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The title of this sermon is The Sum and Substance Of The Gospel
 This sermon is provided by W J Mencarow
Sermon Topic: Freedom
Sermon Synopsis: How many times have you heard, "To be a Christian you must believe in Christ and..."? The 'dos' and 'don'ts' vary, but the message is salvation is by faith PLUS works. Scripture says NO! Works are the result of salvation, never the cause (Eph. 2:8-9)
Sermon Text:     THE SUM OF THE GOSPEL: SALVATION IS ALL OF GOD, NOTHING OF US

Gal. 3:6 - 9: “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him by righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same
are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are
blessed with faithful Abraham.”

If someone asked you, “What is your father’s name?” what would you say? Unless he was some notorious criminal, you would no doubt tell them his name. Would you ever think to say, “His name is Abraham”? I doubt it. Yet that would be a true answer for a Christian to give. We are, indeed, children of faithful Abraham. Paul repeats it, so he must think it is pretty
important for us to grasp. In fact, it is his main point in these verses.

The words “even as” begin verse 6. Whenever we see such wording as this, we know that it is referring to something he has just written
previously. Just as when you read the word “therefore,” you must ask, “what’s it there for?” It’s referring back to something, and you must find out what that something is.

In this case, “even as” refers only to the verse immediately preceding: to the “ministration of the Spirit and of miracles by the hearing of faith;” as if he had said, that in the grace bestowed on them, a similarity might be found
to the case of Abraham.

He states this main point — that those who are of faith are the children of Abraham — in two different ways, ways, once in verse 7 and once in verse 9. And each of these is preceded by its Old Testament support. Verse six quotes Genesis 15:6, speaking of Abraham, “And he believed in the LORD;
and he counted it to him for righteousness.”

James Bannerman, in his monumental work “The Church of Christ,” calls Gen 15:6 “The sum and substance of the Gospel.” You might want to
make a marginal note in your Bible about that. Yes, never forget that the Gospel is in the Old Testament, too. Augustine said it well: "The New is in the Old concealed,. The Old is by the
New revealed.” And here it is summed up in Gen. 15:6. A man believes in the Lord, and the Lord sees him as righteous.

Galatians 3 verse 7 draws a general inference out of Gen. 15:6, together with Gal. 3 verse 5: “Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.” Pay attention to those words, “know ye.” They mean, “believe this.” You can be sure of this, absolutely certain. It is in fact a commandment. You are to believe it. The Holy Spirit is telling
you that this is a fact you can be sure of. Those who beleive the Lord as Abraham did are his children.

Then verse 8 quotes Genesis 12:3, the Lord speaking to Abraham, “and I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curseth you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

And verse 9 draws out the inference, "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." So the main point is that those who live by faith in the Lord’s promises are the children of Abraham and will inherit
Abraham’s blessing.

Why is Paul bringing Abraham into his argument? Because the Judiazers, the Jews who professed Christ but said you have to live as a Jew to be saved, were appealing to Moses as their chief authority for faith and life. The Spirit of Christ speaking through Paul does them one better and takes them several hundred years before Moses, to Moses’ spiritual father, Abraham. If Paul can show that there was no intrinsic righteousness in
Abraham, then he shuts the mouths of Abraham’s descendants, the Judiazers, so that they may not boast about their own righteousness. If Abraham was not saved by works, then his descendants, including Moses, are not saved by works. If he proves that circumcision had nothing to do with Abraham’s salvation, then he proves that circumcision has nothing to do with the
salvation of Abraham’s children, Jew or gentile.

Paul develops this argument further in Romans 4, and it will be useful for us to read it so we can understand Galatians a little bit better. Please turn to Romans, chapter 4, beginning with verse 1: : 1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before
God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness...Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, yough they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:"

Paul says that Abraham first believed God, and that faith was credited to him as righteousness. He asks, did that happen before or after he was circumcised? Indisputably before. Therefore righteousness does not come by circumcision, or broadly speaking, the law, as the Judiazers claimed, but through faith. If it came that way to your spiritual father, Paul tells the
Judiazers, then as his children it comes that way to you, too. Abraham was told by God to leave his home and his country and to go to a place he would
give him as his inheritance. Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, Galatians 3 verse 6. Anyone who believes God about Jesus Christ is counted as a child of faith and thereby a child of Abraham.

John 8:33. 37-45

The Judiazers professed belief in Christ, but said
the way to salvation was to believe in Jesus AND become a practicing Jew. They took the Gospel and adulterated it with Phariseeism. They said, “We
are Abraham’s children, we know the way to salvation.” They forgot what Jesus told the Pharisees about whose children they actually were.

God’s plan has always been the same. It was and is to save a people for Himself. It has always included the gentiles, for God said to Abraham, “in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” (Gen. 26:14). God knew that He would save gentiles as well as Jews, and knew that He would do it through His Son Jesus Christ.

The promise given to Abraham is being fulfilled before our very eyes. All who believe in salvation by grace through faith alone, without any belief in character, or good works, or law, or rites and ceremonies, are blessed by God in the same way God blessed faithful Abraham.
Scripture reference: Galations 3, Genesis 15, Genesis 12, Romans 4
Sermon length: 30 minutes or less (6920 characters
Intended audience: General Congregation Style: Serious


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