Topic: RIGHTEOUSNESS cont...
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Fri 07/16/10 07:42 PM
Galatians 3:13-16 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law,
having become a curse for us-for it is written, "CURSED IS
EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREEE" -
14 in order that we would receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith.
15 Brethen, I speak in terms of human relations: even though
it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified,
no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.
16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed
He does not say,"And to seeds," as referring to many, but
rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ.

Further insight into the depth of revelation contained in these
passages can be harvested through other translator's rendering
in them.

Galatians 3:13 (TCNT) Christ ransomed us from the curse
pronounced in the law, by taking the curse on Himself for us,
for Scripture says, cursed is anyone who is hanged on a tree.
3:14 (KNOX) Thus, in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham was
to be imparted to the Gentiles, so that we, through faith, might
receive the promised gift of the Spirit.

What did the Spirit of God, the agent of the earth's creation,
promise to Abraham, as a reward for the faith he exihibited
before, and in God?

Romans 4:13 The promise made to Abraham, and his "seed", that
they would inherit, possess, reclaim, the world, did not come
to them because they kept the law (earned it), but, because of
the imputed righteousness that came as a result of his faith.

The promise given to Abraham, and to his "seed", stated that
they, through faith, would inherit, receive as a possession,
the whole earth.

God was using this "door of faith" to repossess to Himself, the
creation Adam had surrendered to satan.

Romans 4:18 The promise given to Abraham, was that he would be
the Father of many people groups.

This new race of faith people, would rise up in dominion authority,
and through willing obedience, take back, what lack of faith had
lost. (Luke 19:10 & 1 John 2:2)

Romans 4:11 Abraham received circumcision as an outward sign in
the flesh, of an inward change, as a witness of the faith Abraham
had before receiving circumcision, in order that he might be, the
father, of all who have faith in God, even when uncircumcised, that
they also may be regarded by God as righteous.

To bolster or strengthen Abraham"s stand of faith in God, he was
given a sign, to affirm the promise of God made to him, that his
offspring would "inherit the world".

The sign was circumcision, a cutting away of "flesh", that once
shrouded the organ, or channel of bringing offspring into the
earth. The promise of a new species of faith people was sealed
with a sign in Abraham's flesh.

Circumcision spoke of a change to the reproductive channel. A new
race, of faith people, who would be led by the spirit and not the
flesh (Romans 8:14) was given witness to, in the cutting away of
the veil of flesh that had covered.

After Adam's treason, righteousness gained entrance into the earth
through "the door of faith" (Acts 14:27) opened by Abraham.

The penalty of sin and the fall was however, still upon the
bloodline of Adam's seed. Faith was working while death was
still reigning (the paycheck of sin). Faith was a force that
could not be stopped, not even by a world, filled with sin and
godlessness.

Abraham was flesh, not spirit, so the sign he received was in
the flesh, at the channel of "life seed". A new generation of
faith marked seed was being introduced into the earth. They were
a type and shadow of what the faith of God would produce.

Out of Abraham's seed line, would come a faith child. "The
author and the completer of faith", who would, through His,
"seed of righteousness", raise up a Kingdom of God people who
would seize the promise of inheriting the earth, and actually
rise up to possess the earth, as promised, and restore the
Kingdom singular, to God by subduing the Kingdoms plural, of
earth for Him.

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Fri 07/16/10 08:40 PM
Just get to the point, you don't really expect people on here to read all this stuff, do you?