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By Pastor Jason Lim
According to Forbes, 1/3 of the billionaires in 2024 have fortunes handed down to them by their elders. These heirs inherit great wealth.
But the follower of Jesus Christ also inherits great wealth- of even greater and eternal things- because he is an heir & co-heir with Christ, who redeemed them.
In this passage, Paul shows from the example of the Jews that this blessing of inheritance is not obtained by their own works of the law, but by faith in the promise of Jesus Christ. He then reminds the Galatians that they likewise received the Spirit not by works of the law, but by the hearing of faith. Thus, he expresses his horror when they should turn to legalism (obeying the Law in their own efforts to secure their own justification), which is a religious principle of the world, and not from God. He conside ...
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