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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Monday, February 2, 2026
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Heirs of Abraham (Galatians #34) Bible Verse: Galatians 3:15-18 (BSB) "Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended. 16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise." Message:
Our study of Galatians is, as promised, what scholars today call “granular”: tearing it down and examining tiny details. We looked at some true minutiae in the previous commentary; but we don’t want to miss the forest for the trees. So what does Gal. 3:15-18 mean in broader terms, for our faith today?
The Jews considered themselves the children of Abraham. It was the very essence of their racial and religious identity. The broad message of Gal. 3:15-18 destroys this fundamental tenet of Jewish belief. It is not the Jews who are heirs of God’s favor, but those who hear the Gospel in faith, whether Jew or Gentile.
One proof Paul uses is the precise language of the (Hebrew) Scripture. God told Abraham he would honor His promise not only to Abraham, but to his descendant — not his descendants, plural, but to his descendant, singular. One person would inherit; and this person was Christ, the descendant of Abraham by blood, and the Son of God by spirit. The Law, as we saw previously, could not affect or alter God’s promise.
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Christ, possessing God’s promise to Abraham as the sole heir, then named all who loved Him as His own heirs. We became heirs with Christ, the adopted children of God. We have been shown that any attempt to attain righteousness before God by our own actions is futile. This was the purpose of the Law of Moses.
We must understand the futility of our attempts to become so good that God will favor us. Our salvation is not and cannot be the product of our strivings. The Law humiliates us, in the sense of creating an absolute humility. From our realization of our sin comes humility, and from our humility comes our realization that only God can save us. For God has saved us. He has delivered on the promise He made to Abraham, by giving His Son, Jesus Christ, as a sacrifice to cleanse us from our sins.
We might reflect here that Abraham offered his own son as a sacrifice, but that God did not accept the sacrifice of Isaac; instead, he showed Abraham a ram caught in a thicket. (Genesis 22) Abraham had to demonstrate his faith by his willingness to sacrifice his son, but only the son of God Himself would suffice to cleanse the world’s sin.
Paul’s language to the Galatians is rather harsh in places, but through it we find the sweetness of the gospel and the most blessed comfort possible. All that is required is our faith in God’s promise. The law says: Do this. The gospel says: Accept this. Whatever our roles and experience in life, we can see our many failures in all sorts of ways. Satan wants to use these failures to discourage us; Paul tells us that our failures are inevitable and meaningless: we cannot earn salvation by success and we cannot lose it by failure.
“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)
Meditation : Prayer : od our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and Spirit of God amidst us, direct our way unto you. Make us to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you; to the end we may establish our hearts unblameable in holiness before you, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Amen. |
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