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November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

BLESSING GIVEN TO ABRAHAM / GALATIANS 3:14

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(KJV) Galatians 3:14

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

BLESSING GIVEN TO ABRAHAM / GALATIANS 3:14

The content of God’s promise to Abraham (Galatians 3:8) is defined as “the promise of the Spirit” (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-5). To receive God’s Spirit is to have righteousness (Galatians 3:11), renewed life and all other spiritual blessings that come from a right relationship with God (Galatians 3:3; 4:6).

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November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE / GALATIANS 3:13

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(KJV) Galatians 3:13

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE / GALATIANS 3:13

Jesus Christ rescued us from the curse of sin and its final and tragic consequences of spiritual death, eternal punishment and permanent separation from God. He did this by taking upon Himself the full punishment for our rebellion and offenses against God (2 Corinthians 5:21) and by bearing the curse for our inability to live up to God’s law (Romans 8:3). In classical Greek, the reference to being hung on a tree would have referred to stocks and poles on which bodies were impaled (pierced with a sharpened stake thrust up through the body, as for torture or punishment). In this passage, it refers to the cross on which Christ dies (Matthew 27:35; Acts 5:30; 1039; 1 Peter 2:24).

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November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH / GALATIANS 3:11

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(KJV) Galatians 3:11

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH / GALATIANS 3:11

Paul quotes Habakkuk 2:4 to illustrate how a person is justified (made right with God) by faith (Romans 1:17), not by works. The prophet Habakkuk pointed out that one who is justified by faith possesses true inward righteousness (a right relationship with God regarding character, attitudes and actions and the ability to do right by His standard). The prophet contrasted the righteous person with the unrighteous person whose “desires are not upright” (Habakkuk 2:4). Paul also believed that justification by faith involved an actual inner righteousness, not because of a believer’s own efforts and spirit, but because of Christ’s work and the power of the Holy Spirit living within the believer.

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November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

UNDER A CURSE / GALATIANS 3:10

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(KJV) Galatians 3:10

For 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.

UNDER A CURSE / GALATIANS 3:10

This statement refers to “legalists” – those who refused God’s gracious gift of salvation through faith in Christ and insisted on pursuing a relationship with God through strict obedience to God’s laws or their own traditions and religious routines (Galatians 2:4; Galatians 2:5). However, no form of rule keeping can put us in a right relationship with God. For that matter, no one can perfectly live up to the requirements of God’s law or earn God’s favor by good works. In this way, the legalists have passed up God’s blessing and kept themselves ‘under a curse” – separated from God by their own efforts that will miss the mark of complete obedience.

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November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

HIS SPIRIT … WORKS MIRACLES / GALATIANS 3:5

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(KJV) Galatians 3:5

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

HIS SPIRIT … WORKS MIRACLES / GALATIANS 3:5

HIS SPIRIT

Paul’s various references to the Spirit (Galatians 3:2; Galatians 3:3, 5, 14; 4:6) include

Receiving the inner presence of the Holy Spirit as part of the life transformation that happens when a person accepts Christ’s forgiveness and is spiritually “born again.”
Receiving the baptism in the Spirit, which is available to those who have already received a personal relationship with Christ, as an added measure of power to serve Him and communicate His message to others.
The Spirit’s subsequent work in Christians’ lives – including special gifts and expressions – to strengthen the church, encourage individual believers and help them develop and mature in their faith. Passages related to these various works of the Holy Spirit include Acts 1:4-5; 2:4; 8:14-17; 10:44-47; 11:16-17; 19:1-6; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11.

The particular works of the Spirit that Paul refers to in any given passage can be determined by the terms and context surrounding his references to the Spirit.

