Christ has freed us from the curse of the law and from the schoolmaster of the law by His own obedience and bloodshedding at Calvary.
The irony of lawkeeping is that the "righteousness" it produces turns out to be no righteousness at all!
We cannot keep the law, therefore we cannot be righteous by keeping it. Further, we pervert the law in our attempt at lawkeeping, entangling us in further sin.
Indeed, lawkeeping for righteousness provokes sin, not righteousness. This is true for schoolboys, and true for sinners and saints as well.
Paul chides the Galatians going back under the law and not keeping it. His command is to discard lawkeeping as a means of righteousness and take on the Spirit of Christ and walk as sons, not schoolboys.
To be Spirit-led is not to be under the law. To be under the law is to be controlled by the flesh.
The law loses its power over the Saints because its full sanction has already been exhausted at Calvary for us. So we are freed from the law and bound up in Christ.
The fruit of lawkeeping is sin and death. The fruit of the Spirit of Christ is obedience and faith.
Lawkeeping merely results in urgings unto more sin. But being freed from that struggle in Christ, we have new life, and willingness to do God's will as sons.
Those who have not true faith in Jesus, but turn to the law for righteousness, will obtain the sin that the law provokes in the lost heart.
Righteousness is only complete in us by faith in the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus. Only Jesus can set us free from the law and the sin it provokes in us and judges in us.
The Angel had it right: Call Him Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sin!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
