Galatians 3:7-9
God would justify the heathen
through faith
『 Know ye therefore
that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God
would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham,
saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are
blessed with faithful Abraham. (Galatians 3:7-9)
『For
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that
soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Galatians 6:8)
It is not true that
anyone who believes that “I am in Christ and Christ in me”
must obey the law. In Galatians 4:4-6『 But when the fulness
of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, To redeem them that were
under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are
sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father. 』 Anyone who can call
God the Father can do so only those who have the Spirit of Christ in me. So it
becomes redemption from the law.
To obey the law is to
say that Christ is not in me. The word that we must obey the law is like taking
Christ out of heaven into the earth by the law. It is impossible. Nevertheless,
those who try to keep the law by saying they are in Christ are trying to do
this. In other words, to obey the law is not to believe that Christ has come to
this world. Because, following the law is to look to Christ who will come.
Those who try to obey the law do not have the Holy Spirit in them, but Satan's
spirit is in them.
In Hebrews 10:10-12, 『By
the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering
oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right
hand of God; "The people in Christ became holy. However, those who believe
they are in Christ also think they are not holy. If you think so, there is no
Christ in your heart.
In Hebrews 10:14-15『For
by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 』It is said to guarantee that the Holy Spirit has been sanctified.
However, believers sanctify themselves in order to be holy, and make every
effort to be sanctified.
In Hebrews 10:16-17,『 This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their
hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I
remember no more. 』 God says I won't
remember, but humans say, "Keep remembering." Because they are
praying for repentance as they recall their sins. Jesus went to the throne of
God as a high priest with all the sins of the world, and it is like people
saying, "I'm grateful if you take it back because there are some sins left
here." In Romans 8:30, 『Moreover whom he did
predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified:
and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 』
God says, "I
have glorified those who are in Christ." People look at their sins and
wonder if there could be such a thing. Nevertheless, these people are calling
God the Father. However, God says that he is a person who deceives himself, and
who considers God lightly. Although people say that they have been saved by believing in Jesus,
they believe that they must be sanctified and sanctified every day because they
are sinful and cannot be sanctified.
But God is saying
that when sinners deny themselves and die on the cross with Jesus, God makes
the sinner holy at once.
There is a clear difference. It is repentance and holiness. Repentance goes
beyond reflecting and confessing sin, and dying with Jesus. It is sin that
leaves God, and sin must be destroyed before God. So, strictly repentance is
the death of the body of sin with Jesus. Holiness is not the domain of sinners,
but God sanctifies the dead with Jesus.
In Romans 1:17『 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith
to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 』 The law is that sinners try to achieve righteousness on their own, and
the gospel is that God will provide righteousness on behalf of sinners who
repent of what they cannot do. So, believing it is the gospel. In Romans 8:3-4『 For what the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 』
In other words, the
law does not make sinners righteous. Here, the body means the body of sin that
has left God. The law makes us realize that life has been apart from God and
come into this world. So, it is to try to achieve righteousness through the
law. However, when you realize that you cannot achieve righteousness, you are
looking at Christ, the Savior.
In Galatians 1:8-9『 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again,
If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him
be accursed. 』 In order to be saved,
we are saved by faith, but if we say that we must obey the law, we become
different gospels. If God says that He who has been in Christ has been
completely sanctified, and that he must repent every day to sanctify and
sanctify himself with the blood of Jesus, it will be a different gospel. After
all, the other gospel is the law.
In Matthew 7:21『 Not every one that saith unto me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will
of my Father which is in heaven. 』My Heavenly Father's
will is that everyone who believes in the Son will be saved. Believing in the
Son is the faith of dying with Jesus Christ and resurrecting together. So God
sanctifies those in Christ. This is the gospel. However, if you return to the
law, you are returning to another gospel. Since he is still a sinner, he wants
to follow the law to fulfill righteousness.
In Matthew 7:23『 And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 』 Illegal is speaking of the law of the Holy Spirit. He says that he was
saved according to the law of the Holy Spirit, but because he is still
practicing the law, it is illegal in the light of the law of the Holy Spirit.
It means that they are still sinners and eventually fail to fully obey the law.
There is no transgression where there is no law.
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