Galatians 3:5-7 NLT

I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? 

Of course not! 

It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ.

"In the same way, Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith."

The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God.

Galatians 3:5-7 NLT

Paul quotes Genesis 15 to his audience because the old way is gone, the children of Abraham are no longer contained in bloodlines but in Faith lines. 

Our inheritance is from a Faithline to God.

It's no longer about the family you were born into, the laws you've followed, what you've done, it's about faith in Jesus and what He has done.

We get to rest in the Faithline.

Interesting to sit with this on Waitangi Day and think about nations and peoples and the history of the place we are in, the stories that bind us together, and the Big Story that contains us all, and welcomes us all...

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