Galatians 3:26-29

Gal 3:26 (KJB)

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

 

Now here is the end of the law for the believer. Every person who is saved by grace alone is a true child of God. This verse negates the new age belief that we are all children of God. We may be children in the sense that we are all created by God but the true relationship to God with His true children comes through the Lord Jesus Christ which is an eternal relationship.

 

Gal 3:27 (KJB)

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

 

Put on - clothe oneself

 

(Rom 6:3-4 KJV) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? {4} Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. The true believer was baptized into the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. This means we died with Him to the world and when we received our new resurrected souls, we were now alive unto God and live in newness of life which is the Christian life. This has nothing whatsoever to do with water baptism. Water baptism does not have the effect of placing a sinner into Christ and making them a new creation. Water baptism is only a symbol in that we died with Christ and when we come out of the water it symbolizes the resurrection unto new life. A person can only put on Christ when they have become truly saved. The symbol here is that we put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness which is covering us with salvation. (Isa 61:3 KJV) To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. In Isaiah 61:3 it is called the “garment of praise.”

 

Gal 3:28 (KJB)

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

This verse shows the equality of every Christian at the foot of the cross. One Christian may be president of a country or corporation and another may be very poor but both have equal standing in Christ. This verse is also used by the proponents of those who feel it is fine for a woman to be a pastor or elder. This verse has nothing to do with that and those who use it are just twisting Scripture to their own destruction. This verse has only one thought in mind and that is the equality of all true believers. This statement would not have held good with the Jews since they thought they were the only children of God. Paul is making sure they know that true salvation brings true equality to the true believers and there is no political group on earth who holds more sway than any other in the Kingdom of God.

 

Gal 3:29 (KJB)

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

 

Paul sums up this chapter with this statement that those who are born again in Christ are the true seed of Abraham and will be heirs of all the promises of God. (Rom 8:17 KJV) And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. The Jews who were pushing the law on people would not be heirs because the promise came not through the keeping of the law but rather it came through grace alone. Abraham became saved and believed God and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness and in like manner we also are saved an believe and because we believe we are heirs of the promise of salvation by grace through the Lord Jesus Christ who was the promised one.

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