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| Hello. In this audio word, we'd like to talk about a verse that the Lord put into my heart. I was asking him, as always, what do you want us to talk about in the next audio word? And I wasn't getting anything, any answers. And then yesterday, the day before this recording, | |
| I was walking outside and running an errand and then returning from the errand, I suddenly looked up and said, Lord, oh, it's like the audio word came to my mind because I had forgotten about it, especially because I was running this errand. So my mind was occupied with that. So as I was walking, | |
| And I looked up and suddenly I remembered the audio word and I said, Lord, what do you want us to talk about? And then without me even maybe finishing the question in my mind, Galatians 3:11 immediately came to me. | |
| And it's, I don't know how to explain it, but as Galatians 3:11 came to me, I felt God saying Galatians 3:9. So I asked the Lord, well, am I hearing wrong? Is it 11 or 9? And I felt the Lord say, it's 11, but I want you to go back to verse 9, to start from verse 9. Okay. | |
| And I had peace in my heart immediately. It's like I had that awareness that that's what God wanted. And I said, okay. So when I returned from my errand, the first thing, as you can imagine, that I did, or one of the first things, was to go see what Galatians 3:11 said. | |
| And it turns out it's a very well-known passage. I generally have bad memory when it comes to knowing chapter and verse of popular verses and things like that. My memory is not that good in that sense. | |
| So I had no idea what Galatians 3:11 said, but when I looked at it, I said, oh, that's a very famous verse. It says, And I said, Lord, what can I say about that? Because in my mind, that seemed like a very fundamental verse that most Christians know about. | |
| this has been preached on over and over again so I didn't know what else could be said other than what other people have already said but I felt the Lord say there's something here and you need to look at it and then as I was looking at the verse I remembered oh that's interesting the just shall live by faith that | |
| That's a quote from a passage in the Hebrew text of Scripture. So I did a search, and it turns out that in a sense, Paul here is quoting Habakkuk chapter 2. There's a verse there that literally says, the just shall live by faith. And that's when I understood that aside from talking about this | |
| chapter, Galatians 3, that we needed to also meditate on what God says in Habakkuk chapter 2 in the verses surrounding that verse that says, the just shall live by faith. It's as if God is saying, if you want to live by faith, in other words, to fulfill this call, the just shall live by faith, you have to | |
| do these things or engage in these things. And that's what I believe Habakkuk 2 is talking about, the things that we have to engage in to be a manifestation of a just person who lives by faith. | |
| And when we get to Habakkuk 2, I think it's going to feel a little murky when we are looking at things, because I imagine that most people expect like a very clear list of one, two, three, four, five practical things to do. But the more important thing is the principle, the spirit. | |
| And I believe it's five things that the Lord talks about in Habakkuk 2 that have to do with a manifestation of someone who lives by faith. So as when we get there, Lord willing, the important thing is to focus on the print, the spirit of what's being said, like the underlying thread in the five things that God is talking about today. | |
| And the sad thing with this verse, the just shall live by faith in Habakkuk and in Galatians, is that most believers just think of it in terms of salvation, of being born again. That's all they can think of. | |
| And because they have that limited, very infantile, and I don't mean that as an insult. I mean that, you know, because the church does not grow. It has stayed a kid constantly because of the pastoral matriarchy. So if you have an infantile thinking... | |
| And every time you hear that passage, it's always spoken in the context of being saved from hell, then more than likely you'll just restrict it to that. And God is saying something deeper than that. Okay, so let's read from verse 9 to kind of get momentum and get into verse 11. | |
| And I think the Lord will also want us to go further down in the chapter in Galatians 3. And then if the Lord allows it, then we'll go to Habakkuk 2. I'm not sure if we'll be able to do it in this audio word, but we'll see how the Lord leads. And I pray that we will follow what he calls us to follow. | |
| So Galatians 3:9 says, So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. And again, as we've said before in some recent audio or video recording, I don't remember. When you see the word faithful, or at least when I see it, I usually try to rephrase it in my head because... | |
| uh, we can, we tend to kind of associate it with loyalty. And, and yes, there's, there's a lot of loyalty there associated to faithfulness, uh, because something, someone who has faith, uh, becomes trustworthy to God. So, but that's like a different thing. The thing is that, um, unfortunately in English, faithful has become like someone who's loyal, like a faithful husband and things like that, or faithful wife and so forth. But, uh, | |
| The more exact spiritual meaning comes if you change the word to someone who has faith or full of faith, for lack of a better phrase in English. | |
| And the word faithful here in Galatians 3:9 was translated from pistos. And pistos is like the adjective form of pistis. Pistis is the Greek word for faith. So faithful just means someone who has faith. | |
| It's an adjective to describe someone. It's someone with faith. So let's read it like that. So it says, so then they which be of faith are blessed with the faith having Abraham or the faith holding Abraham. | |
| The Abraham who has faith. Yeah, that might be a better word. A way of saying it. With Abraham who has faith. And I believe that the English Standard Version translates it as with the man of faith. With Abraham the man of faith. | |
| There's no word man in there, but that kind of gives a good sense of what's being said. Abraham, a man, a person with faith, and we're blessed with him when we are of faith. So when we share in his faith, then we share in the blessing. The faith that was in him, if that same substance is in us, then we're blessed just as Abraham was. | |
| Okay, so then verse 10 of Galatians 3 says, For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. So, | |
| So it's important to kind of make a distinction when you look at the word law here. And I know that what we're about to say is something that everybody knows when they read Galatians 3, even if you're a matriarchal believer. | |
| you already are aware of that. The problem is that matriarchal believers restrict the word law to this one thing that we're about to say and don't realize there's more to it than that. So it's like they compartmentalize the word law. And even though it's right to interpret the word law a certain way in this chapter, | |
| The problem is when you turn that into an excuse to caricaturize the word so that anytime anybody talks about laws or the law of God, they say, oh, the law. The law is in Galatians 3. So then they say, oh, that's not for us. We don't care about that. We're living under the age of grace, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that's the thing that we have to be careful about. | |
| But the important thing here is that God has never said that his law has been nullified. And that's what he says in Matthew 5, when the Lord Jesus said that not one iota or one tittle will be taken away or something like that from the law, because the law needs to be fulfilled, reach its real meaning. | |
| So the thing is, when we say bad things, quote-unquote, about the law, because we're reading Galatians 3, we have to remember it doesn't deny the higher law. The higher law is there. The law that was there before was taken to another level. The problem is that most Christians don't think of the other level. You know, it's like saying... | |
| This sounds like a silly example, but when I think about it, it may be like in real, like spiritually, it's kind of very realistic, you could say. It's like someone saying, oh, don't eat... | |
| fatty food, you know, food with a lot of cholesterol or whatever, you know, the things that people are always talking about when they want to be healthy and all that. And so someone says, we should reject fatty food, food with a lot of cholesterol. And everybody goes, yes, we agree. That's not healthy food. That's not good food. So we'll not eat that. | |
| And then imagine that that same person, then I know this sounds like a silly example, but it's very realistic if you think about it in the spirit. Imagine that person saying the next time you offer them some food, they say, no, I won't eat it. And they go, what? | |
| Well, I am against food with high cholesterol and all that because it's unhealthy. Yeah, but what I'm giving to you doesn't have high cholesterol. It's very healthy. Yes, it's meat, but it doesn't really have that much cholesterol and all that. They go, no, no, I'm not going to eat that anymore. And I'm just going to eat... | |
| I'm going to become a vegetarian. So then they take a bad example of food and use it to justify that all types of food are bad unless they are vegetarian food. So | |
| But by denying, by saying this type of food is not good, they are denying a whole bunch of other food that is good. And it's the same thing with the law. There's a certain type of law that we have to shy away from. And | |
| But shying away from that law doesn't mean that there's no law to follow. Just like saying shying away from high cholesterol food doesn't mean shying away from all food. I hope that's making sense. So the thing is. | |
| Because of the context of Galatians, Galatians was written when Paul was chiding the Galatians because they were becoming exposed to the Judaizers, I think at the beginning of this chapter or earlier. | |
| Paul is talking about how these Judaizers are coming in to the church in Galatia and we're trying to convince them all to follow the law, to get circumcised and kind of like become Jewish and follow the Torah and everything and follow all the rituals and restrictions and all that. | |
| and Paul said that he was writing that to call them out for doing that. So because of that, we know that when Paul is talking about the law, he's not talking about the law of God. Like Romans 8 talks about the law of the spirit of life. He's not talking about | |
| He's talking about that type of law. He's talking about the Mosaic law, the law of the rituals of don't eat this, don't do that. You must keep a certain specific day of the week holy and not do this, not do that, not do the other. Or, you know... | |
| well, I can't think of other things, but the thing is that all these rituals and laws that the Israelites had to follow, that's what this word law is talking about, the literal stuff. Okay, so it says, For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it's written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. | |
| So it's like you have to keep up. You know, it's like if you're going to live by the law and use that as the standard to prove that you're justified or that you're just in God's eyes, you'll have to keep up. Every time you see a new law, you'll have to keep up with that law. | |
