Twisted Scripture

In Galatians 5, the Judaizers tried to compel the Galatians to be circumcised. But Paul explains that you can’t pick and choose which laws you want to obey. If they insisted on getting circumcised, they would be obligating themselves to do the entire law. To attempt to keep that would cut them off from experiencing the power of the substitutionary life of Christ in their lives. Freedom allows and enables the believer to obey, not to gain acceptance, but because of the acceptance we already know we have in Christ through grace. We are to seek to please God and gain approval for our obedience because of our acceptance—not to earn it. Grace is accessed by faith to both motivate and empower our service.