Galatians (Part 4) - Gal.

In part 4, we discover how both God’s promise to Abraham and the law of Moses are related to followers of Jesus today. And the apostle Paul tells us when the Law was given, why it was given, and for how long. And for my Hebrew roots friends watching this video, I pray that you really get a hold of this truth!
In this series, we’re approaching the book of Galatians with an eye for the theological themes that speak to the relationship between the Christian and the Law of Moses. Do any of the Old Testament laws apply to us? If so, in what way? What about the Ten Commandments? Has that changed under the New Covenant? What is Paul talking about in Galatians 6 when he shows us how to fulfill what he calls the “Law of Christ"?
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
02:05 Galatians 3:15-18 and the timeline
11:00 Unpacking Galatians 3:19
16:15 Galatians 3:19-20
17:22 Galatians 3:21-22
19:28 Paul's view of the dark side of the Law
23:45 Galatians 3:23-25
26:59 Galatians 3:26-27
28:36 Galatians 3:28-29
30:57 Galatians 4:1-3
32:47 Galatians 4:4-5
40:45 Galatians 4:6-7
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(Gálatas 3:15-4:7) - En la parte 4 de este asombroso libro, descubrimos cómo tanto la promesa de Dios a Abraham como la ley de Moisés están relacionadas con los seguidores de Jesús hoy. Y el apóstol Pablo nos dice cuándo fue dada la Ley, por qué fue dada y por cuánto tiempo. Y para mis amigos de raíces hebreas que ven este video, ¡rezo para que realmente comprendan esta verdad!
En esta serie, nos acercamos al libro de Gálatas prestando atención a los temas teológicos que hablan de la relación entre el cristiano y la Ley de Moisés. ¿Alguna de las leyes del Antiguo Testamento se aplica a nosotros? Si es así, ¿de qué manera? ¿Qué pasa con los Diez Mandamientos? ¿Ha cambiado eso bajo el Nuevo Pacto? ¿De qué está hablando Pablo en Gálatas 6 cuando nos muestra cómo cumplir lo que él llama la “Ley de Cristo”?
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[@user-kw2yj3rp8s]

I don't have the words to express my thanks for this series. I don't understand how my HR friends can read the same exact verses of Paul and exclaim, "See, you have to keep Torah." I feel as if my eyes have been opened after almost 20 years in the HR movement. These videos will be played over and over again, especially before I read the book of Galatians. I'm also reading "Torahism" and it seems as if you've been eavesdropping on the many Shabbats and discussions of Torah through the years. Please never lose your engaging, enthusiastic and lively way of teaching.

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Thank you so much, Barbara! God is so good. Blessings, Rob

[@jonuvark2385]

I just binge watched thru Galatians 4:6... Mind! Blown! My brain needs a cool down. Great teaching. Paul left no doubt. Wish my HR friends weren't wilfully under the curse. It is so puzzling why they would choose bondage over freedom. Anyway... thank you for your teaching. It's always powerful. Shalom!

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Thank you, Jon! Blessings on you. Rob

[@patnoon1544]

Thanks Rob for a great teaching and explanation. Should open the eyes of those who cannot understand what Christ really did in redeeming us. The entirety of the Torah built up and led to this moment in time. The LORD is good and his mercy endures forever.

[@MandMe91]

Pat. Think about it. How did Christ redeem you from the curse of a law that you were NEVER under?

[@patnoon1544]

@@MandMe91 Because I was not under the Law being a gentile. I was redeemed from sin. Sin existed before the Law. The Law was given to Israel because of their transgressions and set them apart as God’s chosen people at Sinai. Why would I put myself under a curse that I was never under nor could I keep.

[@MandMe91]

@@patnoon1544 Factually new covenant redemption wasnt from "doing bad things" it was from the curse that came on someone for transgressing the old covenant law. In fact, Paul said "until the law sin (doing bad things) was in the world: but sin is NOT imputed when there is no law. Rmns 5:13 The law doesn't exist today so "doing bad things" are not imputed. Paul also said..."there can be no transgression where there is no law (like today) and "the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the LAW". Did Christ redeem you from the curse of the law that Paul is referring to in Galatians 3? If not then you have a problem.