| And, uh, so you, maybe you were trying to juggle 10 laws or 15 laws, uh, to kind of, um, stay just. And then when the 16th law comes along, you'll have to keep up. You'll have to now, um, juggle your life to make sure that you keep all 16 laws. And then in law number 17 comes, um, then boom, then you have to abide by that one and so on. So it becomes this, this thing where you have to keep up and, and, uh, | |
| And that's how you prove to God that you're just. And that becomes a curse. Because you're trying to prove through external evidence that you're internally just. I hope that's making sense. So that's the problem with the law. When you're trying to prove through external things that you're internally just... | |
| But the problem is there's a certain injustice in us that is inherent. And what is that injustice? The injustice of the fall in Genesis. And in Genesis 3, by the way, this is Galatians 3. And what was the fall that we had in Genesis 3? As we've said so many times, it's the fall of man when he allowed the soul to dominate over the spirit. | |
| The female soul over the male spirit. When Adam listened to the woman and obeyed her instead of obeying God, instead of the woman obeying him, that's when man fell. We all have a male spirit and a female soul. And when our female soul... And we're using the word female spiritually speaking. So... | |
| So when our female soul takes over the spirit, then we fall. And that's the root of the unrighteousness of man. So you can be doing, quote, technically good stuff in the natural, things that look okay. But if there are things that your soul is deciding to do, in God's eyes, it's unrighteousness. | |
| Like imagine, for example, if you are trying to, if you want to be a good person and you're constantly giving money to organizations that are giving food to the poor or to the homeless or whatever. And by the way, I hope that the example doesn't cause confusion. So we're not saying that it's bad to give | |
| to donate to a place that gives food to the poor. That's not the point. But imagine that you're giving to an organization that just cooks food and they open the doors and all the homeless people come in and they give them as much food as they can. And the same thing happens over and over again. | |
| But let's say that they're in a neighborhood that's full of drug addicts and they know that they're feeding drug addicts, but they do it anyway. So, you know, because they're drug addicts that have it. | |
| made them lose their homes or their belongings and now they're out in the street and they're always stealing or doing stuff to get enough money to get another high and so on and these people do not change they continue doing that drug life | |
| Because they know that if they run out of money, which they always do, then they can go to that homeless shelter or whatever place and get some food. And they have enough food and then they sleep out in the street and then they go on with their lives. So what has happened? That homeless shelter has become a crutch that these people use to justify and uphold their rights. | |
| unrighteousness. They never come to a point of repentance because they're always saying, you know, the homeless shelter will bail me out. So if you're giving money to this homeless shelter because you have a, quote, good heart and you want to help the poor and all that, you may not realize it, but you're helping people to continue in their lifestyle and | |
| And instead of helping them, you're helping to destroy them because if you stopped helping them and the homeless shelter stopped helping these people, at some point they'd be forced to come to terms with the choices they've been making and say, I need to change. | |
| Because I don't have the homeless shelter to give me food when I run out of food because I've used all my money on drugs. So your soul felt compassion for the poor and you went and gave money. And it's all very noble. You're not stealing. You're not committing adultery. You're not bearing false witness against anyone. You're not... | |
| coveting your neighbor's property or whatever. You're not violating any of those commandments. But you're violating one, the one that says, I should love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength. You're violating that one because if you were listening to God, God would tell you, don't do that anymore. But you're not... | |
| You're not listening to God because your soul is in control. Your soul is the one making decisions. And your soul feels that it's a good thing to give to the poor. | |
| When God says, no, I have a better plan for these people, stop helping them. And then you will allow me to intervene in their lives and cause them to change. And if they don't want to change, it's better for them to die than to continue in that lifestyle. Because a lot of them, you know, they continue that lifestyle and they start getting into crime and very, very serious crime. And they could hurt people and kill someone later. So if they don't want to change, they're hell bent on not changing, literally hell bent. | |
| then it's better for them to die off. So God has a greater plan, but your soul doesn't want to hear that. I want none of that. That is lack of compassion or whatever. And you don't trust that God has a higher plan, that he can work something out so that, yeah, these people can somehow find enough food to survive until they repent. God has a plan, but you're not listening. You don't care about that. | |
| So then anything that you do with your unrighteousness inside of you, what's your unrighteousness? Your soul telling the spirit what should and should not be done. Your soul taking over, saying to the spirit, I don't care what you think, I'll do what I feel is right. What makes me feel good. Then there's unrighteousness at the core. | |
| So you may go out and do other righteous things, you know, things like, I don't know, anything else. And no matter how much you try to prove I'm righteous, I'm a good person, I'm doing all these good things, no matter how much you try to do that, in God's eyes, you will be found lacking because God can look past the works and see the inside. And he sees a soul that | |
| that doesn't listen to the Spirit, that does not submit to the Spirit. And that nullifies all the good works you could possibly do. And the thing is, if you have that unrighteousness inside of you, eventually it will manifest an unrighteous act. Like, for example, in this case... | |
| You may think you're doing a good thing by helping the homeless shelter, but in God's eye, that's an act of unrighteousness. So no matter how good you are with everything else, maybe you go to church and you pray, and let's say you're a Christian, you do all these things, but you still have these areas where you're, because you're matriarchal, your soul just does them, and you feel that's the right thing to do, then you're going to fail. It's like... | |
| How can we say this? It's like if there's something inherently wrong inside of something, that inherent wrongness will eventually manifest in a deed. You know, it's like if someone has some sort of penchant for stealing, eventually they will steal something. I hope that makes sense. If there's something wrong on the inside, it will manifest eventually in some deed that you do. | |
| So then if you're trying to justify yourself by your deeds, if you don't deal with the root, then you're doomed. And that's what being cursed kind of is in essence. You're cursed means that you're condemned to destruction. You're doomed. So you're doomed to fail and you're doomed to be cursed by God because the unrighteousness is still inside of you. | |
| So you can't keep up. It's like every time you have to produce something righteous. And you can only do that if the core inside of you is righteous. And how can the core of you be righteous? It's when your soul submits to the spirit. So before we are born again, our spirit is dead. It's like there's something about our spirit that it's like dead inside. It's kind of there, but it's kind of dead. | |
| And then when we're born again, our spirit is resurrected. But it is a new spirit. It's a spirit made according to God. As Ephesians 3:10, I think it is, and Colossians... I'm sorry, I think it's Ephesians 4:24 and Colossians 3:10... | |
| they talk about the new inner man inside of you. And it says man. It's the new male spirit that's inside of you. Even if you're a woman, it's a male spirit. A male, quote unquote, spiritually speaking. So you have an inner man inside of you that is new. And you allow that new inner man to take over and your soul stops trying to tell the new inner man what we're going to do. | |
| then when it submits and it becomes silent to the new inner man, then whatever you do becomes righteous. It's like everything that flows out of you will be righteousness because your spirit, that spirit inner man, is not sinful. It is made after God. So everything it does is righteous. And the thing is that... | |
| You know, that inner man starts like a baby, but it grows and grows and grows. And then the power and the magnitude of | |
| Everything that you do in righteousness just grows and grows and grows. But it's all righteousness. Even if it's baby righteousness, it's still righteousness. Or, you know, young child righteousness, it's righteousness. Or teenager righteousness. It's all acts of righteousness. And if you keep growing in the spirit, then you get to adulthood, you know, righteousness. Where your deeds are very adult and spiritually righteous. | |
| if that makes sense. Spiritually mature might be the better word. So that's what God is saying here. And I know this is all things we know, kind of, but I pray in the name of the Lord that what we're doing here is like rephrasing things to say them in a deeper way in the Spirit. | |
| to kind of get away from that matriarchal thinking that's been put in our heads, because we read these verses and we just think the silly doctrine, the very immature doctrine that's been put in our heads. And so, see, the thing is, if we are justified, then everything we | |
| do is is has to be just I hope that's that's making sense it's not see that the thing is the the the grace people and the matriarchal people they are always saying oh we're just that's a label you know when it says we've been justified oh yeah it's like God pretends like you had never done anything wrong and he just slaps a label of righteous on you | |
| And you could be, it's like, let's put it this way. This is how the church sees it. Imagine that there's a guy who is filthy because, you know, maybe he went jogging. | |
| and uh got lost so for a couple of days he was jogging all over the place and it was uh you know like the hottest days of the year and he eventually got back home and he was in the woods so he was not only sweating he got all dirty and everything and then he comes back home and um | |
| So he's filthy. He's dirty. And let's say he just, you know, takes off his dirty clothes and he puts on some clean clothes. But he's still, you know, very filthy on the inside and on his skin and everything. But he's not showering. He's just changing clothes. That's... | |
| You would say, oh, he's still, he's not clean. He's dirty. He's still very dirty. And, you know, he might even be, you know, kind of a perspiration in the smell of it and all that. You know, it's still on him. He just changed clothes. Or imagine that someone, let's say he doesn't even change clothes. | |
