THE ADVENT TRUTH.
Galatians is not an attack on God’s law — it’s an attack on trusting law-keeping to save you.
Paul wrote Galatians because the gospel itself was under threat. Gentile believers were being told that faith in Christ wasn’t enough — that they needed circumcision and ceremonial law-keeping to be accepted by God (Gal. 2:3–5; 5:2–4). Paul’s response is sharp because the issue was serious: legalism can’t save, and never has.
Galatians does not say the law is evil, abolished, or irrelevant. In fact, Paul affirms the law’s purpose. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ” (Gal. 3:24). A schoolmaster doesn’t stop being true because you’ve graduated — it simply was never meant to save you. The law reveals sin (Rom. 3:20), but only Christ removes it.
When Paul says we are “not under the law” (Gal. 3:23–25), he is not saying we are free to break it. He is saying we are no longer under the law as a means of justification. The same Paul who wrote Galatians also said, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law” (Rom. 3:31).
Galatians contrasts two systems:
• Salvation by faith in Christ
• Salvation by human performance
That’s why Paul rebukes the Galatians for beginning in the Spirit and trying to be made perfect by the flesh (Gal. 3:3). Obedience that flows from faith is biblical. Obedience used to earn salvation is deadly.
The ceremonial laws pointed forward to Christ. Once He fulfilled them, clinging to them for salvation denied the sufficiency of the cross (Gal. 5:4). But God’s moral law — the transcript of His character — was never the issue. Love fulfills the law (Gal. 5:14), not replaces it.
Galatians doesn’t free us from obedience — it frees us from self-righteousness.
We don’t keep God’s law to be saved. We keep it because we are saved.
Galatians is not an attack on God’s law — it’s an attack on trusting law-keeping to save you.
Paul wrote Galatians because the gospel itself was under threat. Gentile believers were being told that faith in Christ wasn’t enough — that they needed circumcision and ceremonial law-keeping to be accepted by God (Gal. 2:3–5; 5:2–4). Paul’s response is sharp because the issue was serious: legalism can’t save, and never has.
Galatians does not say the law is evil, abolished, or irrelevant. In fact, Paul affirms the law’s purpose. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ” (Gal. 3:24). A schoolmaster doesn’t stop being true because you’ve graduated — it simply was never meant to save you. The law reveals sin (Rom. 3:20), but only Christ removes it.
When Paul says we are “not under the law” (Gal. 3:23–25), he is not saying we are free to break it. He is saying we are no longer under the law as a means of justification. The same Paul who wrote Galatians also said, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law” (Rom. 3:31).
Galatians contrasts two systems:
• Salvation by faith in Christ
• Salvation by human performance
That’s why Paul rebukes the Galatians for beginning in the Spirit and trying to be made perfect by the flesh (Gal. 3:3). Obedience that flows from faith is biblical. Obedience used to earn salvation is deadly.
The ceremonial laws pointed forward to Christ. Once He fulfilled them, clinging to them for salvation denied the sufficiency of the cross (Gal. 5:4). But God’s moral law — the transcript of His character — was never the issue. Love fulfills the law (Gal. 5:14), not replaces it.
Galatians doesn’t free us from obedience — it frees us from self-righteousness.
We don’t keep God’s law to be saved. We keep it because we are saved.
THE ADVENT TRUTH.
Galatians is not an attack on God’s law — it’s an attack on trusting law-keeping to save you.
Paul wrote Galatians because the gospel itself was under threat. Gentile believers were being told that faith in Christ wasn’t enough — that they needed circumcision and ceremonial law-keeping to be accepted by God (Gal. 2:3–5; 5:2–4). Paul’s response is sharp because the issue was serious: legalism can’t save, and never has.
Galatians does not say the law is evil, abolished, or irrelevant. In fact, Paul affirms the law’s purpose. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ” (Gal. 3:24). A schoolmaster doesn’t stop being true because you’ve graduated — it simply was never meant to save you. The law reveals sin (Rom. 3:20), but only Christ removes it.
When Paul says we are “not under the law” (Gal. 3:23–25), he is not saying we are free to break it. He is saying we are no longer under the law as a means of justification. The same Paul who wrote Galatians also said, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law” (Rom. 3:31).
Galatians contrasts two systems:
• Salvation by faith in Christ
• Salvation by human performance
That’s why Paul rebukes the Galatians for beginning in the Spirit and trying to be made perfect by the flesh (Gal. 3:3). Obedience that flows from faith is biblical. Obedience used to earn salvation is deadly.
The ceremonial laws pointed forward to Christ. Once He fulfilled them, clinging to them for salvation denied the sufficiency of the cross (Gal. 5:4). But God’s moral law — the transcript of His character — was never the issue. Love fulfills the law (Gal. 5:14), not replaces it.
Galatians doesn’t free us from obedience — it frees us from self-righteousness.
We don’t keep God’s law to be saved. We keep it because we are saved.
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