01/17/2024: Galatians 3:17-18 – The Law cannot supersede the promise of faith.

 

Thought for today – The Law cannot supersede the promise of faith because the law came much later.

In verses 15-19, Paul presents 2 important realities of the covenant of faith that God made with Abraham that invalidate the claims of the legalists.  The second reason is that the covenant of law was not given until 430 years after Abraham.  By then, the covenant of faith had long been made and ratified.  Nothing that comes after that covenant can supersede, change, annul it, so Paul can repeat that the just shall live by faith (verse 11) with complete confidence that law has no part in our justification.

That’s what the Book says!