OUR FATHER WHO DOES MIRACLES AMONG US

In the book of Galatians chapter 3 verses 1 - 9, the Apostle  Paul confronts the Galatians with the concern that he had pertaining to how they had been bewitched into abandoning their new life founded on faith and reverting to a life of obeying the law as a way of attaining righteousness.

Paul asks the Galatians if the new life they had started in the spirit was now going to be perfected in the flesh. 

Paul presses the point by asking the Galatians if the Spirit that they had in their midst who did miracles, did the miracles by faith or by works.

Paul then reaches the pinnacle of His argument by pointing out that if Abrahamˋs faith is what was accounted to him as faith and that his faith was the forerunner that would will be given to all the families of the world, how then would reverting to the law for righteousness provide the pedigree of belonging to the family of Abraham.

1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

Amen.

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