| And, you know, we all see him and yeah, he's filthy. But someone comes with some label and just, you know, puts it on him, you know, some label that sticks, you know, with glue. And they just put it on his chest and the label says clean. | |
| And everybody looks at him and goes, oh, he's clean. Why? Because he has the label. But you stop looking at the label and you see the guy and the guy is filthy as can be. So the label is useless. I hope that's making sense. The label doesn't say anything. It's just the label. It's a lie. The guy is not clean. He's filthy. | |
| So the thing is, when God says that we've been justified, what he's saying is that now the inner man inside of you that has the capability to act like a just man or woman, you know, depending. So it's not just a label. It's the ability to produce righteousness. That's what it means to be justified. | |
| Imagine how silly it would be that, for example, let's say the guy goes to a restaurant, this filthy guy we're talking about, he's filthy, he smells of perspiration from three days in the woods, and maybe he got even sprayed by a skunk. | |
| And imagine he goes to a restaurant, a fancy restaurant with a dress code. And let's say, you know, just to fit the dress code, he shows up with a suit and tie or tuxedo or whatever, very elegant. And, you know, he shows up and he asks for, you know, a table. | |
| And the person there taking the hostess or whatever kind of smells the skunk spray and says, no, you can't come in. But he looks like he's well-dressed. He looks clean from 20 miles away. But when you're close to him, you go, wow, this guy has been near a skunk. So it's like... | |
| Like lying, you know, you'd have to lie to yourself to say, no, he's clean, when he's not. I hope that's making sense. And God doesn't lie to himself. So when he talks about us being justified, he's saying we have the capability now to manifest justice, that everything that we do can be an act of righteousness. | |
| It's just a matter of staying in that inner man. That's all it is. And I hope that's making sense. And that's what God is calling us to do. And then, okay, so now verse 11, the verse that we have to look at. | |
| Galatians 3:11, but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident for the just shall live by faith. Now, the thing is, when I read that, I said, in the sight of God? And for some reason, I felt in my heart that I'm not sure. First, I could be wrong. I could be misremembering. But I vaguely remember that when I read that verse, | |
| something hit me about in the sight of God as if to say, that ain't right. Like there's something not right there. And you may say, well, what's wrong with that? I don't know. It just felt wrong. The thing is, if you look in, as it turns out, in the Greek text, it's saying, but that no man, well, actually it doesn't say no man, it says no one, but that no one is justified by the law | |
| That's how it says in the sight of God, according to the King James. And that's when I knew in the sight of God, it just didn't sound right. Because I know in my being that if it really said something like that, | |
| It would have said, in the eyes of God, and I know for sure, or almost, I don't know why, I knew for sure that the King James monks would have translated it like that, in the eyes of God, or in the face of God, or in the presence of God, or something like that. But because they used the word sight, I said, that ain't right. Sight ain't right. Not here. | |
| And it turns out in the sight was translated from para, and God was translated obviously from theos, T-H-E-O-S. You know, that's where we get the prefix theo, T-H-E-O, which means God. Like in many words, like theophany or theocracy or theology and stuff like that. But the thing is that... | |
| in the sight of God, it really says para Deus. And para doesn't mean sight. It has nothing to do with eyesight. It doesn't say any verb that has to do with eyesight or seeing or whatever. It's para. And para is like a prefix or a word that we see all the time in Greek when you look at the Greek text of Scripture. | |
| And pada, as we've shared before, means next to. Like paramedic is someone who's next to the medic. Like someone next to a doctor helping. Or someone who is next to medicine, who kind of does medicine, but not being a doctor. It's like next to a doctor. Kind of like, I hope that's making sense. Or paralegal, you know, it's like someone who is next to a lawyer helping the lawyer. | |
| I think that's what a paralegal does. So the thing is that para means next to or besides. It says here from, of, at, by, besides, or near. So it has the connotation of proximity. It says here somewhere. I think I saw it. Yeah, so para means next to. Okay. | |
| So let's read the verse again, but kind of translating para the way it should have been. It says, but no one is justified by the law next to God or besides God. And why did God phrase it like that? Why did Paul phrase it like that, inspired by God? Why did he say it like that? Because what God is saying is... | |
| Let's put it this way. Let's say that the skunk guy, the guy who's filthy and hasn't showered and everything, and he's still unclean. Let's say this guy stands right next to someone who's completely clean, recently showered and wearing great smelling cologne or whatever, and he looks as clean as a whistle. | |
| and smells nice and everything. And you put them side by side, you can see the contrast. That's what God is saying. It's a comparison. | |
| It's like you compare yourself to me and it's, oh my goodness. And how do you try to justify yourself? Oh, by the law, by following the law, the literal law of Moses. You know, do this, do that, do the other. And then that applies to Moses and applies to human laws, you know, human traditions and religious stuff. So you try to justify yourself like that, but you're still... | |
| on the inside, when you stand next to me and I am full of righteousness, everybody will see the difference. Everybody. Because I have a different essence than you do. I have an essence of righteousness. You don't. And no matter how many clean clothes you put on yourself through the law, you're still filthy on the inside and people will know it. | |
| If they're standing next to you and next to me, they will smell you and smell the skunk spray and know, hey, that dude ain't clean. And they will smell the aroma of God and say, oh, that is clean. That is righteous. So I hope that makes sense. So what is the difference? | |
| God is spirit, and his soul is submitted to his spirit. And when you're in the matriarchy and try to live by external stuff, then your soul is in control, and then you're filthy on the inside by comparison. Your spirit is under the dominion of the soul. And that's what a lot of Christians do all the time. They think that... | |
| To be good, a good Christian, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to do the other. And then Paul says, no matter what you do, it will never be enough. You'll have to keep up and keep up and keep up. And eventually you're going to slip up. So God says, no, you have to switch frameworks. It starts with, I'm going to be in the spirit. And the moment I am in the spirit, then everything I do will be just and righteous. | |
| then there's no concern about slipping up because your essence is a righteous essence. And it's a matter of faith. Switching to the spirit is a matter of faith. So I hope that makes sense. And that's why it says the just shall live by faith. I have faith in God. I hear his words and I believe everything he says. And my spirit, which was made, | |
| in his image and likeness, which in his image, and it was made after him in righteousness and holiness, it says in Ephesians or Colossians or both. Ephesians 4:24, Colossians 3:10. Then, you know, everything we do will produce life, life, life, life, life. Okay. Okay. | |
| And the thing is, God says, I don't care how many times you go to church. I don't care how often you pray. I don't care how much you tithe. I don't care how much you try to help your brothers and sisters at church and you do acts of kindness and this or the other. As long as your soul is in control and you deny the spirit dominion, | |
| then you and I are not of the same type. And that's what God has to say, will say to some Christians when they stand, a lot of Christians, or most Christians. And I pray I'm not included in that list. But God will look at them and say, we're not of the same type. You were always soul-centric. And even the good things you did, you did them motivated by the soul. | |
| even if they were externally good, and even things I would have told you to do, because you did them out of your soul and not your spirit, they are there to me as works of unrighteousness. I hope that makes sense. I know this is a very weird example, but let's put it this way. | |
| It's the only thing I can think of right now. Imagine that a guy likes a young lady. And let's say that the guy is a bit of a lecher and the young lady is attractive and he wants to sleep with her. | |
| And this young lady, for example, is, I don't know, she needs a ride home from, let's say they were both going to university, you know, that's where they met or they knew each other. And this young lady lives very far away and she doesn't have a car. And this young man gives her a ride, you know, every chance he gets. So he's | |
| doing a, quote, act of kindness, but obviously, let's say in this case, the guy's doing it because he wants to sleep with her. But imagine another guy | |
| who appreciates the young lady. He doesn't see her that way or his mind, he's not a lecher. He's just a genuinely kind person. He would help her if she was the ugliest woman in the world. He would give her a ride because he says, oh, she has a need. And I have a car. I live nearby, like three blocks away. And it's no trouble or maybe... | |
| 15 blocks away or something. And it's no trouble for me to go the extra 15 blocks to help her. And so his motivation is different, even though both guys are doing exactly the same thing on the outside. | |
| And God will say to most Christians, the vast majority of the stuff you did, even though I would have told you to do it. You know, just like, let's say this guy, let's say the good guy is a Christian and God is telling him, let's say both are Christians, nominally Christians. But the other guy, even though he's a Christian, he's a lecher. But let's say that the good... | |
| It's like if that letcher guy would have been right with God, he would have asked God, should I give her a ride every chance I get? And God would have said, yes, because she's a daughter of mine. I love her. And I want to provide her with transport through you. So even if it was something that God would have told him to do anyway, | |
| The fact that he did it to God means nothing because he did it out of a motivation of the soul, not the spirit. In this case, I just exaggerated it. It's an evil motivation. It could have been something subtler. Maybe the guy's not a lecher. Maybe he just loves to have a reputation of everybody saying how kind he is. | |
| So he's doing it just to kind of bolster his reputation that he's a good guy because he drives some sort of joy out of it. So he's not doing it for the motivation. Like, for example, the Pharisees who would pray and make sure everybody saw them praying and fasting and all that. So they were doing it out of their soul, not the spirit. They were being motivated by something that came from the soul, not the spirit. | |