[@MandMe91]

@@patnoon1544 Did Christ redeem you from the curse of the law that Paul is referring to in Galatians 3?

[@patnoon1544]

@@MandMe91 As I said in another post Christ redeemed me from the curse of sin. The Law was to Israel and was supposed to lead them to Messiah, Jesus. In Galatians the Judaizers are trying to compel them to be circumcised and follow the Law of Moses. Paul is explaining that If you choose to be justified by the works of the Law then you are also under the curse of the Law and why would they want to that when they have been justified by faith in Jesus. Hope this helps.

[@glenmorse9533]

That was excellent, I came out of Hebrew Roots some time ago, and this is a good lesson for our understanding of the truth. One trouble of being in the Hebrew Roots movement is that it makes one feel as if one knows it all, and what could one learn from a Christion. I was doomed in that mindset, but I admitted my shortcomings and unrighteousness and started reading the New Testament for myself. I was seeing that the Christians were right about a lot of things. I have been studying every sense, and I tightly hang onto Jesus for my life and salvation. Praise Jesus, and glory to God!

[@digimike8]

Would you mind expanding on your story a little more? Several of us following this channel have family we are praying to be released from TO. Your testimony gives us hope.

[@glenmorse9533]

@@digimike8 I was led to believe that I had to keep the sabbath, and the Holy days by a legalistic church at the time around 1983. The church was The Worldwide Church of God [Herbert W. Armstrong]. They kept a Saturday sabbath, and the Holy Days. Very strict church. That church shattered to peace's in the 1990s. Hundreds of splinter groups came out of that. I joined with a couple of them until I left it all. I kept looking for a church to replace that mindset of what I believed. Then I ran across Hebrew roots. Same mindset, but more flavor. I started out with A Rude Awakening, then skipped around into many different teachers who were teaching down different rabbit holes. They were all keeping sabbath and holy days. Most were doing Torah Portions. They were all based on the Law of Moses. They all claimed salvation through Jesus Christ but taught law of Moses. I felt so doomed because I knew what I am. Flesh and blood, and I could see my shortcomings. Law was drilled into my head, but I fell so short of it. I kept grabbing for salvation, but it was out of my reach, like I was floating in space unconnected from my spacecraft and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't reach ahold of it to get back in. Forever floating into the ether knowing I was doomed. I tried to get the group I was with to read the New Testament, but they didn't see the need to read outside of The Torah, and Torah Portions, so I read it myself. When I got to the book of Romans I read it over, and over again because I saw flaws in what I had been taught. The group couldn't see it. Then I read all the way from Romans through Hebrews I kept reading over, and over again. The rest is history with them in The Hebrew Roots. I am all in now. Not reaching for perfection in the law, but my Saviour Jesus Christ who kept it for me. My soul no more attempt to draw thy life and comfort from the law.

[@digimike8]

@@glenmorse9533 Amen and Amen Praise God!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@glenmorse9533]

@@digimike8 You're welcome, I'm glad to tell it, God bless you!

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Praise Jesus, indeed! Thanks for sharing that Glen. Rob

[@rogerdat7807]

Great exposition(s) Brother. May Adonai receive all our praises and be glorified in our hunger for truth in Yeshua's name. Amen.

[@JustOneStitch]

Thank you for all you do! Lance (husband) and I have been helped so much in aftermath of HR from your sound teachings. He is supporting me on my channel to hopefully encourage even a small few who have come out and don't know what to do "now." Excited for him to share his experience in the next few months as a husband with a wife who walked it . ~ One Stitch in the Veil (Kathryn D (Dockins))

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Thank you for sharing your story, Kathrine. I love that you are doing this! It's so important for others to hear your perspective. I subscribed to your channel. If you'd be interested in coming on my channel and sharing your story, please reach out to me at rlsolberg.com/contact. Blessings, Rob

[@Michelle-rj4pj]

Hi , I subscribed to your channel too. Looking forward to seeing your videos. May the Lord bless everything you put your hand to do 🥰

[@heidiranger6106]

Great Teaching Rob! Love how you Spell it all out in this video, using The Sciptures as Evidence! Way to go!👏👏👏👍😃

[@brigitteludwig4572]

I agree. Blessings ❤

[@dennismiller1602]

Great News Brother!

