R.C. Sproul

He reminds us of the covenant that God made with Abraham and how that when God called Abraham, he called Abraham and blessed Abraham and said, Abraham, you are blessed for what?

To be a blessing so that through you, all of the nations of the world will be blessed.

that is through what I do with you, Abraham, and what comes out of this, I'm going to spread out this blessedness from the center, and I'm going to let it pour out and over all of the nations of the world.

Now, all nations will be blessed through you, so those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

All who rely on observing the law

that is trying to achieve a relationship with God by trusting in their own good works and their own performance, are under a curse.

For it is written, cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law.

Paul was thinking back to Deuteronomy.

He's remembering the terms of the covenant.

If you don't keep every one of these laws, you're under the curse.

And then he says, clearly no one is justified before God by the law, for the just shall live by faith.

The law is not based on

on faith.

On the contrary, the man who does these things will live by them.

Now here it comes.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

As it is written, cursed is everyone

who is hung upon the tree.

What Paul now says is that in the cross, Christ becomes a curse for us.