I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, Amazing grace"
This chorus from Chris Tomlin's "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" song says essentially what my pastor has been preaching in his latest series in Galatians on "The Amazing Life of Grace" - that we have freedom in Christ, and are not bound by the chains of legalism nor of the condemnation, guilt, or shame of sin. "We are declared righteous by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone!"
By the principle of logical consistency, Paul showed in Galations 5:3, that those who insist on obligation to the law, would need to obey the whole law; and cannot stumble in even one part of it. But, the reality is "we are just not that good"; and no one can ever "pay his own way".
"I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" (Galatians 2:21)
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