Galatians — 3
The Law and Amunah in Ha'Mashyach
1 Oh, foolish Galatians! Who has cast an evil spell on you? For the meaning of the death of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach was made as clear to you as if you had seen a picture of his death on the execution stake.
2 Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the RUACH Ha'Qadash by obeying the law of Musha? Of course not! You received the RUACH because you believed the message you heard about Ha'Mashyach.
3 How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the RUACH, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own man's effort?
4 Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely it was not in vain, was it?
5 I ask you again, does 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH give you the RUACH Ha'Qadash and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Ha'Mashyach.
6 In the same way, Abraham believed 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH counted Abraham as righteous because of his Amunah.”
7 The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their Amunah in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
8 What is more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH would declare the other nations to be righteous because of their Amunah. For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when HE said, “All nations will be baraked through you.”
9 So all who put their Amunah in Ha'Mashyach share the same Barakah Abraham received because of his Amunah.
10 But those who depend on the law to make them right with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH are under HIS curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in the Law of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.”
11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through Amunah that a righteous man has life.”
12 This way of Amunah is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”
13 But Ha'Mashyach has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the execution stake, Ha'Mashyach took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
14 For through 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has baraked the other nations with the same Barakah he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised RUACH Ha'Qadash through Amunah.
The Law and the Promise of YAHUAH
15 Dear brothers and sisters, here is an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement, so it is in this case.
16 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave the promises to Abraham and his child. And notice that the Scripture does not say “to his children,” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child” and that, of course, means Ha'Mashyach.
17 This is what I am trying to say: The agreement 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH made with Abraham could not be canceled four hundred and thirty years later when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave the law to Musha. 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH would be breaking HIS promise.
18 For if the inheritance could be received by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting the promise of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave it to Abraham as a promise.
19 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 Malakym by the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement, but 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is One and HE did not use a mediator when HE gave HIS promise to Abraham.
21 Is there a conflict, then, between the law of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH and the promises of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH by obeying it.
22 But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive the promise of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH for freedom only by believing in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach.
The Children of YAHUAH through Amunah
23 Before the way of Amunah in Ha'Mashyach was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of Amunah was revealed.
24 Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Ha'Mashyach came; it protected us until we could be made right with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach through Amunah.
25 And now that the way of Amunah has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.
26 For you are all children of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH through Amunah in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach.
27 And all who have been united with Ha'Mashyach in baptism have put on Ha'Mashyach, like putting on new clothes.
28 There is no longer Yahudym or the other nations, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach.
29 And now that you belong to Ha'Mashyach, you are the true children of Abraham. You are Abraham heirs, and the promise of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH to Abraham belongs to you.