2 Samuel 23; Galatians 3; Ezekiel 30; Psalm 78:40–72

September 27, 2 Samuel 23, Galatians 3, Ezekiel 30, Psalm 78, verses 40-72.

Galatians chapter 3 could usefully occupy us for an entire book as long as the one on

which this devotion is based. But here I shall restrict myself to two observations.

First, in the first five verses, Paul appeals to experience.

He asks the Galatians whether their conversion and all their experience of the grace of God

and the power of the Spirit came to them as a function of their observance of the law of Moses

or as a function of their faith.

After all, Christ had been placarded before their eyes as the crucified Savior.

Verse 1.

They believed what they had heard.

Verse 2.

And they received the Spirit.

This stance had cost them. They had suffered persecution. Verse 4. Moreover, they had witnessed