Rough notes thrown together from scribbled notes and added to the Text from theCJB.Galatians 31 You stupid Galatians! Who has put you under a spell? Before your very eyes Yeshua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as having been put to death as acriminal!2 I want to know from you just this one thing: did you receive the Spirit bylegalistic observance of Torah commands or by trusting in what you heard andbeing faithful to it?3 Are you that stupid? Having begun with the Spirit's power, do you think you canreach the goal under your own power?

[Do you think your doctrines, your idol worship, saints and doctrines canhelp you reach your goal?]

4 Have you suffered so much for nothing?

[If you have suffered for your trials,trying to get everything right?]

If that's the way you think, your sufferingcertainly will have been for nothing!5 What about God, who supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles amongyou - does he do it because of your legalistic observance of Torah commands orbecause you trust in what you heard and are faithful to it?

NO!!

6 It was the same with Avraham: "He trusted in God and was faithful to him, andthat was credited to his account as righteousness."7 Be assured, then, that it is those who live by trusting and being faithful who arereally children of Avraham.

[Not what denomination or sect or deeds youdo]

8 Also the Tanakh, foreseeing that God would consider the Gentiles righteouswhen they live by trusting and being faithful, told the Good News to Avraham inadvance by saying, "In connection with you, all the Goyim will be blessed."

[Gen 12:3]

9 So then, those who rely on trusting and being faithful are blessed along withAvraham, who trusted and was faithful.10 For everyone who depends on legalistic observance of Torah commands livesunder a curse, since it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doingeverything written in the Scroll of the Torah."11 Now it is evident that no one comes to be declared righteous by God throughlegalism, since "The person who is righteous will attain life by trusting and beingfaithful."12 Furthermore, legalism is not based on trusting and being faithful, but on [amisuse of] the text that says, "Anyone who does these things will attain lifethrough them."13 The Messiah redeemed us from the curse pronounced in the Torah bybecoming cursed on our behalf; for the Tanakh says, "Everyone who hangs from astake comes under a curse." 14 Yeshua the Messiah did this so that in union withhim the Gentiles might receive the blessing announced to Avraham, so thatthrough trusting and being faithful, we might receive what was promised, namely,the Spirit.

[Deut 21:22-23]

15 Brothers, let me make an analogy from everyday life: when someone swears

an oath, no one else can set it aside or add to it.16 Now the promises were made to Avraham and to his seed. It doesn't say, "andto seeds," as if to many; on the contrary, it speaks of one - "and to your seed" -and this "one" is the Messiah. 17 Here is what I am saying: the legal part of the Torah, which came into being 430 years later, does not nullify an oath sworn byGod, so as to abolish the promise.

[Rom.4:13, 16]

18 For if the inheritance comes from the legal part of the Torah, it no longercomes from a promise. But God gave it to Avraham through a promise.

[Gen12:7,13:15,17:7,24:7]

19 So then, why the legal part of the Torah? It was added in order to createtransgressions, until the coming of the seed about whom the promise had beenmade. Moreover, it was handed down through angels and a mediator.20 Now a mediator implies more than one, but God is one.21 Does this mean that the legal part of the Torah stands in opposition to God'spromises? Heaven forbid! For if the legal part of the Torah which God gave hadhad in itself the power to give life, then righteousness really would have come bylegalistically following such a Torah. 22 But instead, the Tanakh shuts upeverything under sin; so that what had been promised might be given, on thebasis of Yeshua the Messiah's trusting faithfulness, to those who continue to betrustingly faithful.23 Now before the time for this trusting faithfulness came, we were imprisoned insubjection to the system which results from perverting the Torah into legalism,kept under guard until this yet-to-come trusting faithfulness would be revealed.24 Accordingly, the Torah functioned as a custodian until the Messiah came, sothat we might be declared righteous on the ground of trusting and being faithful.25 But now that the time for this trusting faithfulness has come, we are no longerunder a custodian.26 For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God through this trustingfaithfulness; 27 because as many of you as were immersed into the Messiah haveclothed yourselves with the Messiah, in whom28 there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male norfemale; for in union with the Messiah Yeshua, you are all one.29 Also, if you belong to the Messiah, you are seed of Avraham and heirsaccording to the promise.Romans 4: 13, 1613 For the promise to Avraham and his seedr that he would inherit the world didnot come through legalism but through the righteousness that trust produces.16 The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God'sfree gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed, not only those who livewithin the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avrahamhad - Avraham avinu for all of us.Quote from Elli-mari There is a huge difference between being subject to the law, and under