Part Two

Bible Proof That Your Unworthiness Has Nothing To Do With Your Right and Ability To Receive Healing and Prosperity

CHAPTER FIVE

Gentiles Were Never Under The Curse of The Law Because They Were Never Under The Law

Galatians 3:10-14,

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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I want to direct your attention to the pronouns in this passage. "Christ has redeemed "US" from the curse of the law...." Who is "US"? You can go to most churches, and most of the pastors of those churches will teach that the "US" in this passage means "Christ has redeemed "US" Gentile Christians from the curse of the law that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles...." But I want to differ with that for the simple reason that Gentiles were never under the curse of the law. As a matter of fact, Gentiles were never under the law, much less the curse of the law. It was the law, itself, that excluded the Gentiles from the Abrahamic Covenant - until the death of Christ.

So when Paul says, "Christ hath redeemed US from the curse of the law....", what he is saying is, "Christ has redeemed US Jews from the curse of the law in order that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles..."

The law was that which excluded the Gentiles from the Abrahamic blessings. In fact, the law told the Jews to slaughter Gentiles. We were excluded. We have never been under the law. There has never been a day when a Gentile was under Moses' law. We were totally excluded from it, and even had the death sentence placed on us because of what God instructed the Jews (Hebrews) to do through the hand of Moses in the book of Deuteronomy. They were told to go out and slaughter seven of the Gentile nations. The law stated that Gentiles were to have no part in the Covenant. They could not get in. So Gentiles could not get into the Abrahamic system until the law had run its course and stopped.

So when Paul says, "Christ hath redeemed us", he's not talking about Gentile Christians, because we were never under the curse. Never. But when Christ redeemed the Jews from the curse of the law, that freed the Gentiles to get into the Abrahamic system. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, became the final sacrifice for sin for whatever infraction of Moses' law the Jews committed. If they committed adultery, Jesus Christ became the final sacrifice for it. If they stole money, Jesus Christ became the final sacrifice for that sin. That's not all. Jesus, when He died for our sins, terminated the law. He ended it. He wiped it out. It does not even exist any more. I hear preachers get up and say, "You've got to preach the law and get people under condemnation before they can be saved." Brother, how can you preach something that does not even exist. The thing is gone. Jesus terminated it, because He took it into His own flesh, and it died with Him. It's over.

When it ceased to be, that which kept the Gentiles out of the Abrahamic Covenant ceased to be; therefore, now the blessings of Abraham can come on the Gentiles through faith in Jesus Christ. Now we can understand what this Scripture means. Christ redeemed the Jews from the curse of the law, so that Abraham's blessings might come on the Gentiles through faith in Christ Jesus. See What've They Done With Abraham's Blessings and The Unbroken Force of Abraham's Blessings.

Verse 14 says, "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles THROUGH Jesus Christ...." This word "THROUGH" should have been translated "in", because the blessing of Abraham comes on the Gentiles "IN" Jesus Christ, not through Jesus Christ. It's translated "through", but the Greek preposition is the same as our preposition "in". It's "IN" Christ that the blessing of Abraham comes on the Gentiles.

What Is The Blessing of Abraham That Has Come On The Gentiles?

What is the blessing of Abraham that has come on the Gentiles? It's the same identical blessing that Abraham himself had. What blessing was that? Salvation, healing, prosperity, and well being for his family. When Christ terminated the law and redeemed the Jews out from under it, these same Abrahamic blessings came on us. How do they come on us? When we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior, God grafts us into the Abrahamic system. When He grafts us into that system, we have the same blessing that Abraham himself had, that Isaac had, that Jacob had, that the twelve heads of the tribes of Israel had, and the tribes of Israel themselves had, for we have been grafted into the same identical system.

So Christ redeemed US (Jews) from the curse of the law so that the same identical blessing that Abraham had might come on US (Gentiles) in Christ Jesus, that WE (Jews and Gentiles) might receive what the Spirit promised through faith. Well, what did the Spirit promise? The Spirit promised Abraham in Genesis 12:3 "Abraham, in thee shall all nations of the earth be blessed." We have already learned that Paul equated that statement with the Gospel. He called that the Gospel. Then in Genesis 22:18, He made another statement that pertains to Gentiles. He said, "Abraham, in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed." Abraham's seed was Jesus.