[@robynbaker5516]

Rob love your teaching learning so much…I hope you can find the time to do more studies like these… we need more teaches like you faithfully teaching the word in truth and with such clarity…thank you 🙂🙏

[@KatAmanti]

I really enjoyed this lesson! I hope you will do a study on the book of Hebrews too someday!!

[@janosterud4188]

Great teaching in all these videos. Thank You 😊💗

[@davbra12]

Outstanding expository teaching Professor Solberg! I love these kinds of in context scriptural exploration and teaching. You have a gift, and I appreciate you sharing the way you do! Thank you! Shalom

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Thank you, Brandon!

[@ftldelay]

LOVING this series!! God bless you brother!

[@judemichaelvelez6789]

Oh how wonderful are the feet of those who come in the name of the Lord Jesus. Truly truly truly Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Their is no other way to put it. Peace and grace to the house of Dr. Solberg❤❤

[@troydavis7364]

Thank you I need this teaching to have better understanding to talk to my father

[@savvycavvy7859]

Thanks RL Solberg! I was able to listen to the 22:38 minutes point, but have to get to work. Will check out the rest tonight. I do enjoy verse by verse, expository teaching, and in context! Who, what, when, where, why! I think this might partly be related to what Paul solemnly warned us about when he says to not “wrangle about words “(2Tim2:14)--we should explore the entire letter and ask those 5W‘s! If we just pluck out one verse, such as the verse about “seed versus seeds“, well? We really wouldn’t be able to discern very much, right?! When I read the entire book, it’s so clear what the Holy Spirit was inspiring Paul to write. Pretty plain and clear! Also, the idea about using a chalkboard or whiteboard is a good idea, definitely helps me out. Those pictures stick in my brain for some reason! Talk to you later, have a blessed day. And the same to all on here who are commenting, blessings to all of you!

[@nataliedye6458]

This was such a blessing! Thank you Rob!

[@EJMJensen]

Rob, Your series on Galatians has been fruitful. Thanks be to our Lord for your ministries. (Vocab interview was amazing and I'd watch y'all go further in the conv.)

[@brigitteludwig4572]

Thank you and be blessed ❤

[@zzhooky8194]

What amazes me is that one could read anything in the new and better covenant and not see this 🧐. Growing in faith is the opposite of growing in deeds .

[@vivianaucoin397]

This is such an excellent teaching series! I had tears well up during your expounding of verses! God truly is so good! Thank you and Shalom!

[@joshuamelton9148]

Very informative at as always. Keep up the great work

[@GospelPwrOfSalvation]

Yes!! Let’s do He Hebrews too.

[@salpezzino7803]

Love this. Abram received the Promise (unconditional) while he was uncircumcised, a Gentile. I am a Child of Abraham - The True Israel.

[@InescapableRealityOfficial]

It was not unconditional. How is that possible when later in ch. 17 God tells Abraham he has to get circumcised along with his whole house and if they don't they are cut off from the promise? How is that unconditional? Also, Romans refutes that all Abraham did was have a mental trust in a promised provision: "18.Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19.And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: 20.He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21.And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22.And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. - Romans 4 This description of Abraham's faith which justified him is one of exertion of effort, works.

[@salpezzino7803]

@@InescapableRealityOfficial Rabbi, really. How did you get your Rabbiship? Sergeant

[@salpezzino7803]

@@InescapableRealityOfficial for others, Psalm 89:29 And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. 28 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm[d] for him. 29 I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens. and do not walk according to my rules, 31 if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, 32 then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes, 33 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness. 34 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. 35 Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. 36 His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me. 37 Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

[@salpezzino7803]

@@InescapableRealityOfficial I read your comment and can;t believe you are a Rabbi, maybe a rabbi from a cult. I said the Promise given to Abram. Then you rebuke me with Abraham and Chapter 17. Clueless as all in your Cult. Slick

[@InescapableRealityOfficial]

@@salpezzino7803 I got my credentials at the Basedshiva

[@joe1940]

If your "church" has to ignore certain scriptures, especially the writings of Paul, to make their theology work, you're in a cult.

