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Liberty in Christ is not a license to sin, but to love your neighbor.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Thomas Schreiner, Timothy George, Martin Luther; Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther; The Law of Perfect Freedom by Michael Horton
Have faith in Christ, not your works.
RESOURCES: Martin Luther's commentary on Galatians, Thomas Schreiner's commentary on Galatians, Charles Spurgeon "A Good Start", Augustine "Confessions", ESV Study Bible
God brings life out of death. This new life is the true church existing by promise and not by human achievement.
Paul pleads with the Galatian church as their friend to live as he lives, in freedom from the law.
Resources: ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Thomas Schriener, Todd Wilson, Martin Luther; Traveling Light ch. 10 by Eugene Peterson
After experiencing the sweetness of sonship, it is unthinkable that we would then return to the slavery of idolatry by living in legalism.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Martin Luther, Philip Ryken, Timothy George, John Stott, and "Three Types of Legalism" Article by RC Sproul
In Christ, God has redeemed us from slavery and adopted us as his own sons.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Galatians Commentaries by Martin Luther, Todd Wilson, Philip Graham Ryken, David Platt
Since Christ has come, life under the law is awful and life in the Christ is awesome. Therefore, live in the light of this new reality found in Jesus.
The law drives us to Jesus for grace.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Thomas Schreiner, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Philip Graham Ryken; On Becoming a Theologian of the Cross by Gerhard Forde
The certainty of our rescue rests on God’s covenant of promise that Christ obtains for us.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Timothy George, Martin Luther, Philip Graham Ryken; Sermons on Galatians by John Calvin; The Works of Sibbes by Richard Sibbes