Lesson 11: Faith in the Right Person
Read Galatians 3:1-29 - www.bible.com/bible/59/gal.3
7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Much of our world today tells us whom we are to trust. The world tells us we should trust ourselves because we know what is best for us. We should trust certain politicians because they know what is best for us. We should trust the famous preacher because he knows what is right for us.


But the truth is, there is only one Person in whom we can place our full trust and never be disappointed or hurt as a result – Jesus Christ.

In our verses today we read about the battle happening in the church in Galatia. Strangers had come to town to tell these people that there was only one way they could truly be blessed by God, and just believing in Jesus was not enough. They were people who had grown up in the Jewish beliefs and had been told all their lives that God had chosen them as His people so their way of believing in God was the only right way. But they did not understand God’s complete plan.

When Adam and Eve first sinned, could God have come to bring salvation through Jesus Christ right then? Of course He could, but Adam and Eve would not have understood. They would not have understood what death was. They would not have understood the consequences of sin in our lives. They would not have understood the value of a promise made and then kept. They would not have understood the depth of God’s love in sending Jesus to die. They would not have learned the nature of faith in God.

We, the human race as a whole, needed to learn what sin meant and that we could never pay for our own mistakes and sins on our own. We needed to learn death was final until Someone could come who could win the victory over sin and death.

Our trust must be in Jesus Christ who won that victory no other being could ever have won. He alone is the source of eternal life. Our trust can be in no other person, not even ourselves – because we cannot give ourselves this eternal life or see into the future to escape things which will harm or destroy us. Our trust must be in Him, for no other religion or religious system has a way for us to come to God which depends wholly on what God has already done for us rather than on anything we must do to please or appease God.

*How much are you trusting in other things or people today?