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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Galatians 3:8 http://www.dailybiblestudy.org
8 And [de] the scripture, [graphe] foreseeing [proeido] that [hoti] God [theos] would justify [dikaioo] the heathen [ethnos] through [ek] faith, [pistis] preached before the gospel [proeuaggelizomai] unto Abraham, [Abraam] saying, [hoti] In [en] thee [soi] shall [eneulogeo] all [pas] nations [ethnos] be blessed. [eneulogeo] KJV-Interlinear
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "All the nations shall be blessed in you." NASB In many passages, there are recorded conversations, visions, dreams and so forth wherein God communicated to various persons. In Gen. 15, God spoke with Abraham. In Rom. 9:17, it is stated that the scripture spoke of Pharaoh, 'For this purpose did I raise you up.' In these and many other passages, the term scripture is in reference to the word of God in whatever form it was in at that time. Moses wrote all of the first five books long after Abraham lived and certainly after the Israelites had left Egypt. The scriptures as we know them, did not exist in Abraham's day or even in Pharaoh's day, but certainly and even in Job's day there was communication and information handed down from parents to children from the time of Adam and Eve, which constituted the communications of scripture from God. Thus, the term scripture here is a reference to the collective body of information that has been available throughout history. Scripture is truth. And whether written, spoken or just out there like gravity or the stars, scripture is the sum total of truth that is in existence, whether you know it or not. And here, the specific scripture or truth was present in Abrahams time, stating clearly that all peoples can and will be saved by means of faith. Adam was saved by means of faith. Enoch was saved by means of faith. Noah was saved by means of faith, and certainly Abraham was saved in that same manner. All of these and many more lived prior to Moses and the actual recording of the Law, which Law so many traditional Jews looked to as their written authority for substantiating their position in salvation by works. And yet for generations from the time of Adam, many millions were saved by faith without the existence of a written Law, and certainly without the existence of the practice of circumcision. Abraham was not circumcised when he was born. He wasn't circumcised until he was one-hundred years old. And that is enough to bring any grown man to tears, but it has nothing to do with salvation. In Abraham all would be saved. And that applies to two concepts. First it applies to his method of being saved, namely faith, such that all who believe as he did, will be saved. So Abraham's faith is the documented record of salvation which applies to all of humanity. And second, it applies to the line of the Messiah, down from Abraham, through Isaac and Jacob and so forth, which effectively eliminates all other candidates or want-to-be's for messiahship. But here our topic is works, and here our topic is the pattern of salvation by means of faith and by no other means. You cannot work for your justification. You cannot earn your justification. And you certainly do not deserve your justification. It is the sole work of Christ, and the sole gift from God, through grace.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