| And that's what God will see and say, oh, we're not of the same type. You're soul-centered. I am spirit. Therefore, get away from me. I never knew you. Okay. So let's keep reading here. In verse 12, Galatians 3, it says, And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them. And I'll be very frank. | |
| This verse is a little confusing to me, so I don't have much understanding. But when I read, and the law is not of faith, I didn't know what to make of it, and I thought maybe there's a translation issue, but I went and checked, and apparently it is well translated except for one little thing, which technically might not be a mistake, but I think it... | |
| that little change they made, and I think it's justifiable, I think, you know, humanly justifiable, but I think that they should have translated of a little differently. Of was translated from ek, and ek means out of. I mean, you can translate it as of, | |
| But the more literal translation would be out of. Ek is where we get the prefix in English, "ex". | |
| Like exhale, exit, excommunicate, exorbitant. It's out of the orbit. That's exorbitant. Like it's so high up there that it goes out of orbit. You know, like when they say an exorbitant expense, it's so high up there that, you know, it didn't even stay in orbit. It just went out into outer space. Yeah. | |
| Yeah, so let's translate it like that. And the law is not out of faith. And that's... Oh, [speaking in tongues]. | |
| Yeah. So we have to remember, this is not the law of God, the spirit law. This is the literal law. In this case, literally talking about the law of Moses and doing literal things. And God is saying that doing those things literally is not out of faith. In other words, you can do all these things and still have no faith in you. | |
| Because faith is believing God when God says, live by my spirit. There's something fundamentally wrong with you. It's your soul dominating your spirit. I've given you a new spirit to live by. Live by it. Just immerse yourself in it. Be in the spirit and everything you do that flows out of that will be righteousness. Right? | |
| But if you don't believe that, say, no, no, no. I want to stay in control. I want my soul to stay in control. I'll do all these good things just to prove I'm righteous. To prove to God and to everybody that I'm righteous. But God says, no, no. You need to take care of that soul thing first. And the thing is that you can carry out all the law you want | |
| and still have no faith. That's why it says, and the law is not out of faith. Living out, you know, don't eat pork, don't eat shellfish, don't eat owl. I think you can't eat owl in the Torah. I don't know who would want to, but the thing is that you can't eat it. So all these things, you can follow all these things | |
| And people say, oh, wow, he has a pristine mark on all these laws. And God will still say, no, that guy has no faith. He doesn't listen to me. You know, because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, the word, the judgments of God, logos of God. Or I think it was Rhema. Oh, sorry. I have to find out now. Um. | |
| Let's see if I can find it. Faith comes by hearing. I think that's the famous verse in Romans 10:17. So I'm curious what the word word is. Rhema. Yeah, it's not logos. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the rhema of God. That's the prophetic word of God. Logos is the apostolic judgment words of God. | |
| And rhema is the prophetic word of God. So you're not listening in the spirit to me. You're just doing these things because pastor so-and-so told you to do it. Then it wasn't done in faith. See, that's the thing. When you're doing it because... So let's say there's a good thing to do and two people do it. | |
| So they both externally produce a supposed act of righteousness. But one did it because his pastor said to do it. And the other one did it because God told him to do it. | |
| And again, it's important to understand, that doesn't mean that you can't do something unless God told you directly. Like, oh, I'm not listening to anybody but God. No, the thing is, even if someone else comes and tells you to do it, but you hear it, and on the inside you feel the testimony of the Spirit. Oh, that's from me, son. That's from me, daughter. And you do it because you heard the testimony inside of you. Then you did it because God told you to do it. | |
| Not because the other person told you to do it, if that makes sense. Even if you started thinking about it because God sent someone to tell you. But you hear it and you go, oh, you're right. And then you accept it because you say, I want to do God's will. Then, yes, that's right. Then it was an act of faith. You did it because you believed God. But the other person is doing it because that's what they do at their church. | |
| That's what they do. And that's what everybody considers a good act. So you do it because of that. You don't go to God and confirm, Lord, brother so-and-so, let's say the quote, pastor so-and-so, shepherd, sheepherder so-and-so said, do this, do that, do the other. Lord, is that from you? Should I do that? And if God says yes, then you do it. It's an act of faith. If God says no, | |
| That's not of me. Then then you didn't do it. It's like, for example, all the Jews nowadays, the Orthodox Jews who do all these things, you know, live by the law and everything. They they're doing it because that's their religion. That's their culture. | |
| They're not doing it because they heard from God that God is telling them to do that. They are doing it because everybody else in their family, in their synagogue, and everybody else that they know does it. That's why they do it. Their rabbi says to do it, so they do it. They never ask God. | |
| The rabbi says, I want you all to participate in some fundraising event to help the homeless shelter in so-and-so place. And he doesn't. And he thinks he's doing a good deed. He listened to his rabbi, but he never went to God to ask, Lord, should I do that? So that's why God says here that... | |
| Where were we? In Galatians 3:12, that the law is not out of faith. Living by external laws is not out of faith. And that is because you could be doing them for reasons that have nothing to do with obeying God. Just doing it because your soul feels that it's good. | |
| And sometimes you do things when you're trying to live by the law. You do things because the vast majority of people do that. The people that you know. That's why you do it. So you're trusting them. It makes your soul feel good. It makes you feel like you belong. And you don't want to stop doing it because you don't want to stop belonging. And that's all very soulish. It's not spirit. You're not doing it because it's right. You're doing it because it makes your soul feel good. | |
| And the soul needs a lot of validation, majority validation, you know, because as we've said so many times, the soul is plural. The spirit is singular. The spirit is just one. The soul tends to kind of rely on collectivism. | |
| Yeah. And that's why the old joke that, you know, why women always go to the restroom, um, um, in, in pairs or, or, or groups may never do that. You know, be very strange to see a man, you know, they were there in the restaurant with a whole bunch of men and women at the table and a guy getting up and saying, Hey John, uh, could you come, uh, accompany me to the restroom? I mean, everybody else would look at each other and say, wow, that was weird. Um, | |
| But if a woman does that, no one sees that as strange at all. Like if Mary gets up and she says to Betty, hey, Betty, I'm going to the powder room to powder my nose, whatever that means. And can you come with me? Oh, sure. And they get up and no one... | |
| No one will find that strange at all because the soul needs plurality. The soul needs more than one. God made it like that. And the female soul, and when we say female soul, it could be inside a male, a literal male. I pray you know what we're talking about. | |
| It's like God put certain things in the physical female, certain qualities, to kind of show this is what the soul looks like. And he put qualities in the physical male to say this is what the spirit looks like. But that doesn't mean that a woman doesn't have a spirit, a male spirit and a female soul. It doesn't mean that a physical male doesn't have a male spirit and a female soul. But the thing is that... | |
| A lot of people... That's why in church, God can be telling someone, come out of there, come out of there. And God tells them, you need to come out because I've shown you this, I've shown you that, I've shown you the other. Come out of that church. Come out of that group of people. And they can't do it because their soul needs the validation of having a congregation, fellow believers, brothers and sisters... | |
| and a place to go on Sunday to prove that you're still a good Christian. | |
| you know, so that people will start gossiping that you have fallen, that you have, you know, that you're one of those apostate, I don't know how to say it, you know, like in the old, there's a passage that talks about in the latter days, many will fall away from the faith, you know, the apostasy. Oh, you know, just to prove that I'm not part of the apostasy, I need to go to church. Even though God is telling you to get out of there because it's called this | |
| killing your spiritual calling but your soul needs the validation of being around people and having everybody see that you're in church every day that you really are that you haven't fallen away from the faith so that's the thing that that's why the soul can do so many things that look good on the outside and God says no | |
| And that's why the soul can also do very bad things in God's eyes that look good on the outside to other souls. Because at the end of the day, God is more interested in the root. What is coming? What is the source of what you're doing than what you're literally doing? If you do things in the spirit, everything you do is righteousness. If you do things in the soul... | |
| Even if they are righteous on the outside, in God's eyes, they're still flawed. And I would dare say that sometimes people who are not that connected to the Spirit can at times connect to the Spirit and do acts of righteousness that are pleasant to God's eyes. I hope that's making sense. You know, for example... | |
| You know, someone who is very matriarchal, her soul is always dominating over her spirit. But then let's say she runs across a remnant believer who is in need of something that she can help this person with. | |
| Let's say it's another sister, but she's of the remnant. She's of the spirit, but she's in a difficult situation. And this other person then sees her and something clicks in her spirit and her soul says, no, I'm going to help her. | |
| So she starts helping her and blessing her, and God looks at that and says, oh, that came from my spirit. Even though she's mostly soul all the time, that thing came out of her spirit because she saw the remnant sister, and instead of rejecting her, she embraced her and helped her. | |
| I hope that makes sense. So it's kind of complicated. It's not like everyone who is soulish, everything they do is soul, soul, soul. Sometimes they amaze God. And even, I would dare say, people who are not believers, there will be times when they will feel something and do it, and God will see it as righteousness somehow, even if they're unbelievers. Yeah, that gets more complicated, but... | |
| but the thing is that sometimes soulish people can do spirit things that are pleasant to God. Okay. So then, and the law, so let's read Galatians 3:12 again. It says, and the law is not out of faith, doesn't come out of faith, but the man that doeth them | |