In Acts 3 we see this very same statement as the basis for the healing of the man at the Beautiful Gate, and the use of Jesus' name to get the man healed was based on that statement in the Abrahamic Covenant. So when we say the "blessing of Abraham", we Gentiles now inherit the same identical thing that Abraham himself had - which was salvation, healing, prosperity, and well being for his family. See How To Exercise God's Megaton Power Now.

Let me go a step farther and shock you again. A Jew that is born today does not have to get saved - he is born with it. Now when he gets old enough and begins to sin, he learns that the Jewish sacrifices don't exist any more and that Jesus Christ is the final sacrifice for sin. At that point he has to make a choice. He either goes his own way and stays a Jew under the Old Covenant, or he renounces his upbringing and receives Christ as his Savior. If he does this he accepts the final sacrifice for sin under Moses' law, and the salvation in the Abrahamic system keeps on running for him. The entire realm of Scripture will open up to you when you see this, and you'll eliminate questions that have confused so many people about salvation and the blessings of healing and prosperity.

Jews, Not Gentiles, Were Defended Against Losing Their Abrahamic Blessings By Moses’ Law

Notice the pronoun "WE" in verse 23.

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

I have heard theologians and preachers and teachers make fun of and belittle the pronoun. I want to tell you something though - you can't make fun of or belittle anything in the Word of God. Our power lies in the Word of God, and our minds must be renewed and saturated with it. So you cannot even belittle the pronoun. If you do not watch the pronouns, you'll put yourself in places where you don't belong in Scripture, and cut yourself out of some places where you ought to be. So when Paul said, "Before faith came, WE were kept under the law...," he is, again, speaking to Jews. Gentiles were never kept under the law. They were never in it.

In Acts 15, when Gentiles started getting saved, it created an uproar, because they were coming into the Jewish church, the Abrahamic church on an equal footing with the Jews. And the Jews got bent out of shape because the Gentiles were not being forced to be circumcised and keep Moses' law like all the rest of them were required to. The first church council settled that question and concluded that the Gentiles were never under the law. The only four things that they instructed the Gentile converts to keep was: don't commit fornication, don't eat anything which was strangled, don't drink blood, and don't eat meat which was offered to idols. Those are the only things of the Jewish law that Gentiles were instructed to keep.

So when Paul said, "But before faith came, WE were kept under the law...," he is speaking of Jews. All commentators today will tell you that that has to do with the whole human race. Bless God, it does not pertain to the whole human race. I challenge any man to show me a Scripture where the whole human race was under the law.

But what about Paul's statement in Romans 3:19 "..all the world may become guilty..." under the Law? The word "world" translates a Greek word which means "orderly arrangement". The "orderly arrangement" that God placed under the Law was the Jews exclusively. The "world" was never under the Law.

When Paul says, "....WE were kept under the law...," he's talking about those who were under it, which was nobody but Jews, or Hebrews. Again, the commentators say, "The whole world was kept under the law," and they say, "The law was a prison house that God put us all in, and He forced us to stay there until we accepted Christ as our Savior. He would not let us out unless and until we received Jesus Christ as our Savior." Go to any bookstore, look at any commentary on this passage, start reading, and I guarantee you that almost every one of them, if not all of them, will say this.

The Unworthiness Peddlers Imply That We Could Be Saved Some Way Other Than Through Jesus. But, How?

But that implies that had God not put us under the law and locked us up, we could have been saved some other way, for what the commentators say is that the law was a jailer to keep us all locked up until we agreed to receive Christ as our Savior. Then we could get out from under it. But again, that implies that had God not done this, a man could be saved some other way than through Jesus Christ. I want to know what other way there is. How many ways can a person be saved? Let me tell you something - it's Christ or it's hell. There never has been another way, even in the Old Testament. The sacrifices that the Old Testament people made didn't save them. It just deferred the judgment on their sins. When God saw the blood of that sacrifice, He waited on dealing with their sins until Christ died, then He brought those Old Testament sins up under the blood of Christ on the cross. Jesus saved everybody that's ever been saved!

