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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 33
GALATIANS 2:7 - 3:5
Where Paul after coming away from his confrontation with Peter who was still succumbing to the demands of the Law-keeping Jews at Jerusalem says:
Galatians 2:15-16
Knowing 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."
Romans 3:19
Yes, you did because the Law of God says, "That it's against His will, against His Law to steal." So every mouth was stopped, and all the world became guilty before God. Romans 3:20a
"Therefore by the deeds of the law (in other words by Law-keeping, by works) there shall no flesh (Jew or Gentile) be justified in his sight:..."
Why? The Law wasn't given for that reason. The Law had one function and that was to show mankind how sinful they really are. Every human being has been a Law-breaker, and we're sinners by nature.
Romans 3:20b
"...for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Now let's come on down to verse 23.
Romans 3:23
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Not just Gentiles like the Jews perhaps thought, but everybody, Jews and Gentiles have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We're sons of Adam. Now verse 24 has the remedy.
Romans 3:24-26
Whom God (this same Christ Jesus) hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, (remember we looked at the ramifications of the blood in our last lesson. Now verse 27.
Romans 3:27
Because the law of faith excludes it as you see in the remains of the verse.) By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith."
And the law of faith is? Believe the Gospel for your salvation. I've got a list of Salvation verses which is included in this book #33. Now back to Galatians chapter 2.
Galatians 2:17
"But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, (not by the Law) we ourselves also are found sinners (remember we're children of Adam) is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid." And here's the basic reasoning in verse 18. Galatians 2:18
Let's look at Colossians chapter 2 and nobody understood this better than the apostle Paul. "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, (the Law, and especially the Law that was being practiced at the time of Christ which was a degenerated 613 rules and regulations.) which was contrary to us, and (the Law was absolutely contrary to human nature. Everything in the Law, human nature says do it. Galatians 2:19
"For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God."
What was the Law? Perfect. Right. It was the very mind of God it was perfect from God's point of view. Remember the Law was given to Moses on hard cold stone. Because the Law condemns you. If it weren't for the Law then anybody could say, "Well I'm good enough. and God will accept me." But the Law says you're guilty. We're Law breakers, and if we're a Law breaker then we're a sinner.
Hey listen, good people are sinners, nice people are sinners, church people are sinners, because we're all guilty of having broken God's perfect Law. The Law. Come back with me to the tough chapter of Romans 7. Romans 7:7
Is the law sin? God forbid. (is the Law something evil or wicked?) Nay, I had not known sin, (or the old sin nature) but by the law, for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Romans 7:8-9
"But sin, (the old sin nature) taking occasion by the commandments, (the Law) wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."
Old Adam woke up and old Adam in Saul's makeup said, "Hey that's me, because I'm a coveter." I died. New life. When our old Adam is put to death because he was a Law breaker and we become a believer in the finished work of the Cross which is the Gospel then we're a new creation, we're alive, we have eternal life and Paul is constantly referring to that. Peter also said that salvation was all Paul talks about in all his epistles. Now back to Galatians chapter 2 verse 20 which is a classic. Galatians 2:20a
"I am crucified with Christ:..."
Now Paul didn't die on a Roman cross. God reckons old Adam as absolutely dead, but in experience, oh he's still there. I've always told people that I don't mind the attacks of Satan half as much as I do the attacks of my old Adam. Now verse 20 again.
Galatians 2:20

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