Lesson 2075

(Lesson 2075)(08-08-17)  Galatians 2:17-21
    “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”
    I can add nothing to today’s quote that will make in any more clear than Paul made it.
It is blatantly obvious that Paul fought desperately to keep the influence of the old Law from distorting the gospel of Jesus Christ crucified.
    As we see today, with the enormous amount of pomp and ritual stemming from the Jewish and Catholic influence on the modern “church”, his efforts only prevailed among those of us who wholly accept the simplicity of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ crucified, resurrected and ascended.~