09.25.2014 New Testament: Gal 3.10

To read the Bible in a year, read Galatians 3 on September 25, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Someone persuaded the churches of Galatia that they needed to keep circumcision in order to be saved, but the Holy Spirit had Paul write the Book of Galatians to refute that idea. Part of Paul’s argument is this,

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them” (Galatians 3.10). 

If you seek to do the Law of Moses, and the things in it that were only for Israel, then you must seek to do all those things, for if you do not, you are under the curse of the Law, and if you are under the curse of the Law, you need forgiveness from the Lord.

However, He discontinued the levitical sacrificial system, and so sacrifices for forgiveness cannot be offered according to the Law. That means, such a person remains under a curse, because he has rejected the new system that the Lord put in place wherein forgiveness now comes through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ only.