If we belong to Christ then we are Abraham’s seed

If we belong to Christ then we are Abraham’s seed

Gal 3:29

²⁹ If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Gal 3:16

¹⁶ The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”^[i] meaning one person, who is Christ.

Luke 3:8

⁸ Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  If we belong to Christ then we are Abraham’s seed and are entitled for his blessings

2)  The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed Christ Jesus

3)  Producing the fruit in keeping with repentance makes us receive blessings that were promised

We are all one in Christ Jesus

We are all one in Christ Jesus

Gal 3:28

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 

John 10:16

¹⁶ I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

John 17:11

¹¹ I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of^[b] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.

Eph 2:14, 15

¹⁴ For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, ¹⁵ by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace,¹⁶ and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

2)  God wants to bring us all together to listen His voice so that He can be our shepherd

3)  God protects us by the power of His name so that we can be one under His wings

4)  God destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility through cross to unite us all

We are God’s treasured possession

We are God’s treasured possession

Mal 3:17

¹⁷ “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him.

Mt 5:9

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers,
    for they will be called children of God.

Eph 1:5

⁵ He^[b] predestined us for adoption to sonship^[c] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— ⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

John 1:12

¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    We are God’s treasured possession

2)    God has compassion on us, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him

3)     Blessed are the peacemakers,
    for they will be called children of God.

4)    Lord predestined us for adoption to sonship^[c] through Jesus Christ

To all those who received Jesus and to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God

We are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ

We are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ

Gal 3:26

²⁶ So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith

Gal 4:5

⁴ But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, ⁵ to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.

Rom 8:14

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

Hos 1:10

¹⁰ “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  We are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ

2)  God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, ⁵ to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.

3)  For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

4)  We are called as children of the living God

Christ redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to Gentiles through Christ Jesus

Christ redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to Gentiles through Christ Jesus  

Gal 3:14

¹⁴ He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Rom 4:16

¹⁶ Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

1 Pet 1:18

¹⁸ For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    We were  redeemed so that we might receive the blessings given to Abraham

2)    The promise comes to those who have the faith of Abraham

3)    We were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to us from ancestors

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.