Galatians 3; Verses 6-9; Abraham As An Example

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(Galatians 3:6-9) "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

As always, Paul uses Abraham as an example in the difference between serving the Lord through faith vs. serving the law.

(Now the Word accounted comes from the Greek word logizomai from the root logos, where we get the word logic, the skilled art of reasoning. This should be a given. God calls we respond. Therefore not by our own works. No one can say they chose God from the get-go. We choose when we respond which gives Him the credit. He does the saving. The Lord always makes the first move is the point).

(Righteousness = the condition acceptable to God, then doing right).

7Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
The Father of many nations (umbilical cord to umbilical cord). Because Abraham physically fathered them being example of having that faith in this wilderness called the World. But here spiritually speaking as in the body of Christ.

8And 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.
(Here heathen would be foreign nations not worshiping the one true God. Referring back to the OT to the time of Abraham. Abraham knew the Gospel was coming. Matter of fact taking Isaac to Mt. Moriah where Christ would be crucified and saw the vision of the crucifixion. God showed Abraham, would he would not let Abraham do himself. Sacrifice his son Isaac as Christ was sacrificed. Amazing. This also used as an example as the heathens would sacrifice their children back then--aborting them. This is all Abraham would know be surrounded by that. The motives are no different in child sacrifice in idolatry. Above all rooted in and for selfish reasons stemming from worldly reasoning skills).

(Genesis 22:4) "Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off."

This is also why Christ would say,

(John 8:56) "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad."

Back to Galatians 3:9,

9So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham."

And so it is.

AMEN †