| shall live in them. And the odd thing is usually when it says man, it tends to be something that they added in the translation, but this time it isn't because the word man is anthropos here. And we've said before, as we said before, anthropos is the actual word for man in Greek, but it's kind of gender neutral a bit. So it's not a male, it's a man, just a human being. | |
| So the man or the antropos that doeth them shall live in them. But the word doeth was translated from poeo, the verb poeo, and poeo means put into practice. You know, it's like when you put into practice a habit or something, you know. So it says the man who puts into practice the law... | |
| it says here, shall live in them. So, and this is the part, as I was mentioning earlier, where I get confused. This verse is a little confusing to me. But what I'm getting is that when you put into practice the law, | |
| the man the anthropos who puts into practice the law and again law the law is the law of Moses the law of external things and in the case of like a matriarchal Christian it could be a whole bunch of other stuff you know church stuff that's the law in God's eyes because it's not spirit a whole bunch of church stuff it's just law it's the law in God's eyes it's the same thing as if you were following the Mosaic law same thing | |
| because it's a whole bunch of external rituals. And it's even worse, I would dare say, than the Mosaic Law, because at least the Mosaic Law came from God directly. A lot of the church stuff never, never crossed God's mouth, ever. A lot of nonsense that people do in church never came out of God's heart or mouth. At least the Mosaic Law, that came from God's mouth. | |
| It was for a season and it had a purpose, but it came from God. A lot of church stuff doesn't. So it's even worse than the Mosaic law. Okay, so it says the anthropos who puts into practice the law lives in them. And the curious thing is the word in is translated from end. | |
| in Greek, which is in, you know, en. So it's almost the same word in English as in Greek. So it is in. So that man shall live in them. And the question would be, what does that mean? It means that if you commit yourself to living by external law, then you live in external law. That will be your house. | |
| And that means. I think I'm beginning to understand it a bit. I believe. It's like. Thank you Lord. I pray this is of him. It's like the Lord is saying. If you decide to live by the law. Then that's your house. And. | |
| And your house is outside of God's house. It's like saying, you know, like there's a house and there's like a little cabin or something outside the house that someone built. And God wants you to live in His house. | |
| But if you say, no, no, I am not. But the thing is to live in his house, you have to live in the spirit. And you say, no, no, no, I'd rather have my soul stay in control. And God says, you can't be in my house then. Then he goes out and there's this little cabin outside that is the law. And God and that person goes live in that little cabin outside. | |
| Log cabin outside the house. And God says. The moment he chooses to put into practice the law. And live by it. Then he lives in the house. In that law. But that law is outside of my house. So he's outside of me. I hope that's making sense. I think that's what he's saying. It's like you've excommunicated yourself from me. | |
| You have chosen to live separated from me. You live somewhere else. You don't live in my house. That's what God is saying. And that's what he's saying to all the matriarchal Christians who follow the law of the matriarchal system. You don't live in my house. You live outside. You chose to live in those structures. The structures of man. Okay. Um... | |
| And then Galatians 3:13 says, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. And to be frank, I'd never thought of it this way, but after the Lord had made me understand that we were supposed to talk about this, | |
| verse Galatians 3:11 and surrounding verses and then Habakkuk 2, I started reading it and I said to myself, I had never thought of that. Because in the last part of the verse, Galatians 3:13, it says, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. And if you've been a Christian for several years and gone to church and listened to a lot of sermons, you know this by heart. And you know, oh yeah, | |
| Yeah, that's why all that explains why God cursed people hanging on a tree and stuff like that. So you kind of dismiss it. You say, I know what this is all about and you keep going. But then I said to myself, okay, I understand the thing about, I think I understand the thing about the law has a curse. Okay, got it. And I understand Christ being made a curse for us. | |
| Got that, I think. But then I said to myself, okay, why does God give us an example? Immediately, you know, there, you know, give an example of someone hanging from a tree. Why? Cursed is, oh, you say, oh, because Jesus died on the cross and that's like death by hanging because that's how you die on the cross. You die from asphyxiation and all that. | |
| And also the grueling, you know, kind of being nailed to wood and being outside and, you know, just hanging. But the main cause is asphyxiation. But yeah, I know that. But the thing is, why does God bring up death by hanging on a tree as a way to explain the curse of the law? | |
| I hope that's making sense. So instead of saying, oh, that explains, yeah, Jesus was made a curse for us. That's why he died by hanging because hanging is a form of being cursed. But that's not the only way of being cursed. I hope that's making sense. So the question would be, why does hanging from a tree, why is that the best example of how the law curses you? And when I asked that in my head, I said, oh, okay. | |
| And then I thought about the Lord, you know, when people were crucified back in the day, that's what I've heard, that people would try to breathe, you know, because, you know, you're hanging from the cross. And the problem is, you know, your lungs collapse from the weight. | |
| And this is what I've heard, that people who were crucified would try to kind of straighten themselves out with their feet. Their feet would be nailed or tied to the cross. | |
| But they would try to kind of make as much effort as they could to straighten themselves out with their feet, you know, pressing against the cross and try to kind of stand up straight so that their lungs could stop being collapsed and they could take in more breaths. But, you know, you can't use your arms because your arms are bound or nailed to the cross. | |
| Somehow. So you can't use your arms. So you have to use your feet kind of to straighten yourself out. And after a while, it's just too much effort. And that's why you slowly stop being able to straighten yourself out. And eventually you asphyxiate and you die. You die by strangling. It's kind of like, yeah, it's a form of hanging, even though there's no noose on your neck. But it's the same thing, the same principle. | |
| And then I realized, oh, that's what the curse of the law is. Because the curse of the law is, God says you're doomed from the start. The problem with you is your soul dominates your spirit. And no matter what you do, you'll always be wrong. Because it's like the guy who came from the woods, who didn't shower and got sprayed by a skunk. No matter how many clean clothes you put on, you still smell like a skunk. Um... | |
| And if you say, oh, no, but I will I will keep up. I will do everything of the law, every principle, everything. And I'll prove my righteousness. It's like the guy trying to straighten up and breathe. I hope that's making sense. Like, yeah, I'll keep up. I'll keep up. And God said earlier that you can never keep up with the law. The law will always come with something else and with something else. And you'll try to live by that and live by that. And eventually you fall. | |
| And it's like the guy hanging on from the cross trying to straighten himself out. Oh, yes, yes, I can breathe. But then it will just wear you out eventually. You can't keep up. You can't literally keep your body up straight and be able to breathe. You will eventually stop straightening yourself out. You'll be exhausted. You'll be hurting so much that you will just die. | |
| you're cursed to fail. You will never succeed no matter how hard you try. And that's what God is saying to the matriarchal Christians. No matter how hard you try, no matter how good you are, no matter how much Bible you read, no matter how many prayer meetings you attend, | |
| No matter all that you do, all the sincerity of spiritual stuff you do, as long as you don't recognize the dominion of the spirit and keep putting the soul at the end as the one in control, you keep supporting the pastoral system, you keep supporting all this matriarchal thinking, all these views of me as this soulish grandfather. | |
| As long as you keep supporting and holding that up, eventually you will fail. You're cursed to fail in my presence. When you stand next to me, everybody will see you failed. Okay. And then Galatians 3:14 says that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Okay. | |
| So with this, Paul is saying that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. In other words, not through the law, but through Jesus Christ. And it's like, I believe the Lord is saying here that, okay, why did the law come? | |
| The law of the old covenant, why did it come? It came because the Israelites refused to be regenerated. When God told Moses, let me destroy them. I will start a new nation out of you. I will generate a new nation out of you. Moses said no. And Aaron, obviously, they didn't even ask him. We all knew the answer. It was no. | |
| And so God stopped. And the Israelites obviously didn't want regeneration. So God left them to their degenerate state or non-regenerated state. And they eventually, they were cursed to die. They died off. All of them. Not a single one survived. And that all came... | |
| So God instituted the law because it was God's way of having the Israelites produce the righteousness in the spiritual atmosphere of the earth. Even though they were not right with him at the core. | |
| It's like God said, okay, this is as much as you're allowing me to do. So this is what I'll do with you. I will make you be a people that follow a certain set of rituals and principles. And in doing that, you will produce spiritual work in the atmosphere that will prepare things for humanity to stay alive and not be destroyed. And so that eventually the Gentiles would come to know me, the nations of the earth. | |
| because the word Gentiles there was translated from ethnos, and ethnos literally means nations, and that's what, in Hebrew, the same thing, goyim, the word that Jews use to refer to non-Jews, goyim literally means nations. So the thing is that the whole intent of the law was to give Israel something they could do in their limited, non-regenerated state, | |
| Every time they would do a priestly act or killing a lamb, sacrificing a lamb or turtle doves or things like that, they were doing something in the spirit. They were releasing something into the spirit realm and | |
| Allowing humanity to stay afloat and preparing the way for Jesus to come into the earth. And then be the redeemer of the Gentiles. So it's ironic that the Israelites were doing all of this in God's plan, doing it all to bless the Gentiles. | |
| And they thought all that time that they were doing that because they were so special. I hope that's making sense. | |