When Paul links receiving the Holy Spirit to “believing” (Galatians 3:2) and “beginning with the Spirit” (Galatians 3:3), he likely is referring to the Spirit first coming to live within a person at the point of accepting Christ (receiving His forgiveness, spiritual salvation and a personal relationship with God).
By using the expression “the promise of the Spirit” (Galatians 3:14), which is nearly identical to Peter’s words in Acts 2:33 (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4), Paul is almost certainly referring to the baptism in the Spirit. The reference in Galatians 4:6 indicates that the believers had already been adopted as God’s children (they were already spiritually saved and in a right relationship with God) and that this was the basis for God sending the Spirit into their hearts. This also would refer to the baptism in the Holy Spirit following their spiritual conversation of faith in Christ.
The use of the term “miracles” (Greek dunamis, Galatians 3:5) suggests that Paul is thinking of the supernatural expressions that followed the Spirit’s coming with “power” (Greek dunamis) at Pentecost (Acts 1:8; 2:1-4). It was after this point that the Holy Spirit began to work among Christians by way of His various gifts and empowerments (1 Corinthians 12:1-6).
Paul’s use of the present participles (“give” and “work,” Galatians 3:5) relates to the ongoing display and expression of the Spirit’s gifts, works and power.

HIS SPIRIT … WORK MIRACLES

The ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in the Galatian churches involved miracles. For Paul, receiving the Holy Spirit was not just an invisible inward work in individuals’ lives, but an experience that revealed itself through God’s supernatural power working in obvious outward ways among believers. The gifts of the Spirit are normal evidence of the Spirit’s presence and authority (1 Corinthians 12 -14). Spiritual conversion (salvation; being “born again,” John 3:7; entering a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ) and the baptism in the Holy Spirit should continually result in the working of miracles and other supernatural expressions of the Spirit.

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November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

DID YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT BY BELIEVING / GALATIANS 3:2

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(KJV) Galatians 3:2

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

DID YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT BY BELIEVING / GALATIANS 3:2

Through faith in Christ we receive forgiveness, a restored relationship with God, the presence of the Holy Spirit within us and all of God’s blessings, including the gift of eternal life with Him (Galatians 3:2-3, 5, 14, 21; 4:6). However, people who rely on rule keeping, religious routines or their own efforts to please God or to try to gain salvation do not receive the Spirit and life. That is because the law cannot give life and spiritual salvation (Galatians 3:21). From this point on in Galatians, Paul refers to the Holy Spirit 16 times.

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October 25, 2025October 25, 2025

GRACE / RIGHTEOUSNESS / GALATIANS 2:21

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(KJV) Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

GRACE / RIGHTEOUSNESS / GALATIANS 2:21

GRACE

The word translated “grace” (Greek charis) refers to God’s unearned and undeserved favor. “Justice” means we get what we deserve. In terms of defying God and His standards, this would mean judgment and punishment. “Mercy” suggests that we are spared from the bad things and judgment we deserve. “Grace” means we are given favor and good things that we do not deserve. God’s grace is His goodness, love and favor given to sinners who deserve His condemning judgment (Romans 5:2). That grace is ours by accepting God’s mercy, which He extends to us through Christ’s death for our offenses against God (Romans 5:8-9). God’s grace may be missed (Hebrews 12:15), rejected or set aside (Galatians 2:21). God withholds grace from the proud, but He gives added grace to the humble (James 4:6).

RIGHTEOUSNESS

Paul’s understanding of justification (Galatians 2:16-17) and righteousness – both of which imply a right relationship with God – includes more than just a “legal” declaration by God that we are “not guilty” if we have received His forgiveness. The righteousness that comes through faith in Christ involves moral change (Galatians 2:19), the grace of God (Galatians 2:21) and an ongoing relationship with Christ in which we share the power of His resurrection (Galatians 2:20). True righteousness involves a real-life transformation (Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18). Paul confirms this in Galatians 3:21, where he makes it clear that the righteousness that comes through faith in Christ is a direct result of the Holy Spirit coming to live within those who receive Christ (Galatians 3:2-3, 14).

