Paul’s Letter to the Gauls (Galatians) – Summary

Now, what does the Son of God believe? Now, Jesus Christ believes He’s alive, and He believes I’m dead. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And as far as I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me. And the translation says, I am living in faith that is of…it’s got “is of” in italics. I am living in faith that is of the Son of God. I am living in the faith that is of the Son of God. I believe this is what I was trying to say. We will take this. This, by the way, is probably the most literal translation ever put into the English language. It’s called a concordance. I live by the faith that is of the Son of God. It is His faith, and I’m living by it. You know that I rarely talk about you having faith. As far as that goes, I believe that in all the time I’ve ever spoken, I’ve never told any of you to have faith. You don’t need to have faith. Jesus Christ has faith. If you’re saved, you have faith.

Now that it may be that as the old man, as the other man, as the lost man, the un-regenerated man, you need to make that one great leap of believing in Jesus Christ. But saints, from that moment on, you have the faith that is of the Son of God. His faith says these things are true, and I’m not going to argue with the Almighty Living God. I simply cannot obey the Lord; that’s why He put grace before the law. Abraham’s covenant preceded Moses’ covenant. One covenant began and ended, and the other one was eternal. I could not live according to these things, so God put me to death on the cross. Galatians 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ. I have been put away. Now I am free.” And then he asked this question. If I have begun this new life in the Spirit, shall I protect it by the law? Did the law save you? No. Then shall the law deliver you after having been saved by grace? Does the Lord say, “Obey the law till you cannot obey it anymore, come crying, oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death, get saved, have the Lord’s Spirit in you, and then take up the law again?” Then how come you do it? You’re all just really “amening” me. Then why do you do this?

Brother Lawrence made the most beautiful statement in his little book, Practicing His Presence. He said, “And so when I sin, I just say to the Lord, ‘Lord, that’s the way I am, and then I go back…to Him.” Brother Lawrence knew how to make Christ his Life: “Lord, that’s just the way I am.” If you just said that to God, you know, “That’s just the way I am,” that would be bad. But if you say, “Lord, that’s the way I am”… Eventually He will get you. Eventually He will get your unbelief.  Even the unbelief will be swallowed up by His faith…His glory. You who were forgiven by the Spirit, shall you obtain the Christian life by works? You who’ve been set free for life by death. shall you in the graveyard now be put back into the bondage of being under the law, and coming back to that life?

Saints, listen here. Here is a life, and here is a tomb, and here is a life, and those two lives are separated by a tomb, and you do not go into the tomb to return to that life. You are now cut off from that life. If there’s anything beyond that tomb, it is in another life. You were human. You are now reckoned a Son of God. You have moved up on the species scale.

Have you noticed the flesh drawing you closer and closer to the Lord? No. Oh, you haven’t noticed? Should you perhaps look closer? No. And perhaps there’s a little of the Lord, working down there in your flesh, no? No. Then I think you should return to the Lord’s view: that your flesh is dead. Return to your spirit. Return to your spirit, where dwells the new man, the new species, and accept the fact that the old one’s dead, and the law went to the man whose spirit was dead, but when that man, unable to obey the law and fulfill it, came to Christ, that man was reckoned dead and put in the grave and came out of the grave into a new creation where all of this was put away. But if you put Him on the biological scale, then you put him at the top, for He is a Son of the living God. He is a divine creature; within Him is the very being of God, and He is not under law.

He has the spirit of liberty, and the only law that holds Him is Christ. And Christ Himself said, “That law shall not pass away till every bit of it is fulfilled.” Hallelujah. In 33 and one-half years, it was fulfilled for the first time and only time to the letter. Fulfilled it. He won it. W O N. He won it, carried it to the grave, and buried it, along with the old creation. He came out with a promise of the Spirit, and then He began putting that promise in men; He put divine Life in them. Everything is the heavens, except earth, and God created the earth for a habitation of sons. It would be here that he would spawn His race.

