God promised to bless Abraham and his seed. He also promised that all nations would be blessed through Abraham and his seed. God, the promise maker, proved to be the promise keeper by coming himself as Abraham’s seed in Jesus (Galatians 3: 16). In this self-giving, God’s promises to Abraham and all the world are an emphatic YES.  And we now enjoy the blessings promised to Abraham in union with Jesus, Abraham’s seed.  

But wasn’t the Law the way to blessing? Sadly not. Paul tells us that Israel and all humanity remain cursed and not blessed under the law. But Christ crucified achieves the the great reversal – the cursed are blessed.  How so? Christ participated fully in the human disaster becoming a curse for us(Galatians 3:13). And now, in union with him, we participate in all the blessings found in him.  In Christ, we are no longer cursed but blessed with every spiritual blessing.  “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Galatians 3:14). 

What is striking is that those rescued and blessed are not the righteous few, but the cursed.  We may think that God can’t bless the ungodly under the curse.  But through Jesus, Abraham’s seed, God blesses the ungodly with every blessing.