Son of Israel said:
Being the seed of Abraham doesn't benefit me "in the flesh" anymore than it did Ishmael Verteran! LOL.
This is the ONLY TRUE SEED OF ABRAHAM... (you really need to know this it appears...)
Gal 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
Now you know that all those in Christ are the ONLY Seed of Abraham. Whether Jew or Greek, bond or free, male or female.
The simplicity in Christ! Astounding isn't it
Son of Israel
I think you might want to study those verses you quoted again, and get all of what Paul was saying there, not just the part you want to use...
Galatians 3:14-29
14 That
the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Here's Paul's main subject, The Promise. It's about 1) the blessing of Abraham, and 2) that it might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, and 3) it is a Promise of The Spirit through Faith.
That's three objects Paul gave in that, so we're not supposed to leave any one of them out of Paul's Message.
15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
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.
Paul is covering object 1) the blessing of Abraham, in that 16th verse. That Promise did not come through Ishmael, nor any of Abraham's other kin, like his brothers Nahor or Haran, but only through Isaac. And from Isaac through Jacob whom God named Israel. That's what Paul is talking about there, and also in Romans 9:7 when he said, "...but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called." In other words, Paul is not speaking of the Promise going to others outside Israel just yet, but gets to that part later on in the chapter. Christ was to be born through a specific flesh seed, that of Israel. That was part of the Promise to Abraham, that God would send The Saviour through His literal seed, out of Abraham's loins.
Paul is also including the "promises" God made through Abraham to Israel. If we believe on Christ Jesus by Faith, then those promises first given to Abraham that flowed down to Israel MUST still be in effect today. They simply won't be found among un-believing Israel, as long as they are cut-off through unbelief.
17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
(KJV)
The Old Covenant law, even though given 430 years after The Promise, cannot disannul The Promise by Faith. The Promise by Faith was always given first before the law.
18 For if
the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of
promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
What is that "inheritance" Paul speaks of? It's God's Promise of Salvation through His Son Jesus Christ. It is not of the law, and never was. And notice God gave it to Abraham by Promise. That means God promises to give the Gift of Salvation, and to receive it one must believe. And it includes a specific inheritance which God declared through His servants the prophets.
19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
God's law was given because of Israel's trangressions. It included the Old Covenant religious dogma and ritual, animal sacrifices, etc. And when "the seed" would come, meaning Jesus of Nazareth The Christ, the Old Covenant was to be put away.
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
God's law never was against The Promise of sending His Salvation through Jesus Christ. It's simply that the law could never accomplish eternal Life. The law is a different working altogether.
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Only ONE born in the flesh was without sin, our Lord Jesus Christ. This is WHY we ALL have been put under sin, so that we might be saved through The Promise first given to Abraham, which is by Faith on Jesus Christ The Saviour.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
I think those verses are pretty clear. We're not to be under the law since Christ came, but Paul says later in Galatians that is only IF... we are led by and walk by The Spirit, and not by our flesh.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
(KJV)
All Paul is saying there, is that all those of Faith on Jesus Christ, are the spiritual children of Abraham through The Promise, and we all become one in Christ Jesus. He is NOT saying that God's promises to Israel are no more, for to think that would mean throwing away the very things God included in the inheritance part of The Promise to Abraham! Inheriting the earth with the wicked subdued is one of the things in that inheritance when Christ returns.
If it weren't such a travesty to twist the Word, it might even be humorous. As it is, it's a blight on the Gospel message. :bigfrown