| And yes, there was something special about them because they were the descendants of Abraham. But so were the Arabs. And God didn't do anything with them. But the thing is that, not the way he did with the Israelites. But the thing is that they were doing it because they were chosen by God to fulfill a purpose. | |
| And they had enough faith to carry it out. So there was enough faith in them to keep doing these rituals over and over and over and over and over again. And it was over and over enough to produce something in the spirit to prepare the way in human history for Jesus to be born into them. And then be the redeemer of the Gentiles. But it was always intended to redeem the whole earth. Not just to glorify them. | |
| So there's that kind of irony. The law was a placeholder to allow the Israelites to do as much as could be done until Jesus came. As much spiritual work of preparation because Jesus could not come into humanity unless man paved the way in God. | |
| I hope that's, and I know that sounds blasphemous to a lot of people, but that's how God has designed it. God says that whatever happens on earth is up to the sons of men. And the Israelites were this group of people that God set apart so that through them, there'd be sons of men doing what was needed for Jesus to be born. Because if there hadn't been anyone | |
| None of us on earth would have been willing to do the things that were needed to pave the way for Jesus to come. He would not have come. He would not have come. God could not force Jesus on us, the birth of Jesus on earth. He could not do it. So that's why he separated the Israelites. And the Israelites began to carry out all these rituals day after day, month after month, year after year. They had enough faith to do them. | |
| And that was the placeholder that began to carve the path so that through human history, eventually Jesus could be born. And then once he was born, God said, okay, now I can get rid of the placeholders like the scaffolding. The law was like the scaffolding. It wasn't the building. The sad thing is the Israelites thought, oh, this is the building. And God said, for crying out loud, it's just the scaffolding. And once the building is done, the scaffolding is ridiculous. | |
| The scaffolding looks ridiculous once the building is done. And they kept finding glory in the scaffolding. The scaffolding was just a means to an end. And the end was the manifestation of Jesus on earth as a human. And then as a human born out of a woman. And then for the Gentiles to be redeemed and reached by God. | |
| That was the whole purpose the whole time. And then what is the redemption? The redemption is receiving a promise through faith. The promise of what? It says that we might receive the promise of the Spirit. | |
| Through faith. And people go. Oh the promise of the spirit. Oh yes. Receiving. When you're born again. The Holy Spirit comes. Live inside of you. And that's. That's all they think of. And God. What God is saying. Is no. The promise of. Of. Of you living. As a spirit being. Of you being able. To be a spirit being. With your soul. Under. Your spirit's dominion. Because that spirit. Is made. In the image of God. Perfect. Perfect. | |
| Well, not perfect, but righteous. Righteous and holy. And not perfect because perfect means completed. It's like a little baby could be perfect for his age, but if he stays a baby forever, then he's not perfect. He will become perfect when he's a full-grown adult, and that's when he's perfected. But the whole time he can be perfect in the sense of having no errors whatsoever. | |
| And the spirit that you've been given when you were born again has no errors whatsoever. It's full of righteousness. It's made in the righteousness of God himself and in the holiness of God. So that's the promise, the promise of the spirit through faith. In other words, it's through faith that you activate the spirit, the spirit man inside of you. And your soul can be under God's dominion. | |
| I hope that's helping in some way. I know that it feels like we're saying many things that everybody knows, you know, that Christians already know, but I pray that we're sharing them in a way that you will see them in a new light, that you and I will see in a new light. Okay. Okay. | |
| So verse 15, Galatians 3:15, it says, Brethren, I speak after the manner of men, though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereto. So the old English kind of messes me up here. So it says brethren, and in Greek it says adelphos, so that is correct, brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters. | |
| I speak after the manner of men, and the word speak is lego, so I declare a judgment word, logos, I declare a judgment word according to, kata, after the manner of is kata, which is according to. So I lego kata antropos. So I speak according to men. | |
| And anthropos means men. So it's like I'm kind of like what it's saying in Old English. I speak after the manner of men. So I'm talking like a man, like in human terms. That might be a way of seeing this. I'm saying things in human terms. And then he says, though it be but a man's covenant. | |
| Yet if it be confirmed, no man this annulleth or addeth thereto. So I believe God is saying, or Paul is saying, God is saying through Paul, that even when we're talking about a human covenant, and the word man in man's covenant was also translated from Anthropos. I think the better translation of Anthropos would be human. | |
| Yeah, let's say human. So though it be a human's covenant, like a human covenant, you know, covenant amongst earthly humans, if it's confirmed, no man can void it, disannul it, or add to it. Like covenant is like a contract. So once it's ratified, you know, once it's signed, once it's confirmed, | |
| then no one can nullify it or disnull it or add to it. It's like when you sign a lease to a flat or whatever, once you sign, the owner cannot come and say, oh, I forgot to add something. Let's add something else here. | |
| No, once it's signed, it's signed. If you want to renegotiate, then that's optional. But the thing is that as long as it's signed, no one can add to it. And no one can say, oh, yeah, I signed that, but I don't know. I'm not going to abide by it. You can't annul it. So there's a permanent quality to it. That's what it's saying. | |
| And Galatians 3:16 then says, Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. So first God is saying, even when you people, humans, do covenants, | |
| you know that they can't be voided willy-nilly, and they can't be, what's the word, or they can't be added to. And then God begins to speak about a covenant, and what covenant? The covenant that he cut with Abraham. | |
| So now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made. There was a covenant where God made a promise. And it says here, Galatians 3:16. So I think Paul is quoting something from the Hebrew text. | |
| And he's emphasizing that when God talks about the promise to Abraham and his seed, he said singular seed, not plural. And this goes to what we were saying about the spirit and the soul. | |
| God, why would God emphasize that seed versus seeds? He's emphasizing that because it's so that if we're in the spirit, we realize, oh, he's talking about the spirit. The spirit is one. The souls are many. The spirit is one. So that's why it's not plural. And then it says, and to thy seed, which is Christ. Yeah. | |
| Christ means Messiah or anointed one. So it's referring to the anointing. The anointing of the Spirit of God. Okay, and then verse 17 says, "...and this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ..." | |
| The law, which was 430 years after, cannot disannul that it should make the promise of none effect. So there was another contract that was formed, the law. And what it's saying here, verse 17, is that God had already signed a contract with Abraham. | |
| And the law cannot nullify that contract. Because of what God just said earlier, even in human contracts, | |
| You can't just void it willy-nilly or add to it. So God is saying the law is a side contract. It doesn't nullify the original contract. It's a side contract that he was forced to do with the Israelites because the Israelites refused to be regenerated. So God said, okay, I'll have to work something out here. | |
| Because there was enough faith in Abraham and some of his descendants so that through these external rituals I can do something in the spirit and prepare the way for Jesus to be manifested as a human on earth and save humanity. If that makes sense. There was enough like sprinkling around of faith among the Israelites so that even when as a whole they were kind of lost | |
| and they were just doing these external things, there was enough faith substance collectively so that those external works could prepare the way... Every time they did an external ritual act, they were sowing something in the spirit realm. Now, when an Orthodox Jew is doing the ritual stuff, unless I'm mistaken, it's not producing anything. Not like before. | |
| Before, when someone was following the Torah, or however you pronounce it, they were sowing something in the spirit realm, even if they were of little faith. But it was like God made a contract with the whole nation of Israel so that through their collective faith, the little collective faith that was there, it was enough to sustain those rituals and have them do something in the spirit. | |
| but that was like a side contract. It did nullify the contract with Abraham. And then, so let's keep reading. I don't think we'll get to Habakkuk, but so let's keep reading here quickly. Galatians 3:18, For if the inheritance be of the law, it's no more of promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise. | |
| And I think that's like a very simple principle, very straightforward. I just have to accept the promise. Believe the promise. And the promise is, if you believe in me, I will put a spirit man in you that can act in full righteousness and be like me. And you don't have to do anything to get that. You don't have to do anything external. You just have to believe faith. You just have to believe faith. | |
| And the spirit man inside of you can be activated and do righteousness. It's, quote, as simple as that. It's just accepting a promise. God promised it. Then you have a spirit man, and that spirit man can begin to manifest. Spirit, spirit, spirit acts, spirit acts. Everything is spirit. And that's what we have to learn to walk into. Yeah. | |
| And then verse 19 says, Wherefore then serveth the law? In other words, what's the law for? I mean, that's what I think it says in non-Old English. It says, It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. So... | |
| So it's like God saying, why did I put the law? I mean, why did I make that side contract with the Israelites when I had already made a more important contract with Abraham? Oh, it's because of the transgressions of the Israelites. It's just, you know, they were just too stubborn, too unfaithful to be able to do it the perfect way I wanted to do it. So I had to put the law system in. | |
| And the law system had enough combination of the promise of Abraham and the physical works of even the unbelieving Israelites that they combined to produce something in the spiritual atmosphere until the seed should come. So in other words, until Christ came, until the Lord Jesus could be manifested on earth. Yeah. | |
