The Galatian church was a church being turned away from the grace of Jesus. Paul had taught them, they’d believed, but someone had come into their midst and caused them to believe that grace wasn’t enough. Sound familiar? Suddenly, they started thinking they had to begin observing the old Jewish customs again of the Passover, the Feasts, festivals, and other areas of the law. They were even about to become circumcised. They went back to the old ways because what they were doing wasn’t enough. It couldn’t be enough, could it?
Paul asked them if they really believed that if they started out in the Spirit of the Lord were they were now being made perfect by what they were doing in the flesh? He implored them, “Stand fast in the freedom by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Over and over, he reminded them that Jesus fulfilled the law and brought grace and victory for a reason. He said that if we bind ourselves within the confines of the law again then Christ died for nothing. Christ died to fulfill the law once and for all, and anyone who tells us otherwise is not of God.
That freedom doesn’t mean we should simply live or speak however we choose, however. There is more to the story…
Tune in again tomorrow,
jamie
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