[@joshuamelton9148]

Sounds about right.

[@kimartist]

Amen 🙏

[@ThomasBrennanthombre55]

Galatians 4:4-7 (NLT): 4 But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. 5 God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. 6 And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.” 7 Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.

[@mavicpro3289]

Will you be putting the book Torahism on Audible by any chance?

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Yes, in fact! We've just begun producing the audio version of _Torahism_ and it should be available on Audible in late October. Blessings, RLS

[@61loneviking]

‘Abba,Father’ is a Jewish word and a Gentile word joined together just as in the Christian church both are joined together.

[@SteveWV]

I've only recently watched a few of your videos so I'm just starting and so far I really like what I have heard. Have you made any videos about your thoughts about the series The Chosen? Because In the series Jesus said that he was the Law of Moses and that caused a Firestorm in the Christian community. And it's had accusations that the series is made by people that are with the Mormon church. There is a video here on KZbin showing the scene where Jesus said that.

[@melissajaramilloromero7376]

Hi there M.Solberg! Thank you so so much for this series. It is very helpful. I had a question concerning how we can help a Hebrew root movement member conciliating what Paul teaches in Galatians with the letter he wrote to Timothy (2 Timothy chapter 3). Thanks in advance for any guidance ! God bless you and your family

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Hello Melissa! What contradiction does this Hebrew Roots member see between 2 Timothy 3 and the book of Galatians? RLS

[@melissajaramilloromero7376]

@Defending the Biblical Roots of Christianity thank you for answering. More specifically around verse 15, Paul is telling Timothy how scripture (in this case Torah from my understanding) gives wisdom, and this wisdom leads to salvation in Jesus Christ. So, since HR movement doesn't deny the Messiah, but rather emphasize on the importance of following the Torah to lead a life that pleases God....how can we nuance this with Galatians?

[@straitmind4762]

Great exposition on Galatians Solberg. So next you're gonna do the book of Romans and James right?

[@jessebryant9233]

If Hebrew Roots followers reject the establishment of a New Covenant, what do they believe was the point of Christ's time on earth?

[@salpezzino7803]

I can answer for them. They think Jesus died a murderous death to show us how to keep the law of Moses, they also reject the New Covenant and claim that the word 'new' is really 'renewed' and that Christianity change it. I kid you not

[@mavrickglo]

I was told at my Hebrew roots biblestudy that Christ teaches us how to follow the law.

[@jessebryant9233]

@@mavrickglo Did you ask any follow-up questions?

[@mavrickglo]

@@jessebryant9233 I hate to admit it but I find them very intimidating so I rarely speak up.

[@jessebryant9233]

@@mavrickglo You're not the only one. They can be that and they're always coming at weird angles and essentially foisting the burden back on the other party. Basically they are like so many atheists and evolutionists. If you can't convince them to their personal satisfaction, then in their minds, this proves that they are right. But then, I'm not the one presenting what sounds and looks to me like "another Gospel." They are. But give yourself the liberty to be curious-and look into matters further before answering. It might not help them, but I've little doubt it will help you.

[@graysonbr]

R L, I do appreciate your theology but in order to deal with a IFB KJV only church 20 years ago, I found much of the Messianic literature very freeing and refreshing. A good friend recommended the church and on the surface it appeared vibrant but then more details came to the surface. The thing is I feel very much that ecclesiastical protocols should stem from the Torah (I Timothy 3:16) otherwise it becomes a man's interpretation on how a church should govern. It doesn't need to be mine either. It doesn't need to be the SBC, UPC, UMC interpretation either. I do agree on where you are touching on points in this series on, and here me out....you are right on what personal conversion is and should be based on. In that sense, you stand correct. You need to understand though, it doesn't touch on ecclesiastical protocols. I want to be perfectly clear that Gentile churches do not need to be culturally Jewish but it shouldn't declare anathema Hebraic attitudes and behaviors like the 4th century councils began to do. As for Galatians, the Gaelics were treating the Jewish lunar calendar to the extreme level like their former lunar festivals as they were lunar oriented as well instead of treating them in a way of looking forward in being shadows of things to come. That is totally what is missing in this discussion. Context is everything.

