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Just like current laws don't create compliance, the Old Testament law could never accomplish the thing you and I needed most... to make us alive! In other words, people don't follow a law simply because it's a law; and we are not made right with God simply because we follow the scriptural law. Paul shows the Galatians how much more important God's promises are over the rules and regulations.

Part 6 - Promises, Promises (Galatians 3:15-29)

Laws don’t create “compliance”.
   - Galatians 3:15-18 (NIV)
   - Genesis 12:1-3 (NIV)

Timeline: God makes this promise to Abraham - Then 430 years later… God gives the Israelites the Law.
   - Galatians 3:19 (NIV)
   - Galatians 3:21 (NIV)

The Law… was given, but the law never gave life.
The promise gave us life… The law gives us rules.
The main point of Paul’s argument here is that The Law cannot do the most important thing that we need done: it cannot make us alive!

• The promise/Spirit gives us access to God, the law only gives us guidelines.
• The promise/Spirit gives us victory over sin, the law only gives us awareness of sin. 
• The promise/Spirit gives us acceptance, the law only gives us confinement & judgment. 
• The law is a prison… The Spirit is freedom!

Galatians 3:26-29 (NIV)

If we are Christ’s then everything changes… We have a new identity, new community, new inheritance.

Luke 12:32 (NLT) “So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.”

If we are Christ’s then we have nothing to fear. Even in the uncertain times.

Ask yourself: What am I afraid of?

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