Title Galatians 03:6-14 Abraham's Blessing
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Title: Abraham's Blessing -
Text: Galatians 3:6-14, Genesis 12:7 -
When I first read Galatians, I was very surprised to read that the gospel was preached to Abraham long before Jesus came. The gospel has been heard as the gospel, or good news, or good news since the coming of Jesus Christ, but in Galatians 3:8, 'The Bible knew in advance that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, and first preached the gospel to Abraham. But all the Gentiles will be blessed in you.'
The gospel that God delivered to Abraham in the text is Genesis 12:3, “All nations of the Gentiles will be blessed through you” and verse 7, “I will give this land to your descendants.” These words are first, ‘all the Gentiles will be blessed in Abraham’ and second, ‘His seed (offspring) will inherit the land.’ This is the content, essence, and essence of the gospel.
God appeared to Abraham, shone with light, and said, And to make the word of promise even stronger, God established a covenant. Therefore, the gospel we believe in is God's covenant, promise, and word. When we believe the word of God and say Amen, God has already prepared the blessings we need to eat and live. In the case of Abraham, when he heard the word of God and left, he had nothing, but when he left Egypt through the land of Haran and Shechem, he had many cattle, silver, gold, and slaves. However, when we live in pursuit of these external blessings only, we will confess, like Solomon, that ‘everything is vanity, vanity is vanity’.
God appeared again to give Abraham another blessing, an inheritance that never fades, does not perish, and does not fade, and said, “I am your shield, the Most High God.” At this point, Abraham said, 'I am childless. God, no matter how much you give me, I have no son to inherit this property. I have no choice but to make Eliezer my heir.” He confessed to God. At that time, God took Abraham out and gave him a covenant, saying, “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens.”
Abraham believed these words in hopelessness. In this way, ‘faith’ has the power to make God’s amazing work and God’s nature to be poured out on those who hear and believe in God’s word, so that they can believe the word, and the work that happens to those who say ‘Amen’ has the power to happen. In this way, when God entered into Abraham and Abraham expressed his faith in the God contained in Abraham, God justified Abraham's faith.
Abraham believed God's promise and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving. These sacrifices, the livestock and the dove, typified Jesus Christ, who foretold to Abraham that he would be crucified and torn to pieces in the resurrection. It is said that when Abraham offered the sacrifices to God, fire came, and a kite came down from the air to eat the sacrifices, and Abraham pursued them. This also applies to our religious life today. When we are going to make an offering before God, Satan in the air tries to hinder us.
So, God sealed the promise of God more firmly and surely with the covenant. In the New Testament, God's covenant is changed into a new covenant, that is, a covenant. The difference between a covenant and a covenant is that a covenant means a promise that has not yet been fulfilled, and a covenant means that the promise has already been fulfilled. Therefore, the New Testament reveals to us not only the covenant, but also the covenant, which is an already fulfilled promise.
The blessing God promised in Genesis 12 is a very special blessing. Many people before Abraham had fallen in Adam, were cursed, and were in death. God's blessing came upon these cursed people. Today, from the moment we believe in Jesus Christ, this blessing comes upon us.
The word ‘by faith’ means that even though we have not seen God with our own eyes, as we listen to the gospel, the word of God, we develop awareness of Jesus Christ and come to know Him. And the more we get to know Him, the more we realize in the spirit that we are sinners and cursed human beings, and we come to know that Jesus bore all these sins, transgressions, and curses and took up the cross.
In this realization, the moment we are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the amazing work of God will happen to us. Baptism signifies the end of all things belonging to the old creation. Through baptism we are born again into a new person. This is the blessing we receive through faith, and it brings us to a wonderful transformation. This change is often referred to as union or grafting with Jesus Christ.
Weaved into sin, washed by the bloodshed redemption of Jesus Christ and grafted into the divine life of God, when we live by that grafted life, we enjoy power, provision, wisdom, and abundance beyond our imagination. . The more we receive the organic supply of life from the Lord by being grafted into us, the more grateful we become, the more we can forgive and understand others, and the more we feel purified, as a result. Our lives and lives are filled with hope.
When it comes to saying that 'Jesus Christ is a good land for us', the Israelites had no worries when they entered into Christ, a good land flowing with milk and honey. In this way, when Jesus Christ becomes our good land, in our life and life, Christ becomes the scope and sphere of all our activities. We are now living and enjoying this blessing in Jesus Christ.
The land of the Old Testament is, in the New Testament, the all-inclusive and life-giving Spirit, Jesus Christ. Just as we are not well aware of the limits and scope of the universe, so the richness, limits, and scope of Jesus Christ are so wide and deep that we cannot comprehend them. The more we believe in Jesus Christ, the more this abundance will be ours, and the more we will enjoy it. May this grace be with all of us.