“And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.”
Galatians 3:29
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Connection with God's promise to Abram
God promised Abram offspring as countless as dust and a land to walk by faith. Paul says that promised seed is finally one person, Christ, so everyone who belongs to Him is counted among Abraham's heirs. The land Abram walked by faith opens into an inheritance that reaches every believer.
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The Hebrew word for seed in God's promise to Abraham (Genesis 22:18) is singular and can mean one child or a whole people. In Galatians 3:16 Paul read it as one Seed, Christ, and in this verse he widens it to everyone who belongs to Christ. Paul held both readings together, the one Seed and everyone who belongs to Him.
Read the whole studyConnection with Isaac's blessing of Jacob
Isaac prayed that Jacob would become a company of peoples. Paul tells believers from all those peoples that if they belong to Christ, they are Abraham's seed and heirs. Jacob left his father's tent with a promise he would not see fulfilled in his lifetime, and God kept all of it in His Son.
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