Numbers 13-15 - We Are Surely Able

The Spies Sent into Canaan

Num 13:1-2 LSB - [1] Then Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, [2] "Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers' tribes, every one a leader among them."

Num 13:22-23 LSB - [22] And they had gone up into the Negev and came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) [23] Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two [men] with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

The Spies Recount What They Saw

Num 13:27 LSB - [27] Thus they recounted to him and said, "We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Num 13:30 LSB - [30] Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we are surely able to overcome it."

Num 13:33 LSB - [33] "There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

We Are Well Able

Author: Mrs. Frederick W. Suffield

1. ’Twas the Lord of hosts that led us out of Egypt’s sand;

And He led us through the Red Sea by His mighty hand,

Never halting in the wilderness, but His command

Gave assurance we were able to possess the land.

Refrain

We are able to go up and take the country,

And possess the land from Jordan to the sea;

And, though giants tall be there our way to hinder,

God will surely give the victory.

2. When the spies brought back the message, this is what they said:

Against giants and walled cities, we cannot be led;

But a Caleb and a Joshua said, They’ll be as bread;

We are able to go up, possess the land ahead. [Refrain]

3. When we crossed the river Jordan, in the land we found:

Wine and oil and milk and honey, richest fruits abound;

Sparkling fountains, and the showers come upon the ground;

We are able, Hallelujah! Let God’s praise resound. [Refrain]

4. There’s no thirsting for old Egypt, since we’re in this way,

And we care not what the critics or the ten spies say;

For the land abounds in plenty, and we’re here to stay,

Won’t you come and join us, brother, enter in today? [Refrain]

The People Rebel

Num 14:4 LSB - [4] So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."

Num 14:6-9 LSB - [6] And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; [7] and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. [8] "If Yahweh is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us--a land which flows with milk and honey. [9] "But as for you, only do not rebel against Yahweh; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protection has been removed from them, and Yahweh is with us; do not fear them."

Num 14:10 LSB - [10] But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

Moses Prays for the People

Num 14:17-19 LSB - [17] "So now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, [18] 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth [generations].' [19] "Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

Evil Complainers

Num 14:20-23 LSB - [20] So Yahweh said, "I have pardoned [them] according to your word; [21] but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of Yahweh. [22] "Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice, [23] shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

Num 14:30-32 LSB - [30] 'Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. [31] 'Your little ones, however, who you said would become plunder--I will bring them in, so that they will know the land which you have rejected. [32] 'But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

Israel Struck Down

Num 14:44-45 LSB - [44] But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of Yahweh nor Moses moved from the camp. [45] Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.

Offerings When Entering Canaan

Num 15:2-3 LSB - [2] "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land of your places of habitation, which I am going to give you, [3] then make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your appointed times, to make a soothing aroma to Yahweh, from the herd or from the flock.

Statute for the Sojourner

Num 15:27-28 LSB - [27] 'Also if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring near a one year old female goat for a sin offering. [28] 'And the priest shall make atonement before Yahweh for the person who goes astray when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him that he may be pardoned.

Num 15:30 LSB - [30] 'But the person who does [anything] with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, that one is blaspheming Yahweh; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

A Sabbath-breaker Put to Death

Num 15:38-41 LSB - [38] "Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. [39] "And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, [40] so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God. [41] "I am Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh your God."

Numbers 10-12 - With him I speak mouth to mouth

The Silver Trumpets

Num 10:2 LSB - [2] "Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.

Israel Sets Out from Sinai

Num 10:11-12 LSB - [11] Now it happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, [that] the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony; [12] and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

Num 10:35-36 LSB - [35] Then it happened when the ark set out that Moses said, "Rise up, O Yahweh! And let Your enemies be scattered, And let those who hate You flee before You." [36] And when it came to rest, he said, "Return, O Yahweh, [To] the myriad thousands of Israel."

The People Complain

Num 11:7-9 LSB - [7] Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. [8] The people would go about and gather [it] and grind [it] between two millstones or beat [it] in the mortar, and boil [it] in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil. [9] And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

Moses Complains

Num 11:13-14 LSB - [13] "Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat that we may eat!' [14] "I alone am not able to carry all this people because it is too heavy for me.