[@JGez83]

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[@MandMe91]

IF SIN ENDED AT CHRIST HOW ARE YOU SINNING AFTER SIN ENDED?

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Who said sin ended?

[@MandMe91]

@@TheBiblicalRoots Well...if John said "sin is the transgression of the law" and the law ended when Christ nailed it to his cross then when would you say "sin ended"??? Also this... **For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to PUT AWAY SIN (athetesis) by the sacrifice of himself. Heb 9 Athetesis: cancel, disannul, abolish, deprive of authority or force. And this.. **there can be NO transgression (sin) where there is no law" Paul And this... ***the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is THE LAW" Paul And this... "I would have not known sin but by THE LAW" Paul Etc etc But that's not your biggest problem. Your biggest problem is that you said "the law of Moses was only given to Israel" and "this law wasn't given to gentiles" and "the law was given to Israel alone" right after claiming "The law was our tudor", "we were kept under the law", "we couldn't keep the law" "Christ redeemed us from the law" Etc etc Which is it Solberg?...can't be both never under the law AND redeemed from it

[@MandMe91]

@@TheBiblicalRoots FOUND IT!! I KNEW you said "sin ended at Christ" near the end of the video and you clearly edited it out at 40:10. Haha...you dishonest human being. Man of God my A** ...How do you sleep at night???

[@donbarber5632]

1 John 3:4-8 (NKJV) 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. Many use this verse inserting “the law of Moses” (the covenant from Horeb, the “bread” Moses gave) as the benchmark. Thus, in this understanding… sin = disregard (or breaking) the “law of Moses”. But is this correct? Let’s keep reading. 5 And you know that He was manifested ---> to take away our sins, and ---> in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested (Exodus 24:4-8 ---> John 1:14), ---> that He might destroy THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. (Hosea 2:11 ---> Colossians 2:11-17) Hold on, if we use the “sin = breaking the law of Moses” definition… How in the world did “the devil” become "bound" to the covenant jurisdiction of the law of Moses which was blood ratified on the third day at Sinai? Oh my, when you start unpacking that rabbit trail!!

[@MandMe91]

@@donbarber5632 The Devil?? Haha as allegorical as allegories get Did Christ redeem the Devil from the curse of the law?

[@scripturaltruth7636]

Mat 24:5 For many will come in/superimpose on my name, SAYING, ‘I AM THE CHRIST,’ and they will lead many astray. Mat 16:20 Then charged he his disciples that THEY SHOULD TELL NO MAN THAT HE WAS JESUS THE CHRIST. Mar 8:29 And he said to them, and you whom do you say me to be? And Peter answered saying to him YOU ARE THE CHRIST. 30 And HE REBUKED THEM that to no one they should tell concerning him. Luk 9:20 -21 Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “THE CHRIST OF GOD.” And HE STRICTLY CHARGED AND COMMANDED THEM TO TELL THIS TO NO ONE Mat 24:23 Mechanical Then if anyone says to you, ‘To see/find out/behold, in this manner THUS AS IT IS/WHAT IS HERE IS “THE CHRIST” thus DO NOT BELIEVE IT. Mat 22:30 For IN THE RESURRECTION THEY NEITHER MARRY NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE but are like angels in heaven. Luke 17:27 THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING [COMMUNION] AND MARRYING AND BEING GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, [BRIDE OF CHRIST] until the day when Noah entered the ark, and THE FLOOD CAME AND DESTROYED THEM ALL. What JESUS would say: IF I WAS “THE CHRIST” WOULD I BE ASKING YOU WHO MY FATHER WAS ? Mat 22:42 saying, WHAT THINK YE OF THE CHRIST? WHOSE SON, IS HE? They say unto him, THE SON OF DAVID. Is Jesus greater than John? So was Jesus born of a woman? Luk 7:28 I tell you, among THOSE BORN OF WOMEN NONE IS GREATER THAN JOHN. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” Joh 16:28 I came forth [ the place out of which one goes, or the point from which he departs] from the FATHER, and have come to the world; again, I leave the world, and go on unto the FATHER.’ Joh 16:29 His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech! Could there even be a covenant ? covenant noun A binding agreement; a compact. synonym: agreement. A condition in a contract such as a deed or lease, nonperformance or violation of which gives rise to a cause of action for breach. A contract. Deu 29:12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today Now Jesus said swear NO OATHS Mat 5:34 but I tell you, don’t swear [G3660 AN OATH] at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; Mat 5:35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Mat 5:36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. Mat 5:37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. G3660 ὀμνύω omnuō Thayer Definition: 1) to swear 2) to affirm, promise, threaten, with an oath 3) in swearing to call a person or thing as witness, to invoke, swear by