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October 25, 2025October 25, 2025

I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST / GALATIANS 2:20

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(KJV) Galatians 2:20

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST / GALATIANS 2:20

Paul describes his relationship to Christ in terms of a deeply personal attachment to and reliance on his Lord. Those who have true faith in Christ should consider themselves to be united with Him in such a way that they relate to and identify with Jesus in both His death and His resurrection.

In a sense, all Christians have been crucified with Christ on the cross. Their old sinful, rebellious way of life was put to death with Jesus as He took their sin on Himself and paid its full penalty through His own death (2 Corinthians 5:21). In addition, Christians have been freed from the law’s requirement of having to rely on imperfect sacrifices as a way to receive forgiveness and maintain a relationship with God. Christ’s perfect and sinless life provided the complete sacrifice for sins once and for all (1 Peter 3:18). Those who accept the forgiveness provided by that sacrifice receive a new life (2 Corinthians 5:17) by faith in Christ (Galatians 2:19), which allows them to fulfill God’s highest purpose for their lives. Because of spiritual salvation and a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, sin no longer has control over them (Romans 6:11; Romans 6:4, 8, 14; Galatians 5:24; 6:14; Colossians 2:12; Colossians 2:20).
We who have been crucified with Christ now live with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 8:11). This means that Christ and His strength live within us through the guiding presence of the Holy Spirit (John 16:13-14). Jesus has become the source and focus of our lives; He is the center of all our thoughts, words and actions (John 15:1-6; Ephesians 3:17). Our primary aim is to fulfill His purposes and honor Him in all we do.
Our opportunity to relate to and share in Christ’s death and resurrection is a gracious gift of God, and it becomes activated through faith in Christ. That faith is not just an intellectual belief, but an active trust that surrenders the leadership of one’s life to the son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us (John 3:16). Living by faith in Christ and the guidance of the Holy Spirit is also referred to as living by the Spirit (Galatians 3:3; 5:25; Romans 8:9-11).

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October 25, 2025October 25, 2025

JUSTIFIED BY … FAITH / GALATIANS 2:15-16

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(KJV) Galatians 2:15-16

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, ¹⁶Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

JUSTIFIED BY … FAITH / GALATIANS 2:15-16

This is a key issue in Paul’s letter to the Galatians (just as it was in his letter to the Romans, Romans 3 – 8). Paul deals here with the question of how sinners can be justified (forgiven of their sins, accepted by God and put in a right relationship with Him). This will happen not by “observing the law” or following religious routines, but by a living and active faith in Christ Jesus. Paul is not saying that the law is not “holy, righteous and good” (Romans 7:12). But he argues against using the law as a basis for trying to gain favor or acceptance with God. Salvation by faith, because of God’s grace (His unearned favor), is the essence of the true message of Christ (Romans 3:20, 28; Philippians 3:9).

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October 25, 2025October 25, 2025

AFRAID OF … CIRCUMCISION GROUP / GALATIANS 2:12

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(KJV) Galatians 2:12

For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

AFRAID OF … CIRCUMCISION GROUP / GALATIANS 2:12

Circumcision involves cutting the foreskin from the penis. This physical act was originally used to confirm God’s promise to make Abraham’s descendants a great nation (Genesis 17:1-14). Later, it became a sign that the Israelites were in a covenant relationship with God based on God’s laws and promises to them and their faithfulness and obedience to Him (Leviticus 12:3; Romans 2:29). Those “who belonged to the circumcision group” were Jewish Christians, especially in the Jerusalem church, who believed that the Old Testament sign of circumcision was still necessary for all new covenant Christians (Galatians 2:4). They also taught that Jewish believers should not eat with any uncircumcised Gentile (non-Jewish) believers who did not follow certain Jewish customs and food restrictions. Peter knew that God accepted Gentile believers without bias or prejudice (Acts 10:34-35), Yet he denied his own principles out of fear of criticism and the possibility of losing authority with some in the Jerusalem church. His separation from Gentile believers at mealtimes encouraged the false notion that there were two bodies of Christ (two different churches) – Jewish and Gentile.

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