GALATIANS 3:17, C. H. Cayce “And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.” The apostle is teaching in this language and in the context that the inheritance, eternal life, is not received by obedience to law. In verse 16 he says, “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.” The promise to Abraham was an unconditional one, “In thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;” “In thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” “Thy seed” is Christ. The blessing of our eternal inheritance is in Christ, and not in our obedience to law. The law given to Moses on Mount Sinai was four hundred and thirty years after the promise to Abraham, “In thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” Yet this did not make the promise of none effect. The promise was an unconditional one, and did not depend upon obedience to the law given on Mount Sinai for fulfillment. This law did not make the promise of none effect. Obedience to the law could not give life. “If there could have been a law given that could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.” If a law could have been given that could have given life, then Christ would not have come into this world of sin and sorrow as a sin bearer to suffer and bleed and die for poor sinners, for righteousness would have been by the law. “If righteousness come by the law, then is Christ dead in vain.” All of Christ’s suffering and death is in vain, He has accomplished absolutely nothing by it all, if poor sinners could be saved by their own obedience. This teaching of the apostle forever and eternally overthrows every Arminian theory and conditional system of theology— that sinners are saved in heaven by complying with conditions— no matter by whom that theory is invented nor what the conditions are. Sinners are not saved that way. Our eternal salvation is solely by virtue of what the Lord does for us, and not what we do for the Lord nor for ourselves. Then to the Lord alone belongs the praise and the glory. In the heavenly world there will be no discordant sound. No such song will be heard as “Thank you, thank you for the gospel,” as some money-hunting theologians have said; but the heavenly strain will be “Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory, honor, majesty, might and dominion; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tongue and people and nation.” God’s promise of eternal life is sure to all His children, and “the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are His.” The Primitive Baptist, April 16, 1907.