| And then he says, and this side contract that God signed with the Israelites was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. So that's what we've said so many times. The Old Covenant, as God describes in Jeremiah 30, I always forget if it's 31 or 33, but it's one of those two. Let me just e-verify. Okay. | |
| Yeah, Jeremiah 31, if you read from verse 27 all the way down to 36, I think. Oh, interesting. In verse 36, it says, So it's talking about seed as well. | |
| And it says here that verse 34, Jeremiah 31:34, and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and I'll remember their sin no more. So it's, so God is saying, you don't need a mediator to know me. | |
| You will know me directly. And that's what Galatians 3:19 is emphasizing. Because that law was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. So that side contract had a mediator. And then verse 20 says, Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. | |
| So notice again, single versus plural. In verse 20, God is saying, I am one. I am singular. I am spirit. I'm not plural. I am not soul-centered. Plural is soul. Singular is spirit. One spirit, many souls. One spirit, many souls. So God is saying, I'm spirit. But this side contract had to be kind of a soul contract. | |
| because these people just wanted to live in the soul. So I had to, I had this like God adjusting to what man was doing. So the Israelites wanted to live soulishly as a whole. So God said, okay, I have no choice but to do a soul level contract. And because of that, it was through a mediator. Okay. | |
| So he's saying now a mediator is not a mediator of one. So in other words, you don't mediate with yourself. If you talk about a mediator, there has to be two or more people involved. That's what he's saying, if that makes sense. If you're making a contract directly with God, you're just talking to one person. The one person is God. If you have a mediator, then there are two people involved, the mediator and God himself. | |
| And if there are more mediators, a whole bunch of mediators, it's all the mediators plus one. It's always plural. Yeah, and the plus one there was God. Okay. So verse 21, and we'll just read this very quickly, just finish out the chapter here. | |
| just to get a sense of what it's saying without too many details, I believe. Verse 21, is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid, for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by | |
| the law so again the law cannot nullify the promise it's as simple as that you believe God promised I can live by the spirit and he's given me a brand new spirit man and I just if I stay in the spirit everything that flows out of me is spirit and it's righteousness okay that's the promise and the law cannot cancel it and | |
| And then verse 22, oh, and God is saying also, just because I put in this temporary contract doesn't mean that it nullifies the permanent home. I hope that makes sense. You know, it's like someone is building a big house, but it's very big and it takes a long time to build. | |
| And the person doesn't have anywhere to live. So they kind of build a quick, uh, you know, hut, uh, right next to the, to the, to the house as it's being built and they live in, in the hut. And, um, | |
| Just because the person built a hut doesn't mean, oh, I give up on living in that house. Oh, I don't care about that house anymore. I'm going to live in the hut forever. No, the hut is just a temporary place while the house he really intends to live in is being built. So that what God is saying is just because God decided to kind of, quote unquote, habitat in the hut doesn't mean that he says, oh, therefore, | |
| The real house, I changed my mind on that. I hope that's making sense. Okay. So then verse 22 says, Galatians 3:22. | |
| But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. So again, sin is when the soul dominates over the spirit. Oh, and by the way, sin means, the word is hamartia in Greek, and that means missing the mark. And it's the same in Hebrew, the word for sin is, | |
| is the word that the same as missing the mark. I was watching part of a video the other day where they were explaining that the word sin is used in a verse in the Hebrew text where it's talking about archers not missing the mark. Like there were a whole bunch of archers and they were, you know, | |
| shooting these arrows. And I don't remember if it said something like, oh, none of them missed the mark. But in Hebrew, if you read it like literally, you could translate it as none of them sinned. But, you know, obviously they were not talking about like a moral sin. It was that they were not, none of the arrows missed the mark. So in God's eyes, sinning is not about | |
| Necessarily about doing something evil, you know that you know, oh, that's evil. All right. That's a sin It's about not doing what he wants or not not doing what is right Again, like that thing about giving money to a homeless shelter that it that in and of itself is not a sin But if God said no, you should use that money for something else that I want you to you know to do then | |
| If you use it for the homeless shelter, even though it's not immoral, you missed the mark. You were supposed to use that money in a different way. So you've sinned in God's eyes. And why? Because your soul was the one in control. You were not hearing from the Spirit what the Spirit wanted to do. You were not in the Spirit. You were living in that hut on the outside. And God says, if you live by the law, you live in the law. | |
| And the law is outside of me. It's this hut on the outside of my house. You're not living in my house. And because you're not living in my house, you always hear things by hearsay from me. You always hear from me by hearsay. You're never listening to me directly. It's always through someone in the hut that kind of hears something I said from the house. | |
| And then it tries to relay what little they heard to you. I hope that's making sense. That's kind of what goes on in the church all the time. The church is this big hut. And outside of the real house of God, God is saying things from the house. And there's one or two people in the hut. | |
| who are kind of peeking out some window, trying to hear the faint voice of God saying something. And then they hear it, and then they tell the other people who are not near a window what God said, supposedly. And that's how they live. They live outside. | |
| with a mediator trying to, you know, poke his head out the window to try to kind of faintly hear what God said in the house. Okay. Okay. So then verse 23, Galatians 3:23 says, | |
| Oh, and by the way, at the end of verse 22, it says that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. So if you believe, the promise becomes real in you. That's what I take. There might be more there, but that's what I get. Verse 23, Galatians 3. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith, which should afterwards be revealed. So before faith came, before believing came, | |
| we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. And then verse 24, wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. And then verse 25, but after that faith has come, we're no longer under a schoolmaster. Once the house is finished, we don't need to live in the hut anymore. Um, | |
| So it was foolish. I mean, this all has a lot of spiritual application, but the literal application here was the Galatians were trying to live by the law, the Jewish law. | |
| And Paul was saying, that's stupid. The house is built. The hut was temporary. Now that it's built, we've got to let it go. And notice how God refers to the hut as a schoolmaster. And a schoolmaster, a word in Greek is paidagogos. Paida, I think, paidion, I think means little child. And, uh, | |
| Or pais. Pais means like a little child. And ago means to carry. So paidagogos is like someone who's carrying around kids, you know, little children. And that's why I think that's where we get the word pedagogic or pedagogy or something like that. So and that has to do with teaching. So so. | |
| And notice, what is the teacher endowment? It's a female ministry. So God is saying, we've been under female care. But now that we've reached, you know, the age, we can get away from living in soulish under the tutelage of a woman. In other words, under the tutelage of the soul. Now we can start acting like, like, | |
| like adults, like adults, um, as spirit beings. Um, okay. Um, so it says, uh, let's read verse 24 again. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster, our pedagogos or pedagogos, uh, to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. Um, | |
| So you immerse yourself in Christ. Christ is the anointing. That's what it refers to. Christ literally means the anointed one. So when you immerse yourself in the anointing of Christ, boom, you can start acting in the spirit. And everything that comes out of you is righteousness. So it says, verse 25, but, sorry, let's, yeah, um, | |
| Yeah, verse 25, but after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Verse 26, for ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. And the word children is mistranslation. It's wuyos, which means sons. So sons and daughters, not, you know, the word wuyos. | |
| In Greek, it doesn't have the connotation of age, like paidion or pais, I think, I forget the exact wording, but there's a word, or technon, it's another word for child, but it kind of has the connotation of age, like a young child. Ouyos is just status, like your relationship to God, son and father, father, son, daughter, father, father, daughter. | |
| And that relationship stays the same no matter how old you are. | |
| You could be 75 years old, but if your dad is still alive and he's 95, he's still your dad and you're still his son, even if you're 75. So the thing is that it's here really should say, for you are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. | |
| In other words, we can be the manifestation of God on earth. You know, just like Father, like Son. We can be like the Father on earth. And it's through faith that we kind of release that. And then verse 27, for many of you... | |
| as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Notice how it says, baptized into Christ means immersed into Christ. You immerse yourself in the anointing, and it's like you put it on. It's like you put on a vest or something, and you become someone else. And we've talked about this, maybe, I'm not sure, maybe in some of the postings, this idea that sometimes you are the clothes you wear, | |
| And I don't know if you've noticed that when you wear certain clothes, your personality changes. And that's why uniforms are sometimes important because you put on the uniform and you take on another persona. I hope that makes sense. So putting on Christ is like you put him on and you become someone else. | |
| You're still you, but your personality changes. It's not the same. You're not behaving the same way as before. You're someone else. You're still you, but you're someone else, if that makes sense. But you put him on. That's how you do it. You immerse yourself in the anointing, and you put on the anointing of Christ. And then verse 28 says, | |
| Galatians 3:28 says, And I know this is significant, but I think we're running out of time. I'm not sure how much of this God wants us to kind of meditate on. But there are three things here, you know, Jew versus Greek. | |
| slave versus free, and male versus female. And I know it's three things, so it must be connected to something, maybe body, soul, and spirit. Yeah, I don't know why, but I think that's what it is. Male or female is body difference. A biological male, biological female, | |