When Paul said that WE were kept under the law, he was talking about Hebrew people - the physical seed of Abraham. What did he mean when he said that we were kept under the law? Was it a prison to them? What did he mean? Look at the words "kept under". This comes from a Greek word, which is a military term for "garrison" or "fort". What is the purpose of a garrison or fort? A garrison or a fortress is not usually looked upon as a jail. It is looked upon as a place of defense. So what God did was take the Hebrew people and shut them up under the law for their defense. In that way He could deal with their sin problem and yet defend them against losing the Abrahamic blessings, because He set up a sacrificial system that enabled them, when they sinned, to make the proper sacrifice so that their Abrahamic blessings could keep on going!

So it's not a jail house, it's a defense. It is a fort in which the Jews could beat off the theological thieves who were out to steal their healing and prosperity when they sinned. Hallelujah!" We were kept under the law, shut up...." Look at the words "shut up". It's a Greek word which means "enclosed on all four sides". What that says to me is that when God put the Jews under the fortress of the law to defend them against the loss of any one of their Abrahamic blessings, He didn't leave their backs exposed. He closed them in on all four sides. They didn't have to watch their backs. Have you ever been with a group of people where you felt that you needed to watch your back as much as you needed to watch where you were going? Well, God shut them up on all four sides for their protection. He put them under the law and set that system up so they were covered, protected, and defended. And they didn't have to turn around and look to see what the Devil was going to steal, because as long as they did things God's way they didn't lose a thing.

This Scripture was written to the Jews. When you begin to look at it like that, the law was as big an act of grace as Calvary. It was temporary, but it was still grace. He shut those people up on all four sides "unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed." Look at the expression "unto the faith". The word "unto" should have been translated "until". The law, the defensive fortress of the law, which enclosed those people on all four sides, lasted UNTIL Christ - UNTIL the faith came. And when the faith came - when Christ came - Jesus terminated the law. When He terminated the law, the Jews were redeemed from it. When they were redeemed from it, that part of the law which excluded us Gentiles was also done away with. Consequently, the blessing of Abraham is now on the Gentiles in Jesus Christ. Now we have received what the Spirit promised us in Genesis 12 and Genesis 22. In Genesis 12, God said to Abraham, "Abraham, in thee shall all nations of the earth be blessed." In Genesis 22, God said to Abraham, "Abraham, in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed." The word "blessed" is a translation of both a Greek and a Hebrew word which means "the beneficial enduing of the power of God to produce well being in every area of our life". That's the blessing of Abraham that has come on us. See What've They Done With Abraham's Blessings? and The Unbroken Force of Abraham's Blessings.

Is it any wonder that Jesus made the statement, "No man cometh unto the Father but by me." John 14:6. You don't get to heaven any other way except through Jesus. He said in the same verse, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Someone says, "That's narrow-minded." And I say, "Bless God, it is! Hallelujah!" But it's also certain. It works.

Verse 24 goes on to say,

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Look at the pronoun OUR. I hear preachers tell their congregations, "The law was our schoolmaster." It was not. It was never your schoolmaster. It was the schoolmaster to the Hebrews, but it was never your schoolmaster to bring you to Christ. You were never under the law. You were excluded from it. Look at the expression "to bring us to". It's in italics, which means it was not in the original Greek - it was added to help us understand it. But let me show you something. "The law was our schoolmaster unto Christ...." The word "unto" should have been translated "until". "The law was our schoolmaster until Christ...." What does he mean by schoolmaster? The law taught them. What did it teach? It taught them what sin was. It taught them what sacrifice to make when they sinned. It taught them who not to marry. It taught them what to eat. The law taught them, as a school teacher teaches little children. Do you think your children have sense enough to know what to eat? If you let them, they would eat Twinkies until they came out of their ears - and they wouldn't eat their spinach. Someone has to teach them. Mom and Dad teach them, teachers in school teach them. That's what the law did for the Hebrew people. It taught them how to live.

The Law Never Was A Ministration of Death

Moses told the people that "the law was for our good always to preserve us alive." Deuteronomy 6:24. How can the law be a ministration of death if it's good? How could the law be a ministration of death if it was designed to keep those people alive? It never was a ministration of death, but it became a ministration of death because of what they did with it. They disconnected it from Abraham's blessings and set it up as a system of works, trying to get into heaven on their own. That made the law a death instrument, for you cannot get into heaven on your own.

The teaching function of the law lasted until Christ, then when Christ came, at that point "we might be justified by faith." Look at the word "justified". I've already explained what this word means, but I'm going to do it again. It means "cleared of all guilt". When you receive Jesus as your Savior, you are cleared of all guilt.

