Lesson 9 - Freedom in Christ

Jesus set Christians free! We are delivered from guilt and sin! We are no longer bound to Satan and can live with the knowledge of our immense spiritual blessings. The Galatians were encouraged to embrace these things and not go back to a system of works.

It might be said that Galatians 5:1-12 is the climax of Paul’s argument against the Judaizing teachers. These verses contain the same theme of urgency as 1:6-9. Those who taught and those who embraced the teaching of keeping the Old Law for salvation would be lost. There could be no compromise. The two beliefs could not simply tolerate each other. Those who embraced the truth absolutely had to reject the doctrine and philosophies of the Judaizing teachers.