God blessed us through Abraham

Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and announced the Gospel to Abraham that all nations will be blessed through him

 Gal 3:8

⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”^[d] 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Gen 12:3

³ I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.

Gen 18:18

¹⁸ Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

¹⁹ For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

Gen 22:18

Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, ¹⁸ and through your offspring^[b] all nations on earth will be blessed,^[c] because you have obeyed me.”

Gen 26:4

⁴ I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring^[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,^[b]5 because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”

Acts 3:25

²⁵ And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and announced the Gospel to Abraham that all nations will be blessed through him

2)  I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.

3)  Keeping the way of the Lord by doing what is just and right would bring our blessings

4)  If we obey God, all the nations of the earth will be blessed through us

5)  We will be a blessing when we obey God and do everything God expects us to do  by keeping His commands, instructions and His decrees

6)  God blessed us through Abraham

Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness

Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness

Gal 3:6

⁶ So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Gen 15:6

⁶ Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Rom 4:3

⁵ However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. ⁶ David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

⁷ “Blessed are those
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.

⁸ Blessed is the one
    whose sin the Lord will never count against them.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness

2)    To the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

3)    Blessed are those
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered

Blessed is the one
    whose sin the Lord will never count against them.

We have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live, but Christ lives in us

We have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live, but Christ lives in us  

Gal 2:20

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Rom 8:10

¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[d] because of righteousness.

1 Pet 4:2

Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. ² As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  We have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live, but Christ lives in us

2)  if Christ is in us, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness

3)  We are to arm ourselves with the attitude of Christ to not to live the rest of the earthly lives for evil human desires, but for the will of God

For through the law we died to the law so that we might live for God

For through the law we died to the law so that we might live for God

Gal 2:19

¹⁹ “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.

Rom 6:10, 11, 14

⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 

⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

2 Cor 5:15

¹⁵ And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  For through the law we died to the law so that we might live for God

2)  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

3)  We are to count ourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

4)  For sin shall no longer be our master, because we are not under the law, but under grace.

5)  Christ died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

God called us by His grace to be His servants

God called us by His grace to be His servants

Acts 9:15 – Paul was God’s chosen instrument to proclaim His name

¹⁵ But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.

Acts 13:2

² While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Rom 8:28

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[i] have been called according to his purpose.

Rom 11:29

²⁹ for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.

Heb 9:15

¹⁵ For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  God called us by His grace to be His servants

2)  Paul was God’s chosen instrument to proclaim His name

3)  While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

4)  We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[i] have been called according to his purpose.

5)  God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.

God sets us apart from birth and called us by His grace was pleased to reveal His son is us

God sets us apart from birth and called us by His grace was pleased to reveal His son is us

Gal 1:15

¹⁵ But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles

Isa 49:1, 5

Listen to me, you islands;
    hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born the Lord called me;
    from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.

And now the Lord says—
    he who formed me in the womb to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
    and gather Israel to himself,
for I am^[a] honored in the eyes of the Lord
    and my God has been my strength

Jer 1:5

⁴ The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

⁵ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew^[a] you,
    before you were born I set you apart;
    I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    God sets us apart from birth and called us by His grace was pleased to reveal His son is us

2)    Before we were born the Lord called us;
    from our mother’s womb He has spoken our name.

3)    We are honored in the eyes of the Lord and God has been our strength

4)    God formed us in the womb to be His servants

Before we were born God set us apart and appointed as prophet to nations

Jesus gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age

Jesus gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age

Gal 1:4

³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Mt 20:28

²⁸ just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Rom 4:25

²⁵ He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

1 Cor 15:3

³ For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance^[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Gal 2:20

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  Jesus gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age

2)  The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

3)  He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification

4)  Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures

5)  We live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us.