2 Corinthians 5:17,

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new

creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

What that means is when you get saved your past is gone. Praise God! That means cleared of all guilt. There is nothing in my background, in the mind of God, that He can hold against me. My past is gone, and so is yours. The law taught them until Christ came, but now "we're cleared of all guilt by faith."

Look at verse 25,

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Look at the pronoun WE. I've heard preachers preach, "We Christians are no longer under a schoolmaster." Well, I've news for them - we never were. WE Hebrews were under a schoolmaster. When faith came, then the blessing of Abraham came on US Gentiles. But we were never under a schoolmaster, the law. We were excluded by it. But when it's gone (and Jesus terminated it in His own person), and after faith is come (which is the Christian era), we Gentiles are grafted into that very same Abrahamic system. So when he says, "WE were under the law until faith came," and, "The law functioned as OUR schoolmaster until Christ", he's using the pronouns which includes himself and the Hebrew people, but not Gentiles.

Paul Changes Pronouns Showing That Gentiles Are Now Included In The Healing and Prosperity God Promised in The Abrahamic Covenant

Look at verse 26.

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

He changes pronouns. "For YE are all...." It's no longer WE and US and OUR - he's saying YOU. That's a bigger pronoun - he's putting us in it. Now all of us are children of God - not just Hebrews, but Gentiles, also. Not just the physical descendants of Abraham, but YOU all are the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. The law was terminated by Christ, the schoolmaster function for the Jew is no more - they're not even shut up in it as a defensive fortress anymore, for now they don't need it. Christ is here, He made the final sacrifice for sin, and they are as free of the law as we are. They're not under it, we're not under it, we're all now the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus - apart from the law!

We Gentiles have been grafted into the Abrahamic system, and everything Abraham was promised belongs to us, also. That's why I can be saved, healed, prospered and have well-being for my family.

In the days of Ezra, they had lost Moses' writings - they didn't even know what it said. One day they found a copy of it. They began to read it and nearly fainted, because all across the land, Hebrew men had married Gentile heathen women, and had children with them. What were they to do? Moses' law specifically forbade them to do that. Do you know what they had to do? Every Hebrew man had to divorce his Gentile wife. So you see, Gentiles were excluded from the blessings of God by the Mosaic law.

But when Christ came, died, and paid the final sacrifice for the sins of the people under the law, He redeemed the Jews. When He died, He took the law to the grave with Him. It doesn't even exist any more. Therefore, that which kept the Gentiles out is gone, it's dead. Now the Gentiles are on an equal footing with the Jews in the Abrahamic Blessing Church.

That should liberate you, my brother and sister. That's enough to make us all shout. This reminds me of the story of a man that was visiting a church and was enjoying the pastor's sermon so much he kept on saying, "Amen, Amen". One of the religious people went to him and said, "Shhhh. We don't do that here." The man said, "Well, I've got religion." The religious person said to him, "Well, you didn't get that here!" I've preached in some of those churches - a freezer would have felt warm compared to them.

Look at verses 27-29,

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

28 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.

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

That nails it to the floor, doesn't it? The thing which caused the Jews to be bent out of shape in the early days of the Christian era was the fact that they understood full well that Gentiles were coming into their Jewish system, and they were not being forced to be circumcised and keep the Jewish law. They were mad as fire, because they knew what was going on.

Modern theology says that the church is a brand new thing. No, it's not. The church has changed forms down through the centuries, but it is not new. It started, for our purposes, with Abraham. Then in Egypt, it became the children of Israel. It became a monarchy under David. It changed forms again in the Babylonian captivity. It changed again at John 20:22, for it received the indwelling Holy Ghost permanently. It changed again at Acts 2, because it received power from on high - but it was still the same church composed of the same Abrahamic Seed Group. Had the church been brand new at Pentecost, (a brand new Christian thing that the Jews had nothing to do with), why did the Jews get so mad about it? They could have cared less. They got mad because they knew that Gentiles were coming into their Abrahamic blessing system on an equal footing with themselves without having to be circumcised and keeping the law like they did.

Healing and prosperity are in that Covenant, and that Covenant is still running in the book of Galatians. And you and I are grafted into it.

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