[@billyhw5492]

Pro-tip: If you're post is longer than 3 lines, or contains Greek letters, no one is going to read it.

[@scripturaltruth7636]

@@billyhw5492 Well I have found most people to not want the truth but I still try

[@MandMe91]

It's like saying "we are guilty of breaking a speed limit that does not exist". Downright foolish if you care to admit it.

[@simonskinner1450]

Error 2: You seem to think faith is belief, but faith is evidence of belief, as the definition of a believer is the lack of sin. By faith in Christ we must understand it is believing in Christ as mediator or judge, who can forgive past sins if we follow the covenant of righteousness from Abraham.

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

I'm not quite following you, Simon. You said faith isn't simply belief, but "faith is evidence of belief." But then you defined "faith in Christ" as "believing in Christ as mediator or judge." Am I missing something? Also, you seemed to define a believer as someone who lacks sin? What do you mean by that? Rob

[@simonskinner1450]

@@TheBiblicalRoots I have all those answers in my Ytube videos, but later will itemise your answers. I see your problem that you recognise the promises of Abraham without the things he learned as Romans 4, as he complied with God's law by faith, which was evidence of his belief in God. Jesus fulfilled the law of Abraham by faith, which us all expressed in #1 video. My work is radical as it is directly linked to Abraham as Jesus was, neither he nor Paul started a new religion.

[@Sefton419]

Okay then, we'll just completely ignore how Paul's argument about "offspring" and "offsprings" is nonsense. For those interested in learning more about what was completely skipped over in this lesson, here's Tovia Singer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apWwf59vgbCUq7c

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

I genuinely like and respect Rabbi Singer as a person, Austin. At the same time, he is a poor source for learning about what Paul meant in Galatians (or about any NT passage, really) because he does not accept the NT as Scripture and it is his self-described mission to prove Christian theology wrong. Shalom, Rob

[@Sefton419]

@@TheBiblicalRoots I appreciate your response. However, so many of Rabbi Tovia Singer’s opponents like to focus on him the person and sidestep his actual arguments. Why did you completely skip over the issue regarding “seed” and “seeds”, or “offspring” and “offsprings”? The word in Hebrew is identical singular and plural. Why do I never hear Christian apologists / theologians address that specific issue? How can Paul make an argument that this passage is actually about Jesus when the plural/singular does not apply? Yet he acts like it does.

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

@@Sefton419 I hear what you're saying, Austin! And the answer really depends on whether you consider the NT the Word of God. Christians who believe this and accept that Paul and the other NT authors give us an inspired commentary on the Tanakh. Because of the revelation of Jesus as the promised Messiah, they are able to rightly understand the Hebrew Scriptures. But more directly, Rabbi Singer is incorrect about this passage. Gal 3:16 says, "Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, 'And to offsprings,' referring to many, but referring to one, 'And to your offspring,' who is Christ." Paul labors the point that the promise was made to a singular offspring. And just like you said, the Hebrew word זֶ֫רַע in God's promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:7 is singular. So there is no contradiction in number. Blessings, Rob

[@unworthy_outcast]

Correct our awesome brother and teacher. BUT SADLY YOU ARE LEAVING OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT BIBLICAL ANTIGEN AGAINST THE HEBREW ROOTS MISUNDERSTANDING.. "..... RECCEIIVED YE THE SPIRIT by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? ........ having begun in the SPIRIT -------------- are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

[@user-cg5zd3of6d]

"Here...let's put PRISON here...let's put SLAVERY here..." LMAO!!! Yea, basically.

