3:18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version<\/i>. (2001). (Ga 3:18). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.<\/p>\n

As Paul exegetically walked the Galatian reader through understanding the covenant promise through Abraham and the Law given through Moses, he stresses the root problem of identity.\u00a0 For traditional Jews and confused Gentiles, Paul is calling out their false identity in the Law.\u00a0 This ancient standard that God gave to Moses was abolished by Christ.<\/p>\n

Paul has given discourse as to the connection between the covenant Promise with Abraham to Christ.\u00a0 In 3:18, Paul introduces the word, “inheritance”.\u00a0 This concept will carry forward through much of Galatians, as Paul unpacks the idea of being an heir of God.<\/p>\n

The promise and inheritance is of God.\u00a0 This is stated in 3:18 and is critical to grasp.\u00a0 Man does not earn his position with God by doing enough good deeds.\u00a0 His righteousness is through the promise from God through Christ.\u00a0 The challenge is that a person identifies with Christ, and not in humanity.<\/p>\n

Where a person finds their identity determines how they live their life.\u00a0 The challenge in applying this verse is that we take a long internal look and assess our identity.\u00a0 Do we truly find our identity in Christ, as an heir to the promise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3:18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.\u00a0 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Ga 3:18). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society. As Paul exegetically walked the Galatian reader through understanding the covenant promise through Abraham and the Law given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}