And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.And if ye are Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.
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… nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male nor female. For you're all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Wow! and we talked about before, I do believe a week or two ago, that that word confess means to say the same thing, ek homologeo, is to say the same thing that God says about it. In other words, bring your life into agreement with God's word, and be free, and that word sing, if you remember, we talked about that word in Hebrew and Greek, or the word both means to pull upon, or to pluck, or to play, and of course it's implying that the heart the heart will sing why? because the heart is being plucked like an instrument before God think about that very romantic talk of our God but what does real praise and the result of the redemption that God has done what does that look like? …
… by faith. Galatians chapter three, verse 29 says, if you belong to Christ, then you're Abraham's seed, his offspring, and heirs according to the promise. So the same situation, even on another level, that was available to Abraham is available to me now in Christ. Thank you. so review God wants you and me to live in the zone we make that decision through a faith step we realize God's the blesser we're blessed we can be a blessing we do that through receiving and reflecting God because God is God hearted I do that and you do that through the generosity of your time, talent, and resources. We leave the land of Ing and go into the blessed place in space. Fellowship Church began in 1990. Lisa and I helped kick it off, and that was a real, real adventure. When we moved up here, we had one child, LeBeth, and later we wanted to have another child, so we had to go the whole route of infertility doctors you know and I know many of you here have done that it was very expensive yet we went through it and had EJ and that of course is an incredible blessing being able to do that and being able to leverage medicine And remember, God's the one that gave the doctors all the knowledge anyway, of course. …
… of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer. Verse 29, if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants. So there's a sense in which all of us, Jew or Gentile, who have come to know the Lord through the gospel and through faith are children of Abraham. He's the prototype of faith, and we have followed His pattern. Salvation came in one day, and it showed up that this was such a dramatic transformation, it was inconceivable that this man could change so totally, so fast. This was just another reason to kill Jesus. That's right. Just another reason for the elite religious leaders of Israel to hate him. But he's in the business of saving sinners. Let me close with one final illustration. 1 Timothy chapter 1. The Apostle Paul. The apostle Paul met Jesus on another road, didn't he? The road to Damascus. And the Lord sought him there and stopped him in his tracks and blinded him and saved him and commissioned him. But look at how Paul views that. …
First. They are remotely descended from God. The church is a distinct race, that originally came from God. Other men are of the earth, they are of earthly derivation, they are the posterity of men; but the church is the posterity of God. Thus it is said, Gen. vi. 2. “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” The sons of God were the children of the church, of the posterity of Seth; the daughters of men were those that were born out of the church, and of the posterity of Cain, and those that adhered to him. It was God that set up the church in the world, and those, who were the first founders of the church, were of God, and were called specially the sons of God. Seth was the seed that God appointed. Gen. iv. 25. “And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth. For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.” Adam, in Luke’s genealogy of Christ, (Luke iii. 38. “Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God,”) is called the son of God; possibly, not only because he was immediately created by God, but also because he was from God, and was begotten by him. As he was a good man, and was the founder of the church, of which Christ himself became a son, he was the first in the line of the church, and as such he was from God. When the church was almost extinct God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees, and afterwards out of Haran. Abraham was one immediately from God, and all God’s people in all succeeding ages are accounted as the children of Abraham. God promised Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of heaven, and as the sand on the sea-shore, meaning primarily not his posterity according to the flesh. John the Baptist said., God is able of the stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Those are the seed of Abraham, as we are taught in the New Testament, that are of the faith of Abraham; Christians, as well as Jews, are the seed of Abraham. Gal. iii. 29. “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” So the church is the seed of Jacob, who is called God’s son. Hosea xi. 1. “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.” All God’s people are called Israel; not only his posterity according to the flesh, but proselytes of old, and Gentile Christians now under the gospel. The sincerely godly, and they only, are the true Israel. …