When we try to turn from God and his gospel, it is like returning to a fifthly orphanage, the pit. This passage is all about learning to live as God’s children, in the freedom of grace and in the love of the Father.
In these verses, Paul opens up his heart to his spiritual children, the Galatians. He speaks as a shepherd, as father, and even using the language of a gentle mother. Even though Paul has rebuked them earlier, the language is of friendship and family here.
Take the this message of adoption to the millions who need the Gospel more than anything. Some object: what about evangelism? What about it? If orphans were a country they would be the 5th-8th largest country. There are more orphans than people in Russia. If you decide to do global evangelism, you have decided to evangelize orphans.
How can the covenant promises to Abraham and Moses be true? In Jesus at the Cross – where Law and Promise meet, where the Law is fulfilled and the Gospel proclaimed. In the one who is both the seed of Abraham and the Fulfillment of Moses’ Law. And we get the promises and blessings of both mediated to us through Christ…
– Jesus fulfills The Abrahamic Law as the Seed of Promise – the one who can crush the Dragons head and bring salvation to all nations…
– And He can be the Seed of Promise by fulfilling the Mosaic Law – the only one who was perfectly obedient… the only one who was not like Adam in the garden trying to put Himself in the place of God
Love the gospel. “God justifies the ungodly by faith.” Let justification be your good news when you are doubtful of God’s love or discouraged by the pressures of life.
Share this gospel. It is for the nations.
Live by the Spirit and faith. It’s how we entered, and how we continue.
Non-Christian: receive Christ as your righteousness.