And I told you once about the spaceship flying past Earth. The little Martian steps up to the portal window and says, “Daddy, what’s that?” That’s Earth. That’s the place for the sons of God. One day, that will be true. This is the place for the sons of God. A new species. For if any man be in Christ, he is a new species. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

For all of you, Chapter 3, verse 27, who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourself with Christ. Brother Jim: Inside of him, what is there? Christ. And this thing right here, what’s that?  That’s an old pot. That’s dead. Whatever it is, it’s dead. Did you keep a record of all the sins he committed today? It’s reckoned dead. Okay. This is dead. The biggest problem you’ve got has been reckoned dead, and inside here is the Lord. So that inside of him is Christ. Everything else is reckoned dead, but praise the Lord, there’s something outside of him, too. This clothing is Christ. Inside is Christ, and outside is Christ, and everything between the Christ within and Christ about is dead. So that he is surrounded by the Lord, and within him is Christ.

We have been immersed into Christ. Be have been baptized into Christ. All that’s on the outside is Christ, and all that’s on the inside is Christ, and all that’s in between is dead. So that there is only Christ, and that is all you see, and that’s all, and He is clothed in righteousness. Christ is our Life. One of the major themes of all scripture is the new man; If any man be in Christ, he is a new man, the old things have passed away, behold all are made new. For you have been made new in Christ Jesus. Why then do you obey seasons and times and days when you have been made Christ’s? You and I were adopted by the Lord from the law.

Now that’s really interesting because there are two races of people on the earth. One’s the old man; one’s the new man. And the old man that we think of so much as being fallen, he’s the self-nature, his flesh, all of these things; he actually is a child of the law. He’s a child of the law. Jesus has come along to make you a new creature. He first redeems you from the law, then He adopts you from the law, puts you under grace, and then He makes you genetically His. Does that make sense? You are now as though you were born from God. In fact, you are now born. You were a soul creature, a human thing; an earth creature, and you were genetically of the earth. He’s a heavenly creature, and you are under law, and He comes, and He takes out adoption papers on you, and He says, “No longer under the law: you’re free. Now, then, you’re under grace, that is, freedom from everything, and now He puts His spirit in you, which is, as the scripture says, a birth; it is a birth, so that I am the adopted son of God. And after I’m adopted son of God, I am a “birthed” son of God. And now I am no longer dominantly soul, earthly, human, but I am dominantly spirit, heavenly, and divine.

At the moment that I am born spiritually, if you look in the Greek, it says in John 3, not “born again,” and not “born anew,” but “born from above.” So that you are “birthed” twice. You are “birthed” through your mother and father under the law. You’re “birthed” again in the heavenlies, in God. Just as surely as your mother and daddy birthed you into the human race, God births you into the divine race, and you are truly a new man, a new species, a new creature. You are the race, the divine sons of God.

People will keep accepting that on some kind of spiritualistic plateau, and that’s not to be accepted that way. God decided to have a family. God decided to have a family. Everybody else had a family. The cattle had a family. Fish had families. Then he created Adam, and He looked at Adam and said, “You run around in that garden a while, Adam, and see what it’s like to be a bachelor for a while.” God and Adam were the only two male species in the universe who had no mate. Then God said, “It’s not good to be alone, is it, Adam? ” And Adam said, “No, sir!” Then God said, “I will put you to death, and I’ll bring out of you a woman, put you in a deep sleep, and God fashioned her. Adam woke up and said, ‘Wow, bone of my bone, not one of them elephants or lions, or those cows or horses. This bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. Now there’s only one male left in the universe, and He came into human flesh to start a new species, that He too might have a wife, that there might be a divine race upon the earth, and we are the sons of God, we are a new race, and by the way, we aren’t under law anymore. We are not under law anymore. Isn’t that remarkable? We’re not human beings. You don’t see elephants going around under the law of a pig. You don’t see fish going around under the law of a tree. You don’t see a horse under the law of a bird. And you don’t see the sons of God under the rules and principles of man.