Gal. 1 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
 10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."


When Christ came in the incarnation He did not change the ot law. He established it. Christ did not change the ceremonial law but He amended it. The reason that I say He amended the ot law is because the there was a curse that resulted from breaking the ceremonial law. The ceremonial law was not opposed to the good of the people. But it was like medicine. It prevent the spread of destruction. And this is my point.

The question is Is the apostle saying that the curses were part of the old testament ceremonial law or do they have a function in the New covenant? So when the Apostle described the spread of the gospel in the New Testament it was describe in spreading to the ends of the earth. So the apostle is arguing that the gospel is more revealed because the presence of the gospel spread to the ends of the earth. In other words the success and the power is greater in the nt by the extended geography. Now we see here he is teaching that the curses are spread to the ends of the earth as well. We are always teaching that the faith is a missionary faith because it is proclaimed in the far regions of the earth. But then when the apostle describes that the ot curses extend as well then we argue that they were part of the ceremonial law. It makes no sense.

We must see that the curses where not destructive actions of God. They actually prevented the spread of disease and destruction. This is exactly why God gave the curses as judgements in the moral law. We cannot change the terrible state of the wicked. If the law was stripped of the curses then the world would be destroyed by man. If the punishment of the law was lesson then the gospel would not be as powerful or as effective. If we grow in our respect for the gospel it must be our argued so that the curses convince us that we must be saved. Without the pronouncement of death by the law there is no new life. So this is why Christ came to the earth and pronounced the ot axioms. He pronounced the law, covenants, curses , statutes, decrees and promises in order to establish the NT covenant. This is why the apostle is teaching that the curses extend as far as the gospel is preached.

This means that instead of us looking at the curses as an extreme solution to people who are under physical persecution we must see that they are the preventive medicine of the foundation of safety that permeates the civilized world. Instead of the curse being lesson they actually are on steroids. Peter taught that ceremonial law was no longer binding but this is not what the apostle says about the curses here. The reason that man views salvation as a just a message of a way to advance success is because it is taken out of the context of the curses or death. This is why the apostle brings the jurisdiction of the law into the church. Because the law of God is no different in the church or in the world.  When the curses are absolutely necessary as part of salvation then the church becomes the place of adjudication of the law. The law prevents destruction because it is more than a standard of conduct in society. The very fact that we distinguish a saint from the wicked as being in the light as opposed to being completely blind is that the curses of the law ring out from the church. If there were no pronouncements of death then there would be no distinguishing marks between the church and the world.  We are so blessed because the church is the place were the Psalms adjudicate all governments.