Galatians 3:21-22 NLT

If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it.

But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God's promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ. 

Galatians 3:21-22 NLT

Paul continues to repeat his themes in different ways.

The law is not wrong, not broken, but we aren't perfect, we're human, and trying to obey the law as the way to make us right with God doesn't get us to the fully aliveness that believing in Jesus does. 

It doesn't get us to freedom.

The opposite of freedom is captivity, oppression, constriction, holding down, holding back.

Freedom that comes from faith in Jesus, that he is who he said he is, that it's his redemptive work that makes us right with God leads us to freedom.

To shalom.

To peace.

To flourishing.

Because nothing can separate us from God's love, not our ability or inability, not our achievements or failures.

We're Beloved.

Jesus actions tell us that, prove it, and in faith in Him is Freedom.

Too easy?

On one level maybe, but perhaps it's difficult to give up the idea we have to save our selves, that Jesus couldn't possibly be enough for me (for you, yes, but for me?).

Paul challenges all this, because it's Jesus.

It's Grace.

This is Love.

And we are Beloved.

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