Abraham's Seed Were All Saved By Faith Alone

Galatians 3:7-14, "Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."

The people in the Old Testament were saved by grace, just as we are today. People today in the New Testament who are not saved are still under the law. Every unsaved person, whether living during the Old or New Testament is under the curse of the law. Romans 10:3-4 teaches that Jesus is the fulfillment of the law, to all that believe. The Old Testament law showed people they were sinners (Romans 3:19-20), but atonement was through the blood of the Lamb (Exodus 12:13). They were saved by faith, and removed from the curse of the law, just as we are today. There has always been only one plan of salvation, and that is through faith in Christ (Acts 10:43). What saith the Scripture?

If people in the Old Testament had been saved by faith plus works (essentially works), then there would have been no need for Christ to die on the cross...

Galatians 2:21, “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”

The Bible is adamantly clear that people of all time have been saved only through faith in Christ...

Romans 3:23-31, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”

Romans 3:30 plainly teaches that whether a Jew who is circumcized (ceremonial law), or a Gentile who is uncircumcizied (not under ceremonial law), they are BOTH saved BY FAITH!!! There was not a separate plan of salvation just for Jews, nor for Old Testament saints. In our text passage from Galatians 3:7-14, the Bible plainly teaches that salvation has always been through faith in Jesus Christ. If people in the Old Testament had been saved by works, or faith plus works, then the Bible would have plainly stated it so. But that is NOT what the Bible says at all. What saith the Scripture? The following Scripture passage plainly calls Peter S. Ruckman, Chett Hensley, Gene Kim, Bryan Denlinger and William P. Grady theological liars...

Galatians 3:21-26, “Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

You just read it yourself—if there had been given a law which could have given life, then salvation would have been by the law. But it never has been, nor ever will be, by the law. Righteousness comes only by God's grace through childlike faith in Jesus Christ!!! The law, then and now, is a schoolmaster to bring us TO CHRIST, to be justified by faith.

This intriguing passage of Scriptures clearly teaches that salvation has always been by faith alone. No man has ever been justified by keeping the law. Peter Ruckman, Chett Hensley, Gene Kim, Bryan Denlinger and Bill Grady are all heretics to say that Old Testament saints were saved by works. Kindly said, they are theological ignoramuses. God preached the GOOD NEWS to Abraham, and that GOSPEL is that all sinners can be saved through faith in the Messiah. In John 4:21-25, the Samaritan woman told Jesus that they were looking and waiting for the Messiah, Who would save them. She was looking to Christ, not trying to keep a bunch of commandments in the law.

I am tired of wacky dispensational teachers wrestling the Scripture to say what it doesn't say. Only by reading into the Bible what it doesn't say, can anyone teach that people were saved by works in the Old Testament. Most of these false prophets also claim salvation will be by works during the future Tribulation and Millennial period. Clearly, they are wrong! Salvation has always been, and always will be, by the grace of God. Romans 4:1-5 is very clear that if salvation were ever by works, then it would be of debt, meaning God OWES them salvation. God has never owed anyone eternal life.

We are sinners, so we owe the debt. Jesus came to die on the cross, and shed His precious blood, to pay our sin debt. Therefore, everyone who was saved during the Old Testament was saved by Jesus' payment on the cross, and not by their own human effort to keep the law. This is what Romans 4:1-4, What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” Abraham was justified by faith, as have been all saints since. Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”