But God calls those who are in Jesus Christ righteous. To be in Jesus Christ, we must die together on the cross.

Instead of living to overcome sin, we must die on the cross for sin. To win, the one who lives thinks of himself, but the one who dies of sin thinks of Jesus on the cross. Even if people are living in the world for good, the standard is evil when they become human. Human beings are such wicked human beings who have to die on the cross. Romans 7 explains that it is under the law. Paul described sin as the relationship between the master and the slave, but from 7:1 to 1-2, the law is described as the relationship between husband and wife. The husband is the law. The law presides over human life.

『So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 』(7:3) It is only the death of the cross that makes you free of the law. It is a spiritual adultery for people to say, “I have received the Holy Spirit,” without dying to the law on the cross. It is to say that those who are bound by the law and say that they have received the Holy Spirit are harlots. If we do not die of the law with Jesus on the cross, we are all bound by the law. They are all sinners. Many church people think that they are not under the law without dying to it. So they say they receive the Holy Spirit. These are harlots.

In chapter 7 verse 4『Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 』 This is salvation. When you enter Christ, you die of the law through the body of Christ crucified. Otherwise, in Galatians 3, 『But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. It becomes 』. People fast and pray early when faith seems to have fallen. Faith doesn't get better, but if you don't die about the law, it's faith in your own righteousness.

Those who say they believe miss the process of death. The reason is that people misunderstand what Jesus said, "We must be born again with water and the Holy Spirit." It is because they think of the water and the Holy Spirit separately. So, people misunderstand that water baptism is forgiveness of John the Baptist, and baptism in the Holy Spirit is forgiveness of sin after the forgiveness of sin. Being born again with water and the Holy Spirit is the same baptism. In Romans 6:3-5『Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 』

Talk about water in 1 Peter 3:21.『The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 』 Those who do not know the process of death are bound under the law. Those who are not crucified on the cross of Jesus are still sinners. Therefore, sinners are still lovers of the world.