[@frederickanderson1860]

Pointless you can't presume what Paul truly meant. Even peter said many struggled with his epistles to their own destruction.

[@MandMe91]

How can you tell people the were NEVER under the law of Moses that they are "no longer under the law of Moses"? The fact you failed to write on the board is "Noone alive today was a slave to the law". Sorry...as emotional as it may be...modern christianity is false. NO LAW = NO CURSE = NO REDEMPTION FROM THE CURSE

[@Michelle-rj4pj]

Everyone is born under “the law” … and that ONE law is… “ the wages of sin,is death “ not the dietary or ceremonial laws or any other law. so if you be in Christ, so…then when God looks at you, He sees the finish work that was done on the cross and not your sin….. now aren’t you glad 🙂

[@MandMe91]

@@Michelle-rj4pj That's 100% not true haha. You were not "born under the law" and the "wages of sin ( transgressing the law) is death" because "sin is the transgression of the law" 1 Jn 3 Were you ever part of the Old Covenant that Moses mediated?

[@MandMe91]

@@Michelle-rj4pj Paul said "sin apart from the law is dead"...do you believe him?

[@angelaclayton2650]

Dude, the only law Jesus came to fulfill is the law of animal sacrifice. John 14:15 Jesus says if you love me, keep the Commandments. You are teaching folks incorrectly and risking the salvation of all those who believe what your teaching.

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

Thanks, Angela! Where does the Bible teach that "the only law Jesus came to fulfill is the law of animal sacrifice"? RLS

[@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves]

Rob continues to miss the context of Paul’s argument. Paul is not addressing a Law of Moshe vs Faith argument. He is addressing a salvation by ethnicity vs faith argument.

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

That's an interesting take, Tony. So you're suggesting that in Gal 2:16, Paul's argument is "a person is not justified by [their ethnicity] but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by [our ethnicity], because by [our ethnicity], no one will be justified'? What did you find in the book of Galatians that led you to that conclusion? RLS

[@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves]

@@TheBiblicalRoots Many scholars today have realised (especially with the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls) the term “works of the law” likely didn’t pertains to the whole of the law of Moshe but oral traditions of the community in order to be a member of their community. Jewish communities had strict oral traditions or fence laws around the Torah which must be upheld to be considered an equal member of their communities. The Dead Sea scrolls have helped scholars see this truth especially through 4QMMT. They are called in Hebrew “ma’asei haTorah (works of the law). The party of the circumcised in Galatians had created an oral tradition which was, one must be circumcised (i.e., proselytised to become a Jew) to be saved and considered a full fledged member of the community of Yeshua. Converting to becoming a Jew as a full member was popular in the first century. Yeshua even deals with it in Matt 23:15 with the Pharisees. Telling them when they convert a gentile he becomes a son of hell (I’m paraphrasing). Often to the Jews of the first century, full salvation was now based on ethnic superiority for they were the true children of Abraham and the promises. Which is also why the Pharisees stressed to Yeshua how they had never been slaves for they were children of Abraham. E.P. Sanders, James D.G. Dunn, NT Wright, Tim Hegg, Rob Vanhoff, JK McKee and others have brought this out over the years. Each one has their own take on it but the idea of the term “works of the law” meaning just the Law of Moshe doesn’t fit the context or cultural setting for Jews have never believed they earned their salvation by doing Torah. They always felt their ethnicity guarantees them a place in the world to come. Of course once you completed the conversion processes and were circumcised, you were now expected to keep the law of Moshe according to their “works of the law” or community laws otherwise you’d be excommunicated. Here is JK McKees article on the topic. messianicapologetics.blog/what-are-works-of-the-law/

[@billyhw5492]

@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves Isn't this just a distinction without a difference? Aren't you both agreed that the Law of Moses is no longer binding on anyone?

