Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Vital Doctrines)
我夜间的歌曲《重要教义-救恩》
Text: Galatians 3: 19-20
MSITN VITAL DOCTRINES – SALVATION
“What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.”
Galatians 3:19-20
THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW
1. The Law has severe limitations.
a. It cannot give salvation/ justification.
b. It cannot make a person righteous before God.
2. What was the purpose of the Law?
a. The Law was added for good reason.
b. Transgressions abound and thus the Law served to curb transgressions.
c. But the Law cannot do away with sin because it has no power to do so.
3. Was the Law meant to last forever?
a. No!
b. It would last till the Seed, the Messiah comes.
c. He comes to fulfil God’s promise.
THE WORK OF A MEDIATOR
1. A familiar Jewish understanding of how the law was given to Moses.
a. God gave the Law to Moses.
b. Angels were the mediators, for they delivered the Law that God personally wrote.
2. What happens when the Messiah (The Seed) comes?
a. The angels are no longer the mediators.
b. The Lord Jesus is Himself the Mediator.
c. He is both Mediator and Saviour.
d. He is Himself God!
e. We do not need anyone to function as a Mediator between us and our Saviour-God.
我夜间的歌曲：重要教义 – 救恩
经文：加拉太书 3
“这样说来，律法是为什么有的呢？原是为过犯添上的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到；并且是借天使、经中保之手设立的。但中保本不是为一面做的，神却是一位。”
《加拉太书 3：19-20》