| God is saying it doesn't matter. Your inner man is male, your spirit man is male, and your soul is female. And even if you're a biological woman, you can act like a male spirit and produce the righteousness of a male spirit. So that's body. And the bond or free, I think, has to do with the soul. Yeah. | |
| So it's like God saying, even if your soul is free from certain limitations, or it's not, you can still operate in the spirit. Like for example, some people are more afraid of heights than others. It's just, it is what it is. It's like some personalities have, your soul can be, or for example, you could have been, | |
| born into a difficult life where your soul has a lot of issues it's working through. Or it could refer to a soul that is under the slavery of other people. Like let's say you were born into a rich family so no one tells you what to do so your soul is kind of free. | |
| versus someone who was born into poverty and always forced to do what other people tell him to do because he's always working jobs where he's being told constantly what he can or cannot do. So God is saying it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if your soul is living under slavery of some kind or it's completely free to do what it wants. You can still act in the spirit. | |
| You can still act in the spirit. And then Jew versus Greek, I would take it as the spirit at the spiritual level. And I'd say it's almost like whether you, whether | |
| you seem to have a spiritual calling or not. Because the Jews, by default, they come with this belief or this imprint that they were destined for something spiritual. The Gentiles were not, at least at the natural level. But God is saying, even if you are not aware of your spiritual calling, if it's not as overt as you might think it is, | |
| or needs, even if you think it's not overt, I can still use you and I can still manifest my spirit through you. Even if you don't think that you were brought to this world, you don't seem on the outside to have been brought to this world to do some great spiritual work. It doesn't matter. You're still spirit and I can still do great things through you. | |
| I know this is like a very bad explanation, but that's the best I can think of right now. Okay. So verse 29, Galatians 3, that's the last verse. And I think we'll stop there. And it says, And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Okay. | |
| And again, seed in the singular. So it's seed of the spirit, not multiple seeds of the soul. And then you are heirs according to the promise. So God has given us a promise and we are heirs to what? Heirs to his nature. | |
| See, Joseph Prince and all the others, Joel Osteen and all the others would say, oh, the promises of health and wealth and blessings and happiness in this world. No, heirs to the promise of manifesting his nature. And that should be enough to excite us, to make us happy. Thank you, Lord, for what you have enabled us to be, to be like you, like God himself. | |
| I mean, what greater promise or inheritance is there than that? Okay. So I guess, Lord willing, we'll go to Habakkuk chapter two. That's where the phrase, the just shall live by faith appears. And that's, if I'm not mistaken, that's what Paul was literally quoting when he said in Galatians 3:11, but that no man is justified by the law | |
| in the sight of God, it is evident for the just shall live by faith. And we'll go to Habakkuk 2, Lord willing, to see what God says there about what it means to live by faith. And as we said at the beginning, it may seem like they're very strange things. It's not like a list of practical things the way | |
| matriarchal sermon to try to put lay it down but I pray that when we get to Habakkuk 2 and we look through the five things that we see the general principle of what God is calling us to do what we are to use our faith for and how it's going to be manifested that we are using our faith I pray that is going to be evident somehow that | |
| as we go through it, but it's kind of very difficult to verbalize and to say, oh, you'll probably listen to it and say, okay, what was the practical thing here? But I pray that your spirit will catch it and run with it. Okay, so thank you very much for listening. I pray in the name of Jesus that this word will have been of some help, some blessing, | |
| and that it will empower you and me to walk by faith in the Spirit, to embrace the promise of what the Lord Jesus did on the cross so that we could have life, that we not live like believers in the outhouse, in the, you know, almost literally at the outhouse, Lord, of that house, that hut, | |
| that we have all so many of us have chosen to live in when you have built a permanent house where we can have direct communion with him, with you, Father, where we can manifest your spirit nature. | |
| as we believe and trust in you. I pray, Father, that you call people out of that hut and that they realize that they're living in a spiritual outhouse and that they need to come into the house to listen to you directly. They cannot gain righteousness by living according to the laws established in that hut because | |
| Even the laws that are, quote, good laws, not the ones made up by man, even those laws are insufficient to manifest righteousness unless we're living with our nature restored, living in the spirit. | |
| Lord, let those living in the outhouse feel the emptiness of their works, that there is no righteousness in them, in your eyes, Father, as long as they are motivated by the soul and not the spirit. Thank you, Father. In the name of Jesus. Amen. |
The speaker begins by sharing how a specific verse was placed upon their heart during a moment of prayerful seeking. While running errands, the verse Galatians 3:11 immediately came to mind. There was a divine tension between verse 11 and verse 9, with the Lord prompting a journey that begins at verse 9 and connects deeply to the Hebrew Scriptures, specifically Habakkuk 2.
Galatians 3:11—"the just shall live by faith"—is a well-known passage, but the speaker argues that most believers have a limited, "infantile" understanding of it. Often, it is restricted solely to the context of salvation and being born again. However, God is calling believers to a much deeper reality regarding how one actually lives and manifests righteousness.
By connecting Galatians to Habakkuk 2, a new principle emerges: to fulfill the call to "live by faith," one must engage in specific spiritual realities. This is not about a simple checklist of practical tasks, but about capturing the underlying spirit and principle of what it means to be a "just" person.
In examining Galatians 3:9, the speaker provides a linguistic correction for the term "faithful." While English often equates faithfulness with loyalty (like a faithful spouse), the Greek term pistos more accurately describes someone who is "full of faith" or "possessing faith."
Therefore, being "blessed with Abraham who was faithful" means that when we share in the same substance of faith that was in Abraham, we share in his blessing. We are blessed as "men of faith."
Moving into verse 10, the speaker addresses the "curse" of the law. A significant distinction is made between the "higher law" of the Spirit and the Mosaic law of rituals and restrictions. The speaker warns against a "matriarchal" or "soulish" mindset that caricaturizes the law to excuse oneself from all divine standards, while simultaneously failing to understand the true nature of God's law.
Using an analogy of dietary choices, the speaker explains that rejecting "unhealthy food" (the Mosaic rituals) should not lead to a rejection of all "good food" (the higher law). The problem arises when believers use the concept of grace as an excuse to ignore the internal requirement of righteousness.
The "curse" described in the law is the impossibility of proving internal righteousness through external compliance. Trying to juggle an ever-increasing list of rules to prove one is "just" in God's eyes is a losing battle because the law addresses the external, while God looks at the internal.
The speaker identifies the core of human unrighteousness as the "Fall" in Genesis: the moment the soul (the "female" aspect) began to dominate the spirit (the "male" aspect). When the soul makes decisions independently of the spirit, man falls.
To illustrate this, the speaker uses the example of a person donating to a homeless shelter. While the act is outwardly "good" and compassionate, if it is done out of a soulish impulse that ignores God’s specific direction for those individuals, it can actually become a crutch that facilitates unrighteousness. The person is "doing good" according to their soul, but they are "missing the mark" (sinning) because they are not operating in the Spirit.
True righteousness is not about performing good deeds to mask an unrighteous core; it is about the soul submitting to the spirit. If the core is unrighteous—driven by the soul—no amount of external works can satisfy God.
Returning to Galatians 3:11, the speaker explores the phrase "in the sight of God." Through the Greek term para Deus, it becomes clear that the verse actually implies being "beside" or "next to" God.
This creates a powerful visual: if a filthy person (trying to live by the law) stands next to a righteous person (living by the Spirit), the contrast is undeniable. No matter how much "clean clothing" (religious rituals) the filthy person puts on, their internal essence remains unchanged. You cannot justify yourself through the law when compared to the very essence of God's righteousness.
The speaker introduces a profound metaphor regarding Galatians 3:12. If one chooses to live by the external law, they "live in it." This is described as living in a "log cabin" or a "hut" outside of God's actual house.
The law serves as a temporary structure—a "scaffolding" or a "schoolmaster" (paidagogos)—meant to guide humanity until the arrival of Christ. Many believers, however, mistake the scaffolding for the building itself. They reside in the "hut" of religious ritual and social validation, rather than entering the "house" of direct communion with God through the Spirit.
The "curse" of the law is compared to the agony of crucifixion—a constant, exhausting struggle to "straighten oneself up" to breathe, only to eventually succumb to exhaustion. Similarly, trying to maintain righteousness through the law is an exhausting cycle that leads to inevitable failure.
The law was instituted as a placeholder because the Israelites were not ready for immediate regeneration. It allowed them to perform rituals that released spiritual substance into the atmosphere, preparing the way for the Messiah.
The true "promise of the Spirit" is not just the presence of the Holy Spirit at salvation, but the activation of the "new inner man." This is the promise of living as a spiritual being whose soul is under the dominion of a righteous spirit.
The speaker emphasizes that the "seed" mentioned in relation to Abraham is singular, pointing to Christ (the Anointing). This reinforces the idea that the goal is not a collective, soulish movement, but an individual alignment with the singular Spirit of God.
The teaching concludes with the ultimate purpose of the covenant: we are heirs not to material wealth or earthly happiness, but to God's own nature.
The final prayer is a call for believers to leave the "spiritual outhouse"—the realm of soulish, external, and mediated religion—and enter the "house" of direct, Spirit-led communion, where they can truly manifest the righteousness of God.