Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, October 13 (1:3-5)
“Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen” ―Galatians 1:3-5.
CHRIST did not die merely to save us from eternal doom, blessed as that aspect of salvation is; but “He gave Himself for our sins that He might deliver (or save) us from this present age of evil,” as the expression “this present evil world,” really means. The age is evil because Christ has been rejected and men are living in independence of God. From this the believer is delivered as he recognizes his identification with Christ in His death. Because of the fact that He died in our place, as our representative, we too have died. We have died to the law, died to sin, died to self, and died to the world that has no place for Christ.
Margaret Mauro.