The Spirit Rests upon the Elders

Num 11:21 LSB - [21] But Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, 'I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.'

Num 11:25 LSB - [25] Then Yahweh came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit who was upon him and placed [Him] upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do [it] again.

The Quail and the Plague

Num 11:31 LSB - [31] Now there went forth a wind from Yahweh, and it brought quail from the sea, and let [them] fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp and about two cubits over the surface of the ground.

Num 11:33 LSB - [33] While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very severe plague.

Miriam and Aaron Speak Against Moses

Num 12:1-2 LSB - [1] Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken [as a wife] (for he had taken a Cushite woman); [2] and they said, "Has Yahweh indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?" And Yahweh heard it.

Num 12:6-8 LSB - [6] and He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with him in a dream. [7] "Not so, with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household; [8] With him I speak mouth to mouth, Indeed clearly, and not in riddles, And he beholds the form of Yahweh. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?"

Numbers 7-9 - Whenever the Cloud Would Go Up from over the Tent

Offerings of the Leaders

Num 7:9 LSB - [9] But he did not give [any] to the sons of Kohath because theirs [was] the service of the holy [objects, which] they carried on the shoulder.

Num 7:89 LSB - [89] Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, so He spoke to him.

The Seven Lamps

Cleansing of the Levites

Num 8:17-19 LSB - [17] "For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself. [18] "But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel. [19] "And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel by their coming near to the sanctuary."

Retirement of the Levites

Num 8:25-26 LSB - [25] "But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from [their] duty in the service and not serve anymore. [26] "They may, however, minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting in order to keep [up] their responsibility, but they [themselves] shall perform no service. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their responsibilities."

The Passover

Num 9:8-9 LSB - [8] Moses therefore said to them, "Wait, and I will listen to what Yahweh will command concerning you." [9] Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 9:13 LSB - [13] 'But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to celebrate the Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not bring near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin.

The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle

Num 9:15-16 LSB - [15] Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning. [16] So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it [by day], and the appearance of fire by night.

Num 9:17 LSB - [17] Now whenever the cloud would go up from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

Num 9:22 LSB - [22] Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, dwelling above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out.

Lead on, O King Eternal, The day of march has come

Author: Ernest W. Shurtleff (1887)

1 Lead on, O King eternal,

the day of march has come;

henceforth in fields of conquest

your tents will be our home.

Through days of preparation

your grace has made us strong;

and now, O King eternal,

we lift our battle song.

2 Lead on, O King eternal,

till sin's fierce war shall cease,

and holiness shall whisper

the sweet amen of peace.

For not with swords' loud clashing

or roll of stirring drums

with deeds of love and mercy

the heavenly kingdom comes.

3 Lead on, O King eternal;

we follow, not with fears,

for gladness breaks like morning

where'er your face appears.

Your cross is lifted o'er us,

we journey in its light;

the crown awaits the conquest;

lead on, O God of might.

Numbers 4-6 - Yahweh bless you, and keep you

Duties of the Kohathites

Num 4:4 LSB - [4] "This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, [concerning] the most holy things.

Num 4:19-20 LSB - [19] "But do this to them that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy [objects]: Aaron and his sons shall go in and set each of them to his service and to his load; [20] but they shall not go in to see the holy [objects] even for a moment, or they will die."

Duties of the Gershonites

Num 4:24 LSB - [24] "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:

Duties of the Merarites

Num 4:31-32 LSB - [31] "Now this is the responsibility of their loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its bases, [32] and the pillars around the court and their bases and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign [each man] by name the items of the responsibility of his load.

Num 4:49 LSB - [49] According to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus [these were] his numbered men, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Unclean Sent Outside the Camp

Num 5:2 LSB - [2] "Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a [dead] person.

Restitution for Sins

Num 5:6-7 LSB - [6] "Speak to the sons of Israel, 'When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against Yahweh, and that person is guilty, [7] then he shall confess his sins which he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and give [it] to him whom he has wronged.

