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The Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham is Justified by Faith Galatians 36-9

• Galatians 36 - Just as Abraham "believed God,
  and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
• The Galatians would have to reply to the
  questions of Gal 35, is the receiving of the
  Holy Spirit by the hearing of faith?
• Yes, says Paul, Just as Abraham, .
• As a reminder or even for some a new revelation,
  God is using Abraham as an example of
  justification by grace through faith (Rom
  41-25).
• Why Abraham?
• The certainty we have that Abraham was a saved
  man.
• Justification is by believing.
• Abrahams salvation was before circumcision and
  the Law.
• Abrahams faith exemplified.
• Gen 155,6 Then He brought him outside and
  said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the
  stars if you are able to number them. And He
  said to him, So shall your descendants be. And
  he believed in the Lord, and

May 9, 2010 Bob Eckel
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The Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham is Justified by Faith Galatians 36-9

• He accounted it to him for righteousness.
• And Who was the object of Abrahams (and our)
  faith?
• GOD
• Ron Merryman Faith is actually an avowal of no
  merit, for faith always looks to or relies on the
  merit of its object.
• And remember we were saved, are being saved, and
  will be saved!
• And how easily is this faith of ours misplaced!
• Lets think of some examples in the world system
  and for that matter in the body of Christ.
• Cultural righteousness
• Religious righteousness
• Personal righteousness
• accounted to him doesnt this seem kind of
  weak?
• elogisthe - at the time was used as an accounting
  term to put to ones account.
• Translated as think 9x, impute 8x, reckon 6x,
  count 5x, account 4x.

May 9, 2010 Bob Eckel
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The Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham is Justified by Faith Galatians 36-9

• Perhaps the banks of Pauls day were a bit more
  secure than today?
• But a bank should invest on its account by
  believing in its value.
• Galatians 37 Therefore know that only those
  who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
• Know here is ginoska - experiential
• Abrahams case is exemplary for all Jew and
  Gentile.
• Rom 423-24 Now it was not written for his sake
  alone that it was imputed to him, but also for
  us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him
  who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
• Gal 329 And if you are Christ's, then you are
  Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
  promise.
• of or ek is important here out from is a
  stronger and better interpretation
• And this principle of faith as mans relationship
  to God has been unchanging since the garden.
• Notice the contrast to those who claimed Abraham
  as their father but not their spiritual father
  John 837-44.

May 9, 2010 Bob Eckel
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The Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham is Justified by Faith Galatians 36-9

• Galatians 38 And the Scripture, foreseeing
  that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,
  preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand,
  saying, In you all the nations shall be
  blessed.
• The Scripture how so very important.
• Gal 322, 430, John 738,42, 1937, Rom 917, 2
  Tim 315-17
• Gen 123 I will bless those who bless you, And
  I will curse him who curses you And in you all
  the families of the earth shall be blessed.
• Acts 325 "You are sons of the prophets, and of
  the covenant which God made with our fathers,
  saying to Abraham, And in your seed all the
  families of the earth shall be blessed.'
• would justify present active indicative
• Gentiles 93x, nations 64x, heathen 5x
• The Jewish perspective about the Gentiles and
  liberated Jews
• They did fulfill the task of propagating the name
  of Jehovah
• They did not receive the rite of circumcision as
  the ticket to a relationship
• WRONG CONCLUSIONS - This is an entirely different
  principle.

May 9, 2010 Bob Eckel
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The Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham is Justified by Faith Galatians 36-9

• Rom 328-30 Therefore we conclude that a man is
  justified by faith apart from the deeds of the
  law. Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He
  not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the
  Gentiles also, since there is one God who will
  justify the circumcised by faith and the
  uncircumcised through faith.
• preaching the gospel
• to announce good news in advance
• Heb 42 For indeed the gospel was preached to
  us as well as to them but the word which they
  heard did not profit them, not being mixed with
  faith in those who heard it.
• Gal 316 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the
  promises made. He does not say, "And to seeds,"
  as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed,"
  who is Christ.
• Wow, isnt this preaching the gospel in times
  past to Abraham profound?
• How much did Abraham really know?
• Galatians 39 Therefore know that only those
  who are of faith are sons of Abraham.

May 9, 2010 Bob Eckel
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The Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham is Justified by Faith Galatians 36-9

• Gospel Abrahams way Faith Justification
  Salvation One in Christ
• of faith again out of faith
• those out of faith are blessed with faithful
  Abraham
• And this is all Grace
• Rom 416 Therefore it is of faith that it might
  be according to grace, so that the promise might
  be sure to all the seed, not only to those who
  are of the law, but also to those who are of the
  faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
• Trusting in what God has provided In Christ is
  never misplaced trust.
• 1 John 512 - He who has the Son has life he
  who does not have the Son of God does not have
  life.
• Gal 329 And if you are Christ's, then you are
  Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
  promise.
• Gal 314 - that the blessing of Abraham might
  come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we
  might receive the promise of the Spirit through
  faith.

May 9, 2010 Bob Eckel
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