The Promise To Abraham

Galatians 3: 23-29 

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the Law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 

It was like we were children in boarding school, locked into trying to follow myriad rules and precepts, until Christ came to set us free, through faith in Him.

Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, 

So the Law was our schoolmaster, to show us our need for Christ. 

so that we may be justified by faith. 

So that our faith in Christ paying our death debt for us, would allow His Blood to wash us clean, so we could be justified, by trusting Him.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 

Now that we can put our trust in Jesus having fulfilled all the Law, we don't have to bring animals to an altar any more--He is our sacrificial Lamb of God, who died once for all. 

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 

So we are born spiritually when God puts His Spirit into our spirit, making it alive, with God's life, as His own children. God couldn't live in us until we were cleansed thoroughly.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 

We who were immersed into Christ have put on Christ as clothing, to cover us and to identify us as His. 

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 

God does not distinguish these kinds of differences; He loves us no matter what our state or station in this life is. It only matters while we're here, and won't make any difference in Eternity. We are all one in Christ, and He is one with the Father (see John 17: 11, 21).

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise. 

As Jesus Christ is the Seed of Abraham upon which the Covenant of Promise fell on, and we are in Christ; then we are also of the spiritual lineage of Abraham who believed. 

And we also are heirs to inherit all the Promises God gave to Abraham; for we are the uncountable descendants (Revelation 7: 9-10), and we will reign and rule in the Promised Land (Revelation 5: 10; 20: 6). 

Both Jews and Gentiles, both slaves and free men, both rich and poor, both male and female, will all be one in Christ as He is one with the Father. These differences will not make any difference any more. 

We will reign with Christ as kings and queens, and priests to God in Him. 

O my Father, You have done it all. You thought it out, planned it out, created it, and worked out Your Plan just as You wanted. And You made Mankind to be Your children, to live Your life in Your Son, to rule and reign with Him in the Kingdom of God which will never stop growing and increasing throughout all eternity. 

Thank You so much, Father, for Your unimaginable Love for us, and Your unstoppable Plan of the Ages, in which You are bringing Your blessings to Your children. 

O Father, please send out Your children as Your workers to sow the precious seed of the Gospel, and to reap Your fields already ripe for harvest. 

My Father, send me to find and rescue Your lost lambs, caught in the thickets of the World, and trapped in ravines of deception. Let me carry them, by the hand or kicking and screaming, home into the safety and peace of Your Fold. 

And every eye shall see, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus is our Christ, Lord God Almighty, to the eternal glory of Almighty God the Father, for ever and ever. Amen. 

Even so, come swiftly, Lord Jesus!