Daily Sacrifice, September 11 (2:21)
“I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” —Galatians 2:21.
THE letter to the Galatians is the most vehement of all Paul’s epistles, written out of the fervency of his heart as he realized that many whom he had led to Christ were being ensnared in a system, which, while it professed to be the strength of holiness, was actually “the strength of sin” (1 Cor. 15:56). In this letter he shows that believers are justified by faith alone, apart from the works of the law, and that to go back to law after one had been brought to know Christ, is to fall from grace (Gal. 5:3, 4). It is to drop down from the high standard of salvation by grace alone to the confused conception of preservation and final security by the works of the law. This Paul could not tolerate, and we may well thank God today for his strong stand against it.