DISCOURSE: 2059 DEPARTING FROM THE SIMPLE GOSPEL Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?_ THE method of a sinner’s justification is plainly revealed in the Gosp... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2060 THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO ABRAHAM Galatians 3:8. _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_. THE po... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2061 THE SPIRITUALITY AND SANCTIONS OF THE LAW Galatians 3:10. _As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them_. THE reason that Christianity is so li... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2062 REDEMPTION BY CHRIST Galatians 3:13. _Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us_. THE law, which subjects all mankind to a curse, is the moral law; that is principally intended in the passage before us [Note: It is that law, from the curse of whic... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2063 THE USES OF THE LAW Galatians 3:19. _Wherefore the serveth the law?_ PERHAPS, of all the subjects connected with religion, there is not one so rarely unfolded to Christian auditories as the law. We are ready to suppose, either that men are sufficiently acquainted with it; or that it... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2068 THE TRUE USE OF THE LAW Galatians 3:21. _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. But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by fait... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2069 BENEFITS AND OBLIGATIONS OF BAPTISM Galatians 3:27. _As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 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. And if ye be Christ’s, then... [ Continue Reading ]