This morning and next week we're going to consider Abraham's faith through a New Testament lens, starting at Galatians 3:6. We'll try to cover about four verses this morning, and then next week we'll look at verses 10-14.
Paul is finished with the personal and experiential argument he was making in the first five verses of Galatians 3, and now he takes up a biblical and doctrinal arguÂment that he will pursue all the way through verse 7 of chapter 4. It's an argument based on the book of Genesis and the Abrahamic covenantCwith a particular focus on the record of Abraham's justification in Genesis 15.
And this biblical and theological argument is the very heart of the message of this epistle. So chapter 3, verse 6 marks the start of the most important and essential argument in the whole epistle. Paul is about to make a really long argument that goes through the middle of chapter 4. Fortunately, the portion we're looking at today is a pretty simple argument that is easy to grasp... http://www.thegracelifepulpit.com
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Phil Johnson is Executive Director of Grace to You, the media ministry of John MacArthur. Phil is also an elder at Grace Community Church, where he pastors the GraceLife fellowship group. He is probably best known for his websites, which include The Spurgeon Archive and The Hall...