The Statutes of Jealousy

Num 5:29-30 LSB - [29] 'This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, [being] under [the authority of] her husband, goes astray and defiles herself, [30] or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before Yahweh, and the priest shall apply all this law to her.

The Nazirite Vow

Num 6:2-3 LSB - [2] "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh, [3] he shall abstain as a Nazirite from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

Luk 1:15 LSB - [15] "For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and HE WILL NOT DRINK ANY WINE OR STRONG DRINK, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb.

 

Yahweh Blesses the Sons of Israel
Num 6:22-27 LSB - 

[22] Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 

[23] "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: 

[24] Yahweh bless you, and keep you; 

[25] Yahweh make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; 

[26] Yahweh lift up His face on you, And give you peace.' 

[27] "So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I [then] will bless them."

THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU

Words & Mu­sic: Pe­ter C. Lut­kin (1858–1931)

The Lord bless you and keep you

The Lord lift His coun­ten­ance upon you,

And give you peace, and give you peace;

The Lord make His face to shine up­on you,

And be gra­cious, and be gra­cious;

The Lord be gra­cious, gra­cious un­to you.

Numbers 1-3 - Priests and Levites

The Census of Israel’s Warriors

Num 1:2-3 LSB - [2] "Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head [3] from twenty years old and upward, whoever [is able to] go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Num 1:4-6 LSB - [4] "With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household. [5] "These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; [6] of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;

Jhn 10:3 LSB - [3] "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Num 1:16 LSB - [16] "These are they who were called [upon] by the congregation, the leaders of their fathers' tribes; they were the heads of divisions of Israel."

Num 1:45-46 LSB - [45] So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers' households, from twenty years old and upward, whoever [was able to] go out to war in Israel, [46] even all the numbered men were 603,550.

Levites Not Numbered in the Census

Num 1:49 LSB - [49] "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor shall you take their census among the sons of Israel.

Israel Camped by Their Standards

Num 2:17 LSB - [17] "Then the tent of meeting shall set out [with] the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their standards.

Num 2:34 LSB - [34] Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, every one by his family according to his father's household.

Priests and Levites

Num 3:5-8 LSB - [5] Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [6] "Bring the tribe of Levi near and have them stand before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. [7] "And they shall keep his responsibility and the responsibility for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to perform the service of the tabernacle. [8] "They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the responsibility of the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the tabernacle.

Num 3:12-13 LSB - [12] "Now, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn, the first offspring of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine. [13] "For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be Mine; I am Yahweh."

Num 3:14-15 LSB - [14] Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, [15] "Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."

Responsibilities of the Priests

Num 3:25-26 LSB - [25] Now the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting [involved] the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting, [26] and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service concerning them.

Num 3:31-32 LSB - [31] Now their responsibility [involved] the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all the service concerning them; [32] and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [was] the chief of the leaders of Levi [and had] the oversight of those who keep the responsibility of the sanctuary.

Num 3:36-37 LSB - [36] Now the appointed responsibility of the sons of Merari [involved] the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its bases, all its equipment, and the service concerning them, [37] and the pillars around the court with their bases and their pegs and their cords.

Galatians 4-6 - Walk by the Spirit

Sonship in Christ

Gal 4:4-5 LSB - [4] But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, [5] so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

Gal 4:6-7 LSB - [6] And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" [7] Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

Gal 4:19 LSB - [19] My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you--

An Allegory of Two Covenants

Gal 4:19, 22-23 LSB - [19] My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you-- ... [22] For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman and one by the free woman. [23] But the son by the servant-woman had been born according to the flesh, while the son by the free woman through the promise.

Gal 4:19, 30-31 LSB - [19] My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you-- ... [30] But what does the Scripture say? "CAST OUT THE SERVANT-WOMAN AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE SERVANT-WOMAN SHALL NOT BE AN HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN." [31] So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant-woman, but of the free woman.

Christ Set Us Free

Gal 5:1 LSB - [1] It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore, stand firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Gal 5:5 LSB - [5] For we through the Spirit, by faith, are eagerly waiting for the hope of righteousness.

Phl 3:9 LSB - [9] and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own which is from [the] Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which [is] from God upon faith,

 

Walk by the Spirit

Gal 5:16 LSB - [16] But I say, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Gal 5:17 LSB - [17] For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you do not do the things that you want.

