Christ Covenant Church

Possessing the right gospel is the key to: 1) being effective in ministry/evangelism (2:1-10), 2) identifying Christian fakes and flakes (2:11-14), 3) defending your Christian Faith (2:15-21).We can be confident that faith (in Jesus’ death) is enough to gain justification by considering: 1) it is the key to receiving the Holy Spirit (3:1-3), 2) It is why the early Christians were persecuted and experienced miracles (3:4-5), 3) It was the basis of Abe’s justification (3:6), 4) It was part of the gospel preached to Abe (3:7-9), 5) justice is the purpose of the Law not justification (3:10), 6) it was prophesied beforehand as coming after the OC/Law (3:11-12), 7) Christ is the only One who has cleansed away the curse (i.e. God’s wrath – Eph 2:11-13) that comes upon all people (Jew and Gentile) when they violate the Law (3:13-14), 8) you can’t annul God’s prior & promised benefactor transfer (from Abe to Jesus – the singular “offspring” referring to Gen 22:17) (3:15-18), 9) the OC was only meant tb temporary as th