[@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves]

@@billyhw5492 this is a big distinction my friend. The issue of Galatians is not whether or not the Law of Moshe is binding because it is. They are the laws of the kingdom after someone enters the kingdom by grace in which one learns how to love YaH and his neighbor through the power of the Spirit. The issue is, one is 👉🏻not👈🏻considered a full member of the New Covenant by ethnicity or conversion to a Jew but by trusting in the work of Yeshua. The sect of Judaism Paul refers to as the circumcision party held you were not a full fledged member of the New Covenant unless you had fully converted to becoming a Jew. This is the wall of separation Yeshua tore down (Eph 2:14) men has built up by the first century. It was trust in Yeshua, plus circumcision (i.e., converting to being a Jew) for salvation. This was a man-made doctrine not found in the covenants.

[@JGez83]

@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves works of the Law is literally the works found in the Law else Paul wouldn’t literally be quoting the Law in Galatians 3 10 10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; >>>>>for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."

[@simonskinner1450]

Error 1: You dismiss the eternal law of righteousness for grace giving righteousness, the law of righteousness demands inherent righteousness by faith. A false choice of law and grace, as grace comes from keeping the law of righteousness, as only doers of the law shall be justified.

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

I appreciate you pointing out my errors, Simon. That's quite kind of you. The "false choice" of law and grace is not something I came up with. Those are the two mutually exclusive options that Scripture gives us when it comes to being justified (declared righteous) before God. "You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace" (Gal 5:4). "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose" (Gal 2:21). "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). Blessings Rob

[@simonskinner1450]

@@TheBiblicalRoots You note in your video a covenant with Abraham which is based on the law of righteousness, and keeping the law of righteousness brings grace, by transgressing the law of righteousness imputes sin, and brings us under the law of sin and death. The term law is used versus grace when it is the law of sin and death, which came in with Moses but has not gone, it has no effect if we are in Christ under grace because we obey the law of righteousness. The Jews being commented on by Paul were as Peter his example in Galatians, who as a Mosaic Jew be justified if keeping the 10 commandments always, but as he sinned he needs Christ so he can be forgiven as Galatians 6:1-10. The Pharisees had to keep the law at all times to be justified, but grace allows accidental sin like Peter, who was caught out. So to keep him under grace, not be under the law of sin and death, Paul admonished him. I have a Ytube video series called 'Myths in so-called Christianity', 28 videos which cover this topic.

[@simonskinner1450]

@@TheBiblicalRootstruth came through Christ, and truth is righteousness, that is the law of righteousness for grace.

[@karaites4truth]

Show me one place where Abraham's offspring applied to one person. Paul twisted that verse as he do all of them. Tanakh speaks of Abraham's offspring as the sand of the sea or the stars of heaven, not one person as Paul teaches.

[@salpezzino7803]

What would be the use answering you, you reject God's Holy Word? BLAAAAAAAH

[@ftldelay]

If you reject Paul, you are rejecting God's Word. Galatians 1:11 and Ephesians 3:1-6 tell us that Paul received his gospel message directly from Jesus, and since Peter referred to Paul's writings as scripture (2 Peter 3:15-16), and the other disciples clearly accepted Paul's teachings and worked along side of him, what Paul wrote is clearly God's Word.

[@karaites4truth]

@@salpezzino7803 Just answer, did Paul twist the scripture or not???

[@TheBiblicalRoots]

“And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.” ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3‬:‭29‬

[@karaites4truth]

@@ftldelay Did I lie on Paul about that verse? If I lied then show where Abraham's offspring was talking about one person (Jesus) and not many.

[@InescapableRealityOfficial]

Yeah, let's see you defend that ridiculous seed vs seeds argument there, chief.

[@salpezzino7803]

You cant be a real Rabbi, Captain

[@JGez83]

@@salpezzino7803 he isn’t goes by John Braun and Ohne Granze he follow Souther Israelite

[@salpezzino7803]

@@JGez83 Thanks

[@InescapableRealityOfficial]

@@salpezzino7803 No, I'm actually a 100% real rabbi.

[@salpezzino7803]

@@InescapableRealityOfficial is your name John Braun? Admiral