Hymn 130 - The inward warfare

John Newton 8.8.8.8.8.8

Strange and mysterious is my life,

What opposites I feel within!

A stable peace, a constant strife,

The rule of grace, the pow’r of sin:

Too often I am captive led,

Yet daily triumph in my Head.

I prize the privilege of prayer,

But o! what backwardness to pray!

Though on the LORD I cast my care,

I feel its burden every day:

I seek his will in all I do,

Yet find my own is working too.

I call the promises my own,

And prize them more than mines of gold;

Yet though their sweetness I have known,

They leave me unimpressed and cold

One hour upon the truth I feed,

The next I know not what I read.

I love the holy day of rest,

When Jesus meets his gathered saints;

Sweet day, of all the week the best!

For its return my spirit pants:

Yet often, through my unbelief,

It proves a day of guilt and grief.

While on my Savior I rely,

I know my foes shall loose their aim;

And therefore dare their pow’r defy,

Assured of conquest through his name:

But soon my confidence is slain,

And all my fears return again.

Thus different pow’rs within me strive,

And grace, and sin, by turns prevail;

I grieve, rejoice, decline, revive,

And vict’ry hangs in doubtful scale:

But JESUS has his promise passed,

That grace shall overcome at last.

Gal 5:18 LSB - [18] But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

Gal 5:22-23 LSB - [22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Gal 5:24 LSB - [24] Now those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Bear One Another’s Burdens

Gal 6:1-2 LSB - [1] Brothers, even if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, [each of you] looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. [2] Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Gal 6:14 LSB - [14] But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Galatians 1-3 - Gospel of Christ

Greetings and Grace

Gal 1:1 LSB - [1] Paul, an apostle--not [sent] from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead--

Gal 1:3-4 LSB - [3] Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, [4] who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Distorting the Gospel

Gal 1:8 LSB - [8] But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to the gospel we have proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!

Paul Called by God

Gal 1:11-12 LSB - [11] For I make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which I am proclaiming as good news is not according to man. [12] For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but [I received it] through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Gal 1:15-16 LSB - [15] But when God, who had set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased [16] to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him as good news among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

Gal 2:7-9 LSB - [7] But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter [had been] to the circumcised [8] (for He who worked in Peter unto [his] apostleship to the circumcised worked in me also unto the Gentiles), [9] and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we [might] [go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Paul Opposes Peter (Cephas)

Gal 2:16 LSB - [16] nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

Words: Ju­lia H. John­ston

The Law is ho­ly, just and good,

And each com­mand we should ob­ey;

For Mo­ses wrote the ve­ry things

The Lord re­quires of us to­day.

But none have kept, with per­fect heart,

The Ten Com­mands from Si­nai heard,

For we are weak, and break the Law,

In dai­ly thought and deed and word.

The Sav­ior kept the per­fect Law,

For us He bore the guilt of sin;

He died to pay the debt we owe,

He lives to make us pure with­in.

The Gos­pel is the bless­èd news

Of par­don bought, at high­est cost;

Redemption now is full and free,

And none who trust Him shall be lost.

Then jus­ti­fied by faith are we,

By grace and mer­cy from ab­ove;

And peace with God, thro’ Je­sus Christ,

Is ours thro’ His re­deem­ing love.

We long to be like Christ our Lord,

For be ye ho­ly is His word;

We long to spread the glad good news

Which our re­joic­ing hearts have heard.

Gal 2:20 LSB - [20] "I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

Gal 3:6-7 LSB - [6] Just as Abraham BELIEVED GOD AND IT WAS COUNTED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS, [7] so know that those who are of faith, those are sons of Abraham.

Gen 15:6 LSB - [6] Then he believed in Yahweh; and He counted it to him as righteousness.

Gal 3:13-14 LSB - [13] Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us--for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"-- [14] in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The Promise by Faith

Gal 3:24-25 LSB - [24] Therefore the Law has become our tutor unto Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. [25] But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Gal 3:26-28 LSB - [26] For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. [27] For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. [28] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.