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Bible Reading: Galatians 3:1-29 GOLDEN TEXT: “This is the way I interpret this: A will, earlier ratified by God, is not annulled by an addendum attached 430 years later, thereby negating the promise of the will. No, this addendum, with its instructions and regulations, has nothing to do with the promised inheritance in the will. What is the point, then, of the law, the attached addendum? It was a thoughtful addition to the original covenant promises made to Abraham. The purpose of the law was to keep a sinful people in the way of salvation until Christ (the descendant) came, inheriting the promises and distributing them to us. Obviously this law was not a firsthand encounter with God. It was arranged by angelic messengers through a middleman, Moses.” Galatians 3:17-19 (The M God called Abraham out of the religion of his forebears into the faith (of Christ), of which Jesus said Abraham rejoiced to see (Jn. 8:55)! Hence, the nation of Israel, which eventually emerged from Abraham, was not born on the wings of religion, for God will not make the mistake of calling Abraham out of fruitless religion into another fruitless religion. The nation of Israel was also not born on the heels of the Jewish Law, which Moses midwifed, for the nation had been before the Law. Even the children of Jacob did not think they were just family like others. They spoke of themselves as a nation, as they considered what Shechem did to their sister as “folly in Israel” (Gen. 34:7). Therefore, the nation of Israel was born by faith and borne on faith! GOD’S PLAN FOR OTHER NATIONS It is important to point out here that God planned to extend what He started with Abraham and through Abraham to all nations of the earth. The Bible says: “...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...” Galatians 3:6-9 (KJV) It is interesting to note from the translation above that what delivered Abraham from the power of religion was the Gospel, and nothing more! There is no other power that can save you also from the power holding you bound, except the Gospel. Sadly, before the blessing of God, through Abraham, could reach all the nations of the earth, religion of all kinds, had taken over the earth. Some in form of idols, while others are in form of ideas, ideologies, philosophies, beliefs, creeds, systems of government and so on. These idols were allowed (by God), just as the Law was allowed in Israel, to hold the fort until faith will come (Gal. 3:19-26). [We shall look at this more critically in the next study] Sadly, the Law, which was introduced as a schoolmaster, to keep the sinful nation of Israel on course toward salvation, because she was yet immature to receive the fullness of the promise, was naively turned into a religion! And this did not happen only in Israel, it also happened all over the world. Communism, democracy, human rights, idol worship and other forms of religion are meant to be schoolmasters, but they hijacked the people from God! However, just as God called Abraham out of the religion of his forefathers, using the power of the Gospel, so He planned that through the same Gospel, other nations of the earth would be called out of their self-invented religions to come into the same faith with Abraham, which is now consummated in Christ Jesus. We must not forget that this was how God started with a universal man and woman, Adam and Eve, in Eden, and planned to spread them all over the earth, from that point! Truth is, we all came from Adam, though now of different tribes and nationalities! The next study will throw light on how the Law (for Israel) and other forms of human inventions (for other nations), became religion and now have a stronghold on Man’s mind, blocking him from seeing God. Let us pray.