Paul exhorts the Galatians, “for freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”  But this is an unlikely assertion for a well-known religious figure like the apostle Paul to make.  Most people would expect Paul to shout something like, “try harder, do better, live a godly and good life.  This is what God wants from you.”  But people who think such things have never read Paul’s letter to the Galatians.  They think the essence of religion in general and Christianity in particular is good behavior, not a gospel.  But apart from our union with Christ through faith and a justifying righteousness imputed to us, works of law only condemn and make us even guiltier.  This is why Paul grounds the Christian life in the freedom won for us by Jesus Christ.

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