Class #16: St. Paul declares that Jews know—because of the teaching of the Old Testament—that no flesh is justified by keeping the law(Ps 143:2). Therefore, in order to be justified according to the promise of the Gospel(Mk 16:16), Christians have believed in Jesus Christ.
With Galatians 2:17-18, St. Paul shows the logical result of what happens when a Christian (who is seeking to be justified by faith) adds the requirement of keeping the law for his justification. With verse 17, we learn that if faith in Christ alone is insufficient to save, then Christ has become a servant who lead us into sin. Similarly in verse 18, we see that if believers in Christ need the law in order to be justified, then the church’s teaching of faith alone makes us lawbreakers. We cannot rebuild the law as a requirement for justification, without turning Christ into a sin-causer and us back into a transgressor. The truth of the Gospel is that important!
Overhead: Galatians Class 16 Overhead
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